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Latin leaders question move to legalize marijuana (AP)

October 26th, 2010

Mexico's President Felipe Calderon, left, Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos, second from left, Costa Rica's President Laura Chinchilla, third from left, and Guatemala's President Alvaro Colon wave for the official photo at the Tuxtla Summit in Cartagena, Colombia, Tuesday Oct. 26, 2010.  The Tuxtla Group is made up of governments from Central America, Mexico and Colombia. (AP Photo/William Fernando Martinez)AP - The leaders of several Latin American nations on the front lines of the battle against drugs said Tuesday that a California ballot measure to legalize marijuana would send…

China VP promoted in move seen as leadership sign (AP)

October 18th, 2010

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency on Monday, Oct. 18, 2010, Chinese President Hu Jintao addresses the Fifth Plenary Session of the 17th CPC Central Committee held in Beijing for Oct. 15-18, 2010. Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping was promoted to vice chairman of a key Communist Party military committee on Monday at the meeting in the clearest sign yet he remains on track to take over as the country's future leader within three years. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Liu Weibing) ** NO SALES **AP - Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping was promoted to a key post in the Communist Party’s military committee Monday, affirming his path to be the country’s leader within three…

US helps Sudan town move past ‘hungriest place’ (AP)

October 4th, 2010

Southern Sudanese soldiers wait on Akobo landing strip during the arrival of high level US, UN and southern Sudanese officials on Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010. The US Consul-General in Juba, Ambassador Barrie Walkley and Leis Grande traveled to Akobo to celebrate the formal opening of several US-funded building projects, including a new county headquarters. The United States and other binternational/b donors targeted significant funds at Akobo in a bid to curtail serious intertribal fighting there in recent years. (AP Photo/Pete Muller) --AP - International officials once visited this straw-hut town to examine skeletal children and make plans to combat a brewing famine. Now six months later, fears of mass hunger are…

Fla. imam: No deal to move NYC mosque (AP)

September 9th, 2010

Dove World Outreach Center church pastor Terry Jones announces the burning of the Korans will continue as planned during a news conference in Gainesville, Florida September 8, 2010. REUTERS/Scott AudetteAP - A Florida imam says that no deal has been reached to move the site of a mosque at the site of ground zero in exchange for a Florida…

Chile miners must move tons of rocks in own rescue (AP)

August 29th, 2010

Chile's Mining Minister Laurence Golborne, center, holds a pipe used to communicate with 33 miners trapped alive in the collapsed San Jose mine in Copiapo, Chile, Sunday Aug. 29, 2010. The trapped miners half mile underground will have to aid their own escape clearing tons of rock that will fall as the rescue hole is drilled, the engineer in charge of drilling said Sunday.  (AP Photo/Roberto Candia)AP - The 33 trapped Chilean miners who have astonished the world with their discipline a half mile underground will have to aid their own escape — clearing thousands of…

Year since bomber freed, Lockerbie tries to move on (AFP)

August 19th, 2010

File photo shows some of the damage caused to the Scottish village of Lockerbie following the blowing up of a Pan Am airliner in late December 1988. The quiet Scottish town is determined to play down the forthcoming one-year anniversary of the freeing of the Libyan man convicted of bombing the airliner over its skies.(AFP/File/Letkey)AFP - The quiet Scottish town of Lockerbie is determined to play down Friday’s one-year anniversary of the freeing of the Libyan man convicted of blowing up an airliner over…

Mexico: Cartels move beyond drugs, seek domination (AP)

August 5th, 2010

A soldier stands guard near a hearse (L) carrying the body of Ignacio AP - President Felipe Calderon said Wednesday that Mexico’s cartels in many cases have moved beyond drugs as their main money-earner and are even trying to supplant the government in…

Ending the U.K. Census: Move Could Impact Policy, Budget (Time.com)

July 21st, 2010

Time.com - After 2011, the U.K. plans to drop the national census and find cheaper, more accurate ways to figure out the demographics of the nation. But what are the…

US ambassador to Afghanistan: Time to move on (AP)

June 24th, 2010

In this handout photograph taken on June 22 and provided by the US Embassy in Kabul, Afghan President Hamid Karzai (L) talks with US Special Representative Richard Holbrooke (2nd L), US Ambassador Karl Eikenberry (2nd R) and US General Stanley McChrystal. Karzai's government had publicly urged the White House not to remove McChrystal.(AFP/HO/File)AP - The U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan on Thursday acknowledged having “vigorous debates” behind closed doors with Gen. Stanley McChrystal, but said he and the ousted NATO commander acted in…

UN: Israel needs to move quickly to ease closure (AP)

June 21st, 2010

A Palestinian boy turns around as he walks toward a primary school housed inside United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) containers, in Nusseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, Monday, June 21, 2010. Students in this refugee camp study in stifling hot shipping containers and there is no space in U.N. classrooms for thousands of incoming first graders because of Israel's blockade of Gaza has kept out supplies for building new schools. Israel's 3-year-old blockade of Gaza, meant to pressure the territory's Islamic militant Hamas rulers, has brought hardship to many of the 1.5 million people living there. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)AP - Students in this refugee camp study in stifling hot metal shipping containers, and there’s no space in the crammed U.N. classrooms for thousands of incoming first graders because…