Thursday, September 27, 2007
Monks in hiding after 2 days of violence
After a second day of violent crackdowns, the streets of Burma are quiet during an overnight curfew. Some of the leading monks have gone into hiding, one of them tells FRANCE 24.
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- BURMA - UNREST
- Monks in hiding after 2 days of violence
- Thursday, September 27, 2007
- After a second day of violent crackdowns, the streets of Burma are quiet during an overnight curfew. Some of the leading monks have gone into hiding, one of them tells FRANCE 24.
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- IRAN - BOLIVIA - VENEZUELA
- Ahmadinejad turns towards Latin American allies
- Friday, September 28, 2007
- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Caracas Thursday for talks with Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, following a brief trip to Bolivia, another anti-US ally in South America.
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- IMF - FRANCE
- Former French minister set to head IMF
- Friday, September 28, 2007
- The International Monetary Fund appears poised to name Dominique Strauss-Kahn managing director Friday, handing the Frenchman the helm of a struggling multilateral institution.
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- ISRAELI - PALESTINIAN CONFLICT
- Israeli strike kills Hamas militants
- Thursday, September 27, 2007
- Two Palestinian militants were killed in an Israeli strike on Gaza, bringing the death toll to 11 in one of the bloodiest 24 hours in the Hamas-run territory in recent months.
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- SERBIA - CROATIA
- Serb commander sentenced for massacre
- Thursday, September 27, 2007
- The UN war crimes court on Thursday convicted former Serb commander Mile Mrksic and sentenced him to 20 years in prison for his role in the 1991 Vukovar massacre of 194 Croats. His subordinate was sentenced to five.
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- IRAQ
- Top Shi'ite cleric meets Sunni leader
- Thursday, September 27, 2007
- Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani met the country's Sunni vice president on Thursday for the first time to discuss a new initiative aimed at uniting feuding politicians.
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- AFGHANISTAN
- Violence rocks Afghanistan
- Thursday, September 27, 2007
- Two Danish soldiers were killed in southern Afghanistan as two Red Cross workers were kidnapped in central Afghanistan. Meanwhile, Afghan officials said a Taliban spokesman had been captured. But the Taliban has denied the report.
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