Morning Brief: Thousands likely killed in Indonesia quake

Middle East

• Critical international talks over Iran's nuclear program have begun in Switzerland. 
• Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has created a political coalition that includes several Sunni groups. 
• The Israeli government has retained attorneys to dispute war crimes charges from last year's war in Gaza.

Asia

• China celebrated 60 years of Communist rule with its biggest military parade ever. 
• A relief effort has begun in Samoa, where a deadly tsunami killed dozens of people and flattened villages yesterday. The earthquake that caused the tsunami was not directly related to the quake in Indonesia. 
• Assistant U.S. Secretary of State Kurt Campbell met with a Burmese minister in New York. 

Europe

• The fracturing of Romania's coalition government may be putting its IMF aid at risk. 
• Britain has sworn in a brand new supreme court. 
• Northern Ireland police arrested a suspected IRA member for the killing of a policeman seven months ago. 

Africa

• Fighting has broken out between rival Islamist rebel groups in Somalia. 
• The United Nations condemned this week's political violence in Guinea.
• Kenya's controversial anti-corruption chief resigned.  

Americas

• Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was sentenced to six years in jail on corruption charges.  
• Protests by indigenous groups over oil drilling in Ecuador left one dead and dozens wounded. 
• Venezuelan students ended a hunger strike after the Organization of American States agreed to hear their grievances against Hugo Chavez's government.