Iraq cleric urges referendum on next prime minister
Anti-US Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr calls from Iran for a referendum to choose Iraq's prime minister. The proposal clashes with the constitution and aims to gain popular support amid post election turmoil. Al-Sadr leads a 39 seat bloc and could be a kingmaker in forming a coalition.
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Baghdad
Muqtada al-Sadr
Iran
Al-Sadr
Nouri al-Maliki
Challeng
Ayad Allawi
al-Maliki
Allawi
Saddam Hussein
Muqtada al- Sadr
Istanbul
Turkey
UN delays Bhutto report release to April 1
UN Secretary General Ban Ki moon accepts Pakistan's request to postpone the Bhutto assassination report. The delay aims to allow questioning of two heads of state who allegedly warned Bhutto of threats before her December 2007 rally visit.
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United Nations
Ban Kimoon
Pakistan
Benazir Bhutto
U.N
Martin Nesiky
Bhutto
Nesiky
Asif Ali Zardari
Farhatullah Babar
Islamabad
Rawalpindi
Pakistan People’s Party
Pervez Musharraf
Baitullah Mehsud
al- Qaida
U.S
Central Intelligence Agency
Mehsud
Chile
Heraldo Munoz
Augusto Pinochet
Marzaki Darusman
National Commission of Human Rights
Ireland
Peter Fitzgerald
Rafik Hariri
Catholics face global strain as abuse scandal deepens
Catholic faithful across nations confront a growing crisis amid new abuse revelations and suggestions Pope Benedict XVI aided cover ups. Clergy accountability calls rise in Ireland, Germany, and the U.S. while supporters praise Benedict’s rebukes to bishops and demand transparency and celibacy reassessment.
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Poland
Benedict XVI
Germany
U.S
Warsaw
Philadelphia
Benedict
Martin Sherlock
Dublin
Ireland
Paul Collins
Collins
Can
Berra
Associated Press
John Ryan
Journalists report Yahoo accounts hacked in China amid Google outage
Reporters say Yahoo email accounts of foreign journalists were inaccessible with error messages. Google searches to mainland China were intermittently blocked after an internal update aimed at improving results caused the Great Firewall to misinterpret certain addresses as requests for Radio Free Asia.
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Yahoo
Beijing
Google
Yahoo Inc
Google Inc
Hong Kong
Baidu.com
Soso.com
Google.com
Rfa
Radio Free Asia
Afghan president Karzai holds first public talks with Hizb-i Islami
President Hamid Karzai met Hizb-i Islami representatives in Kabul for a first public round of peace talks with an insurgent group. No deal reached, but both sides praised the dialogue and a three day Afghan government peace conference looms in early May.
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Kabul
Hamid Karzai
Hizb-i- Islami
Karzai
Hizb-i-Islami
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
Taliban
Afghanistan
Dele
Rebels to Free Hostage in Colombia After 12 Years
A Brazilian military helicopter on a humanitarian mission departed to retrieve Sgt. Pablo Emilio Moncayo, long held by FARC since 1997. Sen. Piedad Cordoba led the operation with Red Cross officials and a priest, amid rain delays, as Moncayo’s family in Florencia watched.
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Florencia
Colombia
Pablo Emilio Moncayo
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
FARC
Gustavo Moncayo
Moncayo
Brazil
Sen. Piedad Cordoba
Red Cross
Cordoba
Pvt
Josue Calvo
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