en-us http://www.newsique.com/tags/world/international/ Get Informed. Choose Your News. http://www.newsique.com/world/russia_vote_not_fair_say_europea/ Russia's parliamentary elections, which the pro-Kremlin United Russia party won handsomely, were "not fair" and failed to meet international democratic standards, according to observers from two leading European organizations. The groups' scathing asse news world 2007-12-04 08:14:17 http://www.newsique.com/world/russia_vote_not_fair_say_europea/ SF Gate http://feeds.sfgate.com/~r/sfgate/rss/feeds/news/~3/194827084/article.cgi http://www.newsique.com/sources/sfgate/ 95 Important [11] 90 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/russia_vote_not_fair_say_europea/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/n_korea_closes_more_nuclear_site/ North Korea has shut down all five nuclear facilities at its main Yongbyon complex, International Atomic Energy Agency head Mohamed ElBaradei says. IAEA monitors in North Korea had verified the four new closures, Mr ElBaradei told journalists in Malays news world 2007-07-18 04:49:48 http://www.newsique.com/world/n_korea_closes_more_nuclear_site/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/asia-pacific/6903894.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Interesting [8] 70 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/n_korea_closes_more_nuclear_site/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/heathrow_flights_canceled_after_/ London's Heathrow airport has reopened a busy, international terminal after a security scare led to the cancellation of more than 100 flights. Thousands of passengers were evacuated from Terminal 4 Tuesday after a suspect bag was found shortly before midd news world 2007-07-03 16:42:31 http://www.newsique.com/world/heathrow_flights_canceled_after_/ CNN http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/07/03/heathrow.travel.reut/index.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/cnn/ 94 Important [8] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/heathrow_flights_canceled_after_/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/vatican_urges_end_to_amnesty_aid/ The Vatican has urged all Catholics to stop donating money to Amnesty International, accusing the human rights group of promoting abortion. The Vatican also said it was suspending all financial aid to Amnesty over what it said was the group's recent ch news world 2007-06-14 00:16:01 http://www.newsique.com/world/vatican_urges_end_to_amnesty_aid/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/6750887.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Shocking [20] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/vatican_urges_end_to_amnesty_aid/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/putin_calls_for_alternative_to_w/ Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday criticized international economic institutions for protecting the interests of a select few developed countries and called for a new global economic order that would give rapidly growing developing economies a bi news world 2007-06-11 00:39:05 http://www.newsique.com/world/putin_calls_for_alternative_to_w/ CNN http://www.cnn.com/2007/BUSINESS/06/10/russia.global.economy.ap/index.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/cnn/ 94 Interesting [8] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/putin_calls_for_alternative_to_w/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/human_rights_eroded_worldwide/ Powerful governments and armed groups have been deliberately fomenting fear to erode human rights worldwide, a report by Amnesty International says. The group's annual report on human rights says policies like those linked to the "war on terror" are cr news world 2007-05-23 10:43:01 http://www.newsique.com/world/human_rights_eroded_worldwide/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/6681437.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Important [8] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/human_rights_eroded_worldwide/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/condoms_too_big_for_indian_men/ A survey of more than 1,000 men in India has concluded that condoms made according to international sizes are too large for a majority of Indian men. news world 2006-12-08 11:10:46 http://www.newsique.com/world/condoms_too_big_for_indian_men/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6161691.stm?lsm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Funny [6] 70 mrmdc http://www.newsique.com/profiles/mrmdc/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/condoms_too_big_for_indian_men/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/al_jazeera_wide_angle/ Al Jazeera, praised for confronting the Middle East's oft-coddled ruling regimes and criticized for bringing viewers regular updates from Osama bin Laden's cave, says it is launching its new English-language international network today. news world 2006-11-15 00:32:45 http://www.newsique.com/world/al_jazeera_wide_angle/ Los Angeles Times http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/cl-et-jazeera15nov15,1,1388086.story?coll=la-headlines-entnews&track=crosspromo http://www.newsique.com/sources/latimes/ 93 Under Rated [8] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/al_jazeera_wide_angle/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/al-jazeera_to_start_english_chan/ Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television announced Tuesday that it would launch its long-awaited English language channel Al-Jazeera International on Nov. 15. news world 2006-11-01 08:05:51 http://www.newsique.com/world/al-jazeera_to_start_english_chan/ Yahoo News http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061031/ap_en_tv/al_jazeera_2 http://www.newsique.com/sources/yahoo_news/ 93 Under Rated [6] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/al-jazeera_to_start_english_chan/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/us_is_only_country_to_oppose_un_/ America is the only country to have voted against a proposed United Nations treaty aimed at controlling international arms sales. news world 2006-10-27 14:07:52 http://www.newsique.com/world/us_is_only_country_to_oppose_un_/ Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/10/27/uun.xml http://www.newsique.com/sources/telegraph/ 91 Under Rated [3] 100 mrmdc http://www.newsique.com/profiles/mrmdc/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/us_is_only_country_to_oppose_un_/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/international_ships_loaded_with_/ The ruling junta refused the international help, and the ships were forced to came back. news world 2008-06-18 11:23:26 http://www.newsique.com/world/international_ships_loaded_with_/ www.4burma.org http://www.4burma.org/contStd.asp?lang=en&idPag=423 Important [1] 100 thirdlife http://www.newsique.com/profiles/thirdlife/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/international_ships_loaded_with_/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/world_failing_on_human_rights/ World leaders are failing to tackle human rights abuses around the globe, Amnesty International says. In an annual report, the group says people are still being tortured or ill-treated in at least 81 countries. In at least 54 states they face unfair news world 2008-05-28 08:17:33 http://www.newsique.com/world/world_failing_on_human_rights/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/in_depth/7422528.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/world_failing_on_human_rights/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/defiant_iran_expands_nuclear_ope/ Iran has begun installing 6,000 new centrifuges at its uranium enrichment plant in Natanz, state television quoted President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying Tuesday. The U.S. immediately criticized the announcement as an example of Iran's continued defiance news world 2008-04-08 08:16:04 http://www.newsique.com/world/defiant_iran_expands_nuclear_ope/ CNN http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/04/08/iran.nuclear.ap/index.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/cnn/ 94 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/defiant_iran_expands_nuclear_ope/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/abkhazia_in_independence_appeal/ The breakaway Abkhazia region in Georgia has called on the UN and other international bodies to recognise it as independent. The appeal was made by the separatist Abkhaz parliament on Friday, a day after Russia said it was lifting trade restrictions on news world 2008-03-07 08:25:36 http://www.newsique.com/world/abkhazia_in_independence_appeal/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/7283192.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/abkhazia_in_independence_appeal/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/death_sentence_for_afghan_report/ A student journalist sentenced to death in northern Afghanistan for allegedly blaspheming Islam may actually be paying the price for investigative pieces that his brother wrote, an international media group said Wednesday. Those articles exposed human rig news world 2008-01-23 08:13:33 http://www.newsique.com/world/death_sentence_for_afghan_report/ CNN http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/01/23/afghanistan.journalist/index.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/cnn/ 94 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/death_sentence_for_afghan_report/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/russia_makes_1st_nuke-fuel_deliv/ Russia has made its first shipment of nuclear fuel to Iran's Bushehr plant, which is at the center of the international tensions over Tehran's nuclear program, the Foreign Ministry said Monday. Iran contends the nuclear power plant operation in Bushehr news world 2007-12-17 08:29:08 http://www.newsique.com/world/russia_makes_1st_nuke-fuel_deliv/ MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22293272/ http://www.newsique.com/sources/msnbc/ 95 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/russia_makes_1st_nuke-fuel_deliv/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/iranian_spared_from_execution/ Amid international criticism ignited by a crusading journalist, Iran’s chief justice has spared the life of a young man who had been sentenced to be executed as the result of a cousin’s accusations of homosexual acts years earlier. Ayatollah Seyed news world 2007-11-16 08:24:47 http://www.newsique.com/world/iranian_spared_from_execution/ MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21821342/ http://www.newsique.com/sources/msnbc/ 95 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/iranian_spared_from_execution/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/nato_urged_to_end_afghan_transfe/ Nato countries risk turning a blind eye to torture by continuing to transfer detainees to Afghan prisons, according to a report from Amnesty International. The report cites what it calls "consistent" incidences of torture and other abuse by Afghanistan news world 2007-11-13 08:23:19 http://www.newsique.com/world/nato_urged_to_end_afghan_transfe/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/south_asia/7091928.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/nato_urged_to_end_afghan_transfe/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/balkans_wars_18000_still_missing/ Nearly 18,000 people are still missing from the ethnic wars fought in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Thursday. About 13,500 of those missing are from the 1992-95 war in Bosnia, while 2,386 are from th news world 2007-08-30 08:12:36 http://www.newsique.com/world/balkans_wars_18000_still_missing/ CNN http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/08/30/balkans.missing.ap/index.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/cnn/ 94 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/balkans_wars_18000_still_missing/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/brazil_offered_help_on_air_space/ Brazil has been urged to accept foreign help to control its air space by the International Air Traffic Controllers Federation (Ifatca). The head of Ifatca, Marc Baumgartner, said Brazil was trying to save face after 199 people were killed last week in news world 2007-07-24 03:53:28 http://www.newsique.com/world/brazil_offered_help_on_air_space/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/americas/6912887.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/brazil_offered_help_on_air_space/#comments