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South Korea fires warning shots, second incident in days (Reuters)

November 3rd, 2010

North Korean soldiers march during a massive military parade marking the 65th anniversary of the communist nation's ruling Workers' Party in Pyongyang, North Korea on Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010. This year's celebration comes less than two weeks after Kim Jong Il's re-election to the party's top post and the news that his 20-something son would succeed his father and grandfather as leader. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)Reuters - South Korea’s navy fired warning shots to drive away a North Korean fishing boat at a maritime border on Wednesday, the second incident in six days, jangling nerves…

South Korea fires warning shots, capital on alert (Reuters)

November 3rd, 2010

North Korean soldiers march during a massive military parade marking the 65th anniversary of the communist nation's ruling Workers' Party in Pyongyang, North Korea on Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010. This year's celebration comes less than two weeks after Kim Jong Il's re-election to the party's top post and the news that his 20-something son would succeed his father and grandfather as leader. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)Reuters - South Korea’s navy fired warning shots to drive away a North Korean fishing boat at a maritime border on Wednesday, the second incident in six days, jangling nerves…

South Korea fires shots to warn North fishing boat (Reuters)

November 3rd, 2010

Reuters - South Korea’s navy fired warning shots to drive away a North Korean fishing vessel that crossed their tense maritime border on Wednesday, the South’s military said.

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French retirement protests take violent turn (AP)

October 19th, 2010

A woman runs past a devastated shoe shop during clashes in Lyon, central France, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010. Some airliners steered clear of France and police clashed with stone-throwing youths Tuesday as a new round of nationwide strikes and protests over a bill raising the retirement age to 62 kicked off. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)AP - Masked youths clashed with police officers and set fires in cities across France on Tuesday as protests against a proposed hike in the retirement took an increasingly radical…

Kremlin fires defiant Moscow mayor after 18 years (AP)

September 28th, 2010

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov reacts during the Unesco's early childhood care conference in Moscow, Russia, on Monday, Sept. 27, 2010. Yuri Luzhkov, who has been Moscow's mayor for the last 18 years, is back from his vacation and said he wouldn't resign despite a widely reported public power struggle with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)AP - Russia’s president fired defiant Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov on Tuesday, ousting the man who gave the crumbling capital a glamorous facelift but was maligned for his wife’s chokehold…

Kremlin fires iconic Moscow mayor after 18 years (AP)

September 28th, 2010

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov reacts during the Unesco's early childhood care conference in Moscow, Russia, on Monday, Sept. 27, 2010. Yuri Luzhkov, who has been Moscow's mayor for the last 18 years, is back from his vacation and said he wouldn't resign despite a widely reported public power struggle with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)AP - Russia’s president on Tuesday fired Yury Luzhkov, ending the 18-year rule of the Moscow mayor who gave the crumbling capital a glamorous facelift but was maligned for outdated…

Iraqi soldier fires on US troops, kills 2 (AP)

September 7th, 2010

US soldiers secure an area after dark in Baghdad, in January 2008. Two American soldiers were killed and nine wounded on Tuesday when an Iraqi soldier opened fire after an argument over a sports match they had been playing, US and Iraqi military officials said.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad)AP - An Iraqi soldier sprayed gunfire at American troops guarding one of their commanders as he visited an Iraqi military base on Tuesday and killed two of them, the…

North Korea fires artillery near disputed border (AP)

August 9th, 2010

South Korean Marines run during a photo opportunity during a military exercise on Baengyeongdo, an island near the disputed maritime border with North Korea, northwest of Seoul, August 8, 2010. South Korea staged military drills from Thursday at the island where one of the South's warships sank in March. Pyongyang threatened AP - North Korea fired about 110 rounds of artillery Monday near its disputed sea border with South Korea, the South’s military said, amid high tension over the deadly sinking…

Fires lay ghostly shroud of smoke on Moscow (AP)

August 6th, 2010

Tourists wear protective face masks as they walk along the Red square in thick smog, with Saint Basil's Cathedral partially visible in the back, in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Aug. 6, 2010. The city of Moscow was shrouded Friday by a dense smog that grounded flights at binternational/b airports and seeped into homes and offices, as wildfires that have killed 50 people nationwide continued to burn. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)AP - A miasma of smoke from wildfires cloaked the sweltering Russian capital on Friday, turning the city’s spires into ominous blurs and grounding flights while glum pedestrians trudged the…

Russian fires toll hits 50, animal home in danger (AP)

August 5th, 2010

Local citizens attempt to extinguish a forest fire near the village of Dolginino in the Ryazan region, some 180 km (111 miles) southeast of Moscow, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010. Over the last 24 hours, firefighters have extinguished 293 fires, but 403 others have been spotted while more than 500 have continued to rage over large swathes of countryside, some of them out of control, the Emergencies Ministry said. (AP Photo)AP - Wildfires were raging dangerously close to a shelter housing hundreds of dogs and retired circus animals, animal activists said Thursday, as the death toll from weeks of blazes…

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