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Iraq’s Election Results: A Tight Race That Portends More Trouble (Time.com)

March 17th, 2010

Time.com - While Maliki and Allawi are neck and neck, neither will have enough votes to govern - or even, perhaps, to claim the right to form a coalition

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Afghan gov wants more troops after Kandahar attack (AP)

March 14th, 2010

An Afghan police man stands guard outside the damaged wall of the police headquarters in Kandahar south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, March 14, 2010, The governor of Kandahar province demanded more security around Afghanistan's largest southern city Sunday after 12 explosions killed dozens of people in the Taliban heartland that will be the target of the war's next major offensive. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)AP - The governor of Kandahar province demanded more security around Afghanistan’s largest southern city Sunday after a series of explosions killed dozens of people in the Taliban heartland —…

Afghan gov. wants more troops after 12 explosions (AP)

March 14th, 2010

Map locates Kandahar, Afghanistan, site of multiple suicide bombingsAP - The governor of Afghanistan’s Kandahar province is demanding more troops to provide security after 12 explosions in the largest southern city killed dozens of people.


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Giving Afghans (and More) a Vote in Britain’s Election (Time.com)

March 14th, 2010

Time.com - As part of a new project, U.K. residents are allowing people in developingcountries to tell them how to vote in parliamentary elections. The aim: togive poorer countries a…

More quakes hit Chile as new president takes over (AP)

March 11th, 2010

Chile's new President Sebastian Pinera waves after being sworn in at the Congress in Valparaiso, Chile, Thursday, March 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia)AP - A series of strong aftershocks from last month’s devastating quake rocked Chile on Thursday as a new president was sworn into office and immediately urged coastal residents to…

Nigeria: More than 200 dead in religious violence (AP)

March 7th, 2010

Workers close mass graves in Jos where dozens of people killed during violent religious clashes have been buried, January 2010. A new outburst of sectarian violence in a flashpoint region of Nigeria left at least 100 people dead, mainly women and children, as machete-wielding gangs burned down villages, officials said Sunday.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei)AP - Rioters armed with machetes slaughtered more than 200 people overnight Sunday as religious violence flared anew between Christians and Muslims in central Nigeria, witnesses said. Hundreds of people…

Reporter: More than 200 dead in Nigeria violence (AP)

March 7th, 2010

AP - More than 200 bodies — many of them women and children — lay in the streets of a central Nigerian town after a renewed spate of Christian-Muslim violence,…

EU, Greece discuss more cuts amid bailout reports (AP)

March 1st, 2010

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou holds his notes during a cabinet meeting at the parliament in Athens on Monday, March 1, 2010. Papandreou pledged again to pull Greece through its worst postwar economic woes, and appealed for ordinary Greeks to back the effort. Europe's financial affairs chief Olli Rehn is in Athens to meet Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou as well as Prime Minister George Papandreou and other senior officials, to address the austerity program which the EU has warned must be expanded to further slash state spending.(AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)AP - The EU pressed Greece hard to make more painful budget cuts amid reports that fellow European nations such as France and Germany are preparing a financial rescue to…