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A Pakistani flood victim walk past damaged houses in Kasba Gujrat near Kot Addu village, Punjab Province, Pakistan on Saturday Aug. 21, 2010.

photo: AP / Aaron Favila

Pakistan braced for more floods
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Floods are threatening to wreak havoc in more areas of south Pakistan in a catastrophe that has made the government more unpopular and may help Islamist militants gain supporters. Pakistan's worst floods in decades have toppled villages and bridges, ripped apart roads, killed at least 1,600 people, made more than four million homeless and raised...

In this photo released by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service, houses and farmland are inundated by floodwaters in the North Koran city of Sinuiju on Saturday Aug. 21, 2010.

photo: AP / Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service

China-N Korea river hit by floods
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Written By:BBC , Posted: Sun, Aug 22, 2010 Caption: More than 1,500 people have died in China in recent months. China and North Korea have evacuated thousands of people from their homes after heavy rains burst the Yalu river, flooding areas near their border. North Korean state...

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard of the Labor Party addresses well-wishers at at the end of voting in Melbourne, Saturday, August 21, 2010.

photo: AP / Mark Graham

Australia PM seeks coalition rule
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Written By:BBC , Posted: Sun, Aug 22, 2010 Caption: Tony Abbott said the conservative coalition was "back in business" Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has made contact with independent candidates to try to form a government after an inconclusive election. Ms Gillard said she would continue to provide "stable"...

Residents in southern Mogadishu, Somalia, look at the dead body of a man, Somali government claimed to be an Islamist militant who was killed by a roadside bomb he was planting under a pile of garbage near a street in southern Mogadishu's Afisiyoni area, on Saturday Aug. 21, 2010.

photo: AP / Farah Abdi Warsameh

'Fighters killed' in Somalia blasts
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The Somali government says 10 anti-government fighters have been killed by their own bombs after the devices they were preparing went off prematurely in the capital, Mogadishu. The fighters died in two separate incidents, 10 while preparing a car bomb and another as he planted a roadside bomb, the information ministry said on Saturday....

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, leader of the Australian Labor Party, poses for a photo with an unidentified man in her hometown of Altona in Melbourne, Australia, Sunday, Aug. 22, 2010.

photo: AP / Andrew Brownbill

Australian vote set to end in hung parliament
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Australia appears to be heading for its first hung parliament for 70 years, following yesterday's election, with neither the ruling Labor Party nor the opposition Liberal-National Coalition sure of securing a majority. A minority government, supported by up to four independent MPs and one Green, seems the most likely scenario. However, it could...

File - President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden ride in the motorcade from the White House to the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C., July 21, 2010, to sign the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act

photo: White House / Pete Souza

Jefferson, Obama and Four Mosques
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Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. "Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle." -Thomas Jefferson, March 4, 1801 Inaugural Address Seeing that some political leaders and citizens are extremely upset over President Barack Obama's assertion of having no regrets about vocally supporting an Islamic mosque near...

Victims of the worst floods to hit Pakistan in several years walk through water-filled streets in the northwestern city of Nowshera.

photo: UN / WFP/Amjad Jamal

More aid to give shelterless Pakistanis some relief
read more The Star

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - More tents and plastic sheets have been secured to help 4.6 million shelterless Pakistanis, a U.N. spokesman said on Saturday, easing pressure on aid workers hoping to stop diseases spreading in the country's flood crisis. Family members sit on a truck while fleeing from floodwaters in Shahdadkot, some 105 kilometers (65...

File - Mahmoud Abbas holds a press conference in Gaza.

photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb

Israel and Palestinians agree to direct peace talks
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Israel and the Palestinians have accepted an invitation by the United States and other powers to restart direct talks on September 2 in a modest step toward forging a deal within 12 months to create a Palestinian state and peacefully end one of the world's most intractable conflicts. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Israeli Prime...

** FILE ** In this April 4, 2004 file photo plainclothes contractors working for Blackwater USA take part in a firefight as Iraqi demonstrators loyal to Muqtada Al Sadr attempt to advance on a facility being defended by U.S. and Spanish soldiers, in the Iraqi city of Najaf.Iraq said Thursday it will bar Blackwater Worldwide from providing security protection for U.S. diplomats because its contractors used excessive force, sanctioning a company whose image was irrevocably tarnished by the 2007 killings of 17 Iraqi civilians.

photo: AP / Gervasio Sanchez

US security firm 'to pay $42m fine'
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The private security contractor previously known as Blackwater, has agreed to pay $42m in fines for hundreds of violations of US export rules, according to the New York Times. The violations included illegal weapons exports to Afghanistan, making unauthorised proposals to train troops in southern Sudan, and providing sniper training for police in...