Hurricane Jimena hones in on Mexico resort

* LOS CABOS – Hurricane Jimena, an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm, barrelled toward Mexico’s Baja California peninsula yesterday, forcing tourists to flee the Los Cabos resort area.

Iran ready for talks with West* TEHRAN – Iran’s top nuclear negotiator said his country is ready to hold talks with world powers to ease fears over its nuclear activities and has prepared a revised package of proposals for Western countries, state TV reported yesterday.AQ Khan still a ‘serious proliferation risk* WASHINGTON – Disgraced Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan ‘remains a serious proliferation risk,’ a US official said yesterday after the scientist gained freedom of movement.US fares poorly in child welfare survey* PARIS – America is among the industrialised world’s worst victims of infant mortality, teenage pregnancy and child poverty, even though it spends more per child than better-performing countries such as Switzerland, Japan and the Netherlands, a new survey indicates.Berlusconi plans to block EU over comments* ROME – Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi yesterday threatened to block European Union decision making unless EU commissioners and their spokespeople were barred from speaking publicly, Italian media reported. Report said 4 000 tropical fish died in Russia* MOSCOW – Thousands of tropical fish reportedly have died at a Russian airport after being held in customs for 15 hours in the summer heat.

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