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<B>BAGDAD. Saddam ejected after trial starts with new judge. </B>A new judge expelled a defiant Saddam Hussein (photo) from his genocide trial and defence lawyers stormed off in protest after the government sacked the chief judge, throwing the month-old case into turmoil.
<B>VATICAN CITY. The pope’s speech did not reflect his own convictions.</B> Pope Benedict said his use in a speech of medieval quotes critical of Islam, which infuriated Muslims worldwide, did not reflect his own convictions and were misunderstood.
<B>BUDAPEST. Rioters, police clash again on Budapest streets. </B>Hungarian Prime minister Ferenc Gyurcsany blamed opposition parties for a second night of clashes between rioters and police, saying they had failed to deliver on a pledge to calm protests.
<B>NABLUS. Israeli troops raid a Jordanian bank.</B> West Bank - Israeli troops raided a Jordanian-owned bank and 14 foreign exchange brokers in the West Bank in what the army called an operation to cut off transfer of Iranian funds to Palestinian militants.
ALMATY. Mine blast kills 43 in Kazakhstan.</B> The head of Mittal Steel in Kazakhstan said 43 miners were missing after a coal mine explosion and a source at the company said 18 bodies had been recovered.
<B>TOKYO.SHINZO Abe elected ruling party leader.</B> Shinzo Abe (photo), a conservative advocate of a more muscular Japanese foreign policy, was overwhelmingly elected ruling party leader, setting the stage for him to be chosen as Prime minister next week.
<B> DIPLOMACY. Sakhalin-2, shell, Russia. </B>Russia’s ambassador to Japan said the Sakhalin-2 energy project in Russia’s far east will be completed, though he gave no timing. On Monday, Russia revoked environmental approvals for the Shell-led Sakhalin-2 oil and gas project, sparking protests from Tokyo, Brussels and London the next day. sanna. Yemenis begin to vote. Yemenis began voting in elections that long-serving President Ali Abdullah Saleh is expected to win, despite facing a genuine challenge from a former minister.
<B>RIO DE JANERIO. Al Qaeda suspects arrested. </B>Improved communication between police forces across the globe since the September 11 assaults on the United States has led to more arrests of suspected terrorists, but new al Qaeda-inspired attacks are inevitable, the chief of the international police agency Interpol said.
<B>MOSUL . Bombings kill 28 in Baghdad. </B>Separate bombings near an army base and a police building killed at least 28 people and wounded at least 56, Iraqi police said yesterday. A bomb in a parked car detonated Tuesday night near an Iraqi army base in Sharqat, about 45 miles from the northern city of Mosul, police said. A suicide bomber detonated his explosives as a crowd gathered at the scene. At least 21 people were killed and 50 wounded. A suicide truck bomb slammed into a police headquarters building in Baghdad yesterday morning, destroying the building and killing seven policemen, police said. Another six people, including a civilian, were wounded in the attack in the southern Baghdad neighborhood of Dora.
<B> SUDAN. Groups exaggerate Darfur crisis. </B>Sudan’s president claimed that human rights groups have exaggerated the crisis in Darfur to help their fundraising, and charged that demands for UN peacekeepers there are meant to protect Israel, carve up Sudan and get access to its oil reserves.The UN and many rights groups say that fighting between rebels and government-backed militias in the region has killed more than 200,000 people and displaced 2.5 million since 2003.
<B> SOUTH AFRICA. Charges against Zuma thrown out. </B>A South African judge threw out corruption charges against former Deputy President Jacob Zuma(photo), boosting the popular politician’s bid to succeed President Thabo Mbeki.
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