Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses the opening of the high-level segment of the COP17/CMP7 UN Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa, 6 December, 2011.
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New UN climate deal struck, critics call gains modest
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Durban: Climate negotiators agreed on a pact yesterday that would for the first time force all the biggest polluters to take action on greenhouse gas emissions, but critics said the action plan was not aggressive enough to slow the pace of global warming. The package of accords extended the Kyoto Protocol, the only global pact that enforces carbon...
Pro-Syrian regime protesters hold a rally in support of President Bashar Assad, pictured in the large banner, in Damascus, Syria, Friday, Dec. 9, 2011. Syrian forces killed at least six people - including two children - as they fired on anti-government demonstrations across the country on Friday
photo: AP / Muzaffar Salman
Nine killed in fresh Syria clashes
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At least nine people have died in fresh clashes in Syria as opposition activists called a general strike. Two people died in clashes between troops and deserters in the northern Idlib province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. There were also reports of hundreds of defectors and troops clashing in the south, near the border with...
In this Friday, Dec. 9, 2011 photo, supporters of legislative election candidates from the party of president Alassane Ouattara march through the streets of the Abobo neighborhood, Abidjan, on the final day of campaigning ahead of Sunday legislative elections, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
photo: AP / Emanuel Ekra
Ivory Coast holds first post-Gbagbo elections
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A man casts his ballot in parliamentary elections at a polling station in t... A woman shows her inked finger after voting in parliamentary elections in B... A woman casts her vote in parliamentary elections at a polling station in t... Ivorians voted Sunday to elect a new parliament in a poll boycotted by the party of former strongman Laurent...
Military policemen assigned to Headquarters Company, 2nd Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division, take a knee during a dismounted patrol along a road outside Camp Taji, Iraq, Dec. 2, 2011.
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Iraq: A war of muddled goals, painful sacrifice
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BAGHDAD — In the beginning, it all looked simple: topple Saddam Hussein, destroy his purported weapons of mass destruction and lay the foundation for a pro-Western government in the heart of the Arab world. Nearly 4,500 American and more than 100,000 Iraqi lives later, the objective now is simply to get out — and leave behind a country...
Anti-Shah demonstrators, marching near a shopping street in Tehran, Dec. 27, 1978.
photo: Public Domain
Forget Embassy Wars, the Real War Is Over Memory
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. When Michelle Bachmann, a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence and GOP presidential contender, declared she would close the U.S. Embassy in Tehran after the British Foreign Ministry pulled all U.K. nationals out, it was obvious she had forgotten that the U.S. has not had an embassy in...
U.N. climate official Christiana Figueres walk out of the negotiation room as the climate change summit nears it's end in the city of Durban, South  Africa, Saturday, Dec 10, 2011.
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UN climate conference approves landmark deal
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The president of a United Nations climate conference in South Africa has announced agreement on a program mapping out a new course by all nations to fight climate change over the coming decades. The 194-party conference agreed on Sunday to start negotiations on a new accord that would put all countries under the same legal regime to enforce...
New British Prime Minister David Cameron, left, talks with Nick Clegg, Liberal Democrats leader and new Deputy Prime Minister, right, at his official residence at 10 Downing Street in London, Wednesday, May 12, 2010. Cameron
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Nick Clegg turns fire on David Cameron over Europe veto
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Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg is no longer prepared to take the hits for the coalition on policies he does not agree with. Photograph: Gary Calton for the Observer Nick Clegg and senior Liberal Democrats have turned dramatically on David Cameron over Europe, accusing the prime minister of endangering the interests of the British economy. Just 24...
Demonstrators stand in front of police line during a mass rally to protest against alleged vote rigging in Russia's parliamentary elections in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011.
photo: AP / Mikhail Metzel
Russians stage mass protests against Putin, polls
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people took to the streets across Russia on Saturday to demand an end to Vladimir Putin's rule and a rerun of a parliamentary election in the biggest opposition protests since he rose to power more than a decade ago. Policemen detain an activist during a rally to protest against what activists say were...
In this photo taken May 31, 2011, republican forces troops allied with President Alassane Ouattara drive through the village of Keibly, just outside Blolequin in western Ivory Coast.
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Ivory Coast prepares for tense legislative poll
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- U.N. tanks patrolled Ivory Coast's commercial capital Saturday on the eve of a legislative election, in what residents said was a reminder of the tense mood just before last year's presidential poll plunged the nation into months of violence. Officials hope a calm election on Sunday can bring stability and usher in a period...
File - A Cuban doctor assists a patient, who suffers from cholera symptoms, at the medical center of L'Estere, north of Port au Prince where the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is working to contain the cholera outbreak, 31 October, 2011.
photo: UN / Marco Dormino
Haitians protest for UN cholera compensation
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Several thousand people have taken part in a protest in Haiti, demanding that the United Nations pay financial compensation to people with cholera. The protesters say UN peacekeepers inadvertently carried the...
Newt Gingrich is no doubt a revolutionary political thinker. He has managed to offer an...
Vince Cable, who is furious about the prime minister's use of his veto, will speak out against...
 
Culinary Specialist 1st Class Arnel Ortega, assigned to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam raises the National Ensign.
Myth: The US was forced to declare war on Japan after a totally unexpected Japanese attack on the American naval base in Hawaii on December 7, 1941. On account of Japan’s alliance with Nazi Germany, this aggression automatically brought the US into...
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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Email Print Order Reprint Share: Share This Share Text tool name tool goes here By SCOTT MAYEROWITZ - AP Business Writer By SCOTT MAYEROWITZ Tags:...
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Protesters shout slogans during a rally in downtown St.Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Dmitry Medvedev ordered an investigation on Sunday into allegations of fraud in Russia's parliamentary election, one day after tens of thousands of protesters demanded it be annulled and rerun. Nationalist activists shout...
photo: AP / Dmitry Lovetsky
An Egyptian anti-Mubarak protester holds a noose during a protest outside the police academy in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug.3, 2011
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — About 18 months before the Egyptian uprising that would doom Hosni Mubarak, a U.S. diplomatic cable was sent from Cairo. It described Mubarak as the likely president-for-life and said his regime's ability to...
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb
Afghan withdrawal to step up pace in 2012
AAP The number of Australian troops in Afghanistan will be reduced by the end of 2012 as defence works out how to withdraw forces within two years. Fairfax Media reports the pace of withdrawal from Oruzgan...
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Afghans carrying a body on a bed for funeral, who was killed on Tuesday's suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011.
KABUL, Afghanistan — The death toll from last week's rare sectarian attacks on Shiite Muslims in Afghanistan has risen to at least 80, the country's president said on Sunday. An Afghan man prays at a grave in a cemetery in Kabul, Afghanistan,...
photo: AP / Musadeq Sadeq
This May 1989 file photo shows General Manuel Antonio Noriega speaking to the press in Panama. A Paris court has convicted former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega for laundering drug money in France in the 1980s and ordered him to spend seven years in prison, Wednesday July 7, 2010. Noriega already spent 20 years in U.S. custody for drug trafficking and was extradited to France in April to stand trial on charges here.
Manuel Noriega in an American mugshot from 1990. The one-time dictator of Panama has been extradited from France to face a 20-year sentence in his home country. Photograph: EPA/US district attorney's office Manuel Noriega, Panama's military dictator...
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Dr. Lobsang Sangay, the democratically elected Tibetan prime minister of Tibet addressing during the event of the 22nd anniversary of His Holiness the Dalai Lama's Nobel Peace Prize Day and the 63rd Anniversary of International Human Rights day in Dharamshala, India, 10th December 2011. India's President Pratibha Patil, makes her speech at a banquet held in her honor at the Guildhall in London, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009. This is the first Indian state visit since 1990. The queen last visited India in 1997. Bread Preparation Food  Dish Display at Kolkata on Wednesday 12 October 2011  in Eastern India City The fire-fighting measures at some hospitals in Delhi are just not adequate. It was revealed after a major fire broke at a Kolkata hospital.
Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff, left, looks at Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez during a ceremony upon her arrival to Miraflores presidential Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011. Liverpool's Charlie Adam, right, vies for the ball against Queens Park Rangers' Jay Bothroyd In this frame grab taken from Venezolana de Television, VTV, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez delivers a televised speech aired from Cuba, Thursday, June 30, 2011. Spectators watch FIFA President Sepp Blatter during a live viewing of the 2018 and 2022 World Cup hosts announcement, at the King Baudouin stadium in Brussels, Thursday Dec. 2, 2010.
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