A roundup of today's other world news in brief:
Cheney staffer faces torture subpoena
WASHINGTON- A Democratic-led US congressional panel has voted to authorise its chairman to subpoena vice- president Dick Cheney's chief of staff in its investigation into possible US torture of suspected terrorists.
Jerrold Nadler, a NY Democrat, may issue a subpoena today for David Addington, who maintains he is immune from testifying before Congress.
- (Reuters)
Elisabeth Fritzl may sue father
VIENNA- Austrian Elisabeth Fritzl, who was imprisoned by her father for 24 years and gave birth to seven of his children, may sue her father for compensation, her lawyer said yesterday.
Fritzl (73) kept Elisabeth and three of her six surviving children in a windowless basement prison for nearly a quarter of a century, while raising three of their children as his own upstairs.
- (Reuters)
Georgia likely to execute killer
ATLANTA- The Georgia Supreme Court refused to issue a stay of execution for a convicted murderer due to die by lethal injection at 7pm yesterday (11pm Ireland).
The court declined to stay the execution of William Earl Lynd (53), who is set to become the first death row inmate executed since the end of a de factomoratorium on capital punishment in the US last month.
- (Reuters)
Uma Thurman stalker convicted
NEW YORK- A New York jury has convicted a former mental patient of stalking actor Uma Thurman and a judge has ordered him held for a psychiatric evaluation.
Jack Jordan (37) was accused of sending harassing e-mails, loitering for hours on the steps of Thurman's Manhattan apartment and visiting her trailer on the set of the 2006 film, My Super Ex-Girlfriend.
- (Reuters)
More police sent to trouble spot
BRASILIA- Brazil's government dispatched hundreds of police reinforcements to the country's remote north yesterday after gunmen shot and wounded 10 Indians in a land conflict.
The dispute began in April when police tried to evict rice farmers from a remote Indian reservation.
- (Reuters)
Mandela set for London concert
LONDON- Nelson Mandela is to make a rare public appearance in London next month for a Live Aid-style concert to mark his 90th birthday.
The former South African president, who has retired from public life, will be joined by some of the biggest names from pop and politics at the Hyde Park event, organisers said.
- (Reuters)
Clause for Iraq troop withdrawal
WASHINGTON- Democratic leaders in the US House of Representatives have agreed on a plan to fund the Iraq war into next year, but included a provision to withdraw combat troops by the end of 2009.
The plan for supporting the $170 billion requested by President George Bush to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan also would expand benefits for war veterans and more help to the unemployed.
- (Reuters)
Israel's Nato links criticised
OSLO- A junior party in Norway's Labour-led government yesterday attacked plans for Israel to take part in Nato naval exercises in Norwegian waters later this month.
Including Israel in submarine exercises amounted to "whitewashing an occupying power", the Socialist Left party said.
- (Reuters)