(10/06)

GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations human rights chief said on Monday "several hundred" civilians -- far more than first thought -- may have died in late August attacks by militias in the south of Sudan's violent Darfur region.

(2/05)

ZARAND, Iran (Reuters) - A powerful earthquake struck southeast Iran Tuesday, killing 400 people, injuring hundreds and turning remote mountain villages into rubble, officials said.

(3/00)

MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) -- The commander of the U.S. military relief effort to flood-ravaged Mozambique denied today that the United States had been slow to respond to the catastrophe. The floodwaters that swept across the southeast African nation one month ago and surged again two weeks ago have receded, leaving at least 400 confirmed dead and 1 million people either homeless or in desperate need of help. Aid agency officials expected the death toll to rise into the thousands as the waters continue to subside.