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Shift leader helped Chilean miners stay calm, live (AP)

October 14th, 2010

In this screen grab taken from video, Luis Urzua, center, the 33rd and final miner to be rescued from the San Jose Mine near Copiapo, Chile, is seen after his rescue Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010. (AP Photo)AP - The crew of Chilean miners was pinned nearly a half-mile underground by 700,000 tons of rock after what felt like an earthquake in the shaft above them, and…

China says quake relief will shift to rebuilding (AP)

April 25th, 2010

--FILE-- Chinese men walk past a flag flown at half-staff on Tiananmen Square in Beijing in this April 21, 2010, file photo. A senior government official said Sunday, April 25, earthquake relief efforts in a Tibetan region will shift from searching for possible survivors to reconstruction and the resettlement of those who lost homes after the temblor flattened tens of thousands of houses, state media reported. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - A senior government official said earthquake relief efforts in a Tibetan region will shift from searching for possible survivors to reconstruction and the resettlement of those who lost…

Meeting of Shiite rivals in Iraq may signal shift (AP)

March 24th, 2010

Supporters of Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki chant anti-Baathist slogans at a protest in Basra, Iraq, Wednesday, March 24, 2010. Hundreds of residents protested outside the local government office demanding a manual recount of the elections. The banner in Arabic reads, 'Fraud of election's results demolishes the political process and democracy.'(AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)AP - The Iraqi prime minister held talks with a radical Shiite group he once tried to destroy in bloody street battles, both sides said Wednesday, showing his willingness to…

Iraqi vote signals shift from religious leaders (AP)

March 13th, 2010

Counting and data input workers at the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, March 12, 2010. Partial tallies have been released from seven of Iraq's 18 provinces, excluding Baghdad. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - 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…