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Shift leader helped Chilean miners stay calm, live (AP)

October 14th, 2010

In this screen grab taken from video, Luis Urzua, center, the 33rd and final miner to be rescued from the San Jose Mine near Copiapo, Chile, is seen after his rescue Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010. (AP Photo)AP - The crew of Chilean miners was pinned nearly a half-mile underground by 700,000 tons of rock after what felt like an earthquake in the shaft above them, and…

NKorea’s Kim, heir apparent son appear on live TV (AP)

October 9th, 2010

North Korea leader Kim Jong Il's son Kim Jong Un, right, attends 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. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)AP - North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and his son, heir apparent Kim Jong Un, appeared together a massive military parade Sunday held amid celebrations marking the foundation of…

North Korea TV broadcasts military parade live (AP)

October 9th, 2010

North Korea dancers perform during a Arirang mass games to mark the 65th anniversary of the communist nation's ruling Workers' Party in Pyongyang, North Korea on Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010. Leader Kim Jong Il brought dancers at the Arirang mass games to tears Saturday by making a rare appearance at the festival on the second day of celebrations in the North Korean capital. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)AP - North Korea’s state television is showing a live broadcast of a huge military parade attended by leader Kim Jong Il and heir apparent Kim Jong Un.


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Norwegian newsreader quits in live radio broadcast (AP)

September 11th, 2010

AP - A Norwegian radio journalist quit on the air after complaining about her job and saying she wouldn’t read the day’s news because “nothing important has happened” anyway.

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‘Miracle’ in Colombia crash: Woman dies, 130 live (AP)

August 16th, 2010

** ALTERNATIVE CROP OF XBOG102 ** A police officer stands by a crashed plane sitting on the runaway at the airport on San Andres island in Colombia, Monday Aug. 16, 2010. The Boeing 737 operated by the airline Aires crashed on landing after departing from Bogota around midnight local time with 131 passengers. According to an Air Force official, at least one passenger died.  (AP Photo/Periodico El Isleno, Richard Garcia)AP - A Boeing 737 jetliner carrying 131 people crashed in a thunderstorm and broke apart as it slid onto the runway on a Caribbean island on Monday. The region’s…

‘Miracle’ in Colombia jet crash: 1 dies, 130 live (AP)

August 16th, 2010

A plane that crashed lays in pieces along the runaway at the airport on San Andres island in Colombia, Monday Aug. 16, 2010. The Boeing 737 operated by the airline Aires crashed on landing after departing from Bogota around midnight local time with 131 passengers. According to an Air Force official, at least one passenger died.  (AP Photo/Periodico El Isleno, Richard Garcia)AP - A Boeing 737 jetliner carrying 131 people crashed in a thunderstorm and broke into three pieces as it slid onto the runway on a Colombian island on Monday.…

Rwanda’s Hutus live in fear of attacks, repression (AP)

June 29th, 2010

In this Thursday, June 24, 2010 picture Rwandan President Paul Kagame greet supporters who waited hours to see him as he applied to run for president again in the Rwandan capital, Kigali. Last fall former President Bill Clinton presented Rwanda's leader with a global citizen award and lauded him for freeing the minds of his people. Now as election day approaches, critics fear Paul Kagame's government is instead smashing dissent.(AP Photo/Adam Hooper)AP - The Rwandan refugee was walking home one night when four men jumped him and put him in a stranglehold. He lay still, pretending to be dead as one…

Hunt for clues after India crash kills 158; 8 live (AP)

May 23rd, 2010

Civilians look on as Indian firefighters and rescue personnel gather around the site of an Air India plane that crashed in Mangalore, in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, Saturday, May 22, 2010. As many as 160 people were feared dead after an Air India plane arriving from Dubai crashed and burst into flames at dawn Saturday as it overshot a precarious hilltop runway in southern India while trying to land in the rain. (AP Photo)AP - Investigators frantically sifted through the rubble of a crashed plane Sunday looking for the black boxes — the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder — after…

Army: Part of central Bangkok is ‘live fire zone’ (AP)

May 15th, 2010

An anti-government demonstrator throws petrol bomb to Thai soldiers in downtown Bangkok, Thailand, Saturday, May 15, 2010.  Thai troops faced off against die-hard protesters vowing to defend their fortified encampment in downtown Bangkok on Saturday, following two days of running gunbattles that killed 16 people and wounded nearly 160. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)AP - The Thai army has designated an area in central Bangkok as a “live firing zone” in a warning to protesters and local residents.


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Thai PM, protesters meet again after live TV talks (AP)

March 29th, 2010

Thai riot policemen stand guard inside Government house in Bangkok, Thailand, on Saturday March 27, 2010. Tens of thousands of red-shirted protesters threatened to force soldiers from the historic heart of Thailand's capital, raising tensions in what so far has been a nonviolent bid to bring down the government. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)AP - Thailand’s prime minister and his political opponents were set for more talks Monday after their televised initial meeting defused tensions temporarily but did not bridge a divide over…