The meeting turned into a shouting match and showed the tensions that are rising as the main parties fail to reach an agreement to form a coalition government.
AP - Indonesians searched through smoldering rubble for survivors on Nias island Tuesday and relatives wept over the bodies of the dead after an 8.7-magnitude earthquake hammered the region, triggering a tsunami scare and killing at least 330 people. Some officials said the death toll could rise as high as 2,000.
AP - Iraq's fledgling parliament failed Tuesday to agree on who would be its speaker, with the interim prime minister and president storming out of the chaotic session that exposed deep divides among the National Assembly's Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish members.
AP - Prosecutors in the Michael Jackson case have waited more than a decade for what a judge has now granted them: the chance to tell jurors about past sexual abuse allegations that never led to criminal charges.
Hundreds of people are reported dead after a massive earthquake struck off the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, just three months after a huge quake and tsunami devastated the region. According to The Associated Press, at least 13 aftershocks between magnitudes 5.0 and 6.1 hit the region today.
The second scheduled meeting of Iraq's transitional National Assembly was on hold Tuesday as negotiations to name a president of the body, also known as the speaker, bogged down.
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