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Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir talks following his meeting with Muslim representative from Britain's House of Lords in Khartoum, Sudan, Monday, Dec. 3, 2007. Bashir agreed to pardon a British teacher jailed here after she allowed her students to name a teddy bear Muhamma

State media: Sudan cuts ties with Chad
Syracuse

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - President Omar al-Bashir announced Sunday he severed relations with neighboring Chad, accusing the government of supporting rebels who attacked the Sudanese capital, according to state media. The president, wearing his military uniform, appeared on state television and said he held Chad responsible for the Saturday night...
photo: AP / Abd Raouf

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A Mother's Day pledge
The Washington Times

How fitting is it that Mother's Day and teen Pregnancy Prevention Month are both in May. On...

Rights group unhappy that Britain did not charge ex-Sri Lankan rebel with alleged abuses
International Herald Tribune

: Amnesty International said it is concerned that Britain released a former Sri Lankan rebel...

Lebanon does not want another war. Does it?
The Independent

I went to cover a demonstration in West Beirut yesterday morning - yes, please note the capital...

Army says Kashmir fighting leaves 6 dead

Newsday

SRINAGAR, India - Indian forces and suspected Islamic militants clashed in separate incidents in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Sunday, leaving six people dead, including two civilians and a news photographer, the army said. A soldier and two gunmen...
photo: WN / Imran Nissar

Signs of normalcy in Iraq's Sadr City amid cease-fire

Battle Buddies: Sergeant Major, Iraqi General's Son Share Special Bond

The Associated Press

BAGHDAD (AP) -- Militants were withdrawing from the streets and shops were reopening on the first day of a cease-fire between Shiite extremists and U.S.-backed Iraqi forces following two months of intense clashes. Authorities in Baghdad's Sadr City...
photo: army.mil

Zimbabwe police are reported to have arrested 56 opposition activists on charges of public violence.

Armed military police officers stand guard near the entrance of Harare Central police station, Tuesday April 15, 200

Skynews

The arrests took place in the farming town of Shamva on Thursday, according to Opposition lawyer...
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Democracy on trial in Serbia's elections

A Serbian woman casts her ballot for Serbia´s elections at the consulate of Serbia in the Bosnian Serb town of Banja Luka, Sunday, Jan. 21, 2007. Serbs went to the polls on Sunday in a national election expected to be a tight race between ultra-nat

The Miami Herald

BELGRADE, Serbia -- Serbians head to the polls Sunday for crucial parliamentary elections, still bitterly divided between nationalist anger and tentative optimism about a European future. With the breakaway province of Kosovo's Feb. 17 declaration of...
photo: AP/Radivoje Pavicic

Burma exports rice as cyclone victims starve

Workers unload sacks of harvested rice at a Myanmar Government grainery near Madauk Jan. 14, 2001. Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, is one of the poorest nations in southeast Asia

The Observer

Burma is still exporting rice even as it tries to curb the influx of international donations of food bound for the starving survivors of the cyclone that killed up to 116,000 people. Sacks of rice destined for Bangladesh were being loaded on to a...
photo: AP / David Longstreath

Calm returns to Beirut"s streets

Lebanese army soldiers secure the Sunni neighborhood of Tarik Jadideh during the funeral procession of Mohammed Shama'a, who was killed during the last few days of clashes, in Beirut, Lebanon Saturday, May 10, 2008. A Shiite Muslim shop owner opened fire on a funeral procession Saturday, killing two people and wounding six others in a Sunni neighborhood, police and witnesses said. The attack came a day after Shiite Hezbollah gunmen seized most of the capital's Muslim sector in the worst sectarian strife since a 15-year civil war ended nearly two decades ago

Al Jazeera

Lebanon's opposition has begun withdrawing its fighters from the streets of Beirut, handing control to the army, after seizing much of the city in battles with government supporters. Hezbollah, which heads the opposition, vowed to end its...
photo: AP / Nasser Nasser

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