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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Arab League monitors check Al-Sabil area, in Daraa, Syria, on Tuesday Jan.3, 2012.
The 22-member body is responding to claims that the mission has provided cover for continuing human rights abuses by the regime as President Bashar al-Assad seeks to crush a 10-month-long uprising against his rule. In a statement of frustration with...
photo: AP / SANA
U.S. President Barack Obama, center, walks next to Chinese President Hu Jintao past a Chinese guard of honor during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009.
Walter Russell Mead is right that conflict with China may turn out to be unlikely ("America's Play for Pacific Prosperity," op-ed, Dec. 30). China and the U.S. have...
photo: AP / Ng Han Guan
US military deaths in Afghanistan at 1,741
As of Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012, at least 1,741 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count. The AP count is four less than the Defense...
photo: US Army / Spc. Ken Scar
Ban stresses 'people power' and partnerships at start of second term as UN chief
Secretary-General Bank Ki-moon (left) sits for an interview with the UN News Centre and UN Radio3 January 2012 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has begun his second term as Secretary-General of the United Nations by pledging to harness "the strong...
photo: UN / Mark Garten
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
France's President Nicolas Sarkozy, center, smiles during a visit to the logistics platform of the French charitable organisation "Les Restos du Coeur", (Restaurants of the Heart), in Vitry-sur Seine, near Paris, Dec. 22, 2011.
New evidence emerged yesterday linking President Sarkozy to an off-shore company created in 1994 to handle commissions on large French arms sales to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. The commissions, paid through a company in Luxembourg allegedly created by...
photo: AP / Eric Feferberg
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Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard delivers her speech at the 2nd Australia China Economic and Trade Cooperation Forum and Prime Ministerial Dinner at a hotel in Beijing Tuesday, April 26, 2011. Australia and China signed a series of cooperation agreements on Tuesday at the start of a visit by Gillard intended to strengthen ties and smooth over recent spats with her country's top export market. Serena Williams of the US wipes her face during her match against France's Marion Bartoli at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon, Monday, June 27, 2011. 2007–2010 Toyota Kluger (GSU45R) KX-S, photographed in Cronulla, New South Wales, Australia. Henna tattoo -tattoo -art
 

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