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Annan Opposes 'Further Militarization' in Syria

UN-Arab League special envoy says use of external force to resolve crisis would be a 'miscalculation'

Kofi Annan, the U.N.-Arab League Special Envoy on Syria, attends a news conference with Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Al Araby at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, March 8, 2012

P5+1 Urges Iran Toward Nuclear Talks

The group of six world powers says process should be 'serious dialogue' that produces 'concrete results'

Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Ali Asghar Soltanieh waits for the start of the IAEA board of governors meeting at the International Center, in Vienna, Austria, March 8, 2012.

Clinton: China Must Play 'Constructive Role'

Secretary of State says Beijing can no longer be 'selective stakeholder' if it wants respect of international community

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers an address to the US-China Conference at the US Institute of Peace in Washington, DC, March 7, 2012.

China Drops Plan to Legalize Secret Detentions

Move follows public outrage over rash of forced 'disappearances'

China's Guangdong Province Party Secretary Wang Yang (R) smiles next to China's Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang (C) and Vice Chairman of China's Central Military Commission Xu Caihou attend a meeting of the National People's Congress in Beijing, March 8, 2012.

Despite Tensions, Sudan-S. Sudan Talks Continue

Discussions center on oil, borders and citizenship issues

Oil spills onto the ground from an oil well head strafed by shrapnel from a bomb dropped by fighter jets at the El Nar oil field in South Sudan's Unity State, March 3, 2012.

Anti-LRA Twitter Campaign Draws Criticism

Invisible Children seeks to bring attention to new film about Lord's Resistance Army and its leader, Joseph Kony

Joseph Kony, Lord's Resistance Army leader and one of the world's most wanted rebel chiefs (2006 file photo)

World Marks International Women's Day

UN urges people to focus on plight of rural women, saying we have 'a long way to go'

An Indian farmer wearing a plastic sheet to protect herself from rain, carries saplings to a paddy field on the outskirts of Saputara hill station, south Ahmedabad (July 2011 file photo)

Former Torture Center Teaches Khmer Rouge History

Free classes educate public about extremists who killed more than one million people

Tourists are reflected on the glass frame of portraits of victims killed in the former Khmer Rouge regime's S-21 security prison, presently known as Tuol Sleng genocide  museum, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, June 21, 2011.

A Year After Quake, Photographers See Signs of Hope in Japan

Pulitzer-Prize winning photojournalist Nick Ut, fine art photographer Mark Edward Harris documented change in Japan over 12 months

Barren coastal region where the disaster struck have not recovered, Japan, March 8, 2012.

Massive Solar Storm Bears Down on Earth

Forecasters say particles could create havoc for everything from mobile phones to airline flights

NASA handout image shows the Sun acquired by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory. A strong geomagnetic storm is racing from the Sun toward Earth, and its expected arrival on Thursday could affect power grids, airplane routes and space-based satellite n

Scientists Develop Super-Adhesive

Material is so strong, an index-card sized piece could hold more than 300 kilograms against a flat wall

A psychedelic gecko [Cnemaspis psychedelica] is seen on this undated handout released World Wildlife Fund, December 12, 2011.
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