HIS WORDS, NOT MINE: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert distanced himself on Sunday from a Cabinet minister’s suggestion that Israel will be forced to attack Iran. A spokeswoman for Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz said he had not been expressing government policy.
AFTERSHOCK IN CHINA: A magnitude 5.0 aftershock shook a brimming, earthquake-formed lake and sent landslides down surrounding mountains Sunday, underscoring the persistent threat of flooding to more than 1 million weary refugees downstream.
RIOT IN EGYPT: Thousands of demonstrators fought with police after a protest over flour rations in Burullus on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast, a security official and state media said Sunday. About 8,000 protesters sealed off a highway for seven hours Saturday, local media reported.
GUYANA GANG: A heavily armed gang suspected of killing 23 people in two village massacres drove back a security assault at its hideout in dense Amazonian jungle, Guyanese police said Sunday.
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