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Iraqi Kurds voted on Saturday in elections expected to keep Kurdistan President First Iraq vote results expected by Thursday - U.N.
| BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Preliminary results of Iraq's parliamentary election, a vote seen as a litmus test of its young democracy, are likely to be released by Thursday, a United Nations official said o... (photo: WN / Jamal Penjweny) The Star
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, and Afghan President Hamid Karzai meet at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, March 10, 2010. Ahmadinejad in Kabul for talks
| Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, has arrived in Afghanistan for talks with Hamid Karzai, his Afghan counterpart. | Ahmadinejad's visit to Kabul comes at the tail end of a trip to the coun... (photo: AP / Sorkhabi, Pool) Al Jazeera
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Image:Sen. Joe Biden speaks to SEIU.jpg UN, US slam new Israeli settlement expansion
JERUSALEM - US vice president Joe Biden has been joined by UN chief Ban Ki-moon in condemning Israel's approval of 1,600 new illegal settler homes in Palestinian East Jerusalem. | "The secretary-gener... (photo: Creative Commons / SEIU Walk a Day in My Shoes 2008) Middle East Online
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Sheik Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, grand sheik of Al-Azhar, Sunni Islam's pre-eminent theological institute, waves to Palestinian authority President Mahmoud Abbas, not in picture, at the Azhar headquarters, in Cairo, Egypt  Head of al-Azhar dies
| Cairo - Sheikh Mohamed Sayed Tantawi, the head of Egypt's most prestigious seat of Islamic learning al-Azhar, died of a heart attack on Wednesday during a visit to Saudi Arabia, religious officials ... (photo: AP / Amr Nabil) Independent online
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Governor Umaru Yar'Adua, who is a leading presidential candidate, is seen after casting his vote at the venue of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) primary elections in Abuja, Nigeria, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2006. Nigeria's ruling party was voting Saturday to choose its presidential candidate for April elections, with the governor of a northern state emerging a front-runner in a dozen-strong fie Hundreds protest to demand Nigeria leader appears
Abuja: Hundreds of Nigerians gathered in the capital Abuja on Wednesday for a march to the Presidency to demand the appearance of ailing leader Umaru Yar'Adua, two weeks after he returned from a Saudi... (photo: AP / George Osodi) Zeenews
Africa   Nigeria   Photos   President   Saudi  
Poll: Obama More Popular Than Congress Poll: Obama More Popular Than Congress
WASHINGTON -- Americans have come to detest Congress ever more deeply as it nears the end of a nasty fight over health care. But more than half still back President Barack Obama, a bright spot for a D... (photo: US Senate file) WPXI
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