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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...

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...

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, during a press conference with U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan,Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010.

photo: AP / Mustafa Quraishi

Karzai announces council to deal with Taliban reconciliation
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Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced the creation of a high peace council as part of the reconciliation effort to reintegrate some Taliban militants, a spokesman for his office said on Saturday. Syamak Herawi, the spokesman, said the council will be very effective in bringing peace and stability in the country. The...

Bricks and other rubble are scattered outside stores in central Christchurch, New Zealand, Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010.

photo: AP / NZPA, David Wethey

City awakes to billion-dollar aftershock
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5:30 AM Sunday Sep 5, 2010 Share Email Print Expand Shrink Looting, homeless families and thousands of lives thrown into disarray: Kiwis are coming to terms with the devastation of one of their proudest cities. The 7.1 magnitude earthquake caused terror across Canterbury, damaged nearly 100 buildings and tore apart water pipes, sewerage, roads and...