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India 'reads riot act' over Sri Lanka war

CNN.com - World — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 09:11:59

Two senior Indian officials met with the Sri Lankan president Friday in Colombo to address the humanitarian crisis in the war-torn island nation.

S.Africa vote results slated for Saturday

CNN.com - World — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 09:11:58

Votes were still being counted Friday in South Africa's parliamentary elections, but the ruling African National Congress was already celebrating what party officials predicted will be a crushing victory.

Two days of mass killings in Iraq

CNN.com - World — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 09:11:57

Suicide bombers killed 60 people near a holy Shiite shrine in Baghdad on Friday and a car bomber left seven people dead in Diyala, according to security and medical officials. Friday's attacks came after the deadliest day in Iraq this year in which 87 people were killed. The attacks followed after months of sharply declining violence.

Defend selves better, Petraeus tells ship firms

CNN.com - World — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 09:11:57

Gen. David Petraeus, chief of U.S. Central Command, said Friday the maritime shipping industry must do more on its own to stop pirates.

U.N. panel freezes assets of N. Korean firms

CNN.com - World — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 09:11:56

A U.N. panel Friday targeted three North Korean companies to have their assets frozen in response to Pyongyang's April 5 rocket launch.

Chavez: U.S. still an imperialist empire

CNN.com - World — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 09:11:55

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Friday he appreciated U.S. President Barack Obama's friendly gestures at last weekend's Summit of the Americas, but said they don't change his view of the United States as an imperialist nation.

Probe calls for Bangladesh troop deaths

CNN.com - World — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 09:11:55

Human rights groups in Bangladesh and abroad are calling for an investigation after 16 borders guards accused of participating in a bloody revolt in February died in custody in recent days.

Mexico City on alert over swine flu scare

CNN.com - World — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 09:11:54

Mexican officials closed all schools Friday in the capital city in an effort to combat the swine flu virus that has killed dozens in Mexico and infected eight people in the United States.

U.S. 'extremely concerned' about Taliban

CNN.com - World — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 09:11:53

A Pakistani government official said Friday that Taliban insurgents had withdrawn from a district near Islamabad, but a human rights group said local Taliban remained. And senior U.S. officials cautioned that any withdrawal by the Taliban was likely meaningless and that the fundamentalist group now holds large areas of the country with the government seemingly unable to stop them.

Clinton in Baghdad amid new reports of attacks

CNN.com - World — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 09:11:53

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Baghdad on Saturday, a day after suicide bombings killed dozens in the Iraqi capital.

Troops diverted to prepare for Afghan surge

CNN.com - World — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 06:30:50

A naval brigade is being diverted to Afghanistan to help prepare for the extra U.S. troops that will be sent to that country, a Pentagon spokesman announced Friday.

Iranian media report Baha'i missionary arrests

CNN.com - World — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 06:30:49

Iranian authorities have reportedly arrested several women for doing missionary work for the Baha'is, the religious group whose persecution by the Islamic republic has been condemned by human rights activists and governments around the globe.

Thailand denies whipping refugees on beaches

CNN.com - World — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 06:30:49

Thailand's military has denied abusing refugee boat-people from Myanmar after claims some were whipped on a tourist beach and hundreds more left dead or missing after being towed at to sea without food and water.

Sunday vote could start El Salvador's turn to left

CNN.com - World — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 06:30:48

El Salvador will elect more than 340 local and congressional officials Sunday, two months before the nation's presidential election. But Sunday's results could go a long way toward determining who that next president will be.

Top Saudi cleric: OK for young girls to wed

CNN.com - World — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 06:30:47

The debate over the controversial practice of child marriage in Saudi Arabia was pushed back into the spotlight this week, with the kingdom's top cleric saying that it's OK for girls as young as 10 to wed.