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Sri Lankan presidential candidate of the common opposition, former military chief Gen. Sarath Fonseka, center, waves to his supporters during a public rally in Vavuniya, about 230 kilometers (144 miles) north of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sunday, Jan. 3, 2010.

photo: AP / Eranga Jayawardena

Sri Lanka candidate Gen Sarath Fonseka woos Tamils
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By Saroj Pathirana BBC Sinhala...

FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2008 file photo, Yemeni soldiers on top of a truck patrol the road in front of the main entrance of the U.S. Embassy in the capital San'a, Yemen. The U.S. Embassy in Yemen reopened its doors Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2010

photo: AP / Nasser Nasser

US embassy reopens in Yemen
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SAN'A, Yemen (AP) -- The U.S. Embassy in Yemen reopened its doors Tuesday after a two-day closure due to threats, even as the Yemeni government maintained that the security situation in the capital had always been under control. The embassy said it shut down because of information of an imminent al-Qaida attack, but now government actions "have...

In this image provided by the Solomon Island's Police, a scene aftermath of quake on the island of Rendova, Solomon Islands, Monday, Jan. 4, 2010.

photo: AP / Solomon Islands Police, HO

At least 1,000 people homeless on Solomons after tsunami
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Honiara: Landslides and a tsunami unleashed by a major earthquake destroyed some 200 houses on one Solomon island, leaving about one-third of the population homeless, a disaster management official said Tuesday. Visual assessments from the air showed extensive damage on a remote western island after a 7.2-magnitude temblor struck near the Pacific...

President Barack Obama waves to the First Lady and guests seated in the gallery of the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Sept. 9, 2009.

photo: White House / Pete Souza

The Party of Betrayal?
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Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. Before discussing why Senator Joseph McCarthy wrote and distributed a book entitled "The Party of Betrayal," which accused Democratic Party leaders of corruption and of protecting Communists during the Red Scare, it would first be enlightening to mention the years prior to Senator McCarthy's...

Afghan National Police (ANP) officers distribute humanitarian goods in the Maywand district of the Kandahar province of Afghanistan Dec. 6, 2009.

photo: USAF / Staff Sgt. Dayton Mitchell

Afghan aid fails to feed the hungry
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By Peter Greste BBC News, Parwan province, Afghanistan It is not hard to see why Alla Gul is upset. Her two-year-old daughter cries weakly in her arms with barely enough energy to eat. The child stares vacantly at the other patients in the Charikar hospital ward, her muscles wasted with malnutrition, her angular bones protruding like twigs beneath...

Yemeni women in Islamic covered dress pass a young soldier with his AK-47 submachine gun in Sana, Sunday May 21, 2000. Amid tight security involving more than 25,000 troops, senior officials and dignitaries from 47 countries began arriving in Yemen Sunda

photo: AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili

Yemen rules out US intervention
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Yemen's foreign minister has ruled out direct US military intervention to tackle al-Qaeda fighters operating in his country. "Yemen is going to deal with terrorism in its own way, out of its own interests and therefore I don't think it will counter fire," Abu Baker al-Qirbi told Al Jazeera on Monday as the US and British embassies in the capital,...

Fireworks light up, Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building during the official opening ceremony in Dubai, United Arab Emirates Monday, Jan. 4, 2010.

photo: AP / Nousha Salimi

Dubai Opens World's Tallest Tower
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Dubai opened the world's tallest skyscraper Monday in a blaze of fireworks, then added a final flourish: It renamed the half-mile-high tower for the head of neighboring Abu Dhabi, whose billions bailed out Dubai amid last year's financial crisis. Long known as Burj Dubai -- Arabic for "Dubai Tower" -- the building...

U.S. Army Soldiers with 1st Battalion, 508th Infantry Regiment and Special Operations Forces search for enemy fighters after Air Force munitions strike a target in the Sangin District of Afghanistan April 10, 2007. Soldiers with Combined Joint Special Op

photo: US Army/Spc. Daniel Love

CIA bomber 'was Jordanian double agent'
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The suicide bomber who killed eight people in a CIA base in Afghanistan was a Jordanian-born double agent invited to the out-post because he claimed to have information about Osama bin Laden's right hand man. The attack at the military base in Khost, east Afghanistan, killed seven CIA employees and the Jordanian intelligence officer who was the...

Mahmoud Abbas, president of Palestine, responds to applause after his address the 64th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Friday, Sept. 25, 2009

photo: AP / Richard Drew

Abbas prepared to resume peace talks with Israel
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PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas has said he is ready to resume peace talks with Israel as soon as all settlement activity is frozen. Mr Abbas was speaking after meeting Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak to discuss a US plan for a Palestinian state by 2012. According to the Cairo daily Al-Ahram�, the US proposes negotiations restart as soon as...

Police tape blocks off the federal building in Las Vegas, Monday, Jan. 4, 2010.

photo: AP / Paul Sakuma

Guard, gunman die in Vegas building shooting
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KEN RITTER The Associated Press LAS VEGAS - A gunman opened fire at a federal building in downtown Las Vegas on Monday, killing one court officer and wounding a second before he was shot to death. The gunfire erupted moments after 8 a.m. at the start of the work week and lasted for several minutes. Shots echoed around tall buildings in the area,...