Afghanistan: 3 troops die
KABUL — Three NATO troops — two from Estonia and one from the United States — were killed in attacks in southern Afghanistan as fraud charges continued to pour in Monday from last week's turbulent presidential vote.
On Monday night, NATO jets fired on targets near the airport in the southern city of Kandahar, which also serves as a major NATO base. Witnesses reported seeing a half dozen aircraft firing at targets to the southwest of the main runway.
The American service member died in an insurgent attack Sunday, the U.S. military said without providing details. Estonia's Defense Ministry said two soldiers were killed after their unit stumbled on a roadside bomb.
China: 11 miners killed
BEIJING — China's official Xinhua News Agency says 11 people have died in a coal mine gas blast in northern Shanxi province and three are missing. Xinhua says the explosion ripped through a mine shaft in Jinzhong city Monday morning. It says 16 miners were working underground at the time in the Xingguang Coal Industry Co. mine.
Switzerland: No to Google
BERN — A Swiss government official is demanding that Google Inc. immediately take off the Internet any "Street View" images of Switzerland, and the company said Monday it would work to resolve problems with the privacy rights regulator.
Hanspeter Thuer, Switzerland's federal data protection commissioner, said Google's pictures were violating Switzerland's strict privacy laws by failing to obscure people's identities on the mapping service, which offers detailed street-level images.
Mexico: No conquest?
MEXICO CITY — A new sixth-grade world history textbook is causing a stir in Mexico because it leaves out any mention of the Spanish Conquest.
Few events have shaped Mexico's culture, ethnicity and history more than the 1521 conquest.
But it doesn't appear in the government-published world history text, which ends in the age of exploration with a reference to the rising world powers of Spain and Portugal.
Assistant Education Secretary Fernando Gonzalez told the Mexican newspaper El Universal on Monday there was no intention of covering up the Spain's brutal conquest of indigenous societies.
Peru: Cocaine stuffing
LIMA — Peruvian police expecting to find a shipment of cocaine hidden in a crate holding two live turkeys were surprised to discover the drug surgically implanted inside the birds.
Police were puzzled when they found the turkeys in the crate, but didn't find the cocaine, Tarapoto's anti-drug police chief, Otero Gonzalez, told the Associated Press. They then noticed that the two turkeys were bloated. A veterinarian extracted 11 oval-shaped plastic capsules containing 4.2 pounds of cocaine from one turkey and 17 capsules with 6.4 pounds from the other, he said.
Malaysia: Caning delay
KUALA LUMPUR — The first woman in Muslim-majority Malaysia to face caning for drinking beer was reprieved Monday because of the holy month of Ramadan. Her family said she would rather get the thrashing with a rattan cane now and put the ordeal behind her.
Islamic officials had taken Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, a 32-year-old mother of two, into custody and were driving her to a women's prison for the caning when they abruptly turned around and sent her back to her family home in northern Malaysia.
Tanzania: Fire kills 12 girls
ARUSHA — A fire that ripped through a dormitory in rural Tanzania, killing 12 schoolgirls and wounding 23 others, likely began after a student fell asleep with a candle burning, officials said Monday.
The victims who died Saturday night were between the ages of 13 and 16 in the rural Iringa district, some 285 miles (460 kilometers) southwest of Dar es Salaam. They are due to be buried Tuesday near their school.