| Somali pirates on hijack spree since weekend (AP) Posted: 14 Apr 2009 04:07 PM PDT  AP - Somali pirates were back to business as usual Tuesday, defiantly seizing four more ships with 60 hostages after U.S. sharpshooters rescued an American freighter captain. "No one can deter us," one bandit boasted. The freed skipper, Richard Phillips, will return home to the United States on Wednesday, after reuniting with his 19-man crew in the Kenyan port of Mombasa, according to the shipping company Maersk Line Ltd.
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| Ending Somali piracy: few options for US forces (AP) Posted: 14 Apr 2009 02:26 PM PDT  AP - Stamping out Somalia's piracy scourge using U.S. warships or military force will be virtually impossible, according to maritime experts who said Tuesday the real problems lie ashore in the ashes of Somalia's failed state.
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| NKorea boots inspectors, vows to restart reactor (AP) Posted: 14 Apr 2009 04:06 PM PDT  AP - North Korea said Tuesday it was restarting its rogue nuclear program, booting U.N. inspectors and pulling out of disarmament talks in an angry reaction to U.N. Security Council condemnation of its April 5 rocket launch. Pyongyang ordered U.N. nuclear inspectors to remove seals and cameras from its Yongbyon nuclear site and leave the country as quickly as possible, the International Atomic Energy Agency said.
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| Iranian group in Iraq part of high-stakes politics (AP) Posted: 14 Apr 2009 01:19 PM PDT  AP - The Iraqi government is stepping up efforts to pressure Iranian exiles into leaving the country, pushing an obscure group to the forefront of Baghdad's relations with Washington and the Obama administration's overtures to Iran.
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| Iran says US journalist tried behind closed doors (AP) Posted: 14 Apr 2009 12:27 PM PDT  AP - Iran said Tuesday its national security court put an American journalist on trial behind closed doors on allegations she spied for the U.S. a charge Washington calls baseless.
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| Police in new row over G20 protests (AFP) Posted: 14 Apr 2009 03:58 PM PDT  AFP - Police, under fire over the death of a man caught up in a G20 demonstration early this month, said Tuesday they have suspended an officer who was filmed apparently hitting a woman at the protest.
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| Lebanese Shiite cleric: US and Iran can cooperate (AP) Posted: 14 Apr 2009 01:17 PM PDT  AP - Lebanon's top Shiite cleric said Tuesday he believes cooperation is possible between Iran and the United States under the Obama administration, although he discounted any hope of an alliance between the adversaries.
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| Mexican detained with anti-aircraft machine gun (AP) Posted: 14 Apr 2009 04:01 PM PDT  AP - Mexican authorities arrested a woman guarding an arsenal that included the first anti-aircraft machine gun seized in Mexico, police said Tuesday, as the army announced the capture of an alleged top drug cartel lieutenant.
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| U.S. Mideast envoy in Algeria on peace talks drive (Reuters) Posted: 14 Apr 2009 11:25 AM PDT Reuters - The U.S. special envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, met the president of Algeria on Tuesday as part of a push to enlist Arab support for efforts to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. |
| Kerry: Pakistan needs more urgency in terror fight (AP) Posted: 14 Apr 2009 03:08 PM PDT  AP - A top U.S. senator on Tuesday urged Pakistan to "ratchet up" its sense of urgency in battling the spreading militancy in its northwest, even as the government defended a deal to impose Islamic law in a swath of the region to achieve peace with the Taliban.
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| Qantas says 'no choice' as makes cuts (AFP) Posted: 14 Apr 2009 12:47 AM PDT  AFP - Australia's Qantas announced more job cuts, slashed its profit forecast by more than half and deferred new plane orders, saying it had no choice if it hoped to weather the global downturn.
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