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• Sarath Fonseka's wife appeals for husband's freedom

  The Guardian | Anoma Fonseka, wife of defeated presidential candidate General Sarath Fonseka, cries while speaking to the media a day after her husband was taken into custody by the government in Colombo. Photograph: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Reuters The wife of Sri ...

• US Wants Iran Sanctions In Weeks; Embassies Attacked

  New York Times | By REUTERS TEHRAN (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Tuesday that the United States wanted a UN Security Council resolution "within weeks" to tackle Iran's nuclear program as Iran said it had begun making higher-grade nuclear fuel. ...

• Philippine Clan Patriarch Charged in November Killings

  New York Times | MANILA — Prosecutors in the Philippine capital on Tuesday indicted the patriarch of a powerful political clan and 196 others in the November massacre of 57 people, the worst case of political violence in the nation's history. ...

• North Korea nuclear envoy visits China, talks closer

  Reuters | SEOUL/BEIJING (Reuters) - North Korea's top nuclear envoy arrived in Beijing on Tuesday as Pyongyang said it was willing to step up talks with China on resuming stalled disarmament-for-aid talks. The apparent shift by North Korea toward returning to ...

• Yanukovich leads as final ballots are counted in Ukraine

  CNN International | Supporters of Presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovich rally in front of the Central Election Commission in Kiev. (CNN) -- Supporters of Viktor Yanukovich rallied outside the Central Election Commission in Kiev Tuesday as the final votes of Ukraine's ...

• NATO warns villagers to 'keep heads down'

  ABC Online | Afghan villagers should stay inside and "keep their heads down" when thousands of US Marines launch a massive assault on a densely populated district in coming days, a NATO spokesman said. US-led NATO forces are planning one of the eight-year-old war's ...

• Avalanche kills 17 soldiers in Indian Kashmir

  Press TV | At least 17 Indian soldiers have been killed and several others trapped when an avalanche slammed into a military camp in the Baramulla district of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir. The accident occurred at in the Khelenmarg Mountains, ...

• Sri Lanka's Fonseka treated like 'an animal': wife

  AFP | COLOMBO — The wife of Sri Lankan ex-army chief Sarath Fonseka accused the government on Tuesday of abducting her husband and treating him "like an animal" following his dramatic arrest. "This is not an arrest. It is an abduction," a tearful Anoma ...

• Man found alive under rubble in Haiti

  Times Online | A man who has been pulled alive from the rubble of a marketplace in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince may have been trapped there since the devastating earthquake struck 28 days ago. The 28-year-old, identified as Evans Muncie, was found under the ...

• Afghan assault on Taliban to test US strategy

  AFP | KABUL — A planned assault on a major Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan is the first real test of a new US-led counter-insurgency strategy to re-establish government control and end the war. Operation Mushtarak is an experiment in combining the ...

• Burj-eye view no more: Skyscraper observatory closed

  Chicago Tribune | One month after opening with a spectacular fireworks show, the world's tallest building has abruptly — and indefinitely — shut its observatory, apparently because of electrical problems. Managers of the Burj Khalifa, ...

• Costa Rica elects first female president

  Telegraph.co.uk | Laura Chinchilla points toward a crowd of supporters as she gives her victory speech after winning the Costa Rica general election. She becomes Costa Rica's first female president and the fifth in Latin America Photo: AFP/GETTY Mrs Chinchilla will ...

• British soldier deaths push Afghanistan toll ahead of Falklands

  Times Online | Three British soldiers have been killed by bombs in Afghanistan during the past two days. The deaths bring the number of British Service personnel who have died in the conflict to 256 — one more than died in the Falkland islands in 1982. ...

• Yanukovych Win Looks Sealed in Ukraine

  Wall Street Journal | KIEV, Ukraine—Opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych appeared to win Ukraine's presidential election, near-complete returns showed Monday, although his opponent showed no sign of conceding defeat. ...

• Iranians Prepare for Risky Clashes

  Wall Street Journal | DUBAI—Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, criticized protesters as agents of foreign powers ahead of antigovernment demonstrations planned for Thursday, setting the stage for clashes that analysts say pose big risks for both ...

• Paperwork Hinders Airlifts of Ill Haitian Children

  New York Times | An Air Force Mobile Forward Surgical team prepared a Haitian infant for a medical evacuation from Port-au-Prince. By IAN URBINA PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Private medical evacuations of critically injured Haitian children to the United States for ...