10 METRO Wednesday, November 4, 2009 D Karadzic: I need 10 more monthsBy Joel Taylor METROWorld Fiji: Diplomats from Australia and New Zealand were given 24 hours to leave the country yesterday, deepening a rift since Commodore Frank Bainimarama (pictured) overthrew the elected government in a bloodless coup in 2006. The latest spat is over a group of expatriate judges from Sri Lanka that Fiji wants to hire to replace some of those fired in a power grab earlier this year. Australia and New Zealand told the judges that if they took up the posts they would be subject to travel bans the two countries have placed on all senior Fiji officials since the coup. south korea: Taxi men can continue to have TVs on their dashboards, even though they are causing drivers to crash. A court made the ruling after one cabbie in Seoul challenged a fine. Many of them have installed TVs in their cars to beat the boredom of sitting in the citys appalling traffic. The dashboard TVs were a factor in 200 accidents last year, police say. iran: Police said any illegal rallies held today, the 30th anniversary of the takeover of the US embassy in Tehran, will be strongly confronted, and only anti-US protests are legal. Anti-US rallies will take place outside the former embassy to mark the its seizure after the 1979 Islamic revolution when radicals took 52 Americans hostage for 444 days. Reformists have called on people to gather outside the Russian embassy instead, in protest at Moscows recognition of the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (pictured). sauDi araBia: A court has upheld a ruling to behead and crucify a 22-year-old man convicted of raping five children and leaving one of them to die in the desert. The man was arrested earlier this year after a seven-year-old boy helped police. The child left in the desert after the rape was three years old. International rights groups have accused the kingdom, the birthplace of Islam, of applying draconian justice, by beheading murderers, rapists and drug traffickers in public. So far this year, about 40 people have been executed in the country. In Saudi Arabia, crucifixion means tying the body of the convict to wooden beams to be displayed to the public after beheading. north korea: The government announced yesterday it has completed reprocessing thousands of spent nuclear fuel rods to extract plutonium to bolster its atomic stockpile. This has raised the stakes in an apparent effort to get the US into direct negotiations. The country has finished reprocessing 8,000 spent fuel rods, which experts say yields enough plutonium for at least one nuclear bomb. The North is believed to already be in possession of enough plutonium to make at least half a dozen nuclear weapons. The announcement came a day after North Koreas Foreign Ministry pressured Washington to accept its demand for direct talks. a girl of six called Gudia performs in a circus on the outskirts of Jammu in Indian- administered Kashmir Picture: Reuters WhereS ThAT BOTTLe OPeNer? Debut: Karadzic WAR crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic yesterday claimed to be snowed under by documents and needed more time to prepare his case. In his first appearance at his trial for geno- cide, the former Bosnian Serb leader warned he would take no further part unless his wish was granted. He said he needed another ten months to prepare his defence, arguing he had been swamped by 1.3million pages of documents. I dont want to boycott these proceedings but I cannot take part in something that has been bad from the start, Karadzic said when asked by presiding Judge O-Gon Kwon if he would continue his boycott. The 64-year-old, who is defending him- self, is accused of ordering the massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in July 1995. index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html