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Iran offers talks but without key nuclear demands (AP)

November 9th, 2010

Iran has formally proposed to EU chief diplomat Catherine Ashton, pictured in September 2010, possible dates for new negotiations with the major powers over its nuclear program, the United States said Tuesday.(AFP/File/John Thys)AP - Iran offered Tuesday to resume nuclear talks with United States and other world powers, though it set a possible deal-breaking ground rule by insisting that a key international demand…

China letter demands peace prize winner’s release (AP)

October 15th, 2010

AP - More than 100 Chinese activists have signed and released an open letter asking that Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo be released from prison.

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15 die in Somalia as parliament demands gov’t vote (AP)

September 16th, 2010

A man carry his young brother, to Medina Hospital, Mogadishu, Somalia, Thursday, Sept 16, 2010. He got wounded by mortar shrapnel during clashes between Somali insurgents and African Union troops. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)AP - Mortar rounds fired by suspected Islamist insurgents crashed into Somalia’s government complex on Thursday, killing three government soldiers, wounding a member of parliament and triggering a counterattack that…

China demands Japan release detained boat captain (AP)

September 11th, 2010

In this photo released by Japan Coast Guard, a Japan Coast Guard boat, foreground, goes by a Chinese fishing boat which Japan Coast Guard officers are on board for inspection after it collided with two Japanese patrol vessels near a chain of disputed islands known as Senkaku in Japanese or Diaoyu in Chinese in the East China Sea, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. The collisions occurred near the islands claimed by both countries after the ship received repeated warnings from Japan's coast guard to move out of the waters, officials said. (AP Photo/Japan Coast Guard) ** EDITORIAL USE ONLY **AP - China’s foreign minister demanded that Tokyo immediately release the captain of a Chinese fishing boat that collided with two Japanese patrol vessels near disputed islands. But a Japanese…

Mexico City mayor demands cardinal apologize (AP)

August 17th, 2010

AP - Mexico City’s leftist mayor said Tuesday he will take legal action if a Roman Catholic cardinal doesn’t apologize for suggesting he bribed the Supreme Court to uphold a…

Venezuela demands US explain diplomat’s remarks (AP)

August 5th, 2010

Venezuelaâ??s President Hugo Chavez speaks to the media as he waits for Union of South American Nations, UNASUR, secretary-general Nestor Kirchner, from Argentina, at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Aug 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)AP - President Hugo Chavez said Thursday he probably won’t accept the White House’s nominee for ambassador to Venezuela because the diplomat suggested that morale is low in the socialist…

NKorea demands its own probe into ship sinking (AP)

July 15th, 2010

A South Korean man walks by a replica of the South Korean Navy's bullet-ridden warship, Chamsuri, which was sunk by a North Korean warship in the second inter-Korean naval clash in 2002, at the Korea War Memorial Museum in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, July 15, 2010. Military officers from North Korea and the American-led U.N. Command met Thursday for talks on the deadly sinking of a South Korean warship that has been blamed on Pyongyang.  (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)AP - North Korea’s military renewed calls to conduct its own investigation into the March sinking of a South Korean warship during rare talks with the U.S.-led U.N. Command, the…

Pakistan sect demands protection after attacks (AP)

May 29th, 2010

People from Ahmadi Community carry a casket of a victim of Friday's attacked by Islamic militants, to bury it in their graveyard in Rabwa, some 150 kilometers (93 miles) northwest from Lahore Pakistan on Saturday, May 29, 2010. Islamist gunmen and a suicide squad lobbed grenades, sprayed bullets from atop a minaret and took hostages Friday in attacks on two mosques packed with worshippers from a minority sect in Pakistan. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)AP - Leaders of Pakistan’s minority Ahmadi sect demanded better government protection Saturday as they buried many of the 93 sect members killed by Islamist militants at two of the…

Iraqi PM calls for response to recount demands (AP)

March 21st, 2010

Iraqi policemen stand guard in front of an election campaign poster for former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi at a checkpoint in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, March 20, 2010. A secular challenger to Iraq's prime minister has again edged ahead in parliamentary elections now that the vote count is nearly complete. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - Iraq’s prime minister is pressing the electoral commission to respond to calls from several political blocs for a recount in the March 7 parliamentary elections.


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Medvedev demands resignations over Olympic flop (AP)

March 1st, 2010

Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev meets businessmen at the Barvikha presidential residence outside Moscow on Friday, Feb. 26, 2010. Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev says that the law must be changed to help prevent corrupt police from extorting money from businessmen.(AP Photo/RIA Novosti,Dmitry astakhov, Presidential Press Service)AP - President Dmitry Medvedev demanded Monday that Russian sports officials step down over the country’s dismal performance at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver.


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