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President Barack Obama speaks at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser in San Francisco, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009.
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Obama condemns Ahmadinejad comments on 9/11
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday strongly condemned comments by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that implied a U.S. government role in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. U.S. President Barack Obama speaks during the Clinton Global Initiative in New...
Irish Republican Army (IRA) graffiti adorns a wall in the Falls Road area of West Belfast, Northern Ireland, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2005. Catholic and Protestant leaders on Thursday condemned the IRA's decision to withdraw its offer to disarm, and appealed to the outlawed group to admit its involvement in a massive Belfast bank raid and other crime
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Britain raises Irish militant threat level
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has raised the threat level of an Irish-related terror attack from moderate to substantial, the third highest level, meaning a strike is a "strong possibility", the government said on Friday. Home Secretary (interior minister) Theresa May said it was the...
General view from the UNO City building with the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, office inside, where the general conference of the IAEA, takes place in Vienna, Austria, on Friday, Sept. 24, 2010.
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Arab move to censure Israel stymied at UN meeting
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VIENNA — A 151-nation meeting of the U.N. nuclear agency narrowly defeated an Arab push Friday to censure Israel for shielding its nuclear programs from inspection in a closely watched result that the U.S. said was a positive signal for ongoing Mideast peace talks. Of the nations present at the International Atomic Energy Agency...
Barack Obama, President of the United States of America, addresses a state luncheon hosted by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in honour of the sixty-fifth session of the General Assembly, 23 September, 2010.
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Barack Obama condemns Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's UN speech
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US President Barack Obama has described as "hateful" and "offensive" the claim by Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that most people believed the US...
Supporters of Pakistani religious party Jamat-e-Islami rally to condemn the verdict against alleged al-Qaida suspect Aafia Siddiqui and threats to burn the Quran by a small American church, in Peshawar, Pakistan on Friday, Sept. 24, 2010.
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Pakistan erupts over jailing of scientist Aafia Siddiqui
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PAKISTANI police used tear gas to disperse protesters who shouted "Death to America" in outrage after a US court jailed a woman scientist for 86 years for attempting to murder US officers. In a case that has been condemned across the nuclear-armed Muslim nation of 167 million, the government said it would petition Washington to secure the...
Myanmar's detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, center, exits the Inya Lake Hotel after meeting with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell in Yangon, Myanmar, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009.
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Myanmar's Suu Kyi allowed to vote in elections
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YANGON, Myanmar - Detained Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will be allowed to vote in November elections, although her name was not on an initial voter list, an official said Friday. AC = 1234 --> The gesture comes during an annual U.N. General Assembly meeting at which the country's ruling junta would like to make a good impression....
In this photo taken Wednesday Feb. 17, 2010, Liberian Senator Prince Johnson, gestures during an interview in Monrovia, Liberia.
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Liberia ex-warlord Prince Johnson in leader race
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Former Liberian warlord Prince Johnson has told the BBC there is no reason he cannot stand in the country's presidential elections next year....
Workers lay tar on the road leading to the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium, one of the main Commonwealth Games stadiums, in New Delhi, India, Friday, Sept. 10, 2010.
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Games should not have gone to Delhi, says Australia
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Australia's Olympic Committee president has said the Commonwealth Games should not have...
Protesters carries a banner which reads "Release our China ship's captain, Get out of Diaoyu Island" as they hold an anti-Japan protest outside the Japanese Embassy in Beijing, China Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010.
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Japan to free Chinese boat captain amid row
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Japan is to release a Chinese fishing boat captain whose arrest two weeks ago led to the worst row with Beijing in years, Japanese media report. The...
African union peacekeepers in Somalia patrol in a tank as they assists government forces during clashes with Islamist insurgents in southern Mogadishu, Somalia, on Monday Aug. 16, 2010.
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Plea for Somalia funding at UN crisis summit
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The African Union has appealed for funds to increase its force in Somalia amid a crisis summit in New York. AU...
 
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The UN probe into the Israeli massacre in high seas concluded yesterday that Israeli forces...
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It was a laudable judgment of the Supreme Court which upheld the right of Indian Muslims to...
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North Koreans are by and large hungry, oppressed, cloistered and treated as infants. But they...
 
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More aid needed to fight child hunger in Chad - U.N. read more
A child, among 90, 000 Chadian refugees who have fled the growing Arab-black conflict that has spilled over the border from Darfur, stands amongst other children in a camp in Goz Beida, eastern Chad, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2006. Conflicts over land and water
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DAKAR (Reuters) - Up to a quarter of children in parts of Chad are facing acute hunger despite an easing of the overall famine threat across the Sahel region of Africa, UNICEF warned on Friday, calling on donors to provide more funds. Aid groups have...
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US wants to expand military ties with India, eyes fighter jet deal read more
Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen, right, accompanied by Defense Secretary Robert Gates gestures during a news conference at the Pentagon, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010.
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Washington: Ahead of Indian Defence Minister A.K. Antony's visit here next week, the US has said it wants to expand its military ties with India in "mutually beneficial" ways with more exchanges and exercises. "I had a very good visit...
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Republicans unveil plan to retake congress read more
House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio, center, gestures while announcing the Republicans "Pledge to America" agenda, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010, at a lumber company in Sterling, Va. From left are, Rep. Peter Roskam, R-Ill., House Minority Whip Eric Cantor of Va., Boehner, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., and Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.
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REPUBLICANS hoping to recapture the US congress kicked off their mid-term election campaign yesterday, pledging to freeze public spending...
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Elysee Palace steers Carla Bruni out of strife read more
People march with a banner reading "Strike" during a demonstration Thursday Sept .23, 2010 in Paris. French commuters squeezed onto limited trains or fought for rare parking spots Thursday as a second round of strikes against President Nicolas Sarkozy's plan to raise the retirement age to 62 hobbled trains, planes and schools across the country.
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THE President's wife could be a liability as protests grow in France. AS a million protesters marched against President Nicolas Sarkozy yesterday,...
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Soviet 1991 coup leader Gennady Yanayev dies at 73 read more
Defiant former Soviet vice-president Gennady Yanayev flashes a victory sign in this Tuesday May 18, 1993 file photo as he and the former KGB chairman Vlaimir Kryuchkov, left, emerge from the Moscow court building. Russia's Communist Party says Gennady Yanayev, a coup plotter who briefly declared himself president of the Soviet Union, replacing Mikhail Gorbachev, died Friday Sept. 24, 2010 at age 73.
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Former Soviet statesman Gennady Yanayev, seen here in 1991, has died follow... Former Soviet statesman Gennady Yanayev, who led the abortive 1991 coup against then president Mikhail Gorbachev, died Friday aged 73 following an illness, a former Soviet...
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Pakistanis furious over woman's US prison sentence read more
Pakistani protesters rally near the U. S. Consulate to condemn the arrest of alleged Al-Qaida suspect Aafia Siddiqui on Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010 in Lahore, Pakistan.
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KARACHI, Pakistan – Pakistanis burned tires and chanted anti-U.S. slogans after a New York judge handed down an 86-year sentence to an American-trained Pakistani scientist convicted of trying to kill U.S. agents and military officers in...
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Workers, one holding a French flag, demonstrate in Lille, northern France, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010. French commuters squeezed onto limited trains or fought for rare parking spots Thursday as a second round of strikes against President Nicolas Sarkozy's plan to raise the retirement age to 62 hobbled trains, planes and schools across the country.
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Women workers carry plants for landscaping in the backdrop of the Commonwealth Games mascot Shera, right, at the weightlifting venue of the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. With less than a month to go before the official opening of the New Delhi Commonwealth Games, organizers continue to struggle with basic preparations like safety certificates for structures and the wherewithal to fight a potential epidemic.
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