AC Milan will hold talks with Chelsea after Andriy Shevchenko confirmed he will leave the Italian club.
Shevchenko, 29, met with Milan vice president Adriano Galliani on Friday to discuss his future, and afterwards said: “I’m leaving for family reasons.
“It wasn’t a problem of relations and there is no economic problem.”
Galliani said: “This is [...]

An investigation into claims that US marines may have deliberately killed civilians in Iraq is nearing its end, the Pentagon says.
Official accounts from the Iraqi city of Haditha in November said 15 people were killed by a bomb and firefight.
But reports in the US press say as many as 24 people may have died, [...]

Saleh Molla Abbasi been visited by his family for 15 minutes !!
Mr. Abbasi is an Azerbaijani activist. There is a campaign that askes for help to his release. You can visit the link belov to sign the petiton:
Click here please
, Voice of a Nation

PUBLIC AI Index: MDE 13/055/2006
26 May 2006
UA 151/06 Incommunicado detention/ fear of torture and ill-treatment
IRAN
Dr Ahmad Gholipoor Rezaie, known as Dr Heydaroglu, (m) aged 47 or 48
Hasan Ali Hajabollu, known as Hasan Ark, (m) aged 47 or 48
Hassan Shahi (m)
Ahmad Soltani (m)
Changiz Bakhtave (m)
Babak Bakhtave (m)
Ebrahim Dashti (m)
Hussein Sababi (m)
Javad [...]

By Helen Popper
SHINAHOTA, Bolivia (Reuters) - Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, in a move likely to affirm his role as Washington’s No. 1 Latin American antagonist, flew into a U.S.-funded military base in Bolivia’s cocaine-producing heartland on Friday to sign investment deals with fellow leftist president, Evo Morales.
Morales, a former coca farmer, has formed close ties with [...]

GHAZNI, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Three Taliban militants and two policemen were killed in a clash in southwestern Afghanistan on Friday, a provincial official said.
The clash erupted after guerrillas ambushed a convoy of police in Ghazni province, southwest of the capital Kabul.
“The clash lasted for several hours. We have reports of at least three Taliban and [...]

By Mariam Karouny
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq’s new government risks being held to ransom by a dissident Shi’ite faction using its local clout in Basra to hobble vital oil exports, Iraqi officials and senior political sources said on Friday.
They warned that the locally powerful Fadhila party was threatening to have members in the oil industry stage [...]