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View of a polling centre and poll worker at the Comboni School in Raja, West Bahr el Ghazal State, South Sudan, on the third day of balloting in the South's referendum on independence, 11 January, 2011.
photo: UN / Paul Banks
Turnout in Southern Sudan vote passes 60 percent
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JUBA, Sudan-More than 60 percent of registered voters already have cast ballots in an independence referendum, crossing the threshold needed for the vote to be valid if it creates the new country of Southern Sudan as expected, a southern official said Wednesday. The south's secession would split Africa's largest...
A woman and her child stand outside their new tent at a camp in Croix des Bouquets, Haiti. Displaced Haitian families have resettled at the camp site follwing a devastating earthquake, 5 April, 2010.
photo: UN / Sophia Paris
Haiti earthquake anniversary: power struggle destroying recovery efforts
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Haiti marks the first anniversary of its disastrous earthquake on Wednesday with voodoo ceremonies and open air masses amid a barrage of warnings that its corrupt political power struggle was destroying recovery efforts. < Video Haiti still in rubble one year after earthquake Pictures...
Local residents move to higher ground as the Brisbane river burst its banks to cause widespread flooding in Brisbane, Australia, on Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011. Queensland has been in the grip of its worst flooding for more than two weeks, after tropical downpours across a vast area of the state covered an area the size of France and Germany combined. Residents in low-lying regions of the state capital of Brisbane were urged to sandbag their homes and later told to move to higher ground.
photo: AP / Tertius Pickard
Floods enter Brisbane, 20,000 homes in danger
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BRISBANE, Australia (AP) -- Deadly floodwaters that have cut a swath across northeast Australia seeped onto the streets of the nation's third-largest city Wednesday, forcing people to flee both suburbs and skyscrapers. City Mayor Campbell Newman said almost 20,000 homes in low-lying areas of the city of about 2 million were expected to be swamped...
In this photo taken Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010, Christians attend the Christmas mass at the St. Grigor Armenian Catholic church in Tehran, Iran.
photo: AP / Vahid Salemi
Iran cracks down on Christians increasingly viewed by Islamic leaders as a threat
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Iran has arrested about 70 Christians since Christmas in a crackdown that demonstrates the limits of religious tolerance by Islamic leaders who often boast they provide room for other faiths. The latest raids have targeted grass-roots Christian groups Iran describes as "hard-liners" who pose a threat to the...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai, right, shakes hands with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011.
photo: AP / Musadeq Sadeq
Biden Assures Karzai of U.S. Presence Beyond 2014
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KABUL, Afghanistan — Visiting Vice President Joseph R. Biden met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai here Tuesday and promised a lasting American commitment to the country well beyond 2014, when NATO forces are scheduled to turn over security of the nation to Afghan forces. “The United States, if the Afghan people want it, are prepared...
Alassane Ouattara answers questions from journalists during a press conference at the Golf Hotel in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011.
photo: AP / Rebecca Blackwell
Ouattara rejects vice-president job
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Alassane Ouattara, the man recognised by the international community as the winner of Cote d'Ivoire's presidential poll, has rejected an offer from Laurent Gbagbo, the incumbent president, to take up the role of vice-president, sources have told Al Jazeera. The offer was reportedly made on Tuesday during mediation efforts to break the...
This Sunday Jan. 9 2011 photo shows demonstrators clashing with riot police in a street of Regueb, Tunisia.
photo: AP / Abu Omar
Tunisia unrest reflects a larger problem
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The unrest in Tunisia cannot, and must not, be looked at as an isolated case. The ongoing clashes between the security forces and angry young people, described by the international media as "frustrated", can happen in any place in any Arab country that suffers from underdevelopment and high unemployment. Sure, the lack of...
Sudan's political challenges
photo: UN / Paul Banks
Sudan's political challenges
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Voting is underway in South Sudan, with more than 2,500 polling centres dotted around the south, ready to accommodate almost four million voters. More than 110,000 voters have registered in the north and another 60,000 are voting from abroad.   If people vote for the secession of the south, it will be six months before...
A man checks voter lists on the first day of balloting in South Sudan’s historic referendum on independence at a polling station at Al Barka Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Camp in Khartoum Bahri, near Khartoum, Sudan, 9 January, 2010.
photo: UN / Paul Banks
South Sudan vote continues smoothly
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Voting has opened for the third day in southern Sudan's historic referendum to determine whether the region will secede from Sudan to become an independent state. Jubilant voters had flooded polling stations for a second day on Monday, but tensions remained high in the border region of Abyei with reports of at least 30 people being killed...
United States District Attorney Patrick Cunningham leaves the Sandra Day O'Connor United States Courthouse following the initial court appearance of Jared Loughner  in Phoenix, Ariz., Monday, Jan. 10, 2011.
photo: AP / Chris Carlson
Arizona shooting suspect appears in court
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A troubled 22-year-old college dropout made his first court appearance on Monday on five federal charges, including the attempted assassination of Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who remained in critical condition with a bullet wound to the head. His hands manacled together,...
 
 
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The New York Times today detailed the broad support that gun rights have in Arizona, where even...
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A fan lights a candle next to a photo showing American pop star Michael Jackson as fans pay tribute to the star outside a hotel he stayed at the last time he visited Hungary in Budapest, Hungary, Friday, June 26, 2009
Michael Jackson's physician has been ordered to stand trial for involuntary manslaughter. Los Angeles prosecutors have ended their case in the preliminary hearing to determine whether there is enough evidence to try Dr. Conrad Murray. The lawyers...
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Lake Annand Park flooded in Toowoomba.
Thousands of residents have begun evacuating the outskirts of Australia's third-largest city as other people piled sandbags outside their homes and stockpiled food amid rising floodwaters and more heavy rain. The streets of Brisbane in...
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Dalai Lama says transform tragedy into strength
During chaotic times in a troubled world the advice of the Dalai Lama is desired more so than ever among Buddhists here in Syracuse and worldwide. And so there has been interest in the Dalai Lama's recent advice to turn tragedy into strength. The...
photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang
Royal Mail vans are seen at a sorting office in London, during a postal strike, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009.
Opponents of the Government's controversial plans to privatise the Royal Mail have claimed there are signs of a "mini-rebellion" by coalition MPs before the Bill reaches its final stages in the Commons on Wednesday. Postal affairs minister...
photo: AP / Matt Dunham
Fight against Dalai Lama to be intense: Chinese official
A top Chinese official heading the Tibet administration has said fight against Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama is meant to be "lasting, intense and complicated" and the government faced "arduous task" of keeping secessionists...
photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang
China: A force for peace in Sudan?
As the world anxiously watches the southern Sudanese vote on whether to secede, one country has more to lose than most if civil war returns to Sudan. With an estimated 24,000 of its citizens living there and billions of dollars worth of investments...
photo: UN / Paul Banks
EU official warns Ukraine on political repression, media crackdown
   Kiev - European Union enlargement commissioner Stefan Fule on Tuesday warned Ukraine's leadership against cracking down on political opposition and infringing the rights of independent media, according to news reports....
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In this photo taken Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi seen during a meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, not seen, in St. Petersburg, Russia. Berlusconi arrived on a private visit
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