Funeral processions began today for the people who were killed by car bombs and mortars in Baghdad’s largest Shiite district, the deadliest attack since the war began.

Pro-government mobs looting the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince have withdrawn from the streets after a plea from President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

Al Qaida terrorists planned to kill Americans in Sarajevo, in a major attack worked out at a meeting in Bulgaria to identify European targets, a high-ranking Bosnian official said today.