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Qantas 747 returns to Sydney, A380s stay grounded (Reuters)

November 15th, 2010

Reuters - A Qantas flight bound for Buenos Aires returned to Sydney on Monday due to technical problems, the second safety incident for the airline since one of its Airbus…

Qantas plane returns to Singapore after engine problem (Reuters)

November 5th, 2010

Reuters - A Qantas Boeing 747 aircraft landed safely in Singapore after it was forced to return to the city-state due to problems with one of its engines, Singapore state…

Russia Returns to Afghanistan for a Joint Drug Raid (Time.com)

October 29th, 2010

Time.com - Moscow uses the war on drugs as its pathway back to scene of one of its most humiliating defeats

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Remorseful US vet returns French war flag to Paris (AP)

September 19th, 2010

AP - On the day Paris was liberated from the Nazis in 1944, a young American soldier nabbed a souvenir of epic proportions: He took home the French flag that…

Poisonous smog returns to Moscow (AP)

August 15th, 2010

A firefighter speaks while battling a forest fire near  the village of Velino, some 140 km  (87 miles) east of Moscow, Saturday, Aug. 14, 2010. Russia has been battling the fires for nearly three weeks. The fires have destroyed provincial towns and villages, and together with the drought have cost Russia a third of its wheat crop. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)AP - Officials say the poisonous smog that contributed to a higher death rate in Moscow has returned to Russia’s capital.


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Suriname under scrutiny as ex-dictator returns (AP)

August 12th, 2010

In this photo taken July 19, 2010, a supporter of Desi Bouterse holds a poster with his picture while celebrating his presidential election at the National Assembly in Paramaribo, Suriname.  Bouterse, a former coup leader, convicted drug trafficker and accused murderer will be sworn-in as president of Suriname on Thursday Aug. 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Edward Troon)AP - A former coup leader, convicted drug trafficker and accused murderer is being sworn in as Suriname’s president Thursday, and shop owner Sunil Oemrawsingh is so appalled he can’t…

Pakistan’s president returns amid flood fury (AP)

August 10th, 2010

Flood-affected Pakistani resident Saeed Ullah sits on the rubble of his house collapsed by heavy flood in Dagona near Nowshera, Pakistan on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. The U.N., relying on Pakistani figures, says the number of people affected by flooding over the past two weeks is 13.8 million — more than the combined total of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake and the 2010 Haiti earthquake, although the death toll in each of those disasters was much higher than the 1,500 people killed in the floods. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)AP - President Asif Ali Zardari returned Tuesday to flood-ravaged Pakistan, where he faced a storm of criticism for visiting Europe as his country was gripped by what his government…

Israeli held in Libya returns home after release (AP)

August 9th, 2010

AP - An Israeli photographer jailed by Libya for five months returned home Monday after an Austrian tycoon brokered a deal for his freedom that involved the delivery of 20…

‘Abducted’ nuclear scientist returns to Iran (AP)

July 15th, 2010

** ADD THE SON'S NAME ** Shahram Amiri, an Iranian nuclear scientist who disappeared a year ago, holds his 7-year-old son Amir Hossein as he arrives at the Imam Khomeini airport just outside Tehran, Iran, Thursday, July 15, 2010. Amiri claimed Thursday he suffered extreme mental and physical torture at the hands of U.S. interrogators after disappearing last year, adding to Tehran's allegations he was abducted by American agents. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)AP - Flashing a victory sign, an Iranian nuclear scientist who claims he was abducted and abused by U.S. agents a year ago returned Thursday to his homeland and into…

Alleged ‘Barefoot Bandit’ returns to the US (AP)

July 13th, 2010

Colton Harris-Moore, the teenage fugitive police have dubbed the 'Barefoot Bandit,' is escorted shackled and handcuffed by Bahamian authorities to the court building in Nassau, Tuesday July 13, 2010. Harris-Moore, who was captured following a high-speed boat chase on Sunday in Eleuthera island, pleaded guilty to a minor offense in the Bahamas and is expected to be deported soon to the U.S. to face prosecution. (AP Photo/Tim Aylen)AP - The American teenager who police call the “Barefoot Bandit” was extradited back to the United States on Tuesday, just hours after he pleaded guilty to a minor offense…