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Afghan Insurgents' Diverse Funding Sources Pose ChallengesKABUL -- The Taliban-led insurgency has built a fundraising juggernaut that generates cash from such an array of criminal rackets, donations, taxes, shakedowns and other schemes that U.S. and Afghan officials say it may be impossible to choke off the movement's money supply.
Washington Post Sunday, September 27, 2009Iran Pressured Over New PlantAt talks scheduled for Thursday in Geneva with Iran, the United States and five other major powers will demand immediate and unfettered access to the newly exposed nuclear facility in Iran, including access to people and documents involved in its construction, and they will insist that Tehran abide...
Washington Post Sunday, September 27, 2009In Britain, Tough Times Spawn Alternative CurrenciesLONDON -- Throughout Britain, people are hanging on to their hard-earned pounds, scrimping and saving as they ride out the recession.
Washington Post Sunday, September 27, 2009Germans vote amid economic issues, Islamic threatsBERLIN (AP) -- Germans decide Sunday whether to return the nation's first woman chancellor to a second term in office following a lackluster campaign centered largely on economic issues and a rash of last-minute threats by Islamic extremists....
The Arizona Republic Sunday, September 27, 2009Philippine storm leaves 72 dead and missingMANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Rescuers stepped up their efforts in the northern Philippines on Sunday as the skies started to clear a day after a tropical storm tore through and left more than 70 people killed or missing in the worst flooding in more than four decades....
The Arizona Republic Sunday, September 27, 2009Honduras de facto government sets deadline over crisisTEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Brazil has ten days to decide on the status of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, who took refuge in the Brazilian embassy on Monday after sneaking back in the
country, the de facto government said on Saturday.
Reuters Sunday, September 27, 2009Obama accuses Iran of evasion before Geneva talksWASHINGTON/TEHRAN (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Saturday the discovery of a secret nuclear plant in Iran showed a "disturbing pattern" of evasion by Tehran that added urgency to its talks on Thursday with world powers.
Reuters Sunday, September 27, 2009Iran and US on collision course over nuclear plantTension grows ahead of Geneva talks after secret uranium plant is revealed and Obama considers tougher sanctionsThe US and Iran raised the stakes yesterday ahead of this week's nuclear showdown in Geneva, with threats of global strife if no resolution is found.The sharpened rhetoric followed Friday's revelation that Iran had been building a secret uranium enrichment plant under a mountain near Qom, and it points towards a new wave of sanctions that go far beyond the targeted financial measures imposed on Iran so far.Speaking at the G20 summit in Pittsburgh, Barack Obama declared: "Iran is on notice that when we meet with them on 1 October they are going to have to come clean, and they will have to make a choice." The alternative to sticking to international rules on Iran's nuclear development, he said, would be "a path that is going to lead to confrontation".At the meeting the US will demand access to the plant within the next few days and to all other sites within three months, the Ne
Guardian Sunday, September 27, 2009Philippines faces flood rescue challengesDownpours subsided temporarily in the Philippines on Sunday, a day after Tropical Storm Ketsana pummeled the capital Manila with its heaviest rainfall in more than 40 years.
CNN Sunday, September 27, 2009U.S.: Drone hits Islamic Party building in MosulA U.S. drone crashed in northern Iraq Saturday morning, damaging the Mosul branch of the powerful Iraqi Islamic Party -- the nation's largest Sunni political party, a U.S. military spokesman confirmed.
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