en-us http://www.newsique.com/tags/world/leader/ Get Informed. Choose Your News. http://www.newsique.com/world/carter_in_damascus_to_meet_hamas/ Former US President Jimmy Carter is in Syria, where he is due to meet exiled Hamas political leader Khaled Meshaal. Mr Carter is on a tour of the region and has met Hamas officials in Egypt and Israeli President Shimon Peres. Correspondents say Mr C news world 2008-04-18 08:22:56 http://www.newsique.com/world/carter_in_damascus_to_meet_hamas/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/middle_east/7354027.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Interesting [6] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/carter_in_damascus_to_meet_hamas/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/fidel_castro_hints_at_retirement/ Cuba's ailing communist leader, Fidel Castro, has raised the possibility that he may never return to the presidency. In a letter read out on state TV, Mr Castro, Cuba's leader since 1959, said he had a duty not to hold on to power or obstruct the rise news world 2007-12-18 08:18:39 http://www.newsique.com/world/fidel_castro_hints_at_retirement/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/americas/7149170.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Interesting [8] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/fidel_castro_hints_at_retirement/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/priests_fail_to_coax_out_suicide/ Priests have tried unsuccessfully to persuade members of a doomsday cult to leave a cave in southern Russia where they remain barricaded inside despite the intervention of their leader. The cult members -- including four children -- holed themselves up in news world 2007-11-20 08:15:15 http://www.newsique.com/world/priests_fail_to_coax_out_suicide/ CNN http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/11/19/doomsday.cult/index.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/cnn/ 94 Interesting [7] 90 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/priests_fail_to_coax_out_suicide/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/s_leone_opposition_wins_vote/ Opposition leader Ernest Bai Koroma has won Sierra Leone's presidential election run-off, say national election commission officials. He won 54.6% of the vote while his rival Vice-President Solomon Berewa of the ruling Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP news world 2007-09-17 08:29:31 http://www.newsique.com/world/s_leone_opposition_wins_vote/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/africa/6998687.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Interesting [8] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/s_leone_opposition_wins_vote/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/kim_jong_il_ate_my_rabbits_for_h/ The offspring of the 12 giant rabbits were supposed to help to feed starving North Koreans. Now doubts about their fate have brought an abrupt halt to one of the more unlikely hunger-alleviating projects. Karl Szmolinsky sold the rabbits to Pyongyang s news world 2007-04-23 08:27:54 http://www.newsique.com/world/kim_jong_il_ate_my_rabbits_for_h/ Times Online http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article1615350.ece http://www.newsique.com/sources/times_online/ 93 Interesting [6] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/kim_jong_il_ate_my_rabbits_for_h/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/mugabe_rival_i_will_soldier_on/ Zimbabwe's main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai left hospital on Friday, saying he was still in pain from an "orgy" of police beatings but would keep battling President Robert Mugabe's authoritarian government. Tsvangirai, head of the Movement for news world 2007-03-16 08:37:27 http://www.newsique.com/world/mugabe_rival_i_will_soldier_on/ CNN http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/03/16/zimbabwe.court.reut/index.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/cnn/ 94 Amazing [7] 90 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/mugabe_rival_i_will_soldier_on/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/libya_to_build_statue_of_saddam/ Libya has said it will build a statue of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, executed in Baghdad on Saturday. news world 2007-01-05 22:12:44 http://www.newsique.com/world/libya_to_build_statue_of_saddam/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6232859.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Important [14] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 1 http://www.newsique.com/world/libya_to_build_statue_of_saddam/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/ailing_castro_telephones_cubas_p/ Fidel Castro telephoned a meeting of provincial legislative leaders who reacted with jubilant applause to the call from their ailing leader, Cuba's Communist Party newspaper said Saturday. news world 2006-12-16 19:40:17 http://www.newsique.com/world/ailing_castro_telephones_cubas_p/ USA Today http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-12-16-castro-phone-call_x.htm http://www.newsique.com/sources/usatoday/ 91 Interesting [6] 80 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/ailing_castro_telephones_cubas_p/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/al-qaida_well_blow_up_the_white_/ Al Qaida’s leader in Iraq today vowed his fighters will never rest until they have blown up the White House and reached Jerusalem. news world 2006-11-11 10:33:34 http://www.newsique.com/world/al-qaida_well_blow_up_the_white_/ breakingnews.iol.ie http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=200967842&p=zxx968548 Under Rated [5] 70 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 1 http://www.newsique.com/world/al-qaida_well_blow_up_the_white_/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/us_troops_arrest_al-qaeda_leader/ US forces stormed a building in the northern Iraq city of Mosul today and arrested a suspected "high-level al-Qaeda leader" in an operation that led to the death of a 12-year-old boy. news world 2006-10-24 11:06:01 http://www.newsique.com/world/us_troops_arrest_al-qaeda_leader/ News.com.au http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,20635289-5005962,00.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/newscomau/ 90 Under Rated [2] 90 mrmdc http://www.newsique.com/profiles/mrmdc/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/us_troops_arrest_al-qaeda_leader/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/suu_kyis_house_arrest_extended/ Burma's ruling junta has renewed pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest. Police earlier detained about 20 activists as they marched to the Nobel Peace Prize laureate's home in Rangoon, where she has been held since May 2003. The decisi news world 2008-05-27 08:23:20 http://www.newsique.com/world/suu_kyis_house_arrest_extended/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/asia-pacific/7420960.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/suu_kyis_house_arrest_extended/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/uk_labour_party_suffers_heavy_de/ Conservative leader David Cameron says his party's first by-election win since 1982 marks "the end of New Labour". Mr Cameron told cheering supporters in Crewe and Nantwich that Labour had run a negative, xenophobic and class war campaign that "complet news world 2008-05-23 08:23:01 http://www.newsique.com/world/uk_labour_party_suffers_heavy_de/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7415362.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/uk_labour_party_suffers_heavy_de/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/un_food_body_should_be_scrapped/ An African leader has dismissed the UN's food agency as a "waste of money" and called for it to be scrapped. President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal spoke out days after the UN announced an emergency plan to bring soaring world food prices under control. news world 2008-05-05 08:19:30 http://www.newsique.com/world/un_food_body_should_be_scrapped/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/africa/7383628.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/un_food_body_should_be_scrapped/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/zuma_condemns_zimbabwe_poll_dela/ South Africa's governing party leader Jacob Zuma has criticised the delay in publishing the results of presidential elections held in Zimbabwe 11 days ago. Mr Zuma's comments are in stark contrast to those of South Africa's president who said the situa news world 2008-04-09 08:23:24 http://www.newsique.com/world/zuma_condemns_zimbabwe_poll_dela/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/africa/7337986.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/zuma_condemns_zimbabwe_poll_dela/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/leaders_clash_over_eu_referendum/ Gordon Brown has clashed in the Commons with Tory leader David Cameron and Lib Dem Nick Clegg over an EU referendum. Mr Cameron said Mr Brown had lost his "courage" while the Lib Dem leader said the prime minister had "bottled it". Mr Brown hit back news world 2008-03-05 08:19:28 http://www.newsique.com/world/leaders_clash_over_eu_referendum/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7277644.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/leaders_clash_over_eu_referendum/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/enough_evidence_to_charge_zuma/ South Africa's top prosecutor says there is enough evidence to charge the new leader of the governing party, Jacob Zuma, with corruption. The acting head of the National Prosecuting Authority, Mokotedi Mpshe, said a final decision on when to take actio news world 2007-12-20 08:16:51 http://www.newsique.com/world/enough_evidence_to_charge_zuma/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/africa/7153250.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/enough_evidence_to_charge_zuma/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/s_africa_rivals_in_key_anc_vote/ Delegates from the African National Congress are due to vote on who becomes the next leader of South Africa's ruling party. President Thabo Mbeki is locked in a bitter struggle for the leadership against his former ally, Jacob Zuma. Mr Zuma is a fav news world 2007-12-17 08:38:04 http://www.newsique.com/world/s_africa_rivals_in_key_anc_vote/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/africa/7147414.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/s_africa_rivals_in_key_anc_vote/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/libyas_gaddafi_to_visit_france/ Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is due to arrive in France for a five-day official visit, his first since 1973. Colonel Gaddafi was invited after Libya released five Bulgarian nurses and a doctor who had been condemned to death, a case in which France me news world 2007-12-10 08:21:02 http://www.newsique.com/world/libyas_gaddafi_to_visit_france/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/africa/7135788.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/libyas_gaddafi_to_visit_france/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/musharraf_gives_up_army_uniform/ Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has handed over the command of the military in a ceremony in Rawalpindi. Gen Musharraf passed a ceremonial baton to Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kayani at the army's headquarters. In his farewell address, Gen Musharraf sai news world 2007-11-28 11:35:37 http://www.newsique.com/world/musharraf_gives_up_army_uniform/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/south_asia/7116290.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/musharraf_gives_up_army_uniform/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/russian_election_date_confirmed/ The Russian presidential election will take place on March 2, the upper chamber of Russia's parliament, the Federation Council, announced Monday, as opposition leader Garry Kasparov continued his five-day jail term. The election date has been unofficially news world 2007-11-26 08:18:50 http://www.newsique.com/world/russian_election_date_confirmed/ CNN http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/11/26/russian.election/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/russian_election_date_confirmed/#comments