MINISTER OUT: Canada’s embattled foreign minister, Maxime Bernier, resigned for leaving classified documents in a non-secure location, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Monday, calling the breach “a serious error.”
ISRAEL SAYS ‘NO’: Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told lawmakers Monday that Israel would not agree to open a key Gaza border crossing, explicitly rejecting a chief condition that Hamas set for a cease-fire with Israel.
SRI LANKA ATTACK: A bomb ripped through a passenger train during evening rush hour Monday, killing eight people and wounding 70 near the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo.
SKYDIVE WAITS: Wind conditions Monday delayed French skydiver Michel Fornier’s plans to free-fall 130,000 feet from the stratosphere over Canada in a specially designed suit, helmet and parachute in a bid to break four records.
CHILE CHARGES: A Chilean judge announced that 98 people were indicted on kidnapping charges Monday in the case of Operation Colombo — a 1975 attempt by Chilean security services to blame 119 dissident deaths on infighting among radical leftists during the regime of Augusto Pinochet.
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