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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Map, News) - A Pentagon jury was weighing a verdict for Osama bin Laden’s former driver and alleged bodyguard as the U.S. neared completion Tuesday of its first war crimes trial since World War II. The panel of six American military officers, hand-picked by the Defense Department, was to begin [...]

(Adds stocks, details) *Nikkei slides in late trade in sympathy with Asian markets *Trading firms battered by low oil, metals prices *Worries weigh as earnings results disappoint By Elaine Lies TOKYO, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Japan’s Nikkei stock average slipped 0.1 percent on Tuesday as the market edged down in sympathy with other Asian markets, [...]

New York - The UN Security Council on Monday voted unanimously to set up a peacebuilding office in Sierra Leone to help the country recover from a decade-long civil war. It adopted Resolution 1829 that gives a one-year mandate from October 1 to a UN Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Sierra Leone (UNIPSIL) tasked with helping [...]

5 Aug 2008, 0920 hrs IST,AGENCIES             NEW DELHI: With violence over cancellation of the land transfer order refusing to ebb and three more protesters killed on Monday, alarm bells appear to have finally gone off in New Delhi. A worried Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called an all-party meeting [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) - The State Department advised representatives of foreign governments that their interviews with their citizens being held at Guantanamo Bay would be recorded, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. Shortly after the 2002 opening of the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the U.S. began allowing delegations from other countries to interrogate terrorism suspects [...]

Republican presidential candidate John McCain hopes to enhance his appeal to blue-collar voters and those in the Northern Plains by visiting the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota. McCain, who attended the rally’s tribute to veterans on Monday night, was greeted in Rapid City by Sen. John Thune, who has been mentioned as a possible [...]

In the second of five pieces by BBC journalists examining life in Kosovo today, Nick Thorpe meets one of the few remaining Albanian families in northern Mitrovica. On the table in his front room, Driton Gerguri opens a red album, like a family heirloom. “Other kids collected stamps, but I collected these,” he says proudly. [...]

Mon Aug 4, 2008 11:57pm ET | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush offered a mixed assessment of China’s role in the world but said in an interview published on Tuesday it is “important to engage” the Chinese. In a Washington Post interview, Bush praised China’s efforts to curb the nuclear ambitions of [...]

China stresses the Beijing Olympics will be safe, following an attack that killed 16 policemen in the north-west of the country.

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MEXICO CITY, Aug 3 (IPS) - The rain gods failed to dampen spirits of
activists gathered at the old city center of Zocalo to protest
discrimination against those with the HIV virus. Hundreds of activists
dressed in bright tribal costumes, women dressed as skeletons, and one
gay man wearing tights assembled ahead of the six-day XVII
International AIDS conference, Aug. [...]