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Local residents and relatives gather around the bodies of people killed in an overnight raid by NATO forces, at Surkh Rod, Afghanistan, Friday, May 14, 2010.
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Protesters Say NATO Attack Killed Afghan Civilians
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Filed at 8:32 a.m. ET KABUL (AP) -- Hundreds of protesters brandished sticks, threw stones and burned an American flag Friday in eastern Afghanistan as they accused NATO forces of killing civilians in an overnight raid, but the alliance said eight insurgents were killed in the attack. More than 500 people poured into the streets in the Surkh Rod...
An aerial view of the Siachen Glacier, about 750 kilometers (469 miles) northwest of Jammu, India, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2005.
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Climate panel 'errors' review to begin
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Written By:BBC   , Posted: Fri, May 14, 2010 A review into the workings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is starting in Amsterdam. The review was demanded by governments and commissioned by the UN, following allegations that the IPCC made a series of errors in its major 2007 report. The body admits one...
Supporters of recently deposed Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev storm the regional government headquarters in Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyzstan, Thursday, May 13, 2010.
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Clashes in Kyrgyzstan injure at least 30 people
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JALAL-ABAD, Kyrgyzstan - More than two dozen people were injured in clashes Friday when thousands of interim government supporters in Kyrgyzstan attempted to retake regional government buildings occupied by backers of deposed President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, officials said. Gunfire was exchanged at the compound of the regional government headquarters...
Local residents burn a makeshift U.S. flag as they accuse NATO forces of killing civilians in an overnight raid, at Surkh Rod, Afghanistan, Friday, May 14, 2010.
photo: AP / Rahmat Gul
Afghan protest on civilian deaths turns violent,1 dead
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SURKHROD, Afghanistan (Reuters) – A civilian was shot dead in eastern Afghanistan on Friday after police fired at thousands of villagers protesting against NATO raids which they said killed 11 civilians overnight, a local official said. A Reuters reporter in Surkhrod district in Nangarhar province, where villagers said the raids took place,...
Anti-government protesters launch homemade rockets at soldiers from behind a sandbag barricade, Friday, May 14, 2010 in Bangkok, Thailand.
photo: AP / Wally Santana
Thai protesters set fire to police bus
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The fighting, which so far has claimed 30 lives and injured hundreds since anti-government Red Shirt protesters began camping in the capital on March 12, plunged Thailand deeper into political uncertainty, with both sides hardening their positions. An Associated Press photographer saw protesters torching the bus near a downtown police station and...
President Barack Obama speaks at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser in San Francisco, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009.
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Obama urges funds for Israel shield
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Barack Obama, the US president, has asked Congress for $205m to help Israel speed up construction of a new short-range anti-missile defence system, White House aides have said. The so-called "Iron Dome" project is designed to intercept rockets and artillery shells from the Gaza Strip and neighbouring Lebanon. The money would come in addition to...
Iran's Army and Revolutionary Guards display missiles to commemorate the 27th anniversary of the outset of the Iran-Iraq war, 1980-1988, in Baharestan Square in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2007. Iran begun a week of celebration "Sacred Defence Week" Saturday to mark the 27th anniversary of the outset of its war with Iraq. The war left more than one million casualties on both sides. A portrait of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is seen at r
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Businessman pleads guilty to banned US exports to Iran
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A Taiwanese businessman has pleaded guilty in a US court to attempting to ship banned missile parts to Iran. Yi-Lan Chen was arrested in the US Pacific territory of Guam trying to ship thousands of components...
FBI investigators enter a home at 39 Waverley Avenue, in Watertown, Mass., Thursday, May 13, 2010.
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Pakistani men held over links to Times Square bomb suspect, says FBI
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Two Pakistani men arrested in raids in Massachusetts yesterday have a direct connection to the Times Square bomb plot suspect, officials said. The men, held on immigration charges during one of a series of FBI raids, are alleged to have provided funds to Faisal Shahzad through the hawala system of Islamic money transfer. Officials said that a third...
Riot police officers secure the area near Greece's largest prison after a powerful bomb blast outside the building left one woman injured and nearby homes damaged, in western Athens on Thursday, May 13, 2010.
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Athens prison bomb causes damage, slight injuries
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ATHENS (Reuters) - A bomb exploded outside Athens' main prison on Thursday, slightly injuring two people and damaging dozens of shops and homes up to four blocks away, police said. Police investigators search for evidence after a bomb explosion outside Korydallos prison near Athens May 13, 2010. (REUTERS/John Kolesidis) A police official said the...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Jan. 16, 2009. Lavrov has said Russia hopes the new U.S. president will not raise tensions by making Ukraine and Georgia's membership in NATO a pr
photo: AP / Mikhail Metzel
Russia warns US against unilateral Iran sanctions
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Friday, May 14, 2010 - Powered by Conor Humphries Reuters MOSCOW: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned the US and other Western nations Thursday against imposing unilateral sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, Interfax news agency reported. The European Union has said it may impose unilateral sanctions if a UN Security Council...
 
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An anti-government demonstrator holds a Thai national flag against Thai soldiers at a main street in downtown Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, May 14, 2010.
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Leading Presidential candidate Sen. Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III, gestures during a news conference at a funeral parlor in Tarlac city, Tarlac province in northern Philippines Friday, May 14, 2010.
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- The Philippines' president-apparent Benigno Aquino III refused Friday to take an oath of office before the new chief justice, alleging impropriety in the appointment by the outgoing president in the dying days of her term....
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Indonesia foils plot to kill president: police read more
File - Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono gestures as he delivers a speech at his residence in Cikeas in the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, July 25, 2009.
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JAKARTA (AFP) – Indonesian police said Friday they had foiled a plot by militants to kill President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and foreigners in an attack during an independence day celebration on August 17. "They planned to target...
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Leading Presidential candidate Sen. Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III smiles as he is escorted for a news conference at a funeral parlor in Tarlac city, Tarlac province in northern Philippines Friday May 14, 2010.
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TARLAC, Philippines (AFP) – Benigno Aquino made overtures Friday to one of his defeated rivals in the Philippine presidential election as part of efforts to win control of parliament. Aquino's Liberal Party will not have majority of seats...
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This photograph taken in Ravenna, Italy in July 2008 shows the British registered tanker St. James Park. Pirates seized the British-flagged chemical tanker St James Park and a Panamanian-flagged carrier off Somalia's coast and were holding 45 crew members Tuesday Dec. 29, 2009, a maritime official said.
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