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Afghan President Hamid Karzai delivers a speech during a function in Kabul, Afghanistan Karzai defies US on prisoner release
AFGHANISTAN says it will release scores of alleged Taliban fighters from jail, despite US objections that the men could return to the battlefield as NATO troops withdraw. | The releases will further s... (photo: AP / Rafiq Maqbool) The Australian
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In this Dec. 8, 2013 file photo, photo shows Devyani Khobragade, who served as Indias deputy consul general in New York, during the India Studies Stony Brook University fund raiser event at Long Island, New York. Devyani reaches Delhi
New Delhi, January 10: | As Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade returns home after being charged with visa fraud and underpaying her housekeeper, India, in a reciprocal action, on Friday expelled a sen... (photo: AP / Mohammed Jaffer, File) The Siasat Daily
Devyani Khobragade   Devyani Khobragade Incident   Photos   US - India Relations   Wikipedia: Devyani Khobragade incident  
Barack Obama, President of the United States of America, addresses the general debate of the sixty-eighth session of the General Assembly. President Obama Announces First Five "Promise Zones" To Battle Poverty
Yesterday President Obama announced the first five of 20 "Promise Zones" to battle poverty that the administration plans to announce over the next three years. The five zones are San Antonio, Philadel... (photo: UN / Rick Bajornas) The Examiner
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks about his trip to the Middle East during a news conference in Tel Aviv, Israel on Sunday, June 30, 2013. Kerry engaged in breakneck shuttle diplomacy to coax Israel and the Palestinians back into peace talks over a four-day span with multiple trips to Jordan and Israel and a stop in the West Bank town of Ramallah. Incitement Against Palestine
Nazareth. | US Secretary of State John Kerry spent last week testing the waters with Israelis and Palestinians over his so-called framework agreement – designed to close the gaps between the two sid... (photo: AP / Jacquelyn Martin, Pool) CounterPunch
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Indias main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) activists sit at a protest against price rise in essential commodities in New Delhi, India, Saturday, March 18, 2006. The flag in foreground is the BJP flag. Kiran Bedi, V.K. Singh should be invited to BJP: Subramanian Swamy
January 10: | BJP leader Subramanian Swamy Friday said former police officer Kiran Bedi and former army chief V.K. Singh should be invited to join the Bharatiya Janata Party. | The comments come as sp... (photo: AP / Mustafa Quraishi) The Siasat Daily
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at the Herzl Museum, in Jerusalem, Israel, May 5, 2013. Israel says it will build new homes in West Bank
Israel says it plans to build 1,400 new homes in Jewish settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, territory the Palestinians claim for their state. | Israel's housing ministry announced that 80... (photo: AP / Emil Salman) WPXI
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