Friday, August 27, 2010

World News Briefs -- August 27, 2010



Carter Wins Release Of American From North Korea -- CNN

(CNN) -- Former President Jimmy Carter is leaving North Korea Friday with a U.S. citizen who was imprisoned in the communist country after entering it illegally in January, according to the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia.

Aijalon Mahli Gomes was imprisoned in January of this year and later sentenced to eight years of hard labor with a fine of about $600,000 for the crime of illegal entry into North Korea.

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MIDDLE EAST

Netanyahu eyes twice-monthly head-to-heads with Abbas.

Call for U.K. inquiry into Iraq War civilian deaths.

Iraq combat phase ends, but U.S. might stay past 2011.

ASIA

Afghan president questions US timeline for leaving.

China silent on North Korea's Kim visit.

U.N.: Flooding displaces 1 million more in Pakistan.

AFRICA

Sudan's President visits Kenya despite genocide charges.

DR Congo killings 'may be genocide' - UN draft report.

Egypt hit by power cuts amid Ramadan heat wave.

South African government meets labor unions as strike threatens to spread.

EUROPE

Spain's immigrants suffer in economic downturn.

Russia halts forest highway construction as opposition grows.

U.K. economy grows at fastest pace for nine years.

AMERICAS

Mexico starts identifying 72 massacred migrants.

Hurricane Danielle becomes Category 4 storm.

The Mexican massacre that shook all of Latin America.

New video gives tour of trapped miners' refuge.

TERRORISM/THE LONG WAR

UK faces new wave of homegrown attacks: report.

Muslims shocked at RCMP bust.

Yemen rejects increased US role in al-Qaeda fight.

ECONOMY/FINANCE/BUSINESS

Nearly 10 percent of U.S. homeowners risk foreclosure.

Japan PM Kan vows firm moves against strong yen.

Federal Reserve's Ben Bernanke to make key speech.

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