A round-up of today's other world news stories in brief
Russian mine explosion kills at least 12
MOSCOW - At least 12 people were killed in an explosion at a mine in Arctic Russia that extracts raw materials for fertilizer, officials said yesterday. It was the worst accident this year in Russia's mining industry.
Years of neglect have made Russias mines among the most dangerous in the world. - (Reuters)
Rumsfeld 'shares blame' for abuse
WASHINGTON - Former US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other senior US officials share much of the blame for detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, according to parts of a report released on Thursday by the US Senate armed services committee. It said he contributed to the abuse by authorising aggressive interrogation techniques at Guantánamo Bay. - (Reuters)
Further clashes in Athens
ATHENS - Students pelted police with firebombs and stones in Athens yesterday in further clashes that first broke out over the police killing of a teenager.
Students attacked police outside the parliament building on a seventh day of violence. Riot police fired teargas in response. - (Reuters)
Bono receives peace award
PARIS - Bono was awarded the Peace Summit Award at the Ninth Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates yesterday in Paris for his crusade to tackle African debt and poverty.
"This is a very big award for me, because, let's be honest, this is as close as I am going to get - as close as a rock star is ever going to get - to the Nobel Peace Prize," he said.