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In this photo taken on Wednesday, May 5, 2010 and released by China's Xinhua News Agency on Friday May 7, 2010, Chinese President Hu Jintao, right, meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. Wikileak documents indicate China distancing itself from North Korea
The recent batch of Wikileak documents that were release indicate China is becoming impatient with North Korea and is beginning to distance itself from the rogue state. Some highlights of these leaked... (photo: AP / Xinhua, Lan Hongguang) The Examiner
China   Diplomacy   N. Korea   Photos   Wikipedia: WikiLeaks
Mexico's President Felipe Calderon speaks at the opening of the United Nations climate change conference in Cancun, Mexico, Monday Nov. 29, 2010. The Cancun conference is the first full U.N. meeting since the letdown last December of the Copenhagen summit, which brought 120 world leaders to the Danish capital in an abortive attempt to adopt an overarching accord governing emissions of made-made greenhouse gases blamed for global warming. Rifts mar Cancun climate conference
Frustrated at past failures, climate negotiators have begun a critical two-week conference with a call from Mexico's president to think beyond their nations' borders and consider all humanity as they... (photo: AP / Israel Leal) Al Jazeera
Climate Change   Mexico   Photos   UN   Wikipedia: 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference
Palestinian Hamas supporters chant slogans as they gather near the destroyed border during a protest calling on Egypt to re-open the border and Israel to end its economic blockade in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on the border with Egypt, Friday, April, 25, 2008. Aid Groups Say Plight Of Gaza Civilians Still Dire
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel has only marginally eased its three-year-old blockade of the Gaza Strip, leaving business and construction largely frozen in the impoverished and war-damaged Palestinian... (photo: AP / Khalil Hamra) CBS News
Gaza   Human Rights   Israel   Photos   Wikipedia: 2007–present blockade of the Gaza Strip
Supporters of presidential candidate Michel Martelly march in protest toward a polling station during the country's general elections in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday Nov. 28, 2010. Nearly all the major presidential candidates have backed a statement calling for the cancellation of the election and asked for people to take to the streets to protest allegations of fraud. Observers Validate Haiti Election
By INGRID ARNESEN PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—The Organization of American States said Haiti's presidential election should be considered valid despite a host of problems, giving a big boost to the... (photo: AP / Dieu Nalio Chery) Wall Street Journal
Elections   Haiti   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Organization of American States
Police patrol the Complexo do Alemao slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday Nov. 29, 2010. Authorities seized control of what was long the most dangerous slum in the city that will host the 2016 Olympics, as operations continued Monday to locate drug gang members. Brazil's Lula hails Rio police operation
Continue reading the main story Related stories Brazil forces take over Rio slum In pictures: Brazil forces enter Rio slum Rio drug traffickers surrounded Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva... (photo: AP / Andre Penner) BBC News
Brazil   Crime   Photos   Police   Wikipedia: Crime in Brazil
In this photo released by the U.S. Navy, a suspected pirates' skiff drifts at sea after being destroyed, near the amphibious dock landing ship USS Ashland, seen behind, part of the Nassau Amphibious Ready Group and 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, at sea in the Gulf of Aden, about 330 nautical miles off the coast of Djibouti, Saturday, April 10, 2010. US sentences Somali pirate to 30 years in prison
WASHINGTON—A federal judge in Virginia sentenced a Somali man to 30 years in prison Monday after he pleaded guilty to his role in an April attack on a US Navy vessel off the coast of Africa. Jama Idle... (photo: AP / U.S. Navy, Chief Fire Controlman Harry J. Storms) Inquirer
Photos   Piracy   Somalia   US   Wikipedia: Piracy in Somalia
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