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- In Myanmar, house arrest looks good
- WikiLeaks disclosures are leading to diplomatic cracks for U.S.
- Putin says Russia may build stockpile if New START treaty founders
- Afghan minority's election victories likely to stir anger
- U.S. announces new Iran sanctions
| In Myanmar, house arrest looks good Posted: 02 Dec 2010 12:00 AM PST The release of Aung San Suu Kyi is a breakthrough, but about 2,200 people — activists, writers, musicians and comedians — remain in prison on political charges, facing torture, inadequate medical care and years in solitary confinement. In the decaying lakeside mansion where Aung San Suu Kyi spent much of the last two decades under house arrest, the Myanmar opposition leader and Nobel laureate was forbidden to use the Internet or the telephone or to watch satellite TV.  |
| WikiLeaks disclosures are leading to diplomatic cracks for U.S. Posted: 02 Dec 2010 12:00 AM PST Russia's Vladimir Putin and Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan condemn disparaging cables made public by WikiLeaks. Further international fallout is feared. The leaders of Russia and Turkey on Wednesday blasted the Obama administration over leaked U.S. diplomatic cables in the most concrete signs yet that the disclosures are rattling America's strategic relationships.  |
| Putin says Russia may build stockpile if New START treaty founders Posted: 01 Dec 2010 04:15 PM PST The Russian prime minister, on CNN, says the deal is in the U.S. interest. But if Congress fails to ratify the treaty, Moscow may build up its nuclear stockpile instead of reducing it. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, his confident bluntness on full display, has declared Russia might build up its nuclear weapons instead of reducing them if the New START treaty arranged with the Obama administration is not ratified by Congress.  |
| Afghan minority's election victories likely to stir anger Posted: 02 Dec 2010 12:00 AM PST Amid widespread discord over balloting, officials ratify Hazara wins in a Pashtun-dominated area, where Taliban insurgents had warned people to stay away from the polls. In a move likely to anger members of Afghanistan's largest ethnic group, the Pashtuns, election officials Wednesday upheld a sweep by a rival group in a Pashtun-dominated province in September's parliamentary election.  |
| U.S. announces new Iran sanctions Posted: 30 Nov 2010 10:05 PM PST The U.S. move against Iran's shipping lines comes as Tehran and the West set a date for talks on the nation's nuclear program. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Iran will not budge on its rights. On the same day that Iran and the West agreed to meet next week for talks on Iran's nuclear program, the U.S. announced a set of fresh sanctions on the Islamic Republic's shipping lines, and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said defiantly that his nation would not budge "one iota" on giving up what he described as its rights.  |
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