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Germany: Muslim Marwa Sherbini's Trial Begins

AP | LARS RISCHKE | Posted 10.27.2009 | World

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DRESDEN, Germany — The husband of a pregnant Egyptian woman knifed to death in a German courtroom testified Monday that the alleged attacker con...

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Iran May Ship Only Part Of Its Uranium Abroad

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 10.27.2009 | World

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TEHRAN, Iran — Iran hinted Monday it could agree to ship some low-enriched uranium abroad for processing as reactor fuel as the world awaited it...

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Honduras: Inmates Escape, Set Fire To Prison

AP | Posted 10.23.2009 | World

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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Police say escaped inmates set fire to a prison, a public market and a cultural center in western Honduras before author...

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Somalia: Al Shabab Threatens Uganda And Burundi

Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 10.23.2009 | Home

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Somalia's al-Shabab fighters have said they will attack the capitals of Burundi and Uganda in revenge for rocket attacks by peacekeepers from the two ...

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Mehdi Karroubi, Lone Cleric, Emerges to Defy Iran's Leaders

nytimes.com | MICHAEL SLACKMAN | Posted 10.23.2009 | World

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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia A short midlevel cleric, with a neat white beard and a clergyman's calm bearing, Mehdi Karroubi has watched from his home in Tehr...

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Iran Delays Uranium Deal Decision, Says Envoy

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 10.24.2009 | World

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TEHRAN, Iran — Iran put off until next week a formal response to a U.N.-backed plan to ship much of its uranium to Russia for enrichment, the co...

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Okinawa US Marine Base Should Stay, Says Japan FM

AP | MALCOLM FOSTER | Posted 10.23.2009 | World

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TOKYO — Japan's new government appeared to bow to intensifying pressure from visiting top U.S. military officials, saying Friday it supports kee...

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Gates: NATO Moving Toward Sending More Troops For Afghan War

AP | LARA JAKES and SLOBODAN LEKIC | Posted 10.24.2009 | World

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BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — Top NATO and United Nations officials signaled Friday they may request more international troops to join American forces ...

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Pakistan Air Base, Wedding Bus Attacked, Dozens Killed

AP | CHRIS BRUMMITT | Posted 10.24.2009 | World

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ISLAMABAD — A suicide bomber on a bicycle attacked a major Pakistani air base on Friday, killing seven people in an escalating campaign that str...

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Sudan Score Card

John Norris | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

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John Norris

Over the last nine months, the Sudan policy review has taken on something of a mythical air.

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David Miliband EU Foreign Minister?

guardian.co.uk | Ian Traynor in Brussels | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

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David Miliband, the foreign secretary, is the subject of growing talk in Brussels, Paris, Berlin and Scandinavia that he is in line to become Europe's...

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Jean Sarkozy Renounces Job After Nepotism Charges

AP | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

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PARIS (AP) -- President Nicolas Sarkozy's son says he will not seek the leadership of the organization that runs France's most important business dist...

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Chile Outraged Over Giant Pope Statue

globalpost.com | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

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SANTIAGO, Chile -- The neighbors couldn't help but notice the huge head of Pope John Paul II rising out of the sculptor's workshop next door. Hidde...

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Maziar Bahari Tells Of Ordeal In Tehran Prison

newsweek.com | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

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For day after day, month after month, following his imprisonment in Iran on June 21, documentary filmmaker and NEWSWEEK correspondent Maziar Bahari di...

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Gauthier Lefevre, French Aid Worker, Kidnapped In Darfur

AP | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

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U.S. Embassy In Baghdad Has "Multiple" Construction Flaws: Report

McClatchy | Warren P. Strobel | McClatchy Newspapers | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON -- The $736 million new U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, which American diplomats have occupied for 18 months, contains "multiple significant const...

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India: Single Women Break Their Silence

Inter Press Service | Nitin Jugran Bahuguna | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

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By Nitin Jugran Bahuguna NEW DELHI, Oct 22 (IPS) - It has been more than eight years since the January 2001 earthquake struck the Indian state of G...

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Will Obama Finally Pay Attention to Sudan?

John Prendergast | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

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John Prendergast

Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden talked tough when they were presidential candidates, but this administration's day-to-day diplomacy on Sudan has been troubling.

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Iran Nuclear Deal Signals Possible Thawing In Relations With U.S.

csmonitor.com | Howard LaFranchi | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

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Washington - The tentative agreement reached in Vienna on Wednesday to substantially reduce Iran's stockpile of low-enriched uranium raises a tantaliz...

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Chavez Popularity Slips In Venezuela: Polls

AP | IAN JAMES | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

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CARACAS, Venezuela — Hugo Chavez's support has declined in the polls as many Venezuelans say they are fed up with 27 percent inflation, a stagna...

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Afghan Runoff: Corrupt Officials Fired, Ballots Delivered As Nation Rushes To Prepare

AP | TODD PITMAN | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

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KABUL — Election authorities began delivering ballots with U.N. assistance across Afghanistan on Thursday, as hurried preparations for the Nov. ...

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Somalia: President's Plane Shelled, Fighting Kills 20

AP | MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

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MOGADISHU, Somalia — Mortars fired by Islamic militants slammed into Somalia's airport as the president was boarding a plane Thursday, sparking ...

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Iran, Israel Hold Secret Nuclear Talks In Cairo: Haaretz

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 10.22.2009 | Home

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A representative of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission and a senior Iranian official met last month to discuss the chances of declaring...

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Life in Aceh, Indonesia

Antony Loewenstein | Posted 10.21.2009 | World

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Antony Loewenstein

Acehnese identity is intimately related to Indonesia's wish for integration into the world and historical desires for independence. Many there crave true freedom, but know it's long off.

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Israel Pushes To Change International Laws Of War After Damning Gaza Report

Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 10.21.2009 | Home

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Israel's prime minister has instructed his government to draw up plans for a "world wide campaign" to lobby for changes in the international laws of w...

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