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Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu talk during a press conference in Cape Town, South Africa, Thursday, July 22, 2010. Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu announced Thursday he is retiring from public life later this year when he turns 79, saying "the time has come to slow down" and spend more time with his family. The former Anglican archbishop of Cape Town said after his birthday on Oct. 7 he will limit his time in the office to one day per week until February 2011.

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South Africa's Tutu to retire from public life
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu announced Thursday he is retiring from public life later this year when he turns 79, saying "the time has now come to slow down" and spend more time with his family. The former Anglican archbishop of Cape Town said after his birthday on Oct. 7 he will limit his time in the office to...

Tibet Protest - A fire burns as a crowd watches in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, China, in this March 14, 2008 file photo.

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China used excessive force in Tibet: rights group
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BEIJING - Chinese security forces fired indiscriminately on Tibetan protesters in 2008 and beat and kicked others until they lay motionless on the ground, a rights group said in a report detailing unrest that the government says it suppressed legally. The Human Rights Watch report released Thursday - using rare eyewitness accounts - examines...

The massive aircraft carrier USS George Washington is escorted into the Busan port in Busan, South Korea, for joint military exercises as a South Korean destroyer, top, passes by Wednesday, July 21, 2010.

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North Korea anger at US wargames
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Written By:BBC , Posted: Thu, Jul 22, 2010 The US and South Korea's plans to hold joint military exercises pose a major danger to the region, Pyongyang says. Some 20 ships and submarines and 100 aircraft are to take place in four days of maneuvers in the Sea of Japan (East Sea) from Sunday. North Korea has also said new US...

In this image released by the White House, President Barack Obama receives a briefing in the Situation Room of the White House on the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, on Wednesday, July 21, 2010.

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Weather threatens to delay BP oil spill work
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0 0 0 View Larger Image (07-22) 04:00 PDT Houston - -- BP's efforts to control its blown out Gulf of Mexico well remained in limbo Wednesday, at the mercy of weather developments and government review of a new effort to kill the well. A tropical wave southeast of Florida threatens to enter the gulf by this weekend, with several models showing the...

With her brother on her back a WAR weary KOREAN girl tiredly trudges by a stalled M-26 tank, at Haengju, Korea. June 9, 1951.

photo: NARA file/Maj. R.V. Spencer, US Navy

Thinking Peace, Committing Atrocities
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Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. In "Making War, Thinking History," Jeffrey Record describes how North Korea's invasion of South Korea caught President Harry S. Truman by surprise. Still, and according to Record, Truman associated North Korea's invasion with Hitlerism, Mussolini's Fascism, and Japan's aggression right before...

From left, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, left, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-Hwan and South Korean Defense Minister Kim Tae-Young, hold their hands together before a meeting on July 21, 2010 in Seoul, South Korea.

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US to widen sanctions against North Korea
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SEOUL - The Obama administration announced yesterday that it would impose further economic sanctions against North Korea, throwing legal weight behind a choreographed show of pressure that included an unusual joint visit to the demilitarized zone by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates. The measures,...

Armed fighters from the Al-shabab group prepare to travel on the back of pickup trucks outside Mogadishu in Somalia on Monday Dec. 8, 2008.

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US national charged with trying to join Somali Shebab
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Shebab fighters stand during a military exercise in northern Mogadishu's Su... A 20-year-old US national has been arrested and charged with trying to join Somalia's Shebab militants, the latest in a slew of homegrown extremism cases in the United States. Zachary Adam Chesser, 20, was charged Wednesday in a criminal complaint that he provided...

Vice President Joe Biden, right, poses with Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, Wednesday, July 21, 2010, in Washington.

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Court to rule on Kosovo statehood
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The International Court of Justice is set to issue an opinion on the legality of Kosovo's 2008 declaration of independence from Serbia. The court's opinion, which will be announced on Thursday, is non-binding, although many of its past decisions have been respected by the governments involved. Officials in Kosovo have said they...

Rescue workers evacuate residents from flooded areas in Jianong town in Leshan in southwest China's Sichuan province on Sunday, July 18, 2010.

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China flooding kills over 701, worst toll in a decade
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Beijing: More than 1,000 people have died or disappeared in severe flooding in China so far this year, and the heaviest rains are still to come, a senior official warned on Wednesday. This year's floods, which have caused tens of billions of dollars in damage already, have exacted the highest death toll since 1998, when the highest water levels in...

A portrait of a dissident killed during the dictatorship of former Gen. Augusto Pinochet that reads in Spanish "Truth and justice. A political execution" sits in front of La Moneda government palace in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday July 21, 2010.

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Church call for pardon angers Chile rights groups
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SANTIAGO — Catholic Church leaders asked Chile's president on Wednesday to pardon military officers jailed for dictatorship-era crimes, angering rights groups and stirring memories of General Augusto Pinochet's bloody rule. The pardon request, which has been criticized by the opposition, is proving a political headache for conservative...