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May 23rd, 2009

Iraqi Officials Expect Moves Amid Inquiry For Somalia, Chaos Breeds Religious War
Guantánamo Closing Hands Republicans a Wedge Issue Pelosi Mum on Rights Before Trip to China
For Displaced Iraqis, 'No Life' Spain's Judges Cross Borders in Rights Cases
Venezuela Rejects Concerns From UN, OAS on Media Bangladesh Is 'Safe Haven for British Islamic Terrorists'
Military Tribunals Not the Same as US Courts Brazil Thwarts Neo-Nazi Bomb Plot
Obama in Fresh Overture to Cuba on Immigration Egypt Arrests Qaeda Cell Over Deadly Bombing
Rwanda's Chief Prosecutor Calls for More Genocide Trials Iran's President Faces Campaign Trail Hurdles
Chinese Report on Tibet Reveals the Roots of Unrest Iran Says Powers Agree to Nuclear Talks After Vote
Israeli Government Too Extreme to Make Peace: Syria's Assad Russia Favors Keeping Up Talks With Hamas: Foreign Minister
Rebels Killed in Chechnya, 15 Others Arrested in Ingushetia: Report Pakistani Troops Take on Taliban in Main Swat Town
Thai Insurgency Takes Toll on Both Buddhists, Muslims NATO Soldier Killed in Afghanistan: Alliance
Troops Kill 60 Rebels, Make Largest Afghan Drugs Bust US Military Investigates Contractors After Afghan Killing
Insurgents in Mogadishu Attack AU Peacekeepers Prominent Egyptian Dissident Burned in Attack
Green Zone Killing Heightens Security Fears Iraq's Disgraced Trade Minister Expected to Step Down
MoD Admits Hercules in Fatal Crash Was Unsafe Report: Heatstroke Soldier Whose Death Led to Landmark Human Rights Ruling 'Passed Out Sunbathing'
Soldiers Return From Iraq, Prepare to Adjust to Civilian Life The CIA's Silent War in Pakistan
Iran: the Unlikely Candidacy of Mir Hossein Mousavi Peshawar Cinema Bombing Death Toll Rises to 13
'Pakistan Ready to Phase Out Nukes if India Does So' Sri Lanka: Even in Victory, Secrecy and Evasion Prevail
Dubya, Condi, Paul, Rummy and Colin: Where Are They Now? High-Tech Ways to Combat Terrorism
Cheney's Assertions of Lives Saved Is Hard to Prove Pakistani Army Claims Taliban's Elimination in Swat Valley Imminent
Role of British Diplomats in Tamil Leaders' Failed Surrender Bid Tony Blair Believed God Wanted Him to Go to War to Fight Evil, Claims His Mentor
US Relies More on Allies in Questioning Terror Suspects British and American Fighters Respond to Jihad Call in Somalia
Mahinda Rajapaksa Wins Sri Lanka but Peace May Prove Elusive 160th British Serviceman Killed in Afghanistan
FBI 'Lured Dimwits' Into Terror Plot A Blast ... Then the Birds Stop Singing in Peshawar
Pakistan: the Wali of Swat Mourns His Lost Land Tigers Begged Me to Broker Surrender
Pakistan: No Timeframe for End to Swat Operation, Says Governor of NWFP Five Killed, 15 Vehicles Torched Across Karachi
Biden's Visit Sparks Controversy Between Lebanon's Opposing Political Factions Egypt: Al-Qaeda Trained Terrorists in Gaza
Lebanon DM Says Biden Promised Military Aid Package, Regardless of Election Results Palestinians Rescued After Five Days Trapped in Collapsed Tunnel
'Israel Won't Yield to US Demands, Won't Halt Settlement Construction' Lebanon: Hariri Murder Probe Sees Hezbollah Role, According to Report
'We Are the Tigers,' Roars Despairing Tamil Diaspora Obama Acknowledges Guantánamo 'One of Our Biggest Problems'
Review of CIA Memos Divides Congress Scorched Earth, Craters Mark Sri Lanka War Zone
Ahmadinejad Says Predecessor Humiliated Iran Hillary Clinton's Diplomacy Raises Some Eyebrows
First Appearance of Burmese Opposition Leader Suu Kyi in Six Years Italy FM Says He Is Sending Representative to Iran to Discuss Possible Meeting on Afghanistan
Iran Says No Nuke Talks Before Polls Iran Blocks Facebook Over Presidential Hopeful
Reformist Khatami Urges Iranians to Elect Ex-Premier Microsoft Blocks Messenger in Five US-Embargoed Countries
Foreign Banks Tell Staffers Not to Wear 'Western Dress' in Pakistan Terror Infrastructure in Pakistan Stumbling Block in Ties, Says New External Affairs Minister for India
New Indian Govt Extends 'Hand of Friendship' to Pakistan Street Fighting Begins in Pakistan-Taliban War
Army Says Pakistanis Form Militias to Expel Taliban Taliban Might Launch Retaliatory Attacks Across Pakistan, Says Gilani
Few in Kandahar Aware of Afghanistan's Elections NATO Airstrike Kills Construction Worker, Wounds 18 Others Near Afghan Capital
2 Afghan Soldiers, 2 Taliban Fighters Killed in Afghanistan Mogadishu Shelled After Lull in Deadly Battle
UN Chief Sobered by Visit to Sri Lankan Refugees French Tourist Kidnapped in Pakistan
Top US Official Warns That War in Afghanistan Strengthens Taliban in Pakistan Residents Flee Somali Capital
Suu Kyi Trial Dashes Chance US Will Ease Sanctions Myanmar: Books, Letter to Be Used in Case Against Suu Kyi
Saturday: 1 US Soldier, 2 American Contractors, 13 Iraqis Killed; 11 Iraqis Wounded Dover 'Old Guard' Team Shoulders Heavy Burden in Iraq
Iraq PM Slams Law Pardoning Mainly Sunni Prisoners Maliki Pledges No Restrictions on Iraqi Media
Will Iraqi Cities Erupt as US Forces Leave? Turkey Lets More Water Out of Dams to Iraq
Slayings Dashed Dreams of Rural Iraqi Family Female Air Force Academy Graduate Killed in Afghanistan
Iraqi Residents Turn Local Al-Qaeda Headquarters to Crowded Shopping Center Hamas Denies Efforts to Stop Rocket Attacks Against Israel
European Aid Convoy Expected in Gaza Strip on Sunday Two Dead as Gaza Smuggling Tunnel Collapses
Iran: Ahmadinejad Rejects Rivals' Criticisms, Threatens to Retaliate No '57-State Solution' to Mideast Conflict, Says Arab League Chief
Iraq: Iranian Mujahideen Helped in Suppressing 1991 Uprising, Says Defector Israeli Settler Found Slain in Nablus
Israeli Gunboats Fire at Palestinian Fishing Boats Three Saudi Terror Suspects Turn Themselves In
Israel Used Depleted Uranium in Offensive on Gaza, Reports NGO Proceedings of Israeli Espionage Interrogations Must Remain Under Wrap, Says Lebanese Military Source
Prabhakarans Body Cremated, Say Sri Lanka Army Chief Three Balkan States Sign 'Balkanpol' Security Coordination Pact
British Soldier Killed in Afghanistan Pakistan's Mystics in Sights of Taliban
Don't Call Ex-Vice President Cheney a Has-Been 7 Arrested in Connection to Cairo Blast
Feingold: Prolonged Detention Would 'Set the Stage for Future Guantanamos' Conservative Radio Hosts Gets Waterboarded, and Lasts Six Seconds Before Saying Its Torture
Two Bush Officials Fire Back at Cheney Fearmongering' Russia, Jordan Sign Nuclear Cooperation Agreement
Report: Lebanon Arrests Three Israeli Spies White House: Obama Won't Unveil Mideast Peace Plan in Cairo
Syria President: Israel Is the Major Obstacle to Peace Pakistan Army Widens Hunt for Taliban
Tamil Tiger Official Repeats Claim Leader Still Alive Bus Blown Up, 29 Killed, 200 Wounded in Mogadishu Clashes
Obama Treaty Push Hinges on Global 'Listening' Net Kenya Politics Provide Punchline on TV Puppet Show
CIA's Panetta Tries to Thread the Needle Taliban Driven From Road but Still in Hills
Rights Group: 53 Somalis Killed in Latest Fighting Troops Make Large Drug Seizures in Afghan Fighting
Pakistan: Troops Battle Taliban in Main Swat Town Communist Leader Elected Nepal's New PM
Bombing in Nepal Church Kills 2, Wounds 15 UN Chief Visits Sri Lankan War Refugees
Sri Lanka Health Ministry Probes War Zone Doctors Sri Lanka: War-Ravaged Tamil Population Faces Grim Future in Camps
Baghdad Has New Security Layer: Street Gates US Outreach on Rough Seas Off Western Africa
Sri Lanka Leader Rejects War Crimes Investigation Tiananmen Now Seems Distant to China's Students
Witch Hunts Heighten Fear of Gambia Despot, Dozens Flee Into Sengal At Turkish Border, Armenians Are Wary of a Thaw
Somali Forces Battle Insurgents for Control of Capital Openness in China About Zhao Ziyang's Memoir Is Short-Lived
Indonesians Embrace American-Style Reality TV as Political Islam Wanes Showing the Glimmer of Humanity Amid the Atrocities of War
South Korean Ex-President Kills Himself

May 22nd, 2009

Eritrea Rejects Accusations on Somali Arms Barack Obama Pledges to Keep US 'Dominance'
NATO Service Member Killed in Southern Afghanistan Air Force Intelligence Officer Killed by IED in Afghanistan (MO)
NJ Soldier Killed in Iraq One of 31,000 Immigrants Serving in Military

May 20th, 2009

Belleville (IL) Soldier Killed in Baghdad Blast

May 19th, 2009

Family Mourns Alabama Soldier Killed in Afghanistan Soldier From La Puente (CA) Dies in Combat in Afghanistan

May 18th, 2009

Virginia Soldier, Raised in Vermont, Killed by Iraq Sniper

May 16th, 2009

At 60, Arizona Man With Ohio Ties Becomes Oldest Soldier Killed in Iraq War

May 15th, 2009

Missouri Native One of Five Soldiers Killed in Iraq by Fellow Soldier
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