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Russia urges Sweden to extradite Chechen "bandits" (Reuters)

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Reuters – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev urged Sweden Tuesday to extradite two men it says are Chechen separatists and accuses of involvement in killings and kidnappings.

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New US-Russia nuclear treaty possible in next weeks: Lavrov (AFP)

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Russia's Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov during a press conference in Berlin on February 2010. There is a chance that a new US-Russian treaty on nuclear arms cuts will be ready in the next two or three weeks, Lavrov said Tuesday.(AFP/DDP/File/Berthold Stadler)AFP – There is a chance that a new US-Russian treaty on nuclear arms cuts will be ready in the next two or three weeks, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday.

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Russia sees new nuclear arms treaty by April (AP)

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

AP – A new treaty limiting U.S. and Russian strategic nuclear arsenals could be signed within two or three weeks, Russian news agencies cited Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov as saying Tuesday.

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NKorea has medium-range missile division: report (AP)

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

U.S. soldiers, wearing gray uniform, and South Korean Marines warm up before the mountain warfare training for the joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises Key Resolve/Foal Eagle (KR/FE) 2010 in Pohang, South Korea, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. North Korea's army said Monday it is ready to 'blow up' South Korea and the U.S., hours after the allies kicked off annual military drills that Pyongyang has denounced as a rehearsal for attack. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)AP – North Korea has recently created an army division in charge of newly developed intermediate-range missiles capable of striking U.S. forces in Japan and Guam, a South Korean news agency said Tuesday.

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New book: Defector tells of shopping in Europe for North Korea dictators (The Christian Science Monitor)

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

In this photo released by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service in Tokyo on Sunday, March 7, 2010, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il claps during a massive rally Saturday, March 6, 2010, marking the completion of the Vinalon Complex, in Hamhung, North Korea. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)The Christian Science Monitor – Firsthand exposés about the personal lives of North Korea’s leaders can put the lives of their authors at risk, even if they are far away.The latest tell-all, published in Austria by two journalists to whom former Army Col. Kim Jong-ryul told his story, is a case in point.

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NKorea has medium-range missile division: report (AP)

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

U.S. soldiers, wearing gray uniform, and South Korean Marines warm up before the mountain warfare training for the joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises Key Resolve/Foal Eagle (KR/FE) 2010 in Pohang, South Korea, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. North Korea's army said Monday it is ready to 'blow up' South Korea and the U.S., hours after the allies kicked off annual military drills that Pyongyang has denounced as a rehearsal for attack. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)AP – North Korea has recently created an army division in charge of newly developed intermediate-range missiles capable of striking U.S. forces in Japan and Guam, a South Korean news agency said Tuesday.

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Coast Guard begins hearing on Texas oil spill (AP)

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

FILE - In this Jan. 23, 2010 file photo, a barge is seen making a large impact gash in the side of the Eagle Otome after the two vessels collided causing as much as 450,000 gallons of crude oil to spill, according to the U.S. Coast Guard in Port Arthur, Texas. The pilots of a tugboat and tanker that collided in a Gulf of Mexico waterway, causing the worst Texas oil spill in 15 years, were aware of how close together their vessels were but were apparently unaware they were about to collide, according to audio recordings played Tuesday, March 9, 2010 during a Coast Guard hearing.The Jan. 23 collision off of Port Arthur dumped 462,000 gallons of crude oil into the Sabine Neches Waterway, forcing its temporary closure and coating some wildlife in oil. No one was injured. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Julio Cortez, File)AP – An 800-foot tanker struggling with poor visibility and strong winds apparently failed to center itself in a narrow waterway off the Gulf of Mexico, possibly contributing to a collision with a tugboat that caused the largest oil spill in Texas in 15 years, according to testimony and evidence presented at a Coast Guard hearing on Tuesday.

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Obama criticized for Mexico, Brazil sanctions (Reuters)

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Reuters – Republicans and business groups on Tuesday criticized President Barack Obama’s administration for failing to resolve a cross-border trucking dispute nearly one year after Mexico slapped retaliatory duties on about $2.4 billion worth of U.S. exports.

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Man pleads not guilty in Colo. to smuggling drugs (AP)

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

AP – A man charged with helping smuggle millions of dollars worth of cocaine from Mexico to the United States has pleaded not guilty in Denver federal court.

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Lawyers in Mexico church sex abuse case resign (AP)

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

AP – A Mexican lawyer said Monday he has resigned from handling the case of a woman and her sons who claim the males were sexually abused as boys by the founder of a conservative Roman Catholic religious order.

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