Foreign Desk
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Army: Troops Will Be In Iraq Until 2010
WASHINGTON — For planning purposes, the Army is gearing up to keep current troop levels in Iraq for another four years, a new indication that conditions there are too unstable to foresee an end to the war.The Army chief of staff, General Peter Schoomaker, cautioned against reading too much into the planning, which is done far in advance to prepare the right mix of combat units for expected deployments. He noted that it is easier to scale back later if conditions allow than to ramp up if they don’t.
— Associated Press
American Student Freed By Palestinian Arabs
NABLUS, West Bank — An American student teaching in West Bank refugee camps was freed late yesterday after being held for a day by Palestinian Arabs. He appeared to be unharmed. Michael Leighton Phillips was brought to security headquarters in Nablus, where he was joined by a former mayor, Ghassan Shakaa, and a security chief, both members of the moderate Fatah movement of the Palestinian Arab leader, Mahmoud Abbas.Earlier yesterday, a blurred photocopy of a passport and student card carrying Mr. Phillips’s name was sent to a foreign news agency by a group calling itself Ansar al-Sunna.
— Associated Press
OPEC To Cut Oil Production by 1M Barrels
OPEC will cut global oil production by 1 million barrels a day, a Nigerian oil minister and OPEC president, Edmund Daukoru, said yesterday.”The cut itself is agreed,” Mr. Daukoru told reporters after a Cabinet meeting in the Nigerian capital, adding the cuts would begin at the end of the month. Mr. Daukoru said members of the producing cartel were still working out how to share the cuts, but were “nearing consensus.”
— Associated Press
10 Die as Two Trains Collide in France
A passenger train collided with an oncoming freight train in northeastern France yesterday, killing 10 people and injuring at least 10 others, authorities said. The passenger train was traveling to the French city of Nancy from Luxembourg, a spokesman for French rail operator SNCF, Philippe Mirville, said. The line the passenger train was on was being repaired, so it switched onto a second track, hitting the oncoming freight train at Zoufftgen, about 12 miles south of Luxembourg, just before noon.
— Associated Press
