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Serbian President Boris Tadic, right, and Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica are seen at a start of talks with members of mediating Kosovo "troika," in Belgrade Monday, Dec.3, 2007. The international mediators for Kosovo and U.N. war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte visit Serbia as the troubled Balkan country struggles on two fronts, to keep its breakaway province and to move closer to the European Union by arresting war crimes fugitive

May 16, 2008 9:22 AM Serbia appeared to move closer to setting up a government of nationalists and socialists following an inconclusive general election, but coalition negotiations were still going on, officials said. The country has been balanced on a political see-saw between hard-liners and pro-European liberals since Sunday's...
photo: AP / Srdjan Ilic

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McCain's Iraq fantasy
The Guardian

The Republican candidate now says US troops will leave Iraq by 2013 - a disingenuous ploy that...

A victory plan for Hillary
International Herald Tribune

Hillary Clinton scored a whopping victory in West Virginia. She trounced Barack Obama, who is...

The terrified monks
International Herald Tribune

: This is historical Tibet, a land of jutting mountains, sculptures made of yak butter, and...

Afghan death squads 'acting on foreign orders'

Afghan soldiers stand behind the wreckage of a suicide bomber´s vehicle after a blast in Kabul, Afghanistan on Monday, Oct. 16, 2006. The suicide car bomber blew himself up in the Afghan capital on Monday slightly wounding one child, police and wit

The Independent

Secret Afghan death squads are acting on the orders of foreign spies and killing civilians inside Afghanistan with impunity, a senior UN envoy has claimed. Professor Philip Alston, the UN special rapporteur on illegal killings, said "foreign...
photo: AP /Musadeq Sadeq

Paranoid Burmese junta steps up security around Suu Kyi

Myanmar protesters hold posters of Myanmar´s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a demonstration in support of the pro-democracy protests in Myanmar outside the Myanmar´s embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, Oct. 4, 2007. (AP Ph

The Independent

It used to be you could ask any taxi driver and they would show you her house. There could be no stopping and no taking photographs, but they would drive you along Rangoon's University Avenue and you could glimpse the property where Aung San Suu Kyi...
photo: AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin

Queen visits Istanbul

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is seen with a Turkish syrup seller in Istanbul, Turkey, Thursday, May 15, 2008. The Queen is making her first visit to Turkey in nearly 37 years to highlight the importance Britain attaches to the predominantly Muslim country that is vying for European Union membership.

The Australian

STRINGENT security measures greeted Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip today when they visited Istanbul, Turkey's largest city and cultural capital, on the third day of their state visit. Dozens of...
photo: AP / Erhan Sevenler, Pool

Bernanke: Banks must get better at foreseeing risk

President George W. Bush announces his nomination of Ben Bernanke, right, to replace Alan Greenspan, left, as Chairman of the Federal Reserve when Mr. Greenspan´s term expires in January. The announcement was made Monday, Oct. 24, 2005, in the Oval

Insurance Newsnet

WASHINGTON_Commercial banks and other financial institutions need to beef up their ability to detect and protect themselves against risks like the credit and mortgage debacles, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Thursday. The trio of crises _...
photo: White House

Bush hails Israel as Arabs lament

President George W. Bush acknowledges Dalia Itzik, Speaker of the Knesset, as he visits the Israeli parliament Thursday, May 15, 2008, in Jerusalem. At right is Israel’s President Shimon Peres.

TVNZ

May 16, 2008 6:52 AM President George Bush told Israelis they were a chosen people who can forever count on American support against enemies like Hamas and Iran. On a day when Palestinians remembered homes and land lost as Israel...
photo: White House / Shealah Craighead

Indian police probe bombing leads

Central Reserve Police Force soldiers stand guard outside the Raghunath temple in Jammu, India, Wednesday, May 14, 2008. Security has been stepped up across the country after a series of blasts in crowded areas left at least 80 people dead in the western Indian city of Jaipur on Wednesda

TVNZ

May 16, 2008 7:56 AM Indian police probed whether Indian Islamist groups or Bangladeshi infiltrators were behind bombings in a popular Indian tourist city that killed 61 people this week, but made no major arrests. Eight bombs,...
photo: AP / Channi Anand