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Breaking News Fri, 3 Sep 2010
Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during a press conference at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010. Karzai appealed to Taliban fighters Sunday to put down their weapons and accept Afghan laws as the country and its international allies push a program to entice militants away from the insurgency.
Afghanistan   Defence   NATO   Photos   Wikipedia: War in Afghanistan (2001present)  
Karzai slams Nato civilian killings
| Afghan President Hamid Karzai has condemned an air strike by Nato-led forces which he said killed 10 election campaign workers, although US officials maintained it was aimed at an Islamist leader. |... (photo: AP / Musadeq Sadeq)
Al Jazeera
In this photo taken March 30, 2010, soldiers stand guard at the site of a firefight between gunmen and army soldiers on the outskirts of Monterrey, northern Mexico.
Defence   Drugs   Mexico   Photos   Wikipedia: Mexican Drug War  
Dozens killed in Mexico shootout
|  At least 25 people have been killed in clashes between soldiers and suspected drug gang members near the northern Mexican city of Monterrey, local media have reported. | The soldiers stormed a... (photo: AP / Claudio Cruz)
Al Jazeera
 People walk past a branch of Burger King in central London Thursday July 25, 2002. Britain´s Diageo PLC said Thursday it has agreed to sell Burger King Corp., the world´s second-largest fast-food business, to a consortium of U.S. investors. ( 3G Capital to acquire Burger King for $3.3 bn
LOS ANGELES | NEW YORK: Burger King Holdings, the No. 2 US fast-food chain, agreed to sell itself to investment firm 3G Capital for about $3.26 billion in a deal analysts said would give the restauran... (photo: AP Photo ) The Times Of India
Business   Company   Photos   US   Wikipedia: Burger King  
Pakistan's one-day captain Shahid Afridi, top center right, huddles with the rest of his team before the one-day cricket match  between Somerset County Cricket Club and Pakistan at the County Ground in Taunton, England, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. Cricket: Pakistan three to sit out the rest of tour
5:30 AM Friday Sep 3, 2010 Share Email Print | TAUNTON - Pakistan team manager Yawar Saeed says the three players at the centre of fixing allegations will not play in the T20 and one-day international... (photo: AP / Matt Dunham) NZ Herald
Cricket   Pakistan   Photos   Scandal   Wikipedia: Match fixing  
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Containers are handled at the container terminal of the harbour in Hamburg, northern Germany, in this Jan. 16, 2006 file picture. German exports increased by 9.3 percent in May 2007 compared with the same month last year, and the country's trade surplus increased more strongly than expected, according to data released Monday, July 9, 2007. Strong Yen Helps to Fuel Germany's Export Boom
| FRANKFURT — There was a touch of schadenfreude in the most recent earnings report issued by Kuka, a company based in the Bavarian city of Augsburg whose orange in... (photo: AP / Kai-Uwe Knoth, File) The New York Times
Currency   Export   Germany   Photos   Wikipedia: Economy of Germany  
Newly appointed Director General of the ITER (originaly International Thermonuclear  Experimental Reactor) Organization, Japaneze Professor Osamu Motojima, poses for photographers, during a press conference, at CEA (Atomic Energy Authority) headquarters in Cadarache, near Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, southern France , Wednesday, July 28, 2010. Key to limitless energy
| It is one of mankind's most daring experiments — a quest to produce virtually limitless clean energy that, if successful, would revolutionise life on Earth by har... (photo: AP / Claude Paris) Gulf News
Energy   Environment   Nuclear   Photos   Wikipedia: Nuclear fusion  
An Afghan refugee whose house was demolished by heavy flooding, looks for his belongings amid rubble in Azakhel near Peshawar, Pakistan  Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. Pakistan mulls 'flood taxes'
|      Sep 3, 2010 Pakistan mulls 'flood taxes' | By Syed Fazl-e-Haider | KARACHI - The government in Islamabad may impose a 2% tax on all imports to ... (photo: AP / Mohammad Sajjad) Asia Times
Finance   Floods   Pakistan   Photos   Wikipedia: 2010 Pakistan floods  
In this image made Monday, Aug. 30, 2010 from China Central Television footage, North Korea's  Kim Jong Il, left, walks with Chinese President Hu Jintao, right, when they met in Changchun, northeast China's Jilin province on Friday Aug. 27, 2010 China makes its North Korea move
|      Sep 3, 2010 Page 1 of 2 | China makes its North Korea move | By Peter Lee | The Barack Obama administration's policy of "strategic reassur... (photo: AP / CCTV via APTN) Asia Times
China   N Korea   Photos   US   Wikipedia: ROKS Cheonan sinking  
A Philippine National Police officer places flowers at the site where eight Hong Kong tourists were killed in a nearly 12-hour bus hostage standoff on Aug. 23, 2010, involving a dismissed police officer, at Manila's Rizal Park in the Philippines, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010. Coffin mix-up after Philippine hostage crisis
Three coffins used to bring back some of the eight Hong Kong tourists killed last week's Philippine hostage crisis had been mislabelled. | The mix-up was discovered after... (photo: AP / Bullit Marquez) Khaleej Times
Hong Kong   Hostage   Philippines   Photos   Wikipedia: Manila hostage crisis  
Trees are uprooted as Typhoon Kompasu lashes the South Korean city of Chuncheon on Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. Typhoon suspends SKorean flights, kills 3
Typhoon Kompasu slammed into South Korea on Thursday, killing three people in what was called the strongest tropical storm to hit the Seoul area in 15 years. | Powerful g... (photo: AP / Yonhap, Lee Sang-hack) Khaleej Times
Photos   S.Korea   Typhoon   Weather   Wikipedia: Typhoon Kompasu (2010)  
Pedestrians make their way on the Mall with the U.S. Capitol Building in the background for the first major snow of the year in the Washington area Sunday, Jan. 5 Huge snowfall caused by rare clash of weather events
Scientists have shown that a severe snowfall in North America and Northern Europe in the winter of 2009-2010 was caused by a rare, once in a century, collision of two wea... (photo: AP / Lawrence Jacks) BBC News
Global Warming   Photos   Science   Weather   Wikipedia: Winter storm  
Police stand guard as tourists leave the Intercontinental hotel after it was invaded by gunmen who took hostages in the Sao Conrado neighborhood near the Rocinha Slum in Rio  de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday Aug. 21, 2010. One killed, hostages released in Brazil shootout
RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazilian police said all hostages taken Saturday by heavily armed gunmen who stormed an upscale Rio hotel have been released, adding that one person was ... (photo: AP / Felipe Dana) The Times Of India
Brazil   Crime   Photos   Police   Wikipedia: Rio de Janeiro  
Israeli soldiers detain a Palestinian during a military operation in the West Bank city of Hebron, a day after a Palestinian attack left four Israelis dead, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. Palestinians Hunt the Killers of 4 Israelis
| JERUSALEM — Israeli soldiers carried out house-to-house searches in villages near the West Bank city of Hebron on Wednesday, and Palestinian troops rounded up doz... (photo: AP / Nasser Shiyoukhi) The New York Times
Hamas   Israel   Palestine   Photos   Wikipedia: Hamas  
File - Palestinian uprising leader Marwan Barghouti lifts his handcuffed hands as he is escorted by Israeli police into the District Court room for the last session of his trial in Tel Aviv, Thursday May 20, 2004. Jailed Palestinian leader says peace talks will fail
| Ramallah, West Bank: Jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti said peace talks with Israel were destined to fail and the Palestinians must instead focus on endin... (photo: AP / David Silverman/Pool) Gulf News
Israel   Palestine   Peace   Photos   Wikipedia: Peace process in the IsraeliPalestinian conflict  
Combination picture of former Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband, left, in London, Friday Dec. 19, 2008 and his brother, then Environment Secretary and later Foreign Secretary, David Miliband in Manchester, England, Wednesday Sept. 27, 2006. Siblings clash in battle for leadership of Labour Party
By Toby Helm 5:30 AM Thursday Sep 2, 2010 Email Print | The increasingly bitter "battle of the Milibands" for the leadership of Britain's opposition Labour Party has reac... (photo: AP / Oli Scarff, pool, Kirsty Wigglesworth) NZ Herald
Labour Party   Photos   Politics   UK   Wikipedia: Labour Party (UK)  
North America Europe
Political winds swirl for Deval Patrick
BC's Luke Kuechly driven to succeed
Bay Staters brace for Hurricane Earl
Ed Kelly quits as boss of Hub firefighters union
French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, right, addresses his UMP party (Union for a Popular Movement) members, in Paris, Saturday, May 13, 2006.
Sarkozy supports Middle East peace efforts
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Sarkozy supports Middle East peace efforts
Anti-corruption academy opens in Austria
Judge: Paris Hilton may owe $160K over movie deal
Italian porn actress Vittoria Risi poses at 67th Venice Film
French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, right, addresses his UMP party (Union for a Popular Movement) members, in Paris, Saturday, May 13, 2006.
Sarkozy supports Middle East peace efforts
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Asia Middle East
Japan imposes new Iran sanctions over nuclear programme
Chinese warships end first Burma visit
India Maoists 'kill police hostage' in Bihar state
Indian wrestlers fail doping tests
Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during a press conference at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010. Karzai appealed to Taliban fighters Sunday to put down their weapons and accept Afghan laws as the country and its international allies push a program to entice militants away from the insurgency.
Karzai slams Nato civilian killings
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Japan imposes new Iran sanctions over nuclear programme
When Musharraf chose Palestine over Kashmir
The tragic, pointless war in Iraq
Sarkozy supports Middle East peace efforts
French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, right, addresses his UMP party (Union for a Popular Movement) members, in Paris, Saturday, May 13, 2006.
Sarkozy supports Middle East peace efforts
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South America Africa
14 cops killed in Colombia ambush, rebels blamed
Neymar inspires Santos to fourth straight win in Brazil
Tennis: Davydenko falls in New York
Chilean discounting hurts Australian exports to the US
Meat - Pork - Prices
Now meat price surge raises fear of food inflation
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Unrest in Maputo And Matola
No Political Mandate, No Development
Kenya Seeks to Build Image After Bashir Visit Row
Pastoralism Against the Odds
Mubarak
Group promotes Egypt's spy chief for president
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Australia Caribbean
Porn Minister Paul McLeay won't be replaced
95 snakes found in bag at airport
Paul Hogan allowed to travel
Leigh Clifford warns Qantas of highly competitive environmen
Palm Oil - CPO - Sime Darby Plantations In Johor.
Time to fire a second salvo to defend palm oil
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Cost of an election
U.S. Open run over for Canada's Polansky
Hurricane Earl weakens as it nears US
EU approves financial crisis aid for19 poor countries
This satellite image provided by NOAA shows Hurricane Earl taken Thursday Sept. 2, 2010.
Hurricane Earl weakens as it nears US
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