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Benin President Boni Yayi, front left, walks with Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma, at the Presidential Palace in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010.
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West African leaders to pressure Gbagbo again
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast - West African leaders are headed back to Ivory Coast in an effort to persuade incumbent Laurent Gbagbo to cede power more than a month after the election. A delegation from the regional bloc ECOWAS is due to arrive in Abidjan later Monday. They will be joined by the Kenyan prime minister, who is serving as the African Union's...
 
 
Los Angeles - Arnold Schwarzenegger steps down as California “Governator” on...
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Kashmir men pull toboggans as Tourists enjoy a ride on it in Kashmir's famous ski resort on January 03,  2011 in Gulmarg, 54 km west of Srinagar Kashmir is known for its charming beauty. It is surrounded by three mountain ranges of the Himalayas- Karakoram, Zanaskar and Pir Panjal, running from northwest to northeast.
COLD WAVE continues to have North India in its grip with the death toll rising to 30, as temperature have dropped drastically in many areas. Five more deaths were reported across Uttar Pradesh as the mercury dipped due to rains at some...
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President Barack Obama signs H.R. 847, the “James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act” in Kailua, Hawaii, Jan. 2, 2011.
"Just as scholars continue to debate how close we came to nuclear conflict during the Cuban missile crisis, they will continue to debate just how close the American financial system and economy came to all-out collapse in the six months between...
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About 200 Coptic Christians, mostly youths, stage a noisy protest at night near the bombed church, before being dispersed by riot police firing tear gas in Alexandria, Egypt Sunday, Jan. 2, 2011. The police investigation into the New Year's church bombing that killed 21 people is focusing on a local group of Islamic hard-liners inspired by al-Qaida, Egyptian security officials said Sunday.
Continue reading the main story Related stories Deadly blast at Egyptian church In pictures: Egypt church bombing Police and Copts clash in Egypt Egyptian Coptic Christians angered by a deadly bombing at a church in Alexandria have clashed with...
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Brazil's President-elect Dilma Rousseff speaks to a group of catadores in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Thursday Dec. 23, 2010.
123 TOM HENNIGAN in Sao Paolo BRAZIL'S FIRST woman president hit the ground running yesterday, spending her first full day in power holding meetings in her office in the Planalto presidential palace while her compatriots recovered from their new year...
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A car drives past a group of pump jacks working in an oil field, Friday, Jan. 13, 2006, near Crane, Texas. Crude-oil prices fell Wednesday, as traders took profits from a recent surge in prices over supply worries spurred by possible sanctions against Iran, OPEC's second-largest producer, and political unrest in Nige
SINGAPORE, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Crude oil eased on Monday, but held above the $91 a barrel mark on optimism the gathering momentum in the global economic recovery would drive demand growth and send prices into triple-digit territory later this year....
photo: AP / Matt Slocum
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon adjusts his glasses during a plaque unveiling to inaugurate renovations of crumbling buildings inside the U.N. controlled buffer zone separating an internationally recognized Greek Cypriot south and a breakaway Turkish Cypriot north in Nicosia, the divided capital of ethnically split Cyprus
Monday, 3 January 2011, 1:02 pm Press Release: United Nations UN Chief And Republic Of Korea President Discuss Situation In The Region New York, Jan 2 2011 2:10PM Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the President of the Republic of Korea (ROK) have...
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Iranian Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, left, who has been sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, meets with her son, Sajjad, in the northwestern city of Tabriz, Iran, Saturday, Jan. 1, 2011. Ashtiani's sentence of death by stoning, which Iran has put on hold, has brought harsh condemnation from the U.S., the European Union and rights groups who are demanding Tehran stay the execution. It has further strained Iran's relations with world powers, already tense over the country's disputed nuclear program.
By Agence France Presse (AFP) Monday, January 03, 2011 - Powered by TEHRAN: The sentence of death by stoning issued by an Iranian court against a mother of two could be quashed, a senior judiciary official said Sunday, adding some ambiguities...
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A Coptic priest throws holy water over worshippers, unseen, during the morning mass inside the Saints Church in Alexandria, Egypt, Sunday, Jan. 2, 2011. Grieving Christians, many clad in black, were back praying Sunday in the blood-spattered church where 21 worshippers were killed in an apparent suicide bombing, feeling betrayed by a government they say has not done enough to keep them safe.
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Two brokers talks inside the Stock Exchange in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday Nov. 24, 2010, as the stock prices are seen reflected in a glass table top. The cost of borrowing in Span and Portugal rose sharply Wednesday as investors worried that the governments' debt loads will prove unsustainable, putting them under pressure for possible European bailout.
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Bottled water sits on the shelf at the Statehouse cafeteria in Montpelier, Vt., Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009. A report by the Boston-based nonprofit Corporate Accountability International says that Massachusetts spent nearly half a million dollars on individual bottles of water and water coolers during the past fiscal year. In Vermont, the group says state agencies spent $205,833 for bottled water last year
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West Indies' all-rounder Dwayne Bravo celebrates the dismissal of India's batsman Mohammad Kaif, who was caught behind by wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin for 13 runs, during the opening day of the first test match at the Antigua Recreation Ground in St. John's, Antigua, Friday, June 2, 2006. The West Indies reduced India to 235 for nine and Bravo took four for 37.
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