AFP - Thousands of protestors marched against the Iraq war in Los Angeles on Saturday as part of a global day of action that drew huge crowds in London and smaller protests elsewhere in Europe and Canada.
AP - As of Saturday, March 15, 2008, at least 3,988 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes eight military civilians. At least 3,241 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.
AFP - An Israeli air strike on Saturday killed three Islamic Jihad militants readying to fire rockets from Gaza, medics and the radical Palestinian group said, while a fourth Palestinian died from tank shelling.
AFP - Republican presidential candidate John McCain travels to Europe and the Middle East in the week ahead -- including a reported stop in Iraq -- to burnish his senior statesman credentials while Democratic rivals brawl back home.
AFP - Thousands of protestors, most of them young people, marched against the Iraq war in Los Angeles Saturday, holding up coffins draped with the US flag and led by veterans from various conflicts.
AFP - Iran's reformers on Saturday hailed their performance in parliamentary elections as a "remarkable success," saying they would hold around 20 percent of seats despite the mass vetoing of candidates.
Reuters - Iranian election results on Saturday
showed conservatives on course to keep control of parliament,
but some were expected to join reformists in flaying President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's handling of the economy.
Reuters - Iraqi police arrested dozens of
members of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army militia
on Saturday, hours after two policemen were killed in
gunbattles in the southern city of Kut, police said.
AFP - Thousands of protesters gathered in London and Glasgow Saturday ahead of the fifth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq, calling for the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.
AP - Conservative opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made a strong showing in Iran's parliamentary elections, according to partial results Saturday. The split could mean frictions between the president and former supporters disillusioned by his fiery, populist rule.