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Kyrgyzstan’s new leader tackles tough job

Posted on 12 April 2010

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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3 Italian workers held in Afghan assassination plot

Posted on 12 April 2010

Afghan authorities have arrested three Italian medical workers in a plot to assassinate the governor of the southern Helmand province.
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Poland mourns president

Posted on 12 April 2010

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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Years after Iraq abduction, family seeks closure

Posted on 12 April 2010

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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Afghan officials: NATO troops fire on bus, kill 4

Posted on 12 April 2010

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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7 dead in Italy train derailment

Posted on 12 April 2010

A landslide derailed a train in northern Italy Monday killing seven people and injuring 25 others, fire officials said.
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Car bomb hits N. Ireland military base

Posted on 12 April 2010

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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Pakistani kids’ nuanced views on nukes

Posted on 12 April 2010

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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Obama hosts two-day summit on nuclear security

Posted on 12 April 2010

President Obama hosts leaders from 46 countries for a two-day nuclear security summit starting Monday that will focus on how to better safeguard weapons materials, both old and new, to keep them out of the hands of terrorists.
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Thai protests, violence cancel holiday

Posted on 12 April 2010

Bangkok’s local government canceled major Thai holiday festivities that were to begin Monday, with officials citing the deadly anti-government protests as the reason.
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