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Powers should stop threatening Iran: Ahmadinejad (Reuters)

November 18th, 2010

Reuters - World powers should stop threatening Iran if they want to achieve results at talks on Tehran’s nuclear program, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday.

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Threat of action needed to stop Iran nukes: Israel (Reuters)

November 8th, 2010

Reuters - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on the West on Monday to convince Iran that it would be willing to take military action to prevent Tehran from producing…

Pope to begin 4-day UK visit with Scotland stop (AP)

September 16th, 2010

Pope Benedict XVI waves before embarking from Ciampino airport, on the outskirts of Rome to start his four-day visit to the United Kingdom, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010. After months of preparation and controversy, Pope Benedict XVI arrives in the United Kingdom on Thursday for a four-day visit overshadowed by sex abuse scandals that have shaken confidence in the church. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP - After months of preparation and controversy, Pope Benedict XVI arrives in the United Kingdom on Thursday for a four-day visit overshadowed by sex abuse scandals that have shaken…

Security tightened in Kashmir to stop protests (AP)

August 14th, 2010

Kashmiri boys play in front of a closed shop with a graffiti written on its shutter during curfew in Srinagar, India, Saturday, Aug. 14, 2010. Protests against Indian rule erupted across Indian-controlled Kashmir Saturday despite tens of thousands of police and paramilitary soldiers patrolled the streets and security was tightened across most parts of the disputed region. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)AP - Protests erupted across Indian-controlled Kashmir on Saturday despite patrols by tens of thousands of police and paramilitary soldiers as security was tightened to quell anti-Indian demonstrations.


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China vows to stop restaurant reuse of cooking oil (AP)

July 20th, 2010

A chef takes a break after lunch hours at a restaurant in Beijing, China, Tuesday, July 20, 2010. China has ordered food safety officials nationwide to step up the fight against 'gutter oil' that is illegally skimmed from kitchen waste and resold, part of a government crackdown on foods tainted with potentially lethal substances (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - Chinese call it “gutter oil” — a foul slop fished up from sewage drains or collected at restaurant back doors — and it’s being used widely in the…

Analysis: Sanctions unlikely to stop Iran (AP)

June 9th, 2010

Iran's Ambassador Mohammad Khazaee, right, and his delegation leave after he spoke to a session of the United Nations Security Council,  Wednesday, June 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - Washington calls the latest U.N. sanctions on Iran a diplomatic victory, a show of unity by the world’s big powers and a powerful way to prevent the country…

New aid ship heads to Gaza, Israel vows to stop it (AP)

June 4th, 2010

A photo uploaded to the freegaza.org photo site shows the MV Rachel Corrie, 2009. The Free Gaza movement said that organisers of the Gaza flotilla said they lost contact with the Gaza-bound MV Rachel Corrie just as they are seeking to delay the latest bid to bust the embargo with an aid-laden ship.(AFP/HO/File)AP - An aid ship trying to break the blockade of Gaza could reach Israel’s 20-mile (32-kilometer) exclusion zone by Friday afternoon, an activist said, but Israel’s prime minister has…

Rich countries pledge $4B to stop deforestation (AP)

May 27th, 2010

President of Indonesia, Susilo Yudhoyono, speaks during Oslo Climate and Forest Conference in Oslo, Norway, Thursday May 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Hakon Mosvold Larsen, Scanpix) ** NORWAY OUT **AP - Developed nations pledged more than $4 billion Thursday to finance a program meant to help poor countries protect their forests and slow global warming.


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Somali Islamists vow to stop piracy, free hostages (AP)

May 3rd, 2010

Map of Somalia locating Harardhere in the north of the country. A hardline Islamist militia on Monday vowed to end piracy in Somalia by imposing sharia law, after seizing control of a notorious nest of pirates and forcing them to flee.(AFP/Graphic/File)AP - Islamist militants who have taken over a pirate town in Somalia say they plan to eliminate the piracy trade off East Africa’s coast.


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President Obama makes surprise stop in Afghanistan (AP)

March 28th, 2010

US Task Force Leatherneck Marines walk at Camp Bastion in Helmand province. The House of Representatives on Wednesday roundly defeated a resolution demanding President Barack Obama withdraw all US forces from Afghanistan, in a key election-year test for his war strategy.(AFP/Behrouz Mehri)AP - President Barack Obama made a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Sunday for a firsthand look at the 8-year-old war he inherited and dramatically escalated.


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