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Protesters carry an oversized Bosnian passport and a banner saying "no visa" in downtown Sarajevo, Tuesday Feb. 13, 2007. E.U. Offers Visa-Free Travel to 2 Balkan Nations
| BRUSSELS — Two more countries were offered the prospect of visa-free travel throughout most of the European Union on Thursday, in a move designed to help stabilize the Balkans and calm nationa... (photo: AP / Hidajet Delic) The New York Times
Balkan   EU   Photos   Visa   Wikipedia: Schengen Area  
People march during a protest in Marseille, southern France, Thursday May 27, 2010. Turnout Low in French Pension-Age Rallies
| PARIS — Thousands of French workers took to the streets Thursday to protest a government proposal to raise France’s minimum retirement age from 60, part of a raft of changes aimed at rei... (photo: AP / Claude Paris) The New York Times
France   Labor   Photos   Protest   Wikipedia: General Confederation of Labour (France)  
India rescue workers and police gather at the scene of a train crash in Sardiha, West Bengal state, about 150 kms (90 miles) west of Calcutta, India, early Friday, May 28, 2010. Deaths in India train collision
| At least 15 people have been killed and dozens more injured after an explosion derailed an overnight passenger train in northeastern India, flinging its coaches into the path of an on... (photo: AP / Bikas Das) Al Jazeera
India   Photos   Railway   Terrorism   Wikipedia: Train wreck    
Professor Philip Alston, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Killings, gestures during a news conference Wednesday Feb. 21, 2007 at suburban Makati city east of Manila, Philippines to report on his 10-day trip here on the spate of political kill U.N. Official Set to Ask U.S. to End C.I.A. Drone Strikes
| WASHINGTON — A senior United Nations official is expected to call on the United States next week to stop Central Intelligence Agency drone strikes against people suspected of belonging to Al Q... (photo: AP/Bullit Marquez) The New York Times
CIA   Photos   Washington   Wikipedia: Central Intelligence Agency   un  
Workers clean a boom to be deployed in the response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill at a U.S. Coast Guard command center in Venice, La., Thursday, May 27, 2010. BP breathes sigh of relief as risky mud blast appears to have stopped leak
| The stakes could hardly have been higher but for BP it was a gamble that appears, for now, to have paid off. | After weeks of planning, at 11.30am local time yesterday the US Coast Guard gave a fina... (photo: AP / Gerald Herbert) The Times
Disaster   Oil   Photos   US   Wikipedia: Deepwater Horizon oil spill  
Soldiers gather prior to the start of a media tour organized by government authorities inside the Tivoli Gardens neighborhood in Kingston, Thursday, May 27, 2010. Jamaica: 73 killed in hunt for alleged drug lord
| DAVID McFADDEN | Associated Press Writer= KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Jamaican security forces kicked down doors and arrested dozens of people in a bullet-pocked slum Thursday, and said the death tol... (photo: AP / Rodrigo Abd) The Guardian
Crime   Jamaica   Photos   Police   Wikipedia: Christopher Coke  
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