In Brief

HOLDING – A fragile truce ending 34 days of war in Lebanon entered its second week yesterday with each side charging the other has broken the ceasefire accord, while the United Nations struggled to create a credible peacekeeping force.

BLAST – A bomb blast tore through a Moscow market, killing at least 10 people and injuring scores more. Officials say initial evidence indicated a commercial or criminal dispute was behind the blast, but do not rule out terrorism.TRIAL -The trial of seven Bosnian Serb military and paramilitary officers charged in the massacre of thousands of Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica resume at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal, with chief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte calling them “among the most responsible” for the atrocity.PROTEST – An animal right activist, Soraida, who previously protested the transfer of Thai elephants to Australian zoos yesterday said she opposes a new plan to exchange five of the beasts for other animals from a Chinese zoo.The government-run Chiang Mai Night Safari zoo is scheduled to send 29 animals including five elephants to Chime-Long Night Zoo in China on September 7 in exchange for 89 animals including a white tiger, the foundation said in a statement.INFLUX – Spanish officials headed to West Africa for talks on stemming the tide of illegal migrants.The top officials to Senegal and Mauritania to discuss the problem of African migrants reaching the Canary Islands after some 1 300 migrants illegally landed there over the weekend.KILLED – A roadside bomb killed three Afghan policemen amid soaring violence in southern Afghanistan that claimed the lives of scores of militants, as well as five Afghan security forces and a British soldier.SURVIVAL – Villagers returned to salvage food, livestock and pets from homes carpeted with gray ash and rocks on the slopes of Tungurahua Volcano, days after a major eruption that has left four dead and thousands displaced.Farmer Mario Villegas, 56, swept away a foot-and-a-half of ash that had collected at his doorstep and surveyed holes in his roof after the volcano rained flaming rocks on this settlement.Nampa-Reuters-APOfficials say initial evidence indicated a commercial or criminal dispute was behind the blast, but do not rule out terrorism. TRIAL -The trial of seven Bosnian Serb military and paramilitary officers charged in the massacre of thousands of Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica resume at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal, with chief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte calling them “among the most responsible” for the atrocity. PROTEST – An animal right activist, Soraida, who previously protested the transfer of Thai elephants to Australian zoos yesterday said she opposes a new plan to exchange five of the beasts for other animals from a Chinese zoo.The government-run Chiang Mai Night Safari zoo is scheduled to send 29 animals including five elephants to Chime-Long Night Zoo in China on September 7 in exchange for 89 animals including a white tiger, the foundation said in a statement.INFLUX – Spanish officials headed to West Africa for talks on stemming the tide of illegal migrants.The top officials to Senegal and Mauritania to discuss the problem of African migrants reaching the Canary Islands after some 1 300 migrants illegally landed there over the weekend. KILLED – A roadside bomb killed three Afghan policemen amid soaring violence in southern Afghanistan that claimed the lives of scores of militants, as well as five Afghan security forces and a British soldier. SURVIVAL – Villagers returned to salvage food, livestock and pets from homes carpeted with gray ash and rocks on the slopes of Tungurahua Volcano, days after a major eruption that has left four dead and thousands displaced.Farmer Mario Villegas, 56, swept away a foot-and-a-half of ash that had collected at his doorstep and surveyed holes in his roof after the volcano rained flaming rocks on this settlement.Nampa-Reuters-AP