Six people have died and thousands became homeless due to floods in the northern Philippines. Heavy rains over the past one week have led to flooding in 18 towns and about 200 villages in the provinces of Isabela and Cagayan in northern
Followers of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr marched on Friday against a pact letting U.S. forces stay in Iraq until 2011, toppling an effigy of President George W. Bush where US troops once tore down a statue of Saddam Hussein. Thousands
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Thousands of Shia followers of the firebrand anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr gathered in Baghdad on Friday to protest a security accord that would allow US troops to remain in Iraq until 2011.The protestors hung an