SOMALIA UNREST: Ethiopian troops allied to Somalia’s shaky government opened fire on civilians in a street in southwestern Somalia, killing 13 after an explosion there killed two soldiers, witnesses said. Witness Mohamud Ahmed Nur said an explosion apparently caused by a remote-controlled land mine killed the two Ethiopian soldiers, who were patrolling the town of Baidoa.
NORTH KOREA: The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee approved legislation that would require the Bush administration to certify that North Korea had dismantled its nuclear weapons program before it could be removed from the State Department’s list of terror-exporting countries. Committee Chairman Howard Berman (D-Calif.) said the measure “reinforces U.S. policy regarding removing North Korea” from the terror list.
SQUID EYE: Marine scientists studying the carcass of a rare colossal squid said they had measured its eye at about 11 inches across — bigger than a dinner plate — making it the largest animal eye on Earth. One of the squid’s two eyes, with a lens as big as an orange, was found intact as the scientists examined the creature while it was slowly defrosted at New Zealand’s national museum, Te Papa Tongarewa. The creature was caught off Antarctica last year.
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