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Benigno Aquino III sworn in as Philippine leader (AP)

June 30th, 2010

AP - Benigno Aquino III was sworn in Wednesday as the Philippines’ 15th president, leading a Southeast Asian nation his late parents helped liberate from dictatorship and which he promises…

Mexican leader blames candidate’s killing on gangs (AP)

June 28th, 2010

Mexican Interior Minister Fernando Gomez Mont gives a news conference in Mexico City June 28, 2010. An opposition candidate pegged to win a July 4 gubernatorial election in the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas was killed by suspected drug hitmen on Monday in the latest sign drug gangs are trying to influence politics. Rodolfo Torre of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) was killed with four aides in an ambush while he was on a campaign trip, Mont told reporters. REUTERS/Eliana Aponte (MEXICO - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW POLITICS)AP - Mexican President Felipe Calderon is blaming drug cartels for the assassination of a front-running gubernatorial candidate.


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Kyrgyz leader says new constitution is approved (AP)

June 27th, 2010

Ethnic Kyrgyz refugee women cast  ballot paper inside a tent in refugee camp outskirts the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, Sunday, June 27, 2010 during a referendum on a new constitution. The people of violence-wracked Kyrgyzstan voted Sunday on a new constitution that the interim government hopes will legitimize the power it seized after a deadly uprising. The Central Asian nation was on high security alert for the vote, deploying almost 8,000 police officers and an equal number of defense volunteers to keep the peace after ethnic violence that killed hundreds. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)AP - Kyrgyzstan’s interim president said voters approved a new constitution Sunday that will allow the Central Asian nation to form a legitimate government after months of turmoil.


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Jamaican gang leader arrives to face NY charges (AP)

June 24th, 2010

In this photo obtained by the Associated Press on June 23, 2010,  Jamaican alleged drug gang leader Christopher 'Dudus' Coke is fitted with a helmet and a bullet-proof vest moments after his arrest at an undisclosed location. Coke, who eluded a bloody police offensive in his slum stronghold last month, was arrested Tuesday June 22, 2010 by authorities outside Jamaica's capital, according to high ranking police officials.(AP Photo)AP - Following bloodshed over his capture, Jamaican gang leader Christopher “Dudus” Coke arrived in New York under tight security on Thursday to face charges he flooded the East Coast…

Jamaican gang leader departs for US in extradition (AP)

June 24th, 2010

In this photo obtained by the Associated Press on June 23, 2010,  Jamaican alleged drug gang leader Christopher 'Dudus' Coke is fitted with a helmet and a bullet-proof vest moments after his arrest at an undisclosed location. Coke, who eluded a bloody police offensive in his slum stronghold last month, was arrested Tuesday June 22, 2010 by authorities outside Jamaica's capital, according to high ranking police officials.(AP Photo)AP - The scion of a Jamaican gang family was flown to New York on Thursday after agreeing to his extradition, saying it was in his nation’s best interests after…

Charges sought in death of Congo leader Lumumba (AP)

June 21st, 2010

FILE - This is a July 3, 1960 file photo of  Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Republic of Congo.  A team of Belgian lawyers said Monday June 21. 2010  it is asking prosecutors to bring war crimes charges against officials allegedly involved in the assassination of Patrice Lumumba Congo's first democratically elected prime minister 50 years ago. (AP Photo, File)AP - A group of legal activists formally requested war-crimes charges Monday against a dozen Belgian government officials and military officers widely suspected in the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, Congo’s…

Interim leader: Up to 2,000 dead in Kyrgyz clashes (AP)

June 18th, 2010

Kyrgyzstan's interim government leader Rosa Otunbayeva wearing a flak jacket, reacts as she listens to a question during her meeting with local officials after landing by military helicopter on the central square in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, Friday, June 18, 2010. She is vowing to work for the return of refugees who fled deadly ethnic violence there by the hundreds of thousands. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)AP - Kyrgyzstan’s interim president said Friday that 2,000 people may have died in the ethnic clashes that have rocked the country’s south — many times her government’s official estimate…

Kyrgyz interim leader in Osh, vows to restore city (AP)

June 18th, 2010

Uzbeks inspect their burned house in an Uzbek district in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh,Thursday, June 17, 2010. Some 400,000 people have been displaced by ethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan, the United Nations announced Thursday, dramatically increasing the official estimate of a refugee crisis that has left throngs of desperate, fearful people without enough food and water in grim camps along the Uzbek border. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)AP - Kyrgyzstan’s interim president is visiting the southern town of Osh and vowing to work for the return of refugees who fled deadly ethnic violence there by the hundreds…

The Assassinated Hamas Leader and the Polish Connection (Time.com)

June 16th, 2010

Time.com - German police are seeking the extradition of a man from Poland in relationto the assassination of Hamas commander Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh in January. Couldthe suspect help clear up the…

Iran opposition leader vows to continue struggle (AP)

June 12th, 2010

FILE - In this June 9, 2009 file photo, a supporter of main challenger and reformist candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, standing next to a poster of him, whistles as she films the event with her mobile phone, amidst a festive atmosphere at an election rally at the Heidarnia stadium in Tehran, Iran. Friday June 12, 2010 marks the first anniversary of the disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. (Photo by Ben Curtis, File)AP - Iran’s opposition leader has pledged to continue the struggle against the government, despite canceling a mass protest for the anniversary of last June’s disputed presidential election.


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