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Film festival shows contrasts of Mexico’s drug war (AP)

October 17th, 2010

British director Terry Gilliam speaks during a press conference at the Morelia International Film Festival in Morelia, Mexico, Sunday, Oct. 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Carlos Jasso)AP - From afar it seems like Baghdad: car bombs, beheadings and corrupt politicians.


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Photo shows apparent leak before Hungary spill (AP)

October 12th, 2010

Picture taken in June 2010 by Hungarian air photo company Interspect and made available Tuesday Oct 12 2010 shows the dam of the reservoir in Kolontar, Hungary, with red stains that allegedly indicate red sludge leaking through - nearly four months before the wall broke on October 4 killing at least eight people - part of a growing body of evidence that inspectors who gave the pit a clean bill of health may have missed obvious warning signs. Zoltan Bakonyi, the managing director of the alumina plant, has been taken into custody by police, who say he neglected to prepare an emergency warning and rescue plan.(AP Photo/Interspect, Bako Gabor) ** MANDATORY CREDIT INTERSPECT, Bako Gabor' **AP - An aerial photo taken months before a gigantic reservoir unleashed torrents of toxic sludge shows a faint red trail trickling through the container wall — part of a…

Test shows Chile mine rescue shaft works (AP)

October 11th, 2010

Patricio Sepulveda, a corporal of the police special operations unit, smiles after arriving at the San Jose mine near Copiapo, Chile, Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010. After more than two months trapped deep in the gold and copper mine, 33 miners are close to being freed and Sepulveda, who forms part of the pre-selected team of rescuers, will likely be one of the paramedics to go down the escape shaft to lead the miners to the surface. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia)AP - The engineer leading Chilean rescue efforts says his team has successfully tested a rescue capsule nearly all the way down to where the miners are trapped.


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Prosecutor: Video shows Saudi prince beating aide (AP)

October 5th, 2010

AP - Security camera footage captured a Saudi prince savagely beating his servant in a luxury hotel elevator only weeks before the aide was slain, a British prosecutor said Tuesday.

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Brazil TV exit poll shows Rousseff with wide lead (AP)

October 3rd, 2010

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, left, accompanied by his wife Marisa Leticia, center, poses for pictures after voting at a polling station during Brazil's general elections in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Sao Paulo state, Brazil, Sunday, Oct. 3, 2010. Brazilians vote Sunday in national elections that could see front-running candidate Dilma Rousseff become the country's first female president, succeeding Lula, her popular ally and mentor. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)AP - A Brazilian television station’s exit poll is showing that front-running presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff has a wide lead, but that a second-round vote is possible.


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Calderon: Mexico shows gains in security, economy (AP)

September 2nd, 2010

Mexico's Interior Secretary Jose Francisco Blake, right, hands the government's annual state of the nation report to Lower House President Francisco Ramirez Acuna at Congress in Mexico City, Wednesday Sept. 1, 2010. Mexico's President Felipe Calderon will give his annual state of the nation address on Thursday. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)AP - President Felipe Calderon delivered his latest “state of the nation” report to Congress on Wednesday, saying Mexico has made gains in security and is enjoying its strongest economic…

New video shows emotional trapped Chilean miners (AP)

August 29th, 2010

Members of the press stand by the pipe used to keep communication open with 33 miners trapped alive in the collapsed San Jose mine in Copiapo, Chile, Sunday Aug. 29, 2010. The trapped miners half mile underground will have to aid their own escape by clearing rock that will fall as the rescue hole is drilled, the engineer in charge of drilling said Sunday. The mine collapsed on Aug. 5. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia)AP - A new video released Sunday of 33 men trapped in a mine under Chile’s Atacama Desert shows them sending greetings to their families, talking about how they are…

South Korea: U.N. Security Council Report Shows NoKo Sank Cheonan (Time.com)

August 13th, 2010

File photo of a giant floating crane lifting the stern of the South Korean warship. The 1,200-tonne patrol combat corvette PCC-772 Cheonan was split in two by a big external explosion. North Korea attacked a South Korean warship after the South balked at its request for economic aid in return for a proposed summit, a report said Monday.(AFP/File/Hong Jin-Hwan)Time.com - Despite North Korea’s denials and the skepticism of South Korean politicians, Seoul has insisted that Pyongyang sank the Cheonan. Now it has an internationally vetted technical report to…

Rare 3D film shows Warsaw devastated after WWII (AP)

July 28th, 2010

In this still from the film 'City of Ruins', provided by The Warsaw Uprising Museum and Platige Image, the ruins of bridges on the Vistula River are seen in Warsaw in 1944 after the uprising.Polish historians have created an unusual 3D film that documents the shocking sea of rubble that Warsaw was reduced to during World War II. (AP Photo/Warsaw Uprising Museum and Platige Image)AP - The plane slowly descends from white clouds and sweeps over a panorama of a city destroyed by the Nazis: the skeletons of bombed bridges jutting from a quiet…

US shows its power to NKorea with carrier drills (AP)

July 27th, 2010

In this Monday, July 26, 2010 photo provided by the U.S. Navy, Navy and South Korea ships transit the East Sea Monday, July 26, 2010 in a 13-ship formation led by the Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Tuscon (SSN 770). South Korea and the United States are conducting joint exercises in the seas east of the Korean peninsula from July 25-28, 2010. (AP Photo/Navy Visual News Service, PO 3rd Class Adam K. Thomas)AP - The East Sea off the coast of the Korean peninsula roiled with U.S. and South Korean ships, submarines, fighter jets and helicopters — high-profile military maneuvers intended to…

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