Friday, November 25, 2011

WORLD News of the Day From Across the Globe


1 Mali abduction: Gunmen burst into a restaurant in Mali's most famous city of Timbuktu on Friday, grabbed four European tourists dining there and executed one when he refused to climb into their truck, said an official. Timbuktu is one of the many former tourist hotspots in Mali that have been deemed too dangerous to visit by foreign embassies because of kidnappings by al Qaeda in Islamic North Africa, whose members have kidnapped and ransomed more than 50 Europeans and Canadians since 2003.

2 Lethal storm: A storm and floods in Sri Lanka left at least 12 people dead, local officials said on Friday. Gale-force winds also injured 50 people and damaged more than 1,000 houses in the southern districts of Galle and Matara, where eight fishermen were killed.

3 Marine reserve: Australia says it will create the world's largest marine reserve in the Coral Sea. The proposal includes seas beyond the already protected Great Barrier Reef Marine Park off northeast Australia. The reserve would cover almost 400,000 square miles.

4 Gambia election: Gambia's electoral commission says the nation's president of 17 years has won re-election after a poll that critics say was unfair. President Yahya Jammeh won with 72 percent of the vote, and leading opposition candidate Ousainou Darboe came in second with nearly 17 percent.

5 Teen's drug trial: An Australian teen was sentenced to two months in detention Friday for buying drugs while vacationing with family on Indonesia's resort island of Bali. Judge Amzer Simanjuntak told the packed Denpasar district court that the 14-year-old would be freed in just over a week and immediately deported. The boy was not named because of his age.

6 Rebel leader slain: A senior Maoist rebel leader in India was killed in a gunbattle with security forces in West Bengal state, news reports said Friday. Press Trust of India quoted a top paramilitary official as saying the operation that killed Kishenji, who uses just one name, was "clean and successful." The government has called the rebels, who are now spread across 20 of India's 28 states, the country's greatest internal security threat.

7 Antarctica solo crossing: A 33-year-old British adventurer set out on skis Friday from the Ross Ice Shelf to attempt a historic solo crossing of Antarctica. Felicity Aston intends to become the first woman to make it across the frozen continent alone. She expects the journey of more than 1,000 miles will take about 70 days.

8 Nuclear waste protest: Demonstrators threw Molotov cocktails at police, setting a vehicle on fire, as skirmishes intensified Friday after a shipment of nuclear waste reprocessed in France crossed into Germany on its way to a controversial storage site. The clash broke out between about 400 riot police and 300 demonstrators outside the northern German town of Dannenberg, near the storage facility where the nuclear waste is being transported by train.

9 Ghoulish crime: Police say they have arrested a woman in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi suspected of murdering her husband, then chopping his body into pieces and boiling them to try to get rid of the evidence. Police said Friday that 42-year-old Zainab Bibi told authorities she killed her husband because he tried to sexually assault her 17-year-old daughter from another marriage.

Chronicle News Services




This article appeared on page A - 2 of the San Francisco Chronicle


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