{"id":4827,"date":"2009-05-29T12:38:23","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T16:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/?p=4827"},"modified":"2009-05-29T12:43:19","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T16:43:19","slug":"world-links-iranian-candidate-ready-for-nuclear-talks-sri-lankan-military-shelling-linked-to-20000-civilian-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/wa-blog\/world-links-iranian-candidate-ready-for-nuclear-talks-sri-lankan-military-shelling-linked-to-20000-civilian-deaths\/4827\/","title":{"rendered":"World Links: Iranian Candidate Ready for Nuclear Talks,  Sri Lankan Military Shelling Linked to 20,000 Civilian Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><span>North Korea <a href=\"http:\/\/www.koreatimes.co.kr\/www\/news\/nation\/2009\/05\/113_45936.html\" target=\"_blank\">test-fires a short-range missile<\/a> on its East Coast &#8211; the the sixth missile it has launched since its second nuclear test on Monday.\u00a0 Chinese fishing boats <a href=\"http:\/\/www.koreaherald.co.kr\/NEWKHSITE\/data\/html_dir\/2009\/05\/30\/200905300028.asp\" target=\"_blank\">flee<\/a> the Wast sea amid fears of a pending clash.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\n<p align=\"justify\">Iranian presidential candidate, Mir-Hossein Moussavi, says he is r<a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail.aspx?id=96378&amp;sectionid=351020101\" target=\"_blank\">eady for nuclear talks with the U.N. Security Council<\/a> but &#8220;will not compromise&#8221; on &#8220;<span>its right to develop nuclear technology.&#8221; Another challenger to President <\/span><span>Mahmoud Ahmadinejad <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail.aspx?id=96385&amp;sectionid=351020101\" target=\"_blank\">campaigns to ex-pats<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>An investigation by the Times U.K. reveals in the final days of the Sri Lankan civil war more than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/asia\/article6383449.ece\" target=\"_blank\">20,000 Tamil civilians were killed<\/a>, mostly by government shelling. A Sri Lankan human rights advocate tells the U.N. Human Rights Council that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nidahasa.com\/news.php?go=fullnews&amp;newsid=811\" target=\"_blank\">media workers\u00a0 have been subjected to intimidation and death threats<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese officials offer a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianews.it\/index.php?l=en&amp;art=15381&amp;size=A\" target=\"_blank\">hard line response<\/a> to recently published memiors of a Chinese Communist Party chief who opposed Army intervention against pro-democracy students in <span class=\"articolo_inside\"><span>Tiananmen <\/span><\/span>Square as the anniversary of the protest approaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea test-fires a short-range missile on its East Coast &#8211; the the sixth missile it has launched since its second nuclear test on Monday.\u00a0 Chinese fishing boats flee the Wast sea amid fears of a pending clash. Iranian presidential candidate, Mir-Hossein Moussavi, says he is ready for nuclear talks with the U.N. 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