McGreevey aide says sexually harassed

A day after New Jersey Governor James McGreevey announced his resignation over a homosexual affair, his former top Homeland Security official charged him of sexually harassing him. “While employed by New Jersey Gov McGreevey I was a victim of repeated sexual advances by him,” McGreevey’s former aide, Golan Cipel, said. “When I rejected Gov. McGreevey’s advances, there were retaliatory actions” he said.

Talks fail, fighting to resume in Najaf
NAJAF: US and Iraqi forces were poised on Saturday to resume fighting rebel Shi’ite militia in Najaf after peace talks collapsed. Iraq’s National Security Adviser Mowaffaq Al-Rubaie said, ‘‘With deep sorrow I announce the failure of efforts to end the crisis in Iraq. The government is resuming military clearing operations.’’ Meanwhile, the US Military said its war planes killed some 50 insurgents in a bombing raid in Samarra.

Poland’s emigre poet Milosz dead at 93
WARSAW: Czeslaw Milosz, Poland’s Nobel Prize-winning emigre poet and symbol of opposition to totalitarianism, died on Saturday at his home in Krakow at the age of 93. Milosz received his Nobel Literary Prize in 1980, amid the heady atmosphere of the Polish Solidarity movement, which ultimately yielded a transfer to democracy in Poland nine years later.

15 dead as hurricane hits Florida
Punta Gorda: Hurricane Charley killed at least 15 people in Florida and flattened ocean-front homes before it roared north and struck the coast of South Carolina on Saturday. — (Agencies)