Chavez gets green light for unlimited re-electionCARACAS - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Sunday clinched his long-sought right to seek an unlimited number of terms in office as more than 54 percent of Venezuelan voters backed a constitutional change. Twelve arrested in China for CCTV building fireBEIJING - Beijing police have arrested 12 people, including an official of the China Central Television (CCTV), for the fire in the company’s new headquarters building Monday that killed one person and injured seven, officials said Thursday. 13 killed in China fireworks plant explosionJINAN - At least 13 people have been killed in an explosion at an illegal fireworks plant in eastern China, officials said Sunday. Tiny hot-air balloons spark UFO scare in GermanyMANNHEIM - Germany’s UFO hotline has been inundated with thousands of calls from people who have mistaken glowing lights in the night sky for alien space objects. Kilinochchi’s fall a major setback to LTTE (News Analysis)Ten years after they captured the northern Sri Lankan town of Kilinochchi in a blitzkrieg that stunned the world, the Tamil Tigers have finally lost it to a military determined to crush the rebels. The fall of Kilinochchi after months of fighting is a huge blow to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). |