“Somali forces on Tuesday freed the 11-man crew of a hijacked ship and captured the 10 pirates who seized the vessel last week, according to the foreign minister for Puntland, a semi-autonomous region of northern Somalia.”

“Saudi Arabia beheaded two men Tuesday, the latest state-sanctioned killings in a country where use of the death penalty has risen sharply in recent years and a disproportionate number of those executed are foreigners, a rights group said.”

“Vietnam on Tuesday put on trial two reporters who helped expose state corruption in a case seen as a test of media freedoms in the communist country.”

The government will force nine banks to sell shares to the government. The Treasury hopes that this will help end the financial crisis.

“A Cambodian court Tuesday sentenced three former Khmer Rouge guerrillas to 20 years in jail over the 1996 kidnapping and murder of a British mine clearer and his translator.”

“[S]oftware called DriveAssistT that will detect whether a cell phone is moving at car speeds. When that happens, the software will alert the cellular network, telling it to hold calls and text messages until the drive is over.”

“In polarized Lebanon, flaunting a political leader’s poster can be enough to spark a gunfight. So shopkeepers on Beirut’s al-Maamoun Street are breathing a little easier now that ‘poster disarmament’ has been declared.”

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