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India begins world’s biggest head count; 1.2 bn (AP)

April 1st, 2010

A nurse inspects a newborn baby at a hospital in Jammu, India, Thursday, April 1, 2010. India kicked off the national census of its billion-plus population Thursday with a 2.5 million strong army of census-takers fanning out across the country to conduct what has been billed the world's largest administrative exercise. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)AP - India began a yearlong census of its billion-plus population Thursday in which it plans to photograph and fingerprint every citizen over the age of 15 to create a…

Soldiers detain head of Guinea-Bissau’s army (AP)

April 1st, 2010

AP - Renegade soldiers seized the head of Guinea-Bissau’s armed forces and briefly detained the prime minister Thursday in an apparent coup attempt in this West African nation where the…

UAE: head of largest sovereign wealth fund missing (AP)

March 27th, 2010

AP - The United Arab Emirates state news agency says the head of Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund — the world’s largest — is missing after his glider crashed in…

UN head in Afghanistan meets with militant group (AP)

March 25th, 2010

Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai delivers a speech at Peking University in Beijing March 25, 2010. REUTERS/China Daily (CHINA - Tags: POLITICS EDUCATION) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINAAP - The top U.N. official in Afghanistan has met with a delegation from a Taliban-linked militant group that has extended a peace offer to the Afghan government.


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Anti-government protesters head for Thai capital (AP)

March 13th, 2010

Thai anti-government demonstrators converge at a check point in Wang Noi, Thailand, Saturday, March 13, 2010.  Thousands of 'Red Shirt' demonstrators were expected to converge on Bangkok this weekend for a massive rally.  (AP Photo/David Longstreath)AP - Thousands of red-shirted anti-government protesters converged on the Thai capital Saturday, giving the government an ultimatum to dissolve Parliament or face mass marches on key spots in the…

Anti-government protesters head for Bangkok (AP)

March 13th, 2010

Thai soldiers stand guard outside the government house in Bangkok, Thailand, Saturday, March 13, 2010. The Thai capital braced for possible violence as anti-government activists launched Friday what they hope will be one of the country's biggest protests in an effort to force Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to call new elections. (AP photo/Sakchai Lalit)AP - Thousands of red-shirted, anti-government demonstrators converged on the Thai capital from the north and northeast Saturday, vowing to oust the government in a mass, do-or-die display of muscle.


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Iraqi voters head to polls for historic ballot (AP)

March 7th, 2010

Radical Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, attends a news conference in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, March 6, 2010. Anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, in a surprise news conference on the eve of the Iraqi election, has urged his followers to turn out and vote. (AP Photo/Fars News Agency, Hamed Malekpour)AP - Under a blanket of tight security designed to thwart insurgent attacks, Iraqis went to the polls Sunday in an election testing the ability of the country’s still-fragile democracy…