Abe to replace Koizumi as Japan's PM
(AFP)
 AFP - Outspoken conservative Shinzo Abe was to become Japan's youngest prime minister and the nation's first leader born after World War II on Tuesday, replacing the veteran Junichiro Koizumi.
© 2025 Yahoo Tue, 26 Sep 12:30am  Britain's Blair to unveil route map to poll success
(Reuters)
Reuters - British Prime Minister Tony Blair
will on Tuesday offer his Labour Party a route map to win a
fourth straight election as a fragile truce over the leadership
appeared in jeopardy.
© 2025 Yahoo Tue, 26 Sep 12:30am Lawyer for detainees speaks on suicides
(AP)
 AP - An attorney who represents several Guantanamo Bay detainees said the U.S. military is attempting to falsely link him to the suicides of three prisoners at the U.S. base to deflect blame for its own actions.
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UN secures first pledges for Darfur peacekeeping force
(AFP)
 AFP - The United Nations secured its first pledges for a proposed major UN peacekeeping force for the strife-torn Sudanese region of Darfur, officials said.
© 2025 Yahoo Tue, 26 Sep 12:30am U.S. military deaths in Iraq
(AP)
 AP - As of Monday, Sept. 25, 2006, at least 2,701 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians. At least 2,152 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.
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