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Britain urges U.S. to take down extremist websites (Reuters)

October 28th, 2010

Reuters - Britain on Thursday called on the United States to take down websites used by extremists and urged more concerted action to thwart militant threats before resorting to war.

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Will the Palestinians Take Their Case to the U.N.? (Time.com)

October 28th, 2010

Time.com - Skeptical of the Obama Administration’s peace effort, PLO leaders could appeal to international law. But political calculations are likely to hold them back

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French retirement protests take violent turn (AP)

October 19th, 2010

A woman runs past a devastated shoe shop during clashes in Lyon, central France, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010. Some airliners steered clear of France and police clashed with stone-throwing youths Tuesday as a new round of nationwide strikes and protests over a bill raising the retirement age to 62 kicked off. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)AP - Masked youths clashed with police officers and set fires in cities across France on Tuesday as protests against a proposed hike in the retirement took an increasingly radical…

Moscow-Nice run: Got time? Money? Take new train (AP)

September 25th, 2010

Employees of the Russian Railways Moscow-Nice service train after its arrival, at Nice Station, Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010. The first train in a luxury service to take rich Russians to the French Riviera in style arrived in Nice some 53 hours after its departure from Moscow. The Moscow-Nice service launched by Russian Railways will offer a once-a-week run for those with money and time. In the era of bullet trains and air travel, this train travels at a sedate 63 kilometers (40 mph) per hour, and just slightly faster on the return. For fares ranging from â?¬306 ($412) one-way to â?¬1,200 ($1,616) for a luxury compartment, the traveler passes through two dozen cities and a half-dozen countries before reaching Nice. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)AP - A new train taking rich Russians to the French Riviera in style and luxury has arrived in Nice, some 53 hours after it departed from Moscow.


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Chile miner rescue may take months (AP)

August 23rd, 2010

Chile's President Sebastian third from left, accompanied by miners' relatives and Chile's Mining Minister Lourence Golbourne, right, celebrates after knowing that 33 miners, trapped in a collapsed mine, were found alive in Copiapo, northern Chile. The miners have been trapped below the surface of the mine since the main access collapsed. (AP Photo/Hector Retamal)AP - Engineers reinforced a lifeline Monday to 33 miners entombed deep inside a Chilean gold and copper mine, preparing to keep them supplied with food, water, medicine and communications…

Israel to take part in UN probe of flotilla raid (AP)

August 2nd, 2010

Palestinians look at the damage following a blast at the house of a Hamas commander in the Deir el-Balah refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, Monday, Aug. 2, 2010. Early Monday, a huge blast leveled the house of a Hamas commander in the Deir el-Balah, wounding at least 32 people, according to Palestinian security officials. They said the blast was the result of an Israeli airstrike, but Israel's military denied that, saying there was no Israeli activity in the area.(AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)AP - Israel announced Monday it will take part in a U.N. investigation into the deadly Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla last spring, in a departure from its traditional…

Kyrgyz leaders take risky bet on referendum (AP)

June 26th, 2010

An Ethnic Uzbek reacts near a relative's grave as Kyrgyz policemen dig up graves for investigation, at Uzbek cemetery in Osh, southern Kyrgyzstan, Saturday, June 26, 2010. Investigators in Kyrgyzstan began exhuming bodies Saturday of people killed during clashes between ethnic Uzbeks and Kyrgyz last week that claimed hundreds of lives, risking creating a new wave of anger ahead of Sunday's crunch constitutional referendum. Deputy Interior Minster Bakyt Alynbayev said the bodies being exhumed were buried without proper procedure and without investigation into the cause of death. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)AP - Kyrgyzstan holds a referendum on a new constitution Sunday, a risky gamble amid deadly ethnic tensions but one the interim government hopes will legitimize their hold on power…

Israel: 5 planes take off with flotilla activists (AP)

June 2nd, 2010

Riot police stand guard as pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered near the entrance of the residence of Israeli ambassador to Turkey to protest against Israel, in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, June 2, 2010. Israel quickened the pace of expelling activists from a Gaza-bound flotilla on Wednesday as the diplomatic fallout from its deadly raid on the ships widened. Israeli media say the Foreign Ministry has ordered the families of its diplomats in Turkey to return home because of the uproar there over Israel's deadly naval raid on a Gaza-bound aid convoy.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)AP - Israel says five planes have taken off for Turkey and Greece, carrying 503 activists from the Gaza flotilla and bodies of nine people killed in the Israeli raid.


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Peru’s Cabinet to take up Lori Berenson case (AP)

May 28th, 2010

US Activist Lori Berenson, smiles after leaving prison on parole next to her husband and attorney Anibal Apari, in Lima, Thursday, May 27, 2010. A judge granted parole to Berenson, the 40-year-old New York activist who has spent 15 years in Peruvian prisons on a conviction of aiding leftist rebels.(AP Photo/Martin Mejia)AP - Peruvian Cabinet ministers will discuss whether to deport a paroled New Yorker who served 15 years in prison for aiding leftist rebels.


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Lee: SKorea will take North to UN Security Council (AP)

May 23rd, 2010

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, greets dignitaries upon arrival at Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, China, Sunday, May 23, 2010. Clinton visited Beijing for high-level economic and strategic talks with Chinese leaders that will be dominated by efforts to win China's support to punish North Korea for the sinking of a South Korean warship. (AP Photo/Saul Loeb, Pool)AP - South Korea’s president said Monday that the country will no longer tolerate North Korea’s “brutality” and said the regime would pay for the surprise torpedo attack that killed…

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