Foreign Desk
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Death Toll for Iraq Troops Rises to 11
BAGHDAD, Iraq — The toll in one of the American military’s deadliest days in Iraq rose to 11 when the military said yesterday that another soldier had died in fighting west of Baghdad. At least seven Iraqis — six policemen and a 7-year-old girl — were killed in a series of bombings and shootings. The American soldier was shot Wednesday while manning a machine gun nest on the roof of an outpost in Ramadi, the capital of the volatile Anbar province, according to an Associated Press reporter on the scene.
— Associated Press
Jordanian Court Convicts Four in Rocket Attack
AMMAN, Jordan — A Jordanian military court convicted three Syrians and one Iraqi yesterday and sentenced them to death for firing rockets at two American warships in August 2005. One of the Syrians, Mohammed Hassan Abdullah al-Sihly, is in police custody, but the other two Syrians, Abdul-Rahman al-Sihly and Abdullah al-Sihly, and the Iraqi, Amar al-Samera’i, remain at large and were tried in absentia.
— Associated Press
Ebola Virus Kills Thousands of Great Apes
LONDON — A quarter of the world’s great apes may have been wiped out over the past decade by Ebola, a virus that causes massive internal bleeding. Research published in the journal Science outlines strong evidence that the Zaire sub-type of Ebola killed at least 5,000 gorillas at a single site. The new study, led by Magdalena Bermejo of the University of Barcelona, was conducted in a closely monitored gorilla population where tests confirmed Ebola as the cause of death.
— The Daily Telegraph
