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Global Fund seeks $20 billion to fight AIDS, TB (AP)

March 24th, 2010

AP - A global group funding the battle against AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in impoverished countries urged wealthy nations on Wednesday to keep paying for the fight even as the…

UN chief visits Gaza, seeks end to blockade (AP)

March 21st, 2010

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon talks during a press conference with Israeli President Shimon Peres, not pictured, prior to their dinner in Jerusalem, Saturday, March 20, 2010. Visiting U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon said Saturday that Israeli settlement building anywhere on occupied land is illegal and must be stopped, while a Palestinian teenager was killed in clashes with Israeli troops elsewhere in the West Bank. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)AP - U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon has entered the blockaded Gaza Strip, where 1.5 million people have been under lockdown by Israel and Egypt for nearly three years.


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Pakistan seeks identity of American suspect (AP)

March 8th, 2010

This image from video released by IntelCenter Sunday, March 7, 2010, shows Adam Gadahn, featured in a video posted Sunday, coincidentally the day that his arrest by Pakistani intelligence officers in the southern city of Karachi was announced. In the video the 31-year-old American al-Qaida spokesman called for Muslim violence, praising the U.S. Army major charged with killing 13 people in Fort Hood, Texas, as a role model for other Muslims. (AP Photo/IntelCenter)AP - Intelligence officials are trying to establish the identity of an American militant suspect arrested in Pakistan, but doubts grew Monday that he is al-Qaida’s U.S.-born spokesman.


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Clashes in Athens as Greek PM seeks EU debt help (AP)

March 5th, 2010

A protester runs from riot police amid a cloud of tear gas at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier outside Greece's Parliament in central Athens, Friday, March 5, 2010. Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou on Friday launched a diplomatic quest for concrete support from European leaders in easing his country's debt crisis, as severe violence erupted at a protest against new austerity measures in Athens. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)AP - The Greek parliament approved new spending cuts and taxes Friday aimed at defusing the country’s debt crisis, while protesters opposed to the measures fought with police outside. Prime…

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