Topic: International News

The new items published under this topic are as follows.

Articles: Amnesty International Warns Of Sustained Attack On Basic Values And Internationa

Posted by admin on Wednesday, May 26, 2004 - 08:32 AM

	In its annual assessment of human-rights violations on a global scale, Amnesty International is blaming both armed groups and governments for perpetuating what it calls the most sustained on attack on basic values and international humanitarian law seen in 50 years. Read full article: 'Amnesty International Warns Of Sustained Attack On Basic Values And Internationa'

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Articles: Rape at Abu Ghraib

Posted by admin on Wednesday, May 26, 2004 - 08:20 AM

Practically ignored in the Abu Ghraib torture scandal are the Iraqi female prisoners who have told their attorneys they were raped by U.S. soldiers. The Taguba report confirms that some women were indeed raped by American G.I.'s. There is one photo of an American soldier having sex with an Iraqi woman. And there is the by now infamous story of how American soldiers harnessed a 70-year-old woman and rode her around, calling her a donkey.

Read full article: 'Rape at Abu Ghraib'

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Articles: Twin Car Explosions In Karachi

Posted by admin on Wednesday, May 26, 2004 - 08:12 AM

	(CBS/AP) Two cars exploded minutes apart Wednesday outside a private English-language school in the southern city of Karachi, wounding at least 19 people, hospital officials said. Read full article: 'Twin Car Explosions In Karachi'

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Articles: Blair denies schism with Bush on Iraq handover

Posted by admin on Wednesday, May 26, 2004 - 08:08 AM

	British Prime Minister Tony Blair is denying there's a difference of opinion between him and U.S. President George Bush over strategy in Iraq. Read full article: 'Blair denies schism with Bush on Iraq handover'

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Articles: Two Koreas Pledge to Maintain Military Talks

Posted by admin on Wednesday, May 26, 2004 - 04:23 AM

	SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea urged North Korea on Wednesday to set up a hotline connecting their naval commands and to share radio frequencies between vessels operating in the Yellow Sea to prevent deadly maritime clashes. Read full article: 'Two Koreas Pledge to Maintain Military Talks'

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Articles: Bush's Balancing Act

Posted by admin on Wednesday, May 26, 2004 - 04:19 AM

	Wednesday's German papers commented on the price of oil and over the state of the German economy, which are not unconnected. They also looked at U.S. President George W. Bush's speech on Iraq. Read full article: 'Bush's Balancing Act'

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Articles: U.S. Warns Of Al Qaeda Threat This Summer

Posted by admin on Wednesday, May 26, 2004 - 04:16 AM

	Federal officials have information suggesting that al Qaeda has people in the United States preparing to mount a large-scale terrorist attack this summer, sources familiar with the information said yesterday. Read full article: 'U.S. Warns Of Al Qaeda Threat This Summer'

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Articles: 2 Russian contractors killed in Iraq

Posted by admin on Wednesday, May 26, 2004 - 02:18 AM

	MOSCOW, May 26 (Xinhuanet) -- Two Russian civilian contractors were killed and five others wounded in an ambush near Baghdad on Wednesday when the bus they were traveling in came under attack, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Yakovenko said. Read full article: '2 Russian contractors killed in Iraq'

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Articles: U.S. Army Survey Cites Wider Prisoner Abuse -NYT

Posted by admin on Wednesday, May 26, 2004 - 02:14 AM

	WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Army synopsis of deaths and mistreatment involving prisoners in American custody in Iraq and Afghanistan shows a pattern of abuse involving more military units than previously known, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. Read full article: 'U.S. Army Survey Cites Wider Prisoner Abuse -NYT'

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Articles: Death toll climbs in Caribbean flooding

Posted by admin on Wednesday, May 26, 2004 - 02:10 AM

	JIMANI, Dominican Republic -- Emergency workers dumped scores of mud-caked corpses into a mass grave yesterday as the reported death toll from the flooding of rain-swollen rivers in the Dominican Republic and Haiti rose to at least 363. Read full article: 'Death toll climbs in Caribbean flooding'

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