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World: Mideast Today's Headlines  |  December 2, 2008

India pressures Pakistan to act on terrorism By Mark Magnier and Laura King Becoming more sure that militants based in Pakistan carried out the Mumbai attacks, India calls on its neighbor and rival to hand over 20 terrorism suspects and cooperate fully in the investigation. Mumbai residents try to return to routines By Mark Magnier City dwellers get on trains, go to work and gather publicly to show solidarity after the terrorist attacks that killed more than 170. 'I want to shop just to show I'm not afraid,' one says. Pakistan dismisses claims that Mumbai attackers were trained by Pakistani militants By Laura King Officials say Indian investigators' assertions that a Pakistani group taught the attackers are unfounded. But Indian officials say the surviving gunman detailed the training by Lashkar-e-Taiba. Blasts kill at least 15 cadets at Baghdad police academy By Tina Susman The twin bombings are among several attacks across Iraq that leave as many as 36 dead, including two attackers. World Briefing Pakistan: Militants hit NATO supplies / Brazil: Pledge to reduce Amazon clearing / Guatemala: 17 killed in spat / China: 294,000 infants ill from melamine / The Netherlands: 'Magic' mushrooms banned U.S. death toll in Afghanistan was 1 last month One American serviceman died in Afghanistan in November, a significant drop from earlier months that the U.S. military attributed to its campaign against insurgent leaders, operations by Afghan and Pakistani forces and the onset of winter. Bush tells ABC News: 'I was unprepared for war' In an interview with Charles Gibson, the president is unusually blunt about shortcomings on the Iraq war and praises his HIV/AIDs initiative as a success. Turkish warplanes bombing Kurdish separatists Positions of the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, in northern Iraq are reported to be under attack. Looking ahead to a Clinton State Department, Israelis and Arabs retool their expectations By Richard Boudreaux, Jeffrey Fleishman and Paul Richter Israel is applauding her nomination as a check on Obama, while the news has damped Arabs' hopes of a swing away from Bush policies. Dissident poet is allowed to speak, but Egypt's leaders aren't listening By Jeffrey Fleishman Iman Bakry has risen to national prominence with her politically barbed verse about repression, corruption and poverty, appealing to the intellectual as well as the illiterate. L.A. Chabad mourns couple slain in Mumbai By Jason Song and Ted Rohrlich About 1,000 people gather in Westwood for a memorial. Plans are made to transfer the Holtzbergs' 2-year-old son to Israel. BLOG Babylon & Beyond Iran, from inside and outside: Web-only coverage about the Middle East powerhouse that is a cause for concern in capitals around the globe. The Egyptian Sphinx: Exclusive coverage of the political tumult and cultural wonders of the Arab world's largest, most storied and oldest nation. SPECIAL REPORT: JERUSALEM Struggle for the heart of a holy city The Los Angeles Times looks at Jerusalem 40 years after the 1967 war. FOREIGN BUREAUS Explore The Times' world From Baghdad to Buenos Aires, 30 foreign correspondents cover news for the Los Angeles Times from around the globe. SUBSCRIBE Click here to subscribe to World: Mideast, The Times' free daily e-mail newsletter on the Middle East.

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