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U.S. special envoy for North Korea Stephen Bosworth reacts as he listens to his South Korean counterpart Wi Sung-lac during their meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul, Friday, May 8, 2009. North Korea vowed Friday to bolster its atomic arsenal in response to what it called Washington's "persistent hostile policy," even as a special envoy for President Barack Obama traveled to the region in a bid to draw Pyongyang back to nuclear negotiations.

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US envoy heads to North Korea to push nuclear talks
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Seoul: President Barack Obama's first envoy to North Korea flies to Pyongyang Tuesday to try to coax the prickly state back to the nuclear talks it quit a year ago, but without offering it any new incentives. A senior US official said Stephen Bosworth wants to assess whether the North really does plan to return to negotiations and abide by a...

Autos emit exhaust at a stop light in Montpelier, Vt., Monday, March 2, 2007

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EU expects US to put more on table at climate summit
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THE EU delegation at the Copenhagen climate summit, which opened yesterday, has said it would be "astonished" if US President Barack Obama did not put more on the table when he arrives here at the end of next week. Swedish environment minister Andreas Carlgren, who heads the EU's negotiators, was referring to the recent US offer to cut American...

A view of the destruction caused by explosions in Lahore, Pakistan, Monday, Dec. 7, 2009.

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Blasts in crowded Pak market leave 34 dead, 100 injured
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Two bombs ripped through a crowded market in Lahore on Monday, killing at least 34 people, authorities said. TV footage showed cars and shops on fire in the Moon Market area of the city after the blasts. Earlier in the day a suicide bomber blew himself in Peshawar killing 10....

An Indian police officer and a hotel staff hoist an Indian national flag at the Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai, India, Sunday, Nov. 30, 2008. With corpses still being pulled from the once-besieged hotel, India's top security official resigned Sunday as the government struggled under growing accusations of security failures following terror attacks

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26/11 attacks: US court charges Headley
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Chicago: Pakistan-origin American national David Coleman Headley was on Monday charged in a Chicago court with criminal conspiracy in the Mumbai terror attacks that killed 166 people, including many foreigners. The charges filed in the Federal Court in Chicago allege that Headley conducted extensive surveillance of targets in Mumbai for more than...

Looking down a rural dirt road after a bout of snowfall in Dutchess County, New York, USA.

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Powerful snowstorm sweeps across Utah and West
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By Felicia Fonseca The Associated PressUpdated: 12/07/2009 01:34:58 PM MST A large and powerful storm howled across the West with snow and strong winds Monday, snarling traffic, closing schools and threatening to spawn mudslides in wildfire-devastated Southern California. In Utah, the National Weather Service has issued a...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks on during a meeting of the Foreign Affairs committee, at the Knesset, Israel's parliament in Jerusalem, Monday, Dec. 7, 2009.

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Netanyahu says Iranian leaders losing support
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that Israel had benefited from what he called the Iranian government's loss of legitimacy, both among other states and with its own people. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem December 6, 2009. Netanyahu said on Monday that...

Sudanese demonstrators rally demanding electoral reforms, ahead of next year's crucial national elections, in the capital Khartoum, Sudan, Monday, Dec. 7, 2009.

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Tensions soar in Sudan with violent clashes and political arrests
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Police detain senior figures in Sudan People's Liberation Movement amid fears country is sliding to war before elections A Sudanese protester holds a banner as he takes part in demonstrations in Khartoum againt the government. Photograph: Ashraf Shazly/AFP/Getty Images...

Incumbent President Traian Basescu holds a flag while waving to supporters at the end of the presidential elections runoff in Bucharest, Romania, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009.

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Romania's Basescu wins re-election, rivals cry foul
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romanian President Traian Basescu narrowly won re-election, final results showed on Monday, but the leftist opposition said it had proof of fraud and would contest the official tally. Romanian President Traian Basescu addresses his supporters after the first exit polls of presidential elections in Bucharest December 6, 2009....

Ice skaters make their way around the downtown ice rink as snow falls Friday, Dec. 4, 2009 in Houston.

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Decade of 2000s was warmest ever, scientists say
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CHARLES J. HANLEY The Associated Press It dawned with the warmest winter on record in the United States. And when the sun sets this New Year's Eve, the decade of the 2000s will end as the warmest ever on global temperature charts. Warmer still, scientists say, lies ahead. Through 10 years of global boom and bust, of breakneck change around the...

This photo, taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran shows pro-reform Iranian students, marching during their protest at the Tehran University campus in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Dec. 7, 2009.

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Police clash with protesters at Iran university
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TEHRAN, Iran - Security forces and pro-government militiamen clashed with protesters shouting "death to the dictator" outside Tehran University on Monday, beating men and women with batons and firing tear gas, on a day of nationwide student demonstrations, witnesses said. Thousands of protesters demonstrated in the streets outside the campus in...