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Thai soldiers look for anti-government protesters near Chulalongkorn hospital where the protesters make a search for soldiers inside a hospital building Thursday, April 29, 2010 in Bangkok, Thailand.

photo: AP / Wason Wanichakorn

Thai chaos leaves power vacuum
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AP Photo - Armed with rocks and slingshot, anti-government protesters run during clashes with Thai soldiers on a highway on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, April 28, 2010. Thai...

Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown responds to a question during his monthly news conference at 10 Downing Street in London, Wednesday Feb. 18, 2009.

photo: AP / Kieran Doherty, pool

UK's Brown seeks redemption at debate after gaffe
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LONDON - Britain's final TV election debate Thursday may be Prime Minister Gordon Brown's last chance to repair his tarnished reputation, after an open microphone caught him dismissing a retiree who had long voted for the Labour party as a "bigoted woman." Brown's extraordinary campaign gaffe - dragged out for hours on television with him finally...

New Orleans - Assist vessels fire water cannons at the Deepwater Horizon in an attempt to control and extinguish a fire April 21, 2010, which has engulfed the mobile offshore drilling unit after an explosion April 20.

photo: US Coast Guard / PO3 Tom Atkeson

Officials: Leaks spewing more oil into Gulf
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In this aerial photo taken in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana's tip, oil... In this aerial photo taken in the Gulf of Mexico, oil, at bottom of frame,... In this aerial photo taken in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana's tip, oil... NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is even worse than officials believed and the federal...

The bodies of Palestinian tunnel workers Muhammad Ali Abu Jamous, age 25, top left, Osama Abu Jamous Jamaan, age 20, bottom left, Nadal Jeda, age 25, bottom right, and Khaled Ramlawi, age 20, in the morgue in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, April 28, 2010.

photo: AP / Eyad Baba

Hamas says Egypt gassed four Gaza tunnel workers
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GAZA CITY (AFP) – The Islamist Hamas movement on Thursday accused Egyptian security forces of killing four Palestinians by pumping poisonous gas into a cross-border smuggling tunnel. "Hamas holds the Egyptian side responsible for the killing of four innocent workers after Egyptian security forces pumped poisonous gas into one of the...

Pakistani soldiers on patrol drive through a street in Mingora, the main town in Swat valley, Pakistan on Wednesday June 3, 2009.

photo: AP / Aamir Qureshi

Intel: Pakistan Taliban chief now believed alive
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The revelation contradicts initial confidence among U.S. and Pakistani intelligence officials that the brash militant leader had been killed in the mid-January missile attack. The Taliban consistently denied Mehsud was killed, but declined to offer evidence he lived, saying it would compromise his...

A Palestinian workers into a tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip

photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb

Hamas blames Egypt over tunnel dead
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The Hamas movement has accused Egyptian forces of killing at least four Palestinians in a smuggling tunnel from the country's Sinai's desert region into into the Gaza Strip. The interior ministry of the de facto government in the Gaza Strip said toxic gas had been sprayed into the tunnel, one of hundreds used to get...

In this aerial photo taken in the Gulf of Mexico, weathered oil is seen near the coast of Louisiana from a leaking pipeline that resulted from last week's explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig Monday, April 26, 2010.

photo: AP / Gerald Herbert

US oil leak 'worse than thought'
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The southern US state of Louisiana is seeking emergency help after reports that an oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico was five times worse than previously thought. Rear Admiral Mary Landry of the US coast guard said on Wednesday that the leak from an underwater oil well owned by British energy company BP was dumping 5,000 barrels,...

President Hamid Karzai visited the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) headquarters today to view the Commander’s Update Brief (CUB), meet senior leaders and have lunch with officers from several coalition partners, Kabul, Afghanistan, 10 April, 2010.

photo: US Navy / PO1 Mark O'Donald

US releases damning Afghan report ahead of Karzai visit
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The US defence department has said that only a quarter of what it regards as key regions in Afghanistan support the government of President Hamid Karzai. The Pentagon said in a report that much of the country was either neutral to the central Afghan authorities or supportive of the Taliban insurgency. It blamed government corruption and lack of...

From left, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Jose Angel Gurria, secretary general of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Robert Zoellick, President of the World Bank, and Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the International Monetary Fund address the media after a meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, April 28, 2010.

photo: AP / Michael Sohn

IMF fears debt crisis 'contagion'
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The head of the International Monetary Fund has warned that Greece's debt crisis could spread and threaten the economies of other countries. Dominique Strauss-Kahn made the comments in Berlin on Wednesday as he tried to persuade Germany, Europe's biggest economy, to back the terms of a multi-billion dollar rescue package. Angela Merkel, the...

South Korean mourners pay a tribute in front of portraits of the deceased sailors from the sunken South Korean naval ship Cheonan during a memorial service held at Seoul City Hall Plaza in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, April 29, 2010.

photo: AP / Lee Jin-man

South Korea bids final farewell to 46 navy sailors
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PYEONGTAEK, South Korea (AP) - South Korea honored 46 sailors Thursday with a tearful military funeral a month after a blast sank their warship, and officials vowed retaliation for those responsible as speculation mounted that North Korea may have torpedoed the vessel. An estimated 2,800 mourners including President Lee Myung-bak attended the...