'As bad as under Saddam'
LONDON, England (AP): HUMAN RIGHTS abuses in Iraq are now as bad as they were under Saddam Hussein and could become even worse, the country's former interim Prime Minister said in an interview published yesterday.
Suu Kyi's detention extended
YANGON (AP): Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi remained under house arrest following yesterday's expiration of a previous detention order, with police paying her a brief visit and government security around her home tightened.
Quake kills 10
TEHRAN (AP): A 5.9-MAGNITUDE earth-quake levelled seven villages in southern Iran yesterday, killing 10 people and injuring 70, state-run television said. Heidar Alishvandi, the governor of Qeshm Island, was quoted by state-run television as saying...
Isolation breeding enemies
TEHRAN (AP): CRITICS CHARGE that ultraconservative President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's 1980s-style radicalism is harming Iran both at home and abroad - to the point where even his natural allies in Parliament have dealt him three crushing rejections...
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