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Iraq's President Jalal Talabani talks to reporters in Baghdad, Iraq on Friday, Aug. 17, 20
Elections   Iraq   Photos   Politics   US		  CNN 
Iraq's Talabani rejects election law
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraq's president has rejected the recently passed provincial elections law, his office said on Wednesday -- a move that appears to doom what has been touted as all-important... (photo: AP / Hadi Mizban, Pool)
US President George W. Bush, waves to the crowd of US Air Force (USAF) personnel, government employees and military families, as he departs Andrews Air Force Base (AFB), Maryland (MD), aboard Air Force One.
Diplomacy   Iran   Mideast   Photos   Washington		  Asia Times 
Unsolicited advice for Bush on Iran
By Jim Lobe WASHINGTON - Two of Washington's most prominent foreign policy graybeards praised Saturday's direct participation in multinational talks with Iran by a senior US diplomat, but called on... (photo: USAF file / SSgt Charity Barrett)
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice smiles during her meeting with Southeast Asian foreign ministers and top officials at the ASEAN Ministerial Meeting in Singapore, Wednesday, July 23, 2008.  Philadelphia Daily News 
Rice meets with North Korean diplomat in Singapore
MATTHEW LEE The Associated Press SINGAPORE - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met North Korea's top diplomat in Singapore Wednesday, ending a four-year hiatus in cabinet-level contacts between the... (photo: AP / Dita Alangkara, Pool)
Condoleezza   Diplomacy   NKorea   Nuclear   Photos   Slideshow
In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, men talk by the posters of the leader of Zimbabwe African National Union--Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF), Zimbabwean incumbent President Robert Mugabe, in Harare, capital of Zimbabwe, Thursday, April 3, 2008. Zimbabwean President Mugabe is pondering conflicting advice on whether to cede power or face a humiliating runoff with official results showing his party has lost power in parliament and unofficial tallies that he has been defeated in the first round of presidential elections that hinged on the ruin of Zimbabwe's economy  Sydney Morning Herald 
EU toughens Zimbabwe sanctions despite talks

The European Union has widened sanctions against Zimbabwe despite a deal between hardline President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai aimed at ending the political crisis. EU... (photo: AP / Xinhua, Liu Xin)
EU   Elections   Photos   Politics   Zimbabwe
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Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen talks as he waits his King Norodom Sihamoni's arrival to attends the Independence Day celebration at the Independence Monument in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, Nov. 9, 2007. Asia Times
Towards Hun Sen's Cambodia

By Craig Guthrie PHNOM PENH - Even though Cambodia goes to the polls Sunday for the country's fourth general election since Vietnamese occupation ended in 1989, Prime... (photo: AP / Heng Sinith)
Cambodia   Election   Government   Photos   Politics
An unidentified woman is detained by police following a raid on suspected members of the 'Vizcaya Comand' from the Basque armed group ETA, in the Basque town of Bilbao northern Spain, Tuesday July 22, 2008. Spanish police arrested eight people on Tuesday from a unit of the Basque separatist group ETA believed responsible for a string of recent bomb attack Turkish Press
Spanish police dismantle ETA's 'most active' cell
Spanish Civil Guard officers take away Arkaitz Goikoetxea, suspected leader of a Basque separatist group ETA cell, in the northern Spanish Basque city of Bilbao. Interior... (photo: AP / Alvaro Barriento)
ETA   Photos   Police   Spain   Terrorism
Cambodian soldiers walk in the foggy morning as they patrol around Preah Vihear temple, Preah Vihear province, Cambodia, Thursday, July 17, 2008. Cambodia and Thailand escalated their troop buildup Thursday at disputed territory near the historic border temple despite moves to hold talks next week to defuse the flare-up in tensions, a Cambodian general Globe and Mail
Cambodia asks UN to resolve standoff with Thailand
Cambodia asked the UN Security Council and its Southeast Asian neighbours Tuesday to intervene in resolving a military standoff over disputed border territory around an... (photo: AP / Heng Sinith)
Cambodia   Military   Photos   Politics   Thailand
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto talks at a press conference in London. Saturday Sept. 1, 2007. Former Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto said Saturday that power-sharing talks with President Gen. Pervez Musharraf were at a standstill, but tha Independent online (SA)
Gunmen ambush Bhutto's guard
Karachi - Unidentified gunmen on motorcycles shot dead a security guard of slain former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto in the southern port city of Karachi on... (photo: AP/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
Attacks   Bhutto   Karachi   Killings   Photos
A Pakistani security official stands amid the rubble of the adjacent building and cars after a bomb explosion outside the Danish Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan on Monday, June 2, 2008. The Star
Danish embassy bomber "from Mecca" - al Qaeda leader

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The suicide bomber who carried out an attack on the Danish embassy in Islamabad last month came from the Muslim holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia,... (photo: AP / B.K. Bangash)
Al Qaida   Embassy   Mecca   Photos   Terrorism
An Israeli security force officer stands guard next to a front-end loader as the Palestinian driver sits dead in his seat at the scene of an attack in Jerusalem, Tuesday, July 22 2008. A Palestinian from East Jerusalem rammed a construction vehicle into three cars and a city bus in downtown Jerusalem on Tuesday, wounding four people before he was shot dead, in a chilling imitation of a similar attack that took place in the city earlier this m The Independent
Driver killed after second digger rampage
The driver of a construction vehicle rammed into cars and a city bus in Jerusalem today, wounding four people before he was shot dead, police said. The attack was a... (photo: AP / Kevin Fraye)
Israel   Jerusalem   Peace   Photos   Terrorism
India’s main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party lawmaker Ashok Argal, front second left, gestures as he speaks to the media, as party members Faggan Singh Kulaste, right, and Mahavir Bagora, front left with beard, look on outside the parliament house in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, July 22, 2008. The Times Of India
BJP demands PM's resignation over cash-for-vote scam
22 Jul 2008, 1750 hrs IST,AFP             NEW DELHI: BJP on Tuesday demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over... (photo: AP / Manish Swarup)
Manmohan   Photos   Protest   Resignation   Vote
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Opposition leader Raila Odinga, left, looks on as Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki, right, announce the cabinet and Odinga as the Prime Minister, Sunday, April 13, 2008 at State House in Nairobi, Kenya. President welcomes Coca-cola Headquarters to Kenya. Kenya Broadcasting Corp
Cristina Kirchner (aa1) Argentine cabinet chief offers to resign, report sayss San Diego
Business
Toyota camry hybrid Toyota reports 4.8M vehicles sold through June, could surpass GM as world's top seller Business Journal
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Terrorism
This undated image made from video released by the US military in Iraq which it says shows children purportedly holding guns during an apparent al-Qaida training operation. The videotapes seized during U.S. raids on suspected al-Qaida in Iraq hide-outs show the terror group training young boys to kidnap and assassinate civilians, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2008. Pakistan Accused of Disappearing Terrorism Suspects Common Dreams
EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana Javier Solana, left, gestures with Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili before a meeting on nuclear issues at the Town Hall in Geneva, Iran 'steadfast' on nuclear work Al Jazeera
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