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Hamid Karzai says US and Taliban sowing post-2014 fears
Full Article BBC News
10 Mar 2013

President Hamid Karzai has issued a stinging rebuke to the US and the Taliban, saying they are both guilty of sowing fears for post-2014 Afghanistan. He said Taliban suicide attacks on Saturday were aimed at intimidation that would prolong the presence of international troops in Afghanistan. The troops are scheduled to end combat missions in 2014....
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File - Maj. Christopher Milstead, attached to Task Force Bayonet, watches as a 500-pound bomb lands on a Taliban position after a small fire fight during Operation Destined Strike in Chowkay Valley, Afghanistan Aug. 22, 2006.
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updated 10 Mar 2013; published 10 Mar 2013
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Hamid Karzai says US and Taliban sowing post-2014 fears - BBC News - Today's News
updated 10 Mar 2013; published 10 Mar 2013
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Karzai rebuke for US and Taliban
updated 24 Apr 2012; published 12 Jan 2012
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Afghanistan - 'Marines urinating on Taliban' video scandal sparks outrage'
updated 22 Feb 2013; published 09 Jul 2012
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Afghan woman's execution sparks outrage - Locals vow revenge
updated 02 Mar 2013; published 08 Jul 2012
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Taliban publicly execute woman near Kabul
updated 14 Sep 2012; published 12 Mar 2012
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Taliban vow revenge for Afghans killed by U.S. soldier
India faces epidemic of missing children
Full Article Al Jazeera
10 Mar 2013

A staple storyline of popular Bollywood films over the years has been about siblings getting lost in a village fair or being forcibly separated by a hideous villain, only to be reunited years later. The happy endings normally spelled success: moviegoers went home happy while the filmmaker went laughing all the way to the bank. But reel life has...
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File - Street children in a slum area in India.
photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar

updated 04 Feb 2013; published 04 Feb 2013
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Over 60,000 children go missing in India every year
updated 06 Mar 2012; published 06 Mar 2012
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A Happy Ending: Video Activist Reunites Lost Child With Family
updated 10 Dec 2012; published 06 Jul 2012
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Number of missing children on rise in India - NewsX
updated 09 Mar 2013; published 08 Aug 2011
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It's a Girl Documentary Film - Official Trailer
updated 06 Jul 2012; published 06 Jul 2012
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18 kids go missing every day, claims CRY - NewsX
updated 09 Mar 2013; published 19 Jul 2011
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Human Trafficking in India
U.S. Air Force stops reporting data on Afghanistan drone strikes
Full Article Baltimore Sun
10 Mar 2013

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With debate intensifying in the United States over the use of drone aircraft, the U.S. military said on Sunday that it had removed data about air strikes carried out by unmanned planes in Afghanistan from its monthly air power summaries. U.S. Central Command, which oversees the Afghanistan war, said in a statement the data...
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File - A U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper from the 62nd Expeditionary Reconassiance Squadron taxis for take off from Kandahar Air Base, Afghanistan, March 13, 2009, in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
photo: USAF / Staff Sgt. James L. Harper Jr.

updated 10 Mar 2013; published 10 Mar 2013
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Air Force erases drone strike data in Afghanistan war report just one day after Rand Paul's
updated 06 Mar 2013; published 20 Feb 2013
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Terrifying Flybots by U.S. Air Force
updated 09 Feb 2013; published 07 Feb 2013
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Iran shows 'hacked US spy drone' video footage | CIA's downed RQ-170 Sentinel drone
updated 12 Nov 2012; published 09 Oct 2012
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A Hologram Drone Aircraft Over Arizona Skywatch Today Tuesday October 9 2012
updated 07 Mar 2013; published 06 Feb 2013
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RQ-170 footage sentinel drone Iran releases decoded footage from captured U.S
updated 02 Mar 2013; published 07 Feb 2013
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Iran Hacks U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel Drone
Rebels free 21 UN captives in southern Syria
Full Article The State
10 Mar 2013

BEIRUT — Rebels in southern Syria freed 21 U.N. peacekeepers on Saturday after holding them hostage for four days, driving them to the border with Jordan after accusations from Western officials that the little-known group had tarnished the image of those fighting to topple President Bashar Assad. The abduction and the tortured negotiations...
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Some of the 21 Filipino United Nations (UN) peacekeepers at the press conference upon their arrival at Jordanian Army Headquarters in Amman Jordan Saturday March, 9, 2012.
photo: AP / Raad Adayleh

updated 09 Mar 2013; published 08 Mar 2013
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Sectarian Syria: FSA rebels and Kurds agree to fight Assad together in rare show of unity
updated 09 Mar 2013; published 08 Mar 2013
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Syrian rebels hold UN soldiers hostage: Israeli troops in Golan border area on high alert
updated 08 Mar 2013; published 08 Mar 2013
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Syria - Excitement As Assad Warplane Reportedly Shot Down Over Idlib Countryside 7-March-13
updated 09 Mar 2013; published 08 Mar 2013
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UN troops flee Syrian border: eight peacekeepers leave their posts in Syria and enter Israel
updated 26 Jul 2012; published 26 Jul 2012
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Aleppo Under Attack 7-26-12 Assad Army Shells Houses in Saladin Neighborhood 7-26-12 Syria
updated 08 Mar 2013; published 08 Mar 2013
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Syria - Dictator Assad Warplanes Bomb Aleppo Towns 8-March-13 Tal
How a U.S. Citizen Came to Be in America’s Cross Hairs
Full Article The New York Times
09 Mar 2013

WASHINGTON — One morning in late September 2011, a group of American drones took off from an airstrip the C.I.A. had built in the remote southern expanse of Saudi Arabia. The drones crossed the border into Yemen, and were soon hovering over a group of trucks clustered in a desert patch of Jawf Province, a region of the impoverished country...
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File - In this image taken from video and released by SITE Intelligence Group on Monday, Nov. 8, 2010, Anwar al-Awlaki speaks in a video message posted on radical websites.
photo: AP / Site Intelligence Group

updated 02 Mar 2013; published 30 Sep 2011
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Glenn Greenwald: With al-Awlaki, US Launches New Era of Killing US Citizens Without Charge
updated 27 Jan 2013; published 04 Oct 2011
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Judge Napolitano: Killing US citizen Anwar al-Awlaki is Unconstitutional & Against American Values
updated 22 Feb 2013; published 04 Oct 2011
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Judge Napolitano: Obama Murders US Citizens! Anwar al-Awlaki Murdered by Obama! WILL YOU BE NEXT?
updated 09 Mar 2013; published 23 Oct 2012
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Obama's Top Adviser Robert Gibbs Justifies Murder of 16 Year Old American Citizen
updated 07 Nov 2012; published 12 Jul 2012
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This American Citizen Was Assassinated by Obama for "Terrorism": Anwar Al-awlaki
updated 02 Mar 2013; published 04 Dec 2011
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Ron Paul: Obama Targets and Assassinates a 16 Year-old from Colorado
Hagel optimistic on Afghan commando agreement
Full Article Philadelphia Daily News
09 Mar 2013

Gallery: Hagel optimistic on Afghan commando agreement LOLITA C. BALDOR , The Associated Press Posted: Saturday, March 9, 2013, 11:14 AM JALALABAD, Afghanistan - U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said he believes U.S. officials will be able to work things out with Afghan leaders who have ordered special operations forces out of Wardak province,...
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Hagel optimistic on Afghan commando agreement
photo: US DoD / Chad J. McNeeley

updated 16 Nov 2012; published 27 Feb 2012
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Afghanistan - Photos From The Field - Feb. 27, 2012
updated 03 Feb 2013; published 23 Jan 2013
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Congressman Mike Turner Addresses Air Force Leadership During Armed Services Hearing
updated 13 Jan 2013; published 12 Jan 2013
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US Troops to Hand Over Lead Fighting Role to Afghans
updated 30 Oct 2012; published 02 Apr 2012
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Dog Goes Crazy When He His Daddy Comes Home After 8 Months In Afghanistan!
updated 29 Aug 2010; published 29 Aug 2010
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Australian Forces on patrol with ANA in Deh Rawood
updated 12 Oct 2010; published 05 Jan 2010
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Nicolas Maduro sworn in as acting Venezuelan President
Full Article DNA India
09 Mar 2013

Nicolas Maduro. Wikimedia Commons Venezuelan Vice-President Nicolas Maduro was sworn-in as acting president on Friday despite the Opposition saying such a move was in violation of the country’s constitution. Late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez named Maduro as his successor before...
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Nicolas Maduro raises his fist after he was sworn in as Venezuela's acting president by the President of the National Assembly, Diosdado Cabello, right, at the National Assembly in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, March 8, 2013.
photo: AP / Fernando Llano

updated 09 Mar 2013; published 09 Mar 2013
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Nicolas Maduro is sworn in as interim president - Maduro, assumiu a Presidência interina
updated 09 Mar 2013; published 09 Mar 2013
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Nicolas Maduro sworn in as Venezuelan acting president
updated 09 Mar 2013; published 09 Mar 2013
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Maduro swearing-in is fraud: Venezuela's Capriles
updated 09 Mar 2013; published 09 Mar 2013
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Unconstitutional - Maduro sworn in as Venezuela's acting president / Tensions Mount
updated 09 Mar 2013; published 09 Mar 2013
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Chavez Successor Sworn In: Nicolas Maduro becomes Venezuelan president
updated 09 Mar 2013; published 09 Mar 2013
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Nicolas Maduro Sworn In As Venezuelan President
A global 'New Deal' needed
Full Article China Daily
09 Mar 2013

Fresh global pact targeting growth required after IMF admits it underestimated the damage austerity would cause in EU The International Monetary Fund's belated admission that it significantly underestimated the damage that austerity would cause to European Union growth rates highlights the self-defeating character of "orthodox" recipes to address...
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A global 'New Deal' needed
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updated 12 Feb 2013; published 29 Jan 2012
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Davos 2012 - CNN Debate - Can Emerging Markets Deliver Global Growth
updated 06 Feb 2013; published 06 Feb 2013
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UN Warns of Slowing Global Growth
updated 12 Feb 2013; published 23 Aug 2012
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'Austerity = poverty, adjustment = exploitation, growth = private profit'
updated 05 Mar 2013; published 30 Nov 2012
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So-Called Austerity and Growth in Europe (Veronique de Rugy)
updated 24 Jan 2013; published 20 Sep 2012
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Tianjin 2012 - Asia Economic Outlook
updated 18 Feb 2013; published 22 Jan 2013
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Disturbing rise in global unemployment, says ILO
Kenyatta wins Kenya's presidential race, figures show
Full Article Chicago Tribune
09 Mar 2013

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Uhuru Kenyatta, the son of Kenya's founding president, won the presidential election with a slim margin of 50.03 percent of votes cast, just enough to avoid a run-off, provisional figures by the election commission showed on Saturday. Kenyatta, who faces international charges of crimes against...
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Kenyan Presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta speaks to the media after casting his vote, at the Mutomo primary school near Gatundu, north of Nairobi, in Kenya Monday, March 4, 2013.
photo: AP / Ben Curtis

updated 06 Mar 2013; published 06 Mar 2013
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Kenya Election Ballots Count
updated 09 Mar 2013; published 09 Mar 2013
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Kenya early vote count gives Kenyatta victory
updated 17 Jan 2013; published 10 Dec 2012
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Kenya: Kenyatta and Ruto sign an agreement for the presidential election
updated 05 Mar 2013; published 05 Mar 2013
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Kenya Votes Count
updated 04 Mar 2013; published 02 Mar 2013
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Kenya elections haunted by the past
updated 02 Mar 2013; published 02 Mar 2013
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Kenya's Presidential Candidate Uhuru Kenyatta, Indicted By The ICC, In Final Campaign Rally
Iran-North Korea Pact Draws Concern
Full Article Wall Street Journal
09 Mar 2013

By JAY SOLOMON WASHINGTON—Obama administration officials are raising alarms about a scientific-cooperation pact between North Korea and Iran that officials said could advance the nuclear and missile programs of both countries. The agreement, reached in September, bears a close resemblance to one North Korea signed with Syria in 2002, U.S. and...
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, shakes hands with the president of the Presidium of North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly Kim Yong-nam, during an official welcoming ceremony in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Sept. 1, 2012.
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updated 10 Mar 2013; published 12 Feb 2013
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10 March 2013 Breaking news Iran nuclear chief Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi at North Korea Nuclear test
updated 10 Mar 2013; published 08 Mar 2013
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BREAKING! North Korea Threatens Pre-Emptive Nuclear Strike Against U.S. 3-7-2013
updated 10 Mar 2013; published 23 Feb 2013
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10 March 2013 Breaking news Russia threatens USA Nuclear attack - end times news 3-10-13
updated 07 Mar 2013; published 07 Mar 2013
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U.S. to Impose Additional Sanctions on North Korea 미, 다각적인 대북 별도 제재 추진
updated 25 Feb 2013; published 18 Feb 2013
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For Netanyahu, North Korea Nuclear Test Offers Lesson On Iran
updated 15 Feb 2013; published 15 Feb 2013
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North Korean Nuclear Test Turns Spotlight on Iran.

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The great American betrayal
The Hindu
It is well known that of all military operations, retreat is the most difficult and complicated. A victorious march that takes a wrong turn can end in a stalemate, but a retreat...
Choosing a pope: France's Catholic legacy
BBC News
Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church will being electing a new pope on 12 March. The new pontiff will have a host of issues to deal with, among them the decline in active worship...
The solution to Africa's woes lies with Africans, not the west
The Guardian
Bob Geldof should understand that political gestures and NGO activism are not the way to beat poverty in Africa The famine that catapulted Bob Geldof's Band Aid to prominence had...

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Drone Strike Reported in Pakistan
Supporters of Pakistani religious party Jamat-i-Islami listen to their leaders during a rally to condemn U.S. drone attacks on alleged militants and Talibans hideouts in Pakistani border areas along Afghanistan, in Peshawar, Pakistan on Friday, April 24, 2009.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Two people suspected of being militants were killed Sunday morning in the volatile North Waziristan tribal region by what Pakistani and Taliban officials said was a drone strike. If confirmed, the attack could be the first...
photo: AP / Mohammad Sajjad
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Nigerian Islamist fighters kill 7 foreigners, says UK, Italy and Greece
A man reads a local newspapers with the headline 'We've killed 7 foreign hostages' on a street in Kano, Nigeria, Sunday, March. 10, 2013. The United Kingdom's military says its warplanes recently spotted in Nigeria's capital city were there to move soldiers to aid the French intervention in Mali, not to rescue kidnapped foreign hostages. The Ministry of Defense said Sunday that the planes had ferried Nigerian troops and equipment to Bamako, Mali. An Islamic extremist group in Nigeria called Ansa
The Australian
RADICAL Islamic fighters killed seven foreign hostages in Nigeria, European diplomats have said, making it the worst such kidnapping violence in decades for a country beset by extremist guerrilla attacks. Nigeria's police, military, domestic spy...
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Studies tie stress from storms, war to heart risks
Studies tie stress from storms, war to heart risks
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(MYFOXAL) — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Stress does bad things to the heart. New studies have found higher rates of cardiac problems in veterans with PTSD, New Orleans residents six years after Hurricane Katrina and Greeks struggling through that...
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Egypt plunges into turmoil as minister denies police abuse
An Egyptian protester runs with a teargas canister during clashes with riot police in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, March 9, 2013.
Middle East Online
CAIRO - Egypt's Interior Minister pleaded on Sunday for an end to "rumours" of police abuse, saying his forces had never fired a single shot at protesters since the start of the 2011 uprising. Mohammed Ibrahim, who is facing an unprecedented strike...
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Multiple challenges for Kenya's new leader
Kenya's President-Elect Uhuru Kenyatta waves to supporters after leaving the National Election Center where final election results were announced declaring he would be the country's next president, in Nairobi, Kenya, Saturday, March 9, 2013.
BBC News
"Uhuru [Kenyatta] has won the presidency. It's done. Let's move on." The son of Kenya's first independence leader may not have secured Francis Odera's vote but, like so many other Kenyans, this middle-aged Nairobi...
photo: AP / Ben Curtis
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Afghan leader alleges US, Taliban are colluding
Hamid Karzai in 2006
The Guardian
RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press= KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan President Hamid Karzai is accusing the Taliban and the U.S. of working in concert to convince Afghans that violence will...
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Suu Kyi re-elected Burma's opposition NLD leader
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi looks at a photo during the opening ceremony of a photo exhibition entitled "Aung San Suu Kyi, The Burmese Way to Democracy" at Institute of French in Yangon, Myanmar, Thursday, May 17, 2012.
BBC News
Burma's opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) has re-elected Aung San Suu Kyi as its leader, at the end of its first ever congress. She had earlier appealed for unity, addressing party delegates in Rangoon. After the party won elections...
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