DEADLY BREW: Locally brewed liquor apparently tainted with lethal chemicals has killed another 20 people in southern India, bringing the death toll from the past four days to 90, police said. Bootleggers began selling the deadly brew Saturday.
SAUDI CRITIC: An outspoken critic of the Saudi government, previously jailed for calling for greater democracy, has been arrested again, his wife said. Matrouk al-Faleh, a professor of political science at King Saud University in Riyadh, the capital, was detained Monday after he left for work, his wife said.
WHALE HUNT: Whale hunting season opened in Iceland as the country’s first whaling ship of the year set sail in defiance of a worldwide moratorium on the practice. Amid condemnation from environmental groups, the government is allowing 40 minke whales to be hunted for their meat over the next six months.
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