Foreign Desk
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Second Suspect Arrested in Murders Of British Prostitutes
IPSWICH, England — Police pursuing the killer of five prostitutes arrested a second suspect yesterday and seized a dark blue Ford that a neighbor in Ipswich’s red-light district said the 48-year-old man had repeatedly cleaned. A one-time auxiliary police constable arrested Monday in a village outside Ipswich remains in custody. A court gave police permission to hold the 37-year-old supermarket clerk and part-time taxi driver for an additional 36 hours while officers scoured his back yard on hands and knees for possible clues.
— Associated Press
Iraq Executes 13 Men Convicted of Crimes
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqi authorities executed 13 men by hanging yesterday after they were convicted of murder and kidnapping, lining them up in hoods and green jumpsuits with their hands bound behind their backs. Television images showed two men standing together on a gallows with nooses around their necks. Several of them stooped, and one had his arm around the shoulder of another as the hooded men stood in a row shortly before they were hanged.
— Associated Press
At Saddam Trial,
Prosecution Shows Video of Gas Attack
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Prosecutors in Saddam Hussein’s genocide trial showed chilling videos of gassed children lying in a field and villagers fleeing clouds of white smoke, arguing yesterday that the former president and his regime used chemical weapons against the Kurds of northern Iraq in the late 1980s. ‘’These children are the saboteurs that the defendants talk about,” prosecutor Munqith al-Faroon said sarcastically as the footage showed scores of dead children on the ground, partially covered by blankets. Defense attorneys had argued that Saddam and his co-defendants were fighting Kurdish insurgents during the 1987–88 military offensive that was code named “Operation Anfal.”
— Associated Press
U.S., North Korea Envoys Meet Face-to-Face To Discuss Nuclear Issue
BEIJING — American and North Korean diplomats met face-to-face yesterday to discuss international efforts to get the communist regime to give up its nuclear arms program and the North’s demand for Washington to stop trying to freeze it out of the global banking system. American officials gave no indication of any progress after two days in the latest round of six-nation talks, which have failed over more than three years of meetings to dismantle the North’s atomic weapons program — or prevent its first nuclear test explosion October 9.
— Associated Press
Jordan’s King Hosts Israeli Premier for Talks
AMMAN, Jordan — Prime Minister Olmert of Israel made a surprise visit to Jordan yesterday for talks with King Abdullah II on ways to revive Mideast peace-making. The palace also said Abdullah was offering to host a meeting in Jordan to help resolve Palestinian Arab infighting between the Hamas and Fatah movements.
— Associated Press
Chavez To Form Party To Unify Socialists
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan President Chavez of Venezuela is dissolving his Fifth Republic Movement party to form a new one that will bring all his supporters into a single, socialist organization, Communication Minister William Lara said. The new party, which may be named the Venezuelan Unified Socialist Party, won’t become a “federation of allied parties,” Mr. Lara said in comments published in the government’s Web site. Mr. Chavez says the change will help power his drive to transform Venezuela, the world’s fifth largest oil supplier, into a socialist state. The single party, as well as a plan to amend the constitution that would allow indefinite presidential re-election, are Mr. Chavez’s main political goals for 2007, the first year of his second term.
— Bloomberg News