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Iraq: Ban hails new government as ‘major step’ in democratic progress

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Voting at a Baghdad polling station in Iraq's parliamentary elections on 7 March 2010

Journalists working in conflict areas need better protection, UN agency stresses

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'Human Factor' Proves Key Obstacle To Terrorism

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Swedish police officers patrol a street in central Stockholm, near where a suicide bomber killed himself two days...

Intelligence Officials: Al-Qaida Learns From Mistakes

This past fall, al-Qaida's arm in Yemen tried its hand at a new kind of attack: cargo bombs.