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Young Tories: diverse, but still Thatcherite (AP)

May 2nd, 2010

Britain's opposition Conservative Party leader David Cameron leaves a coffee shop during an election campaign stop in Woodstock, southern England Saturday May 1, 2010. Britain goes to the polls in a general election May 6.  (AP Photo/Stefan Wermuth, Pool)AP - There’s a feisty chick lit author, the Muslim son of a bus driver and a swashbuckling ex-diplomat who braved the Taliban to hike across Afghanistan alone.


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Taliban Ousted, Pakistan’s Swat Valley Still Longs for Islamic Justice (Time.com)

April 25th, 2010

Time.com - Last summer’s war may have cleansed the area of the Taliban but it also brought back Pakistan’s slow-moving judicial system, much to the chagrin of the locals

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China rescuers race to save miners still trapped (AP)

April 6th, 2010

A coal miner rescued from the Wangjialing Coal Mine in Xiangning county is rushed into a hospital in Hejing town in north China's Shanxi province on Monday, April 5, 2010. More than 100 Chinese miners were pulled out alive Monday after being trapped for more than a week in the flooded coal mine, sparking cheers among the hundreds of rescue workers who had raced to save them and almost given up hope. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - Efforts to reach 33 Chinese miners still trapped in a flooded coal pit forged ahead Tuesday, following the rescue of 115 of their fellow workers who were pulled…

Chinese rescuers hopeful some miners still alive (AP)

April 1st, 2010

Angry relatives of mine workers accuse officials of lack of speed in recovery work at Wangjialing coal mine in Xiangning township, about 400 miles (650 kilometers) southwest of Beijing, Tuesday, March 30, 2010. Some 1,000 rescue workers were rotating on shifts to try to drain enough water to reach the trapped miners, but the rescue effort could take days. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)AP - Four days after a flood trapped 153 miners in a coal mine, rescue officials in northern China held out hope that some of those stuck underground could be…

Google still censoring for some China customers (AP)

March 24th, 2010

A man takes pictures of the Google logo after leaving flowers on it outside the Google China headquarters in Beijing Wednesday, March 24, 2010. Google's attempted detour around China's Internet censorship rules was met with countermeasures Tuesday by the communist government, which blocked people on the mainland from seeing search results dealing with such forbidden topics as the pro-democracy movement. (AP Photo/ Gemunu Amarasinghe)AP - Google Inc. is still censoring search content for some of its customers in China, a company spokeswoman said Wednesday, in a decision that underscores the Internet giant’s delicate…

2 months after Haiti quake, housing still elusive (AP)

March 12th, 2010

Marcel, 6, leans on the wall of his collapsed home as he looks toward a new home built by the Danish People's Aid organization in the Carrefour neighborhood on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, Thursday, March 11, 2010. The UN and the Haitian government have approved the Danish organization's design for temporary shelters to be built for displaced earthquake survivors prior to the upcoming rainy season.(AP Photo/Andres Leighton)AP - Trash and sewage are piling up at the squalid tent camps that hundreds of thousands have called home since Haiti’s devastating earthquake — and with torrential rains expected…

Haiti frees US missionary; group leader still held (AP)

March 8th, 2010

US missionary Laura Silsby, 40, of Meridian, Idaho, arrested on child kidnapping charges, is escorted by police officers upon her arrival to the courthouse in Port-au-Prince, Monday, March 8, 2010. The Idaho missionary was detained with nine other Americans on Jan. 29 while trying to take 33 children out of Haiti without the proper documents. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)AP - One of two U.S. Baptist missionaries still held on kidnapping charges in Haiti was released Monday, but the group’s leader remained in custody.


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