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An Iraqi woman, who sells milk, passes by the scene of a car bomb attack in the Kamaliyah neighborhood, a predominantly Shiite area of eastern Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 20, 2013.
Iraq   Photos   Syria   War   Wikipedia: Syrian civil war
 The Guardian 
Sectarian attacks in Iraq stoked by spillover from Syrian war
Tue 21 May 2013
Ability of prime minister Nouri al-Maliki to contain crisis may hinge on events beyond his control Sectarian struggle ... an Iraqi woman passes by the scene of a car bomb attack in Kamaliyah, a... (photo: AP / Hadi Mizban)
Golkar party Chairman Jusuf Kalla, who is also Indonesian vice president, delivers a speech during the special meeting of the party leaders in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, April 23, 2009.
Business   Jakarta   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Jusuf Kalla
 Jakarta Post 
Jusuf Kalla re-elected to lead CAPDI
Tue 21 May 2013
Former vice president Jusuf Kalla was re-elected as chairman of the Centrist Asia Pacific Democrats International (CAPDI) for a third time at the second CAPDI International Conference in Makassar,... (photo: AP / Achmad Ibrahim)
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang gestures as he speaks during his visit to the Tata Consultancy Services office in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Li told Indian business leaders Tuesday that developing stronger economic ties between their two nations would have huge benefits for both sides.  Newstrack India  Tue 21 May 2013
Chinese Premier visits TCS centre in Goregaon
Tweet Mumbai, May 21 (IANS) Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visited the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) global development centre in suburban Goregaon east here Tuesday. Tata Group Chairman Cyrus P. Mistry... (photo: AP / Rafiq Maqbool)
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U.S. Ambassador to India Nancy Powell, speaks during inauguration of the American Business Corner (ABC) in Gauhati, India, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012. Similar centers have been set up in different parts of India to provide Indian business community information on U.S. companies and upcoming business opportunities.  Newstrack India  Tue 21 May 2013
India's growth needs more opening, foreign funding: Powell
Tweet Kolkata, May 21 (IANS) US Ambassador Nancy Powell Tuesday called for greater economic opening and more foreign investments for India's higher economic growth, saying "there is more yet to do" in... (photo: AP / Anupam Nath)
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Mourners pray over the two bodies killed in a car bomb attack before their burial in the holy Shiite city of Najaf, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 20, 2013. A wave of car bombings across Baghdad's Shiite neighborhoods and in the southern city of Basra killed and wounded dozens of people, police said. The Star Tue 21 May 2013
Bombings in Iraq kill at least 12
KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - Several bomb blasts killed at least 12 people in Iraq on Tuesday, police said, a day after more than 70 died in attacks on majority Shi'ites,... (photo: AP / Alaa al-Marjani)
Bombing   Iraq   Photos   Terrorism   Wikipedia: Bomb
File - Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Miguel Mejiacontrera takes a blood pressure reading from a detainee at the Camp 6 Medical Center. Al Jazeera Tue 21 May 2013
Physician dismisses force-feeding concerns
A military physician who oversees a team of nurses force-feeding hunger-striking prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility has dismissed ethical concerns raised... (photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Elisha Dawkins)
Guantanamo   Health   Human Rights   Photos   Wikipedia: Guantanamo Bay detention camp
An X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator conducts a touch and go landing on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), marking the first time any unmanned aircraft has completed a touch and go landing at sea, 17 May, 2013. WorldNews.com Tue 21 May 2013
Justice in the Age of Drone Terror
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling "If the mainspring of popular government in peacetime is virtue, in revolution it is both virtue and terror: virtue without... (photo: US Navy / Alan Radecki courtesy Northrop Grumman)
Defence   Photos   Terrorism   US   Wikipedia: Drone attacks in Pakistan
Guatemala's former dictator Jose Efrain Rios Montt speaks during his genocide trial in Guatemala City, Thursday, May 9, 2013. France24 Tue 21 May 2013
Guatemalan court overturns Rios Montt genocide conviction
Former Guatemala dictator Efrain Rios Montt’s conviction for genocide was overturned by the country’s top court on Monday. The 86-year-old was convicted earlier this... (photo: AP / Moises Castillo)
Crime   Genocide   Guatemala   Photos   Wikipedia: Efraín Ríos Montt
Deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough speaks at an interfaith forum at the All Dulles Area Muslim Society in Sterling, Va., Sunday, March 6, 2011. McDonough praised American Muslims for helping fight violent extremism, but said they aren't cooperating enough with law enforcement to counter the radicalization of young followers by al-Qaida-linked groups. Denver Post Tue 21 May 2013
Aides kept Obama in dark about IRS report
WASHINGTON — White House chief of staff Denis McDonough and other senior advisers knew in late April that an impending report was likely to say the IRS had... (photo: AP / Cliff Owen)
Business   Photos   Politics   USA   Wikipedia: Denis McDonough
A woman carries a child through a field near the collapsed Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., Monday, May 20, 2013. A tornado as much as half a mile wide with winds up to 200 mph roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday. The Dallas Morning News Tue 21 May 2013
91 dead in Oklahoma tornado include at least 20 children; toll expected to rise
A monstrous tornado at least a half-mile wide roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a... (photo: AP / Sue Ogrocki)
Disaster   Photos   US   Wikipedia: May 18–20, 2013 tornado outbreak   Tornado


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