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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian citizens gather in front of a damaged building that destroyed by a car bomb, at Jaramana neighborhood, in Damascus, Syria, Monday Oct. 29, 2012. UN's Syria envoy seeks China's 'active role'
| Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN-Arab League envoy, has expressed hope, after holding talks in Beijing with Yang Jiechi, Chinese foreign minister, that China will play an active role in helping end the viole... (photo: AP / SANA) Al Jazeera
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai, center, arrives to Independence Day celebrations marking Afghanistan's 93rd anniversary of independence from British rule in Kabul, Afghanistan Afghanistan presidential election set for April 2014
| KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan will hold its next presidential election on April 5, 2014, the Election Commission announced on Wednesday. | President Hamid Karzai, who is constitutionally barred from... (photo: AP / Ahmad Jamshid) CNBC
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India Political Party CPI(M) Leader Brinda Karat during the 23rd State Convocation Meeting at Brigade Parade Ground in Kolkata on Sunday 19 February 2012 BJP, Congress two sides of same coin: Brinda Karat
| Tweet | Shimla, Oct 31 (ANI): Terming both the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress as two sides of the same coin, Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Brinda Karat has said that her p... (photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick) Newstrack India
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Bolivia's President Evo Morales, right, and U.S. actor Sean Penn pose for photographs before participating in a friendly soccer match in La Paz, Bolivia, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. Bolivia asks Sean Penn to help it get its coast back
Bolivia asked visiting Oscar-winner Sean Penn Tuesday to help lobby for La Paz to regain a bit of Pacific coast, and escape the ranks of landlocked states. | Evo Morales, the socialist president of th... (photo: AP / Juan Karita) The Times Of India
Bolivia   Business   Oscars   Photos   Wikipedia: Sean Penn  
In this photo of Sunday, May, 16, 2010 Victoire Ingabire, a presidential hopeful and an ethnic Hutu, is seen at her home in Kigali, Rwanda. An ethnic Hutu opposition candidate who hoped to run for president in Rwanda has been denied the right to appear on the ballot because of charges of denying the country's genocide, party officials said Friday June 25, 2010. Victoire Ingabire returned to Rwanda in January after 16 years, a return she says she made because the country needs an open discussion to promote reconciliation. Ingabire's party and other opposition parties tried to demonstrate against Rwanda's electoral commission on Thursday, but police shut down the protest, calling it illegal. The opposition parties say they tried to apply for a permit but were never given a response from the government. Rwanda jails opposition leader for denying genocide
Kigali - Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire was jailed for eight years on Tuesday after a court found her guilty of terror charges and denying the country's genocide, but her lawyer immediate... (photo: AP / Jason Straziuso) Independent online
Conspiracy   Genocide   Photos   Prison   Wikipedia: Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza  
Robert Mugabe, president of Zimbabwe, attends the 12th African Union Summit Feb. 2, 2009 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Mugabe expects early poll
Harare - | Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday said he expects fresh elections early next year, held under a new constitution, to choose a succesor to the country's shaky power-sharing governm... (photo: Public Domain / Martin H.) Independent online
Election   Harare   Photos   Wikipedia: Robert Mugabe   Zimbabwe  
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