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>>Iraq - Prime Minister Maliki set a 72-hour deadline for Shia militia to lay down their weapons and avoid prosecution as fighting continued between 30,000 Iraqi soldiers and armed groups in Basra. The 4,100 British troops stationed at the Basra airport are not taking part in the crackdown. Iraqi and American troops have also been deployed to surround Sadr City in Baghdad, the home of Moqtada al Sadr's Mahdi Army, which is still maintaining its declared ceasefire. Sadr followers marched in protest, some saying that Maliki is working in league with al Sadr's Shia rivals, the Supreme Islamic Iraq Council and the Badr Brigades, in an attempt to lessen his power prior to October provincial election.
>>Russa/U.S. - President Bush, who travels to Europe next week, has been invited by Russian president Putin to meet and attempt to iron out conflicts over possible NATO expansion into Georgia and the Ukraine and missile defense. It is likely to be their last meeting before Putin is replaced as president by Dmitri Medvedev, who will attend the meetings in his first substantial interaction with President Bush.
>>Somalia - The al Shabab islamic forces briefly captured Jowhar, a strategically placed town 50 miles north of Mogadishu, yestreday, releasing prisoners and taking weapons. In the past month, the faction has done the same in six towns in southern Somalia. The raid follows a a statement delivered to the UN Security Council by 40 NGOs on Tuesday warning of an "impending humanitarian crisis" in Somalia. The statement claims that nearly a million Somalis have been displaced. The Somali army is in shambles.
>>Iran - Iran has threatening legal action against the West for losses sustained from what it claims were illegal UN Security Council Sanctions passed on March 3. The threats were delivered in a letter from Iran's foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. It is not yet clear where Iran would present such a case.
- One Problem With A "League of Democracies"
- McCain calls for Strengthening the NPT through Disarmament
- Celebrities and their UN-affiliated Causes
- Colbert's Water Day episode
- The Questionable Efficacy of a "Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Sudan" Strategy
Africa
- Angola to host landmine pageant
- Mugabe's opponents 'forced to eat election posters'
- Comoran rebel seeks asylum
- Navy Says Egyptian Died in Suez Clash
- White farmer faces prison in Zimbabwe for refusing to give up dairy land
- Tsvangirai 'surprised' by support
- Arrests over Ethiopia's fake gold
- Nigerian ministers sacked in graft probe
- How Joseph Kony is keeping his options open
- Mugabe opponents would unite for run-off: campaign
- Mugabe rival is 'denied adverts'
- Argentine Farmers Vow to Press Strike Over Tax
- More US passport 'file breaches'
- British reality TV crew accused as flu kills four in isolated Peruvian tribe
- U.S. Says Hussein Spy Agency and Iraqi-American Arranged '02 Trip by Lawmakers
- Virus Kills Chile's Salmon and Indicts Its Fishing Methods
- Maoists shun gun for mobiles in Nepal poll campaign
- Banned Indian group's leader held
- Indian men in US 'slave' protest
- Response: Bhutan is neither authoritarian nor stuck in a time warp
- Pakistan's new leaders tell US: We are no longer your killing field
- Philippine chains halve rice portions
- Bush calls Hu to urge Tibet talks
- Monks disrupt Tibet media visit
- Burma leader in rare appearance
- Eyewitnesses Recount Terrifying Day in Tibet
- India temple stampede kills eight
- U.S. Steps Up Unilateral Strikes in Pakistan
- Taiwan says did not dismantle U.S. missile parts
- Sarkozy and Brown to urge more market transparency
- Sarkozy in UK nuclear talks
- Serbia to push for separating ethnic Serbs from Kosovo
- Sarkozy's wife hailed as France's Princess Diana
- Karadzic's family homes raided
- Bruno the wandering bear ends up stuffed in Munich museum
- Remains of 'pioneer woman' found in Spain are oldest west European
- France: No Eiffel Redesign Planned, Says Architect Who Made Proposal
- French 'serial killer' on trial
- European Leaders Press China Over Tibet
- Plan to put 16m African children into school
- Austria to return more art Nazis stole from Jews
