In Brief

221 missing after Sierra Leone boat capsizes
* FREETOWN, Sierra Leone – Police say more than 200 people remain missing in Sierra Leone a day after a boat capsized, killing at least 8. Police official Ibrahim Samura says most of the passengers onboard were schoolchildren returning from holidays in the West African nation.

Truck bomb kills at least 19 in northern Iraq* BAGHDAD – A suicide truck bomber hit a Kurdish village in northern Iraq before dawn yesterday, killing at least 19 people and injuring 30 others, officials said, in what appeared to be the latest in a string of attacks targeting ethnic minorities in the region.Stampede kills 5 students at New Delhi * NEW DELHI – Hundreds of students who were jammed into a narrow school staircase panicked and set off a stampede yesterday that left five girls dead and 31 other students injured in India’s capital.China warns milk parents over meeting * BEIJING – Chinese police have tried to prevent parents of children made sick by tainted milk powder from travelling to Beijing to mark the anniversary of last year’s scandal, an activist said yesterday. City of Berlin wins Spanish peace prize * MADRID – Berlin, reunited as one city after decades of division during the Cold War, won Spain’s prestigious Prince of Asturias prize yesterday for its contribution to promoting peace and harmony.’Gulag’ book, once banned, now taught * MOSCOW – The book that made ‘Gulag’ a synonym for the horrors of Soviet oppression will be taught in Russian high schools, a generation after the Kremlin banned it as destructive to the Communist cause and exiled its author.Sudan’s former foes fail to reach deal* JUBA – Sudan’s former civil war foes failed to agree on how to conduct a referendum on independence for the south yesterday, with one side blaming a lack of trust.