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Mexico to send more troops to besieged city
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexico is sending thousands more troops and federal police to the country's most violent city, where law and order is on the brink of collapse in a war between gangs supplying drugs to the United States. Full Article | Video
Dhaka mutineers surrender weapons, troops move in
DHAKA (Reuters) - Mutinous members of a paramilitary unit in the Bangladesh capital surrendered their weapons on Thursday as tanks surrounded their headquarters after a second day of gunfire in a mutiny that killed about 50 people. Full Article | Video
Iran warns Obama’s government: “Quit talking like Bush”
Iran’s U.N. Ambassador Mohammad Khazaee didn’t attend the latest U.N. Security Council meeting on Iraq. But the moment the 3-hour session was over the Iranian delegation was circulating a strongly worded letter that had a very clear message for the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama: Stop talking like Bush. He was responding to [...] Full Article
Milutinovic cleared of war crimes
Feb. 26 - Former Serbian president Milan Milutinovic is acquitted by the Yugoslavia war crimes tribunal of crimes committed against ethnic Albanians. Play Video
FEATURE-Downturn to cost billions in aid to world's poor
By Megan Rowling
LONDON, Feb 26 (Reuters) - The cost to aid budgets of the world economic downturn is headed for billions of dollars, slashing assistance to the world's poorest people just as it becomes harder for them to make money for themselves.
In the United States, the heads of more than 50 groups in the InterAction coalition, whose 175 members manage a total of $9 billion annually, say they expect donations from individuals, businesses and fou
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Dhaka mutiny ends
Mutinous members of a paramilitary unit in the Bangladesh capital surrender after a mutiny that killed about 50 people.