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Anti-austerity protests sweep across Europe (AP)

September 29th, 2010

Pickets run after lighting fires to block a highway in Vigo, Spain during a nationwide general strike organized by the Spanish unions, in Madrid, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. Spanish workers staged a general strike Wednesday to protest austerity measures imposed by a government struggling to slash its budget deficit and overcome recession. . (AP Photo/Lalo R. Villar)AP - Anti-austerity protests erupted across Europe on Wednesday — Greek doctors and railway employees walked out, Spanish workers shut down trains and buses, and one man even blocked the…

Across Asia, Dengue Fever Cases Reach Record Highs (Time.com)

September 26th, 2010

Time.com - As rates of the mosquito-borne illness spike, local governments need to do more to contain the painful disease

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Devastating series of attacks across Iraq kill 55 (AP)

August 25th, 2010

An Iraqi girl wears bandages after being injured in a bombing in Karbala, 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010. A string of attacks targeting Iraqi security forces on Wednesday left several people dead and scores wounded, police and hospital officials said the day after the number of American soldiers in the country fell bellow 50,000.(AP Photo/Ahmed al-Husseini)AP - Bombers and gunmen killed 55 Iraqis in two dozen attacks spanning the country Wednesday, mostly targeting security forces in seemingly coordinated strikes the day after the number of…

Devastating series of attacks across Iraq kill 53 (AP)

August 25th, 2010

An Iraqi girl wears bandages after being injured in a bombing in Karbala, 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010. A string of attacks targeting Iraqi security forces on Wednesday left several people dead and scores wounded, police and hospital officials said the day after the number of American soldiers in the country fell bellow 50,000.(AP Photo/Ahmed al-Husseini)AP - Bombers killed 53 Iraqis in nearly two dozen attacks spanning the country Wednesday, mostly targeting security forces in seemingly coordinated strikes the day after the number of U.S.…

Militants kill 23 security forces across Iraq (AP)

July 29th, 2010

Iraqi security forces inspect the scene of an attack on their checkpoint in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, July 29, 2010. Militants Thursday killed a number of Iraq's security forces with a combination of shootings and roadside bombs that was a bitter demonstration of the dangers Iraqi forces still face.(AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - Militants killed 23 members of Iraq’s security forces across the country Thursday in a combination of shootings and roadside bombs that was a bitter demonstration of the dangers…

Drug war fears cast pall across Mexican elections (AP)

July 3rd, 2010

A soldier, top left, stands guard inside the headquarters of the Tamaulipas state government in Ciudad Victoria, Mexico, Friday July 2, 2010. Mexico will hold local elections Sunday after the assassination of a gubernatorial candidate Rodolfo Torre, the Institutional Revolutionary Party's candidate for governor of Tamaulipas state. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)AP - A common theme haunts Sunday’s state and local elections across Mexico: drugs.


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At least 99 killed in attacks across Iraq (AP)

May 10th, 2010

Iraqis react to an explosion in Hillah Iraq in this image taken from TV Monday May 10, 2010. A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a textile factory in Hillah Monday in a crowd that gathered after two cars bombings at the same spot in the worst of a series of attacks killing tens of people across Iraq, the deadliest day this year. (AP Photo/APTN) ** TV OUT **AP - A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a textile factory Monday in a crowd that gathered after two cars bombings at the same spot in the worst of…

Deadly day: At least 99 killed in attacks across Iraq (AP)

May 10th, 2010

Iraqis react to an explosion in Hillah Iraq in this image taken from TV Monday May 10, 2010. A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a textile factory in Hillah Monday in a crowd that gathered after two cars bombings at the same spot in the worst of a series of attacks killing tens of people across Iraq, the deadliest day this year. (AP Photo/APTN) ** TV OUT **AP - A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a textile factory Monday in a crowd that gathered after two cars bombings at the same spot in the worst of…

At least 84 killed in attacks across Iraq (AP)

May 10th, 2010

An Iraqi policeman stands guard as followers of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr crowd a street as they attend open air Friday prayers in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, May 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a textile factory Monday in a crowd that gathered after two car bombings at the same spot in the worst of…

Iceland’s volcanic ash halts flights across Europe (AP)

April 15th, 2010

In this image made available by the Icelandic Coastguard taken Wednesday April 14, 2010, smoke and steam rises from the volcano under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier in Iceland, which erupted for the second time in less than a month, melting ice, shooting smoke and steam into the air and forcing hundreds of people to flee rising floodwaters. Authorities evacuated 800 residents from around the glacier as rivers rose by up to 10 feet (3 meters). Emergency officials and scientists said the eruption under the ice cap was 10 to 20 times more powerful than one last month, and carried a much greater risk of widespread flooding.(AP Photo/Icelandic Coastguard, ho) **EDITORIAL USE ONLY**AP - Ash clouds from Iceland’s spewing volcano disrupted air traffic across Northern Europe on Thursday as authorities closed British and Nordic air space, shut down Europe’s busiest airport at…

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