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Supporters of Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi gather at the headquarters of her political party in Yangon, Myanmar Friday, Nov. 12, 2010 to prepare for her expected release from years of detention on Saturday.

photo: AP / Khin Maung Win

Burma generals 'sign Aung San Suu Kyi release order'
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Continue reading the main story Burma: Battle for Democracy How democratic will election be? Aung San Suu Kyi: Fading light? Bleak outlook for ethnic groups Burma election: Q&A; Reports are coming out of Burma saying the military authorities have signed an order authorising the release of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi....

Patients with cholera lie on mats at the crowded St. Nicholas Hospital in Saint Marc, in the Artibonite region of Haiti, where Cuban doctors and doctors with Médecins Sans Frontières are treating those infected.

photo: UN / Sophia Paris

Haitian anger over cholera response
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Residents of the largest slum in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince have been demonstrating over the country's response to the cholera outbreak there. The protesters in Cite Soleil said the government and the UN had failed to protect them as the number of people killed by the highly contagious water-borne disease soared to 724. They...

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, listens as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to reporters during a meeting in New York, Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010.

photo: AP / Mary Altaffer

Israel claims progress in effort to restart peace talks
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NEW YORK - After more than six hours of talks with American officials yesterday, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin...

EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso addresses the media during the EU summit in Brussels, Thursday Oct. 29, 2009.

photo: AP / Yves Logghe

EU 'will bailout Ireland if needed'
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Jose Manuel Barroso, the European Commission president, says the EU is able to take action to support Ireland if it is needed. "What is important to know is that we have all the essential instruments in place in the European Union and euro zone to act if nececessary, but I am not going to make any speculation," Barroso said on...

President Barack Obama and South Korea President Lee Myung-bak hold a joint news conference at Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010.

photo: AP / Charles Dharapak

G20 leaders face fractious talks in Seoul
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Continue reading the main story Global Economy Has the G20 lost its momentum? Currency war's key battlegrounds Currency wars; what are they? Watch Are US QE moves storing up trouble? Talks between leaders of the G20 group of major economies are entering their second day in Seoul, with key nations locked in fractious talks....

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, seen speaking on a TV screen during a rally marking Hezbollah Martyr's Day in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010. Nasrallah said his militant group will cut the hand of anyone who tries to arrest any member of the party and the group will not accept any accusation against any of its fighters or leaders in the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

photo: AP / Bilal Hussein

Hezbollah to block Hariri arrests
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Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, has warned that his group will "cut off the hand" of anyone who tries to arrest members of his Shia movement over the 2005 assassination of Rafiq al-Hariri, Lebanon's former prime minister. "Whoever thinks the resistance could possibly accept any accusation against any of its jihadists or leaders is...

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki speaks to reporters in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009.

photo: AP / Nabil al-Jurani

Iraq breaks impasse; Maliki to form govt
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Shi'ite Nuri al-Maliki was re-nominated as Iraqi prime minister on Thursday as fractious politicians ended an eight-month deadlock that raised fears of renewed sectarian warfare. Iraq's newly elected Speaker of Parliament Osama al-Nujaifi (C) chairs the new Iraqi Parliament session in Baghdad, November 11, 2010. (REUTERS/Thaier...

Visitors walk near the mock North Korea's Scud-B missile, right, and other South Korean missiles at Korean War Museum in Seoul, Friday, May 21, 2010. South Korean President Lee Myung-bak said Friday his country was caught in a "perfect military ambush" when a North Korean torpedo sank a naval warship, but called for a cautious response to the disaster that left 46 sailors dead. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

photo: AP / Lee Jin-man

U.N. report alleges North Korea exported nuclear technology
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United Nations (CNN) -- A U.N. expert panel alleges that North Korea exported banned nuclear and ballistic missile technology to several rogue nations. The 75-page report, complied by a seven-member panel reporting to the United Nations Security Council, states that North Korea is involved in "nuclear and ballistic missile-related activities in...

A man helps an injured person to leave for hospital, 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.

photo: AP / Fareed Khan

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...

A boy with symptoms of cholera waits for treatment at the St Catherine hospital in Cite Soleil in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010. Doctors and aid groups are rushing to set up cholera treatment centers across Haiti's capital as officials warn that the disease's encroachment into the city will bring a surge in cases. Cholera has killed more than 580 people across the country according to the Haiti's health ministry.

photo: AP / Ramon Espinosa

Cholera takes hold in besieged capital
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5:30 AM Friday Nov 12, 2010 Share Email Print Expand Shrink A wooden wheelbarrow is pushed to the high green gates of a slum hospital, carrying an unconscious woman, her lips white and cracked with dehydration. She is 22, and two days ago she was healthy....