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Thousands of people lose homes in Manila slum fire (AP)

April 25th, 2010

Firefighters train their hoses on burning shanties at a slum area in suburban Quezon City, north of Manila, Philippines, Sunday, April 25, 2010. Metro Manila fire marshal Pablo Cordeta said that about 300 shanties were affected leaving some 1,500 families homeless. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)AP - A huge fire sweeping through a shantytown outside the Philippine capital has destroyed about 300 houses and left about 7,000 people homeless.


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Police fire on opposition rally in Kyrgyzstan (AP)

April 7th, 2010

In this image issued by Fergana.ru Information Agency, showing demonstrators as they gather in front of a government building in the Kyrgyz town of Talas, Kyrgyzstan, Tuesday, April 6, 2010. Some time after this scene, Baton-wielding police clubbed their way through the crowds of protesters in the provincial town, west of the capital, firing tear gas and flash grenades to disperse the anti-government demonstration in the impoverished former Soviet nation. (AP Photo/Fergana.ru Information Agency)AP - Police in Kyrgyzstan opened fire Wednesday on thousands of angry protesters who tried to seize the Central Asian nation’s main government building amid rioting in the capital. An…

Germany to probe friendly fire clash that killed 6 (AP)

April 4th, 2010

German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg informs the media about the recent incident in Afghanistan during a news conference in Bonn, Germany, Sunday April 4, 2010. German troops in a deadly firefight with Taliban insurgents accidentally killed six Afghan troops. Three Germans died in the firefight with the militants. The friendly fire incident Friday took place in northern Kunduz province, where German forces were sharply criticized last September when they ordered an airstrike on two tanker trucks that had been captured by the Taliban. Up to 142 people died, many of them civilians. (AP Photo/Hermann Knippertz)AP - Germany’s defense minister on Sunday announced a thorough investigation into the friendly fire clash that left six Afghan soldiers dead and said the tragedy came during a sophisticated…

Afghan leader’s anti-West comments draw fire (AP)

April 3rd, 2010

Belgian soldiers, part of International Security Assistant Force (ISAF) force, stand at the site where three German soldiers were killed in Friday's fighting in Afghanistan's Kunduz province, northwest of Kabul, Saturday, April 3, 2010. Taliban fighters attacked a detachment of German troops who were on a bridge-building and mine-clearing mission, triggering a gunbattle that left three soldiers dead, five other Germans wounded, the German Defense Ministry said. (AP Photo)AP - President Hamid Karzai’s scathing attack on the West for its role in Afghanistan drew criticism Saturday from Afghan politicians after the White House described his remarks as genuinely…

German friendly fire kills 6 Afghan soldiers (AP)

April 3rd, 2010

Belgian soldiers, part of International Security Assistant Force (ISAF) force, stand at the site where three German soldiers were killed in Friday's fighting in Afghanistan's Kunduz province, northwest of Kabul, Saturday, April 3, 2010. Taliban fighters attacked a detachment of German troops who were on a bridge-building and mine-clearing mission, triggering a gunbattle that left three soldiers dead, five other Germans wounded, the German Defense Ministry said. (AP Photo)AP - German soldiers traveling to the scene of a deadly firefight with Taliban insurgents accidentally killed six Afghan troops, the Afghan military said Saturday. Three Germans died in the…

German friendly fire kills Afghan soldiers (AP)

April 3rd, 2010

Belgian soldiers, part of International Security Assistant Force (ISAF) force, stand at the site where three German soldiers were killed in Friday's fighting in Afghanistan's Kunduz province, northwest of Kabul, Saturday, April 3, 2010. Taliban fighters attacked a detachment of German troops who were on a bridge-building and mine-clearing mission, triggering a gunbattle that left three soldiers dead, five other Germans wounded, the German Defense Ministry said. (AP Photo)AP - German soldiers traveling to the scene of a deadly firefight with Taliban insurgents accidentally killed six Afghan troops, the Afghan military said Saturday. Three Germans died in the…

Pope under fire for transfer, letter on sex abuse (AP)

March 12th, 2010

Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, head of Germany's bishops conference, is seen before the beginning of the spring meeting of Germany's bishops conference in Freiburg February 22, 2010. REUTERS/Johannes Eisele/FilesAP - Germany’s sex abuse scandal has now reached Pope Benedict XVI: His former archdiocese disclosed that while he was archbishop a suspected pedophile priest was transferred to a job…

The Ring of Fire: Why Chile’s Quake Wasn’t Unexpected (Time.com)

February 28th, 2010

The remains of a hotel in Vina del Mar after part of it collapsed. One of the largest earthquakes on record struck central Chile hard Saturday killing at least 214 people, leaving a trail of twisted buildings and sending tsunami waves roaring across the Pacific Ocean.(AFP/Martin Bernetti)Time.com - Chile, which has had 13 major quakes since 1973, is part of the Pacific’s Ring of Fire, the most seismically dangerous land on the planet


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