Archbishop’s body found
The body of a Chaldean Catholic archbishop was found in a shallow grave in northern Iraq on Thursday, two weeks after he was kidnapped. Meanwhile, a car bomb exploded in Baghdad, killing 18 people and wounding dozens more, police said.
Rice blasts Venezuela
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is urging all UN-member countries to go after terrorists inside their borders, taking a critical shot at Venezuela, which the U.S. accuses of having ties to Colombian rebels. Rice spoke Thursday in Brazil.
Man arrested at Heathrow
British police arrested a man carrying a knapsack who scaled a fence at London’s Heathrow Airport on Thursday and ran onto a runway and toward planes, authorities and witnesses said. Police determined there were no explosives in the bag.
Turkey blocks YouTube
Turkey blocked access to YouTube on Thursday in response to a video clip deemed insulting to the country’s revered founding father, state-run media said. Turkey briefly imposed bans on access to YouTube on similar grounds in the past.
Taliban targeted by U.S.
U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan fired across the border into Pakistan in a strike targeting Taliban militants, and the Pakistani army said Thursday that civilians were killed. A U.S. spokesman said troops used “precision-guided munitions” for the strike.
China: Incident was terror
An attempt to crash a domestic flight last week was an act of terrorism, China’s state media said Thursday; China responded by stepping up security at its airports, on top of stringent security plans ahead of the Olympics in August.
AND FINALLY …
– Bomb on bus in Ethiopia kills 8 – Tourist boat runs aground in Greece; passengers safely evacuated – Tibetan exiles arrested for protest march begin hunger strike
THE DIGIT
30 LBS.
A Mexican woman was charged Thursday in London for trying to smuggle this much cocaine into Britain by strapping bags of the drug to the legs of two children.
