In Brief

*UNREST – Two Islamic Jihad militants died in an Israeli air raid at Khan Younes in the Gaza Strip overnight, hospital officials said.

*SPACE – A Russian Soyuz spacecraft bringing back three astronauts from the International Space Station (ISS) landed yesterday in Kazakhstan, Russian space officials announced. *VOTE – George W.Bush courted votes in Florida, the crucial swing state that delivered him the White House in 2000, as his opponent, Senator John Kerry, accused the president of using scare tactics to win reelection.*ATTACK – Ten people were killed on when the Sudanese air force attacked a town in the south of the strife-torn Darfur region, a spokesman for the rebel Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) said.*KILLED – Sixteen people have been killed in an attack by an armed group of suspected Islamist militants in southern Algeria, state television said, in the latest bloodshed in an Islamic extremist rebellion that has claimed some 150,000 lives in the country since 1992.*ATTACKS – The Australian government, re-elected with an increased majority two weeks ago, announced plans to toughen its counter-terrorism legislation after previous efforts were stalled in the Senate.*DRUG – A group of Australian soldiers allegedly used as guinea pigs in tests of an anti-malaria drug which had psychotic side-effects are to launch a class action here, it was reported.- Nampa-AFP*VOTE – George W.Bush courted votes in Florida, the crucial swing state that delivered him the White House in 2000, as his opponent, Senator John Kerry, accused the president of using scare tactics to win reelection.*ATTACK – Ten people were killed on when the Sudanese air force attacked a town in the south of the strife-torn Darfur region, a spokesman for the rebel Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) said.*KILLED – Sixteen people have been killed in an attack by an armed group of suspected Islamist militants in southern Algeria, state television said, in the latest bloodshed in an Islamic extremist rebellion that has claimed some 150,000 lives in the country since 1992.*ATTACKS – The Australian government, re-elected with an increased majority two weeks ago, announced plans to toughen its counter-terrorism legislation after previous efforts were stalled in the Senate.*DRUG – A group of Australian soldiers allegedly used as guinea pigs in tests of an anti-malaria drug which had psychotic side-effects are to launch a class action here, it was reported.- Nampa-AFP