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Five years comatose, Israel’s Sharon taken home (Reuters)

November 12th, 2010

Reuters - Israel’s comatose former prime minister, Ariel Sharon, was moved back to his desert ranch on Friday, leaving the secure hospital ward that has been his home for almost…

Five years comatose, Israel’s Sharon moves home (Reuters)

November 12th, 2010

Reuters - Israel’s comatose former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was moved back to his desert ranch on Friday, leaving the secure hospital ward that had been his home for almost…

Taiwan ex-president gets 19 years in prison (Reuters)

November 11th, 2010

Reuters - Taiwan’s supreme court sentenced ex-president Chen Shui-bian, an anti-China firebrand whose rhetoric enraged Beijing and irked Washington, and his wife to 19 years in prison for bribery, a…

Low turnout mars Myanmar’s first vote in 20 years (Reuters)

November 7th, 2010

Reuters - Myanmar held its first election in 20 years on Sunday under tight security, a scripted vote that assures army-backed parties an easy win but brings a hint of…

Myanmar votes in first election in 20 years (Reuters)

November 7th, 2010

Reuters - Myanmar voted in its first election in 20 years on Sunday under tight security, a scripted vote that assures army-backed parties an easy win but brings a hint…

Polls open in Myanmar’s first election in 20 years (Reuters)

November 6th, 2010

Reuters - Polls opened under tight security in Myanmar’s first election in 20 years Sunday, a scripted vote that assures army-backed parties an easy win but brings a hint of…

Guantanamo Canadian to serve 8 more years in prison (Reuters)

October 31st, 2010

Reuters - A U.S. war crimes tribunal Sunday sentenced Canadian captive Omar Khadr to 40 years in prison for charges that included murdering an American soldier in battle, but his…

First European flight in 20 years lands in Baghdad (AFP)

October 31st, 2010

An Airbus A319 plane operated by France's Aigle Azur lands at Baghdad's International Airport -- becoming the first flight from a European airline to arrive in the city since a 1990 binternational/b embargo on Iraq.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - The first flight by a European carrier in 20 years landed in Baghdad on Sunday, marking an important step for a country looking to post-war reconstruction following the…

SKorea to send 1st food aid to NKorea in 3 years (AP)

October 25th, 2010

North Korean soldiers march during a massive military parade marking the 65th anniversary of the communist nation's ruling Workers' Party in Pyongyang, North Korea on Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010. This year's celebration comes less than two weeks after Kim Jong Il's re-election to the party's top post and the news that his 20-something son would succeed his father and grandfather as leader. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)AP - South Korea prepared Monday to send 5,000 tons of rice to flood victims in North Korea in its first humanitarian rice shipment to its communist neighbor since a…

UK court sentences prince to at least 20 years (AP)

October 20th, 2010

In this handout image issued by the Metropolitan Police, Bandar Abdulaziz,a servant who was killed by Saudi Prince Saud Abdulaziz bin Nasser al Saud.  A Saudi prince has been convicted in Britain of murdering a servant. A jury in London's Old Bailey criminal court, on Tuesday Oct. 19, 2010, found Prince Saud Abdulaziz bin Nasser al Saud guilty of murdering Bandar Abdullah Abdulaziz in a frenzied attack in a hotel. The 34-year-old prince faces a possible life sentence. The jury deliberated just 95 minutes before returning its verdict. (AP Photo/Metropolitan Police, HO)  ** EDITORIAL USE ONLY **AP - A British court has sentenced a Saudi prince to at least 20 years in prison for beating and strangling one of his servants at a swank British hotel.


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