Afghan and Iranian asylum seekers sit at an immigration office in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Oct. 18, 2010. The group were trying to reach Australia by boat.
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Australia to send child asylum seekers to Malaysia
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Outcry over plan to send unaccompanied children among 800 asylum seekers to Malaysia under a refugee swap deal Tenaganita (Women's Force) executive director Irene Fernandez protests outside the Australia embassy in Kuala Lumpur over the plan. Photograph: Kamarul Akhir/AFP/Getty Images...
South Korean technicians conduct a ground-penetrating radar survey of alleged burial of a highly toxic defoliant - Agent Orange - at Camp Carroll, a US army logistics base, in Waegwan in Chilgok county, 216-km (135 miles) southeast of Seoul, Thursday, June 2, 2011.
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US soldiers cite buried toxic chemical in SKorea
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FOSTER KLUG Associated Press= SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Steve House can't stop thinking about the day in 1978 when he says he helped bury toxic Agent Orange at a U.S. military base in South Korea, hauling rusting drums to a ditch from a warehouse that soldiers called "voodoo land." After decades of silence and countless hours of suffering that he...
Anti-government protestors shout slogans during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, June 2, 2011.
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Thousands flee fighting in Yemen capital
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SANAA (AFP) – Dissident tribesmen have fought loyalist troops in the Yemeni capital for a third straight day leaving bodies littering the streets and sending thousands of residents fleeing. More than 60 people have now been confirmed killed in the fighting since a fragile truce between the forces of powerful tribal leader Sheikh Sadiq...
A Bosnian Serb man chants slogans while holding a flag and a photos of Ratko Mladic, to support Gen. Ratko Mladic, in Banja Luka, 240 kms northwest from Sarajevo, Bosnia, on Tuesday, May 31, 2011.
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Mladic faces Hague court on Bosnia genocide charges
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THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Ratko Mladic will face his judges at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague on Friday to answer charges of genocide in the Bosnia war. The former Bosnian Serb Army commander, once a burly and intimidating figure on the battlefield, is now in frail health, looking much older than his 69 years. Mladic faces...
Protesting farmers dump some 300 kilos (700 pounds) of fruit and vegetables, cabbage, tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and other produce outside the German consulate in Valencia, Spain Thursday June 2, 2011, following the E.coli outbreak that has killed 16 people. alencia, Spain Thursday June 2, 2011.
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WHO says Europe E. coli is new, but CDC not sure
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MARIA CHENG The Associated Press LONDON - A super-toxic bug is causing the frightening food poisoning outbreak in Europe that has sickened at least 1,600 people and killed 18, researchers and global health officials said Thursday. The new E. coli strain that is believed to have contaminated salad vegetables was analyzed by Chinese and German...
File - The crew involved in the Air Force's failed April 25, 1980 attempt to rescue 52 American hostages from the U.S. embassy in Tehran pose in front of their C-130 transport on April 24, 1980, in the Oman desert. The following day, the aircraft was involved in a crash with a Marine Corps helicopter.
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U.S. Navy SEALS: Troubled Past for Troubled Empire
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Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. Like an ancient war-like tribe withering in its own mythologies, the U.S. Navy SEALS is trying to reinvent itself. But don't be deceived. The Navy SEALS, which is part of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC)-once known as Special Operation Forces (SOF)-and includes Army Rangers, Marine Force...
A customer buys vegetables and fruits at a street side market in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, May 31, 2011.
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E. coli : Russia bans import of EU vegetables
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Russia has banned the import of all fresh vegetables from the European Union because of the E. coli outbreak centred on Germany. The country's chief medical officer said EU-produced vegetables would be seized across Russia. More than 1,500 people have been infected by enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC), which can...
An elderly anti-government protestor reacts during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen, Wednesday, June 1, 2011.
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Yemen chaos spreads
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SANAA, Yemen -- Yemen edged closer to civil war Wednesday as fighting spread to new parts of the country and government troops waged increasingly bloody street battles with opposition tribesmen for control of crucial areas in the capital. The violence has transformed a largely peaceful uprising into a tribal conflict with no clear end in sight. The...
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan reacts at a press conference during ballot counting in the upper house parliamentary elections at his Democratic Party of Japan election headquarters in Tokyo early Monday, July 12, 2010
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Japan's PM under pressure to resign over crisis
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TOKYO – Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan says he will consider resigning once Japan's efforts to recover from its earthquake...
Mexican Army soldiers hold two suspects, arrested during an operation against drug smuggling and kidnapping gangs, after being presented to the press in Tijuana, Mexico, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008.
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Global war on drugs has 'failed' say former leaders
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The global war on drugs has "failed" according to a new report by group of politicians and former world leaders. The Global Commission on Drug Policy...
It is expected that at the end of June, Freedom Flotilla 2 will set sail for Gaza, carrying...
 
Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi waves prior to his meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at Rome's Villa Doria Pamphili, Thursday, June 2, 2011.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi played down the significance of a coming referendum on nuclear power, seen as his next big test with voters after this week's crushing local election defeats. "The result of the referendum has nothing at all...
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Hackers broke into Sony Corp's computer networks and accessed the information of more than 1 million customers to show the vulnerability of the electronic giant's systems in the latest of several security breaches undermining confidence in...
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A man chants anti Moammar Gadhafi slogans during a protest in the rebel strong hold of Benghazi, Libya, Thursday, June 2, 2011.
TRIPOLI (AFP) – Explosions rattled the Libyan capital overnight into Friday as a US official said strongman Moamer Kadhafi was increasingly isolated and Russia prepped an envoy to mediate the conflict. Four explosions were first heard at 11:35...
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Xi urges UN to value development issue
2011-06-03 08:44:20.0Xi urges UN to value development issueXi Jinping,Chinese Vice President,development issue11020262Government and Policy2@webnews/enpproperty--> ROME - Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping said here on Thursday that the United Nations...
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Susan Gellman, right, the court appointed attorney for Phillip Garrido, left, reads a statement by her client during his sentencing hearing in the 1991 kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard, at the El Dorado County Superior Court in Placerville, Calif., Thursday, June 2, 2011.
PLACERVILLE, Calif. (AP) — A California woman who was held captive for 18 years said her life was stolen by her abductors as she made her first public statement about the ordeal in an emotional declaration her mother read at the captors’ sentencing...
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International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, right, International Monetary Fund Committee Chairman Tharman Shanmugaratnam, center, and IMF First Deputy Managing Director John Lipsky, left, arrive for a news conference after the IMFC met in Washington on Saturday, April 16, 2011. Shanmugaratnam is the minister of finance of Singapore.
An alarm company concerned about an open door called District of Columbia police to the home of former IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, but a law enforcement official says...
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Aug. 3 trial date is set for Mubarak
CAIRO - Facing growing pressure to prosecute former president Hosni Mubarak promptly, Egyptian prosecutors announced yesterday that he will go on trial Aug. 3 for conspiring in the fatal shooting of protesters. The setting of a trial date suggests...
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