Suu Kyi's party claims landslide win in Myanmar vote

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• Suu Kyi's party claims landslide win in Myanmar vote
• Russian plane crash kills 31, 12 survive
• Insight: China wrestles Mao's ghost after official's divisive fall
• Israel punishes Palestinian inmate for uprising call
• Insight: Bank stampede keeps Spanish real estate on the ropes
• Mali sanction deadline expires, rebels seize north
• Mexico presidential favorite eyes border tax break
• Britain set for sweeping Internet, phone monitoring
• Iraqi Kurdistan halts oil exports over pay dispute
• Myanmar's Suu Kyi reported winning historic vote
• Nations pledge millions for Syrian opposition
• Ex-Mexican President De la Madrid dies at age 77
• AP Exclusive: Images show North Korea launch work
• Relief as fire-hit cruise ship safe in Malaysia
• Mali coup leader reinstates old constitution
• Mexican agents probe family in 3 ritual murders
• UK Internet group: Surveillance program in works
• Timbuktu, ancient Islamic city, under attack
• UAE boot to Western groups shows wider Gulf unease

Suu Kyi's party claims landslide win in Myanmar vote Posted: YANGON (Reuters) - Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi claimed on Monday a by-election landslide for her party, which she hoped would mark the beginning of a new era for Myanmar after a historic vote that could prompt the West to end sanctions. The charismatic Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who led the struggle against military rule in the former Burma for two decades, was one of 44 candidates her National League for Democracy Party (NLD) said won all but one of the legislative seats being contested. ...

Russian plane crash kills 31, 12 survive Posted: MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian passenger plane crashed and burst into flames after takeoff in an oil-producing region of Siberia on Monday, killing at least 31 of the 43 people on board, emergency officials said. Thirteen survivors were pulled from the wreckage and rushed to hospital by helicopter but one later died. Television footage showed the plane, which had broken in two, lying in a snowy field. Only the tail and rear part of the fuselage were visible. ...

Insight: China wrestles Mao's ghost after official's divisive fall Posted: CHONGQING, China (Reuters) - Former Red Guard leader Tang Dahua says memories of the fanatical bloodshed that tore apart the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing return to him with startling clarity. Decades after Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution made Chongqing a bloody ideological battleground, the riverside megacity, China's largest, is at the heart of a different political storm - one that has exposed rifts inside the ruling Communist Party after the ouster of the city's charismatic leader, Bo Xilai. ...

Israel punishes Palestinian inmate for uprising call Posted: JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel has placed a high-profile Palestinian prisoner in solitary confinement for a week after he called from his cell for a new wave of civil resistance, the Prisons Authority said on Monday. Marwan Barghouti, sentenced to life imprisonment in 2004 after being convicted of multiple lethal attacks against Israelis, is seen by many Palestinians as a possible future leader and was a driving force in the uprising they launched in 2000. Last week, he said in a statement that "the launch of large-scale popular resistance at this stage serves the cause of our people". ...

Insight: Bank stampede keeps Spanish real estate on the ropes Posted: MADRID (Reuters) - When Jose Morales travelled up from Granada in southern Spain in February to look at a new apartment in the Madrid satellite town of Sesena, he was greeted by long queues of mostly young people outside the sales office. "When the door opened, there was a stampede to get in, like a department store sale, and some were even injured in the dash," said Morales. The apartments were selling so fast, unseen by the buyers in many cases, that he missed out on the one he wanted. ...

Mali sanction deadline expires, rebels seize north Posted: BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali braced for possible sanctions on Monday after its military rulers pledged to start returning power to civilians but no concrete moves were taken and it was not clear if neighbors would lift threats of isolation. A 72-hour deadline, set by West African bloc ECOWAS, for soldiers to start returning to barracks expired as northern separatist rebels said they had completed a lightning push south, seizing three regional capitals in as many days as Mali's army units retreated. ...

Mexico presidential favorite eyes border tax break Posted: CIUDAD JUAREZ (Reuters) - The front-runner in Mexico's presidential election campaign said on Sunday he would create tax incentives to revive economic life along the U.S. border that has been depressed by drug violence. "To strengthen the market and the export power of Ciudad Juarez, we need to provide emergency treatment through the tax system," Enrique Pena Nieto, favorite to win the July election, told supporters in this industrial city on the U.S. border. ...

Britain set for sweeping Internet, phone monitoring Posted: LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is to allow one of its intelligence agencies to monitor all phone calls, texts, emails and online activities in the country to help tackle crime and militant attacks, the Interior Ministry said on Sunday. "It is vital that police and security services are able to obtain communications data in certain circumstances to investigate serious crime and terrorism and to protect the public," a Home Office spokesman said. The proposed law already has drawn strong criticism, from within the ruling Conservative Party's own ranks, as an invasion of privacy and personal rights. ...

Iraqi Kurdistan halts oil exports over pay dispute Posted: BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region halted its oil exports on Sunday, accusing the central government in Baghdad of failing to make payments to companies working there in the latest clash in their long-running dispute over oil rights. The disagreement heightens tensions in a broader dispute between Iraqi Arabs and ethnic Kurds over contested land, political autonomy and oil that has become a potential flashpoint for Iraq since the last U.S. troops left in December. ...

Myanmar's Suu Kyi reported winning historic vote Posted: She struggled for a free Myanmar for a quarter-century, much of it spent locked away under house arrest. Now, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate whose nonviolent campaign for democracy at home transformed her into a global icon is on the verge of ascending to public office for the first time.

Nations pledge millions for Syrian opposition Posted: A coalition of more than 70 partners, including the United States, pledged Sunday to send millions of dollars and communications equipment to Syria's opposition groups, signaling deeper involvement in the conflict amid a growing belief that diplomacy and sanctions alone cannot end the Damascus regime's repression.

Ex-Mexican President De la Madrid dies at age 77 Posted: Former President Miguel de la Madrid, who led Mexico from 1982 to 1988 during an economic crisis and a devastating earthquake, died Sunday at age 77, the government said.

AP Exclusive: Images show North Korea launch work Posted: New satellite images of a North Korean rocket launch site show a mobile radar trailer and rows of what appear to be empty fuel and oxidizer tanks, evidence of ramped-up preparation for what Washington calls a cover for a long-range missile test.

Relief as fire-hit cruise ship safe in Malaysia Posted: Smiling passengers voiced relief and gratitude after safely leaving a fire-damaged luxury cruise ship that was stranded at sea for 24 hours and limped without air-conditioning into a Malaysian port Sunday.

Mali coup leader reinstates old constitution Posted: The junior officer who overthrew Mali's democratically elected leader earlier this month and dissolved the nation's constitution made a public U-turn Sunday, declaring amid enormous international pressure that he was reinstating the 1992 constitution and planning to hold elections.

Mexican agents probe family in 3 ritual murders Posted: It was a family people took pity on, one the government and church helped with free food, used clothes, and farm animals. The men were known as trash pickers. Some of the women were suspected of prostitution.

UK Internet group: Surveillance program in works Posted: Every email to your child. Every status update for your friends. Every message to your mistress.

Timbuktu, ancient Islamic city, under attack Posted: Booms from rocket launchers and automatic gunfire crackled Sunday around Mali's fabled town of Timbuktu, known as an ancient seat of Islamic learning, for its 700-year-old mud mosque and, more recently, as host of the musical Festival in the Desert that attracted Bono in January.

UAE boot to Western groups shows wider Gulf unease Posted: It could seem a bit of overreaching by a local official: Dubai's police chief offering hard-line advice to Gulf rulers about how to deal with opposition such as street protests or anti-state comments on Twitter.

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