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Is Ukraine Moving Back into Russia’s Embrace? (Time.com)

October 25th, 2010

Time.com - After years of pro-Western policy following the Orange Revolution, Ukraine’s fourth president Viktor Yanukovych is renewing ties with Russia. He says it will ensure his country’s stability. But…

Tropical Storm Bonnie moving toward oil spill (AP)

July 22nd, 2010

This NOAA satellite image taken Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 10:45 AM EDT shows clouds over the Greater and Lesser Antilles.  These are produced by Tropical Depression Three, which has developed from a tropical wave in the eastern Caribbean Sea.  The system currently sits about 400 miles Southeast of Key Largo, Florida with maximum sustained winds at 35 mph and moves west-northwest and 15 mph.  This system kicks up moderate to heavy showers and thunderstorms with strong winds over the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Puerto Rico, with scattered showers stretching into the Bahamas and down the Lesser Antilles.  (AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)AP - Tropical Storm Bonnie steamed into the central Bahamas on Thursday night while tracking a course that could take it over the site of the Gulf of Mexico oil…

UN chief moving ahead with probe of Israeli raid (AP)

June 6th, 2010

Israeli naval ship, left,  escort the 1,200-ton Gaza-bound ship Rachel Corrie the into the port of Ashdod, Israel, Saturday, June 5, 2010.  Israeli forces seized a Gaza-bound aid vessel swiftly and without meeting resistance on Saturday, preventing it from breaking a naval blockade of the Hamas-ruled territory days after a similar effort turned bloody. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)AP - An Israeli official said Sunday that U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon is moving ahead with plans for an international commission to investigate Israel’s deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.


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Cuba moving 7 political prisoners nearer homes (AP)

June 1st, 2010

People sit as members of Ladies in White opposition group, mostly relatives of imprisoned dissidents, march after in Havana, Sunday, May 30, 2010. Nine days after Cuba's Roman Catholic Church announced an agreement with the government pledging improved conditions and medical care for the island's 200 political prisoners, dissidents interviewed by The Associated Press said Monday they had still not seen any change. (AP Photo/Frankiln Reyes)AP - Cuba has begun transferring some of the country’s 200 political prisoners to jails closer to home, the first sign the government is making good on a deal with…

Russia, US moving toward accord on adoptions (AP)

May 12th, 2010

Russia's Children's rights ombudsman Pavel Astakhov reacts as he talks to the media after a meeting with adoption officials in Moscow, Wednesday, May 12, 2010.  Astakhov said Wednesday that Russia and the United States have reached agreement on all key issues for a bilateral agreement on adoptions, and that a draft agreement is expected to be approved later this week.  (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)AP - Russia and the United States are moving closer to signing a new accord on adoptions, officials from both countries said Wednesday.


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US Catholic church moving faster on abuse cases (AP)

April 13th, 2010

FILE - In this January 5, 2007 file photo, Archbishop Charles Chaput is speaks during an interview at the church's headquarters in Denver. Chaput acted swiftly suspending Rev. Melvin Thompson from Saint Thomas More Parish after decades-old child sex abuse allegations were presented against the priest. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, FILE)AP - The action against the priest was swift and public.


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