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* Current Lightbox Your Recently Modified Lightboxes * Lightbox 1 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talks during a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem, Monday, June 7, 2010. Netanyahu has rejected a proposal by U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon for an international commission to investigate Israel's killing of nine activists during a raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla carrying humanitarian supplies and hundreds of activists protesting the closure of the Hamas-ruled Palestinian territory, but officials said Netanyahu was open to a probe that would look into the actions of the activists as well.
Gaza   Israel   Journalists   Photos   Wikipedia: Gaza flotilla raid		  The Guardian 
Israel: Journalists on flotilla face expulsion
Sun 26 Jun 2011
MARK LAVIE Associated Press= JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel said Sunday that any foreign journalist caught on board a Gaza-bound flotilla could face deportation and a 10-year ban from the country, in a move... (photo: AP / Tara Todras-Whitehill)
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, gestures as he speaks during a joint press conference with Syrian President Bashar Assad, not seen, at the Syrian presidential palace, in Damascus, Syria, Thursday Oct. 21, 2010. Chavez is on an official visit to Damascus aimed at boosting ties with Syria.
Chavez   Death   Photos   Venezuela   Wikipedia: Hugo Chávez		  Hartford Courant 
Venezuela tells foes to "stop dreaming" of Chavez's death
Sun 26 Jun 2011
CARACAS (Reuters) - Senior allies of Venezuela's socialist President Hugo Chavez have rubbished reports he is sicker than the government has admitted, telling his enemies to "stop dreaming" of his... (photo: AP / Hussein Malla)
In this Jan. 7, 2010 file photo, two Yemeni soldiers operate at a checkpoint in the streets of San'a, Yemen.  CNN  Sun 26 Jun 2011
Report: Two confess to helping al Qaeda inmates escape in Yemen
(CNN) -- Two prisoners have confessed to digging a tunnel that led to the escape of 63 inmates last week, Yemen's state-run SABA news agency reported Sunday. Dozens of suspected al Qaeda militants... (photo: AP / Nasser Nasser)
Al Qaeda   Mideast   Photos   Wikipedia: 2011 Yemeni uprising   Yemen
Mikhail Prokhorov (Right-center). After selling off most of Norilsk's non-mining assets, Prokhorov moved to modernize a complicated, expensive business venture which required icebreakers to transport metal over the frozen Arctic region.  The Daily Telegraph  Sun 26 Jun 2011
Third richest man in Russia aims to become prime minister
One of Russia's richest men has overturned an unofficial Kremlin ban on oligarchs entering politics to become the leader of a party that could see him emerge as prime minister. With a fortune... (photo: Creative Commons / Norilsk Nickel)
Kremlin   Photos   Politics   Russia   Wikipedia: Mikhail Prokhorov
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Outspoken Chinese AIDS activist Hu Jia at right is shadowed by a plain clothes security personnel later identified by Hu at left during an interview at a cafe in Beijing, China, in this March 31, 2006 file photo. Hu who accused Chinese security forces of holding him for more than a month earlier this year was taken from his home on Thursday, Sept. 7, 2006 his wife s BBC News Sun 26 Jun 2011
China's Hu Jia release: Guarded welcome from Europe
China's release of prominent dissident Hu Jia has been given a cautious welcome by European officials. EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton said it was "important to... (photo: AP / Ng Han Guan, file)
China   Europe   Human Rights   Photos   Wikipedia: Hu Jia (activist)
Brig. Gen. Larry Nicholson, commanding general of 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, lands outside the city of Marjah, Afghanistan, via MV-22B Osprey to visit the Marines with Company L, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, Feb. 9, 2010. Seattle Times Sun 26 Jun 2011
A decade on, no clear answers in Afghanistan war
KABUL, Afghanistan - For 10 years, ever since the towers fell, the United States has fought a war in a distant land - in hopes, it says, of protecting American interests... (photo: USMC / Lance Cpl. Justin Loya)
Afghanistan   Military   Photos   War   Wikipedia: War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
Indian Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev gestures as he arrives to address a press conference in New Delhi, India, Sunday, June 26, 2011. The Times of India Sun 26 Jun 2011
Government in no mood to create a Lokpal, says Ramdev
NEW DELHI: Returning to Delhi three weeks after he was bundled out from the Capital, yoga guru Ramdev on Sunday attacked the government claiming that it has no will to... (photo: AP / Mustafa Quraishi)
Corruption   India   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement
Ivorian strongman Laurent Gbagbo, left, and his wife Simone, are seen is the custody of republican forces loyal to election winner Alassane Ouattara at the Golf Hotel in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Monday, April 11, 2011. Forces stormed the bunker where Gbagbo hung on to power Monday, arresting the man whose refusal to hand over the presidency to the election winner left hundreds dead and threatened to re-ignite a civil war in the world's largest cocoa producer. Breitbart Sun 26 Jun 2011
Gbagbo associates charged with crimes in I. Coast
Residents burn tyres and block the street where security forces loyal to La... Fifteen associates of Ivory Coast ex-president... (photo: AP / Aristide Bodegla)
Crimes   Ivory Coast   Photos   Security   Wikipedia: 2010–2011 Ivorian crisis
Newly elected Food and Agriculture Organization Director-General, Jose Graziano da Silva, of Brazil, center, is cheered by delegates after being elected at FAO's Headquarters in Rome, Sunday, June 26, 2011. Breitbart Sun 26 Jun 2011
Brazil's Graziano elected chief of UN food agency
Candidate for the post of Food and Agriculture Organization Director-General,... Candidate for the post of Food and Agriculture Organization Director-General,... ROME... (photo: AP / Pier Paolo Cito)
Agriculture   Brazil   Food   Photos   Wikipedia: Food and Agriculture Organization
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, left talks with the Greek President Karolos Papoulias in Athens Monday May 3, 2010. Al Jazeera Sun 26 Jun 2011
Building 'a new Greece'?
Where to now for Greece? Battle on, default, or even get out of the eurozone? Greece is looking more and more like it will default on its debt. Europe is forcing... (photo: AP / Thanassis Stavrakis)
Debt   Europe   Greece   Photos   Wikipedia: European sovereign debt crisis


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Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh looks on during a media conference in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, March 18, 2011. Yemeni government snipers firing from rooftops and houses shot into a crowd of tens of thousands of anti-government demonstrators on Friday, killing at least 40 people and injuring hundreds demanding the ouster of the autocratic president. Yemen's president has declared a nationwide state of emergency as the government intensifies a crackdown on protesters demanding his ouster. Yemen's Saleh is recovering, plans to return Khaleej Times
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