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The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh and the President of Afghanistan, Mr. Hamid Karzai exchanging the singed documents of an agreement on Strategic Partnership between the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the Republic of India, in New Delhi on October 04, 2011. Mining Weekly 
India-Afghanistan mining collaboration: exuberance to reality checks
KOLKATA (miningweekly.com) - The exuberance over India and Afghanistan collaborating in the minerals and metals industries was giving way to a reality check as revealed during Afghan President Hamid K... (photo: PIB of India / PHOTODIVISION )
Afghanistan   India   Mining   Photos   Wikipedia: AfghanistanIndia relations  
French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde poses before giving a television interview, Tuesday June 28, 2011 in Paris, after she has been chosen to lead the International Monetary Fund. She will become the first female managing director of the global lending organization.(AP Photo/Jacques Brinon) France24 
IMF chief Lagarde faces inquiry over tycoon payout
Prosecutors will question IMF chief Christine Lagarde on Thursday to determine whether she should face charges regarding a €400 million payout to disgraced businessman Bernard Tapie when she was Fra... (photo: AP / Jacques Brinon)
Bernard Tapie   Christine Lagarde   Photos   Scandal   Wikipedia: Bernard Tapie  
Bill Clinton Accepting TED 2007 Prize 7 of 7 BBC News 
Queen's University honours former US president Bill Clinton
The former American president, Bill Clinton, has said he is honoured at the news that Queen's University is naming a building after him. | The Belfast university said it wanted to mark Mr Clinton... (photo: Creative Commons / advencap)
Bill Clinton   Photos   UK   US   Wikipedia: Bill Clinton  
Coffee break - caffeine in a cup BBC News 
Coffee addiction: Do people consume too much caffeine?
US officials are investigating the safety of caffeine in snacks and energy drinks, worried about the "cumulative impact" of the stimulant - which is added to a growing number of products. Is... (photo: WN / Arturo Ubaub)
Coffee   Food   Health   Photos   Wikipedia: Coffee  
Handover Ceremony of Chairmanship of G-77 Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) delivers remarks at the ceremony marking the handover of the Chairmanship of the Group of 77 and China (G-77), from Algeria to Fiji. At right is Josia V. Bainimarama, Prime Minister of the Republic of Fiji. BBC News 
UN chief begins DR Congo visit amid Goma violence
UN chief Ban Ki-moon has begun a trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo as fighting continues near the eastern city of Goma. | Mr Ban said he was deeply concerned by the renewed fighting and said th... (photo: UN / Rick Bajornas)
Congo   Photos   UN   Violence   Wikipedia: Republic of the Congo  
A bus carrying Palestinian passengers arrive from the Egyptian side as Egyptian soldiers guard at the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip on May 22, 2013. Egypt re-opened the border crossing on Wednesday five days after they sealed it of the abduction of seven security personnel. Photo by Ahmed Deeb / WN The Guardian 
Egypt leader claims victory in captives' release
SARAH EL DEEB | Associated Press= CAIRO (AP) — The safe release Wednesday of seven conscripts kidnapped by suspected militants in Sinai brought a victory for Egypt's Islamist president after months ... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb)
Egypt   Military   Photos   Police   Wikipedia: Mohamed Morsi  
This citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a Syrian man carrying a child's body in the aftermath of a strike by Syrian government, in the neighborhood of Jabal Bedro, in Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday Feb. 19, 2013. The Britain-based activist group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Aleppo Media Center reported several dead in the attack late Monday night, saying the strike appeared to be from a ground-to-ground missile. BBC News 
Amnesty report condemns 'inaction' over rights abuses
Amnesty International has accused governments of using state sovereignty as an "excuse" for failing to intervene in emergencies such as in Syria. | In its annual report, the human rights gro... (photo: AP / Aleppo Media Center AMC)
Human Rights   Photos   Syria   War   Wikipedia: Syrian civil war  
Police and forensic officers near the scene of an attack which has left one man confirmed dead and two people injured near Woolwich barracks in London Wednesday, May, 22, 2013. CNN 
London attack: Terrorists targeting soldiers at home again?
May 23, 2013 -- Updated 0227 GMT (1027 HKT) | London (CNN) -- Security experts are starting to analyze events leading up to the horrific cleaver attack of a man believed to be a British soldier on the... (photo: AP / Alastair Grant)
Crime   London   Photos   Terrorism   Wikipedia: 2013 Woolwich attack  
A bus carrying Palestinian passengers arrive from the Egyptian side as Egyptian soldiers guard at the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip on May 22, 2013. Egypt re-opened the border crossing on Wednesday five days after they sealed it of the abduction of seven security personnel. Photo by Ahmed Deeb / WN CNTV 
Egypt reopens Gaza border crossing after soldiers released
GAZA, May 22 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian authorities reopened the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip Wednesday after seven kidnapped Egyptian soldiers were released. | "The crossing opened its gates i... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb)
Egypt   Gaza   Hamas   Photos   Wikipedia: Israel and Egypt Gaza Strip barrier  
Syrian President Bashar Assad reacts as he speaks to the media with his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul, not seen, following their talks at the Ottoman-era Ciragan Palace, Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, May 8, 2010. Al Jazeera 
Kerry warns Assad over Syria violence
The US Secretary of State is warning Syria's President that the opposition will be given wide support if Bashar al-Assad refuses to negotiate on a peace deal. | John Kerry is meeting with foreign mini... (photo: AP / Ibrahim Usta)
Peace   Photos   Syrian Crisis   War   Wikipedia: Syrian civil war  
Palestinian supporters of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PLFP) wave the group's red flag, the Syrian flag, and the Palestinian flag as they holds poster of Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, during a rally on May 7,2013. Against Israeli attack on Syria in Khan Yunis town in the southern Gaza Strip. Israel is not getting involved in Syria's civil war, Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon said just days after two Israeli air strikes near Damascus sent regional tensions soaring. Photo by Ahmed Deeb / WN BBC News 
Hezbollah 'perpetuating Assad's campaign of terror'
US Secretary of State John Kerry has said the militant Lebanese Shia Islamist group Hezbollah and Iran are helping perpetuate President Bashar al-Assad's "campaign of terror" in Syria. ... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb)
Hezbollah   Iran   Photos   Syria   Wikipedia: Syrian civil war  
Soldiers stand guard by communications towers in Corinto in southern Colombia, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009 U~T San Diego 
Colombia: 10 soldiers killed by in rebel attack
BOGOTA, Colombia — At least 10 Colombian soldiers were killed and six wounded Wednesday in a pre-dawn attack on an army patrol with homemade explosives by the country's second-largest leftist reb... (photo: AP / Christian Escobar Mora)
Bogota   Colombia   FARC   Photos   Wikipedia: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia  
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Images taken at the True Blood panel at San Diego Comic-con with Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Alexander Skarsgard, Deborah Ann Woll, Sam Trammell, Charlaine Harris, Nelsan Ellis, Michelle Forbes, Alan Ball, and Rutina Wesley on Saturday July 25, 2009 Charlaine Harris chosen as 2013 President of Mystery Writers of America The Examiner
In this May 10, 2012 file photo, British Prime Minister David Cameron is seen in London. UK PM: London attack terror could be terror Austin American Statesman
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File - In this Tuesday, April 30, 2013 photo, a Lebanese army soldier rides a motorcycle, and passes in front of Syrian flag, in the predominantly Alawite neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen in the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon. Ten dead in sectarian clashes in Lebanon's Tripoli BBC News
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Miami Heat small forward LeBron James (6) is congratulated by Dwyane Wade (3) after defeated the Indiana Pacers in Game 1 in their NBA basketball Eastern Conference finals playoff series, Wednesday, May 22, 2013 in Miami. The Heat won 103-102 in overtime. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
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The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh and the President of Afghanistan, Mr. Hamid Karzai exchanging the singed documents of an agreement on Strategic Partnership between the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the Republic of India, in New Delhi on October 04, 2011.
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French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde poses before giving a television interview, Tuesday June 28, 2011 in Paris, after she has been chosen to lead the International Monetary Fund. She will become the first female managing director of the global lending organization.(AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)
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Handover Ceremony of Chairmanship of G-77 Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) delivers remarks at the ceremony marking the handover of the Chairmanship of the Group of 77 and China (G-77), from Algeria to Fiji. At right is Josia V. Bainimarama, Prime Minister of the Republic of Fiji.

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