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Why Does Peru Want to Make an Example of An American Woman? (Time.com)

November 10th, 2010

Time.com - Others in the same situation have been released from priosn quietly and with little controversy. So why are Peruvians making such a fuss over Lori Berenson?

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Why An American Woman Has Become Legal Ping-Pong in Peru (Time.com)

November 6th, 2010

Time.com - Peru’s government and judiciary go back and forth over New Yorker Lori Berenson, who is at the center of the country’s attempt to deal with the terrorism of…

American visits Iran blast site under freedom deal (AP)

October 17th, 2010

Iranian-American businessman Reza Taghavi, 71, speaks at this home a day after he was released from Evin prison in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Oct. 17, 2010. Taghavi said Sunday he spent more than two years in a Tehran prison despite being innocent — simply for handing over $200 in cash to a man in Iran that an acquaintance in the United States had given him. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)AP - An Iranian-American businessman freed after more than two years in Tehran’s main prison visited survivors of a deadly 2008 mosque bombing as a condition of his release in…

American freed in Iran denies links to rebel group (AP)

October 17th, 2010

Iranian-American businessman Reza Taghavi, 71, speaks at this home a day after he was released from Evin prison in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Oct. 17, 2010. Taghavi said Sunday he spent more than two years in a Tehran prison despite being innocent — simply for handing over $200 in cash to a man in Iran that an acquaintance in the United States had given him. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)AP - An Iranian-American businessman said Sunday he spent some of his more than two years in prison alongside protesters detained in Iran’s postelection crackdowns and praised his first taste…

2 Japanese, American share chemistry Nobel (AP)

October 6th, 2010

Portraits on overhead screen from left, show American Richard Heck and Japanese researchers Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki who won the 2010 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday Oct. 6, 2010 for developing a chemical method that has allowed scientists to make medicines and better electronics as members of the Royal Academy of Sciences announce the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in Stockholm, Sweden.  The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said the award honors their development of 'palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic systems.'  (AP Photo/Scanpix Sweden/Janerik Henriksson)  **  SWEDEN OUT  **AP - American Richard Heck and Japanese researchers Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki won the 2010 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for developing a chemical method that has allowed…

Panel 7: North American Futures - The Challenges of the 21st Century

October 6th, 2010

Panel 7: North American Futures - The Challenges of the 21st Century Moderator: Jeremy KB Kinsman (Conference Co-Chair, 2009-10 Regents’ Lecturer, UC Berkeley & former Canadian Ambassador) Panelists: Charles Doran…

Spain arrests American al-Qaida suspect (AP)

September 29th, 2010

AP - Spanish police have arrested a U.S. citizen of Algerian origin who is suspected of financing al-Qaida’s North African affiliate, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday.

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US: Dead in Afghan chopper crash were all American (AP)

September 23rd, 2010

In this Sept.15, 2010 photo, a U.S. Army Chinook helicopter from the 101st Airborne Division transports U.S. infantrymen from one position to another in Zhari District, southern Afghanistan. Going increasingly on the offensive in this district near Kandahar City, American commanders are hoping to clear Taliban-held areas and fighting positions in the weeks and months ahead, before President Barack Obama makes a critical assessment in December of the effectiveness of the 30,000-man surge. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)AP - All nine troops killed in a helicopter crash earlier this week — the worst for the coalition forces in four years — were Americans, the Pentagon confirmed, although…

American freed from Iran begins trip back to US (AP)

September 18th, 2010

American Sarah Shourd, makes statements at the VIP Lounge of Muscat airport before she flies out of Muscat, Oman, Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010. (AP Photo / Kamran Jebreili)AP - An American woman released from Iran after more than 13 months in custody began her journey back to the United States on Saturday after asking her supporters to…

American Sarah Shourd begins trip back to US (AP)

September 18th, 2010

Sarah Shourd, 32, of the U.S., right, embraces her mother Nora Shourd, left, as an unidentified man stands behind, on Sarah Shourd's arrival at the royal airport in Muscat, Oman, Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010, after leaving Tehran, Iran. The American woman released by Iran on Tuesday after more than a year in prison said she was grateful to Iran's president for her freedom shortly before she boarded a flight to the Gulf sultanate of Oman where her mother greeted her with a warm embrace. (AP Photo/Sultan al-Hasani)AP - An American woman released from Iran after more than 13 months in custody began her journey back to the United States on Saturday after asking her supporters to…