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Pope Benedict XVI delivers his blessing during the weekly general audience, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, April 14, 2010.
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Pope's fifth anniversary mired in controversy
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VICTOR L. SIMPSON The Associated Press VATICAN CITY - Soon after becoming pope, Benedict XVI flew to Germany to keep a promise to attend a church youth festival. Upon arrival, strong winds blew off his skull cap. The same day, on a boat bringing the pope down the Rhine, gusts toppled a cross from the bow, breaking one of its arms. In retrospect,...
Poles queue day and night to see presidential coffin
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Poles queue day and night to see presidential coffin (News Feature)
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Warsaw - Sylvia Kiejnich knew she was facing a 12-hour wait when she got in line Thursday evening outside the presidential palace, where the coffins of President Lech Kaczynski and wife Maria lie in state after their death in a plane crash. But Kiejnich said it was an occasion to teach her teenage daughters about Polish history and especially...
Pakistani journalists and other stand outside an emergency ward at a local hospital after a suicide attack in Quetta, Pakistan on Friday, April 16, 2010.
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Suicide bomber kills 8 at SW Pakistan hospital
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QUETTA, Pakistan - A suicide bomber attacked a hospital emergency room where Shiite Muslims were mourning a slain bank manager on Friday, killing eight people including a journalist and two policemen in Pakistan's main southwestern city, police said. A suspected U.S. missile strike, meanwhile, killed four alleged militants in the country's...
Tibetan monks and rescuers pull out the body of a student from a school collapsed after an earthquake in Yushu County, northwest China's Qinghai Province, Friday, April 16, 2010.
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Soldiers, monks clear rubble in quake-hit China
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JIEGU, China (AP): Tibetan monks prayed over hundreds of bodies Friday at a makeshift morgue next to their monastery after powerful earthquakes destroyed the remote mountain town of Jiegu in western China and left at least 791 people dead. The official toll was likely to climb further. Gerlai Tenzing, a red-robed monk from the Jiegu Monastery,...
Polish president's body returns to Warsaw . Poland, 11 March 2010
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Poland closes most air space due to volcanic ash
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A woman prays by a photograph of late Polish President Lech Kaczynski in... People line up on Thursday evening, April 15, 2010 near the Presidential... People line up on Thursday evening, April 15, 2010 near the Presidential... WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Polish investigators have begun examining one of three black boxes from the plane crash that killed...
A portrait of Pakistan's slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is seen as supporters place candles in Multan, Pakistan, Saturday, Dec. 27, 2008.
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Pakistan to speed up Bhutto murder probe after UN report
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Islamabad - Pakistan vowed on Friday to speed up the criminal investigation into the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto after a UN report criticized the previous government for failing to protect her despite publicly known threats. A UN investigative report released in New York Thursday said that Bhutto's death in a gun and...
Volcanic ash may force delay in Polish funeral
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Volcanic ash may force delay in Polish funeral
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Warsaw: A huge ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano that has caused the closure of airports across northern Europe may force a delay in Sunday's funeral for Poland's President Lech Kaczynski and his wife, an official in the presidential administration said on Friday. US President Barack Obama and dozens of other world leaders are due to attend the...
Protests mount over Polish president''s tomb
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Protests mount over Polish president''s tomb
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WARSAW: Hundreds took to the streets in Poland on Wednesday in protest against a decision to bury president Lech Kaczynski in a historic cathedral alongside monarchs and national icons. The Internet-fuelled protest campaign against the burial plan has ruptured the national unity seen since Kaczynski perished in an air crash in Russia on Saturday....
A Thai policeman is rescued by his men Friday, April 16, 2010, at a downtown Bangkok, Thailand hotel following a failed attempt to arrest "Red Shirt" leader Arisman Pongruanrong.
photo: AP / Wong Maye-E
Thai security forces surround "red shirt" leaders
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai security forces surrounded a hotel in Bangkok on Friday where anti-government protest leaders are staying and vowed decisive action if the "red shirts" attacked television stations. Anti-government "red shirt" protesters gather in front of a stage in the main shopping district in Bangkok April 15, 2010. (REUTERS/Eric...
Secretary-General Ban ki-moon receives the report from Mr. Heraldo Munoz,(L) Chairperson of the Bhutto Commission of Inquiry and Permanent Representative of Chile, and Mr. Marzuki Darusman of Indonesia,(R) Commission Member, about the Commission's investigation into the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Banazir Bhutto.
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Pak police deliberately failed to probe Bhutto's assassination: UN
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UNITED NATIONS: A UN commission on Thursday blamed inadequate security by Pakistan's federal, state and district governments for the 2007 assassination of the country's former prime minister, Benazir Bhutto. The panel said her death could have been prevented if the government under then-President Pervez Musharraf, the Punjab state government, and...
 
 
The initial failure of Kyrgyzstan's new government to take control of the country, with the...
If Lebanon had a US-style colour-coded "war-fear" alert ranging from white to purple, we are...
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BAGHDAD: Iraq's Shiite prime minister said Friday the Sunni-backed political coalition that is headed by his archrival and won the most seats in last month's parliamentary election must be included in the country's new government. The comments from...
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Paris/Berlin/Brussels: When Angela Merkel appeared to dictate the terms of a euro zone rescue package for Greece last month — unsubsidised loans as a last resort and subject to a German veto — she was widely depicted at home and abroad as...
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AP Photo - Boy scouts arrange candles in front of the Presidential palace on Friday, April 16, 2010 in Warsaw, Poland. Polish President Lech Kaczynski who was killed in a plane crash in Russia is going to be buried in Krakow on Sunday. AP Photo -...
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National PostApril 16, 2010 8:02 AM . Photograph by: Reuters, National Post BANGKOK -Abhisit Vejjajiva, the Thai Prime Minister, will not bow to "red shirt" protesters' demands and dissolve parliament, Korn Chatikavanij, the Finance Minister, said...
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Kyrgyzstan's interim government says it will extend the US lease on a key air base, a day after the ousted president, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, left the country. The deputy leader, Omurbek Tekebayev, said the agreement over Manas air force base - a...
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HONG KONG: Fresh fears over Greece's debt problems returned as Asian markets fell on Friday with stocks also hit by dealers locking in profits from recent gains. Measures announced by Beijing on Thursday to avoid property bubbles also hit Shanghai...
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