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Iraqi elections avoid violence but complaints loom (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2009 12:46 AM CST

An Iraqi girl holds up an ink-stained finger after her parents voted in the country's provincial elections in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, Iraq, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2009. Iraqis passed through security checkpoints and razor wire cordons to vote Saturday in provincial elections that are considered a crucial test of the nation's stability as U.S. officials consider the pace of troop withdrawals. (AP Photo/Ahmed al-Husseini)AP - Passing through razor-wire cordons and police checkpoints, Iraqi voters Saturday took another step in the nation's quest for stability in provincial elections that were carried off without major violence but tarnished by claims of flaws and threats of challenges.

Gaza militants fire rockets into Israel (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2009 12:23 AM CST

Pictures of Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan are seen during a rally in support of Hamas in Gaza city, Friday, Jan. 30, 2009. Erdogan is winning praise from Gazans after his public spat with Israeli President Shimon Peres over Israel's Gaza offensive. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)AP - Palestinian militants fired a rocket from Gaza on Saturday that exploded close to the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon without causing any damages or injuries, an Israeli military spokesman said.

Suicide bomber attacks foreign troops in Kabul (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2009 12:03 AM CST

Afghanistan's Interior Minister Mohammad Hanif Atmar speaks during a press conference at the ministry in Kabul, Afghanistan on Saturday, Jan. 31, 2009. A U.S.-funded program to train and arm community members in Afghanistan's most dangerous regions as a way to defend against the Taliban has begun, Atmar said. (AP Photo)AP - A suicide bomber in a car attacked a convoy of foreign troops in the Afghan capital Sunday, but there was no immediate word on casualties, a police officer said. Taliban militants claimed responsibility for the attack.

Kenya Red Cross: 89 dead in oil blaze after crash (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2009 01:40 AM CST

AP - An oil spill from a crashed truck erupted into flames Saturday in Kenya, killing at least 89 people who were trying to scoop up free fuel, officials said.

15 dead, 22 injured in bar fire in southern China (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2009 01:39 AM CST

People mourn fire deaths in Changle city, southern China's Fujian province, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2009. Customers at a bar in southern China set off fireworks during a birthday celebration, triggering a blaze that killed 15 people and injured another 20, state media said. (AP Photo)AP - Revelers celebrating a birthday set off fireworks inside a bar in southern China, triggering a blaze that killed 15 people and injured 22, state media said.

Priest uncovering beginnings of Final Solution (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2009 12:49 AM CST

This file photo provided by Paris' Holocaust Memorial shows a German soldier shooting an Ukrainian Jew during a mass execution in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, between 1941 and 1943. For decades, the Holocaust was epitomized by barbed wire fences, gas chambers and death camps, a tragedy amply documented in history textbooks and reflected in solemn memorial sites around the world. The extermination of over 2 million Eastern European Jews by guns in the middle of quiet villages and towns across Ukraine, Russia and Belarus, has been underresearched and the victims have largely been forgotten. Many of their remains still lie unidentified and unmarked. (AP Photo/USHMM/Courtesy of the Library of Congress)AP - The Holocaust has a landscape engraved in the mind's eye: barbed-wire fences, gas chambers, furnaces.

Iraqi Christians caught in middle of Mosul vote (AP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2009 03:52 PM CST

An Iraqi Christian woman stands in line at a polling center in Bartillah, 14 kilometers (8 miles) east of Mosul, Iraq, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2009. Iraqis passed through security checkpoints and razor wire cordons to vote Saturday in provincial elections that are considered a crucial test of the nation's stability as U.S. officials consider the pace of troop withdrawals. (AP Photo)AP - Iraqi Christians still reeling from a string of murders last fall find themselves caught in the middle of a power struggle between Kurds and Sunni Arabs that was fueled by this weekend's elections.

Venezuelan synagogue attacked as relations worsen (AP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2009 05:58 PM CST

A member of the Jewish community looks at a vandalized tabernacle in a synagogue at the Israeli Association of Venezuela (AIV) headquarters in Caracas, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2009. The synagogue was vandalized by 15 unidentified armed people early in the morning, according to AIV's Vice President David Bittan. (AP Photo/Carlos Hernandez)AP - An armed group vandalized Caracas' oldest synagogue, shattering religious objects and spray-painting walls in what Jewish leaders called the worst attack ever on their community in Venezuela.

African Union warns Madagascar opposition leader (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Jan 2009 11:14 PM CST

Protesters gather as Andry Rajoelina, opposition leader and Antananarivo's 34-year-old mayor, addresses a rally in the capital Antananarivo, January 31, 2009. (Rasaonaivo Clarel Faniry/Reuters)Reuters - The African Union (AU) has warned Madagascar's opposition leader after he said he had taken power on the Indian Ocean island, stressing that the continental body's rules on coups could not be broken.

Snow, fog, rain likely to cause China travel chaos (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Feb 2009 01:51 AM CST

Reuters - Snow, fog and rain across China are expected to cause seasonal travel chaos for millions of Chinese returning from their home provinces this week as the Lunar New Year holiday draws to a close.

Destructive wildfires tamed as Australian heatwave eases: officials (AFP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2009 10:24 PM CST

A NASA Earth Observatory photo shows a large plume of smoke spreading southward from a fire (outlined) in Victoria's Gippsland region, Australia, Janauary 30. Wildfires that destroyed at least 28 homes in Australia were coming under control Sunday as a blistering heatwave that claimed dozens of lives eased, officials said.(AFP/NASA/EARTH OBSERVATORY)AFP - Wildfires that destroyed at least 28 homes in Australia were coming under control Sunday as a blistering heatwave that claimed dozens of lives eased, officials said.

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