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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 2007
Page
3
Firefighters reported major fires in Greece contained as smaller blazes burn in the south. A week after hundreds of fires killed 64 and cost at least 1.6 billion, authorities cautioned that receding fronts do not mean danger is over.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki charged hard line Sunni clerics abroad with provoking sectarian violence at Karbala during a Shiite religious festival. He cited fatwas labeling Shiites as infidels and said foreign elements helped trigger clashes that killed up to 51 people as guards faced crowds near Imam Husain and Imam Abbas mosques.
Beijing enacts first nationwide recall systems for unsafe food and toys as scandals push for a cleanup of Chinese manufacturing. The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection, and Quarantine orders manufacturers to halt production and sales, notify vendors, and report defects, with voluntary recalls urged for food and compulsory recalls for serious safety issues.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy publish a joint call in The Times and Le Monde urging faster deployment of a 26 000 strong UN AU peacekeeping force for Darfur. They press Security Council action, warn of sanctions, and plan ministerial talks to push a cease fire and political solution despite delays in deployment.
A US military report shows 385 mass disturbances at Guantanamo in the first six months of 2007, more than double all of 2006, despite security overhauls and releases. The category covers assaults by at least three detainees intended to disrupt operations, with about 355 men still detained without charges.
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