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A rescue worker runs at a mudslide area in Nahuala, western Guatemala, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010.
photo: AP / Moises Castillo
Guatemala declares 'national tragedy' as several killed in landslides
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GUATEMALA CITY: Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom declared a "national tragedy" on Sunday after landslides killed at least 36 people and left rescuers digging in the mud for dozens still missing. Colom declared a state of emergency as fears grew the eventual toll from scores of landslides across the country set off by weeks of torrential rain could...
In this image made from television, Iraqi Defense Minister Abdul-Qadir al-Ubaidi , center, inspects the site of a suicide attack accompanied by soldiers at a military headquarters in Baghdad, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010.
photo: AP / APTN
Militants kill 12 in assault on military base in Baghdad
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Monday, September 06, 2010 - Powered by --> Muhanad Mohammed Reuters BAGHDAD: Up to five suicide bombers, some armed with rifles, tried to storm an army base in Baghdad on Sunday, killing 12 people and wounding 36 less than a week after Washington declared US combat operations in Iraq over. The assault began when a minibus packed with explosives...
An "atomic balloon" is seen in front of the dome of the Reichstag building during a demonstration against the extending of nuclear power plants operating time in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010.
photo: AP / Michael Sohn
German government debates future of nuclear energy
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German government leaders are meeting in Berlin to debate the future of nuclear energy in the country. Chancellor Angela Merkel is expected to seek a compromise in a row over the proposed life cycle of nuclear power plants. The politicians will also discuss Ms Merkel's plan to levy a...
A woman walks past a wall painted with graffiti supporting the Basque separatist group, ETA, meaning: '' Long Live ETA' in the Basque town of Hernani, northern Spain, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010.
photo: AP / Alvaro Barrientos
Basque separatist group ETA declares ceasefire
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BASQUE separatist group ETA declared a ceasefire last night in its bloody 42-year campaign for a homeland independent of Spain. The rebels...
Labor Day Parade, float of Women's Trade Union League, New York, 7 September 1908.
photo: US Library of Congress
Labor Day, Workhorses and Revolutions
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Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. "Standing at the fringe of a crowd watching the men from the slaughterhouse, in blood-stained aprons, struggling to cut away a horse that had collapsed in its tracks while pulling a wagonload of coal," writes Robert Littell in "The Revolutionist," Zander thought about companions and relatives...
U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates walks to a press conference with President Hamid Karzai at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 2, 2010.
photo: USAF / Master Sgt. Jerry Morrison
Afghan officials closer to talks with insurgents
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KABUL, Afghanistan - In a further step toward reconciling with insurgents, President Hamid Karzai said yesterday that he will soon name the members of a council tasked with pursuing peace talks with rebels willing to break with Al Qaeda and recognize the government in Kabul. Karzai's announcement was given added poignancy by comments from the...
A man protects himself with an umbrella as he rides a bike in Antigua, Guatemala, Friday, Sept. 3, 2010.
photo: AP / Moises Castillo
Guatemala hit by severe weather
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Unrelenting rains and severe weather have lashed Guatemala, leaving at least 21 people dead over the past 24 hours, in what the country's president calls a "national tragedy". Twelve people were killed, and another dozen injured on Saturday when a rain-triggered landslide buried a bus on a major highway near central Chimaltenango city....
An UNAMID peacekeeper patrols at the Abu Shouk refugee camp, near the Darfur town of al-Fasher, Sudan Thursday, March 26, 2009. The Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir is visiting Libya in his third trip abroad in less than a week, after an international court issued an arrest warrant for him on war crimes
photo: AP / Nasser Nasser
At least 43 killed in violence in Sudan's Darfur
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CAIRO: Clashes in a refugee camp in Sudan's restive Darfur region left six people dead, UN-African Union peacekeepers said Saturday, days after violence elsewhere in the area claimed the lives of at least 37 people dead. The spokesman for the UNAMID mission, Chris Cycmanick, said the fighting took place in the Hamidia refugee camp in West Darfur...
An unidentified Bahraini man walks past anti-government graffiti Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010, scrawled in the Shiite Muslim village of Malkiya, Bahrain.
photo: AP / Hasan Jamali
Bahrain accuses Shia activists of 'terror campaign'
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Prosecutors in Bahrain have accused 23 Shia activists of planning to overthrow the state's Sunni-dominated government. The men, arrested since mid-August, belonged to a "sophisticated terrorist network" that was planning and executing a "campaign of violence and subversion", an official said....
Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Mohamed ElBaradei speaks during an interview with the Associated Press, on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2005, at Vienna's International Center.
photo: AP / Ronald Zak
ElBaradei says government behind daughter's swimsuit photos
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Cairo: Mohamed ElBaradei, the former UN nuclear chief turned Egyptian reformer, accused the government of publishing pictures of his daughter in a swimsuit and at events with alcohol in reply to his bid for democracy, a newspaper reported on Saturday. The Nobel Laureate, who returned to Egypt early year to push for reforms, told the independent...
 
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Staff members work on the production line at the Foxconn complex in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, Southern city in China, Wednesday, May 26, 2010.
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Shenzhen, China: Foxconn Technology Group Chairman Terry Gou cut his long-term growth target for the world's largest contract manufacturer of electronics by half as demand for Apple Inc iPhones and iPads fails to offset slowing computer sales....
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Employees of Bahrain Petroleum Company, the Persian Gulf island's national oil company, crank on a pipeline valve Monday, Oct. 27, 2008, in the Sakhir, Bahrain, desert oilfields. Growing evidence of a severe global economic slowdown drove oil prices below $62 a barrel Monday as investors brushed off a sizeable OPEC output
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England's Wayne Rooney reacts during their World Cup, Group 6, qualifying soccer match against Belarus in Minsk.
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HE was meant to be England's great hope in the soccer World Cup. But international football superstar Wayne Rooney's abysmal lack of on-field scores was due to the off-field distraction of scoring with a prostitute, it was claimed by the British...
photo: AP / Sergei Grits
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The Deepwater Horizon blowout preventer is lifted out of the Gulf of Mexico by the Helix Q4000 near the coast of Louisiana, Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010.
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INVESTIGATORS looking into what went wrong in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill are a step closer to answers.  A key piece of evidence is now...
photo: AP / Patrick Semansky
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Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard speaks at a press conference in Canberra, Australia, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. A Greens lawmaker agreed Wednesday to help the center-left Labor Party form a minority Australian government in a climate-focused alliance while other kingmaker legislators said they are close to deciding whether to back Labor or a conservative coalition.
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MOST Australians are now demanding a resolution to the federal election deadlock and would prefer another election over a hung parliament, regardless of which party the independents decide to back. A national poll on the question of the future of a...
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Irish police clash with protesters as former British Prime Minister Tony Blair arrived for a public book signing at the Eason book store, in Dublin, Saturday Sept. 4, 2010
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DUBLIN (AP) - Protesters hurled shoes and eggs at Tony Blair who held the first public signing of his memoir amid high security in Ireland's capital. Hundreds more people lined up to have their books autographed - evidence that the divisions left by...
photo: AP / Peter Morrison
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