File - The casually dressed armed forces chief Commodore Frank Bainimarama is flanked by security as he delivers a press statement at the Queen Elizabeth Barracks in the Fijian capital Suva Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2006.
photo: AP / Rick Rycroft
Commonwealth calls for Fiji elections
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The Commonwealth has called for credible elections in Fiji, after its military ruler announced he would lift martial law. Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma welcomed the announcement but said it was "long overdue", and urged a return to democracy....
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign stop in Clive, Iowa, Monday, Jan. 2, 2012.
photo: AP / Chris Carlson
With Iowa's voting, GOP likely to plot future path
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DES MOINES - Republicans enter a new election year today debating more than just who should be their nominee for president. They're engaged in a struggle over how radically they can or should change the country's course. On one side is the tea party conservative, the kind of voter Richard Nixon once said belonged to a silent majority, who simmered...
Tribal tensions break out in South Sudan
photo: USAID file
Tribal tensions break out in South Sudan
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The UN says up to 50,000 people have been forced to leave their homes in the South Sudanese state of Jonglei. They are fleeing violence between the rival Lou Nuer and Murle tribes. Nearly four thousand troops and police are being sent into the area to try control the situation. Haru Mutasa has had exclusive access...
Protester chant slogans during an anti-Syrian regime protest in front of the Arab league headquarters in Cairo, Egypt Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011. Over 100 people protested outside the Arab League's Cairo headquarters where foreign ministers met Wednesday, waving the tri-colored Syrian flag and chanting slogans against Assad. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
photo: AP / Khalil Hamra
Arab League: Progress being made in Syria
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-- Syrian security forces are still killing anti-government protesters despite the presence of foreign monitors in the country, the head of the Arab League said Monday. But he insisted the observer mission has yielded important concessions from the regime, such as the withdrawal of heavy weapons from cities. Syria's opposition groups have been...
Hungarians protest against Prime Minister Viktor Orban and against the country's new constitution in Budapest, Hungary, Monday, Jan. 2, 2012.
photo: AP / Bela Szandelszky
Tens of thousands rally in Hungary against new law
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DANIEL McLAUGHLIN in Budapest TENS OF thousands of Hungarians rallied in Budapest last night against the country's controversial new constitution and a conservative government that domestic and foreign critics accuse of conducting a dangerous power-grab. One report quoted organisers of the demonstration as saying that 100,000 people had gathered...
Bangladeshi peacekeepers with the UN Mission in the Republic of South Sudan (UNMISS) are deployed to Likuangole Payam, Jonglei State, in an effort to stem the cycle of revenge attacks and killings that have killed more than 1,000 people in the last three months, 1 September, 2011.
photo: UN / Tim McKulka
UN warns South Sudanese to flee deadly ethnic vendetta
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The United Nations has warned villagers in South Sudan to flee from advancing fighters from a rival ethnic group. Fighters from the Lou Nuer ethnic group are pursuing members of the Murle group, reports say, as a deadly vendetta over cattle raiding continues. Tens of thousands of Murle fled the town of Pibor after it...
Marines and Afghan National Army soldiers patrol through farmlands outside the base recently. Behind the small poppy field in the front of the photo is a wheat field.
photo: USMC / Cpl. Marco Mancha
In Afghanistan, Poppy Growing Proves Resilient
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NAKILABAD KALAY, Afghanistan -- This stretch of the Helmand River Valley, the heart of the nation's poppy-growing area, stands as a showcase for one of NATO's most ambitious offensives against the Taliban and the drug trade. But now, the area is also becoming an object lesson in the resilience of militants and opium producers alike....
File - Soldiers on patrols on a street in Fiji's capital Suva buy peanuts and peas from a street vendor Friday, Dec. 8, 2006.
photo: AP / Rick Rycroft
Fiji regime says it will ease emergency controls
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SUVA, Fiji (AP) — Fiji's Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama says the military government will on Saturday lift the state of public emergency it imposed in 2009, as the country prepares to open consultation on a new constitution. The Public Emergency Regulations gave police and the military extended powers, imposed tough censorship on the South...
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak delivers a speech to the nation during his New Year's speech at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Jan. 2, 2012.
photo: AP / Yonhap, Kim Byung-man
Seoul sees chance for better ties with North Korea
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South Korea sees an opportunity for better relations with North Korea as its new leader takes power, President Lee Myung-Bak said Monday, while vowing to respond strongly to any provocations. "Our biggest goal is the peace and stability of the Korean peninsula,"...
Supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad hold a large banner bearing his likeness during a rally in Damascus, Syria, Friday, Dec. 30, 2011.
photo: AP / Muzaffar Salman
Arab League told to pull its monitors out of Syria
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The Arab Parliament said the 100-strong group of observers, in the country to ensure President Bashar al-Assad sticks to an agreed peace plan and stops the bloodshed, should leave "immediately". The Kuwaiti head of the 88-member parliament, Ali Salem al-Deqbasi, said: "The killing of children and the violation of human-rights law is...
Ships and drilling rigs surround the Discoverer Enterprise as it continues to recover oil from the Deepwater Horizon drill site June 15, 2010.
BP called on its contractor Halliburton on Monday to pay all costs and expenses the oil major incurred to clean up the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, according to a court filing by BP's lead trial attorney. BP has spent $14 billion in the Gulf Coast...
photo: US Coast Guard / Chief Petty Officer Bob Laura
Egyptian voters casts their votes in a polling station in Cairo, Egypt
Egypt is all set for the third round of a parliamentary election after the uprising that unseated President Hosni Mubarak in February last year. The run-up to Tuesday's poll has been overshadowed by the deaths of 17 people last month in clashes...
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb
In this photo taken Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009, new Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud, left, is seen with his comrade Waliur Rehman, front center, during his meeting with media in Sararogha of Pakistani tribal area of South Waziristan along the Afghanistan border.
FILE - In this Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009 file photo, new Pakistani Taliban chief... DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) - Prominent al-Qaida and Afghan Taliban fighters asked Pakistani militants in a pair of rare meetings to set aside their differences and...
photo: AP / Ishtiaq Mehsud
Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown greets students at the University of Bradford in Bradford, England, Wednesday, May, 5 2010.
Mr Brown's private communications, along with emails belonging to a former Labour adviser and lobbyist, Derek Draper, have been identified by Scotland Yard's Operation Tuleta team as potentially hacked material. They are currently looking at evidence...
photo: AP / Alastair Grant
Palestinian laborours work to construct new houses in a project funded by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in Rafah, in the southern of Gaza Strip on December 28, 2011. Israel maintains a tight blockade on the Palestinian territory building into Gaza since Islamist Hamas took control over the Palestinian territory in 2007 but supplies may only be brought by recognised international organisations managing specifically approved projects.. Photo by Ahmed Deeb/ WN
Palestinian and Israeli negotiators will meet for the first time in more than a year in Jordan on Tuesday to discuss stalled peace talks, the Jordanian foreign ministry said on Sunday. "Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh on Tuesday will host a meeting...
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb
Buddhist leader and Nobel Peace laureate, His Holiness the 14th Dalai lama during a special event called "Thank You India" which being held in Dharamshala, India
Article by Yeshe Choesang, WN Correspondent Dharamshala. Bodhgaya, India: - The spiritual leader of Tibet, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, arrived in Bodhgaya amid tight security Saturday, December 31st, to a traditional welcome by more than two...
photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang
File - U.S. President Barack Obama visits Dec. 3, 2010, with a platoon of U.S. troops at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan that recently lost six members, Dec. 3, 2010.
HONOLULU - President Barack Obama signed a wide-ranging defense bill into law Saturday despite having "serious reservations" about provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation and prosecution of suspected terrorists. The bill also applies...
photo: White House / Pete Souza
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