 |
||||||||
 |
||||||||
|
||||||||
|
World in brief
Compiled from Times wires Arafat to name Cabinet within 10 daysJERUSALEM -- Seeking to build support ahead of an election, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will name a new Cabinet within 10 days to replace one that resigned in a showdown with the Palestinian legislature, his aide said Saturday. Meanwhile, hospital workers in Tulkarem said Israeli soldiers in tanks shot to death an 18-year-old Palestinian with heavy machine-gun bullets while they were reimposing a curfew. In the Gaza Strip city of Khan Yunis, Israeli forces shot and killed a 21-year-old Palestinian on Saturday, hospital officials said. The army said he was with a group digging in a forbidden area where bombs had been planted earlier. Relatives said he was working on the family farm. Arafat's old Cabinet resigned in September to avoid a no-confidence vote. Its replacement was delayed by a siege of Arafat's headquarters, but aides said the new Cabinet would be named soon. Arafat aide Nabil Abu Rdeneh said Arafat's Cabinet "will be appointed within the coming 10 days" and said it was "expected to include new faces." Ukrainians protest presidentKIEV, Ukraine -- Tens of thousands of protesters laid out their charges against Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma at a "people's tribunal" Saturday, and opposition lawmakers said prosecutors promised to review their complaints. Approximately 20,000 protesters stood for hours in Kiev's European Square, waving banners and chanting "Away with Kuchma!" Opposition leaders later led about half the demonstrators to the Prosecutor General's Office, where they presented demands that Kuchma be tried. Opposition groups and millions of Ukrainians have accused Kuchma's administration of endemic corruption, chronic abuse of office, and vote rigging that have smothered democratic rule and impoverished this former Soviet republic of 48-million. Elsewhere . . .MALAYSIA: The wife of a royal family member was found dead near a waterfall -- her hands and legs bound -- nearly a week after she was kidnapped, police said. Seven people have been arrested in connection with the death of Hazliza Ishak, 26. Hazliza was the second wife of 62-year-old Raja Jaafar Raja Muda Musa, second in line to take over as sultan of Perak state. ENGLAND: A 2,000-year-old stone plaque engraved with the oldest Roman naming of London has been unearthed on a building site, archaeologists said. Experts believe the 12-inch-by-16-inch plaque, engraved with the Latin word "Londiniensium," is the earliest known physical proof of the capital's original Roman name. Dating from around A.D. 150, the well-preserved stone was discovered on a building site for new homes in south London.
 © 2006 • All Rights Reserved • Tampa Bay Times
490 First Avenue South • St. Petersburg, FL 33701 • 727-893-8111 
|
From the Times wire desk
From the AP |
