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European pressure mounts on Iran over stoning case (AP)

September 8th, 2010

Demonstrators hold portraits of Iranian woman Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani during a protest in front of the Iran embassy in Rome, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. The protesters asked Iran to lift its death sentence on the woman convicted of adultery. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)AP - European Union nations and the continent’s biggest human rights organization slammed Iran on Wednesday for its plans to stone a woman convicted of adultery, increasing the global pressure…

Pressure mounts in Britain to form new govt (AP)

May 10th, 2010

Britain's Conservative Party foreign affairs spokesman William Hague is surrounded by members of the media as he makes his way up Whitehall for a meeting with Liberal Democrat Party representatives in London May 10, 2010. Talks on forming a new government between the Conservative and Liberal Democrats made progress on Monday, a senior Conservative member said.  REUTERS/Paul Hackett   (BRITAIN - Tags: ELECTIONS POLITICS)AP - Pressure mounted Monday on Nick Clegg, the leader of Britain’s third-place Liberal Democrats, to make a decision whether to join the Conservatives in creating a new government or…

Anger mounts as US troops kill 4 Afghans on bus (AP)

April 12th, 2010

Afghan policemen keep watch at the entrance to an Emergency hospital in Lashkar Gah, Helmand province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday April 11, 2010. The head of Italian aid group Emergency denounced the detentions of three of its hospital workers in Afghanistan and said Sunday the group was targeted because the hospital treats Taliban fighters along with civilians.(AP Photo/Abdul Khaliq)AP - Afghans burned tires and chanted “Death to America” after U.S. troops fired Monday on a civilian bus near Kandahar, killing four people and wounding more than a dozen.…