Sen. Barack Obama said he found "a strong, emerging consensus" for the redeployment of U.S. combat forces from Iraq, with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki telling Obama he hoped American combat troops will be gone in two years.
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Sen. Barack Obama said he found "a strong, emerging consensus" for the redeployment of U.S. combat forces from Iraq, with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki telling Obama he hoped American combat troops will be gone in two years.

Former Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadzic, accused of masterminding "ethnic cleansing" deportations and killings of Bosnian Muslims and Croats, has been arrested after more than a decade in hiding, a U.N. war crimes tribunal said Monday.


A Spanish court has cleared two Syrian-born men of indictments for alleged terrorist financing, according to court documents viewed by CNN on Monday.

Video shows an Israeli soldier firing a rubber bullet at a handcuffed, blindfolded Palestinian man this month in the West Bank, an Israeli human rights group said Sunday.

Dell has announced plans to start shipping Ubuntu 8.04 on its Linux-based desktop and laptop systems. The new version will ship with licensed media codecs for popular audio and video formats.

One of five British hostages captured in Iraq last year has committed suicide, the kidnappers said in a videotape obtained by The Sunday Times.

A blast from an improvised explosive device killed nine Indian soldiers traveling Saturday in an army convoy and wounded more than 10, an army spokesman said.

Iran hopes that Saturday's talks in Switzerland on its nuclear program will lead to a "positive outcome," the state-run news agency quoted Iran's foreign minister as saying.
At least 15 passengers were killed Friday when a bus hit a pothole on a highway in Nepal and plunged into a river west of Kathmandu, police said.
Explosives used to destroy land mines have disappeared from a site near Lyon, France, the French Interior Ministry said Friday.
Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday offered his strongest public statement yet on sex abuse against minors by Roman Catholic priests, apologizing to victims and calling the abuse "evil."
Sen. Barack Obama arrived Saturday in Afghanistan on the first stop of his tour of the Middle East and Europe, aimed at boosting the U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful's foreign policy credentials, his campaign confirmed.

A Japanese team has developed a Ferroelectric flash memory technology which they claim will allow flash to last hundreds of years and endure millions of writes. It's unknown how fast and how cheap it will be, but we may well find out in the next few years, as the industry may be forced to transition by failure of older technology to scale down.

Ridata announced Tuesday a new line of SSDs in every way comparable to the OCZ Core line. How long will it be until these see wide adoption? How long until the market shakes down to fewer manufacturers?

On the eve of one of her top diplomats meeting with an Iranian official, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the United States is sticking to its policy that Iran must suspend its nuclear program before negotiations can proceed.
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is dropping an agricultural export tax that has provoked months of protests from farmers, a spokesman said Friday.

The migration of over a million wildebeest between Kenya and Tanzania is one of the wonders of the natural world. Tourists from around the globe have flocked to Kenya to witness the herds streaming across the savanna and over the Mara River.
Pope Benedict XVI recalled the natural beauty he observed during his 20-hour flight to Sydney, saying he felt "a profound sense of awe," and denounced "insatiable consumption" as threatening to the world's environment.