U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Zachary Fisher, a 22-year-old fire team leader with 3rd Platoon, India Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment and Roanoke, Va. native, walks through a field while Afghan National Army soldier Baran Gul and an interpreter greet a farmer during a partnered security patrol in Safar, Helmand province, Afghanistan, Dec. 30, 2011.
photo: USMC / Cpl. Reece Lodder
Afghan government agrees to Taliban-US talks
read more The Times of India
KABUL: The government of Afghanistan on Wednesday gave its blessing to talks between Taliban insurgents and the United States and to the opening of an office for the Islamists in Qatar. The hardline Taliban announced on Tuesday that they had come to an "initial agreement with relevant sides including Qatar" to set up their first representative...
In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA and according to them, flames raise from a gas pipeline caused by an explosion attack, near the town Rastan in the restive Homs province, Syria, on Tuesday Jan. 3, 2012.
photo: AP / SANA
Syrian army defectors threaten more attacks
read more Al Jazeera
The commander of the main armed opposition group in Syria has threatened to step up attacks on government forces, saying he was frustrated with Arab League monitors' lack of progress in ending a government crackdown on protests. Colonel Riad al-Asaad, the head of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), says he is waiting for the...
Cofan indigenous women stand near an open oil pit in the Sucumbios province in Ecuador's Amazon in this Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2005 file photo. A court-appointed expert recommended on April 2, 2008 that Chevron Corp. pay up to US$16 billion (€10.2 billion) for allegedly polluting Ecuador's Amazon
photo: AP / Dolores Ochoa
Ecuador appeals court rules against Chevron in oil case
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An Ecuadorian appeals court has upheld a ruling that Chevron should pay damages totalling $18.2bn (£11.5bn) over Amazon oil pollution. Chevron said...
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign stop in Clive, Iowa, Monday, Jan. 2, 2012.
photo: AP / Chris Carlson
Iowa caucuses open, launch 2012 White House race
read more Jakarta Globe
Voters in Iowa on Tuesday huddled together to cast the first ballots in the 2012 White House race and pick their nominee for the Republican candidate to take on President Barack Obama. Iowans from the midwestern state's 1,774 precincts crammed into school gymnasiums, cafeterias...
File - Detainees at Joint Task Force (JTF) Guantanamo, Cuba, observe morning prayers before sunrise inside Camp Delta Oct. 28, 2009.
photo: US Navy file / MCS2 Marcos T. Hernandez
Taliban leaders held at Guantánamo Bay to be released in peace talks deal
read more The Guardian
US agrees in principle to releasing top officials from Afghanistan insurgent group in exchange for starting process of negotiations The US detention centre in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, holds leading Taliban figures such as the former army commander Fazl Akhund. Photograph: John Moore/Getty...
Demonstrators chant and wave Bahraini flags near the Pearl Monument on a main square in Manama, Bahrain, Tuesday Feb. 15, 2011. Thousands of protesters poured into the square in Bahrain's  capital in an Egypt-style rebellion that sharply escalated pressure on authorities as the Arab push for change gripped the Gulf for the first time. Oppositions groups are calling for greater political freedom and an end to the ruling Sunni monarchy's grip on key decisions and government posts. The nation's majority Shiites have long complained of discrimination.
photo: AP / Hasan Jamali
Reasons Bahrain should be Returned to Iran
read more WorldNews.com
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. What nation has 70 percent of its citizens Shia Muslims but only 13 percent serving in the government, 5 percent in the judiciary, and 0 percent of senior positions in the Ministry of Defense and the Nation Guard? Out of a population of 535,000, what country had over 300,000 of its citizens protesting...
In this picture released by Iranian Students News Agency, ISNA, on Monday, Jan. 2, 2012, a Ghader missile is launched at the shore of sea of Oman during Iran's navy drill.
photo: AP / ISNA, Amir Kholousi
France says Iran still developing nuclear arms
read more France24
AFP - French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said on Tuesday that Iran was continuing to develop nuclear weapons and called for stronger sanctions against Tehran. "Iran is pursuing the development of its nuclear arms, I have no doubt about it," he told French television I-Tele. "The last report by the International Atomic Energy Agency...
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
read more BBC News
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
read more Richmond Times Dispatch
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
read more Al Jazeera
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...
The Taliban's statement yesterday that they are prepared to open a political office in Qatar...
Debbie Cook's email, which was sent to 12,000 fellow Scientologists shortly after midnight on...
Announcing the decision on the Dakar television station he owns, the 52-year-old N'Dour told...
 
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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In this photograph released by the Afghan President's Office, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, right, meets the U.S. military's top officer Adm. Mike Mullen in Kabul, Saturday, June 26, 2010. FC Barcelona's Lionel Messi, center, of Argentina celebrates with teammates Sergio Busquest, left, and Pedro Rodriguez after scoring a penalty during a Champions League, round of 16, second leg soccer match at the Nou Camp, in Barcelona, Spain, Tuesday, March 8, 2011. A South Korean bank clerk works next to bundles of U.S. dollar at the head office of Korea Exchange Bank in downtown Seoul, Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. South Korea's foreign currency reserves rose slightly in December, ending an eight-month drop caused by the global credit crunch, as the value of the euro and other currency holdings rose on a weaker dollar, the central bank said Mon master chefs,sought out meat in preparation
U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Zachary Fisher, a 22-year-old fire team leader with 3rd Platoon, India Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment and Roanoke, Va. native, walks through a field while Afghan National Army soldier Baran Gul and an interpreter greet a farmer during a partnered security patrol in Safar, Helmand province, Afghanistan, Dec. 30, 2011. Trader Ted Weisberg, left, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Friday Cofan indigenous women stand near an open oil pit in the Sucumbios province in Ecuador's Amazon in this Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2005 file photo. A court-appointed expert recommended on April 2, 2008 that Chevron Corp. pay up to US$16 billion (€10.2 billion) for allegedly polluting Ecuador's Amazon An obese woman relaxing in a chair - Weight loss
In this photo released by Miraflores Press Office, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, left, speaks with soldiers during a military parade to commemorate the end of the year and during which some military officials were promoted at Ft. Tiuna in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday Dec. 28, 2011. Serena Williams during the quarter-finals of a single match in Sydney WTA tournament in 2002. Williams won 6-4 7-6(6) against Amélie Mauresmo. File - Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff leads the Social and Economic Development Committee at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday July 26, 2011. Venezuela to remove breast implants for free
Rupert Murdoch, centre, attempts to speak to the media after he held a meeting with the parents and sister of murdered school girl Milly Dowler in London, Friday, July 15, 2011. England cricket team player Andrew Flintoff laughs as he listens to a reporter's question during a news conference in central London, Monday Aug. 24, 2009. England regained the Ashes Sunday with a 197-run win in the deciding Test to seal a 2-1 series win. The Maersk Sealand ship "Sealand Commitment" is seen loading and unloading containers Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2000 at Massport's Conley Terminal in Boston. A shop selling variety designs of treadmill for exercise was seen at a mall in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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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