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Bush challenges U.N. to promote democracy

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President Bush announced new sanctions Tuesday against the military dictatorship in Myanmar, accusing it of imposing “a 19-year reign of fear” that denies basic freedoms of speech, assembly and worship.


UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Protest

Martin Berger, 84, second from left, from Queens, N.Y., and Rabbi Simcha Freedman, second from right, carry signs during a protest rally near the United Nations, against the visit of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in New York on Monday.


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Tough U.S. welcome for Iran’s President Ahmadinejad

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defended his nation’s human rights record on Monday as hundreds of protesters gathered outside the U.N. and Columbia University to protest appearances by the hard-line leader.


LRC50 The Central Legacy

Mixed memories

In this Sept. 9, 1957, file photo, a crowd of students, reporters and curious onlookers watch the scene as Arkansas National Guard troops, following the orders of Gov. Orval Faubus, are dispatched to prevent nine black students from entering Little Rock’s all-white Central High School.

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Al-Maliki: Alleged shooting challenges sovereignty

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Sunday the shooting deaths of civilians – allegedly at the hands of Blackwater USA guards – and other violence involving the company pose “serious challenges to the sovereignty of Iraq” and cannot be accepted.


School Fight

Protest

Protesters march to Jena High School on Thursday in Jena, La.



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State Department’s top auditor under investigation

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The labor union representing U.S. diplomats called Wednesday for the State Department’s top auditor to step down pending the results of a congressional investigation into whether he blocked fraud probes in Afghanistan and Iraq for political reasons.



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University of Florida student arrested, Tasered

University of Florida police used a Taser to control a student and arrested him after he loudly and repeatedly tried to ask U.S. Sen. John Kerry questions during a campus forum.


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Blackwater ordered to leave Iraq

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The Iraqi government said Monday that it was revoking the license of an American security firm accused of involvement in the deaths of eight civilians in a firefight that followed a car bomb explosion near a State Department motorcade.



MIDEAST ISRAEL PALESTINIANS RAMADAN

Fireworks

A Palestinian boy holds a homemade sparkler firework after breaking his fast at the end of the first day of Ramadan in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Thursday.




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Reid: U.S. Troop reduction plan unacceptable

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Senate Democratic leaders on Wednesday rejected the call by the top U.S. general in Iraq for a reduction of up to 30,000 U.S. troops in Iraq by next summer, saying it does not go far enough.


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Heads bow in memory of 9/11 victims, 6 years later

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Relatives of Sept. 11 victims bowed their heads in silence Tuesday to mark the moments exactly six years earlier when hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field.