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File - Detainees at Joint Task Force (JTF) Guantanamo, Cuba, sit on prayer rugs as they observe morning prayers before sunrise inside Camp Delta Oct. 28, 2009.

photo: US Navy / MCS2 Marcos T. Hernandez

UK complained to US about terror suspect torture, says ex-MI5 boss
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• Waterboarding of 9/11 suspect was 'concealed' • Manningham-Buller criticises Bush staff Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller criticised George Bush and his administration, for torture of terror suspects Photograph: Graeme Robertson/Getty Images...

India's ruling Congress party supporters celebrate outside party leader Sonia Gandhi's house after the Women's Reservation Bill was passed by the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of parliament, in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, March 9, 2010.

photo: AP

Historic Women's Bill passes amid chaos
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New Delhi: After unprecedented disruptions and high drama, the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday evening finally passed the historic Women's Reservation Bill reserving one-third seats for women in Parliament and state Legislatures. The Congress, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and the Left Front voted for the bill. The two MPs of the Trinamool Congress, the...

U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, talk before a dinner at the Prime Minister's residence in Jerusalem, Tuesday, March 9, 2010.

photo: AP / Baz Ratner, Pool

Visiting Biden condemns new Israel settlement plan
read more The Star

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday condemned Israeli plans to build 1,600 more homes on occupied land where Palestinians seek statehood, announced in the middle of his visit to help revive peace negotiations. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is seen in Baghdad in this January 23, 2010 file photo. Biden on Tuesday condemned...

The bodies of suspected militants killed in a raid are seen at the site where're they were shot in Pamulang in the outskirt of Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, March 9, 2010.

photo: AP

Brain behind Bali blasts killed, says Indonesia
read more The Times of India

JAKARTA: Indonesian counter-terrorism forces on Tuesday killed a man who was believed to have been one of the masterminds of the 2002 Bali bombings during a raid in the capital Jakarta, police and reports said. The man was among three people killed in two...

An Electoral worker empties a ballot box to begin counting the results at a counting center in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, March 9, 2010.

photo: AP / Karim Kadim

Some Iraq Results Coming Wednesday
read more The New York Times

BAGHDAD — Iraq’s electoral commission said Tuesday that it would announce partial results of parliamentary elections on Wednesday, providing an incomplete picture of the vote that will nevertheless provide the broad outlines of the country’s political landscape. Related At War Blog: Election Reaction From Around Iraq Party...

The message 'CUT Co2' lights up on the face of the Le Meridien hotel in New Delhi, calling for urgent action to fight climate change, at New Delhi, India, Saturday, May 19, 2007. Greenpeace is demanding that India implement energy efficiency measures as the first and most cost effective way to reduce Carbon Dioxide (Co2) emission

photo: AP / Mustafa Quraishi

China and India endorse Copenhagen climate deal
read more The Star

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - China and India joined almost all other major greenhouse gas emitters on Tuesday in signing up to the climate accord struck in Copenhagen, boosting a deal strongly favoured by the United States. A chimney billows smoke as the sun shines through haze on a cold winter's day in Beijing in this December 24, 2009 file photo....

Construction workers are seen on a new housing development in the Jewish neighborhood of Har Homa in east Jerusalem, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009.

photo: AP / Sebastian Scheiner

Israel approves East Jerusalem homes as Biden visits
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Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Speaking earlier, Joe Biden said Washington had a total commitment to Israel's security Israel has approved the building of 1,600 new homes in east Jerusalem, in a move that threatens to overshadow US Vice-President Joe Biden's visit. The move will infuriate Palestinians, whose leaders...

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou take part a joint news conference at the State Department in Washington, Monday, March 8, 2010.

photo: AP / Haraz N. Ghanbari

Greek PM warns debt crisis will affect US
read more The Daily Telegraph Australia

GREEK Prime Minister George Papandreou said Monday that the United States would not be a mere bystander if his country's debt crisis were to worsen. In a speech at the Brookings Institution, a liberal think-tank, Papandreou said that a wider crisis would cause the euro to weaken against the dollar in foreign-exchange trading. "That, in...

Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates and President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai walk together on the Presidential compound in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 8, 2010.

photo: US DoD / Cherie Cullen

Robert Gates warns of 'hard Afghan fight ahead'
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US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has warned that "hard fighting" lies ahead, in his first visit to Afghanistan since the launch of a major offensive there. After meeting military chiefs overseeing the anti-Taliban operation in southern Helmand province, Mr Gates also said some progress had been made. Preparations have already begun to...

File - President Barack Obama talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev during a G-20 leaders working dinner at the Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens in Pittsburgh, Pa., Sept. 24, 2009.

photo: White House file / Pete Souza

US and Russia resume nuclear talks
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US and Russian negotiators are meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, to negotiate a treaty aimed at reducing their nuclear weapons arsenals. The two powers are hoping to find a successor to the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), which expired last December. "The two sides are committed to concluding negotiations. What is important is...