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Explosives found in package sent to Merkel’s office (Reuters)

November 2nd, 2010

Reuters - German police Tuesday intercepted a package containing explosives sent from Greece to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s office in Berlin after a series of parcel bomb attacks in Athens by…

Suspect package found at Merkel’s office (Reuters)

November 2nd, 2010

Reuters - German police found a suspicious package in the post at Chancellor Angela Merkel’s office in Berlin on Tuesday, a government spokesman said. Merkel was not in the building…

Karzai says his office gets cash from Iran, US (AP)

October 25th, 2010

Afghan President Hamid Karzai listens during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Oct. 25, 2010. Karzai told reporters that once or twice a year Iran gives his office $700,000 to $975,000 for official presidential expenses. He said the U.S. has known about the Iranian assistance for years and that Washington also gives the palace 'bags of money.'  (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)AP - Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Monday that once or twice a year, Iran gives his office $700,000 to $975,000 for official presidential expenses and that Washington also provides…

Suicide attackers assault UN office in Afghanistan (AP)

October 23rd, 2010

This undated photo shows New York Times photographer Joao Silva on assignment in South Africa. Silva has been seriously injured in Afghanistan while covering the conflict in that country, the paper reported  Saturday Oct 23 2010. Silva, 44, received leg injuries when he stepped on the mine while accompanying American soldiers on patrol in the Arghandab district. He was evacuated to Kandahar Air Field where he was receiving treatment. (AP Photo)AP - A suicide car bomber and three armed militants wearing explosives vests and dressed as women attacked a United Nations compound Saturday in western Afghanistan, but Afghan security forces…

UN office attacked in western Afghanistan (AP)

October 23rd, 2010

Italian soldiers on guard in Herat city in 2009. The United Nations office in the western Afghan city of Herat came under armed attack on Saturday, officials said.(AFP/File/Reza Shirmohammadi)AP - A United Nations office was attacked Saturday in western Afghanistan, officials said.


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UN opens first office for south Sudan referendum (AP)

September 1st, 2010

People wade through floodwaters in Sajawal near Hyderabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. Pakistan's economic growth will plunge 2 percentage points because of the floods and lead to 'massive' job losses, the prime minister warned Wednesday in a speech that predicted a grim couple of years for the already fragile country. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)AP - The United Nations on Wednesday opened its first field office ahead of Southern Sudan’s scheduled January referendum on independence.


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Militants attack army intel office in NW Pakistan (AP)

August 28th, 2010

Flood victims use a part of a damaged railway track to cross the floodwaters toward a village in Sultan Kot, about 51 km (31 miles) from Sukkur in Pakistan's Sindh province August 28, 2010. Flood waters threatened to engulf two towns in southern Pakistan on Saturday, a month after the disaster began, as the United Nations warned that tens of thousands of children risked death from malnutrition. REUTERS/Athar Hussain (PAKISTAN - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT)AP - Suspected Islamist militants attacked an army intelligence office Saturday in northwestern Pakistan, officials said, setting off a gunbattle that paralyzed parts of the city.


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Sri Lankans protest at UN office over abuse probe (AP)

July 6th, 2010

AP - Protesters at the U.N. building in the Sri Lankan capital forced U.N. workers to stay in their office Tuesday to demand the world body end its investigation of…

Bomb at Afghan governor office kills 1, wounds 14 (AP)

June 5th, 2010

Afghan police officers stand guard near the site after a bomb explosion outside the provincial governor's office  in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Saturday, June 5, 2010. The explosion killed one policeman and wounding at least 14 civilians, officials said. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)AP - A bomb exploded Saturday outside the provincial governor’s office in the Afghan city of Kandahar, killing one policeman and wounding at least 14 civilians, officials said.


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