BELGIAN UNITY: Belgium’s feuding political parties agreed to form a coalition government Tuesday after nine months of political chaos that threatened to carve the seat of the European Union in half.
MYANMAR REBUFF: Ibrahim Gambari, the UN envoy to Myanmar, expressed disappointment Tuesday that his latest visit to the military-ruled nation did not produce “any immediate tangible outcome.”
MEXICO WINDS: Winds with gusts reaching 60 m.p.h. lashed the Mexico city of Monterrey on Tuesday, leaving two people dead and six injured.
SOMALIA FORCE: UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon urged the international community Tuesday to build the foundations for peace in Somalia by boosting UN political efforts and deploying a new 8,000-strong multinational force.
UAE STRIKE: Dubai police arrested hundreds of South Asian workers on Tuesday who smashed office windows and set fire to cars during a strike for higher pay in the United Arab Emirates.
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‘Yeah, I took the photos, but I didn’t make it worldwide…. If the media hadn’t exposed the pictures to that extent, then thousands of lives would have been saved.’
– Lynndie England, the public face of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, as quoted in Stern, a German newsmagazine. The former Army private was remorseful but unrepentant, and conceded that the publication of photos from the Iraqi prison incensed insurgents.
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Page compiled from Tribune news services
