U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates speaks to workers at the US Embassy in the Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq, 10 Dec 2009
US Defense Secretary Warns Iran of New Sanctions
Remarks, made as Robert Gates visits Iraq, come as other Western leaders are also warning of possible sanctions
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U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates
Gates Says US Air Force May Remain in Iraq Beyond 2011
US defense secretary spoke to US troops at Forward Operating Base Warrior, near Kirkuk, northern Iraq
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A hostage-taker walks past villagers taken as hostages by Joebert "Ondo" Perez, unseen, and his group of former government militiamen at a remote village in Prosperidad township, Agusan del Sur province in southern Philippines, 11 Dec 2009
Philippine Kidnapping Gang Frees 9 Hostages, Still Holds 48
Hostages were among 75 people seized Thursday from a school in Agusan del Sur province
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U.S. President Barack Obama's special envoy on North Korea, Stephen Bosworth, answers a reporter's questions during a press briefing after returning from North Korea at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, 10 Dec 2009
North Korean Assessment of US Visit Seen as Positive in South Korea
US envoy Stephen Bosworth spent- Iran Warns Against 'Interference' in Yemen's Affairs
- US Military: Afghan Surge Begins Next Week
- Gates Offers US Support After Deadly Iraq Bombings
- President Obama Accepts Nobel Peace Prize
- Iran's Intelligence Minister Hits Out at Opposition
- US Officials Pressed on Afghan Government Capabilities, Efforts Against al-Qaida
- Police in Pakistan Link 5 US Nationals to al-Qaida
- Iraqi Lawmakers Question Maliki about Security
- 'Useful' US Visit to N. Korea Yields No Date for Nuclear Talks
- US Senators Agree On A Framework For A Climate Change Bill
- Obama: No 'Precipitous Drawdown' of US Forces in Afghanistan
- Clinton Calls 'Exploratory' Meeting with North Korea 'Quite Positive'
 |  | EU leaders agree to pay 7.2bn euros over three years to a global warming fund, in a deal they hope may boost world efforts. |
| Shell wins Iraq oil field rights A consortium led by Shell wins the rights to develop Iraq's giant Majnoon oil field, while another contract is given to a Chinese firm. | | Cyprus ex-leader's corpse stolen Thieves steal the corpse of Tassos Papadopoulos, the former president of the Republic of Cyprus, police say. |
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 |  A non-violent movement could not have halted Hitler's armies. Negotiations cannot convince al Qaeda's leaders to lay down their arms.  —US President Barack Obama, commenting on military action in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech |
Chinese, Burmese Military Leaders Discuss Border Security |
| By WAI MOE |
| A senior Chinese army officer has held talks in Naypyidaw with a Burmese military leader on efforts to ensure stability on the Sino-Burmese border. |
Obama Warns Dictators of 'Consequences' in Nobel Acceptance Speech |
| By LALIT K JHA |
| US President Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech singles out Burma's repressive regime and honors fellow laureate Aung San Suu Kyi for her commitment to democratic reform. |
UN Urged to Investigate Junta's Crimes Against Humanity |
| By LALIT K JHA |
| A total of 442 members of parliaments from 29 countries call for the UN Security Council to form a commission of inquiry to investigate war crimes and crimes against humanity in Burma. |
NEWS ANALYSISNobel Speech Places Obama Within Realist-Liberal Tradition |
| By JIM LOBE |
| In formally accepting the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo Thursday, US President Barack Obama enunciated a worldview that places him squarely within the realist and liberal internationalist thinking. |
Exiled Media Brace for 2010 Election Challenge |
| By MARWAAN MACAN-MARKAR |
| A promised election in military-ruled Burma next year will be held in a vastly different media culture compared to the last general election in 1990, Burmese journalists said at a regional media forum. |
‘Judiciary system’, junta’s arm for abuses: Rights group
Decades of exploitation by the rulers has led to Burma’s once assertive and independent judiciary system being reduced into an arm of the bureaucracy, resulting in lack of...Burma: world’s fifth worst jailer of freelance journalists
Military-ruled Burma has been ranked the world’s fifth worst country in terms of imprisoning freelance journalists, while its closest ally, China, is number one, according to a new report......UNSC urged to investigate junta’s ‘Crime against Humanity’
On International Human Rights Day, 442 Members of Parliament from 29 countries on Thursday urged the United Nations Security Council to set up a commission of...Burma seeks investment from Bangladesh
Burma has proposed to Bangladesh to set up joint-venture industries and agricultural farms in Burma to utilize its huge workforce and Burmese land. Burmese Ambassador to Bangladesh...Burma can benefit from a rapidly developing China
Burma needs to reorient its economy and business environment in order to deal with and gain from economic challenges and opportunities resulting from China’s economic boom,...Chin refugees subjected to local discrimination in India: Report
Washington-based advocacy group Refugee International on Wednesday said Burmese refugees in India are subjected to widespread discrimination because of India’s lack of...| British govt launches innovative Burma campaign Dec 11, 2009 (DVB)–The British government has teamed up with two prominent rights groups to highlight the story of Burma’s political prisoners in a bid to pressure the ruling junta as it prepares for elections next year. - more |
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| Two farmers handed 7-year sentence Dec 11, 2009 (DVB)–Two farmers involved in a land dispute in Burma which was taken up by the International Labour Organisation were yesterday given seven-year prison sentences. - more |
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| US citizen was ‘visiting cancer sick mother’ Dec 11, 2009 (DVB)–The Burmese-born US citizen standing trial in Burma on charges of fraud had flown to the country to visit his mother, who is sick with cancer, his wife wrote today in The Nation newspaper. - more |
“အခု သူတို႔လုပ္တာက ျပည္ပကို ေစ်းအျမင့္နဲ႔ ေရာင္းမယ္။ ျပည္တြင္း ဆန္ေစ်းကိုေတာ့.... ”
“သူတို႔ေျပာေတာ့ ေသြးလြန္ တုပ္ေကြး ကာကြယ္မႈေတြကို အပတ္စဥ္.....”
“စာမွာက မိုင္းေပါက္၊ မိုင္းဖ်န္ကို ဝေတြက ေတာင္းေနတာ မျဖစ္ သင့္ဘူးေပါ့.....”
ဒီဇင္ဘာလ ၁၀ ရက္ေန႔တြင္ က်ေရာက္ေသာ ႏုိင္ငံတကာလူ႔ အခြင့္အေရးေန႔မွာ ဂ်ပန္ ႏုိင္ငံေရာက္ ျမန္မာ့ဒီမိုကေရစီအေရးလွဳပ္ရွားသူ အဖြဲ႕အစည္းအသီးသီးမွ ပူးေပါင္း၍ အင္ အား ၈၀ ခန္႔ ပါ၀င္ၿပီး ဂ်ပန္ႏုိင္ငံ တိုက်ဳိၿမိဳ႕ရွိ ကုလသမဂၢ႐ံုး .. 
ယခုလ ၇ ရက္ေန႕ မွ ၉ ရက္ေန႕အထိ က်င္းပခဲ့သည့္ ပအို၀္းအမ်ဳိးသားညီလာခံမွ ပအို၀္းအမ်ဳိးသား လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရး အဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ PNLO ထူေထာင္ေၾကာင္း ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကျငာခ်က္ျဖင့္၂၀၁၀ စိန္ေခၚမႈအား ရင္ဆိုင္ဖို႕ အဆင္သင့္ ျဖစ္ေနေၾကာင္း ဥကၠဌအျဖစ္ ေ႐ြးခ်ယ္တင္ေျမႇာက္ခံရသည့္ ဗိုလ္မႉးႀကီး ခြန္ဥကၠာက ေျပာသည္။
