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Construction workers are seen on a new housing development in the Jewish neighborhood of Har Homa in east Jerusalem, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009.
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Israel approves East Jerusalem homes as Biden visits
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Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Speaking earlier, Joe Biden said Washington had a total commitment to Israel's security Israel has approved the building of 1,600 new homes in east Jerusalem, in a move that threatens to overshadow US Vice-President Joe Biden's visit. The move will infuriate Palestinians, whose leaders...
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Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates and President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai walk together on the Presidential compound in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 8, 2010.
photo: US DoD / Cherie Cullen
Robert Gates warns of 'hard Afghan fight ahead'
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US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has warned that "hard fighting" lies ahead, in his first visit to Afghanistan since the launch of a major offensive there. After meeting military chiefs overseeing the anti-Taliban operation in southern Helmand province, Mr Gates also said some progress had been made. Preparations have already begun to...
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File - President Barack Obama talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev during a G-20 leaders working dinner at the Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens in Pittsburgh, Pa., Sept. 24, 2009.
photo: White House file / Pete Souza
US and Russia resume nuclear talks
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US and Russian negotiators are meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, to negotiate a treaty aimed at reducing their nuclear weapons arsenals. The two powers are hoping to find a successor to the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), which expired last December. "The two sides are committed to concluding negotiations. What is important is...
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, walks with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden at the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem, Tuesday, March 9, 2010.
photo: AP / Debbie Hill, Pool
Biden urges Israel to take risks for peace
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Vice President Joseph Biden has told Israel that the U.S. is willing to stand by those who will "take risks for peace." Biden also told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday that he was confident Israel was prepared to take such risks. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's...
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Contrasted against giant statues of ancient kings, Myanmar ruling leader Sr. Gen Than Shwe salutes the flag during opening ceremonies of Myanmar Armed Forces day Tuesday, March 28, 2007, in the new capital of Naypyitaw. The new Myanmar capital is located
photo: AP Photo/David Longstreath
Burma publishes new election laws
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Burma's military junta revealed the details of its new election laws today, paving the way for the country's first polls since 1990. However the government indicated it would pick all members of the country's new election commission itself and retained the right to cancel elections of separate constituencies for 'security' reasons. The country's...
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In this photo released by the Royal Thai Navy, shirtless Rohingya migrants sit on the ground on an island after they were arrested by Thai navy officers in the Andaman sea on Dec. 12, 2008.
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Bangladesh 'ignoring plight' of starving Burma refugees
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An American medical charity has warned that thousands of Burmese refugees in Bangladesh are facing starvation. Physicians for Human Rights said government authorities are preventing the Rohingya, a Muslim minority, from receiving adequate care. It accuses Bangladesh of obstructing efforts to help the Rohingya, who have fled Burma to escape...
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Unidentified women react to the sight of dead bodies in Dogo Nahwa, Nigeria, Monday, March 8, 2010.
photo: AP / Jon Gambrell
Nigeria cracks down after attacks
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Nigerian authorities have arrested nearly a hundred people in connection with attacks near the central city of Jos that killed more than 500 people. Police and soldiers surrounded the village of Dogo Nahawa, about 15km south of Jos, as survivors buried the dead in mass graves on Monday. Residents said herders from nearby hills attacked their...
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki speaks at a dinner reception in the Green Zone of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, March 8, 2010.
photo: AP / Hadi Mizban
Maliki leads in Iraqi poll count
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By Sami Moubayed DAMASCUS - Early indications from Sunday's parliamentary elections in Iraq favor Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and his State of Law Coalition, although official results for the 325-seat parliament will not be known until Wednesday. These are the second national polls since the downfall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. Amid tight security...
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Socialist Women's group activists supporting the Women's Reservation Bill are seen outside parliament in New Delhi, India, Monday, March 8, 2010.
photo: AP / Mustafa Quraishi
India wants to give women 1/3 of legislative seats
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NEW DELHI — India's government introduced a bill to parliament Monday that would reserve one-third of the legislature's seats for women, angering socialist lawmakers who tore up papers and tried to tear out microphones. The protests stalled debate and voting on the proposal until at least Tuesday. The bill has faced strong opposition since it...
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An electoral worker stands by stacked ballot boxes at a counting center in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, March 8, 2010.
photo: AP / Karim Kadim
Iraqi PM's Coalition Seen Leading Vote
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Filed at 9:21 a.m. ET BAGHDAD (AP) -- Early estimates from a range of Iraqi parties predict a coalition led by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki will take the lead in the parliamentary race. Iraq's election commission said Monday it will be days until official results are released, probably on Thursday. But Abbas al-Bayati from al-Maliki's State of...
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Residents walk past a burnt car in Dogo Nahwa, Nigeria, Monday, March 8, 2010. More than 200 people, most of them Christians, were slaughtered on Sunday in central Nigeria, according to residents, aid groups and journalists. The local government gave a figure more than twice that amount, but offered no casualty list or other information to substantiate it.
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By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press Writer JOS, Nigeria March 9, 2010 (AP) The Associated Press A woman cries during a funeral for victims in the Dogo Nahawa village, about 15 km (9 miles) to the... A woman cries during a funeral for victims in the Dogo...
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Nigerians bury massacre victims read more
This is an image taken from TV showing a mass grave for victims in the town of Dogo Nahawa, Nigeria, about three miles (five kilometers) south of the city of Jos, Monday, March 8, 2010
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Nigerians are burying victims of a massacre of predominantly Christian villagers near the central city of Jos, blamed on a Muslim group. The burials in mass graves using mechanical excavators follow Sunday's attack on three villages that...
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Reconciliation with Taliban not likely in near future, Gates says read more
Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates conducts a press conference with President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 8, 2010.
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KABUL - Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday that recent military offensives against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan had gained momentum but that a reconciliation effort proposed by Afghan President Hamid Karzai was unlikely in the near...
photo: US DoD / Cherie Cullen

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Andal Ampatuan Jr., the principal suspect in last year's massacre of 57 journalists and members of a rival's family, leaves his cell escorted by National Bureau of Investigations agents Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010 in Manila, Philippines.
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MANILA, Philippines—A man claiming to be among the gunmen who killed 57 people, including 32 media workers, in Maguindanao, has surfaced to boost the accusations against members of the Ampatuan clan. The man, who called himself 'Jesse,' owned up to...
photo: AP / Pat Roque

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Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates walks with Maj. Wayne Don, Advisor for the Mongolian Expeditionary Task Force, and Mongolian Lt. Col. Javkhlanbayar, senior representative of the contingent, at Camp Eggers in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 8, 2010.
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Filed at 3:02 a.m. ET FORWARD OPERATING BASE FRONTENAC, Afghanistan (AP) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates told a hard-hit battle unit Tuesday that its heavy losses have helped the U.S. begin to push back against the Taliban in southern...
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Turnout for Iraq election solid at 62 percent read more
A resident of Ramadi smiles while looking at his dyed purple finger, the hallmark of a successful voter in Iraq, during national parliamentary elections March 7, 2010. The man is walking with six women and another man, all of whom voted.
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BAGHDAD - Turnout in Iraq's parliamentary election was 62 percent, higher than in last year's provincial ballot, despite attempts by Sunni Islamist insurgents to disrupt the vote with attacks that killed 39, officials said on Monday. Preliminary...
photo: US Army / Sgt. Michael J. MacLeod

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