Sunday, March 4, 2012

Al-Sadr orders extension of ceasefire.(News)

Anti-US cleric Moqtada al-Sadr ordered his feared Mehdi Army yesterday to maintain its six-month ceasefire as members of the militia clashed with US and Iraqi soldiers in Baghdad.

Authorities in Italy and the United States conducted raids codenamed "Old Bridge" yesterday, targeting dozens of alleged members of Mafia clans who controlled drug trafficking between the two sides of the Atlantic, officials said. The operation targeted Mafia figures who were strengthening contacts between mob groups in Italy and the United States.

Attacks and threats against Sri Lanka's media are creating a culture of silence and lack of dissent just as abductions, killings and …

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