abbreviated edition

everyone: estimated 130-150 killed by blasts during Bhutto's procession. LAT's take seems most detailed on conditions, implications.
Ind: she continues to campaign today.

NYT: eritrea in photos

CSM: chinese village resists corruption, protests the party

IHT: an alleged Rwandan genocidaire is arrested in France

WP: Putin invokes FDR (yes, as in Franklin Delano Roosevelt) to justify his role at the helm indefinitely

BBC: rebels in Chad balk at integrating into national army in the border region with Darfur, fight instead. details very fuzzy.

IHT: displacement in Iraq -- shared sectarian identity can't trump complications of absorbing new population into Najaf.

IHT: Sudan peace accord still uncertain

Guardian: apparently the junta in Burma has an unexploited weakness until now: women's undergarments. activists are hoping that sending them some will make them feel impotent.

NYT: more non-violent news from Colombia. on the Pacific coast, palenquero, a language with links to escaped slaves survives

Slate: another take on the indie rock scene (a response to the new yorker piece i sent yesterday)