18 Dec Global News update catch the news today

1. Global News Update 18 th Dec. 2008 Catch The NEWS Today!

2. Hillary Clinton will face awkward questions about her husband's financial ties with Arab sheikhs and Central Asian oligarchs if Barack Obama nominates her as Secretary of State. Bagosora guilty of masterminding Rwandan genocide The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Thursday convicted the alleged mastermind of the Rwandan genocide and sentenced him to life in prison.

3. China sending ships to fight pirates in Africa China plans to send a fleet of ships to help patrol the pirate-infested waters off the Horn of Africa, Chinese media reported Thursday.

4. Hundreds of exiled Tibetans with their leader Dalai Lama have begun a landmark meeting in northern India to discuss their homeland's future with China in Dharamshala. 15 arrested in Bahrain over 'terror plot' Fifteen people were arrested in Bahrain on Wednesday for what government officials said was a plot to detonate explosives during a series of Shia Muslim observances.

5. Hundreds of exiled Tibetans with their leader Dalai Lama have begun a landmark meeting in northern India to discuss their homeland's future with China in Dharamshala. 'Taliban American' asks Bush to commute prison sentence The man dubbed the "Taliban American" is asking the president to commute the remaining years of his federal prison sentence, according to a statement released by his attorneys Wednesday.

6. Hundreds of exiled Tibetans with their leader Dalai Lama have begun a landmark meeting in northern India to discuss their homeland's future with China in Dharamshala. Militants' rockets pound southern Israel Palestinian militants Wednesday fired a salvo of rockets from Gaza into southern Israel, with one landing in the parking lot of a supermarket in Sderot, the Israeli military said.

7. Hundreds of exiled Tibetans with their leader Dalai Lama have begun a landmark meeting in northern India to discuss their homeland's future with China in Dharamshala. Chrysler shuts down all production Chrysler LLC announced late Wednesday that it is stopping all vehicle production in the United States for at least a month. Chrysler blamed the "continued lack of consumer credit for the American car buyer" for the slow-down in sales that forced the move.

8. Hundreds of exiled Tibetans with their leader Dalai Lama have begun a landmark meeting in northern India to discuss their homeland's future with China in Dharamshala. Affleck launches DR Congo appeal Singer Mick Jagger and actor Ben Affleck have launched a short film to highlight the plight of 250,000 refugees in eastern DR Congo.

9. Hundreds of exiled Tibetans with their leader Dalai Lama have begun a landmark meeting in northern India to discuss their homeland's future with China in Dharamshala. Man Utd deny Real's Ronaldo claim Manchester United have vigorously dismissed suggestions they have agreed to sell winger Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid at the end of the season.

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