Thousands rally against transport strikes
Thousands of people demonstrated Sunday against transport strikes that unions said would continue for a sixth day despite signs the movement was losing steam and heading toward negotiations.
The strike over President Nicolas Sarkozy’s proposal to scrap early-retirement benefits has shuttered subway stations and tangled the nationwide train network since Tuesday night. Unions planned to keep up the walkout today.
A group calling itself Beloved Liberty staged a “Stop the Strike” demonstration in eastern Paris, drawing about 8,000 supporters. It drew fewer people than the pro-union demonstrations, but polls show most French are siding with Sarkozy over pension reform.
Kuwait City
U.S. soldier killed in road accident
A U.S. soldier was killed and another was seriously injured in a road accident Sunday near Camp Virginia off a Kuwaiti highway, the military said in a statement that did not provide the soldiers’ names.
It was the second fatal accident here in less than a week. One soldier was killed and two were injured Monday.
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Whale: An 18-foot whale that entered the Amazon River and swam 1,000 miles upstream was trapped a second time on a sandbar, Brazilian news media reported Sunday.
Cambodia: The U.N.-backed genocide tribunal arrested Khieu Samphan, the former Khmer Rouge head of state, today after his release from a hospital, officials said.
Seattle Times news services