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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, and UN-Arab League envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi meet in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012.
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Syria envoy seeks fresh UN resolution
Lakhdar Brahimi, the joint UN-Arab League envoy to Syria, has called for world powers to issue a UN security council resolution based on a deal reached in June, in a bid to set up a transitional... (photo: AP / Misha Japaridze)
President Benigno S. Aquino III delivers his arrival statement during the Arrival Ceremony at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal II on Friday night (October 26, 2012) from his very successful State Visits to New Zealand and Australia. In Wellington, the President Aquino and New Zealand Prime Minister John Key witnessed the signing of three bilateral agreements: the Arrangement on a Working Holiday Scheme between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and Government of New Zealand; the Memorandum of Arrangement on Defense Cooperation; and the Arrangement on Geothermal Energy Cooperation. While in Canberra, the Chief Executive and Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard witnessed the signing of the Air Services Agreement between the Philippines and Australia. (Photo by: Robert Viñas/ Malacañang Photo Bureau).
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MAN ON A MISSION
PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino vowed yesterday to push for the rights of overseas Filipino workers in Europe during the 9th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) in Laos slated Nov.5-6. The trip is Aquino’s first... (photo: Malacañang Photo Bureau / Robert Viñas / Gil Nartea)
Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille visits the Independent Election Commission results center in Pretoria, South Africa, Thursday, April 23, 2009. South Africa's ruling African National Congress was leading nationwide parliamentary elections, based on preliminary results Thursday that, if confirmed, would propel Jacob Zuma to the presidency in a remarkable feat for a man once embroiled in sex and corruption scandals.  Sun Sentinel 
Battle for spoils tearing South Africa's ANC apart: Zille
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling party will fracture before the decade is out, pulled apart by tension between big business and labor that was laid bare by three months of mining unrest,... (photo: AP / Denis Farrell)
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File - Morocco's King Mohammed VI delivers a speech to officers of the Moroccan army who graduated this year from various Moroccan military and civilian schools and institutes during a ceremony to mark the twelfth anniversary of his rule, at the king's palace in Tetouan, some 70 kilometers (43 miles) southeast of Tangiers Sunday, July 31, 2011.  CNBC 
Morocco's king keeps strong hand despite reforms
RABAT (Reuters) - Unlike other Arab leaders challenged on the streets early last year, King Mohammed VI swiftly reformed Morocco's constitution, held an election and let an Islamist party lead the... (photo: AP / Abdeljalil Bounhar)
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Former South African President Thabo Mbeki gestures as he answers reporters after his meeting with Ivory Coast incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo, unseen, at the Presidency house, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Sunday, Dec. 5, 2010. Mbeki tried to mediate the nation's growing political crisis Sunday as hundreds protested in the country's north, a day after both candidates in the disputed election said they were now president. Independent online (SA)
Critics dishonest, wrong about JZ, ANC
Former president Thabo Mbeki is correct when he speaks of a “protracted and endemic crisis” that appears to be at the heart of democratic South Africa. But he... (photo: AP / Thibault Camus)
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The Chairperson, National Advisory Council, Smt. Sonia Gandhi addressing at the MGNREGA SAMMELAN-2012, in New Delhi on February 02, 2012. Newstrack India
Will give fitting reply to graft charges: Sonia
Tweet New Delhi, Nov 4 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi Sunday challenged the corruption charges levelled against the UPA government, and said the party and the UPA... (photo: PIB of India)
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From left, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress party president Sonia Gandhi and Congress party general secretary Rahul Gandhi wave to party supporters during a public rally, in New Delhi, India , Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012. Al Jazeera
India ruling party stages pro-reforms rally
Sonia Gandhi, India's ruling Congress party chief, and Manmohan Singh, prime minister, are set to speak at a major rally in New Delhi to rally support for contentious... (photo: AP / Manish Swarup)
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President Barack Obama and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie talk with local residents at the Brigantine Beach Community Center, which is serving as a shelter for those displaced by Hurricane Sandy, in Brigantine, N.J., Oct. 31, 2012. The Independent
America decides: With just 48 hours to go, the ground war begins
In 48 hours, after the expenditure of upwards of $2.5bn and an even greater outlay of human energy and toil, it will be done. The longest, the largest, the most... (photo: White House / Pete Souza)
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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, right, and Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi, third from right, arrive for a meeting of the Congress Working Committee in New Delhi, India, Monday, June 4, 2012. Deccan Herald
PM, Sonia to push reforms agenda at Sunday mega rally
Seeking to push the ruling UPA’s economic reforms agenda amid a slew of corruption allegations, the Congress' top leadership, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh... (photo: AP / Mustafa Quraishi)
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