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CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Jun 3, 2008 @ 8:19am neoform

BBC News -- Iran's supreme leader has insisted it will continue its nuclear activities for civilian purposes only and will not manufacture nuclear weapons. "No wise nation would be interested in making a nuclear weapon today. They are against rational thought," sa.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri May 9, 2008 @ 8:19am neoform

SF Gate -- The leader of al-Qaida in Iraq has been not been captured, the U.S. military said Friday, despite a claim by the Iraqi government. U.S. military spokeswoman Maj. Peggy Kageleiry says "neither coalition forces nor Iraqi security forces detained or kille.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Apr 29, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

CNN -- The U.N. Security Council is scheduled to hear from a Zimbabwean opposition leader Tuesday on the country's post-election violence and humanitarian crisis. Tendai Biti, secretary-general for the Movement for Democratic Change, will present evidence that t.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Apr 17, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

CNN -- An attacker wearing a suicide vest killed 42 people and injured others at a funeral for a tribal leader in a northern Iraqi Sunni village dominated by the American-backed awakening movement, police said. Police believe the strike appears to be latest assa.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Mar 18, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

CNN -- The Dalai Lama will step down as leader of Tibet's government-in-exile if violence by protesters in the region worsens, the exiled spiritual leader said Tuesday as China's premier blamed his supporters for the growing unrest. "If things become out of cont.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Mar 3, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

MSNBC -- Venezuela and Ecuador have ordered troops to their borders with Colombia, raising concerns of a broader conflict after Colombia killed a top rebel leader on Ecuadorean soil. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday promised Venezuela would respond mi.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Jan 7, 2008 @ 8:17am neoform

SF Gate -- Georgia's embattled leader appeared to have narrowly won re-election to the presidency in a tightly contested snap vote, elections officials announced late Sunday. If the preliminary results are borne out, Mikhail Saakashvili will clear an important hu.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Oct 26, 2007 @ 9:23am neoform

Asia Times Online -- The barely reported highlight of Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to Tehran for the Caspian Sea summit last week was a key face-to-face meeting with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. A high-level diplomatic source in Tehran tells Asia Time.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Oct 2, 2007 @ 8:07am neoform

USA Today -- A U.N. envoy met with Burma's top leader and his deputies Tuesday in a bid to end the country's political crisis, as the junta's foreign minister defended a deadly crackdown on democracy advocates that provoked global revulsion. Ibrahim Gambari, the U... Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Jul 12, 2007 @ 4:51pm neoform

Al Jazeera -- But the Pakistani leader said he would crush extremists throughout Pakistan and would move against religious schools, like the Red Mosque's, that breed them. He said the mosque and its adjoining girls' Islamic school had been "freed from the hands of ter.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sat May 26, 2007 @ 1:47am neoform

BBC News -- The leader of the Shia militant group Hezbollah has urged Lebanon's government not to storm a refugee camp to root out Sunni radicals. Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said Lebanon should not become part of the American war against al-Qaeda. The Sunni milita.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Apr 20, 2007 @ 11:16pm neoform

CNN -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday the war in Iraq is "lost," triggering an angry backlash by Republicans, who said the top Democrat had turned his back on the troops. The bleak assessment -- the most pointed yet from Reid -- came as the H.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Mar 30, 2007 @ 2:31pm neoform

Guardian Unlimited -- A defiant Robert Mugabe said today that the leader of Zimbabwe's main opposition deserved to get "bashed", as he appealed for his ruling Zanu-PF party to endorse him as their presidential candidate again. Exultant following a summit of southern African.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Mar 14, 2007 @ 8:33am neoform

Reuters -- Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was in intensive care with a broken skull on Wednesday following what he says was a brutal police attack while in custody, his spokesman said. "He has just had a brain scan because his skull is cracked," spo.. Read More

CONFLICTS / OPINION Thu Jan 4, 2007 @ 2:07pm neoform

Christian Science Monitor -- As Kim Jong Il continues to elude efforts to constrain his nuclear program, a grudging regard for the North Korean leader's tactical skills is rising... Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri May 23, 2008 @ 8:22am neoform

BBC News -- Burma's top leader has agreed to let all foreign aid workers into the country for relief work in cyclone-hit areas, UN head Ban Ki-moon has said. After talks in Burma's remote capital, Naypyidaw, with Gen Than Shwe, Mr Ban said the decision was a break.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed May 21, 2008 @ 8:17am neoform

BBC News -- United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon says Burma's top leader has agreed to meet him when he visits the cyclone-hit country later this week. Mr Ban will tour devastated regions on Thursday and then fly to the remote capital, Nay Pyi Taw, for talks with Gene.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri May 9, 2008 @ 8:26am neoform

BBC News -- The United States military in Iraq says a man detained in the northern city of Mosul is not in fact the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq. An earlier statement from the Iraqi defence ministry said that al-Masri had been captured. But an American military s.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Apr 29, 2008 @ 8:18am neoform

BBC News -- The leader of a group of rebels accused of trying to assassinate East Timor's president has surrendered. Gastao Salsinha and 11 other rebels handed themselves in to Deputy Prime Minister Jose Luis Guterres at the government palace in the capital, Dili... Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Mar 18, 2008 @ 8:19am neoform

MSNBC -- The Dalai Lama threatened Tuesday to step down as leader of Tibet’s government-in-exile if violence committed by Tibetans in his homeland spirals out of control. Demonstrations in Tibet turned increasingly violent last week, and the Dalai Lama, speak.. Read More