Al-Qaida deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri said in a statement broadcast in Egypt on Monday that his terror network carried out the July 7 bombings on three London underground stations and a double-decker bus, marking the group’s first direct claim of responsibility for the attacks that killed 52 people.
U.N.: Draft resolution on Iran
U.S. and European diplomats resumed efforts to haul Iran into the U.N. Security Council by drafting a resolution for the International Atomic Energy Agency’s 35 board member nations to vote on this week. The confidential document, released in part late Monday, requests that IAEA head Mohamed ElBaradei report to the Security Council “Iran’s many failures and breaches of its obligations to comply” with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
India: Outbreak kills over 1,000
An outbreak of Japanese encephalitis has killed more than 1,000 people – almost all of them children – in India and neighboring Nepal, as too few doctors struggle to care for thousands of sick children, the Associated Press reported Monday. Japanese encephalitis, closely related to West Nile virus, is found only in Asia.
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