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Morning News


Aug.8   Baghdad     Saddam: U.S. attack 'doomed'
  Iraqi President defiant speech to his nation didn't appear to faze the Bush administration


  USA WorldCom reveals new $3.3bn error  The scale of accounting errors at bankrupt telecommunications firm is almost double the level previously reported

  Libya Libya 'ready to pay' for Lockerbie  3-hour meeting between Moammar Gadhafi and a UK Foreign Office minister

  Afghanistan U.S. soldier shot in ambush  A paratrooper was shot in the chest by unknown assailants while on reconnaissance patrol

  Australia Australia wins huge China gas deal  $13.5 billion deal to supply liquefied natural gas from the North West Shelf fields to China

Day News


  Washington     U.S., Palestinian leaders call talks 'good'  Colin Powell and 3 top Palestinian officials had a 75-minute meeting on political, economic and security concerns

  Washington     US derides Saddam's 'bluster'  Iraqi President said that any attack on his country would be doomed to failure

  Zimbabwe Court boost for farmers  High Court ruled the state could not confiscate land owned by one farmer

  Romania Romania shuns EU over U.S. immunity  Romania has struck a deal to prevent U.S. peacekeepers from falling under the jurisdiction of a new war crimes court

Evening News


  Zimbabwe   Farmers defy deadline  2000 whites are awaiting the government's next move after they defied a deadline to leave their land or face eviction

  Pakistan   Grenade attack at hospital  4 people, including 3 nurses, have been killed in a attack on a Christian missionary hospital near the capital of Islamabad

  South Korea New prime minister  Chang Dae-whan, the head of a business newspaper has been named as the country's prime minister
San Francisco Bay Area , August 8, 2002 Timeline