A round up of today's other world stories in brief
10 die in cave flash flood in Thailand
BANGKOK - Eight people, including four Swiss, a Briton and a 10-year-old German boy, drowned when a flash flood trapped them in a cave in southern Thailand, but a British woman survived, officials said yesterday.
A Thai tourist guide and a boatman also drowned in the 500 metre-deep Nam Talu cave in the Khao Sok national park, they said.
The officials said that a 17-year-old British woman was found alive after a long search that began on Saturday night, park official Thirayudh Mungpaisal told reporters. - (Reuters)
3 Russians killed in ethnic attacks
NAZRAN - Gunmen killed three ethnic Russians yesterday in Russia's southern region of Ingushetia, security sources said, after the latest in a spate of targeted murders.
Several Russians have been murdered in the past few months in Ingushetia, which borders the volatile region of Chechnya, although no group has claimed responsibility.
"There are two corpses on the street, a man and a woman from Russia," the source told Reuters, adding that two other people had been injured in the daytime attack in the small town of Karabulak, a few kilometres from Ingushetia's biggest town of Nazran. - (Reuters)
Frail but alert Castro in video clip
HAVANA - Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro appeared yesterday in a 17-minute video clip shown on Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez's weekly television show broadcast from Cuba.
Mr Castro (81) looked frail but alert in the video as he spoke about revolutionary icon Che Guevara during a four-hour meeting with Chavez on Saturday.
Castro has not appeared in public since emergency surgery forced him to hand over power to his brother Raul last year.
Chavez broadcast his weekly radio and television show from the Che Guevara mausoleum in the Cuban city of Santa Clara. - (Reuters)
New talks round on Kosovo agreed
BRUSSELS - Serbian and Kosovo Albanian officials agreed yesterday on a new round of talks later this month to try to break a deadlock over the future of the breakaway Serbian province, international mediators said.
A statement released by the so-called troika of European, US and Russian mediators after a Brussels meeting said the two sides had presented their proposals on Kosovo's future status but it made no mention of any progress in negotiations. "The troika will next meet with the parties in Vienna on October 22nd, followed by an intensive schedule of face-to-face meetings in the following weeks," the statement said. - (Reuters)
Tourist killings suspect arrested
DUBAI - Saudi Arabia has captured a man suspected of involvement in the murder of four French tourists in the Muslim kingdom earlier this year, Al Arabiya television reported at the weekend.
The four holidaymakers were among a group of nine French people attacked by militants while on a desert trip in Saudi Arabia in February. - (Reuters)