Manhunt for pedophile suspect

BANGKOK – Thai police are in an all-out manhunt for a Canadian schoolteacher sought by Interpol over pedophilia allegations and believed at large in Thailand, saying they wanted to protect children in the Southeast Asian nation.

Turkey considers incursion * ISTANBUL – Turkey’s Parliament is expected to approve a possible cross-border military incursion into northern Iraq to chase separatist Kurdish rebels despite international calls for restraint. Turkish leaders have stressed that an offensive against the rebels of the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, would not immediately follow the motion authorising the incursion.Uranium enrichment ongoing * TEHRAN – Iran is serious about its programme of enriching uranium but will cooperate with the UN nuclear watchdog and avoid adventurism, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told the visiting Russian president, who presented a proposal to solve the international standoff over Iran’s nuclear programme.”We will ponder about your words and proposal,” the state news agency IRNA quoted Khamenei as saying.Bomb kills 7 officers * BAGHDAD – A roadside bomb explodes near a police patrol, killing at least seven officers in the latest attack on a Shiite area south of Baghdad that has seen fierce clashes between rival militia factions.A suicide bomber also detonates his explosives-laden vehicle at a checkpoint manned by Kurdish forces northeast of the capital, killing at least one and wounding 10.Rice tours Jesus’s birthplace * BETHLEHEM – US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, a devout Christian, visited Jesus’ traditional birthplace in a symbolic bid to urge Israel and the Palestinians to move quickly to resume formal peace negotiations.Rice has said her visit is part of an attempt to assure ordinary people that the US is serious about helping them reach peace.Turkish leaders have stressed that an offensive against the rebels of the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, would not immediately follow the motion authorising the incursion. Uranium enrichment ongoing * TEHRAN – Iran is serious about its programme of enriching uranium but will cooperate with the UN nuclear watchdog and avoid adventurism, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told the visiting Russian president, who presented a proposal to solve the international standoff over Iran’s nuclear programme.”We will ponder about your words and proposal,” the state news agency IRNA quoted Khamenei as saying. Bomb kills 7 officers * BAGHDAD – A roadside bomb explodes near a police patrol, killing at least seven officers in the latest attack on a Shiite area south of Baghdad that has seen fierce clashes between rival militia factions.A suicide bomber also detonates his explosives-laden vehicle at a checkpoint manned by Kurdish forces northeast of the capital, killing at least one and wounding 10. Rice tours Jesus’s birthplace * BETHLEHEM – US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, a devout Christian, visited Jesus’ traditional birthplace in a symbolic bid to urge Israel and the Palestinians to move quickly to resume formal peace negotiations.Rice has said her visit is part of an attempt to assure ordinary people that the US is serious about helping them reach peace.