World News Archive08-Jan-2006
This page covers all rugby and tournament news from around the world. Premiership duo cited 06 Jan 2006 Guinness Premiership players Aisea Havili and Dan Ward-Smith have both been cited for alleged incidents of foul play. TOKYO (AP) - Chicago White Sox second baseman Tadahito Iguchi has withdrawn from the Japanese squad for the World Baseball Classic, a news agency reported Saturday. SAO PAULO, Brazil ? The Brazilian general commanding U.N. peacekeepers in Haiti has been found dead in the Haitian capital, the official news agency said Saturday. SYDNEY, Australia ? A leading Australian scientist believes the world has just 20 years to turn the tide on global warming and that leaders at a summit in Sydney next week must take concrete steps to tackle the problem. BEIJING ? A farmer angry over a court ruling set off a bomb in a Chinese courthouse, killing himself and four other people, a news report said Saturday. Chicago White Sox second baseman Tadahito Iguchi has withdrawn from the Japanese squad for the World Baseball Classics in March, saying he wants to focus on his play as he enters his second year in the major league, a news report said Saturday. "Unfortunately, I've decided to withdraw from the squad," Iguchi said while training on Japan's southernmost island of Okinawa, Kyodo News agency ? AP writer Ryan Lenz is embedded with the 3rd Brigade of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division in Iraq and will be filing periodic reports on life in that unit. SEOUL, January 8 (Itar-Tass) -- The UN World Food Program has terminated the assistance to North Korea as of January 1, 2006, the Yonhap news agency reported Sunday with reference to Richard Ragan, who had been head of the Pyongyang-based office of this international organization. TEHRAN, Iran ? Iran accused the United States of supporting an Islamic militant group holding nine Iranian soldiers hostage near the country's border with Pakistan, the official Islamic Republic News Agency said Saturday.
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