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| First Iraq election results to be released Wednesday
In this image released by the Iraqi government, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki speaks to reporters during a visit to a military base in Tikrit, 130 kilometers (80 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq on Friday, Aug. 17, 2007. (dn1) ... | | | 
| To Bash Them Is to Help Them
In front of the pictures of the Iranian late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, left, and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivers his speech in a ceremony of 19th death anniversary of Ayatollah Khomeini at his mausoleum, just outside Tehran, Iran, Monday, June 2, 2008. Ahmadinejad, known for vitriolic anti-Israeli rhetoric, has again predicted the demise of Israel, according to Iran's IRNA news ag... | | | 
| Command role for Aussies in Afghanistan
In this photo released by the Australian Defense Department, an Australian Surveillance Reconnaissance Vehicle (SRV) patrols outside the perimeter of a forward operating base in Afghanistan Sept. 17, 2005. An elite Australian commando was injured and an Afghani soldier killed when their patrol clashed with insurgents in Afghanistan, Friday, Sept. 23, 2005. The clash came less than a month after a group of 190 Australian special forces commandos began arriving in Afghanistan to bolster international efforts to restore law and order amid an upsurge in violence blamed on the al-Qaida terror network and supporters of the ousted Taliban regi... | | | 
| Atrocities may fill Iraqi power vacuum
Electoral workers sit in front of piles of ballot boxes at a counting center in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, March 8, 2010.... | | | 
| Marjah, the city that never was
An Afghan boy looks back as U.S. Marines from 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment patrol in Marjah in Afghanistan's Helmand province on Thursday Feb. 25, 2010.... | | | 
| AP Interview: Silva says Iran sanctions dangerous
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks during the summit of Latin American and Caribbean for Integration and Development, CALC, in Costa do Sauipe, Brazil, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2008. The two-day summit is aimed at strengthening political and economic ties in the regi... | | | 
| Murdoch to Arabs: censorship is counterproductive
Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corporation, speaks at the dedication ceremony for the Newseum, a museum about journalism and the First Amendment, on opening day in Washington on Friday April 11, 20... | | | 
| Israel approves East Jerusalem homes as Biden visits
Construction workers are seen on a new housing development in the Jewish neighborhood of Har Homa in east Jerusalem, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009.... | | | 
| Murdoch to Arabs: censorship is counterproductive
Chairman and CEO of News Corporation, USA, Rupert Murdoch gestures while speaking during a media conference at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Wednesday Jan. 28, 2009. Business participants will search for solutions to the financial crisis with some 40 world leaders, but without the top finance officials of the new U.S. administration who are occupied by the crisis or by the confirmation process at h... | | | 
| Dubai's Emirates to hire 2,000 staff in 2010
Emirates Airlines - Aeroplane - DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - pjb1 ... | | | 
| Khatami aide denies report of travel ban
Escorted by his bodyguards, reformist former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, center, is attacked by hard-liners as he attends a Quds Day rally, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Sept. 18, 2009.... | | | 
| GLOBAL: Prepare for "climaggedon"
Rice fields in West Africa (file photo) Benin wants to quit importing rice by 2011... | | | 
| Robert Gates warns of 'hard Afghan fight ahead'
Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates and President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai walk together on the Presidential compound in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 8, 2010.... | | | 
| IRAQ: IDPs returning to Diyala Province in increasing numbers
An Iraqi family returns to their village in Burah, Diyala Province, after being displaced for months by insurgents... | | | 
| Gates praises troops in hard-hit battle unit in southern Afghanistan
U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates testifies before the House Armed Services Committee about the 2010 National Defense Authorization Budget Request May 13, 2009, at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington.... | | | | |
