S. Korea approves

　　new prime minister

　　SEOUL (Oct. 5 — Reuters): South Korean lawmakers approved President Kim Dae-jung’s third nominee(提名) for prime minister after rejecting two candidates earlier. Kim Suk-soo, 69, a former Supreme Court judge, was approved by parliament.

　　Pakistan, India test missiles

　　NEW DELHI, India (Oct. 4 — AP): Pakistan and India, nuclear-armed rivals who came to the brink of war(战事一触即发) only four months ago, staged tit-for-tat (针锋相对) missile tests, increasing tensions and raising fears of a renewed arms race.

　　Senegal to tow

　　stricken ferry

　　DAKAR, Senegal (Oct. 3 — AP): Senegal has decided to tow(打捞) the corpse-laden MS Joola to its own territorial waters, retrieving (收回) the bodies there for burial. At least 970 people died Sept. 26 when the ferry capsized en route from southern to northern Senegal. The disaster was Africa’s deadliest ferry accident, and the second-deadliest in the world.

　　Subway workers strike

　　London underground

　　LONDON (Oct. 1 — AP): Subway workers began a 24-hour strike on London’s underground railway Tuesday night, promising rush hour nightmares for hundreds of thousands of commuters the following morning and evening.

　　Japan’s PM reshuffles

　　Cabinet

　　TOKYO（Sept. 30 — AP): In his first Cabinet reshuffle(内阁重组) since taking office more than a year ago, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi fired a top economic adviser who shied away from(回避) reforms, underscoring his desire to get Japan out of its decade-long fiscal(财政的) slump(萧条).

　　Mandela, Clinton

　　discuss AIDS

　　ORANGE FARM, South Africa (Sept. 29 — AP): Nelson Mandela and former U.S. President Clinton spoke with South African youth to boost AIDS awareness and prevention.

　　Anti-war protests

　　SYDNEY (Sept. 28 — AP): About 1,000 people marched through the heart of Sydney, urging the national government not to get involved in a war with Iraq.

　　Tens of thousands of leftist protesters marched in Rome against a possible U.S. war against Iraq, insisting that any conflict would end up doing more harm than good.