AP - The U.S. should rethink its approach in Pakistan, including a multimillion dollar program aimed at training and equipping tribal militants, unless Islmabad does more to keep terrorists from crossing the Afghan border, a top Democrat said Tuesday. -- read full article
Tue, 27 May 2008 18:21:55 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai launched a $300,000 fund Tuesday to help victims of politically motivated violence that he said has left 50 supporters dead over the past six weeks.
AP - First they saved the people. Then they rescued the dogs and cats. Finally they went in for the fish — 6,000 tons of them — threatened by a volcanic eruption in southern Chile. -- read full article
Tue, 27 May 2008 17:00:20 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Militant Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called Tuesday for followers to hold weekly protests against a U.S.-Iraqi security deal under negotiation that could lead to a long-term American troop presence.
NewsFactor - The European Union has a long way to go in safeguarding Internet businesses, according to the European Network and Information Security Agency. ENISA cited the possibility of a "digital 9/11." -- read full article
Tue, 27 May 2008 18:37:31 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
AP - When Mohammad Imran was planning the dinner for his cousin's wedding reception, he had no excuse to trim the pricey menu down from six entrees. Then the government came to his rescue. -- read full article
Tue, 27 May 2008 18:16:19 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Nepal stood on the brink of becoming the world's newest republic Tuesday as an assembly charged with ending 239 years of royal rule was sworn in amid tight security.
AP - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed "deep concern" Tuesday after a leading children's charity said it uncovered evidence of widespread sexual abuse of children at the hands of U.N. peacekeepers and international aid workers. -- read full article
Tue, 27 May 2008 18:46:30 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
AP - About 80,000 people were evacuated Tuesday from downstream of an unstable earthquake-created dam that is threatening to collapse, and troops rushed to carve a trench to drain the water before it floods the valley.
AP - Myanmar's military junta extended opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's detention by one year Tuesday, ignoring worldwide appeals to free the Nobel laureate who has been detained for more than 12 of the past 18 years.
Reuters - A man hanged in 1922 for the murder
and rape of a young girl in the southern Australian city of
Melbourne was posthumously pardoned for the crime on Tuesday
after new tests found crucial evidence against him was flawed. -- read full article
Tue, 27 May 2008 08:17:15 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
Reuters - North Korea has greatly reduced malaria
infections at home but mosquitoes carrying the disease are
crossing the heavily armed border and infecting hundreds each
year in the South, a provincial governor said on Tuesday. -- read full article
Tue, 27 May 2008 08:49:59 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
Reuters - A Darfur rebel group threatened on
Monday to launch new attacks on Khartoum and central Sudan,
amid fears that the region's peace process was unraveling.
AP - Former army chief Luciano Benjamin Menendez faces charges of kidnapping, torturing and killing left-wing militants during Argentina's 1976-83 military dictatorship. -- read full article
Tue, 27 May 2008 07:08:12 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
AP - An American businessman who police suspect gave illegal funds to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is in a Jerusalem court to testify about his part in the case.
