The nice thing about people new to power is they haven’t yet learned the pretensions of state. When we arrived at the Kyrgyz Defense Ministry to interview Roza Otunbayeva, the chairwoman of the interim government, no one checked our identities, there were no metal detectors and no one frisked us or checked our equipment.
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Afghan authorities have arrested three Italian medical workers in a plot to assassinate the governor of the southern Helmand province.
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Poles across the country will observe a two-minute-long moment of silence Sunday afternoon to remember their president and 97 others killed in a plane crash over the weekend.
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News about Jeffrey Ake’s abduction in Iraq spread quickly at first. Militants who’d kidnapped the Indiana businessman wasted little time releasing footage of him being held at gunpoint, terrifying his family and friends.
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NATO-led troops fired on a bus in southern Afghanistan on Monday morning, killing four civilians and wounding 18 others, officials said.
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A landslide derailed a train in northern Italy Monday killing seven people and injuring 25 others, fire officials said.
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A car bomb exploded outside a British army barracks in Northern Ireland early Monday, but there was no immediate report of damage or injuries from the blast, police said.
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As she set the stage for this week’s nuclear security summit, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a clear and considered statement on India and Pakistan’s nuclear arsenals, saying they had “upset the balance of nuclear deterrent.”
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