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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev speaks with visiting Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, left, during their meeting in the Moscow Kremlin on Tuesday, March 9, 2010.

Russia urges Sweden to extradite Chechen "bandits"
The Star

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev urged Sweden on Tuesday to extradite two men it says are Chechen separatists and accuses of involvement in killings and kidnappings. Sweden refused to extradite the Chechen suspects Aslan Adayev and Magomed Uspayev as recently as 2008, a refusal Russia denounced as a "political...
photo: AP / Alexander Natruskin, Pool

Maldives Ban Fishing of Sharks

The New York Times

PARIS — The Maldives will make its territorial waters into a shark sanctuary, a government official said Tuesday, lending momentum to efforts to protect the fish at a United Nations endangered species conference that begins this week....
photo: GFDL

No proof atom-smasher will end world

In this May 31, 2007 file photo part of the LHC (large hadron collider) is seen in its tunnel at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland.

The Daily Telegraph Australia

A GERMAN woman's fear Earth is to be sucked into oblivion in a black hole has failed in a court bid to halt the world's most powerful atom-smasher. The Constitutional Court in the western Germany city of Karlsruhe threw out the woman's...
photo: AP / Keystone, Martial Trezzini

South Korea back on track

A currency trader smiles in front of a screen showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) at the Korea Exchange Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, May 19, 2009.

Asia Times

By Robert M Cutler MONTREAL - The South Korean economy, which last year scraped through the global slowdown without sinking into recession, returned to the recovery path last month after faltering in January, Finance Minister Yoon Jeung-hyun said on...
photo: AP / Ahn Young-joon

Nigeria Urged to Investigate Religious Violence

Residents walk past a burnt car in Dogo Nahwa, Nigeria, Monday, March 8, 2010. More than 200 people, most of them Christians, were slaughtered on Sunday in central Nigeria, according to residents, aid groups and journalists. The local government gave a figure more than twice that amount, but offered no casualty list or other information to substantiate it.

ABC News

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press Writer JOS, Nigeria March 9, 2010 (AP) The Associated Press A woman cries during a funeral for victims in the Dogo Nahawa village, about 15 km (9 miles) to the... A woman cries during a funeral for victims in the Dogo...
photo: AP / Jon Gambrell

Indonesian Forces Kill 3 Terror Suspects

Indonesian police officers check a car during a search for militants in Pidie, Aceh province, Indonesia, Tuesday, March 9, 2010.

The New York Times

JAKARTA — Indonesian counterterrorism forces stormed an Internet cafe and a nearby house on the outskirts of Jakarta on Tuesday, killing three suspected terrorists and arresting two others. Counterterrorism officials said security forces were...
photo: AP / Heri Juanda

Nigerians bury massacre victims

This is an image taken from TV showing a mass grave for victims in the town of Dogo Nahawa, Nigeria, about three miles (five kilometers) south of the city of Jos, Monday, March 8, 2010

Al Jazeera

Nigerians are burying victims of a massacre of predominantly Christian villagers near the central city of Jos, blamed on a Muslim group. The burials in mass graves using mechanical excavators follow Sunday's attack on three villages that...
photo: AP / APTN

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