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Clashes in Kyrgyzstan kill 1, injure more than 30 (AP)

May 14th, 2010

Supporters of recently deposed Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev storm the regional government headquarters in Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyzstan, Thursday, May 13, 2010. Opponents of Kyrgyzstan's interim rulers stormed two regional government headquarters Thursday, threatening the delicate peace that has reigned since the violent overthrow of the president last month. Provisional authorities are struggling to restore control over the entire country, particularly the former southern stronghold of deposed President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, who was ousted on April 7 amid violent clashes between government troops and demonstrators. (AP Photo/Zarip Toroyev)AP - Gunfire erupted in Kyrgyzstan on Friday as hundreds of interim government backers fought supporters of deposed President Kurmanbek Bakiyev for control over regional government buildings, killing at least…

Clashes in Kyrgyzstan injure more than 30 people (AP)

May 14th, 2010

Supporters of recently deposed Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev hold his portrait after storming  the regional government headquarters in Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyzstan, Thursday, May 13, 2010. Opponents of Kyrgyzstan's interim rulers stormed two regional government headquarters Thursday, threatening the delicate peace that has reigned since the violent overthrow of the president last month. Provisional authorities are struggling to restore control over the entire country, particularly the former southern stronghold of deposed President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, who was ousted on April 7 amid violent clashes between government troops and demonstrators. (AP Photo/D.Dalton Bennett)AP - Gunfire erupted in Kyrgyzstan when thousands of interim government supporters attempted to retake a regional government building occupied by backers of deposed President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, injuring more than…

Ahmadinejad: Sanctions aid, rather than hurt, Iran (AP)

April 3rd, 2010

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inspects centrifuges during a visit to the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in 2008. US President Barack Obama said Friday the United States will continue to ratchet up the pressure on Iran over its nuclear program but would do so with unified binternational/b backing.(AFP/HO/File)AP - Faced with the prospect of new sanctions because of Iran’s nuclear defiance, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday that new penalties would only strengthen the country’s technological progress by…

More than 7,000 protest crime wave in Mexico (AP)

March 28th, 2010

AP - More than 7,000 people have gathered in the northern Mexico city of Monterrey to protest a wave of violence that has affected the country’s third largest city in…

Biden: US has ‘no better friend’ than Israel (AP)

March 11th, 2010

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (R) hold a joint news conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah March 10, 2010. REUTERS/Ammar AwadAP - Vice President Joe Biden has opened a high-profile speech in Israel with warm words of praise for the Jewish state.


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Nigeria: More than 200 dead in religious violence (AP)

March 7th, 2010

Workers close mass graves in Jos where dozens of people killed during violent religious clashes have been buried, January 2010. A new outburst of sectarian violence in a flashpoint region of Nigeria left at least 100 people dead, mainly women and children, as machete-wielding gangs burned down villages, officials said Sunday.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei)AP - Rioters armed with machetes slaughtered more than 200 people overnight Sunday as religious violence flared anew between Christians and Muslims in central Nigeria, witnesses said. Hundreds of people…

Reporter: More than 200 dead in Nigeria violence (AP)

March 7th, 2010

AP - More than 200 bodies — many of them women and children — lay in the streets of a central Nigerian town after a renewed spate of Christian-Muslim violence,…