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Malaysia canes three women for adultery

02/19/2010

Malaysia canes three women for adultery

Malaysia has for the first time punished three Muslim women, convicted of adultery by a shariah court of Islamic law, with caning. The women also received short jail sentences.

Sister of North Korean leader gaining power after a surprise comeback to politics 02/18/2010	Afghan official: Taliban using human shields ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU and RAHIM FAIEZ AP 02/17/2010
Kim Jong-Il's only sister appears to be gaining more power in North Korea after returning to the public spotlight for the first time in nearly six years, according to South Korean reports.	MARJAH, Afghanistan — Taliban fighters are increasingly using civilians as human shields in the assault on the southern town of Marjah, an Afghan official said Wednesday as military squads resumed painstaking house-to-house searches in the Taliban stronghold.
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Japan to question New Zealand anti-whaling activist BBC News 02/17/2010	Gen. Fonseka petitions against Rajapaksa's re-election as Sri Lanka's President AsiaOne 02/17/2010
A New Zealand activist who boarded a Japanese whaling ship in the Antarctic is being taken to Japan for questioning.	SRI LANKA- General (retd) Sarath Fonseka yesterday filed a petition in the Supreme Court, requesting that the re-election of Mahinda Rajapaksa as President of Sri Lanka at the Jan. 26 polls be declared void.
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India Maoist rebels kill 24 troops in West Bengal Subir Bhaumik BBC News 02/17/2010	US missile kills 3 in northwest Pakistan Munir Ahmad AP 02/17/2010
At least 24 troops were killed when armed Maoists attacked a camp of the paramilitary forces in India's West Bengal state, officials said.	ISLAMABAD — Pakistani intelligence officials say a U.S. missile strike has killed at least three people near the Afghan border.
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Thai court denies bail for 'Merchant of Death' The Straits Times 02/17/2010	Taliban second-in-command captured in Pakistan Jason Burke The Guardian 02/17/2010
Thailand’s appeal court on Tuesday rejected a bail request by Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout as a legal battle over plans to extradite him to the United States looked set to drag into a third year.	Mullah Barader, the Taliban's powerful second in command, has been captured in the Pakistani city of Karachi, senior US officials have confirmed.
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Pakistan's lawyers strike over judicial appointments made by President Zardari BBC News

Japan May Press Charges Against Activist Who Boarded Whaler Stuart Biggs and Takashi Hirokawa BusinessWeek

NATO troops clearing out Taliban stronghold, officials say CNN

North Korea's "peerlessly brilliant" Kim turns 68 Jack Kim Reuters

Sri Lanka monks call for release of arrested Fonseka AP

Pakistan's President and Top Court Spar Over Judges ZAHID HUSSAIN The Wall Street Journal

India-Pakistan talks under threat after bomb kills nine Dean Nelson Telegraph

UN Human Rights Envoy Visits Myanmar as Opposition Leader Freed Paul Tighe BusinessWeek

India, Pakistan to resume talks on Feb 25 Nasir Jaffry AFP

North Korea not eager to return to talks: UN envoy Jon Herskovitz and Lucy Hornby Reuters

NATO launches major offensive in Afghanistan Atia Abawi CNN

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