{"id":5381,"date":"2009-08-11T12:35:10","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T16:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/?p=5381"},"modified":"2009-08-11T13:01:16","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T17:01:16","slug":"world-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/uncategorized\/world-links\/5381\/","title":{"rendered":"World Links: Verdict Delivered In Burma, Taliban Attack Thwarted In Kuwait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Burmese pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irrawaddy.org\/highlight.php?art_id=16527\" target=\"_blank\">sentenced to three years of hard labor<\/a> for violating the terms of her house arrest, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mizzima.com\/news\/inside-burma\/2608-aung-san-suu-kyis-conviction-sparks-global-outcry.html\" target=\"_blank\">sparking global outcry<\/a>. Her sentence is commuted to a new term of house arrest of up to 18 months.<\/p>\n<p>The toll from <a href=\"http:\/\/shanghaiist.com\/2009\/08\/11\/typhoon_morakot_news_roundup.php\" target=\"_blank\">Typhoon Morakot<\/a> continues to rise as huge mudslides bury a rural village in south-central Taiwan and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2009-08\/11\/content_11864800.htm\" target=\"_blank\">seven  apartment buildings<\/a> in coastal China, leaving hundreds of people unaccounted for.<\/p>\n<p>Afghan authorities <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5gH6zTk0ZvJGljIu7bpEh3P2uECEwD9A0NHPO0\" target=\"_blank\">hire 10,000 tribesmen<\/a> to Afghanistan&#8217;s protect insurgency-hit provinces during the election on August 10. Since Monday, several more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/world\/story\/2009\/08\/11\/afghanistan-nato-election-deaths431.html\" target=\"_blank\">NATO troops and civilians have been killed<\/a>, including three U.S. troops, a Polish NATO soldier, two Afghan soldiers, at least nine civilians and 22 Taliban insurgents.<\/p>\n<p>Kuwaiti officials say they have arrested six members of a &#8220;terrorist network&#8221; linked to al Qaeda who were <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/8195401.stm\" target=\"_blank\">planning to attack<\/a> a U.S. military base that is a logistics hub for U.S. troops in Iraq. An interior ministry statement says that all six Kuwaitis had confessed to the crimes after they were arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, presses for an <a href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/200908110499.html\" target=\"_blank\">end to violence against women<\/a> in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.<span class=\"body\"> Aid workers estimate that as many as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XFBf0UwXtdg\" target=\"_blank\">400 women are raped<\/a> every month in Eastern Congo &#8212; a region that has seen two wars and a variety of militia since the end of the 1994 genocide in neighboring Rwanda.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burmese pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is sentenced to three years of hard labor for violating the terms of her house arrest, sparking global outcry. Her sentence is commuted to a new term of house arrest of up to 18 months. 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