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Iraq breaks deadlock, PM wins support for new term (Reuters)

November 10th, 2010

Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki attends a meeting with Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak at the presidential palace in Cairo October 20, 2010. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah DalshReuters - Iraqi politicians appeared to have broken an eight month political impasse on Wednesday when the Sunni-backed Iraqiya alliance agreed to take part in a new government headed by…

Dissident wins Nobel Peace Prize, enraging China (AP)

October 8th, 2010

** ALTERNATE CROP OF XAW801 ** In this photo taken in November, 2007 and released by Liu Xiaobo's friend Friday, Oct. 8, 2010, Liu poses during a gathering in Beijing. Imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, Oct. 8, 2010, for using non-violence to demand fundamental human rights in his homeland. The award ignited a furious response from China, which accused the Norwegian Nobel Committee of violating its own principles by honoring 'a criminal.' (AP Photo) ** CHINA OUT **AP - Imprisoned Chinese democracy campaigner Liu Xiaobo on Friday won the Nobel Peace Prize â?? an award that drew furious condemnation from the authoritarian government and calls from world…

Chinese dissident Liu wins Nobel Peace Prize (AP)

October 8th, 2010

This undated image provided by Voice of America shows Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo who won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Friday Oct. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/voanews.com)AP - Imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for “his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights” — a prize likely to…

Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel literature prize (AP)

October 7th, 2010

File - Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa speaks during a news conference at the International Book Fair in Guadalajara, Mexico, in this Dec. 4, 2009 file photo. Mario Vargas Llosa won 2010 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday Oct. 7, 2010.  (AP Photo/Carlos Jasso, File)AP - Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the most acclaimed writers in the Spanish-speaking world who once ran for president in his homeland, won the 2010 Nobel Prize in…

Trio wins Nobel for developing key chemistry tool (AP)

October 6th, 2010

American Richard Heck and his Filipino wife Socorro, kiss during an interview with the Associated Press at their residence at Manila's Quezon city in the Philippines shortly after The Royal Academy of Sciences announced in Sweden he won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Wednesday Oct.6, 2010. Heck, a long-time resident in the Philippines and married to a Filipino,  and Japanese researchers Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki won the Nobel Prize for developing a chemical method that has allowed scientists to test cancer drugs and make thinner computer screens.  (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)AP - A method for building complex molecules has paid off by helping to fight cancer, protect crops and make electronic devices — and now it has earned its developers…

In-vitro UK pioneer Edwards wins medicine Nobel (AP)

October 4th, 2010

FILE- British Professor Robert Edwards, in this file photo dated Thursday, May. 19, 2005, whose pioneering work led to the birth of the world's first 'test tube baby', seen in London, England. Test-tube baby pioneer Robert Edwards of Britain has won the 2010 Nobel Prize in medicine it is announced Monday Oct. 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)AP - Robert Edwards of Britain won the 2010 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for developing in-vitro fertilization, a controversial breakthrough that ignited sharp criticism from religious leaders but…

Test-tube baby pioneer Edwards wins medicine Nobel (AP)

October 4th, 2010

FILE- British Professor Robert Edwards, in this file photo dated Thursday, May. 19, 2005, whose pioneering work led to the birth of the world's first 'test tube baby', seen in London, England. Test-tube baby pioneer Robert Edwards of Britain has won the 2010 Nobel Prize in medicine it is announced Monday Oct. 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)AP - Robert Edwards of Britain won the 2010 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for developing in-vitro fertilization, a breakthrough that ignited heated controversy in the 1970s but has…

Latvian gov’t wins election, painful reforms ahead (AP)

October 3rd, 2010

Latvians mark their ballots at a polling station in Riga, Latvia, Saturday, Oct. 2. 2010. A center-left ethnic Russian party looks poised to top the polls in Latvia's general election Saturday, the first time in the country's 20 years of independence that a pro-Russia party would win the most seats in Parliament.  (AP Photo/Roman Koksarov)AP - Latvia’s center-right government is poised to stay in power after voters backed its plans to continue painful reforms required by an international bailout program to fix the Baltic country’s…

TV exit poll: Latvian government wins re-election (AP)

October 2nd, 2010

Latvian President Valdis Zatlers casts his ballot at a polling station in Riga, Latvia, Saturday, Oct. 2. 2010. Parliamentary elections in Latvia mark the first time in the country's 20 years of independence that a pro-Russia party could win the most seats in Parliament. (AP Photo/Roman Koksarov)AP - An exit poll showed Latvia’s center-right government winning re-election in one of the world’s most recession-scarred economies with about 55 percent of the vote Saturday.


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Japanese PM wins party vote, will stay in power (AP)

September 14th, 2010

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, center, is all smiles after he was elected as president of the Democratic Party of Japan during the party convention  in  Tokyo Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010.(AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)AP - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan was re-elected president of the ruling Democratic Party on Tuesday, surviving a challenge from a veteran powerbroker and sparing Japan another leadership change…