SEWSENAN (Reuters) — Saddam Hussein and six former commanders will go today on trial in Baghdad on charges of killing tens of thousands of Kurdish villagers in a genocidal campaign that devastated northern Iraq 18 years ago.

TEHRAN (AP) — Iran braced for more confrontation with the West on Sunday as the foreign ministry said it wouldn’t even consider abiding by a UN resolution that calls for a freeze of uranium enrichment and the army tested a new missile during large military manoeuvres.

DEIR QUANUN AN-NAHR, Lebanon — The low murmur began as the coffins were taken from waiting vans and hoisted onto the shoulders of dozens of young men. By the time the nine corpses were carried half a kilometre to the cemetery in this southern Lebanese town, it had reached a …