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Raging Russian fires destroy homes, people flee (AP)

July 29th, 2010

A local resident throws water from a bucket on a peat fire in a forest near the town of Shatura, some 130 km (81 miles) southeast of Moscow, Thursday, July 29, 2010. Peat swamps started burning in central Russia following an unprecedented heat wave. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)AP - Raging forest fires encircled a southern Russian city and tore through provincial villages Thursday, forcing mass evacuations as Moscow suffered through a record, weeks-long heat wave and smog…

Mexico: Cartels team up to destroy hit men gang (AP)

April 12th, 2010

Covered with a shirt, the body of Claudia Mora sits on a chair where she was murdered at a race circuit on the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez, northern Mexico, late Sunday, April 11, 2010. Police found later a message written on a wall  in downtown Ciudad Juarez, allegedly from the Juarez drug cartel, claiming responsibility for the murder. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)AP - Three Mexican cartels have joined forces to destroy a gang of hit men that has grown into a feared drug trafficking outfit with reach into Central America, Mexican…

Yukos tells court: Russia sought to destroy us (AP)

March 4th, 2010

Greek judge of the European Court of Human Rights, center, Christos Rozakisat, is seen at the beginning of an hearing on the Yukos versus Russia case at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, eastern France, Thursday March 4, 2010. The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday began hearing a complaint against Russia's government by representatives of now-defunct oil giant Yukos, whose jailed founder, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, claims authorities illegally drove the company out of business. Others judges are unidentified. (AP Photo/Christian Lutz)AP - The Russian government deliberately sought to “destroy” the now-defunct oil giant Yukos for political reasons, a lawyer for the company argued Thursday before the European Court of Human…