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Reuters - Tuesday, June 17

Bush wins backing over Iran sanctions

LONDON - U.S. President George W. Bush won backing on Monday for tighter sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme and secured a pledge to send more troops to Afghanistan. After talks with Bush on the last day of the president's farewell tour through Europe, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he expected European states to agree to impose some financial sanctions on Tehran and work to approve more.

Al Gore backs Obama for White House

DETROIT - Former Vice President Al Gore pledged on Monday to do all he could to help Barack Obama win the White House, saying it was crucial the United States has not only a new leader but a new vision for its future. Gore, one of the most prominent figures in the U.S. Democratic party and known around the world for his push to combat climate change, publicly backed Obama for the first time at a huge rally in Detroit.

Lure of a better life tempts Chinese off the land

HAINING, China - Tales of protests by angry peasants whose land has been seized for a pittance by unscrupulous officials are commonplace in China. But even as concern grows about the disappearance of arable land to feed 1.3 billion people, less noticed is the eagerness of other farmers, often in richer parts of China, to cash in their land and say goodbye to back-breaking toil in the fields.

Mugabe threatens opposition over violence

HARARE - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe threatened on Monday to arrest opposition leaders over election campaign violence for which his opponents blame ruling party supporters. Prime Minister Gordon Brown, branding Zimbabwe's government a "criminal regime", joined U.S. President George W. Bush in urging Mugabe to allow international monitors to ensure a free and fair presidential run-off election on June 27.

French truckers block roads in protest

PARIS - Truckers blocked roads across France on Monday in their latest protest against high fuel costs and called on the government to help their struggling industry. The nationwide day of action announced by France's main haulage associations included roadblocks and "snail" operations by convoys of slow-moving trucks to disrupt traffic.

Chad leader slams EU force for not halting rebels

N'DJAMENA - Chadian President Idriss Deby accused a European Union military force in the east of his country on Monday of "closing its eyes" to attacks by rebels who have captured several towns in a fast-moving advance. Deby's sharp criticism of the European force , which has a United Nations mandate to protect nearly half a million civilian refugees in Chad, followed a statement from the rebels saying they had seized the eastern town of Biltine.

U.S. says army probe of Reuters death tainted

WASHINGTON - U.S. soldiers who killed a Reuters journalist in Iraq acted within military rules, but the Army's probe of the incident was tainted by its failure to preserve evidence, a Pentagon investigation said on Monday. The Defence Department's inspector general, the Pentagon's watchdog agency, found that U.S. soldiers who fired on a Reuters car in west Baghdad in August 2005, killing Reuters Television soundman Waleed Khaled, reasonably responded to what they thought was a threat.

Survivor sues Netherlands over Srebrenica

THE HAGUE - A survivor of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre who says Dutch U.N. troops guarding the Bosnian town allowed Bosnian Serb forces to murder his family told a Dutch court on Monday he wanted justice for his loss. Hasan Nuhanovic and the family of another Srebrenica victim are suing the Dutch state for negligence over its troops' role in the 1992-95 Bosnian war. The court will hear a separate civil suit on Wednesday filed by about 6,000 relatives of Srebrenica massacre victims against the Dutch state and the United Nations.

Rebels kill 3 Russian soldiers in Chechnya

MOSCOW - Rebels in Russia's southern Chechnya region killed three soldiers in an ambush on a military convoy on Monday, news agencies reported, in one of the deadliest attacks on Russian forces this year. The Kremlin says fighting in mainly Muslim Chechnya has ended and has backed a local leader to rebuild the region after waging two wars against rebels since 1994.

Rich nations fall short on Africa aid

LONDON - The world's richest nations are falling short on pledges to double aid to Africa by 2010 at a time when soaring food prices risk destroying decades of economic progress on the continent, a watchdog said on Monday. The Africa Progress Panel, set up to monitor commitments made at the Group of Eight summit in 2005 at Gleneagles in Scotland, said in a report rich nations would be $40 billion shy of their pledges based on current plans.

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