As relatives tell it, it was the stuff of Greek tragedy: A love-struck young man threw himself off his balcony on Monday, two days after a quarrel prompted his girlfriend — a member of Greece’s Olympic judo team — to jump from the same spot.
Sudan’s foreign minister denied on Friday that government forces are engaged in a campaign of "ethnic cleansing" in the western Darfur region, after a prominent human rights group, Human Rights Watch, accused them of driving more than one million black Africans from their homes.