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In this picture taken in Kiev, Ukraine on Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010, Ukraine's Prime Minister and presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko speaks to the media. Ukraine's Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has refused to concede Ukraine's presidential race to opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych, Ukrainian and Russian news reports said Tuesday. The respected Ukrainskaya Pravda Web site and Russia's ITAR-Tass news agency reported that Tymoshenko told officials with her party that she will "never recognize" the legitimacy of the election.

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Tymoshenko 'to challenge Ukraine election result'
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Reports say lawyers to contest victory of rival Yanukovych's 3% lead in presidential poll described as 'fair' by monitors Viktor Yanukovych set to become Ukrainian president Link to this video...

Police officers look on as a backhoe clears an area where bodies are dumped along a hillside in Datu Ampatuan, Maguindanao province, southern Philippines on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009. Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo placed two souuthern provinces under a state of emergency, giving security forces free hand to pursue gunmen who killed at least 24 people in one of the country's worst election massacres. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

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Philippine clan patriarch, 195 others indicted
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — State prosecutors have filed multiple murder charges against the head of powerful clan and 195 other people, including his three sons and dozens of police officers and soldiers, in the massacre of 57 people in the southern Philippines. Justice Department prosecutors on Tuesday said Andal Ampatuan Sr. and the others were...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, uses a device as he visits an exhibition of Iran's laser science, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010.

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Iran to Stop Enrichment If Given Nuclear Fuel
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By NASSER KARIMI Associated Press Writer TEHRAN, Iran February 9, 2010 (AP) The Associated Press The head of the Iran's atomic agency said Iran would not enrich uranium to a higher level if the West provides the fuel it needs for the Tehran research reactor.Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks during a ceremony to introduce the domestically...

File - In this undated photo released by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service in Tokyo Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il visits September General Iron Enterprise in North Phyongan Province, North Korea.

photo: AP / Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service

Kim wants 'nuclear-free Korea'
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North Korea's supreme leader, Kim Jong-il, has reiterated his country's goal of a nuclear-free peninsula in talks with a visiting Chinese envoy. Kim held talks with Wang Jiaru, head of the Chinese Communist Party's international department, on Monday in Pyongyang, a meeting that analysts said may indicate moves towards resuming six-nation...

File - Former Sri Lankan Army chief and the opposition presidential candidate Gen. Sarath Fonseka greets media persons as he arrives to address a news conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010.

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Sri Lanka opposition mulls move
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Opposition politicians in Sri Lanka have begun talks to decide on their course of action following the arrest of the defeated presidential candidate. General Sarath Fonseka was arrested at his office in the capital, Colombo on Tuesday evening. The government said the general would be questioned and put on trial in a military court. Gen Fonseka was...

FILE - In this Nov. 16, 2009 file photo, Dr. Conrad Murray, a physician for the late pop star Michael Jackson, appears at a child support hearing at Clark County Family Court in Las Vegas. Edward Chernoff, a lawyer for Murray, says the doctor is returning to work at his Houston clinic on Monday Nov. 23, 2009.

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Jackson doctor pleads not guilty to manslaughter
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Los Angeles: Michael Jackson's doctor on Monday pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the sudden death of the pop star last year from a lethal cocktail of drugs. Dr Conrad Murray, who has offices in Houston and Las Vegas, entered a Los Angeles courthouse to chants of "murderer" from Jackson fans gathered outside. Inside the courtroom,...

Supporters of Ukrainian opposition leader and presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych react waving flags of the Party of Regions during a rally, in front of Central Election Commission, in Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, Feb. 8, 2010.

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Yanukovych wins Ukraine run-off
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Vladimir Radyuhin Beats Tymoshenko who may challenge verdict...

Sri Lanka's defeated presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka waves to supporters during a protest in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010.

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Sri Lankan opposition leader Fonseka arrested
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka-Sri Lanka's defeated presidential candidate was hauled away by military police from his office Monday and will be court-martialed for allegedly planning to overthrow the government while serving as the head of the army. Sarath Fonseka, who as the top general helped defeat the Tamil Tiger rebels, was forcibly detained after...

Pakistani Shiite Muslims take part in a rally to condemn Friday's bombing, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010 in Lahore, Pakistan.

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Karachi grinds to a halt after fatal blasts
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By Syed Fazl-e-Haider KARACHI, Pakistan - Business in Karachi, Pakistan's commercial capital, ground to a halt at the weekend after at least 33 people were killed and over 100 injured in two explosions on Friday. The city of 18 million people houses the main stock exchange, central bank and offices of multinational corporations. Businessmen warn...

Iranian Vice President Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, listens to a question posed by media in his office in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009

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Iran plans major nuclear expansion over next year
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran says it will start producing higher-grade nuclear fuel on Tuesday and add 10 uranium enrichment plants over the next year in a nuclear expansion sure to stoke tensions with the West. Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, looks on while attending a news conference in Tehran September 29, 2009....