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A Pakistani walks pasts a billboard showing the portrait of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, displayed along the road side in Rawalpindi, Pakistan Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008
Assassination   Bhutto   Pakistan   Photos   UN
 Asia Times 
A UN crapshoot in Pakistan
By Sreeram Chaulia More than 18 months after the assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, the United Nations has begun a formal international inquiry into the "facts and... (photo: AP / Anjum Naveed)
Former President Bill Clinton.
Haiti   Media   Photos   Politics   UN
 The Times of India 
Bill Clinton to visit Haiti as UN envoy
3 Jul 2009, 0257 hrs IST, AP               Text: UNITED NATIONS: Former US President Bill Clinton is slated to make his first trip as UN special envoy to... (photo: AP Photo / Elise Amendola)
Myanmar anti-government demonstrators looks on during a demonstration Sunday, May 17, 2009, outside the Myanmar embassy in Bangkok, Thailand. Detained Pro-Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is expected to be tried Monday in a incident involving American who entered her home illegally.  Houston Chronicle 
Myanmar rejects initial UN attempt to see Suu Kyi
NAYPYITAW, Myanmar - The U.N. secretary-general says Myanmar's junta chief has rejected his initial request to see jailed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Ban Ki-moon says he told Myanmar's Senior... (photo: AP / David Longstreath)

Democracy   Human Rights   Myanmar   Photos   UN
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) holds discussions with Mark Malloch Brown, Minister of State in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.  Star Tribune 
UN chief says Myanmar junta leader rejects initial request to see opposition leader Suu Kyi
NAYPYITAW, Myanmar - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday that Myanmar's junta chief rejected his initial request to meet jailed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a rocky start to what he... (photo: UN / Evan Schneider)
Leader   League   Myanmar   Photos   Secretary
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Students - Gays - Cellphone - Texting - Texter The Times of India
Gay sex ruling will help HIV/AIDS prevention
3 Jul 2009, 1723 hrs IST, IANS               Text: Amnesty International, the global human rights group, Friday welcomed the Delhi... (photo: WN / Yolanda Leyba)
Delhi   Disease   India   Photos   Sex
Iraqi solider playing with his hat near Saddam Hussein's hand statue San Fransisco Chronicle
Saddam Hussein's jailhouse revelations
(07-03) 04:00 PDT Baghdad -- After the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Saddam Hussein stayed in Baghdad until he saw that "the city was about to fall." Months later, he was caught... (photo: WN / Jamal Penjweny)
Baghdad   Iraq   Jailhouse   Photos   Politics
Honduras coup: Mixed signals for Arroyo Inquirer
Honduras coup: Mixed signals for Arroyo
THE HONDURAN president was ousted in a military coup after he took steps to lift term limits and extend himself in office -- and across the Pacific Ocean, President... (photo: AP / Aaron Favila)
Arroyo   Military   Photos   Politics   President
 Women greet one another at a Gay Pride March in Soweto Saturday Sept. 23, 2006. A key parliamentary committee on Thursday Nov. 9, 2006, approved a bill that would make South Africa the first country to allow same sex marriages on a deeply conservative co China Daily
Indian court decriminalizes consensual gay sex
NEW DELHI: A court ruled Thursday to decriminalize homosexuality in the Indian capital, a groundbreaking decision that could bring more freedom to gays in this deeply... (photo: AP/Denis Farrell)

Court   Delhi   Freedom   Indian   Photos
Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown, left, gestures during a joint news conference with U.S. President Barack Obama at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London Wednesday April 1 2009. World leaders are gathering in London for the Group of 20 summit amid an unprecedented security operation to protect the meeting from violent protests and terrorists. Kansas City Star
Obama uneasy over indefinite Gitmo detentions
Pablo Martinez Monsivais President Barack Obama prepares to leave following his interview with The Associated Press, Thursday, July 2, 2009, in the West Wing of the White... (photo: AP / Phil Noble)

Obama   Photos   Politics   President   US
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