International

International strikes kill nine Afghan police (AFP via Yahoo! News)

20 Jul 2008

Nine policemen were killed in Afghanistan Sunday in international military air strikes called in when police and troops clashed after mistaking each other for Taliban, authorities said.

Japan: Environmental activists must be treated in accordance with international law (Amnesty International)

20 Jul 2008

Amnesty International has expressed its deep concern to the prime minister of Japan about the detention of two Greenpeace activists, Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki, who have been charged with theft and trespass.

Sherman E. Lee, 90; former director of Cleveland art museum gave it international prestige (Los Angeles Times)

20 Jul 2008

Sherman E. Lee, a former longtime director of the Cleveland Museum of Art whose keen-eyed collecting of old European and Asian masterpieces gave it international prestige, died of natural causes July 9 in Chapel Hill, N.C. He was 90.