Peru - a 7.0 (Richter Scale) earthquake jolted the Peruvian Amazon Sunday at 8:58 pm. 10 casualties reported allegedly after a rustic jungle bar collapsed on them.
Chile - 30 years ago today foreign investment totaled US$222 million, by 1990 this had grown to US$1.3 billion.
USA - President Bush urged US motorists to conserve fuel in the wake of Hurricane Rita and hinted that he was considering appointing someone to oversee recontruction of the hurricane-hit area.
China - About 600,000 people die of lung cancer in China on an annual basis, representing the largest number of malignant tumor victims in the country. Sun Yan, an academician at the Chinese Academy of Engineering,said lung cancer deaths ranked top among all the deaths caused by malignant tumors in 40 cities like Beijing and Shanghai and that the number of victims is growing.
UK - British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Sunday he had not set an "arbitrary date" for pulling British soldiers out of Iraq. Any exit strategy "depends on the job being done," Blair told the BBC.
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