Friday, November 30, 2007

AUSTRIAN POST WANTS TO EXPAND TO BALKAN REGION
Sofia Echo, Bulgaria - 1 hour ago
Austrian postal operator Oesterreichische Post wants to have a presence in all Balkan countries within the next 15 months, chief financial officer Rudolf ...
Austrian Post Wants to Invest in Bulgaria international.news.bg
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Monsters and Critics.com
UK troops ready for Kosovo crisis
Guardian Unlimited, UK - 7 hours ago
Britain yesterday offered to be the first Nato country to send extra troops to Kosovo within weeks, as the Conservatives and Balkan experts warned of a ...
Cameron tries to win over Washington Guardian Unlimited
David Cameron: Army must halt Russia threat Telegraph.co.uk
British Conservative Party leader talks with Bush about Iran International Herald Tribune
The Press Association - Guardian Unlimited
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Balkan Boat Madness
Bangkok Recorder, Thailand - 5 hours ago
Bright Ears invites you to join Bangkoks unique Balkan Boat Madness tonight. “THE BALKAN PIRATES” will take you on a trip, starting from modern sounds of ...
Balkan drug ring smashed
Kathimerini, Greece - Nov 29, 2007
Greek and Croatian police yesterday claimed to have broken a major drug-smuggling ring in the Balkans following the seizure of 160 kilos of cocaine bound ...
Caribbean and Latin American packages at IFFK 2007
Hindu, India - 8 hours ago
Another major attraction of the festival is a selection of Balkan films. The package is noteworthy for the varied reactions of directors to internal ...
14 films to compete in IFFK 2007Hindu

World

KATU
Turkish plane crash kills all 56 on board
Reuters Canada - 1 hour ago
By Mert Ozkan ISPARTA, Turkey (Reuters) - A Turkish budget airliner crashed in the mountains near the town of Isparta in central Turkey on Friday, killing all 56 people on board, officials said.
The CNN Wire: Friday, Nov. 30 CNN
Plane Crash in Turkey Kills All 56 Onboard Deutsche Welle
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Canada.com
Musharraf Sets Date for End of Emergency Rule
New York Times - 5 hours ago
BKBangash/AP Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf gave an emotional speech after he was sworn in as the country's civilian president today in Islamabad, Pakistan.
Ex-leader Sharif to boycott Pakistani elections USA Today
Musharraf says he will lift state of emergency by Dec. 16 Boston Globe
Houston Chronicle - Voice of America - Bloomberg - Guardian Unlimited
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Brisbane Times
Another Philippines Coup Plot Fails
TIME - 8 hours ago
Rebel Philippine soldiers stand guard after seizing control of Manila’s luxury Peninsula Hotel , 29 Nov. 2007. The Philippines, in recent weeks, has been battered by typhoons and tropical storms that threatened to cause widespread devastation but never ...
Rebel officers surrender in Manila International Herald Tribune
Philippine coup fails as troops storm hotel Guardian Unlimited
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BBC News
Talks over teddy row sentence
Guardian Unlimited - 5 hours ago
High-level diplomatic negotiations are set to continue over the 15-day prison sentence given to a British teacher for naming a teddy bear Mohammed.
British Teacher in Sudan Sentenced to 15 Days in Jail Voice of America
UK Teacher Sentenced to 15 Days in Sudanese Jail (Update1) Bloomberg
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24dash
Harman implicates Brown
Guardian Unlimited - 7 hours ago
Harriet Harman and Gordon Brown on the day she was elected his deputy. Photograph: Stephen Hird/Reuters Harriet Harman, the Labour deputy leader, was forced to implicate Gordon Brown deeper into the donor scandal last night as Scotland Yard was called ...
Brown Faces UK Police Probe Into Funding of His Labour Party Bloomberg
Poll woe for Brown as police start funding probe Reuters UK
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Bernama
Putin's 'Jackals'
Wall Street Journal - 4 hours ago
By ANDREAS UMLAND The campaign for Russia's parliamentary elections this Sunday is nasty and tense. Garry Kasparov, the former chess champion and leader of the Other Russia coalition, found himself jailed for five days earlier this week after ...


KETV.com
Bin Laden Urges Europeans to Stop Helping US in Afghanistan
Voice of America - 9 hours ago
By VOA News An audio recording purportedly from al-Qaida terrorist network leader Osama bin Laden urges European countries to stop helping the US military with the war in Afghanistan.
Bin Laden: Message to the European Peoples ThreatsWatch.Org
Bin Laden: Europeans should end US help The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com
Winston-Salem Journal - Edmonton Sun - The Associated Press - AHN
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Washington Post
George W. Bush: Diplomat
TIME - 12 hours ago
The greatest sign of hope for peace in the Middle East didn't come on Nov. 27 in Annapolis, Md., when President George W. Bush convened a new round of Arab-Israeli talks.
ANALYSIS-Rice stakes reputation on Mideast peacemaking Reuters
Annapolis Over: What Does This Mean for Olmert? ABC News
San Francisco Chronicle - Ha'aretz - Independent - Reuters South Africa
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LIVENEWS.com.au
Venezuelans protest, as vote nears
CNN - 7 hours ago
CARACAS, Venezuela (CNN) -- One day after demonstrators thronged the Venezuelan capital's main thoroughfare to express their opposition to Sunday's referendum on changes to the constitution, supporters of President Hugo Chavez plan to hold their own ...
Chavez opponents show force in referendum rally Reuters
Chavez rallies supporters for Sunday's vote Houston Chronicle
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RussiaToday
Slovak Police Say Seized Radioactive Material Was Uranium
Voice of America - 8 hours ago
By Stefan Bos Officials in Hungary and neighboring Slovakia say police have detained three suspects who were in possession of material enriched enough to be used to make a so-called "dirty bomb.
Seized uranium had potential to build nuclear bomb International Herald Tribune
Gang arrested trying to sell enriched uranium Times Online
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Caribbean360.com
Briton dies during Caribbean quake
Guardian Unlimited - 2 hours ago
A British citizen has died during an earthquake in the eastern Caribbean, the Foreign Office confirmed. The magnitude-7.4 earthquake was centred 14 miles north-west of Martinique's coastline and lasted longer than 20 seconds.
Strong quake hits Martinique, leaves at least one dead: officials AFP
Powerful Earthquake Hits Caribbean Island Sofia News Agency
The Associated Press - Bloomberg - News24 - Reuters Canada
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Malaysia Star
Sarkozy vows reform and no handouts to lift economy
Reuters - 10 hours ago
By Jon Boyle and Swaha Pattanaik PARIS (Reuters) - President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Thursday he was intent on reform to boost France's economy and raise living standards, but that there was no money left in state coffers for huge cash handouts.


Washington Post
Lebanese Opposition Leader Backs Army Chief for President
New York Times - 5 hours ago
By THANASSIS CAMBANIS and NADA BAKRI BEIRUT, Lebanon, Nov. 29 - The political logjam over Lebanon’s vacant presidency was broken Thursday when a leader of the Syrian-backed opposition announced his support for the compromise candidate accepted by the ...
Lebanon to delay vote again, army chief in focus Reuters
A leader for Lebanon Los Angeles Times
CNN - Wall Street Journal - BBC News - AFP
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Turkish Press
Sri Lanka says to bomb Tigers till 'terrorism' ends
Reuters - 18 hours ago
COLOMBO, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka will continue to attack Tamil Tiger rebel positions until Tiger "terrorism" is completely defeated, the prime minister told parliament on Thursday, a day after two separate explosions rocked the capital Colombo.


Liverpool Champion
Rudd Confirms
Wall Street Journal - 4 hours ago
By RACHEL PANNETT CANBERRA, Australia -- Incoming Prime Minister Kevin Rudd unveiled his ministry team, confirming Wayne Swan as treasurer and Lindsay Tanner as finance minister, and naming Simon Crean as trade minister and Stephen Smith as minister of ...
New leader names Cabinet By Michael Keats Washington Times
Gillard's super-ministry a 'very ambitious task' ABC Online
Taipei Times - Voice of America - NEWS.com.au - International Herald Tribune
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Reuters AlertNet
Climate conference to start Monday
USA Today - 7 hours ago
By Patrick O'Driscoll, USA TODAY A year of rising world concern about climate change will peak next week when representatives of more than 180 nations meet in Indonesia to establish a strategy in the battle against global warming.
INTERVIEW-China says will curb emissions if gets tech help Reuters
Cutting a Climate Deal. TIME
Guardian Unlimited - US Department of State - Mongabay.com - Daily Green
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eFluxMedia
NATO Airstrike Kills 14 Afghans
New York Times - Nov 28, 2007
By ABDUL WAHEED WAFA KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 28 - A NATO airstrike killed 14 workers for an Afghan company that had been contracted by the United States Army Corps of Engineers to build a road in Nuristan, a mountainous province in eastern Afghanistan ...
NATO air-strike kills 12 Afghan civilians: governor Reuters
NATO strike kills 14 road workers, Afghans say San Francisco Chronicle
Voice of America - BBC News - eFluxMedia
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Chosun Ilbo
Uranium enrichment remains a hurdle for US-North Korean relations
Christian Science Monitor - 14 hours ago
Despite more subdued diplomacy, the US continues to accuse North Korea of hiding a uranium enrichment program. By Donald Kirk | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Seoul, South Korea - A flurry of official traffic between Washington, Seoul, ...
US expects full North Korean nuclear disclosure soon International Herald Tribune
US nuke envoy: N. Korea must disarm by end of 2008 USA Today
Bloomberg - Voice of America - Reuters India - AFP
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Washington Post
Knox: I'm 'afraid ... confused'
Seattle Post Intelligencer - 3 hours ago
By ANDREA VOGT PERUGIA, Italy -- Two days after her roommate was slain, University of Washington student Amanda Marie Knox wrote a letter to her mother explaining that, though she was rocked by the killing, she wanted to continue her studies in Italy.
Meredith suspects fight detention BBC News
Student murder suspects in court Guardian Unlimited
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CityNews
Phone did not kill bloke
Inquirer - 46 minutes ago
By Nick Farrell: Friday, 30 November 2007, 8:16 AM A BLOKE, who authorities believed had been killed by an exploding mobile phone, was accidentally bumped off by a colleague.
S Korean police: death over mobile explosion a "phony" Xinhua
Korean man killed by co-worker, not exploding phone Cnet Asia

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

The Balkan bad boy's warning
Mail & Guardian Online, South Africa - 2 hours ago
According to Belgrade, it is the United States, Britain and France that endanger stability in the western Balkans by rashly backing Kosovo’s independence. ...

Serbia urges compromises in talks on Kosovo's future
Xinhua, China - 6 hours ago
Only compromises can bring peace, stability and prosperity to the Balkan region, Jeremic said after the first day of the three-day talks under the auspices ...
Kosovo Talks Unlikely to Resolve Territory's Future (Update1) Bloomberg
Kosovo Conundrum Climax Strategy Page
Independence in the BalkansTurkish Daily News (subscription)

Montenegro, NATO sign transit arrangement
Xinhua, China - 13 hours ago
26 (Xinhua) -- Montenegro and NATO signed a transit agreement on Monday, allowing the Alliance's troops to move across the tiny Balkan country's territory ...
Montenegro, NATO sign transit arrangement B92
Montenegro-NATO Agreement SignedBIRN

Fighting for a historical relic..the modern Macedonian Question
cafebabel.com, France - 18 hours ago
During the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913 the united Balkan allies captured Macedonia and with the Bucharest Treaty of 1913 the Ottoman Empire was forced to cede ...

Bin Laden to release new message aimed at Europe
USA Today - 11 hours ago
Greetings from the Grinch: Osama bin Laden will soon deliver a holiday message to the infidels of Europe, Al-Qaeda's PR folks say. ...
Bin Laden to address Europe Chicago Sun-Times
Bin Laden message 'to be aired' BBC News
Islamist site says new Bin Laden message soonReuters

More than 27000 new HIV infections in Europe in 2006: report
AFP - 8 hours ago
PARIS (AFP) — More than 27000 new HIV infections were recorded in European countries last year, the European Centre for the Epidemiological Monitoring of ...
Number of New HIV Cases in European Union Nearly Double Since 1999 ... Kaiser network.org
HIV infections in Estonia five times Euro average PinkNews.co.uk


World

Monsters and Critics.com
Officials from 40 nations gather in Maryland for Mideast summit
CNN International - 1 hour ago
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Israeli and Palestinian leaders expressed hope and optimism that a renewed peace effort will emerge from Tuesday's conference in Annapolis, Maryland.
Bush hosts Mideast talks amid skepticism Reuters Canada
Blair at Mid East peace talks Guardian Unlimited
Seattle Times - Aljazeera.net - Chicago Tribune - RIA Novosti
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The Chronicle Journal
Youths, police clash near Paris a 2nd night
Los Angeles Times - 1 hour ago
By Geraldine Baum, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer PARIS -- Dozens of rock-throwing youths battled police for a second night Monday in a suburb north of Paris, illustrating the hair-trigger tension in France's poor immigrant neighborhoods.
Violence Flares in Paris Suburb as Youths Clash With the Police New York Times
Police hurt in 2nd night of Paris suburb unrest Reuters
Reuters UK - Philadelphia Inquirer - AFP - Xinhua
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Ledger Independent
Kyoto, Aborigines Head Rudd's Australian Agenda
Wall Street Journal - 4 hours ago
AP SYDNEY -- Signing the Kyoto Protocol on climate change topped the international agenda of newly elected Australian leader Kevin Rudd, and he also renewed a commitment to apologize to indigenous Aborigines for past indignities.
Uganda: Australia's Climate Change Election AllAfrica.com
Australia's PM-elect to say sorry to Aborigines Reuters South Africa
Reuters - BBC News - Washington Post - International Herald Tribune
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Earthtimes
Airbus Part of $30 Billion in Contracts With China
New York Times - 5 hours ago
By NICOLA CLARK and DAVID LAGUE The aircraft maker Airbus and the French nuclear company Areva were among half a dozen companies to sign roughly $30 billion in contracts yesterday with Chinese partners.
China walks political tightrope for 160-plane deal with Airbus Los Angeles Times
China's Wen reiterates policy of gradual yuan rise - report Forbes
Bloomberg - Reuters India - Sacramento Bee - Times Online
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CNN-IBN
US Frets Over Sharif
Wall Street Journal - 4 hours ago
By JAY SOLOMON and ZAHID HUSSAIN Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's move to step down as army chief is being welcomed in Western capitals as an important first step in his nation's return to democratic rule.
Back in Pakistan, Sharif Condemns Musharraf New York Times
Musharraf to Take Oath as Civilian President Thursday Voice of America
Bloomberg - New York Daily News - Washington Times - NewsHour
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Malaysia Star
Protests Greet Far-Right Speakers at Oxford
New York Times - 6 hours ago
By JOHN F. BURNS OXFORD, England, Nov. 26 - Demonstrators broke into the Oxford Union on Monday and sat on the head table of the 184-year-old debating society, disrupting a forum featuring a British author who denies the Holocaust occurred and a ...
Angry scenes greet Oxford debate BBC News
Rival students clash as Holocaust denier Times Online
Jerusalem Post - Pakistan Dawn - AFP - Telegraph.co.uk
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Boston Globe
Russia's New Old Dissidents
Washington Post - 4 hours ago
By Anne Applebaum In the photographs of his arrest, Garry Kasparov -- former world chess champion, current Russian opposition leader -- is wearing a nondescript gray jacket and a somewhat retro wool cap.
Putin Says US Is Meddling in Russian Election New York Times
Putin blames US for decision by election monitor to withdraw Boston Globe
Guardian Unlimited - Reuters - Independent - Reuters Canada
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Sky News
Sudan Accuses Teacher of Islam Insult
New York Times - 5 hours ago
By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov. 26 - The Sudanese police arrested a British schoolteacher and accused her of insulting Islam after she allowed her 7-year-old pupils to name a class teddy bear Muhammad, Sudanese officials said Monday.
The Blasphemous Teddy Bear TIME
Talks over teacher facing lashes Guardian Unlimited
Independent - United Press International - CNN - Times Online
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Canada.com
Zuma leads in nomination for ANC head
Hindu - 1 hour ago
Durban (PTI): Former South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma has won crucial backing from the women's wing of the ruling African National Congress, emerging as the favourite to be chosen as the party chief ahead of President Thabo Mbeki at a national ...
Zuma juggernaut claims grassroot support as Polokwane clash looms Business Day
ANC Women’s League Endorses South Africa Ex-VP Zuma Voice of America
Independent Online - Reuters - AllAfrica.com - Reuters South Africa
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PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung)
12 die, 23 missing in Philippine typhoon
Los Angeles Times - 1 hour ago
From AP MANILA -- A powerful typhoon left at least 12 people dead in the Philippines, then blew toward Japan today as a weaker tropical storm, officials said.
Typhoon hits northern Philippines, heads for Taiwan Reuters UK
Philippines:Twin Typhoon Terror, With Third One Approaching Pacific News Center
AFP - eFluxMedia - Malaysia Star - United Press International
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The Moscow Times
Georgia Unplugged
Wall Street Journal - 2 hours ago
Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgia's 39-year-old leader, has sought to restore his democratic credentials by lifting the country's state of emergency and calling early presidential elections.
RussiaTodayGeorgians protest TV shutdown Variety
Taipei Times - EurasiaNet - International Herald Tribune - RIA Novosti
all 144 news articles »

KEPR 19
US and Iraq to negotiate pact on long-term relations
International Herald Tribune - 6 hours ago
By Thom Shanker and Cara Buckley WASHINGTON: The White House announced Monday that it had reached a deal with the Iraqi government to negotiate a formal agreement defining long-term relations between the two nations, including the legal status of ...
Iraq deal eyes long US presence Aljazeera.net
US, Iraq set stage for long US presence AFP
Chicago Tribune - The Associated Press - Times of India - Telegraph.co.uk
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KATU
US Navy Brings Aid to Bangladesh Victims
The Associated Press - 3 hours ago
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - US Navy helicopters on Tuesday resumed delivery of emergency supplies to survivors of a deadly cyclone along the southern coast of Bangladesh in a joint relief operation, officials said.
Bangladesh minister says foreign forces won't stay long AFP
US Navy helicopters begin delivering relief supplies to Bangladesh ... International Herald Tribune
Military.com - WAVY-TV - The Virginian-Pilot - Reuters UK
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PRESS TV
US says its troops kill five Iraqi civilians
Reuters UK - 28 minutes ago
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - US troops killed five Iraqi civilians, including a child, in two separate shootings in the past two days, the US military said on Tuesday.
US fire kills Iraq bus passengers BBC News
Women killed as Iraq mulls future role of US forces AFP
PRESS TV - Xinhua - Middle East Online - Inquirer.net
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KEPR 19
Gates grant will help wipe out polio, officials say
Reuters South Africa - 2 hours ago
By Michael Kahn LONDON (Reuters) - The global campaign to eradicate polio received a $200 million grant on Monday, a needed cash infusion health officials say will help fund the final push to wipe out the disease.
Anti-polio drive gets $200m boost BBC News
Gates group gives $100m to polio fight Boston Globe
Chicago Tribune - Seattle Post Intelligencer - Los Angeles Times - AFP
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Times Now.tv
Facing Malaysia's Racial Issues
TIME - 5 hours ago
It may have been one of Malaysia's most surreal demonstrations ever. On Sunday, an estimated 20000 ethnic Indians brought Kuala Lumpur to a standstill for nearly six hours in the name of Queen Elizabeth II.
Malaysian Indian leader unperturbed by protest Reuters India
Malaysia Hindu activists released BBC News
AHN - Hindu - Asia Times Online - Times of India
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Enews 2.0
North Korea, South Korea Discuss Security for New Train Link
Bloomberg - 9 hours ago
By Heejin Koo Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- The defense ministers of North Korea and South Korea will begin three days of talks today in Pyongyang to review security after the two nations agreed to a daily freight train link and other economic cooperation.
US official going to Asia for North Korea nuclear talks International Herald Tribune
Five-nation nuclear inspection team in nkorea: officials AFP
RIA Novosti - Chosun Ilbo - USA Today - Reuters UK
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Voice of America
CHRONOLOGY-Attacks in Afghan capital Kabul in 2007
Reuters - 40 minutes ago
Nov 27 (Reuters) - A suicide car bomb targeting a US military convoy in the Afghan capital Kabul killed two civilians on Tuesday, a police official said.
Suicide car bomb in Afghan capital kills two Reuters Canada
ISAF strongly condemns suicide attack in Kabul Blackanthem.com
Xinhua - Hindustan Times - USA Today - AHN
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PRESS TV
Iran produces new missile capable of reaching Israel and US bases
International Herald Tribune - 40 minutes ago
AP TEHRAN, Iran: Iran said Tuesday it has manufactured a new missile with a range of 2000 kilometers (1200 miles) capable of reaching Israel and US bases in the Mideast, the official news agency IRNA reported.
Iran unveiled a new strategic missile. Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Iran builds new long-range missile TVNZ
Xinhua - Reuters - Jerusalem Post - Alalam News Network
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Turkish Press
Sri Lanka Bombs Rebel Bases Before Leader's Address (Update1)
Bloomberg - 7 hours ago
By Paul Tighe Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Sri Lanka attacked command posts of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam before today's annual policy speech by the rebel leader on a year of fighting that saw the group driven from the east and the death of its ...
Sri Lanka says bombed rebel positions in north Reuters
Violence in northern Sri Lanka kills 4 rebels, 2 civilians ... International Herald Tribune