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Iran starts “biggest” air defense war games (Reuters)

November 16th, 2010

Reuters - Iran began what it said was its biggest ever air defense drill on Tuesday to test its ability to deter air strikes, which the United States and Israel…

Iran starts “biggest” air defence war games (Reuters)

November 16th, 2010

Reuters - Iran began what it said was its biggest ever air defense drill on Tuesday to test its ability to deter air strikes, which the United States and Israel…

G20 starts final day of talks amid currency fears (AP)

October 23rd, 2010

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, left, talks with France's Finance Minister Christine Lagarde during  the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea, Friday, Oct. 22, 2010.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, Pool)AP - Top finance officials from the world’s major economies hunkered down Saturday for final day of talks aimed at quelling fears of a possible trade war sparked by competition…

Afghan starts to close private security firms (AP)

October 3rd, 2010

Two Afghan army soldiers, who were wounded in an IED explosion, are carried into a U.S. Air Force HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter to be evacuated to Kandahar Air Field in Afghanistan's Kandahar province on Sunday, Oct. 3, 2010. Air Force pararescuemen and helicopter pilots from the 46th and 26th Expeditionary Rescue Squadrons are supporting ongoing military operations in southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)AP - The Afghan government said Sunday it has started dissolving private security firms in the country by taking steps to end the operations of eight companies, including the firm…

Afghan observers question election as tally starts (AP)

September 19th, 2010

An Afghan election worker, right, displays an empty ballot box to polling agents during counting of ballot papers at a polling station during the parliamentary election in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)AP - Afghan election observers said they had serious concerns about the legitimacy of this weekend’s parliamentary balloting as officials began Sunday to tally the results — a process that…

Mexico starts identifying 72 massacred migrants (AP)

August 27th, 2010

**  CORRECTS DATE  ** Mortuary worker wearing protective suits and Mexican marines  are seen outside a funeral home where the bodies of 72 men and women that were allegedly killed by the Zetas drug gang, are kept in San Fernando, just 100 miles from the the Mexican border with the U.S. near the city of Matamoros,, Mexico, Thursday Aug. 26, 2010. A wounded migrant who escaped the Zetas gang stumbled into a military checkpoint and led marines to the scene were migrants from Brazil, Ecuador, El Salvador and Honduras were executed. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)AP - Heavily guarded mortuary workers have begun identifying 72 migrants massacred near the U.S. border, while human rights advocates are demanding Mexico do more to stop the exploitation and…

Iran starts nuclear reactor, says intent peaceful (AP)

August 21st, 2010

The reactor building of Bushehr nuclear power plant, just outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran, Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010.  Iranian and Russian engineers began loading fuel Saturday into Iran's first nuclear power plant, which Moscow has promised to safeguard to prevent material at the site from being used in any potential weapons production. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)AP - Trucks rumbled into Iran’s first reactor Saturday to begin loading tons of uranium fuel in a long-delayed startup touted by officials as both a symbol of the country’s…

Trial starts for 10 in Sweden chopper heist (AP)

August 2nd, 2010

AP - Ten men accused of stealing nearly 40 million kronor ($5 million) in a commando-style raid of a Swedish cash depot pleaded innocent Monday as prosecutors opened their trial…

Beijing starts gating, locking migrant villages (AP)

July 14th, 2010

In this July 8, 2010, photo residents cycle past on the outside of a locked exit to a gated village on the outskirts of Beijing. The government calls it 'sealed management.' China's capital has started gating and locking some of its lower-income neighborhoods, with police checking the papers of who comes in and out, in a throwback to an older style of control. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - The government calls it “sealed management.” China’s capital has started gating and locking some of its lower-income neighborhoods overnight, with police or security checking identification papers around the…

Spain bull-runs starts with no gorings but 2 hurt (AP)

July 7th, 2010

Revelers run next to Penajara ranch fighting bulls during the San Fermin fiestas on Wednesday, July 7, 2010, in Pamplona, Spain. (AP Photo/Ivan Aguinaga)AP - Thousands of daredevils dashed through the narrow streets of Pamplona’s historic old quarter on Wednesday for a goring-free first bull run of this year’s San Fermin fiesta that…