Daily News Digest: World News

Yahoo! Alerts Yahoo! News - My Alerts - Edit Alert Tuesday, November 22, 2005 09:00 PM PST Today's World News: Suicide Car Bomber Kills 21 People in Iraq Vatican Closes Door on Gay Seminarians U.S., Partners End N. Korea Nuke Project Iran Urges Iraq to Seek Pullout Timetable Brazen beatings expose practices by local officials Italian Questions Prosecutor's Motives Israeli Warplanes Hit Targets in Lebanon U.S. Embassy Workers Return to Haiti Egypt detains 150 Muslim Brotherhood supporters Fresh fighting erupts in Philippine south Feds announce up to $5-billion plan to buy new military transport planes Rising anger in Australia over Singapore execution Suicide Car Bomber Kills 21 People in Iraq Tue, 22 Nov 2005 08:08 pm PST AP - A suicide car bomber killed 21 people in northern Iraq on Tuesday after insurgents lured police to the scene by shooting an officer, officials said. One more U.S. soldier was killed, pushing the American death toll for the conflict to 2,100, the U.S. military said. Full Story Top Vatican Closes Door on Gay Seminarians Tue, 22 Nov 2005 08:06 pm PST AP - The Vatican is toughening its stand against gay candidates for the priesthood, specifying in a new document that even men with "transitory" homosexual tendencies must overcome their urges for at least three years before entering the clergy. Full Story Top U.S., Partners End N. Korea Nuke Project Tue, 22 Nov 2005 08:05 pm PST AP - The United States and its partners on Tuesday dealt the death blow to a project to build two light-water atomic reactors for North Korea to entice it into dismantling its nuclear weapons program, officials said. Full Story Top Iran Urges Iraq to Seek Pullout Timetable Tue, 22 Nov 2005 03:28 pm PST AP - Iran's supreme leader urged the Iraqi president on Tuesday to seek a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, saying the American presence harms the country. Full Story Top Brazen beatings expose practices by local officials Tue, 22 Nov 2005 04:08 am PST USATODAY.com - Two particularly brazen cases over the past few months have exposed the way local strongmen are using hired thugs to smother grass-roots democracy and prevent ordinary Chinese people from asserting their rights. Full Story Top Italian Questions Prosecutor's Motives Tue, 22 Nov 2005 08:16 pm PST AP - Italy's justice minister on Tuesday questioned the motives of a Milan prosecutor seeking the extradition of 22 purported CIA agents, suggesting he was a leftist militant and anti-American, Italian news agencies reported. Full Story Top Israeli Warplanes Hit Targets in Lebanon Tue, 22 Nov 2005 08:04 pm PST AP - Israeli said its warplanes struck in Lebanon on Tuesday in what Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz described as the largest-scale Israeli response to cross-border attacks by Lebanese guerrillas since 2000. Full Story Top U.S. Embassy Workers Return to Haiti Tue, 22 Nov 2005 06:30 pm PST AP - The U.S. Embassy said Tuesday that security in Haiti has improved enough for diplomatic employees evacuated earlier this year to return in time for elections. Full Story Top Egypt detains 150 Muslim Brotherhood supporters Tue, 22 Nov 2005 01:23 pm PST AFP - Egyptian authorities are still holding about 150 Muslim Brotherhood members after a wave of arrests ahead of last weekend's election, the Islamist movement said. Full Story Top Fresh fighting erupts in Philippine south Tue, 22 Nov 2005 08:20 pm PST Reuters - Philippine troops and about 100 suspected Muslim militants exchanged heavy gunfire deep in the mountains of the southwestern island of Jolo, killing one soldier and an unknown number of rebels, the army said on Wednesday. Full Story Top Feds announce up to $5-billion plan to buy new military transport planes Tue, 22 Nov 2005 08:35 pm PST Canadian Press - OTTAWA (CP) - The federal government tried to rebut claims that the fix is in for Lockheed Martin's C-130J by appointing an independent monitor to oversee the procurement of up to $5 billion worth of military transport aircraft. Full Story Top Rising anger in Australia over Singapore execution Tue, 22 Nov 2005 07:53 pm PST AFP - Singapore was accused of hypocrisy over the imminent execution of a young Australian drug smuggler, as critics alleged the island state was backing one of the world's biggest heroin traffickers -- Myanmar. Full Story Top You received this email because you subscribed to Yahoo! Alerts. Use this link to unsubscribe from this alert. To change your communications preferences for other Yahoo! business lines, please visit your Marketing Preferences. To learn more about Yahoo!'s use of personal information, including the use of web beacons in HTML-based email, please read our Privacy Policy. Yahoo! is located at 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94089.