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Komorowski leading Kaczynski in Polish election (AP)

June 20th, 2010

Presidential candidate Jaroslaw Kaczynski, twin brother of the late President Lech Kaczynski killed in a plane crash, is accompanied by his brother's grand daughter Eva to vote in the presidential election in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, June 20, 2010. Poles are voting Sunday to choose Lech Kaczynski's successor. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)AP - Exit polls in Poland’s presidential election Sunday show that the interim president and parliament speaker Bronislaw Komorowski is leading Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the brother of the president killed in…

Aquino leading in early presidential race results (AP)

May 10th, 2010

A policeman secures the crime scene as the body of a Philippine Marine lies in the pavement after a firefight Monday, May 10, 2010 in Bacoor town in Cavite province, south of Manila, Philippines. A Philippine Marine and a civilian acting as a congressional candidate's bodyguard were killed in a clash outside a police station, a local police said. (AP Photo/Pat Roque)AP - Early official results from the Philippine elections show Sen. Benigno Aquino III, the son of democracy icons, leading in the presidential race.


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Japan leading charge against bluefin ban (AP)

March 17th, 2010

A chef slices a fillet of high-grade fatty Atlantic bluefin tuna, or 'o-toro.' to make sushi at a Sushi-Zanmai sushi restaurant in Tokyo, Japan, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. A U.N. body best known for protecting tigers and elephants will focus on the world's overfished oceans beginning this week with proposals to regulate the shark trade and ban the export of a tuna species prized by sushi lovers. Japan, which consumes 80 percent of Atlantic bluefin, has said it will ignore the ban. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)AP - Opposition grew Wednesday against a proposal to ban the export of Atlantic bluefin tuna, with several Arab countries joining Japan in arguing it would hurt poor fishing nations…

Iran bans leading pro-reform political party (AP)

March 15th, 2010

Logo of the Iranian reformist party, the Islamic Iran Participation Front (IIPF). An Iranian court has sentenced a top female reformist arrested after last year's election dispute to three years in jail for plotting to harm national security, her lawyer has said. Azar Mansouri is a senior lader in the IIPF.(afp.com)AP - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s hard-line government said Monday it has banned Iran’s largest pro-reform political party in a new strike against an opposition movement that has largely been swept…

Iraqi PM’s coalition seen leading vote (AP)

March 8th, 2010

Ballot boxes are stacked at a counting center in Basra, Iraq, Monday, March 8, 2010. The conclusion of Sunday's vote does not spell an immediate end to Iraq's political uncertainty, as it could be days until results come in and with the fractured nature of Iraqi politics, months to form a government. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)AP - Early estimates from a range of Iraqi parties on Monday predicted a coalition led by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki would take the lead in the parliamentary election,…

Leading Pakistani Taliban deputy believed killed (AP)

March 6th, 2010

Pakistani police officers stand guard at the main entrance of the house of kidnapped child Sahil Saeed, Saturday, March 6, 2010 in Jhelum, Pakistan. The kidnapping of the 5-year-old British boy in Pakistan may have involved someone in his family, a top Pakistani diplomat said, adding a twist to a case that has gripped the imagination of Britain's media. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)AP - A top Pakistani Taliban commander close to al-Qaida is believed to have been killed in an army airstrike, officials said Saturday, in the latest apparent blow to insurgents…

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