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An Electoral worker empties a ballot box to begin counting the results at a counting center in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, March 9, 2010.
Election   Iraq   Parliament   Photos   Vote  
 The New York Times 
Some Iraq Results Coming Wednesday
| BAGHDAD — Iraq’s electoral commission said Tuesday that it would announce partial results of parliamentary elections on Wednesday, providing an incomplete picture of the vote that will n... (photo: AP / Karim Kadim)
Construction workers are seen on a new housing development in the Jewish neighborhood of Har Homa in east Jerusalem, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009.
Israel   Jerusalem   Palestine   Peace   Photos   US  
 BBC News 
Israel approves East Jerusalem homes as Biden visits
| 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 ne... (photo: AP / Sebastian Scheiner)
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.  ABC News 
Nigeria Urged to Investigate Religious Violence
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... ... (photo: AP / Jon Gambrell)
Nigeria   Photos   Religious   Violence   Woman  
Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar reacts after becoming the highest run-getter on the first day of the second test cricket match between India and Australia, in Mohali, India, Friday, Oct. 17, 2008. Tendulkar has overtaken retired West Indies batsman Brian Lara as test cricket's leading scorer.  The Times Of India 
Sachin named most influential person in Indian sports
MUMBAI: Batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar has been named as the most influential person in Indian sports in the annual Sports Illustrated Power list. | The top 50 rates Tendulkar as the number one infl... (photo: AP / Gautam Singh)
Cricket   India   Mumbai   Photos   Sports  
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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. Khaleej Times
Turnout for Iraq election solid at 62 percent
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 ... (photo: US Army / Sgt. Michael J. MacLeod)
Baghdad   Election   Iraq   Photos   Sunni  
In this June 10, 2008 file photo, rapper Lil' Wayne makes an appearance on MTV's "Total Request Live" show at MTV Studios in Times Square in New York. National Post
Lil Wayne sentenced to one year in jail
 ReutersMarch 9, 2010 12:00 AM   | After whirlwind goodbyes to fans, diminutive U.S. rapper Lil Wayne was sentenced to one year in jail yesterday after he pleaded guil... (photo: AP / Peter Kramer)
Crime   Jail   New York   Photos   Singer  
Vice President Joseph Biden, center, enters a car upon his arrival to Ben Gurion airport, near Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, March 8, 2010. Biden arrived to Israel Monday, the first leg of a five-day tour of the Middle East. Biden's trip is the highest-level visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories yet by an Obama administration official. Al Jazeera
Fresh Middle East talks hit a wall
| Israel's move to expand illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank has threatened to sabotage newly agreed indirect talks with the Palestinian Authority before they ... (photo: AP / Baz Ratner)
Israel   Palestine   Peace   Photos   US  
President George W. Bush addresses the United States Chamber of Commerce Friday, Oct. 17, 2008, in Washington, D.C. The President spoke on the state of the economy and thanked the Chamber and its members for "efforts to support the spirit of free enterprise, and to advance the interests of business, large and small, across our great country." BBC News
Ex-President Bush in Tory phone plea on NI devolution
| Ex-US president George W Bush has asked David Cameron to try to get the Ulster Unionists to back devolution of justice and policing in Northern Ireland. | The NI Assemb... (photo: White House / Eric Draper)
Bush   Photos   Politics   US   Ulster  
Press Conference: Joint press conference by the Secretary-General; H.E. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, President of Indonesia (left); SG; and Mr. Yvo De Boer (right), Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), to brief correspondents on the High-level Event on Climate Change m&c
President Yudhoyono's visit highlights Australia-Indonesia friendship
| Sydney - Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono arrived Tuesday in Australia for a 48-hour visit that will see the recently re-elected leader of the world's four... (photo: UN / Evan Schneider)
Australia   Diplomacy   Indonesia   Photos   President  
In this photo provided by the U.S. Navy, the Navy assault ship USS New York sails through the Mississippi River Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009, after departing Northrop Grumman Ship Systems in Avondale, La. The ship has 7.5 tons of steel from the World Trade Center in its bow, and is scheduled to be commissioned in November 2009 in New York. The Guardian
Northrop quits US tanker contest; boost to Boeing
* EADS not ruling out solo bid - sources * Northrop backers frustrated, disappointed * Boeing says 767 saves $10 bln in fuel costs alone (Recasts, adds reaction from Boei... (photo: AP / U.S. Navy, Petty Officer 2nd Class John P. Curtis)
Boeing   Defence   Pentagon   Photos   US  
File - Prime Minister of Iraq Nouri al-Maliki talking with people in Baghdad The Independent
Coalition led by Maliki ahead in poll
| Early estimates from a range of Iraqi parties yesterday predicted a coalition led by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki would take the lead in the parliamentary election, t... (photo: WN / Jamal Penjweny)
Election   Iraq   Mideast   Peace   Photos  
Workers pick cotton at a farm in Leme, 65 miles (150 kilometers) north of Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Wednesday, April 28, 2004. A landmark World Trade Organization ruling this week that U.S. cotton subsidies cause artificially low international prices is leading to predictions that cotton producers from Brazil to Western Africa may now have an incentive to increase production and get what they call a fair price for their The New York Times
Brazil Threatens Retaliation in Dispute on Cotton Subsidies
| BRASÍLIA (Reuters) — Brazil detailed its planned retaliation against the United States over American cotton subsidies on Monday, but said that Washington s... (photo: AP / Alexandre Meneghini)
Agriculture   Brazil   Photos   Trade   US  
Candidate for Austria's presidency of the right-wing Freedom party, FPOE, Barbara Rosenkranz speaks at a news conference in Vienna, on Monday, March 8, 2010. The Daily Tribune
‘Closet-Nazi’ in running for Austrian president
| ANALYSIS | 03/09/2010 | VIENNA — A far-right candidate for Austria’s presidential election has brought the country’s dark past to the surface once more, after denouncin... (photo: AP / Hans Punz)
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