■ Serbia-Montenegro
Former PM wins election
Filip Vujanovic, a former prime minister who favors independence from Serbia, won a landslide victory in Montenegro's presidential election Sunday, according to unofficial results. Vujanovic, who is parliament speaker, won about 63 percent of the vote, according to the Podgorica-based Center for Election Monitoring, a non-governmental organization whose previous election results proved reliable. Miodrag Zivkovic from the radically pro-independence Liberal Alliance, won 31 percent, and Dragan Hajdukovic, who like Vujanovic favors separation from Serbia, was third with 4 percent.
■ Poland
Bishop faces DUI charge
A Polish bishop faces two years in prison for drunk driving, police said Sunday in Elblag, northern Poland. Monsignor Andrzej Sliwinski caused an accident while driving in a drunken state, with 0.8g of alcohol in his blood, and now "risks two years in prison," police spokeswoman said, adding that the bishop was due to be questioned yesterday. His car bumped into two others when leaving the town. No one was injured in the accident. Poland's alcohol limit for drivers in 0.2g.
■ United kingdom
Minister Short resigns
A senior minister who called Prime Minister Tony Blair's policy on Iraq "reckless," but clung to office through the war, resigned from the Cabinet on yesterday. Clare Short resigned as secretary for International Development, Prime Minister Tony Blair's office said. She accused Blair of breaching assurances he had given on the role of the UN in post-conflict Iraq. And she accused the Blair and Foreign Secretary Jack Straw of "secretly" negotiating a UN Security Council resolution which contradicted assurances she had given to lawmakers. Her decision followed a controversy over her missing a critical House of Commons vote last week a hospital policy. Short outraged some and puzzled many when she didn't follow through on a threat to resign if Blair committed Britain to war.
■ Russia
Bomb kills at least 30
A truck bomb ripped through a government compound in northern Chechnya yesterday, killing at least 30 people, the regional administration chief said. Sultan Ahmetkhanov, the head of the Nadterechny region where the blast occurred, said a truck filled with explosives had damaged part of an administration building and the headquarters of the Federal Security Service in the town of Znamenskoye, as well as about eight residential houses. At least 30 people were killed and two to three times that number were injured, Akhmetkhanov said.
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