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Published on Friday, Jan 09, 2009
AFGHANISTAN
U.S. patrol attacked
A suicide bomber struck U.S. troops patrolling Thursday in southern Afghanistan, killing at least two soldiers and three civilians and wounding at least nine others, officials said. The blast followed an allegation from President Hamid Karzai that clashes between U.S.-led troops and insurgents left 17 civilians dead earlier in the week. The U.S. military insists all 32 people killed in the fighting were militants.
CHINA
Downturn in tourism
The number of travelers to China dropped by 2 million in 2008 in what was supposed to be a banner year for tourism but became one dampened by Olympics-related security measures and the global economic crunch. It was the first decline in visitor numbers since 2003, when a deadly outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome kept many people away. The number of inbound travelers fell to 130 million last year, China's National Tourism Administration said.
MOROCCO
Escapee captured
The official Moroccan news agency said Thursday an Islamist convicted in the deadly 2003 Casablanca bombings who escaped from prison in April has been caught in neighboring Algeria and returned home. Hicham Alami is the seventh escapee reported to have been caught.
SPAIN
Drug baron killed
A convicted Colombian drug baron with links to two major smuggling cartels was shot dead in a Madrid hospital Thursday, officials said. Leonidas Vargas, who was convicted of drug trafficking, was murdered in a hospital bed where he was being treated for lung disease, a police spokesman said.
COSTA RICA
Child dies in quake
A 6.1-magnitude temblor shook Costa Rica early Thursday afternoon, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. Authorities said the earthquake killed a child and sent frightened residents running into the streets of the capital, San Jose.
NEW ZEALAND
Ice crushes tourists
Two Australian brothers were crushed to death under a sheet of ice at a popular tourist spot, police said early today. The two were struck and buried when a section of ice sloughed off the main face of South Island's Fox Glacier late Thursday afternoon.
Compiled from wire reports.
AFGHANISTAN
U.S. patrol attacked
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