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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 ...

• 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 ...