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John Yettaw Hospitalized For Seizures A Week Before Suu Kyi Verdict

AP | Posted 09.03.2009 | World

Read More: Burma, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, John Yettaw, Aung San Suu Kyi, Suu Kyi, Suu Kyi Trial, Suu Kyi Home, Aung San Suu Kyi Trial, Myanmar, World News

YANGON, Myanmar — An American facing up to five years in jail for entering the house of Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been hospi...

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Pakistan Christian Attacks Planned In Advance: Rights Group

AP | ASIF SHAHZAD | Posted 09.03.2009 | World

Read More: Pakistan, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Pakistan Christians, Pakistan Christians Schools, Al Qaeda, Al-Qaeda, Al Qaida, Gojra, Muslim, Muslims, Quran, Religion, Koran, World News

ISLAMABAD — An independent Pakistani human rights commission said Tuesday that rioting that killed eight Christians last week was not spontaneou...

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Obama Admin. Slams Kenya Just Prior To Hillary Clinton Visit

AP | TOM MALITI | Posted 09.03.2009 | World

Read More: Kenya, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Obama Kenya, Clinton Kenya, Hillary Clinton Africa, Kenya Violence, Kenya Election, Hillary Clinton, World News

NAIROBI, Kenya — The U.S. strongly criticized Kenya on Tuesday just hours before U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's arrived, sayin...

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Novartis: CEO's Mother's Ashes Stolen By Animal Rights Militants

AP | THOMAS BRUNNER | Posted 09.03.2009 | World

Read More: Animals, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Health, Novartis, Novartis AG, Animal Rights, Novartis Ceo, Animal Rights Activists, Animal Rights Militants, Switzerland, Daniel Vasella, Daniel Vasella Ashes, World News

BERN, Switzerland — Drug maker Novartis AG said Tuesday that animal rights activists have stolen the ashes of its CEO's mother and set fire to h...

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ICANN Domain Name Overseer Pressured To Loosen US Ties

GlobalPost | Posted 09.03.2009 | World

Read More: Cybersquatting, Icann, Russia, Foreign Affairs, Domain Names, Technology, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, China, Advocacy, World News

It is invisible to the millions of people who use the World Wide Web, yet it helps hold the Internet together. Type in any address in your browser's ...

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Venezuela Coffee Companies Seized By State

BBC News | Posted 09.03.2009 | World

Read More: Hugo Chavez, Venezuela, Venezuela Coffee, Foreign Affairs, Venezuela Coffee Companies, Advocacy, World News

The Venezuelan government has seized temporary control of the processing plants of two of the country's biggest coffee companies....

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Suspect Nissim Aharon Poses As Rabbi To Rape Women: Israeli Police

Huffington Post | Posted 09.03.2009 | World

Read More: Foreign Affairs, Rabbis, Israel, Nissim Aharon, Rabbi Scam, Advocacy, Rabbi, Poses as Rabbi for Rape, World News

A former Israeli security official, Nissim Aharon, stands accused by police of posing as a rabbi in order to sexually assault and defraud women, Haare...

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Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood Is Linked To Terrorists

Inter Press Service | Posted 09.03.2009 | World

Read More: President Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt, Terrorism, Foreign Affairs, Terrorist, Hezbollah, Hosni Mubarak, Egypt Opposition, Hamas, Egypt Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaeda, Advocacy, World News

By Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa Al-Omrani | Inter Press Service CAIRO, Aug 4 (IPS) - The Egyptian government is now accusing the Muslim Brotherhoo...

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Missing Americans In Iran Were Hiking: AP

AP | JASON DEAREN and MICHELLE LOCKE | Posted 09.03.2009 | World

Read More: Iran, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Americans in Iran, Shane Bauer, Pacific News Service, Hillary Clinton, Sarah Shourd, Joshua Fattal, Shon Meckfessel, World News

SAN FRANCISCO — Freelance journalist Shane Bauer planned to cover the elections in northern Iraq's self-ruled Kurdish region. His girlfriend, Sa...

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Instead-Man Service A Growing Industry In South Korea

Global Post | Posted 09.03.2009 | World

Read More: Instead-Man, South Korea, Foreign Affairs, Instead-Man Service, South Korea Instead-Man, Advocacy, South Korea Instead-Men, World News

By Jiyeon Lee | GlobalPost SEOUL -- Inching toward his mid-30s and with an ill father, Mr. Kim had a problem. He had no girlfriend and no intention...

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American Pie: New US-Israeli Crime Ring Details Revealed

AP | Posted 09.03.2009 | World

Read More: Israel, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Us-Israeli Crime Ring, Marvin Berkowitz, Corruption, Crime, American Pie, American Pie Tax Fraud, Crime Ring, Operation American Pie, American Pie: New Us-Israeli Crime Ring Details Revealed, American-Israeli Tax Fraud Ring, American Pie Fraud, American Pie Arrests, World News

JERUSALEM — Israeli police said Monday that they had broken up an Israeli-American crime ring specializing in tax fraud and money laundering in ...

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Sudan: Gunmen Massacre 185 Displaced People, Including Women, Children, Says Official

AP | SARAH EL DEEB | Posted 09.03.2009 | World

Read More: Sudan, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, South Sudan, Southern Sudan, Sudan Violence, World News

CAIRO — Armed tribesmen attacked a fishing village in southeast Sudan where hundreds of displaced people were camped near a river, leaving at le...

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Obama Texts Africans: Follow Hillary

ABC News | Posted 09.03.2009 | World

Read More: Twitter, #HillaryAfrica, Africa, Obama Africa, Foreign Affairs, Ghana, Hillary Clinton, Facebook, Clinton Africa, Obama Ghana, America.gov, Advocacy, World News

Ahead of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's seven-nation trip to Africa this week, the Obama administration is texting all Africans (or non-Africans...

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French Firefighters Admit Starting Fires To Boost Pay

Connexion France | Posted 09.03.2009 | World

Read More: French Fires, Firefighters, France, Foreign Affairs, Wildfires, French Firefighters, Fire, Advocacy, World News

TWO volunteer firefighters have admitted starting fires to boost their pay. The men, aged 22 and 25 face 15 years in prison for setting fires to ear...

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Al Qaeda Offers Obama Conditional Truce If Troops Leave Muslim World

AP | MAAMOUN YOUSSEF | Posted 09.03.2009 | World

Read More: Foreign Affairs, George W. Bush, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, Obama Administration, Obama Al Qaeda, Al Queda, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, Iraq War, Bush Administration, Al Qaida, Ayman Al-Zawahri, Advocacy, Qaeda Obama Offer, Al-Qaeda Number 2 Offers Truce, Al Qaeda's Conditions for Truce, Al Queda Truce Offer, Al Qaeda Truce, Al Qaida Offers Obama a Truce, Al Qaeda Conditional Truce, Conditional Truce Offer He Said Had Been Made by Al Qaeda Leader Osama Bin Laden., World News

CAIRO — Osama bin-Laden's deputy said in a video message released Monday that the al-Qaida leader's offers of a truce with the U.S. and Europe r...

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Robert Hormats: State Dept. Nominee Under Fire From Human Rights Groups For Link To PetroChina In Sudan

ABC News | Posted 09.03.2009 | World

Read More: Investors Against Genocide, Robert Hormats, Foreign Affairs, Sudan Genocide, State Department, Barack Obama, Goldman Sachs, Sudan, Human Rights Groups, Genocide, Petrochina, Darfur Sudan, Genocide Intervention Network, China, Advocacy, World News

Two human rights groups Monday morning sent a letter to the chairman and ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee questioning the ...

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Kenya: Death Sentences Reduced To Life By Pres. Kibaki

AP | TOM MALITI | Posted 09.03.2009 | World

Read More: Kenya, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Mwai Kibaki, Kenya Crime, Kenya Death Sentences, Kenya Death Penalty, Death Penalty, Capital Punishment, Death Penalty Debate, World News

NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya's more than 4,000 death row inmates all will have their sentences commuted to life imprisonment, the president announced ...

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Japan: Opposition Promises To Stand Up To America

AP | JAY ALABASTER | Posted 09.03.2009 | World

Read More: Japan, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Japan Politics, Democratic Party of Japan, Japan Opposition, Liberal Democratic Party, Taro Aso, Katsuya Okada, World News

TOKYO — Japan's main opposition party said Monday that if it comes to power in this month's elections it will confront the United States on key ...

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Corazon "Cory" Aquino Funeral Draws Tens Of Thousands (SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post/Associated Press | Posted 09.03.2009 | World

Read More: Slideshow, Cory Aquino, Cory Aquino Funeral, Former President Corazon "Cory" Aquino, Foreign Affairs, Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr., The Philippines, Hillary Clinton, President Corazon "Cory" Aquino, Philippines, Asia, Advocacy, Aquino, World News

MANILA, Philippines - Huge crowds reminiscent of the 1986 "people power" demonstration took to Manila's streets Monday to honor the passing of former ...

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Married Military Couples Deployed Together Tell Of Perks, Drawbacks

GlobalPost | Posted 09.03.2009 | World

Read More: Iraq War, Afghanistan, Military Couples, Foreign Affairs, War Wire, Iraq, War in Iraq, Afghanistan War, Advocacy, World News

Months after U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Yvonne Smith and Staff Sgt. Kevin Smith got married, they deployed to Mosul together as part of the same military un...

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Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks Included In Fatah Party Draft

AP | MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH | Posted 09.03.2009 | World

Read More: Israel, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Fatah, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Hamas, Mahmoud Abbas, Fatah Convention, West Bank, Palestinian Authority, World News

RAMALLAH, West Bank — The proposed new platform of the Palestinians' moderate Fatah party marginalizes the once central theme of "armed struggle...

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Chechnya: Gunmen Kill 5 Police Officers In Convoy Ambush

New York Times | Posted 09.03.2009 | World

Read More: Chechen, Russia, Chechnya Violence, Foreign Affairs, Chechnya, Advocacy, World News

Gunmen attacked a police convoy in the Russian republic of Chechnya on Sunday evening, killing at least five officers and wounding four others, invest...

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Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO Chief, Calls For More UN, EU Assistance With Afghanistan

AP | SLOBODAN LEKIC | Posted 09.03.2009 | World

Read More: United Nations, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Nato, Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, Obama Afghanistan, War in Afghanistan, Afghanistan Surge, Us Troops Afghanistan, Afghan War, NATO Afghanistan, European Union, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Anders Fogh Rasmussen Nato, World News

BRUSSELS — NATO needs more international help from the United Nations and European Union to secure and rebuild Afghanistan, the alliance's new c...

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The Kyle and Jackie O Show Rape Revelation Sparks Controversy, Cancellation

Huffington Post | Posted 09.03.2009 | World

Read More: Australian Radio, The Kyle and Jackie O Show, Australia, Foreign Affairs, Kyle and Jacki O Show, Advocacy, Kyle and Jackie O Show, Kyle and Jackie O, Kyle and Jackie O Show Rape, 14-Year-Old's Rape Confession Ends in Controversy, The Kyle and Jackie O Show Rape, “the Kyle and Jackie O Show” Rape, Australian Radio Show Rape, Kyle Jackie O Show, Kyle, The Kyle and Jackie O Show Lie Detector, The Kyle and Jackie Show Rape, Kyle and Jackio, Kyle Sandilands, Rape, World News

An Australian morning radio show, The Kyle and Jackie O Show, has been suspended following a lie-detector bit wherein a 14-year-old girl, when asked i...

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Bajah & The Dry Eye Crew Give Voice to the Voiceless in Sierra Leone

Modiba | Posted 08.31.2009 | World

Read More: Global Music Corner, Bajah + the Dry Eye Crew, Poverty, Foreign Affairs, Africa, Africa Poverty, Music, Sierra Leone, Advocacy, Hip Hop, World News
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This is HuffPost World's regular feature that highlights interesting musicians and musical trends around the world. Know of a great musician doing g...

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