AP – Switzerland accused Israel on Thursday of wantonly destroying Palestinian homes in east Jerusalem and near Ramallah in violation of the Geneva Conventions’ rules on military occupation.
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AFP – The US authorities said Thursday it had frozen the assets of 26 individuals and 17 firms tied to drug trafficking in Myanmar and prohibited US citizens from dealing with them.
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AFP – The Rwandan parliament on Thursday charged that the French warrant which led to a senior Rwandan official’s arrest in Germany was evidence of France’s “contempt for Africa,” a senior official said.
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AP – A suicide car bomber attacked a U.S. military convoy passing through a crowded livestock market in eastern Afghanistan Thursday, killing at least eight civilians and an American soldier and wounding 74 people, Afghan officials said.
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AP – Lawyers for dozens of families whose children were sickened by tainted milk decided Thursday to go ahead with a class-action lawsuit against a dairy, hoping to pressure Chinese authorities still dithering over compensation.
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AP – A thick brown cloud of soot, particles and chemicals stretching from the Persian Gulf to Asia threatens health and food supplies in the world, the U.N. reported Thursday, citing what it called the newest threat from global warming.
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AP – Advancing ever closer to Somalia’s beleaguered capital, heavily armed Islamic fighters declared Thursday they will use strict Muslim rules to bring their lawless Horn of Africa country back under control.
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AFP – The government downplayed Thursday the prospect of it sending more troops to Afghanistan in the near future, after Afghan President Hamid Karzai held talks with Prime Minister Gordon Brown in London.
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AP – Courts in Myanmar sentenced more than a dozen activists to prison Thursday in a continued judicial crackdown on the country’s pro-democracy movement that has drawn international condemnation.
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AP – Archaeologists in central Syria have unearthed the remnants of an 8th century church, an antiquities official said Thursday.
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