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Acting Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, Monday, April 12, 2010.
photo: AP / Jose Luis Magana
Nigerian president wins primary election
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Abuja: Nigeria's ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) declared President Goodluck Jonathan the winner of its presidential primaries on Friday, making him the firm favourite to win an April 9 general election. "I declare Dr Goodluck...
 
 
HAMMAMET, Tunisia -- This ancient Mediterranean hamlet, advertised as the Tunisian St.-Tropez,...
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Japanese Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano arrives at the Treasury Department in Washington, Friday, April 24, 2009
Prime Minister Naoto Kan is set to add some new faces to his cabinet to help him restore Japan's tattered public finances and open the nation up to free trade policies to spur growth. Kan's move was seen as an attempt to offer concessions to his...
photo: AP / Evan Vucci
The entrance to the Pike River coal mine is cordoned off in Greymouth, New Zealand, Sunday, Nov. 21, 2010. Anguished relatives of 29 workers missing after an explosion at the coal mine grew frustrated over delays in the rescue operation Sunday, as officials prepared to drill a small hole through hundreds of feet (meters) of rock to test for levels of deadly gasses.
Closing the Pike River coal mine and handing the land back to the government is the worst-case scenario, according to the company's receiver. Receiver John Fisk of PricewaterhouseCoopers told NewstalkZB he has to get the "best price obtainable for...
photo: AP / Pool
Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk speaks during a media conference at an EU summit in Brussels, Sunday March 1, 2009. With their economies tanking and finances fraying, EU leaders meet Sunday keen to show that they will stick together and work on ideas of how to put the recession behin
MOSCOW — Poland’s prime minister said Thursday that a Russian-led investigation of the crash that killed the president and dozens of other top Polish officials last April was “incomplete” and that Poland would not accept a...
photo: AP / Thierry Charlier
INDIA-ARMY-REPUBLIC-DAY-PARADE-REASALIndia Army Jawan during the Parade Reasal at Kolkata in Eastern India City ----- WN/BHASKAR MALLICK
New Delhi: India moved to reduce its dependence on foreign arms makers with new rules to draw private domestic companies into building weapons for the world's third-largest active-service military. "We will protect and strengthen the...
photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick
 Prasad Kariyawasam (left) of Sri Lanka, President-designate of the UN Conference to Review Progress Made in the Implementation of the Programme of Action to Prevent and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects, addre
NEW DELHI: The External Affiars ministry has summoned Sri Lankan High Commissioner Prasad Kariyawasam asking for an explanation on the fisherman shooting incident. Reacting strongly to the killing of an Indian fisherman in firing by the Sri...
photo: UN /Paulo Filgueiras
Saad Hariri, leader of Lebanon's parliamentary majority speaks with The Associated Press before addressing a campaign rally of couple of thousand people at his Beirut residence, Lebanon, Thursday, June 4, 2009.
Michel Sleiman, Lebanon's president, has asked Saad al-Hariri to remain as a caretaker prime minister until the country's political crisis is resolved, according to Lebanon's national news agency. Sleiman's announcement on Thursday comes as...
photo: AP / Hussein Malla
Sri Lankan flood victims watch draining flood water from a water reservoir in Ampara, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) east of Colombo,Sri Lanka, Monday, Jan. 10, 2011.
Sri Lanka flood forces thousands to flee Colombo, Sri Lanka (CNN) -- Thousands of Sri Lankan troops have launched a massive operation to rescue nearly a million people affected by floods in the central, north and eastern provinces. The flooding has...
photo: AP / Wasantha Chandrapala
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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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Togolaise national soccer team captain and Manchester City striker Emmanuel Adebayor
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Specialist Michael Shearin, right, directs trades at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Tuesday, April 27, 2010
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In this picture taken Jan. 6, 2011 turkey hens look for feed in Neerstedt near Oldenburg, northern Germany after it was closed.
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Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez gestures during a press conference with foreign journalists at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday Sept. 27, 2010
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Amauri of Juventus
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Embraer Legacy 600 at Birmingham International Airport, England
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Mangroves at Talicud, Samal Island, Philippines on April 26, 2009.
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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.
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Lionel Messi
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Kanye West performs at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards held at Paramount Pictures Studio Lot on Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008, in Los Angeles.
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Banana - Fruit - Crop - Organic
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In this May 14, 2009 file photo, reviewed by the U.S. military, Guantanamo detainees pray before dawn near a fence of razor-wire, inside Camp 4 detention facility at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba
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Australia's Jarmila Groth returns the ball to Japan's Kimiko Date Krumm during their second round match for the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium, Thursday, May 27, 2010 in Paris. Groth won 6-0, 6-3.
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Brisbane street underwater.
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