Bomb Attacks in India Kill at Least 67

NEW DELHI — A series of apparently synchronized explosions tore through four towns in the troubled state of Assam in northeastern India on Thursday, killing at least 67 people and leaving more than 210 wounded, according to witnesses and police.
The bombs took aim at crowded markets and government buildings like courts and police stations, witnesses said. The attacks, among the bloodiest in recent months, left streets littered with bodies and the wreckage of cars and motorcycles, according to witnesses and photographers at the scene.More

Soldiers, UN retreat as rebels advance in Congo

KILIMANYOKA, Congo (AP) - Rebels advanced toward Congo's eastern provincial capital of 600,000 people Tuesday, sending tens of thousands of terrified civilians into a makeshift shelter as Congolese troops and U.N. tanks retreated.
The sudden influx tripled the size of the camp in Kibati in a matter of hours, said Ron Redmond, a spokesman for the U.N. refugee agency.
"It's chaos up there," Redmond told The Associated Press. "These crowds of people coming down from the north have already started turning up there."
A hundred refugees a day, mostly women and children, also were fleeing across the border into Uganda, that country's Red Cross said.More