Is the U.S. Training Cambodian Troops Linked to Human Rights Abuses? (Time.com)

Is the U.S. Training Cambodian Troops Linked to Human Rights Abuses? (Time.com)
Sri Lanka president sworn-in, vows economic revival (AFP)
Asylum seekers sew lips together in Australia (AFP)
Fresh Haiti Earthquake Fears as Geologists Find Fault Line (Time.com)
EU changes mind on saving bluefin tuna
Top Mafia boss arrested in Italy
Afghan strategy top of Nato agenda
Al-Qaeda wing in warning to France
Miners missing after New Zealand explosion
China's Catholic church says it will ordain bishop (AP)
What Inflation In China Feels Like
Top Mafia boss arrested in Italy
Madagascar tells families to leave rebel barracks
Ian Bell tolls as England rack up big lead (AFP)
Calm returns to Guinea after days of unrest
Poor sanitation could worsen Haiti cholera outbreak, CDC says
Saudis: We helped foil parcel-bomb plot
Obama pushes arms treaty approval
Suu Kyi unveils her vision for Myanmar
U.S. Navy vessel assists two adrift Iranians

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 10:15 PM PST

Time.com - Federal law bars U.S. forces from assisting foreign military units if there is evidence that theyhave gone unpunished after committing human rights violations. In Cambodia, thequestion of how Washington should interpret that law is far fromsettled

Sri Lanka president sworn-in, vows economic revival (AFP)

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 10:56 PM PST

AFP - Sri Lanka's powerful president, Mahinda Rajapakse, vowed to turn his battle-scarred nation into the economic "wonder" of Asia as he was sworn in Friday for a second six-year term.

Asylum seekers sew lips together in Australia (AFP)

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 10:50 PM PST

AFP - Up to 10 asylum-seekers in a remote Australian immigration detention centre have sewn their lips together, the government said Friday, just days after an Iraqi inmate at a Sydney centre took his own life.

Fresh Haiti Earthquake Fears as Geologists Find Fault Line (Time.com)

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 10:15 PM PST

Time.com - Scientists have discovered that the Jan. 12 quake was caused by an unknown fault and that the one everyone expected to blow has yet to prove its terrifying potential

EU changes mind on saving bluefin tuna

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 10:46 PM PST

European Union to reject measures to protect the endangered bluefin tuna from being over-fished in the Atlantic

Top Mafia boss arrested in Italy

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 10:11 PM PST

Police in Italy capture one of Italy's most-wanted fugitive mobsters, Antonio 'The Baby' Iovine, considered the financial brains behind the bloodiest of the Camorra gangs.

Afghan strategy top of Nato agenda

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 10:36 PM PST

Nato's exit strategy from Afghanistan will be top of the agenda for Lisbon summit in one of the most important Nato summits to date

Al-Qaeda wing in warning to France

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 10:42 PM PST

AQIM demands French forces leave Afghanistan in return for the safety of French nationals kidnapped in Niger.

Miners missing after New Zealand explosion

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 10:20 PM PST

Twenty-five to 30 people were unaccounted for after an underground explosion rocked a coal mine on New Zealand's west coast on Friday, a CNN affiliate said.

China's Catholic church says it will ordain bishop (AP)

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 10:32 PM PST

AP - China's government-backed Catholic church says it will proceed with the ordination of a bishop who does not have the pope's approval, despite objections raised by the Vatican.

What Inflation In China Feels Like

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 09:51 PM PST

People in China have felt the effects of inflation for longer than the headlines suggest.

Top Mafia boss arrested in Italy

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 10:11 PM PST

Police in Italy capture one of Italy's most-wanted fugitive mobsters, Antonio 'The Baby' Iovine, considered the financial brains behind the bloodiest of the Camorra gangs.

Madagascar tells families to leave rebel barracks

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 11:00 PM PST

ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) - Madagascar's government on Friday warned families living in a barracks housing a small group of dissident army officers to leave, but insisted it wanted to avoid any bloodshed.

Ian Bell tolls as England rack up big lead (AFP)

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 09:56 PM PST

AFP - Ian Bell tuned up for next week's Ashes opener with a commanding 192 to steer England to a huge innings lead over Australia A on the penultimate day of the four-day tour match at Bellerive Oval on Friday.

Calm returns to Guinea after days of unrest

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 10:06 PM PST

After three days of violence throughout the country that killed at least nine people, injured dozens more and pushed the ruling military junta to declare a national state of emergency, calm returned to Guinea on Thursday.

Poor sanitation could worsen Haiti cholera outbreak, CDC says

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 12:48 PM PST

The cholera epidemic already blamed for more than 1,100 deaths in Haiti could worsen because of poor sanitation in the earthquake-ravaged country, U.S. medical researchers reported Thursday.

Saudis: We helped foil parcel-bomb plot

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 04:41 PM PST

Saudi Prince Khalid al Faisal acknowledged Thursday that Saudi Arabia alerted U.S. and European authorities to the presence of parcel bombs that were en route from Yemen.

Obama pushes arms treaty approval

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 12:42 PM PST

President Barack Obama urged the lame duck Senate to quickly ratify the new arms control treaty with Russia, arguing that United States cannot "afford to gamble" on the need to effectively monitor that country's nuclear stockpile.

Suu Kyi unveils her vision for Myanmar

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 09:18 PM PST

CNN's Fred Pleitgen just spent 16 days in Myanmar following events there, although the regime did not allow CNN to report officially. CNN has now released his interview with pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi.