A round-up of today's other stories in brief
Judge orders US to halt eavesdropping
DETROIT - A federal judge yesterday ordered the Bush administration to halt the National Security Agency's programme of domestic eavesdropping, saying it violated the US constitution. Judge Anna Diggs Taylor said the practice of warrantless wiretapping violated free speech rights, protections against unreasonable searches and the constitutional check on the power of the presidency. The ruling marked a setback for the Bush administration, which had asked for the lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union to be thrown out. - (Reuters)
Families flee after volcano erupts
QUITO - Ecuador's Tungurahua volcano spewed molten rock yesterday and a local mayor reported one person dead and 60 missing as authorities evacuated hundreds of families from the threatened area.
"We have recovered the body of one man," Juan Salazar, the mayor of nearby Penipe, told local television. "We have 13 people hurt and they are hospitalized." - (Reuters)
US bomb killed 12 in Afghanistan
SHARANA - A bomb dropped by a US warplane in southeastern Afghanistan killed 12 border police yesterday and wounded two more, a provincial governor said. The incident happened near the Pakistan border in Paktika province, he said. The US military said it was investigating the reports. - (Reuters)
1,000 Srebrenica victims exhumed
KAMENICA - The bodies of more than 1,000 victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre have been exhumed from Bosnia's biggest mass grave, forensic experts said yesterday.
Experts began digging in June in the vicinity of the eastern Bosnian village of Kamenica and exhumed 144 complete and 1,009 partial skeletons. - (AP)