BISSAU (Guinea-Bissau) - ARMED men attacked the residence of Guinea-Bissau's president and engaged security forces in a three-hour gunbattle in the capital of the West African country before dawn on Sunday.
TEHERAN - AN IRANIAN militia held civil defence drills on Sunday to prepare for any hostile air strikes and the military said it could close a waterway crucial for world oil supplies if Iran was attacked.
The exercises organised by student members of the Basij militia were held at hundreds of schools across the country and involved transporting wounded people and putting out fires after a fictitious bombardment by enemy planes.
MOSCOW - ABOUT 500 anti-Kremlin activists met in Moscow on Sunday to discuss forming a movement called 'Solidarity,' the latest bid to unite Russia's liberals against what they call growing authoritarianism.
