Reuters - Democratic presidential
candidate Barack Obama said on Saturday that Republican rival
John McCain’s campaign has been cynical, not racist, in trying
to raise fears about his candidacy.
AP - Bruce E. Ivins, the late microbiologist suspected in the 2001 anthrax attacks, had attempted to poison people and his therapist said she was “scared to death” of him, according to court testimony that emerged Saturday.
AP - Pope Benedict XVI sent greetings to China on Sunday before the Olympics and said he hoped the Games would offer an example of coexistence among people from different countries.
Reuters - Pakistan’s prime minister said there
was no evidence linking his country to attacks on India, adding
such accusations had hurt the peace process, a report said on
Sunday.
Reuters - Israel’s cabinet on Sunday approved
the release of five Palestinian prisoners as part of a swap
deal with the Lebanese Hezbollah guerrilla group that brought
the bodies of two Israeli soldiers home.
AP - Crowds roared with delight and waved hundreds of Chinese flags in welcome as the Olympic torch began an emotional tour of Sichuan on Sunday, three months after a powerful quake devastated large swaths of the lush, mountainous province.
AFP - More than 120 Hindu worshippers were killed Sunday in a stampede during a religious festival in the northern Indian hill state of Himachal Pradesh, police said.
Reuters - Seven detained Baha’i believers have
confessed to setting up an illegal organization in Iran that
took orders from Israel and others to undermine the Islamic
system, an Iranian newspaper reported on Sunday.
Reuters - At least 123 people, mostly
women and children, were crushed to death in a stampede at a
temple in northern India on Sunday, police said.
AP - Iran will not give up “a single iota of its nuclear rights,” the country’s president said Saturday, rebuffing an informal deadline to stop expanding uranium enrichment or face more sanctions.