File - Afghan President Hamid Karzai takes the stage to speak at the National Military Academy's (NMA) third graduation ceremony at the NMA in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 22, 2011.
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Afghan president warns NATO against airstrikes that kill civilians
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Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai warned Tuesday that any future NATO airstrikes that kill civilians will be considered attacks against the Afghan people. The statement came three days after an airstrike killed 14 civilians in southern Afghanistan, according to Afghan...
An Egyptian protester carries a banner with drawings depicting ex president Mubarak and reads in Arabic " No forgiveness, our children's blood is not cheap." during a protest at Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt Friday, May 27, 2011.
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Egypt's prosecutor: Mubarak depressed, weak
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CAIRO - Egypt's prosecutor general says former President Hosni Mubarak is too ill to be imprisoned to await trial on charges he conspired in the deadly shootings of protesters who forced him from power. A government-chosen panel of physicians reported that Mubarak's heart condition put him at risk of a sudden attack. The 83-year-old former leader...
Pakistan security personnel are seen in the area of a suicide bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan on Wednesday, May 25, 2011.
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WikiLeaks: Pakistani intelligence 'continues to offer support to terrorist groups'
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Pakistani intelligence officers continue to offer to support to terrorist groups threatening regional security, according to a diplomatic cable circulated by Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state. The revelations will further undermine relations between Pakistan and America Photo: AFP/GETTY IMAGES By Rob Crilly, Islamabad 2:26PM BST 31 May...
In this Monday, May 30, 2011 photo supplied by the South African Government Communications and Informations Services (GCIS) South Africa President Jacob Zuma, left, meets with Libyan President Moammar Gadhafi, right, in Tripoli.
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I will not leave my country: Gaddafi
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TRIPOLI - Muammar Gaddafi is emphatic he will not leave Libya, South African President Jacob Zuma said on Tuesday after talks with the Libyan leader that left prospects for a negotiated end to the conflict looking dim. But new questions emerged over how long Gaddafi could hold on after a senior United Nations aid official said shortages of food and...
Bosnian Serb's hold photos of former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic, right, and former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic with Mladic, center, during a protest in support of Gen. Ratko Mladic, in Banja Luka 240 kms northwest from Sarajevo, Bosnia, on Tuesday, May 31, 2011.
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Serbia judges reject Ratko Mladic extradition appeal
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Serbia's war crimes court has rejected Ratko Mladic's appeal against his transfer to the UN tribunal in The Hague to face genocide charges. The Belgrade court took just hours to make its decision after receiving the appeal...
Armed Yemeni Tribesmen gather outside the Ministry of Local Administration in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday, May 29 ,2011.
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Fighting raises Yemen civil war fears
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A tenuous truce declared a few days ago to end street fighting in the Yemeni capital between tribal groups and forces loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh has broken down, sending the country closer to the brink of civil war. "The ceasefire agreement has ended," a government official said on Tuesday without giving further details. The announcement...
Flyovers, flags mark Memorial observance
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Flyovers, flags mark Memorial observance
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WASHINGTON: Americans from the nation's capital to Alaska marked Memorial Day with parades and somber reflection on a holiday infused with fresh meaning by the approaching 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The National Memorial Day Parade in Washington honored veterans and America's war dead but also featured special tributes to...
This video image taken from Libyan state television broadcast Monday, May 30, 2011 shows Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, right, and South African president Jacob Zuma before a meeting in Tripoli, Libya.
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New NATO strikes as Kadhafi says 'ready' for ceasefire
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TRIPOLI (AFP) – NATO launched air raids early Tuesday on Tripoli after visiting South African President Jacob Zuma said that Moamer Kadhafi is "ready" to implement an African Union plan to end the Libyan conflict. Zuma, representing the African regional group, held talks Monday with the Libyan leader as NATO insisted that...
The nuclear power plant in Biblis, Germany, photographed on Thursday, July 10, 2008. (AP Photo/Daniel Roland)hg3
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Nuclear phase-out can make Germany trailblazer - Merkel
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said a decision to phase out nuclear power by 2022 can make her country a trailblazer in renewable energy. Ms Merkel said Germany would reap economic...
A market seller holds out a cucumber to give to a customer in a fruit and vegetable market in Malaga, southern Spain, Monday May 30, 2011. Vegetables from Spain are suspected of carrying the dangerous E.coli bacteria, which is suspected of killing some people in Germany and has caused many hundreds of people to become ill across Europe.
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Europeans trade blame over E.coli outbreak
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BRUSSELS - Europeans traded blame Monday over the source of a mysterious bacterial outbreak that has killed 14 people and sickened hundreds across the continent and forced Russia to ban imports of some fresh vegetables from Spain and Germany out of fear they could be contaminated. Austrian authorities sent inspectors to supermarkets Monday to make...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka-Sri Lanka is sharing the counter-terrorism strategies it used to win a...
Oxfam says era of permanent food crisis will hit poorest people hardest and spark social unrest...
The decision of the German government to phase out nuclear power within 10 years offers a...
 
Dalai Lama has officially left politics
Buddhists here in Syracuse have been carefully watching the transition of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to that of a pure spiritual leader. News earlier in the year of the Dalai Lama's plans to leave politics behind him aroused a great deal of interest...
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In this courtroom sketch, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, takes the witness stand in his second corruption trial, Thursday, May 26, 2011, in Chicago.
CHICAGO -- Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has told jurors he never tried to shake down a politically connected road builder. Blagojevich was on the stand for a third day Tuesday at his corruption retrial. The executive, Gerry Krozel, testified...
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Yemeni army soldiers check a car at a checkpoint, in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, May 30, 2011.
Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh's violent suppression of peaceful demonstrators since February, and his seeming determination to drive his country to civil war must surely be embarrassing to his former allies and sponsors. Chief among them, the...
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File - Aerial view of the Pentagon from the Potomac River entrance at Arlington, Virginia (VA).
For the first time, the Pentagon has decided that cyber attacks constitute an act of war, The Wall Street Journal. The U.S. military drafted a classified 30-page document concluding that the U.S. may respond to cyber attacks from foreign countries...
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A man with two children sits in the rubble of the earthquake damaged Cathedral during a mass in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Far fewer people died or were left homeless by last year's earthquake than claimed by Haitian leaders, a report commissioned by the US government has found,...
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi waves while walking with Romanian President Traian Basescu, background, at the Cotroceni Presidential Palace in Bucharest, Tuesday, May 31, 2011.
MILAN - Premier Silvio Berlusconi's defense lawyers fought to get his sensational under-age prostitution trial moved out of the criminal courts on Tuesday as the Italian leader battled for his political future after suffering a withering defeat in...
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Egyptians outraged at admission of virginity tests upon protesters
Cairo - Many Egyptians expressed their anger Tuesday after a senior Egyptian general admitted that virginity checks were performed on women arrested during demonstrations in March, after previous denials by military authorities. Dozens were...
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A market seller holds out a cucumber to give to a customer in a fruit and vegetable market in Malaga, southern Spain, Monday May 30, 2011. Vegetables from Spain are suspected of carrying the dangerous E.coli bacteria, which is suspected of killing some people in Germany and has caused many hundreds of people to become ill across Europe.
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Peru's presidential candidates Ollanta Humala, right, and Keiko Fujimori wave to reporters after their presidential debate in Lima, Peru, Sunday, May 29, 2011.
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From left to right, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble, France's Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner pose during the family picture of the G20 Finance summit at Bercy Finance Ministry in Paris, Saturday, Feb. 19, 2011. Finance chiefs from the world's 20 industrialized and fastest developing nations wrestle over how to steady the world economy at a two-days meeting in Paris.
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