` ` OREO ` 12 27 07 - Morning Edition ` ` Newsstories of interest: ` ** = Important ` MH = Misleading Headline [in this edition: 2] ` ` ` 1 DISORDER ` ` Gun seized after Katrina? NRA wants you ` http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071227/ap_on_re_us/katrina_confiscated_guns "police...taking people's guns without any legal reason" ` ` ` Kelly court photos lands woman in jail ` http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071225/ap_en_mu/r__kelly_fan_arrested ` Judge "also ordered her cell phone destroyed." ` ` ` US police fatalities spike in 2007 ` http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071227/ap_on_re_us/police_deaths ` "186 officers as of Dec. 26, up from 145 last year" ` ==== ` Does the software at this site automatically convert URLs ` to links? If not, go to the Oreo Archive: ` Oreo ` ==== ` ` ` 2 AFRICA ` ` DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO ` http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20071226/wl_csm/ocongopush ` "With the help of an 18,000-strong United Nations force, thousands of government troops and tons of munitions were bused and airlifted into...North Kivu Province." "only a few days into the offensive, the rebels last week coun- terattacked, sending the army into a disorderly retreat" ` BLUE HELMET GANGRENE ` ` ` SUDAN ` South Sudanese rejoin national government ` http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071227/wl_africa_afp/sudanpolitics ` "the two sides announced on December 12 that an agreement had been reached that would pave the way for the return of the southerners to the cabinet." ` ` ` 3 ASIA ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (IRAQ) ` US troops kill 11 Mahdi breakaways ` http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071227/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq ` "Both the Iraqi government and the U.S. military each hold more than 20,000 prisoners detained since the U.S.-led in- vasion of 2003." ` 40,000 PLUS ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (IRAN) ` Iranian Jews say republic safe for them ` http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071227/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_israel_exodus ` "the immigrants were not Iranian" ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (PAKISTAN) ` MH Pakistani opponents in gunbattle; 4 dead ` http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071227/ap_on_re_as/pakistan ` "pro-government party supporters opened fire on people gather- ing for a[n opposition party] rally" ` ` ` 4 EUROPE ` ` RUSSIAN FEDERATION ` ...Putin met with Defence Minister...Serdyukov ` http://www.kremlin.ru/eng/text/news/2007/12/155544.shtml ` "construction of the Black Sea Fleet naval base in Novoros- siisk is progressing on schedule." ` ` ...Putin met with President of the Supreme Court...Lebedev ` http://www.kremlin.ru/eng/text/news/2007/12/155533.shtml ` "The courts examined more than 7 million civil cases and almost 6 million administrative cases in 2007, while the number of criminal cases was close to 1 million" ` ` ` 5 LATAM ` ` HAITI ` UN envoy to Haiti addresses sex abuse ` http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071227/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/haiti_un_sex_scandal ` "Haiti['s] 8.7 million people already have an uneasy relation- ship with the U.N. force" "now focusing on securing Haiti's ...border with the Dominican Republic" ` BLUE HELMET GANGRENE ` ` ` NICARAGUA ` MH Nicaragua court probes Volz case ` http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071227/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/nicaragua_us_homicide ` "Supreme Court...investigating two judges who overturned the 30-year sentence and conviction of an American" ` ` ` ==== ` ` Oreo Archive: ` http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-r-e-o ` ` Comments? Email: ` jaspar2002us at yahoo dot com ` `
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