A roundup of today's other world news in brief:
Georgians demand return of TV station
TBILISI- Some 10,000 people massed in Georgia's capital Tbilisi yesterday to demand that leader Mikhail Saakashvili allow the biggest opposition TV station back on air. Mr Saakashvili, who stepped down as president to take part in an early presidential election in January, is facing a major political crisis after crushing opposition protests and taking the Imedi television station off air.
- (Reuters)
Kenyan police kill over 8,000 - report
NAIROBI- As many as 8,040 young Kenyans have been executed or tortured to death since 2002 during a five-year police crackdown on an outlawed sect, according to a report by a group of Kenyan lawyers.
A further 4,070 young men have gone missing after being held in police custody in the period, said the report by the Oscar Foundation Free Legal Aid Clinic- Kenya.
- (PA)
Primate attacks 'hegemonic' US
LONDON- Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, leader of the world's Anglicans, said the US has lost the high moral ground since the September 11th attacks in 2001.
In an interview with Muslim magazine Emel, Archbishop Williams, a long-time critic of the Iraq war, said: "We have only one hegemonic power . . . It is not accumulating territory; it is trying to accumulate influence and control. That's not working."
- (Reuters)
Ukraine blames famine for turmoil
KIEV- President Viktor Yushchenko said the turmoil pitting Ukraine's Russian-speaking east against its nationalist west had its roots in a famine engineered by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin 75 years ago.
- (Reuters)