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ANC expects big win in South African elections

Published April 22, 2009

JOHANNESBURG (AP) âÄî Lines of South African voters snaked around dusty fields, up misty hills and around gritty urban neighborhoods Wednesday, all for an election expected to propel Jacob Zuma...

Sri Lankan army squeezes rebels as 2 leaders quit

Published April 22, 2009

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) âÄî Sri Lankan troops closed in on separatist rebels in an ever-shrinking coastal war zone Wednesday, as two prominent guerrillas surrendered and tens of thousands of refugees...

Rights groups cry whitewash over army’s Gaza probe

Published April 22, 2009

JERUSALEM (AP) âÄî Human rights activists, some charging whitewash, demanded an independent war crimes probe after Israel's military on Wednesday cleared itself of wrongdoing over civilian deaths...

Can Iraqis tweet their way to a state of normalcy?

Published April 22, 2009

BAGHDAD (AP) âÄî "Breakfast time ... Lots of helicopters ... Met the president of Iraq ... Amazing palace." Tweet by tweet, the trip to Baghdad by Jack Dorsey unfolded on the Twitter microblogging...

First high-level Syrian visit to Iraq in decades

Published April 21, 2009

Syrian Prime Minister Naji al-Otari's two-day visit to Baghdad is aimed at easing long-standing tensions between the two neighbors that flared last year when U.S. forces raided a Syrian village over the border from Iraq in an operation that targeted milit

Spring is here, violence is down: Time to marry

Published April 21, 2009

The long stretch of relative calm in Baghdad is sparking a marriage boom.

U awarded $6.1M to establish institute

Published April 21, 2009

The Petroleum Institute has awarded the University a $6.1 million grant.

Ahmadinejad dropped Holocaust denial from speech

Published April 21, 2009

Ahmadinejad may have decided to drop the Holocaust phrase that was in his original text to deliver his condemnation of Israel in a more palatable fashion for many countries.

Chavez opponent seeks political asylum in Peru

Published April 21, 2009

A Peruvian lawyer says Venezuelan opposition leader Manuel Rosales has requested political asylum in Peru.

Red Cross: Sri Lankans in ‘catastrophic’ situation

Published April 21, 2009

The United Nations and others have called for a negotiated truce to allow civilians to leave the rebel-held coastal strip — and the government says more than 52,000 had escaped since Monday.