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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 Tue Sep 4, 2007 @ 3:44pm neoform

CNN -- Iraq has failed to meet 11 of the 18 benchmarks the U.S. Congress set when it approved a war-spending bill in May, the Government Accountability Office reported Tuesday. Iraq has met three of the benchmarks and "partially met" four, the GAO said, but the.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Apr 4, 2007 @ 7:48pm neoform

News.com.au -- THE 15 British sailors who have been held by Iran for nearly two weeks have met British Ambassador Geoffrey Adams. The eight Royal Navy sailors and seven marines, whom Iran said it would be releasing, met Mr Adams "late this evening (Thursday AEST)," s.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Nov 15, 2007 @ 8:13am neoform

CNN -- A U.N. human rights investigator says he has met with several prominent political prisoners before ending his five-day mission to Myanmar. Paulo Sergio Pinheiro was sent by the U.N. to investigate allegations of widespread abuse in connection with the jun.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Sep 12, 2007 @ 8:26am neoform

CBS News -- Authorities said Tuesday they are considering hate crime charges in the case of a woman who was tortured while being held captive for at least a week, and they are investigating the possibility that she was lured by a man she met on the Internet. The v.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Sep 4, 2007 @ 3:49pm neoform

USA Today -- The Iraqi government is "dysfunctional" and has met only three of the 18 benchmarks laid out by Congress for gauging its efforts on political reconciliation, according to a new indepenent report on Iraq by the Government Accountability Office. The Bagh.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Jun 26, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

FOX News -- International Mideast negotiators met in Jerusalem on Tuesday, searching for ways to revive peace talks in the wake of Hamas' violent takeover of the Gaza Strip earlier this month. The gathering of the so-called Quartet of Mideast peace makers came a d.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sat Apr 7, 2007 @ 12:05am neoform

CNN -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai acknowledged for the first time he has met with Taliban militants in attempts to bring peace to his country, which is struggling to quell a rising insurgency. Karzai's assertion -- immediately rejected as false by a Taliba.. Read More