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Myanmar’s top court rejects Suu Kyi’s final appeal (Reuters)

November 11th, 2010

Members of the National League for Democracy (NLD) set up a poster of Myanmar's democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in front of their office in Yangon November 10, 2010. REUTERS/Soe Zeya TunReuters - Myanmar’s top court rejected a final and largely symbolic appeal by detained Nobel peace prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi against her house arrest, her lawyer said on…

U.N. rejects south Sudan calls for peacekeepers (Reuters)

November 6th, 2010

Reuters - The United Nations on Saturday rejected calls by south Sudan to send peacekeepers and set up a buffer zone along the country’s tense north-south border ahead of a…

Sweden’s govt rejects any ties with far right (AP)

September 20th, 2010

Voters fill the booths at a polling station during general elections in Stockholm, Sweden Sunday Sept. 19, 2010. Voting started Sunday in Sweden's election with polls showing the center-right government heading for a historic second term, but an Islam-bashing far-right group could spoil its majority. (AP Photo / Janerik Henriksson)AP - Experts say Sweden’s center-right governing coalition will negotiate with an opposition party after neither major bloc secured a majority in parliament and both ruled out working with the…

Hamas leader rejects talks with Israel (AP)

September 1st, 2010

Israeli soldiers hold a Jewish settler to the ground after he was vandalizing a Palestinian house a day after a Palestinian attack that left four Israelis dead, in the West Bank town of Hebron, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. Four Israelis were killed in a Palestinian shooting attack Tuesday evening when they drove through the West Bank as a new round of Mideast talks opened in Washington. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)AP - The top Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip rejected compromise with Israel in a fiery speech Wednesday, a day after gunmen killed four Israelis in a strong reminder…

WikiLeaks founder rejects sex abuse accusations (AP)

August 22nd, 2010

**ADDS THAT AUTHORITIES HAVE REVOKED ARREST WARRANT** FILE - In this July 27, 2010 file photo, founder and editor of the WikiLeaks website, Julian Assange, speaks to members of the media during a debate event held in London. A Stockholm prosecutor issued an arrest warrant for Assange on Friday, Aug. 20, 2010, saying he was suspected of rape and molestation in two separate cases. But chief prosecutor Eva Finne withdrew the warrant within 24 hours. (AP Photo/Max Nash, File)AP - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has dismissed sexual abuse allegations, telling a Swedish newspaper he’s never had sex that wasn’t consensual.


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Chile rejects pardons proposed by Catholic Church (AP)

July 25th, 2010

A police officer looks on as people hold portraits of family members who were dissidents killed during the dictatorship of former Gen. Augusto Pinochet outside La Moneda government palace in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday July 21, 2010. The Roman Catholic Church handed Chile's President Sebastian Pinera a petition for massive pardons that include military officials who committed crimes against humanity during Gen. Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship (1973-90). (AP Photo/Roberto Candia)AP - Chile’s conservative president rejected a proposal by the Roman Catholic Church for sweeping pardons of elderly and sick prisoners that would have freed military officers convicted of human…

Hamas rejects Israel-approved snack foods for Gaza (AP)

June 10th, 2010

In this Monday, May 31, 2010, photo taken by an unidentified person aboard the ship Mavi Marmara, an Israeli soldier is surrounded by people aboard the Turkish-flagged vessel. The photo was released by the Turkish activist group IHH, which is outlawed in Israel. According to IHH, the Israeli soldiers were hurt while storming the ship in confrontations with activists aboard, and were later returned to other Israeli troops who boarded the ship. An Israel government spokesperson said the series of images 'shows that our boarding party in fact did face deadly violence from the hardcore Islamist activists on the boat from the fundamentalist IHH movement.' (AP Photo/IHH) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS HANDOUT PHOTO; NO SALESAP - Hamas militants say they will not let newly approved food items into the Gaza Strip as long as Israel maintains its blockade of the territory.


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Israel rejects new drive to ban nukes from Mideast (AP)

May 30th, 2010

FILE - Retired Marine Corps Gen. James Jones testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington in this Sept. 6, 2007 file photo. U.S. National Security Adviser Gen. James Jones said in a statement Friday night May 28, 2010 that the United States has 'serious reservations' about the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty conference in 2012 and believes Mideast peace and full compliance by all countries in the region to their arms control and nonproliferation obligations 'are essential precursors.' (AP Photo/Dennis Cook, File)AP - Israel, thought to be the Middle East’s only nuclear power, has rejected a new U.N. call to come clean about its secretive nuclear program, calling it a “deeply…

Iran rejects UN sanctions resolution draft (AP)

May 19th, 2010

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addresses the 64th United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters in New York September 23, 2009. A close ally of Iran's president denounced as illegitimate on Wednesday a draft U.N. resolution which would expand sanctions against Tehran. REUTERS/Mike Segar/FilesAP - Iran on Wednesday dismissed as “illegitimate” a draft U.N. Security Council resolution seeking to impose harsher sanctions against Tehran for its refusal to halt uranium enrichment.


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Deadly Thai chaos continues as gov’t rejects talks (AP)

May 16th, 2010

Anti-government protesters ignite tires ablaze in front of a stand off with Thai military, Sunday, May 16, 2010 in Bangkok, Thailand. Thailand will impose a curfew Sunday and send Red Cross workers to evacuate women and children from Bangkok's deadly protest zone where 25 people have been killed in four days of street battles between anti-government demonstrators and troops. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)AP - Anti-government unrest boiling over in downtown Bangkok spread to other areas of the capital and Thailand as the military defended its use of force in a crackdown that…

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