The Read International Midday News Thread For 11/25/08

Photo from AFP(A number of protesters stormed a major Thai airport today.

From the BBC:
1. UN calls for rapid Zimbabwe Deal
2. Iraq jails are apparently overcrowded. That reminds me of one other country. I wonder what country that is? Hmmm.
3. The French version of the Republican Party in-fighting over here has been settled, for now.

From The CBC:
1. No jail For British citizens in Dubai beach sex case.
2. Protesters storm a major Thai airport
3. Youtube is getting bigger. Literally and figuratively.

From Al Jazeera:
1. First Iran, and now Afghanistan is calling for their own timetable.

Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan's president, has demanded foreign powers set a "timeline" for the withdrawal of their forces from his country.

He told a delegation from the UN Security Council that without the timeline he would have to seek a political solution to the Taliban-led insurgency, his office said on Tuesday.

"The international community should give us a timeline of how long or how far the 'war on terrorism' will go," Homayun Hamidzada, Karzai's chief spokesman, cited the president as telling the delegation.

2. Demand for Chinese exports continues to lessen in the midst of the global economic crisis.
3. And read this one about Russian warships entering Venezuela.

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