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U.S. wants Afghanistan exit strategy
Monday, 23 March 2009, 8:00 pm
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The United States said on Monday it had found an encouraging symmetry of views with its NATO and EU allies after outlining a strategy review meant to end a stalemate in Afghanista. […]
Suu Kyi detention breaks Myanmar law: U.N. body
Monday, 23 March 2009, 7:31 pm
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A United Nations body has ruled the detention of Myanmar democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi is illegal under the domestic laws of her own country, the former Burma, her lawyer. […]
Two detained U.S. reporters moved to Pyongyang: report
Monday, 23 March 2009, 7:25 pm
SEOUL (Reuters) - Two U.S. journalists arrested last week by North Korean guards at the border with China have been moved to Pyongyang and are being interrogated there, a newspaper said Tuesday, quoti. […]
Amnesty says executions almost double in 2008
Monday, 23 March 2009, 7:19 pm
LONDON (Reuters) - Executions rose more than 90 percent to 2,390 last year, with China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the United States responsible for over 90 percent of those, Amnesty Internation. […]
Mexico says troops cut drug deaths in border city
Monday, 23 March 2009, 6:44 pm
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexico has dramatically cut drug murders in its most violent city on the U.S. border after deploying 7,500 soldiers earlier this month, the government said on Monday.. […]
Lebanon bomb kills senior Fatah official, 4 others
Monday, 23 March 2009, 4:34 pm
SIDON, Lebanon (Reuters) - A bomb killed a senior official in the Palestinian Fatah faction and four other people in southern Lebanon on Monday, security sources said, increasing tensions in the count. […]
Iraq suicide bomber kills 25, wounds 45
Monday, 23 March 2009, 3:46 pm
SULAIMANIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew himself up at a Kurdish funeral in the volatile and ethnically mixed province of Diyala in northern Iraq on Monday, killing 25 people and wounding 4. […]
Disarm or leave, Iraq’s Talabani tells PKK
Monday, 23 March 2009, 3:35 pm
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, himself a Kurd, said on Monday the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the Turkish separatist guerrilla group, must lay down its arms or quit Iraq.
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Death penalty ‘closer to demise’
Monday, 23 March 2009, 8:01 pm
The world is moving closer to becoming “death-penalty free”, the rights group Amnesty International says.
Life with TB
Monday, 23 March 2009, 7:54 pm
Patients in Central Asia speak about their experiences
Rwandan found guilty of murders
Monday, 23 March 2009, 7:47 pm
A Dutch court finds a Rwandan Hutu guilty of lethal torture during the 1994 genocide, but not of war crimes.
Top AIG bosses ‘to repay bonuses’
Monday, 23 March 2009, 7:24 pm
Nine of the 10 executives paid top bonuses by US insurance giant AIG agree to return them, officials say.
Global trade ‘will shrink by 9%’
Monday, 23 March 2009, 6:13 pm
The World Trade Organization predicts that world trade will shrink by 9% because of the global recession.
Mexico offers $2m for drug lords
Monday, 23 March 2009, 5:20 pm
Mexico’s attorney general says it will pay a $2m reward for information leading to the arrest of its top 24 drug lords.
Injured Armstrong in Giro doubt
Monday, 23 March 2009, 4:51 pm
Cycling legend Lance Armstrong fractures his collarbone in Spain’s Vuelta Castilla y Leon and is a doubt for the Giro d’Italia.
Suicide attack on Iraqi funeral
Monday, 23 March 2009, 4:06 pm
At least 25 people have been killed by a suicide bomb attack on a Kurdish funeral in the Iraqi province of Diyala, police say.
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Australian police defend response to biker brawl (AP)
Monday, 23 March 2009, 7:59 pm
AP - Police didn’t arrive in force until about 15 minutes after biker gangs started brawling inside Australia’s busiest airport. More than a day later, police had not managed to view surveillance came. […]
Holloway’s dad says pond search may take 2 weeks (AP)
Monday, 23 March 2009, 7:51 pm
AP - The father of missing American teenager Natalee Holloway said Monday that a U.S. private investigator has begun scouring a pond in Aruba for signs of his daughter and the search may take up to tw. […]
Aussies oppose extra troops for Afghanistan: poll (AFP)
Monday, 23 March 2009, 7:43 pm
AFP - Most Australian voters oppose sending more troops to Afghanistan even if US President Barack Obama asks for them, an opinion poll showed Tuesday.
N.Ireland teen charged with killing policeman (AP)
Monday, 23 March 2009, 7:42 pm
AP - Authorities charged an Irish Catholic teenager Monday with killing a policeman one of two deadly gun attacks by IRA dissidents this month that rocked Northern Ireland’s peace process.
Suicide bomb blast kills 23 at funeral in Iraq (AP)
Monday, 23 March 2009, 7:29 pm
AP - A suicide bomber struck a tent filled Monday with Kurdish funeral mourners, unleashing a huge fireball that killed at least 23 people in a northern town where Kurds and Arabs are competing for po. […]
Amnesty says executions almost double in 2008 (Reuters)
Monday, 23 March 2009, 7:19 pm
Reuters - Executions rose more than 90 percent to 2,390 last year, with China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the United States responsible for over 90 percent of those, Amnesty International said o. […]
US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,260 (AP)
Monday, 23 March 2009, 7:12 pm
AP - As of Monday, March 23, 2009, at least 4,260 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
Pakistan militants strengthen in heartland (AP)
Monday, 23 March 2009, 6:03 pm
AP - The compound bore no sign. Residents referred to it simply as the school for “jihadi fighters,” speaking in awe of the expensive horses stabled within its high walls and the extremists who rod. […]
