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Indian soldiers take part in rescue operations after a freight train on the wrong track slammed into a stationary passenger locomotive at Bhaderwah rail station in Madhya Pradesh state, 375 kilometers (235 miles) south of New Delhi, India, Monday, Sept. 20, 2010.

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20 killed in train mishap in MP
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SHIVPURI: Twenty people were killed and 50 injured when a goods train hit the stationary Indore- Gwalior Intercity Express head-on in Madhya Pradesh after it overshot the signal amid heavy rains and poor visibility in the early hours today. The accident occurred around 4.45 am when the freight train of North-Central Railway was on the wrong track...

ANC President Jacob Zuma addresses a media conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, Monday Sept. 22, 2008. Zuma indicated on Monday that the party favors his deputy Kgalema Motlanthe to take over from President Thabo Mbeki whose resignation becomes effective on Thur

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South Africa's Jacob Zuma: ANC divisions must end
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South Africa's President Jacob Zuma has called for unity in the governing party and condemned leadership...

Dr. Jim Swire, spokesman for the bereaved families, speaks with the media in front of the High Court of Justiciary where the Lockerbie trial is taking place at Camp Zeist near Soesterberg, Netherlands Wednesday Nov. 29 2000.

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Lockerbie father visits Megrahi in Libya
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The father of one of the victims of the Lockerbie bombing has been to Libya to visit the only man convicted of the atrocity. Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi invited Dr Jim Swire to meet him and the two men spent around an hour together in Megrahi's hospital ward in Tripoli last Tuesday. Megrahi was released from Greenock prison in Scotland just...

A British soldier with the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) walks during a patrol in the city of Kandahar, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday June 19, 2008. Afghan and NATO troops backed by warplanes drove Taliban militants from villages within striking distance of southern Afghanistan's main city on Thursday, killing 56 of them, Afghan officials said.

photo: AP / Musadeq Sadeq

British troops leave volatile district in Afghanistan
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Posted | Comment | Recommend | | | KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Britain's military handed the U.S. responsibility Monday for a dangerous district in southern that has been the scene of some of the bloodiest fighting by . NATO said the 40 Commando Royal were being reassigned throughout central , which remains a volatile...

Home Minister P. Chidambaram (C) (R) Sushma Swaraj, Samajwadi Party and (L) Union renewable minister Dr farooq Abdullah During a all party delegation meeting Skicc in Srinagar 20, Sep 2010. A two-day visit to assess the ground situation in Kashmir Valley which has witnessed unabated violence in recent months.

photo: WN / Imran Nissar

All Party Parliamentary Delegation In Srinagar
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Srinagar, Sep 20, KONS- A 40 member strong all-party parliamentary delegation led by Home Minister P. Chidambaram arrived here on Monday on a two-day visit to 'assess' the ground situation in Kashmir Valley where a...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is interviewed by editors from The Associated Press, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009 in New York.

photo: AP / Henny Ray Abrams

Ahmadinejad says future is Iran's
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NEW YORK ' Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday that 'the future belongs to Iran,' and challenged the United States to accept that his country has a major role in the world. The comments came in an hourlong interview with The Associated Press on the first day of his visit to the United States to attend the annual General Assembly of...

A boat is swamped with water at Flatts Inlet in Smith's parish while Hurricane Igor comes ashore in Bermuda, Sunday, Sept. 19, 2010.

photo: AP / Gerry Broome

Hurricane Igor batters Bermuda; Mexico's death toll from Karl rises to 12
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HAMILTON, Bermuda - Fierce waves pounded Bermuda's shores and strained yacht moorings late yesterday as winds tore at trees and signs while a weakened Hurricane Igor passed just west of the wealthy British enclave. Bermudians stayed battened down in their homes in a pelting rain to wait out Igor, which was barely a Category 1...

Iraqis inspect the scene of a car bomb attack in Baghdad's Mansour neighborhood, Iraq, Sunday, Sept. 19, 2010. Two car bombs exploded during the morning rush hour killing and wounding scores of people, police said.

photo: AP / Hadi Mizban

Bombings across Iraq kill 37
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BAGHDAD -- A string of bombings killed 37 people Sunday in Iraq's deadliest day since President Barack Obama officially announced the end of the U.S. military's combat mission on Aug. 31. Twin car bombs exploded within moments of each other around 11 a.m. in Baghdad -- one near a facility housing federal police, which killed 19 people, the other a...

A Pakistani man comforts his relative while speaking with a Pakistani soldier during flood relief operations in Rubicon, Pakistan, Sept. 15, 2010.

photo: US Army / Pfc. Joshua Kruger

UN calls for urgent aid to Pakistan
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The UN chief has called for an urgent global response to the Pakistan flood crisis, calling it the most complex natural disaster in the history of the world organisation. Ban Ki-moon made the comments seeking extra resources for the South Asian country during a ministerial meeting on the disaster at the UN headquarters in New York on Sunday. "We...

Jimmie Akesson, chairman of the right-wing party Sweden Democrats, acknowledges cheers when he met party workers in Stockholm, Sweden, Sunday Sept. 19 2010.

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Swedish centre-right wins ballot, loses majority
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Fredrik Reinfeld became Sweden's first sitting centre-right prime minister to win re-election, but was deprived of a majority by the entry into parliament of an anti-immigrant party. A file photo shows Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeld at a European Union leaders summit in Brussels October 30, 2009. Reinfeld became...