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General Fonseka, the loser of last month's Sri Lankan election, has been imprisoned after he threatened to challenge the result. The government said the revered General was "hell-bent" on betraying the country's "gallant armed forces" which refer to Fonseka's earlier statement that he was ready to provide evidence of war crimes against the Tamil Tigers to international prosecutors.

The streets of Colombo were filled with supporters of General Fonseka, president-elect Rajapaksa and security forces on Wednesday. Pictures of the running clashes are here.
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Iran will block internal access to gmail according to a Google spokesperson in San Francisco. The Ahmadinejad government is preparing for the anniversary of the 1979 revolution on Thursday. Anti-government protest have utilized state holidays to hold their own protests following the disputed elections this summer.
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Pakistani intelligence has reported that it has definitive evidence the Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud is dead. Official Taliban spokesmen have denied their leader's fatality, but on Tuesday an anonymous Taliban official said that Mehsud had died from injuries sustained during a January 14th drone attack.