Thursday, October 8, 2009

World Watch: The written word

* World: Romanian-born German author Herta Müller won the Nobel literature award for her depictions of the “landscape of the dispossessed" in her work.

* Afghanistan: At least seventeen people died due to a car bomb that went off outside the Indian Embassy in Kabul.

* Africa: Ugandan police arrested a former intelligence officer accused of involvement in the 1994 massacre of hundreds of thousands of Rwandans.

* Italy: Prime Minster Silvio Berlusconi is losing his sanity after Italy’s constitutional court removed his legal immunity.

Image- Times Online
Online Sources- New York Times, BBC News, Guardian UK, Al Jazeera Online

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