World briefs 10A

Italy suffering worst wine harvest in half a century

ROME -- Lovers of Italian wine have little reason to toast after a dry winter and a wet summer ravaged Italy's grapevines, causing the worst harvest in half a century.

Experts say the summer showers and hail that hit the northern Italian regions of Piedmont, Tuscany and Veneto, where some of the more upscale wines are produced, came at the worst possible moment.

Some regions were spared the disasters, like the area in Tuscany where Chianti is produced and parts of southern Italy.

Still, in its yearly report on wine production, the Association of Italian Enologists said this year's harvest will yield just 1.08 billion gallons, down 20 percent from last year.

Tainted water sickens more than 1,000

QUITO, Ecuador -- One child has died and more than 1,000 people have fallen ill in an Ecuadorean city after drinking water was contaminated by cow manure from farm runoff.

Nearly 1,200 people in the city of Ibarra, 50 miles north of Quito, have been treated for diarrhea, vomiting and dehydration, Ibarra hospital director Jose Albuja said Saturday.

The medical emergency began Thursday when more than 500 people were hospitalized and two-year-old Joselyn Patino died from a severe bacterial infection. Hospital official Patricio Nieto said E. coli bacteria was responsible for the sickness.

The water was contaminated when water tainted with cow manure penetrated a broken drinking water pipeline, said Luis Enriquez, director of the state water utility.

Ibarra Mayor Mauricio Larrea declared a sanitary emergency in the city Thursday and officials have shut down the water supply to clean it.

Thousands join peaceful march against war

FLORENCE, Italy -- Hundreds of thousands of people marched through Florence Saturday in a protest against globalization and U.S. policy in Iraq, and despite the high turnout there was none of the violence that marred last year's Group of Eight summit in Genoa.

Instead the atmosphere was more like a carnival with food stands, exhibits and street theater along with the discussions of free trade and war.

Police in Florence said about 450,000 people took part in the demonstration, the highlight of an anti-globalization gathering here that started Wednesday and ends today. The figure was more than twice the number expected.

-- From wire reports

Organizer Vittorio Agnoletto estimated the crowd at 800,000 to 1 million.

Indonesian police search for suspects brothers

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Police on Saturday said they were searching for at least two brothers of the top suspect in the bombing that killed nearly 200 people on Bali.

For a second day, police raided homes in a farm village in East Java where the suspect, identified only as Amrozi, lived. And in Bali, police said they searched an apartment allegedly rented by Amrozi, finding his fingerprints and explosive residue.

Police are now looking for Amrozi's brothers Ali Imron and Gufron.

Officials said Amrozi -- who was arrested Tuesday at his home in Tenggulun -- admitted he owned the Mitsubishi minivan laden with at least 110 pounds of explosives that blew up outside a packed nightclub on Bali.