Taliban: We're ready to talk |
- Taliban: We're ready to talk
- Ex-Tunisia leader faces trial over killings
- Pipeline attacked as Syria violence rages
- France's Hollande attacks rival Sarkozy over economy
- Ex-Iranian leader's daughter gets prison
- Amid violence, Iraqi lawmakers gather
- Egyptians to vote, again
- Top U.S. diplomat in China to discuss North Korea
| Posted: 03 Jan 2012 06:01 PM PST The Afghan Taliban are prepared to open an "office outside the country for talks with foreigners," a purported spokesman for the movement said in a statement.       |
| Ex-Tunisia leader faces trial over killings Posted: 03 Jan 2012 06:42 AM PST Tunisian ex-President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, who was ousted in the first uprising of last year's Arab Spring, faces a military tribunal Tuesday for his alleged role in the death of protesters in January 2011.    |
| Pipeline attacked as Syria violence rages Posted: 03 Jan 2012 01:15 PM PST Syrian officials and opposition activists blamed each other for an attack on a gas pipeline near the restive city of Homs Tuesday.    |
| France's Hollande attacks rival Sarkozy over economy Posted: 03 Jan 2012 10:48 AM PST French presidential candidate Francois Hollande opened the new year with a shot across the bow of rival President Nicolas Sarkozy Tuesday. In an open letter published in French newspaper Liberation, Hollande accuses Sarkozy -- who is seeking re-election this spring -- of failing to do enough to help his people during his term in office. "The French suffer. They suffer in their daily lives. Unemployment is at its highest because growth is at its lowest," writes Hollande, who is widely regarded as Sarkozy's chief rival.    |
| Ex-Iranian leader's daughter gets prison Posted: 03 Jan 2012 03:35 AM PST Faezeh Hashemi, the daughter of former Iranian president, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, was sentenced to six months in prison for making anti-government statements, semi-official Mehr News Agency reported Tuesday.    |
| Amid violence, Iraqi lawmakers gather Posted: 03 Jan 2012 01:14 AM PST The crisis-plagued Iraqi Parliament reconvenes Tuesday just over a week after a key Shiite bloc criticized the government and called for early elections.    |
| Posted: 03 Jan 2012 06:55 AM PST Egypt opens the third round of voting for the lower house of Parliament on Tuesday after Islamist parties performed strongly in the previous rounds last month.    |
| Top U.S. diplomat in China to discuss North Korea Posted: 03 Jan 2012 04:35 AM PST A top U.S. diplomat will arrive in Beijing on Tuesday at the start of a tour around Northeast Asia, which is still adapting to the change of leadership in North Korea following the death of Kim Jong Il last month.    |
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