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E-mail and a view: Polanski heads for house arrest

Michel Euler, Associated Press Writer — 2009-11-29T17:21:35Z

Roman Polanski is expected to trade the confines of a Swiss jail this week for house arrest in a luxury chalet with a view of the Alps, where he will a Swiss decision whether to extradite him to the United States.

Mysterious 'Saddam Channel' hits Iraq TV

Lara Jakes, Associated Press Writer — 2009-11-29T17:01:30Z

Turning on their TVs during the long holiday weekend, Iraqis were greeted by a familiar if unexpected face from their brutal past: Saddam Hussein.

Italian chef missing at sea on Caribbean cruise

Nicole Winfield, Associated Press Writer — 2009-11-29T16:11:24Z

Colombian maritime authorities searched Sunday for an Italian chef believed to have gone overboard from a U.S. cruise ship off Colombia's Caribbean coast, officials and the man's family said.

EU: Nations must do more for climate change pact

Elaine Kurtenbach, Associated Press Writer — 2009-11-29T16:01:26Z

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso is urging China and other countries to make more ambitious commitments on curbing heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions.

Iran approves building 10 enrichment sites

Ali Akbar Dareini, Associated Press Writer — 2009-11-29T16:01:24Z

The Iranian government approved a plan Sunday to build 10 new uranium enrichment facilities, a dramatic expansion in defiance of U.N. demands it halt the program.

Bomb blamed in train crash

Sergei L. Loiko and Megan K. Stack, Los Angeles Times — 2009-11-29T05:36:57Z

MOSCOW - A homemade bomb planted on railway tracks by unidentified terrorists derailed a Moscow-to-St. Petersburg passenger train carrying more than 650 passengers Friday, killing at least 26 people and injuring dozens more, Russian authorities said yesterday.

Nuclear authority shifted in Pakistan

Kim Gamel, Associated Press — 2009-11-29T05:31:16Z

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan’s president has relinquished command of its nuclear arsenal to the prime minister, a political ally, and signaled that he was ready to shed more power as he faces growing pressure to resign.

Trial in Germany is latest chapter in Demjanjuk saga

David Rising, Associated Press — 2009-11-29T05:27:47Z

BERLIN - John Demjanjuk once was the focus of the world’s attention for the bloodcurdling crimes he stood accused of. Today, he is attracting notice for being the lowest-ranking person to go on trial for Nazi crimes in World War II.

Ferry capsizes; at least 37 dead

Associated Press — 2009-11-29T05:24:23Z

Bangladesh DHAKA - A triple-deck ferry packed with hundreds of travelers heading home for an Islamic festival capsized as they disembarked in southern Bangladesh, leaving at least 37 dead and scores missing, authorities said yesterday. M.V. Coco, traveling from the capital, Dhaka, went down late Friday as it arrived at Nazirhat, 64 miles to the south. Some survivors said the ...

Iran could withdraw from nuclear treaty, lawmaker warns

Ali Akbar Dareini, Associated Press — 2009-11-29T05:22:55Z

TEHRAN - A conservative Iranian legislator warned yesterday that his country may pull out of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty after a UN resolution censuring Tehran - a move that could seriously undermine world attempts to prevent Iran from developing atomic weapons.

Wealthy nations outsource crops to Ethiopia’s farmland

Stephanie McCrummen, Washington Post — 2009-11-29T05:22:21Z

BAKO, Ethiopia - In recent months, the Ethiopian government began marketing abroad one of the hottest commodities in an increasingly crowded and hungry world: farmland.

Afghanistan poses a different battle

Denis D. Gray, Associated Press — 2009-11-29T05:21:13Z

FORWARD OPERATING BASE SHANK, Afghanistan - Veterans of Iraq recall rolling to war along asphalt highways, sweltering in flat scrublands, and chatting with city-wise university graduates connected to the wider world.

Honduras sets vote, but rifts continue

Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times — 2009-11-29T05:20:18Z

MEXICO CITY - The de facto rulers of Honduras will observe more than elections today: They staged the first military-backed coup in Central America in 16 years - and got away with it.

Equatorial Guinea leader expected to win reelection

Michelle Faul, Associated Press — 2009-11-29T05:19:11Z

JOHANNESBURG - Equatorial Guinea - a violent land of coups, petrodollar wealth, and killer poverty - is holding a presidential election today that its leader of 30 years says he will win by more than the 97 percent garnered in the last, widely criticized, vote.

Afghan detainees held in isolation in secret prison

Alissa J. Rubin, New York Times — 2009-11-29T05:18:52Z

KABUL, Afghanistan - A US military detention camp in Afghanistan is still holding inmates for sometimes weeks at a time and without access to the International Committee of the Red Cross, according to human rights researchers and former detainees held at the site on the Bagram Air Base.

Nairobi letter: Seeking a stable Kenya

2008-02-01T19:31:53Z

To the Globe's Foreign Desk, I read the article in the Globe online yesterday "Kenya on the edge of a precipice" by Charlie Clements and the accompanying blog on the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee's website. It was well-written and interesting. I wanted to let you know that my husband and I moved to Nairobi, Kenya 3 weeks before the presidential ...