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UN official expects no climate deal until 2011 (AP)

March 31st, 2010

AP - A new legal agreement committing nations around the world to curb greenhouse gas emissions is unlikely to be completed before the end of 2011, two years later than…

Afghan official: At least 35 die in avalanche (AP)

March 23rd, 2010

Special Representative of the United Nations for Afghanistan Staffan de Mistura speaks during a news conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, March 23, 2010. Mistura said Tuesday that he backs the Afghan government's peace talks with a major Taliban-linked militant group. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)AP - At least 35 people have died in an avalanche in a remote mountainous area of northeastern Afghanistan.


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Sierra Leone official: Earlier reports of mine collapse a hoax (AP)

March 19th, 2010

A diamond mine outside Freetown. Up to 200 wildcat miners were feared missing Friday amid reports of a gold mine collapse in southern Sierra Leone, which were denied by the country's mining ministry.(AFP/File/Desirey Minkoh)AP - A top official in Sierra Leone’s government said he raced to a town in the country Friday after news reports said at least 200 people had been killed…

U.S. official cancels Israel trip as Jerusalem clashes erupt (AP)

March 16th, 2010

Palestinian demonstrators hurl stones at Israeli troops, not seen, in east Jerusalem, Tuesday, March 16, 2010. Dozens of masked Palestinians hurled rocks at police and set tires ablaze across the holy city's volatile eastern sector, where thousands of officers, including reinforcements brought in from other locations, were in place for a fifth straight day. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)AP - Hundreds of Palestinians in east Jerusalem set tires and garbage bins ablaze on Tuesday and hurled rocks at Israeli riot police, who responded with rubber bullets and tear…

Iraqi PM’s bloc accuses election official of fraud (AP)

March 16th, 2010

Electoral workers sort through ballots cast at a counting center in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, March 14, 2010. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's political coalition took an early vote lead Saturday in the election's all-important battleground of Baghdad, pulling away from its two closest rivals in the latest indication that Iraqis want a moderate government instead of Shiite religious hard-liners leading the postwar nation. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - The coalition led by Iraq’s prime minister has accused an election official of manipulating vote counts from the country’s parliamentary elections and called for a recount, a candidate…

Official: 57 dead in earthquake in eastern Turkey (AP)

March 8th, 2010

A man points at a seismic chart indicating the registered tremors of a powerful earthquake. At least 39 people have been killed in an earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale that struck the eastern Turkish province of Elazig, the local governor has said.(AFP/File/Sam Yeh)AP - An official says the death toll in the strong earthquake that hit eastern Turkey has reached 57.


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