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Central Asia
Algerian President talks with Russian FM in Algiers
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika (R) meets with Russian Foreign Minister Serguei Lavrov in Algiers, Algeria, Feb. 11, 2013. <Xinhua>
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Politics
Artist’s sketch shows court hearing against five defendants at Guantanamo Bay
In this pool photo of a sketch by courtroom artist Janet Hamlin and reviewed by the U.S. Department of Defense, the self-proclaimed terrorist mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, left, confers with his lawyer Army Capt. Jason Wright, second from left, as co-defendant Walid bin Attash, second from right, also attends the…
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West Asia
Assad meets with his supporters when rebels captured Syria’s largest dam
In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, center left, meets with a delegation of Jordanian political activists, lawyers, doctors and engineers in support of him, in Damascus, Syria, Monday, Feb. 11, 2013. Syrian rebels captured the country’s largest dam on Monday after…
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West Asia
Egyptian FM, OIC secretary general speak in press conference after the OIC summit in Cairo
Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr (L) and Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu attend a press conference after the closing of the 12th summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Cairo, capital of Egypt, on Feb. 7, 2013. The two-day meeting closed…
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West Asia
Ahmadinejad visits Egypt amid warming relationship between the two nations
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks to the media as he arrives at a press conference at the end of a two-day summit, in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. The summit witnessed the first visit of an Iranian president to Egypt in more than three years, as Egypt’s Islamist government…
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Central Asia
Putin speaks with British head of World Curling Federation in Sochi
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, speaks to World Curling Federation President Kate Caithness from Scotland, while visiting a curling center in a coastal cluster in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, southern Russia, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. <AP Photo/NEWSis/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Presidential Press Service>
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West Asia
Egyptian PM put under criticism over his remarks about women in poor villages
In this Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012 file photo, Egyptian Prime Minister Hesham Kandil talks during a press conference at his office in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt’s prime minister caused an uproar after blaming health problems for babies in poor villages on women who nurse them without cleaning their breasts. Critics say…
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West Asia
Assassination of a leftist politician throws Tunisia into a political chaos
A family flees tear gas during a demonstration in Tunis, Thursday, Feb.7, 2013. The Islamist party dominating Tunisia’s ruling coalition on Thursday rejected its own prime minister’s decision to form a non-partisan technocratic government to try to appease critics, signaling that the political crisis brought on by the assassination of…
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West Asia
Egyptian President Morsi greets his Iranian counterpart Ahmadinejad in Cairo
A handout picture released by the Egyptian presidency shows Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi (R) greets Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani in Cairo, capital of Egypt, on Feb. 6, 2013. Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi urged Wednesday all Syrian opposition factions to unite to solve the Syrian crisis. A handout…
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East Asia
Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang consoles veteran soldiers visiting a facility for them in Inner Mongolia
Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang (2nd L) visits the home of resident Zhang Zhilan (2nd R) in Beiliang Community, a shantytown in Baotou, north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Feb. 3, 2013. Li visited the city of Baotou and Xing’an League in Inner Mongolia from Feb. 3 to 5, 2013.…
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