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Should the Spanish Government Close Franco’s Tomb? (Time.com)

November 20th, 2010

Time.com - This weekend, Francisco Franco devotees who make the annual trip to his tomb in the Valley of the Fallen will find the basilica closed. The government says it’s…

Israeli government seen accepting new settlement freeze (Reuters)

November 14th, 2010

An Israeli soldier holds a Palestinian boy during a protest by foreign, Israeli and Palestinian activists against a nearby Jewish settlement north of the Israeli occupied West Bank town of Hebron last month. Israel's cabinet will on Sunday consider a US incentives package designed to persuade it to impose a new settlement freeze that could kick-start stalled peace talks with the Palestinians.(AFP/File/Hazem Bader)Reuters - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will probably win narrow approval from his coalition government for a U.S. proposal to extend a freeze on West Bank settlement building, Israeli political…

Iraq breaks impasse as Maliki to form government (Reuters)

November 11th, 2010

Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki speaks during a news conference after meeting Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak at the presidential palace in Cairo October 20, 2010. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah DalshReuters - Shi’ite Nuri al-Maliki was re-nominated as Iraqi prime minister on Thursday as fractious politicians ended an eight-month deadlock that raised fears of renewed sectarian warfare.


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Iraq’s new government to include Sunni-backed bloc (Reuters)

November 11th, 2010

Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki speaks during a news conference after meeting Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak at the presidential palace in Cairo October 20, 2010. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah DalshReuters - Iraq’s fractious politicians have agreed to return Shi’ite Nuri al-Maliki as prime minister, ending an eight-month deadlock that raised fears of renewed sectarian war, but leaving some Sunnis…

U.S. urges Iraq to form inclusive government (Reuters)

November 8th, 2010

Reuters - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged Iraq on Monday to develop an inclusive power-sharing government, but would not confirm the country was close to striking agreement on…

Yemen al Qaeda warned tribe against helping government (Reuters)

November 3rd, 2010

Reuters - Al Qaeda in Yemen has warned kinsmen of a U.S. born radical preacher against collaborating with the government, according to a statement from the group that appeared to…

UK government stakes its future on austerity plan (AP)

October 20th, 2010

A TV monitor shows the door of No 11 Downing Street the official residence of Britain Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne in London, Wednesday, Oct.  20, 2010.  Britain's finance chief George Osborne is due to present a Comprehensive Spending Review to parliament on Wednesday Oct. 20, giving details of how the government propose to tackle the continuing financial deficit. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)AP - Britain’s Treasury chief George Osborne says the country’s government will make the largest cuts to public spending since World War II — slashing benefits and public sector jobs…

Gunmen storm Chechen government buildings (AP)

October 19th, 2010

Special Force (OMON) officers are seen in front of Chechen parliament complex after a bomb blast in Grozny, Chechnya, southern Russia, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010. Insurgents stormed the parliament complex in Russia's volatile Chechnya region on Tuesday, killing at least 2 police officers and one parliamentary official, authorities said. At least three insurgents were also killed, ending the attack, they said. One insurgent set off a bomb at the gates of the parliament complex in the provincial capital, killing himself and wounding others, Chechen police spokesman Ramzam Bekkhoyev told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev)AP - Insurgents stormed the parliament complex in Russia’s volatile Chechnya region on Tuesday, killing at least 2 police officers and one parliamentary official, and injuring 17 others, authorities said.…

Police: Gunmen storm Chechen government buildings (AP)

October 19th, 2010

Relatives mourn Gusalov Alan, 42, killed in a suicide car attack in a square outside a market in Vladikavkaz, North Caucasus, Saturday, Sept., 11, 2010. The Thursday bombing on the edge of the central market of the capital of the North Ossetia republic where a suicide car bombing killed 17 people and wounded more than 140 was the most serious terrorist attack in Russia since the March subway bombings in Moscow that killed 40. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)AP - A Russian police spokesman says at least six people are dead after insurgents stormed the Chechen parliament complex, including the insurgents and two others.


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Iraq’s Unformed Government: What Do the Kurds Want? (Time.com)

October 6th, 2010

Time.com - The Kurds are key to Maliki’s ability to form his ruling coalition. TIME asks the head of Iraq’s Kurdish regional government for his assessment

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