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Karel Schwarzenberg, one of the candidates for President in Czech Republic, greets his spectators during a rally in Prague, Czech Republic, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013. Czech Republic holds the first round of the Presidential election on Jan. 11-12, 2013.
Campaign   Photos   Politics   Prague   Wikipedia: Karel Schwarzenberg
 Sun Sentinel 
Czech prince mixes charm and punk in run for presidency
PRAGUE (Reuters) - A 75-year-old prince with a centuries-old lineage and a taste for the unconventional has won a surprise following in his bid for the Czech presidency with a "punk rock" campaign... (photo: AP / Petr David Josek)
Hardeep Singh Puri, Permanent Representative of India to the UN.
India   Justice   Photos   UN   Wikipedia: Hardeep Singh Puri
 Newstrack India 
India will send out stern possible message against rape: India's representative to UN
Tweet Commenting on Justice J S Verma's committee report on December 23 Delhi gang rape, India's permanent representative to UN, Hardeep Singh Puri informed to United Nations that India has vowed to... (photo: UN / Paulo Filgueiras)
View of the Mexican Supreme Court bldg located on Carranza and Pino Suárez streets at the southeast corner of the Zocalo in Mexico City  San Francisco Chronicle 
Mexican court orders release of French woman
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican Supreme Court panel voted Wednesday to release Florence Cassez, a Frenchwoman who says she was unjustly sentenced to 60 years in prison for kidnapping. Cassez has become a... (photo: Creative Commons / Thelmadatter)
Florence Cassez   France   Mexico   Photos   Wikipedia: Florence Cassez
111026-N-CP762-098 YOKOSUKA, Japan (Oct. 26, 2011) – The honorable U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta salutes Capt. Daniel Grieco, commanding officer of 7th Fleet Command flagship USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) and the honorary side boys as he departs the flagship. Secretary Panetta's visit to the Pacific Region is designed to reinforce the U.S. commitment in Asia.  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 
Pentagon chief opens combat roles to women
WASHINGTON (AP) Senior defense officials say Pentagon chief Leon Panetta is removing the military's ban on women serving in combat, opening hundreds of thousands of front-line positions and... (photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Fidel C. Hart)
Defense   Photos   USA   Women   Wikipedia: Leon Panetta
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President Barack Obama meets with John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security, in the Oval Office, Jan. 4, 2010. The Examiner
CIA nominee once wrote censorship was acceptable, denied absolute rights exist
President Obama’s National Security Advisor, John Brennan, has been nominated by the President to run the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). That’s significant, because... (photo: White House / Pete Souza)
Defense   Photos   Politics   Rights   Wikipedia: John O. Brennan
Cityscape of Tagum City at night. Tagum City, from being a predominantly agricultural area, has become Mindanao's fastest-rising urban city due to its strategic location, being in the crossroads between the rural areas of Davao del Norte and Compostela Valley and at the urban Metropolitan Davao itself. Sun Star
City is pilot for UN climate adaptation
DAVAO City is among four cities in the Philippines chosen by the United Nations Human Settlement Program (UN-Habitat) as a pilot area for a study on climate change... (photo: Creative Commons / S5switch)
Climate   Davao   Photos   UN
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US govt scientists say retire most research chimps
Government scientists have agreed that all but 50 of hundreds of chimpanzees kept for federally funded research should be retired from labs and sent to a national... (photo: Creative Commons / Lepidlizard)
Animal   Health   Photos   Science   Wikipedia: Chimpanzee
Mohammad Masood Khan, Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the UN and President of the Security Council for the month of January, speaks at the Council's meeting regarding resolution 2087 (2013), condemning the 12 December 2012 launch by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), using ballistic missile technology. Huffington Post
United Nations Security Council Condemns North Korea Rocket Launch
... (photo: UN / JC McIlwaine)
North Korea   Photos   Security   UN   Wikipedia: North Korea
Japan's new Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a press conference at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012. Kishida, 55, is an expert on issues relating to frictions on the southern island of Okinawa between local residents and the nearly 20,000 U.S. troops based there. Kishida was in charge of territorial issues in Abe's previous administration of 2006-2007. A former banker, he entered politics to inherit the constituency of his father. CNTV
Japan appreciates UN resolution on DPRK rocket launch: FM
TOKYO, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said Wednesday that Japan welcomes the adoption of a United Nations Security Council resolution on... (photo: AP / Shizuo Kambayashi)
Photos   Tokyo   UN   Weapons   Wikipedia: Fumio Kishida
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