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Cambodian soldiers walk through the famed Preah Vihear temple as they head for the frontline of the Cambodia-Thailand border in Preah Vihear province, Cambodia, Friday, Oct. 17, 2008. Cambodia's prime minister called Friday for more talks with Thailand after a deadly armed clash raised fears the two neighbors were headed for a full-scale war over a patch of disputed land along their border. Cambodia urges UN intervention as clashes continue near temple at disputed Thai frontier
| PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Cambodia called for U.N. peacekeepers to help end the fighting along its tense border with Thailand, where artillery fire echoed for a fourth day Monday near an 11th century t... (photo: AP / Heng Sinith) Star Tribune
Cambodia   Photos   Thailand   UN   Wikipedia: Preah Vihear Temple  
Egyptian anti-Mubarak protesters, one of them holding a copy of the Quran or Muslim holy book, in front of a tank at Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Feb. 6, 2011. Egyptian govt, opposition deadlocked over way ahead
President Hosni Mubarak's government was to hold its first full meeting of a new cabinet on Monday since protests erupted against his rule with no sign yet of progress in talks with an opposition whic... (photo: AP / Emilio Morenatti) Khaleej Times
Democracy   Egypt   Photos   Protests   Wikipedia: 2011 Egyptian protests  
A Cambodian solider, center, and tourists walk at Preah Vihear temple in Preah Vihear province, Cambodia, Sunday, July 13, 2008. Thai-Cambodia clashes continue
| Clashes between Thai and Cambodian troops over a disputed area surrounding a 900-year-old Hindu temple have continued for a fourth day across the frontier between the two countries. | Shelling and m... (photo: AP / Heng Sinith) Al Jazeera
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In this Sunday, Feb. 6, 2011, photo provided by the Fire and Emergency Services Authority of Western Australia, Gosnell bushfire brigade battles a fire at the rear of a house in the Perth, suburb of Roleystone, Australia. The wildfire that tore across the outskirts of an Australian city over the weekend has destroyed dozens of homes. One firefighter was injured and several people were treated for smoke inhalation. Bushfires rage out of control near Perth, Australia
Bushfires raging on the outskirts of Perth in Western Australia have destroyed at least 40 homes and damaged about 20 others. | Firefighters are battling two blazes to the east and north of the city. ... (photo: AP / FESA, Evan Collis) BBC News
Australia   Disaster   Emergency   Photos   Wikipedia: Bushfires in Australia  
Soldiers guard the Interior Ministry in Tunis, Friday Jan.21, 2011. Several hundred demonstrators gathered peacefully across from the long-dreaded Interior Ministry in central Tunis, chanting "Down with the government!" The site, cordoned off by security forces, has seen near-daily protests for the past week by those who say the caretaker government is still too dominated by cronies of ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Tunisia Suspends Former Governing Party
| TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia’s interior minister suspended all activities of the country’s former governing party on Sunday amid the most serious protests since the country’... (photo: AP / Hassene Dridi) The New York Times
Photos   Politics   Protests   Tunisia   Wikipedia: 20102011 Tunisian uprising  
Egyptian Muslim brotherhood seniors Saad el-Katatni, center, Essam el-Erian, left, and Mohamed Morsi talk during a press conference in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Feb. 6, 2011. Egypt's largest opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, said it would begin talks Sunday with the government to try to end the country's political crisis but made clear it would insist on the immediate ouster of longtime authoritarian President Hosni Mubarak. Arbic read " Press conference for Muslim Brotherhood" . Key opposition group not swayed by talks with Egypt regime
| OPPONENTS of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's embattled regime today dismissed as insufficient an offer to include them in political reform plans, and renewed their demands that he step down.... (photo: AP / Abdel Hamid Eid) The Daily Telegraph Australia
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