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Pakistani villagers wade through water after heavy rain fall caused flooding in Nowshera near Peshawar, Pakistan on Thursday, July 29, 2010.

photo: AP / B.K.Bangash

400 Killed in Flooding in Pakistan, Officials Say
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — More than 400 people have died and thousands of others were made homeless as some of the worst floods in Pakistan’s history hit this northwestern region, provincial officials said. Saood Rehman/European Pressphoto Agency An aerial view of flooded hit areas after heavy monsoon rains on the outskirts of Dera Ismail...

Italian Lower Chamber President Gianfranco Fini reads his statement during a press conference in Rome, Friday, July 30, 2010.

photo: AP / Gregorio Borgia

Italy speaker refuses to resign, deepens crisis
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ROME (Reuters) - The influential speaker of Italy's lower house refused to step down on Friday after being censured by his own party, and said his supporters could vote against the government of former ally Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (R) talks with Minister of Equal Opportunities Mara Carfagna during...

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, white shirt, surveys the area as he visits the village of Verkhnyaya Vereya, Russia, on Friday, July 30, 2010.

photo: AP / RIA Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, pool

Wildfires sweeping Russia kill at least 25
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MASLOVKA, Russia (Reuters) - Forest fires sweeping across European Russia on Friday killed at least 25 people and forced the evacuation of thousands in the hottest weather since records began 130 years ago. Men walk in front of a burning building outside the town of Vyksa, some 150 km (93 miles) southwest of the Volga city of Nizhny Novgorod, July...

Exterior view of the U.S. Embassy in Paris Friday, July 30, 2010 where two of its employees are undergoing medical tests after handling a suspicious letter.

photo: AP / Yoan Valat

Suspicious Envelope Received at U.S. Embassy in Paris
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PARIS — Two employees of the United States Embassy in Paris underwent medical examinations on Friday after handling a suspicious envelope that arrived at the embassy, but officials said its contents did not appear to be harmful. “There is no indication that the envelope contained something dangerous or poisoned,” Embassy spokesman...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gestures while speaking at a news conference at the Shanghai World Expo in Shanghai, China, Friday, June 11, 2010.

photo: AP / Andy Wong

Ahmadinejad makes a call to arms
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Jul 31, 2010 Ahmadinejad makes a call to arms...

This photo released by the Fars News Agency claims to show an Iranian satellite launching rocket named "Safir-2", translated in English as "Ambassador-2", carrying the satellite "Omid", or "Hope" in English, photographed at launch at an undisclosed location on Monday, Feb. 2, 2009. Iran has successfully sent its first domestically made satellite into orbit, the country's president announced Tuesday, claiming a significant step in an ambitious space program that has worried many international obser

photo: AP / Fars News Agency

Iran Aims for Space, U.S. Aims for War
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Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. When Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced that Iran plans to send a man into space by 2019, it evoked the bold initiatives and far-reaching aims of the Kennedy-Johnson Administrations and their New Frontier and Great Society Programs. Not only did these programs set in motion a...

A passerby holds his forehead after he was injured by a stone during a clash between protestors and policemen in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, July 30, 2010.

photo: AP / Pavel Rahman

Bangladesh garment workers clash with police
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Police use batons to disperse protesting garment workers in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Friday. (Pavel Rahman/Associated Press) Thousands of garment workers unhappy over their wages rampaged through the capital of Bangladesh on Friday, clashing with police who used tear gas and batons to clear the streets. The protesters smashed vehicles and blocked...

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Philip Arnold, squadron leader of the California Army National Guard?s 40th Infantry Division?s Agribusiness Development Team (ADT) Security Forces Platoon, guides vehicles in the Marawara district days after a U.S. offensive against Taliban and al Qaeda forces in Kunar province, Afghanistan, July 1, 2010.

photo: USAF / Senior Airman Nathan Lipscomb

Taliban Exploit Openings in Neglected Province
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PUL-I-KUMRI, Afghanistan — Almost unnoticed, this strategic northern province is slipping away from government control. Multimedia Slide Show Taliban Make Inroads in Strategic Province Eros Hoagland for The New York Times Afghan police officers in Pul-i-Kumri, Baghlan Province, where the Taliban have resurfaced. More Photos » Baghlan...

Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, receives King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, left, on his arrival at al-Shaab presidential palace in Damascus, Syria, Thursday, July 29, 2010.

photo: AP / Bassem Tellawi

Syrian and Saudi leaders visit Beirut to defuse tension
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia are set to pay a joint visit to Lebanon. It is the first visit to the country by Mr Assad since 2005, when Syria was forced to...

Photographers take pictures of a page of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, website that depicts Mexican drug cartel leader Ignacio Coronel Villareal, aka Nacho Coronel, during a press conference in Mexico City, Thursday, July 29, 2010.

photo: AP / Eduardo Verdugo

Top Mexico drug lord 'killed'
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A top Mexican drug trafficker has been killed in a raid by state security forces, defence department officials have said. Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel was reportedly killed on Thursday while resisting arrest in the wealthy town of Zapopan in central Mexico. Speaking to reporters in Mexico City, army spokesman General Edgar Ruiz Villegas said an army...