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Telegraph.co.ukNetanyahu Expresses 'Regret' About Timing of Housing Plan
Voice of America
Photo: AP Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed "regret" to US Vice President Joe Biden about an Israeli ministry's approval of housing plans in disputed east Jerusalem. Mr. Netanyahu's office says he regrets the timing of Tuesday's ...
Peace talks 'difficult' for Abbas amid settlement rowBBC News
PA: Peace talks off until East Jerusalem housing shelvedHa'aretz
Biden: US Has 'No Better Friend' Than IsraelFOXNews Jerusalem Post -Telegraph.co.uk -ABC Online all 4,483 news articles » 
The HinduWe don't want proxy wars in Afghanistan, Karzai says
Reuters
Afghan President Hamid Karzai (L) welcomes his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad upon his arrival in Kabul March 10, 2010. Ahmadinejad arrived on Wednesday for a visit to Afghanistan, after US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said he was wary of ...
Gates: Iran support for Taliban 'pretty limited'The Associated Press
Afghanistan welcomes Pak role in peace talksThe Hindu
British official urges Afghanistan to negotiate with Taliban, other insurgentsWashington Post BBC News -Voice of America -NPR all 1,263 news articles » 
Telegraph.co.ukThailand Braces for Political Rallies in Capital
New York Times
BANGKOK ? Thailand's seemingly unending political crisis is likely to reach another moment of tension this weekend with huge opposition rallies that organizers say they hope will paralyze the city and bring down the government. ...
Thai PM rules out coup ahead of mass anti-gov't rallyXinhua
Tourists warned ahead of Bangkok protestABC Online
Bangkok zoo evacuates animals ahead of protestsRIA Novosti BusinessWeek -Press TV -Monsters and Critics.com all 227 news articles » 
Times OnlineMyanmar junta annuls election held 20 years ago
Washington Post
YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's military government on Thursday officially annulled the results of the country's 1990 general election, a poll it chose to ignore at the time when the main opposition party won by a landslide. The 1990 polls were declared ...
Burma laws condemned as a 'mockery' of democracyBBC News
Myanmar lets Suu Kyi's party reopen regional officesReuters
Law bars Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi from electionsThe Associated Press Aljazeera.net -New York Times -Voice of America all 1,104 news articles » 
ReutersRussian PM Vladimir Putin due in India for talks
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is due in India for talks expected to focus on arms and energy contracts. The two sides are due to sign two deals worth more than $10bn on defence and civilian nuclear reactors and Russia will refit an aircraft ...
Russia Willing to Build More Nuclear Plants in IndiaWall Street Journal
India set for Putin boost, to sign nuclear, Gorshkov pactsEconomic Times
Putin seeks to bolster links with New DelhiFinancial Times Reuters -BusinessWeek -AFP all 484 news articles » 
Boston GlobeChile quake leaves Concepcion's dreams up in the air
Los Angeles Times
The people of the central Chilean city, an intellectual center home to a vibrant arts scene, wondering about the future. Chilean fishermen work to flip over a boat that was carried by a tsunami more than 10 miles from Concepcion's port and deposited on ...
Earthquake-rattled Chile to swear in new presidentReuters
Chile's new leader Sebastian Pinera to be sworn inBBC News
Bachelet leaving as `Comforter in Chief'MiamiHerald.com The Associated Press -Times of India -Voice of America all 501 news articles » 
BBC NewsMohamed Sayed Tantawi, Top Cleric, Dies at 81
New York Times
CAIRO ? Sheik Mohamed Sayed Tantawi, Egypt's chief religious official and leader of Al Azhar, the oldest and most prestigious center of learning in the Sunni Muslim world, died Wednesday during a visit to Saudi Arabia, ...
Some people saw Sheikh Mohammed Sayed Tantawi as a government stoogeBBC News
Egypt's top Muslim cleric dies of heart attackDallas Morning News
Sunni Islam's top cleric diesCNN International MiamiHerald.com -phillyBurbs.com -Voice of America all 344 news articles » 
Los Angeles TimesSix killed in attack on World Vision office in Pakistan
BBC News
Militants have attacked the office of a Western aid agency in north-western Pakistan, killing six people, police and the agency have said. The victims, including two women, were all Pakistani nationals working for World Vision in Mansehra district. ...
US Charity Is Attacked In Pakistan; 6 Are KilledNew York Times
Charity suspends operation in Pakistan after attack kills 6CNN International
Militants Kill 6 Aid Workers in Pakistan's NorthwestVoice of America Los Angeles Times -The Associated Press -Christian Science Monitor all 596 news articles » 
ReutersUkraine appoints new finance, economic ministers
Reuters
KIEV, March 11 (Reuters) - Ukraine's parliament on Thursday appointed Fedir Yaroshenko as Finance Minister and Vasyl Tsushko as Economics Minister in a new government headed by Mykola Azarov. Azarov, a former finance minister and close ally of ...
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych forms coalitionBBC News
Ukrainian new ruling coalition nominates Mykola Azarov for PMXinhua
Ukraine forms parliamentary coalition to end political chaosRIA Novosti Financial Times -Montreal Gazette -BusinessWeek all 237 news articles » 
ReutersUS apologizes to Libya for dismissive comments
Reuters
Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi speaks at the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) food security summit in Rome November 16, 2009. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The US State Department apologized on Tuesday for dismissive comments its spokesman made ...
Libya accepts US 'apology' for Kadhafi jokeAFP
Libya accepts US apologyThe Associated Press
Libya-Switzerland feud deepens as Gaddafi faces travel banThe Guardian RTT News -Reuters South Africa -Wall Street Journal all 456 news articles »
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