AP – An Italian judge began deliberations Tuesday on whether to hand down the first conviction in the 2007 slaying of a British student and indict an American woman and her former Italian boyfriend in the case.
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AP – Amnesty International urged the United States and other nations Tuesday to halt military aid to Colombia until it stems a rise in killings of noncombatants by security forces and heeds other U.N. prescriptions for ending its long-running internal conflict.
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AFP – Thailand’s Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat on Tuesday declared that separatist violence in the far south had eased, as he made his first official tour of the majority-Muslim region.
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AP – A spokeswoman for Israel’s Parliament says national elections will be held in mid-February.
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AP – Rebels vowing to take Congo’s eastern provincial capital of 600,000 people advanced toward Goma on Tuesday as Congolese troops and U.N. tanks retreated, while tens of thousands fled to a makeshift shelter.
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AP – Pakistani and Afghan leaders vowed Tuesday to seek dialogue with Taliban insurgents, saying the “door is now open” for reconciliation.
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AP – A North Korean soldier has defected to South Korea through the heavily fortified border dividing the two countries, an official from the South’s spy agency said Tuesday, in only the second such defection in a decade.
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AFP – North Korea, angry at a leaflet campaign by Seoul groups urging the overthrow of its leader, accused South Korea on Tuesday of planning a pre-emptive strike and threatened to reduce it to “debris” in retaliation.
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AP – British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is calling on China and oil-rich Gulf states to offer money for an enhanced IMF bailout fund aimed at helping countries rocked by the global economic downturn.
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AP – Congo rebels closed in relentlessly on the provincial capital of Goma on Tuesday, despite being attacked by U.N. peacekeepers in helicopters. Government troops scrambled south in a full-scale retreat, fleeing in tanks, trucks and on foot.
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