Residents still blocked from returning to cabins

Residents still blockedfrom returning to cabins
SAFFORD, Ariz. -- Evacuated residents were blocked from returning to nearly 100 summer homes threatened by fires in southeastern Arizona, although officials planned to let some people through to check damage and report back.
Fire managers didn't know when families forced to flee Turkey Flat's 74 cabins and Columbine's 15 cabins would be allowed back home.
Representatives from both communities planned to tour charred areas on Mount Graham today and report their findings to other homeowners.
The burn site includes one of two springs that feed Turkey Flat's water system, said Gene Robert Larson, who planned to take water samples and check for contamination.
"We are going to assess the damage on our water system to see if we have enough money to repair it," Larson said.
The biggest fires on the mountain, the lightning-sparked Nuttall and Gibson fires, had joined but were 55 percent contained Sunday, firefighters said. They have burned 29,200 acres on Mount Graham since they began in late June.
The fires also threatened the Mount Graham International Observatory, home of some of the world's most advanced telescopes.
Spanish police arrestnew bombing suspect
MADRID, Spain -- Spanish police have arrested a new suspect in the Madrid rail bombings, a court official said today.
The man was arrested in Leganes, a small town close to Madrid where seven other suspects in the March 11 attacks blew themselves up to avoid arrest April 3.
There were no immediate details on the identity of the man, said the court official, who was speaking on condition of anonymity.
Islamist militants with suspected ties to Al-Qaida are blamed for the Madrid attacks, which killed 190 people. Fifty-one people have been detained, of which 16, mostly Moroccans, are in jail on provisional charges.
Ugandan leader suggestsmethods in fighting AIDS
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The Ugandan leader credited with slashing HIV rates in his country insisted today that condoms are not the ultimate solution to fighting the AIDS scourge, saying abstinence and loving relationships in marriage are even more crucial.
President Yoweri Museveni's comments on the second day of the International AIDS Conference were in line with the position of President Bush but at odds with a majority of researchers and activists involved in fighting the disease.
Condom use has been promoted as a front-line defense in the fight against AIDS by countries such as Thailand where a campaign to get sex workers to always use condoms yielded a more than sevenfold reduction in HIV rates in 13 years.
An epidemiologist tracking Asia's emerging epidemics told conference delegates just ahead of Museveni's speech that more countries -- including China and Bangladesh -- face HIV problems largely driven by prostitution, and that promoting condoms is best to block further spread.
Museveni said loving relationships based on trust are crucial in the HIV-fighting campaign, and that "the principle of condoms is not the ultimate solution."
Demonstrations heldin Northern Ireland
BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- Strutting to the sound of fife and drum, tens of thousands of conservative Protestants from the Orange Order brotherhood paraded peacefully today on Northern Ireland's most divisive holiday.
The daylong demonstrations in 18 towns and cities followed a night of towering bonfires, sporadic acts of violence and menacing appearances by masked gunmen in at least two hard-line Protestant parts of Belfast.
Police prepared for possible evening clashes in Belfast when Orangemen march back to their lodges -- and past hostile Catholic districts.
The "Twelfth," an official holiday in Northern Ireland marked each July 12, officially commemorates the 1690 Battle of the Boyne. On that day, the forces of the newly crowned Protestant king of England, William of Orange, defeated a rival army loyal to James II, William's deposed Catholic rival, in a river valley 70 miles south of Belfast.
The parades amount to an annual show of communal strength by Northern Ireland's Protestant majority, featuring Orangemen in suits and bowler hats -- and groups of teenagers and young men playing fife and drum in so-called "kick the pope" bands. Thousands of Orangemen from nearby Scotland also traveled over to take part.
At all 18 rallying points, Orange leaders were reading declarations proclaiming the group's loyalty to Queen Elizabeth II -- and steadfast opposition to ecumenical contact with Catholics.
Associated Press