THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2011
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NEWS NEAR&FAR
Members of Zetas drug cartel go to El Salvador to acquire weapons
(Mexico City, Mexico) — El Salvador's president says members of the Zetas drug cartel have gone on scouting missions to his country in an attempt to obtain weapons from corrupt police officers and soldiers.
President Mauricio Funes says there are a lot of weapons left over from El Salvador's 12-year civil war and that the flow of guns there is "shocking."
Funes said Tuesday after a meeting with Mexican President Felipe Calderon that the Zetas have not settled in El Salvador like they have done in Guatemala but said some local gangs are working for them.
Mexican drug cartels have been increasingly moving to Central America as Mexico cracks down on them.
Funes said there needs to be a regional approach to fighting drug cartels in Central America.
Ugandan president accused of lying about age to avoid cutoff
(Kampala, Uganda) — Ugandan opposition groups are accusing the longtime president of lying about his age to avoid constitutional age limits.
Free Uganda Now leader Brenda Nabukenya said Tuesday during a demonstration in Kampala that President Yoweri Museveni is 73, not in his mid-60s as he claims. She says he is trying to avoid the 75-year-old cutoff for 2016 presidential candidates.
Nabukenya says the group consulted school records and Museveni's former teachers and longtime acquaintances.
Museveni has long been vague about his age, saying he was born around 1945 and is either 66 or 67. Museveni seized power in 1986 and is now in his 26th year in office.
1900 and is now in its 20th year in office.
Presidential spokesman Mande Minte Kuntu said the leader has always declared his true age and that the group has no capacity to make "appropriate investigations," and is only seeking publicity.
More to die if reservoirs overflow and flood China
(Beijing, China)Heavy rains in eastern China have put more than 660 reservoirs at risk of overflowing, an official said Tuesday.
Rain-triggered floods have swept parts of eastern and southern China this month, leaving at least 175 dead and 86 missing and causing 35 billion yuan ($5 billion) in direct economic losses, according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
An official at the media department of the Anhui Water Resource Department
said water levels at more than 660 reservoirs in the province were above the warning level. Like most Chinese officials, she would give only her surname, Zhao.
The official Xinhua News Agency also said in a Chinese-language report that the reservoirs were in danger of overflowing. The Anhui flood control headquarters said most of the reservoirs — more than
620 were small, and that only three were large.
Associated Press
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