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Alliance led by ex-Iraqi PM wins election narrowly (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2010 05:07 PM PDT

Former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi speaks to his supporters after the full election results released Friday for Iraq's 325-seat parliament show Allawi winning 91 seats, edging out Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's 89 seats in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, March 26, 2010. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)AP - Former U.S.-appointed prime minister Ayad Allawi and his secular, anti-Iranian coalition narrowly won Iraq's parliamentary elections in final returns Friday, edging out the bloc of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who angrily vowed to challenge the results.


Church, deaf students square off on Italian TV (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2010 04:18 PM PDT

From left Gianni Bisoli, 60, Dario Laiti, 59, and Alessandro Vantini, 60, attend an interview with Associated Press in a hotel in Rome, Friday, March 26, 2010. Bisoli, Laiti,  Vantini, and 64 former students at Verona's Provolo Institute for the Deaf,  signed a statement last year, in which they described sexual abuse, pedophilia and corporal punishment that occurred at the school from the 1950s to the 1980s. They named 24 priests, brothers and lay religious men at the school. The Vatican has told the Verona diocese to interview the former students to hear testimony about the accusations. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)AP - Three deaf men who say they were repeatedly sodomized and abused by priests as children confronted the church diocese Friday about why it hadn't punished their abusers, saying they want justice.


UN: Kidnappers release Belgian taken in Haiti (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2010 04:11 PM PDT

AP - Kidnappers have released a Belgian businessman who was grabbed as he drove through Haiti's capital, a U.N. police official said Friday.

SKorean naval ship sinks near NKorea; 40 missing (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2010 03:03 PM PDT

This undated picture shows South Korea's Cheonan naval ship in South Korea, Friday, March 26, 2010. South Korea's military scrambled Cheonan naval vessels to the western waters near the disputed maritime border with North Korea late Friday after an explosion ripped a hole in the bottom of a military ship, officials and news reports said. (AP Photo/ Yonhap) **KOREA OUT**AP - Word that a South Korean naval ship sank in the tense waters around the disputed maritime border with communist North Korea set off panic: The president convened an emergency meeting and the military dispatched a fleet of ships.


Post-quake, Pinera eyeing Chile's military funding (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2010 03:24 PM PDT

A Chilean F-16 fighter jet prepares to take off during the 30th Chilean International Air and Space Show, FIDAE, in Santiago, Friday, March 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia)AP - The $30 billion cost of Chile's devastating earthquake may give its new president the ammunition he needs to take on the military like no leftist ever could, dismantling a dictatorship-era law that devotes 10 percent of Chile's copper revenues to defense spending.


Can Iyad Allawi Coalesce Iraqis After Election Success? (Time.com)

Posted: 26 Mar 2010 04:55 PM PDT

Time.com - Allawi has made a remarkable political comeback in Iraq's parliamentary election, but can he form a coalition to take over the government from the wily Maliki?

Recruit Afghan women to sell war to Europeans: CIA report (AFP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2010 05:02 PM PDT

Burqa-clad Afghan women wait for bus transportation in Kabul. A CIA expert has called for recruiting Afghan women in a public relations bid to persuade skeptical Europeans to support the NATO-led war effort, according to a document leaked Friday.(AFP/Shah Marai)AFP - A CIA expert has called for recruiting Afghan women in a public relations bid to persuade skeptical Europeans to support the NATO-led war effort, according to a document leaked Friday.


Timeline of events in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2010 04:14 PM PDT

AP - A timeline of key events in Iraq, beginning with the U.S.-led invasion to the March 7 parliamentary elections:

Package bomb kills 12-year-old boy in Colombia (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2010 05:11 PM PDT

AP - A package bomb killed a 12-year-old boy who may have been given it to take to a police station after school in Colombia's turbulent, coca-growing southwest, authorities said Friday.

Mubarak to return to Egypt Saturday afternoon (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Mar 2010 03:36 PM PDT

Reuters - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will return to Egypt on Saturday following gallbladder surgery in Germany this month, a government minister told Reuters late on Friday.

US sees North Korean regime 'under stress' (AFP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2010 03:50 PM PDT

A photo released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on March 7, shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il waving as he attends celebrations following the completion of a factory. The United States said Friday that the Stalinist regime of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il was AFP - The United States said Friday that the Stalinist regime of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il was "under stress," but stopped short of saying it was unstable.


Australia Aboriginal youths 28 times more likely to end up in jail (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 26 Mar 2010 05:37 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The death of several Australian Aborigines who have died in prison or police custody around the country recently has underscored the disproportionately high percentage of Aborigines among the country’s incarcerated â€" a result in part of overcrowded housing and low education rates that go hand in hand with violence and petty crime. But discrimination is also to blame, say critics.

Allawi wins Iraqi election; Maliki rejects results (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 26 Mar 2010 03:48 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — A strong showing by Iraq's Sunni Muslim minority gave secular Shiite politician Ayad Allawi the narrow lead that he needed to win a landmark parliamentary election over incumbent Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki, according to results released Friday by the Iraqi election commission.

Panning for gold, Mumbai streetsweepers watch for all that glitters (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 26 Mar 2010 02:05 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Walk beyond Mumbai’s Zaveri bazaar, the gold hub of India’s wealthiest city (formerly known as Bombay), and you might catch street sweepers panning for gold amid the sewage pipes in front of goldsmiths’ homes.

Germany, Britain Mull a Bank Tax to Address Deficits (Time.com)

Posted: 26 Mar 2010 03:25 PM PDT

Time.com - Both Germany and Britain are calling for a tax on banks in the wake of the economic downturn -- but the countries have different ideas about what to do with the money

India: Bhopal Legacy Haunts Nuclear Liability Bill (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 26 Mar 2010 10:23 AM PDT

OneWorld.net - NEW DELHI, Mar 26 2010 (IPS) - The U.S.-based multinational Union Carbide got away lightly after causing the world's worst industrial tragedy at Bhopal, but that legacy has come to haunt U.S. corporations seeking to tap India's newly opened market for nuclear power equipment.

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