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Pakistani security officials and media persons gather at the site of bomb explosion in Karachi, Pakistan on Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010.
photo: AP / Shakil Adil
18 people killed, 80 injured in Karachi blast near CM's house
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At least 18 people were killed and 80 others injured today when a powerful car bomb destroyed the office of the CID, spearheading the drive against Taliban militants in Pakistan's financial capital near the Sindh chief minister's official residence. The blast occurred at around 8.20 pm at the office of the Crime Investigation Department...
Pakistani volunteers carry an injured man at the site of explosion in Karachi, Pakistan on Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010. A powerful bomb in the center of Pakistan's largest city leveled a police building, killing scores of people and wounding many, police and witnesses said.
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Car bomb hits police, killing 18
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MILITANTS armed with guns and a truck bomb destroyed a police department in Pakistan's biggest city of Karachi overnight, killing 18 people and wounding...
President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh chat during the State Dinner at Rashtrapati Bhavan, the presidential palace, in New Dehli, India, Nov. 8, 2010.
photo: White House/ Pete Souza
India, Obama and the Audacity of Asoka
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Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. When President Barack Obama visited India and called on the regional nations to renew efforts to find peace, it was unfortunate that his words did not match his actions. On the heels of signing a $60 billion weapons deal with Saudi Arabia, he announced a $20 billion economic treaty with India,...
Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi appeals for strong action by the international community to protect human rights in the country from the military government, in this image from television.
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Myanmar's top court rejects Suu Kyi's final appeal
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YANGON (Reuters) – Myanmar's top court rejected a final and largely symbolic appeal by detained Nobel peace prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi against her house arrest, her lawyer said on Thursday, two days before her scheduled release. The Myanmar's Supreme Court decision was widely expected and has little bearing on the expiry of Suu...
A general view of the UPS building at the East Midlands airport, Derby, England, Friday Oct. 29, 2010, after UPS cargo containers were searched by British police at the East Midlands airport, in Derby, England, about two hours north of London, Friday Oct. 29, 2010.
photo: AP / Tim Hales
British reveal timing for bomb
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One of the two package bombs intercepted late last month would have exploded over a largely unpopulated area of Canada if it had detonated, according to flight data and new information released Wednesday by British police. "Forensic examination has indicated that if the device had activated, it would have been at 10:30 hrs BST [5:30 a.m. EDT] on...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, left, and his South Korean counterpart Lee Myung-bak smile before their press conference at the presidential house in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010. Twenty world leaders will come together in Seoul Nov. 11-12 to discuss the state of the global economy as it emerges from the financial crisis.
photo: AP / Ahn Young-joon. Pool
G20 leaders meet amid divisions
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A deeply divided G20 is struggling to move beyond broad promises of economic co-operation as finance ministers and other representatives gathered in Seoul, the capital of South Korea, for a two-day summit. The agenda for the summit, that includes dozens of bilateral meetings for officials of the world's 20 largest...
In this Jan. 9, 2010 file photo, Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki speaks at a parade marking Police Day in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqi lawmakers are working furiously to end the country's eight-month political deadlock with reports that a deal may be near to return Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to office.
photo: AP / Karim Kadim, File
Iraqi politicians break deadlock
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Iraqi politicians have broken an eight-month political impasse by agreeing to take part in a new government headed by Nouri al-Maliki, the incumbent prime minister. Officials said on Wednesday that the Sunni-backed Iraqiya coalition that had been opposing the prime minister decided to join his government. "Finally, fortunately, it's done. It's...
Investigators board a United Parcel Service jet isolated on a runway at Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia, Friday, Oct. 29, 2010. Law enforcement officials are investigating reports of suspicious packages on cargo planes in Philadelphia and Newark, N.J.
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Bomb Was Set to Explode Over U.S.
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By ALISTAIR MACDONALD A device found in the U.K. on a United Parcel Service Inc. plane last month was primed to go off over the Eastern seaboard of the U.S., British police said. A forensic examination showed the device was set to explode at 10:30 a.m. British Summer Time, or 5:30 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, on Oct. 29, when the aircraft carrying...
Palestinians wait in front of a fence for food distribution near to the rubble of their destroyed houses in eastern Jebaliya, northern Gaza strip, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2009. Israel launched its 22-day offensive to try to halt Hamas rocket fire on southern Israel. The assault killed 1,285 Palestinians, more than half of them civilians, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights counted. Thirteen Israelis, including three civilians, were also killed during the fighting, Israel
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UN: No change in Gaza despite easing of Israel blockade
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By Jon Donnison BBC News, Gaza City Continue reading the main story Israel and the Palestinians Mid-East talks: Where they stand Q&A;: Resuming direct talks New US aid as peace talks stall Hope and anger as freeze expires...
Caption: The chamber is opened to move the first cryogenically tested gold-coated engineering development unit out of Marshall's X-ray and Cryogenic Facility. Each of the 18 mirror Webb telescope primary mirror segments will be tested, re-polished, coated with gold, measured at Ball Aerospace, and finally tested again in the Marshall test facility at cryogenic temperatures before the mirror test program is complete.
photo: NASA / MSFC/Emmett Given
Costs of Nasa JWST to replace Hubble telescope balloon
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Continue reading the main story Related stories Galaxy is most distant object yet Superb vistas from reborn Hubble The space giant is coming The scale of the delay and cost overrun blighting Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope has been laid bare by a panel called in to review the project. The successor to Hubble will probably cost at...
 
 
Police officers attempt to stop demonstrators storming Millbank Tower, housing the headquarters of the Conservative Party, during a protest in London Wednesday Nov. 10, 2010, against an increase in university tuition fees. Organizers said 50,000 students, lecturers and supporters were demonstrating against plans to raise the cost of studying at a university to 9,000 pounds ($14,000) a year - three times the current rate.
LONDON (AP) -- British Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday condemned violence that erupted during a demonstration against government plans to triple university fees, and police acknowledged they were unprepared for the mayhem. Cameron said "the...
photo: AP / Sang Tan
A hemophiliac wearing a face mask bearing the words "Blood products infect us with AIDS" cries while she with others take center stage during an AIDS awareness event on the World AIDS Day held at the Beijing's south railway station, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009. A group of protesters, who has infected HIV from blood transfer products including relatives of the victim disrupted a UNAIDS event, calling for greater support for people living with AIDS/HIV in China.
By CARA ANNA Associated Press BEIJING (AP) - A group founded by well-known imprisoned Chinese activist Hu Jia to work with AIDS patients and orphans said Thursday it is closing down after increasing pressure from tax authorities. Beijing Loving...
photo: AP / Andy Wong
Passers-by look as they walk past the home of the Mobley family in Buena, N.J., Thursday, March 11, 2010. The FBI confirmed Thursday that the agency is looking into the case of Sharif Mobley, 26, who grew up in Buena and is an alleged al-Qaida member raised in New Jersey who is accused of trying to shoot his way out of a hospital in Yemen.
SAN'A, Yemen (AP) - A 26-year old American from New Jersey came to Yemen in 2008 to study religion and language, his U.S. lawyer said - but ended up detained as an al-Qaida suspect nearly 18 months later and was held shackled to a police hospital bed...
photo: AP / Mel Evans
A customer, left, bargains with fish sellers at a market in Gauhati, India, Friday, April 30, 2010. Food inflation that has been stuck in the double digits for a year and while policymakers debate how to feed people without driving the country deeper in debt, Indians grapple with the sad arithmetic of how to do more with less. Most farmers haven't benefited from soaring prices either because they are small landholders who have to buy food to supplement what they grow.
By ANANT VIJAY KALA NEW DELHI -- Food inflation in India snapped three weeks of falls to rise 0.4% as vegetable prices remained high, while growing consumption of protein-rich foods drove up egg and meat prices. The wholesale price index for food...
photo: AP / Anupam Nath
 Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, right, holds joint news conference with Massoud Barzani, left, leader of Iraq´s Kurdish region, in the city of Irbil, 350 kilometers (217 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2007. Iraq´s president
BAGHDAD -- The Kurdish regional president confirms that Iraqi politicians have agreed on a new government that returns...
photo: AP Photo/Yahya Ahmed
Traders stand by a screen at Madrid's Stock Exchange on Thursday, May 6, 2010.
MADRID (AFP) – Spain's fledging economic recovery stalled in the third quarter, when gross domestic product was unchanged from the previous three months as government austerity measures began to bite, official data showed Thursday. It...
photo: AP / Victor R. Caivano
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Syrian President Bashar Assad, attends the closing session of the Arab Summit in Doha, Qatar, Monday, March 30, 2009.
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Security forces and people gather at the scene of a bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010.
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Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard  of the Federal Labor Party salutes wellwishers at the end of voting in Melbourne, Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010.
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England's Jonathan Trott celebrates after reaching his century during the 1st day of the first test match against Bangladesh at Lord's cricket ground, London, Thursday, May 27, 2010.
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