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Prelates to discuss response to sex abuse scandal (AP)

November 8th, 2010

AP - Pope Benedict XVI has summoned cardinals from around the world to a daylong summit in Rome next week on the clerical sex abuse scandal and other issues facing…

China remains uncompromising in response to Nobel (AP)

October 9th, 2010

** ALTERNATE CROP OF XAW801 ** In this photo taken in November, 2007 and released by Liu Xiaobo's friend Friday, Oct. 8, 2010, Liu poses during a gathering in Beijing. Imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, Oct. 8, 2010, for using non-violence to demand fundamental human rights in his homeland. The award ignited a furious response from China, which accused the Norwegian Nobel Committee of violating its own principles by honoring 'a criminal.' (AP Photo) ** CHINA OUT **AP - Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to an imprisoned Chinese dissident sparked praise from Western governments, brought condemnation from Beijing and is exposing the difficulties fitting a powerful, authoritarian…

Pakistani president defends gov’t flood response (AP)

August 23rd, 2010

Pakistani men push a motorcycle on rubber floats as a police boat passes by  along a flooded road in Baseera, Punjab province, Pakistan on Monday Aug. 23, 2010. Workers piled stones and sandbags to plug leaks in a levee protecting a pair of southern Pakistani cities, as the floods that have destroyed homes, farmland and livelihoods moved slowly toward the sea. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)AP - Pakistan’s president defended the government’s much-criticized response to the country’s record-breaking flood crisis as emergency workers worked frantically to shore up a system of levees protecting two southern…

Northwest Pakistanis Angered by Insufficient Flood Response (Time.com)

August 3rd, 2010

Time.com - Already ravaged by the Taliban, the country’s northwest is now pummeled by waters that are affecting as many people as the rebellion has

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NKorea vows nuclear response to US-SKorea drills (AP)

July 24th, 2010

In a Thursday, July 22, 2010 photo provided by the U.S. Navy,  Lt. Cmdr. Severn Stephensto looks at the Republic of Korea corvette (ROKS) Cheonan at Pyeongtaek naval base. The ship sank March 26 near Baengnyeong Island. The Republic of Korea and the United States are scheduled to conduct the combined alliance maritime and air readiness exercise 'Invincible Spirit' in the seas east of the Korean peninsula from July 25-28, 2010. North Korea on Friday, July 23, 2010 threatened the United States and South Korea with a 'physical response' to planned weekend naval exercises as tensions with the communist nation rose in the aftermath of the sinking of the South Korean warship blamed on the North.  (AP Photo/Navy Visual News Service)AP - North Korea warned Saturday that joint U.S. and South Korean military exercises poised to begin this weekend amount to a military provocation that will draw a “powerful” nuclear…

SKorea’s president wants strong response to NKorea (AP)

June 13th, 2010

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak speaks during a televised speech at the presidential house in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, June 14, 2010. Lee stressed Monday the need to bolster military readiness and sternly respond to North Korea over the deadly sinking of a warship, or risk more such provocations.  (AP Photo/Yonhap)  **KOREA OUT**AP - South Korea’s president stressed Monday the need to bolster military readiness and sternly respond to North Korea over the deadly sinking of a warship, or risk more such…

SKorea calls for cautious response to ship sinking (AP)

May 21st, 2010

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, rear center, Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan , rear third right , Defense Minister Kim Tae-young, rear left, and other cabinet members attend an emergency meeting of the National Security Council to discuss punitive measures against North Korea for its March torpedo attack on a South Korean warship at the presidential house in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, May 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Yonhap) **KOREA OUT**AP - South Korea’s president said Friday his country was caught in a “perfect military ambush” when a North Korean torpedo sank a naval warship, but called for a cautious…

Marchers decry Haiti leader for quake response (AP)

May 17th, 2010

People, one holding up an image of Haiti's former President Jean-Betran Aristide, demonstrate against Haiti's President Rene Preval's government in front of police officers in Port-au-Prince, Monday, May 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)AP - Haitian protesters marched to the collapsed national palace for a second straight Monday to criticize President Rene Preval, saying he failed the nation in the aftermath of its…

Protesters blast Haiti president’s quake response (AP)

May 10th, 2010

A demonstrator, holding up an image of Haiti's former President Jean-Betran Aristide, reacts amidst tear gas during a protest against Haiti's President Rene Preval in Port-au-Prince, Monday, May 10, 2010. Police fired tear gas outside the ruins of Haiti's national palace to control about 2,000 demonstrators calling for Preval's resignation in the largest political protest since the Jan. 12 earthquake. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)AP - Police fired tear gas outside the ruins of Haiti’s national palace Monday to control 2,000 demonstrators calling for President Rene Preval’s resignation in the largest political protest since…

Spanish crisis met with muted popular response (AFP)

May 1st, 2010

Demonstrators hold flags during a May Day demonstration in Madrid. Although May Day rallies drew tens of thousands of people protesting about the economic crisis, they were not on a scale or intensity that could alarm the government.(AFP/Dominique Faget)AFP - A deep recession that has led to soaring unemployment and austerity cuts has failed to spark popular anger in Spain, where the unions are reluctant to put pressure…