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30 Mar 2009 10:30

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World: This attack on a Pakistani police academy sounds insane

  • 19 people died in the incident, including eight police, three civilians and eight militants; 90 were wounded in the attacks source
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19 Mar 2009 00:32

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U.S.: The military’s stop-loss policy is ending in 2011 (finally)

  • If we had to point to one policy that has placed the most strain on our troops and their families, and adversely affected the morale and readiness of our forces, it would be stop-loss.
  • Jon Soltz • An Iraq war veteran and the chairman of VoteVets.org, on the news that the stop-loss policy would end in 2011. The hugely unpopular policy has kept soldiers from being able to exit the military on time. It was put in place in part because the military struggled with keeping troop counts up in the wake of two large-scale wars. It also inspired a well-known film. • source
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15 Mar 2009 11:25

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World: Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers conflict takes a huge toll

  • 36,000 civilians have been displaced during the conflict’s recent flare-up, the Red Cross says source
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15 Mar 2009 10:13

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World: Who’s upsetting the peace in Northern Ireland?

  • 300 sepratists and “a few nutters and idiots,” police say source
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11 Mar 2009 01:47

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World: The Mexican drug cartel battle leads to a grisly find

  • 5 human heads were found in ice chests in central Mexico source
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10 Mar 2009 10:32

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World: Peace conference interrupted by a suicide bomber in Iraq

  • 33 were killed at a peace conference in Baghdad source
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04 Mar 2009 10:43

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World: Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir charged with war crimes

  • He is suspected of being criminally responsible … for intentionally directing attacks against an important part of the civilian population of Darfur, Sudan; murdering, exterminating, raping, torturing, and forcibly transferring large numbers of civilians, and pillaging their property.
  • International Criminal Court spokesman Laurence Blairon • On Omar al-Bashir, who is the first sitting president to be charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity. In the six-year conflict, nearly 300,000 Darfuris have died. • source
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03 Mar 2009 10:31

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Sports, World: Sri Lanka’s cricket team gets caught in the crossfire

  • six policemen were killed in a terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team source
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02 Mar 2009 08:51

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World: Mourning loss of life in Bangladesh, en masse

Thousands attended a mass funeral for soldiers killed in a mutiny last week. source
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23 Feb 2009 10:59

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World: The Tamil Tigers want a truce. Sri Lanka says no.

  • The L.T.T.E. is ready to accept the calls for a cease-fire issued by the international community with the good intention of ending the human suffering.
  • Balasingham Nadesan • Political chief of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, in a letter sent to the United Nations. The Sri Lankan separatist group will accept a conditional cease-fire as long as they get to keep their weapons. The Sri Lankan government quickly rejected the request. • source
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