Iranian authorities hanged three men convicted for their involvement in a bombing of a Shia mosque, Iran’s IRNA news agency reported Saturday.
Ex-Taliban claims abuse at Gitmo, BagramAs one of the right-hand men to Taliban leader Mullah Omar, Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef was one of the first Taliban leaders arrested when the United Sta…Same-sex benefits proposed [...]

Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, says former Vice President Dick Cheney is lying when he claims that classified CIA memos show that enhanced interrogation techniques like waterboarding worked.
Sri Lanka: Last rebel stronghold capturedAfter three days of gun battles, the Sri Lankan military said it has captured the last stronghold of [...]

Gunmen on motorcycles fired Friday on a campaign office for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, wounding two adults and a child, according to a report by Iran’s state-run news agency.
AUSTRALIA: Unhygienic restaurants to be named and shamed – (AdelaideNow)The State Ombudsman has asked unhygienic restaurants to explain why they should not be named and shamed to warn [...]

The death toll climbed to 15 in the wake of a series of explosions that rocked northwest Pakistan on Thursday, officials announced Friday.
Deposed Thai prime minister’s trial beginsThe corruption trial of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra began Tuesday, almost two years after he was deposed in a military coup.
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Several suspects have been arrested and were being questioned Friday in the bombing of a Shia mosque in southeastern Iran, according to the provincial governor.
Deposed Thai prime minister’s trial beginsThe corruption trial of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra began Tuesday, almost two years after he was deposed in a military coup.
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North Korea has test-fired a short-range missile off the country’s east coast, a South Korean military source told CNN on Friday.
Attack kills Tamil Tiger leaderA key political leader of the Sri Lankan rebel group, the Tamil Tigers, was killed Friday along with five other rebel officers during an air strike in…Sri Lanka says it downed [...]

He’s a helicopter test pilot who spent 18 years in the British Army. He just beat more than 8,400 others to become one of Europe’s newest astronauts, destined for the International Space Station.
Attack kills Tamil Tiger leaderA key political leader of the Sri Lankan rebel group, the Tamil Tigers, was killed Friday along with five [...]

With their nation under high security alert, South Koreans mourned a former leader at a funeral ceremony Friday morning.
Report: Climate change crisis ‘catastrophic’The first comprehensive report into the human cost of climate change warns the world is in the throes of a “silent crisis” that is killing…Manila hotel siege: Shots firedGovernment forces fire tear gas [...]

The first comprehensive report into the human cost of climate change warns the world is in the throes of a “silent crisis” that is killing 300,000 people each year.
Manila hotel siege: Shots firedGovernment forces fire tear gas into a luxury hotel in Manila, hours after a deadline passed for rebel officers on trial for a [...]

More than 20,000 civilians were killed in the final months of Sri Lanka’s civil war — nearly three times previous estimates, The Times newspaper in Britain reported Friday.
Report: Climate change crisis ‘catastrophic’The first comprehensive report into the human cost of climate change warns the world is in the throes of a “silent crisis” that is [...]