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A dirty deal: Uzbek dictator 'has UK over a barrel'
Full Article The Independent
Senior officials admitted yesterday that Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov had the UK "over a barrel", after his country emerged as the favoured route home when British forces are withdrawn from Afghanistan by 2014. Britain, along with the United States, has stepped up diplomatic contacts with the Karimov regime in recent months, and...
File - Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov inspects a guard of honor during his ceremonial reception at the Indian presidential palace, in New Delhi, Inida, Wednesday, May 18, 2011.
photo: AP / Manish Swarup

Zardari visit signals slow progress in India-Pakistan ties
Full Article BBC News
With Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari making a rare visit to India, the BBC's Delhi correspondent Andrew North looks at the fraught state of relations between the rival neighbours. Last time it was cricket, now it is religious...
Muslim priests talk as a policeman stands guard at Ajmer Sharif, the shrine of Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti, where Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari will visit Sunday, in Ajmer, in India's western state of Rajasthan, Saturday, April 7, 2012.
photo: AP / Manish Swarup

UN Secretary General blasts Syria
Full Article Yahoo Daily News
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned Syria's government Friday for continuing to kill innocent civilians despite its commitment to pull all soldiers and heavy weapons out population centers...
Anti-Syrian regime protesters carry Syrian revolution flags and chant slogans against Syrian President Bashar Assad during a demonstration after Friday prayers in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, April 6, 2012.
photo: AP / Bilal Hussein

Official: Avalanche buries 130 Pakistan soldiers
Full Article US News
By ZARAR KHAN, Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A security official says an avalanche has buried 130 Pakistani soldiers in a Himalayan region close to India. The incident happened early Saturday on the Siachen Glacier, where thousands of Pakistani and Indian troops are based. The security official says snow engulfed a battalion headquarters...
FILE - In this Feb. 19, 2012 file photo, Pakistani Army soldiers with the 20th Lancers Armored Regiment, carry supplies up the 2,400 meter (8,000-foot) mountain near their outpost, Kalpani Base, in Pakistan's Dir district.
photo: AP / Anja Niedringhaus, File

Mali's coup leader to return power
Full Article NZ Herald
Under intense pressure from the nations bordering Mali, the junior officer who seized control of the country in a coup last month signed an accord late Friday, agreeing to return the nation to constitutional rule. The announcement came only hours after separatist rebels in Mali's distant north declared their independence, a move that further...
Coup leader Capt. Amadou Haya Sanogo, center, is accompanied by Burkina Faso Foreign Affairs Minister Djibril Bassole, left, as he addresses the press at junta headquarters in Kati, outside Bamako, Mali Sunday, April 1, 2012.
photo: AP / Rebecca Blackwell

Pope Benedict XVI calls on suffering masses to ponder crucified Jesus
Full Article The Australian
POPE Benedict XVI yesterday encouraged people and families threatened by unemployment and other economic woes to draw courage and strength from the suffering of the crucified Jesus Christ. The pontiff made his appeal as he presided over a candle-lit Way of the Cross procession at the ancient Colosseum in Rome on Good Friday. Pope Benedict, who...
Pope Benedict XVI delivers his blessing at the end of the Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) procession on Good Friday in Rome, Friday, April 6, 2012.
photo: AP / Andrew Medichini

Bahrainis rally in support of hunger striker
Full Article Al Jazeera
Bahraini security forces have fired tear gas and water cannons at thousands of protesters marching in support of a jailed human rights activist whose nearly two-month hunger strike has become a powerful rallying point for the tiny nation's Shia-led uprising against the Sunni monarchy. "Freedom or martyrdom," cried marchers...
Bahraini anti-government protesters shout slogans and raise an image of jailed human rights activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja on Friday, April 6, 2012, in Jidhafs, Bahrain, on the outskirts of the capital of Manama, during one of two simultaneous mass demonstrations supporting the imprisoned hunger-striker.
photo: AP / Hasan Jamali

Doctors: Malawi president dies after heart attack
Full Article The Guardian
RAPHAEL TENTHANI Associated Press= BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — Malawi's President Bingu wa Mutharika has died after a heart attack, doctors who treated him said Friday, as the troubled and impoverished southern African nation awaited official word of Mutharika's death and who would succeed him. The doctors, who spoke on condition of anonymity because...
Salva Kiir Mayardit, left, the President of the Government of Southern Sudan, stands alongside Bingu wa Mutharika, center, the President of Malawi, at the airport in the southern Sudanese capital of Juba on Wed. Jan. 26, 2011.
photo: AP / Pete Muller

Bosnia remembers war, still scarred and divided
Full Article The Star
SARAJEVO (Reuters) - With row upon row of empty red chairs, one for each of the 11,541 victims of the siege of Sarajevo, Bosnia on Friday remembered when war broke out 20 years ago and the West dithered in the face of the worst atrocities in Europe since World War Two. Titova street is seen with 11,541 red chairs along it in Sarajevo as the city...
Red chairs, centre, displayed along main street in Sarajevo to mark the 20th anniversary of the start of the Bosnian War on Friday, April 6, 2012.
photo: AP / Amel Emric

Myanmar, Karen Rebel Group Firm Up Cease-Fire
Full Article The New York Times
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar's government and its most enduring ethnic rebel group agreed Friday to firm up a cease-fire while negotiating a more a comprehensive peace plan. Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. Twitter List: Reporters and Editors The Karen National Union announced...
Myanmar's Railway Minister and head of the government negotiation group Aung Min, left, shakes hand with Naw Si Pho Ra Sein, right, general secretary of the Karen National Union (KNU), during their peace building meeting in Yangon, Myanmar, Friday, April 6, 2012.
photo: AP / Khin Maung Win


Thursday’s indictment of John Kiriakou for exposing CIA torture of detainees confirms yet again...
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Just before Jesus took bread off the table,...
The long war in Afghanistan goes on. Despite the presence of thousands of US and NATO troops,...

Pope Benedict XVI conducts a mass in Westminster Cathedral in London, Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010.
Pope Benedict XVI is set to lead Easter Sunday Mass in Rome's St Peter's Square and deliver his traditional Easter message from the basilica's balcony. At a vigil mass on Saturday evening, he voiced fears that mankind is "groping...
photo: AP / Kirsty Wigglesworth
File - British lawmaker George Galloway speaks during a press conference in Gaza City, Tuesday, March 10, 2009.
There is an amusing half-hour to be spent watching YouTube clips of television interviews with Mr Galloway in the days after he was elected. With a few honourable exceptions – Sky was more even-handed here than the BBC or ITN – most of the...
photo: AP / Hatem Moussa
Anti-government protesters, holding a placard with a photo of British Prime Minister David Cameron, gather behind members of the media as they wait outside the Portcullis House, adjacent to the Houses of Parliament in central London, Tuesday July 19, 2011.
" />" /> British voters are losing confidence in Prime Minister David Cameron to see them through the economic crisis, according to the latest opinion polls. The leader of the country's coalition government has staked his political reputation on...
photo: AP / Lefteris Pitarakis
A woman checks a mobile phone in front of an electronic stock indicator in Tokyo, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011. Asian stocks fell Wednesday after a meeting of Europe's finance ministers failed to stem fears that the euro currency union is hurtling toward a breakup.
New York: The euro fell by the most in 11 months against the yen as rising Spanish borrowing costs boosted concern the region's sovereign-debt crisis in worsening. The dollar posted weekly gains against most of its major counterparts as demand for...
photo: AP / Shizuo Kambayashi
This Nov. 4, 2008 file photo shows members of Somalia's al-Shabab jihadist movement seen during exercises at their military training camp outside Mogadishu.
There was a time when Al Shabab, Somalia's largest and most notorious Islamist militia, inspired fear and awe across that ravaged land. But the group's latest terror attack, on the national theatre in Mogadishu, is a sign of weakness, not strength....
photo: AP
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Poaching on the rise as horns sell for more than cocaine in Vietnam. Nguyen Huong Giang loves to party but loathes hangovers, so she ends her whiskey benders by tossing back shots of rhino horn ground with water on a special ceramic plate. Her father...
photo: Creative Commons / Neal Jennings from Toronto, ON, Canada
In this image made from Egypt State TV, broadcast Sunday Jan. 30, 2011, showing Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, 2nd left, is flanked by Vice President Omar Suleiman, centre, along with various other members of the government. On screen writing declares that Mubarak meets with members of his government.(
CAIRO - A former strongman of ousted President Hosni Mubarak's regime announced Friday that he will enter Egypt's presidential race after supporters marched and pleaded for him to run. Omar Suleiman's entry reversed an earlier decision and was likely...
photo: AP / Egypt State TV

Human rights in Uzbekistan/US policy/ Steve Swerdlow of HRW on VOA Uzbek; updated 08 Apr 2012; published 07 Apr 2012
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Human rights in Uzbekistan/US policy/ Steve Swerdlow of HRW on VOA Uzbek
The Independent 08 Apr 2012, Senior officials admitted yesterday that Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov had the UK "over a barrel", after his country emerged as the favoured route home when British forces are withdrawn from Afghanistan by 2014. Britain, along with the United States, has stepped up diplomatic contacts with the Karimov regime in recent months, and...

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Asif Ali Zardari arrives in India, will head to PM's residence for lunch; updated 08 Apr 2012; published 08 Apr 2012
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Asif Ali Zardari arrives in India, will head to PM's residence for lunch
BBC News 07 Apr 2012, With Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari making a rare visit to India, the BBC's Delhi correspondent Andrew North looks at the fraught state of relations between the rival neighbours. Last time it was cricket, now it is religious...

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Kofi Annan: Syria needs UN presence; updated 08 Apr 2012; published 06 Apr 2012
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Kofi Annan: Syria needs UN presence
Yahoo Daily News 07 Apr 2012, UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned Syria's government Friday for continuing to kill innocent civilians despite its commitment to pull all soldiers and heavy weapons out population centers...

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Avalanche Buries More Than 100 Pakistani Troops; updated 08 Apr 2012; published 08 Apr 2012
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Avalanche Buries More Than 100 Pakistani Troops
US News 07 Apr 2012, By ZARAR KHAN, Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A security official says an avalanche has buried 130 Pakistani soldiers in a Himalayan region close to India. The incident happened early Saturday on the Siachen Glacier, where thousands of Pakistani and Indian troops are based. The security official says snow engulfed a battalion headquarters...

Mali Coup d'état; defected forces claim govt. control; updated 28 Mar 2012; published 22 Mar 2012
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Mali Coup d'état; defected forces claim govt. control
NZ Herald 07 Apr 2012, Under intense pressure from the nations bordering Mali, the junior officer who seized control of the country in a coup last month signed an accord late Friday, agreeing to return the nation to constitutional rule. The announcement came only hours after separatist rebels in Mali's distant north declared their independence, a move that further...

Good Friday recognized as public holiday in Cuba for first time since 1960's; updated 08 Apr 2012; published 06 Apr 2012
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Good Friday recognized as public holiday in Cuba for first time since 1960's
The Australian 07 Apr 2012, POPE Benedict XVI yesterday encouraged people and families threatened by unemployment and other economic woes to draw courage and strength from the suffering of the crucified Jesus Christ. The pontiff made his appeal as he presided over a candle-lit Way of the Cross procession at the ancient Colosseum in Rome on Good Friday. Pope Benedict, who...

Protest for Abdulhadi Al Khawaja; updated 05 Apr 2012; published 26 Sep 2011
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Protest for Abdulhadi Al Khawaja
Al Jazeera 06 Apr 2012, Bahraini security forces have fired tear gas and water cannons at thousands of protesters marching in support of a jailed human rights activist whose nearly two-month hunger strike has become a powerful rallying point for the tiny nation's Shia-led uprising against the Sunni monarchy. "Freedom or martyrdom," cried marchers...

Malawi president dies after heart attack; updated 07 Apr 2012; published 06 Apr 2012
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Malawi president dies after heart attack
The Guardian 06 Apr 2012, RAPHAEL TENTHANI Associated Press= BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — Malawi's President Bingu wa Mutharika has died after a heart attack, doctors who treated him said Friday, as the troubled and impoverished southern African nation awaited official word of Mutharika's death and who would succeed him. The doctors, who spoke on condition of anonymity because...

Sarajevo to mark 20th anniversary of war; updated 08 Apr 2012; published 05 Apr 2012
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Sarajevo to mark 20th anniversary of war
The Star 06 Apr 2012, SARAJEVO (Reuters) - With row upon row of empty red chairs, one for each of the 11,541 victims of the siege of Sarajevo, Bosnia on Friday remembered when war broke out 20 years ago and the West dithered in the face of the worst atrocities in Europe since World War Two. Titova street is seen with 11,541 red chairs along it in Sarajevo as the city...

Myanmar government and Karen rebels agree ceasefire; updated 07 Apr 2012; published 12 Jan 2012
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Myanmar government and Karen rebels agree ceasefire
The New York Times 06 Apr 2012, YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar's government and its most enduring ethnic rebel group agreed Friday to firm up a cease-fire while negotiating a more a comprehensive peace plan. Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. Twitter List: Reporters and Editors The Karen National Union announced...

Exiled Uighur Group Refutes Clash in Xinjiang was a
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Exiled Uighur Group Refutes Clash in Xinjiang was a "Terrorist Act"
The New York Times 06 Apr 2012, BEIJING — Chinese security officials have issued a wanted list of six suspected members of a militant group that they said is using a number of Asian nations as staging grounds for terror attacks in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang. Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. Twitter...

Syria's refugee crisis; updated 27 Mar 2012; published 26 Mar 2012
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Syria's refugee crisis
The Star 06 Apr 2012, REYHANLI, Turkey (Reuters) - Syrian fire-fighter Ahmad Zakzak clutched his stomach as he lay in a Turkish hospital, his back bleeding from a shrapnel wound suffered in a tank bombardment of a small town in Syria's nearby Idlib province. Zakzak is one of thousands of refugees who have fled towns and villages they say are being pummelled with tank...

Mali Coup d'état; defected forces claim govt. control; updated 28 Mar 2012; published 22 Mar 2012
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Mali Coup d'état; defected forces claim govt. control
Al Jazeera 06 Apr 2012, Tuareg rebels from northern Mali have proclaimed the "independence of Azawad" in a statement on their website and through a spokesperson on France 24 television. "We solemnly proclaim the independence of Azawad as from today," Mossa Ag Attaher said on Friday, adding that the rebels would respect "the borders with other states". Mali has been...

Viktor Bout sentenced to 25 years; updated 08 Apr 2012; published 05 Apr 2012
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Viktor Bout sentenced to 25 years
The Washington Times 06 Apr 2012, International arms dealer Viktor Bout, the so-called “Merchant of Death,” was sentenced Thursday in federal court in New York to 25 years in prison following his conviction in a multimillion-dollar conspiracy to finance a fleet of aircraft to arm bloody conflicts and support terrorists worldwide. U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin in...





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