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Myanmar pro-democracy leader Suu Kyi believed freed (Reuters)

November 13th, 2010

Activists speak under portraits of Myanmar's detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi at the office of the her National League for Democracy (NLD) in Yangon November 12, 2010. REUTERS/Soe Zeya TunReuters - Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was believed freed on Saturday after authorities withdrew police and barricades from outside her home, allowing her to greet supporters after…

Nigeria: Feared gang leader believed dead, again (AP)

August 25th, 2010

A scramble of power cables in Oshodi district of Lagos, Nigeria's largest city, in 2003. Electricity workers in Nigeria on Wednesday launched an indefinite strike over wages, a day ahead of a major speech by President Goodluck Jonathan on reforming the ailing power sector.(AFP/File/Pius Otomi Ekpei)AP - Police believe unknown gunmen killed a Nigerian gang leader accused of helping rig the 2007 election in the nation’s oil-rich and violence-wracked southern delta, authorities said Wednesday, though…

Intel: Pakistan Taliban chief now believed alive (AP)

April 29th, 2010

Pakistani soldiers keep guard on the side of a road in Mingora, Swat on April 23, 2010. REUTERS/Faisal MahmoodAP - Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud is now believed to have survived a U.S. missile strike earlier this year, but has lost clout within the militant network, a senior…

Leading Pakistani Taliban deputy believed killed (AP)

March 6th, 2010

Pakistani police officers stand guard at the main entrance of the house of kidnapped child Sahil Saeed, Saturday, March 6, 2010 in Jhelum, Pakistan. The kidnapping of the 5-year-old British boy in Pakistan may have involved someone in his family, a top Pakistani diplomat said, adding a twist to a case that has gripped the imagination of Britain's media. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)AP - A top Pakistani Taliban commander close to al-Qaida is believed to have been killed in an army airstrike, officials said Saturday, in the latest apparent blow to insurgents…