AP – Rebels and militiamen who fought each other in an east Congo town this week committed war crimes by executing civilians, Congo’s top U.N. envoy said Saturday. An independent human rights group said it believes dozens of people were killed.
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AP – The Kremlin said Russian President Dmitry Medvedev had agreed with U.S. President-elect Barack Obama in a telephone call Saturday that they need to meet soon.
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AP – Afghan and Canadian officials say a female Canadian journalist who had been held hostage for four weeks in Afghanistan has been freed.
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AFP – Calm was restored to the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen on Saturday after thousands of rioters attacked police to protest the death of a motorcyclist, witnesses said.
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AP – A top Iraqi official warned Saturday that time is running out to sign a new security agreement with Washington, saying the country still needed U.S. troops despite improved security.
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AP – Indonesia executed three Islamic militants late Saturday for helping plan and carry out the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people, many of them foreign tourists, official media and relatives said.
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AP – On the walls of some farmhouses here, a photo of a one-time Iowa farm boy hangs along with a portrait of the pope. The American long ago wrought a kind of miracle in the wheat fields of this valley, one that today’s world hungers for anew.
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Reuters – An elderly woman has been living with two skeletons and a badly decomposed body of her siblings in a suburb of Chicago, one of whom may have died at least 20 years ago, authorities said on Saturday.
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AP – President Robert Mugabe’s peers are losing patience, the top negotiator for the Zimbabwe opposition said on the eve of an extraordinary regional summit called to deal with the southern African nation’s power-sharing deadlock.
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Reuters – Indonesia has executed three Muslim militants sentenced to death for the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings that killed 202 people, the television network TvOne said on Sunday citing an unidentified source.
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