Antiwar Newswire

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61924836&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Afghanistan's president says a runoff presidential election must be held as planned next month, despite talk of a power-sharing deal with his challenger to avoid a second vote.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61923173&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Islamist militants on Sunday shot to death two men accused by fighters of spying for this east African nation's weak government, a witness and militant member said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61922419&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The trial of Radovan Karadzic starts Monday — one of the most significant war crimes cases to emerge from Europe's bloodiest conflict since World War II. The Bosnian Serb leader is boycotting the opening in a defiant gesture against what he considers a rush to justice by the U.N. court prosecuting him.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61918353&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A bomb killed an American service member in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said Sunday, as Afghan police fired shots in the air to disperse up to 1,000 students protesting a rumor that U.S. troops burned a copy of the Muslim holy book, the Quran.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61918253&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Leaders of 16 Asian countries gave high priority Sunday to finding a new economic growth model to free half the world's population from merely serving as producers for the West, the Thai prime minister said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61887952&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A Saudi court on Saturday sentenced a female journalist to 60 lashes after she had been charged with involvement in a TV show in which a Saudi man publicly talked about sex.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61885011&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Saturday his government would hold presidential and parliamentary elections on Jan. 24, regardless of whether it reaches a power-sharing deal with the rival militant Hamas group that rules the Gaza Strip.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61882069&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK President Barack Obama has called French President Nicolas Sarkozy (sar-koh-ZEE') and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (dih-MEE'-tree med-VYEH'-dyev) to reaffirm their commitment to a U.N.-backed plan that would ship most of Iran's uranium abroad for enrichment.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61873638&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Taliban militants threatened Afghans with violence Saturday if they vote in the Nov. 7 runoff presidential election, as President Hamid Karzai's campaign ruled out any power-sharing deal to avoid another ballot.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61872807&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The White House says it's deeply concerned about the arrest of a 78-year-old human rights lawyer in Syria and wants an end to what it calls the Syrian government's "practice of arbitrary arrests."