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April 15th, 2009

World Links: India Prepares for World's Largest Democratic Elections; Afghan Women March in Kabul

Ten members of the Darfur rebel group Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) are sentenced to death for a 2008 attack on the Sudanese capital, Khartoum.

More than 700 million Indians prepare to vote in the largest democratic elections on earth.

Colombian authorities capture the country’s most wanted drug lord, Daniel Rendón Herrera, or “Don Mario.”

Hundreds of Afghan women march in the streets of Kabul to protest a new law bringing back Taliban-era restrictions on women.

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