Al-Qaida Group Claims Responsibility for Baghdad Bombings
Militant group named the Islamic State in Iraq announced it was behind the twin suicide bombings in a statement posted on a militant Web site
Mozambican Voters Poised for Wednesday Elections 
Citizens to elect president, parliament and provincial assemblies in election considered as important test for opposition
Amnesty: Israel Denies Water to Palestinians
Amnesty International report says Israel is pumping more than its share of water from an aquifer it controls in West Bank
Pakistan Frees 11 Iranian Guards Arrested Near SW Border
Authorities originally identified men as members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, but later said they are security guards
Afghan President, Main Rival Reject Power Sharing
Afghanistan's president and his main electoral challenger say country's political future should be decided at ballot box, not through formation of a coalition government
 |  | The top Czech court begins hearing what could be the last legal challenge to ratification of the EU's Lisbon Treaty. |
| A French court convicts the Church of Scientology of fraud, but stops short of banning the group from operating in France. | | A rocket designed to replace the ageing space shuttle is set for its first test flight, despite questions over its future. |
Too Soon for Optimism |
| By YENI |
| A dose of skepticism is advised in reacting to the Burmese Prime Minister’s remarks on Aung San Suu Kyi and her national reconciliation role. |
Are Burmese Losing their Love of Books? |
| By WAI MOE |
| Burma was once a nation of avid readers, but these days, fewer and fewer young people show any interest in serious writing. |
NEWS ANALYSISPlaying the Suu Kyi Card |
| By WAI MOE |
| The Burmese premier’s comment that Aung San Suu Kyi has a role to play in Burmese politics could be intended for US ears, an NLD leader says. |
Thai Security Raids Homes of Karen Leaders |
| By THE IRRAWADDY |
| Thai security forces raided the homes and offices of KNU and KNLA leaders in Mae Sot in Tak Province early on Tuesday morning. |
Burmese Dissidents, Activists Unhappy with Hun Sen |
| By SAW YAN NAING |
| Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s comparison of Thaksin Shinawatra and Aung San Suu Kyi raises the ire of Burmese. |
Junta Continues to Suppress Religious Freedom: US |
| By LALIT K JHA |
| Religious freedom is suppressed in Burma, while the military government actively promotes Theravada Buddhism, says a new US report. |
Twelve bombs explode in Kokang capital in weekend
Two months after clashes between the Kokang ceasefire group and the Burmese Army, 12 bombs exploded on October 24 evening in the Kokang capital Laogai, which was captured by......No signs of UWSA compromising: Observers
A Sino-Burmese border-based observer has rejected rumors that one of Burma’s strongest non-state armed groups – United Wa State Army (UWSA) – has agreed to transform its...Religious freedom yet to be won in Burma: new report
The United States State Department has once again produced a report critical of the right to religious freedom inside military ruled Burma. Monday’s release of the Bureau of Democracy,......
| 25 percent of Shan families forcibly relocated Oct 27, 2009 (DVB)–More than a quarter of families in Burma’s northeastern Shan state were forcibly relocated in the past year, while nine percent of families had at least one member injured by a landmine, a US health academic said. - more |
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| Sweden scrutinizes US policy to Burma Oct 27, 2009 (DVB)–Burmese activists and aid workers took center stage at the Swedish parliament yesterday for a discussion forum aimed scrutinising US policy to Burma. - more |
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| US accuses junta of abusing religious freedom Oct 27, 2009 (DVB)–Burma’s military government “frequently” abuses the right to religious freedom for the country’s myriad ethnic and religious groups, an annual US government report states. - more |
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| DKBA troops dig for gold in Karen territory Oct 27, 2009 (DVB)–Around 700 troops from a pro-junta Karen militia have entered territory controlled by the opposition Karen National Union in eastern Burma, allegedly to mine for gold. - more |
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 Photos released of murdered Japanese journalist Warning: this article contains graphic images |
ဒီပညာရွိေတြဟာ ဒါနဲ႔တူညီတဲ့ ေဝါဟာရမ်ိဳး ဗမာစကားထဲမွာ မရွိဘူးဆိုၿပီး (ဒီလို အရည္အခ်င္း ရွိတဲ့လူ ဗမာျပည္မွာမရွိဘူးလို႔ မေျပာ႐ံုတမယ္) အဂၤလိပ္ အဘိဓာန္ ႀကီးေတြ၊ ႏိုင္ငံျခားသားေတြရဲ႕ အဆိုအမိန္႔ေတြနဲ႔ ကိုယ္လိုရာဆြဲၿပီး အနက္ ဖြင့္ျပၾကပါတယ္။ သူတို႔ထဲက တခ်ိဳ႕ရဲ႕အဆိုအရ ဒါဟာ “ႏိုင္ငံေရး ေရခ်ိန္ နိမ့္ေနေသးတဲ့ ဗမာျပည္သားေတြ” ကို ပညာေပးတဲ့သေဘာ ျဖစ္ဟန္တူပါတယ္။ သူတို႔ ေရးတာေတြထဲမွာ သတိထားမိတဲ့တခ်က္က သူတို႔ေျပာတဲ့ စတိတ္စမင္း ဆိုတာမ်ိဳးကို ဗမာျပည္သား ထဲက တဦးတေယာက္ကိုမွ ကိုးကားေထာက္ျပတာ မေတြ႔ရတာ ပါပဲ။ ဒီေတာ့ အဂၤလိပ္နယ္ခ်ဲ႕သမားနဲ႔ ဂ်ပန္ဖက္ဆစ္ေတြကို တြန္းလွန္ ဖယ္ရွားခဲ့တဲ့၊ ႏွစ္ေပါင္း (၆၀) ေက်ာ္ ျပည္တြင္းစစ္ကိုဆင္ႏႊဲေနတဲ့၊ ႏွစ္ေပါင္း (၅ဝ) နီးပါး စစ္အာဏာရွင္ေတြကို ဆန္႔က်င္တိုက္ခိုက္ေနတဲ့ ဒီႏိုင္ငံမွာ စတိတ္စမင္းတေယာက္မွ မရွိပါ ကလားလို႔ ေတြးယူရမလိုျဖစ္လာပါတယ္။
