■ United States
Wolfowitz heckled on Iraq
Iraq war protesters interrupted a speech by World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz on Sunday, calling him a war criminal and saying he lied during the run-up to the war. Wolfowitz, a deputy to US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and a key advocate of the Iraq war, was in an Atlanta, Georgia, synagogue to speak about the relevance of Africa for Americans. At one point a man stood up at the front of the audience wearing an orange jumpsuit, seen by protesters as symbolic of clothes worn by prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. "You lied about the Iraq war! You are a war criminal!" shouted another woman as she was escorted out.
■ Haiti
Preval fears cancer return
President Rene Preval, who was diagnosed with prostate cancer five years ago, says the disease may have come back and that he would soon leave the country for treatment and more tests. The possible illness adds to uncertainty facing Preval's coalition government, which took power in May and has struggled to stabilize the impoverished Caribbean nation. Speaking to reporters on Sunday after returning from a four-day trip to Cuba for medical exams, a fit-looking Preval said blood tests in Havana showed possible signs of cancer. Preval said the tests were inconclusive and that he would have to return to Cuba on Dec. 26 for more tests and unspecified treatment.
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