March, 2008

• 14 March

  Prosecutor asks Turkish court to close ruling party

  ANKARA (Reuters) – A state prosecutor asked Turkey’s top court on Friday to shut the ruling AK Party for anti-secular activities, intensifying tensions between the secular elite and the Islamist-rooted government.

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• 14 March

  Islamic summit accuses Israel of “war crimes:” draft

  DAKAR (Reuters) – The world’s largest Muslim body will accuse Israel of committing war crimes against Palestinian civilians, according to a draft of the final communique of an Islamic summit in Senegal seen by Reuters on Friday.

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• 14 March

  Iraq Christians mourn kidnapped cleric’s death

  MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) – The leader of Iraq’s minority Christians urged them on Friday not to be cowed and to be “steadfast” in their faith after the kidnapped Chaldean Catholic archbishop was found dead in northern Iraq.

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• 14 March

  Iraqi archbishop found dead, al Qaeda blamed

  MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) – A Chaldean Catholic archbishop who was kidnapped in Iraq last month was found dead on Thursday, his body half-buried in an empty lot in the northern city of Mosul, police said.

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• 14 March

  Kosovo Serbs take over U.N. court in flashpoint town

  MITROVICA, Kosovo (Reuters) – A couple of hundred ethnic Serb protesters took over a United Nations court in the flashpoint town of Mitrovica in north Kosovo on Friday after U.N. police guarding the compound retreated.

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• 14 March

  Russian investor gets 13 yrs for Cambodia abuse

  PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – A Cambodian court sentenced a prominent Russian investor to 13 years in jail on Friday for the sexual abuse of a 14-year-old girl, the latest foreigner to be caught in the country’s drive to stop child sex tourism.

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• 14 March

  Bush says if younger, he would work in Afghanistan

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President George W. Bush got an earful on Thursday about problems and progress in Afghanistan where a war has dragged on for more than six years but been largely eclipsed by Iraq.

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• 14 March

  Parliament votes to extend Afghanistan mission

  OTTAWA — As a chorus of protest rang out from Parliament’s upper public galleries, the House of Commons voted overwhelmingly Thursday night to extend Canada’s military mission in Afghanistan to 2011.

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• 14 March

  Canadian troops to stay in Afghanistan

  OTTAWA (AFP) — Canada’s parliament voted on Thursday to extend its 2,500-strong troop deployment in volatile southern Afghanistan to 2011, as long as NATO allies back them up.

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• 13 March

  NATO urges Russia to tone down its ‘fiery rhetoric’

  NATO urged Russia on Wednesday to tone down its “fiery rhetoric” after repeated Moscow attacks on the growing influence of the military alliance and US plans to base parts of a missile shield in Europe.

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