01 Dec 2009 07:37:21 GMT TIMOR-LESTE: Natercia Martins, "We've had enough conflict" More than 150,000 Timorese were displaced in the 2006 crisis, and several thousand more in a second
round of political violence in 2007. Because of her husband's political affiliation, Natercia Martins, 34, was driven from her home in Ermera District in June 2007, only to return six months
later to find it in ruins.
01 Dec 2009 07:35:33 GMT Blair wanted 'secret war plan a year before invasion'
TONY BLAIR asked for war plans to be secretly drawn up in June 2002, almost a year before the invasion of Iraq, his former foreign policy adviser told the Iraq Inquiry yesterday.
01 Dec 2009 07:33:59 GMT China launches ad campaign to salvage global image BEIJING, Dec 1 (Reuters) - China, the country that introduced the world to formerly obscure chemicals like melamine and diethylene glycol via a series of product safety scandals, is now hoping to ...
01 Dec 2009 07:12:46 GMT World News: U.N. Renews Congo Sanctions Despite Misgivings
UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. Security Council on Monday renewed sanctions against rebel groups in eastern Congo, despite a U.N. report that said the measures had so far failed to stop exports of gold and other minerals that have financed a ...
01 Dec 2009 07:10:24 GMT John Kerry's Tora Bora Campaign
President Obama unveils his new Afghanistan strategy today, and in the nick of time Senator John Kerry has arrived with a report claiming that none of this would be necessary if former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had only deployed ...
