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Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:14:14 +0000

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Need to know: North Korea executed a former senior official as punishment for the country's botched currency reform. South Korea's Yonhap news agency said many North Koreans believe the government used the official as a scapegoat for the failed currency reform.

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Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:13:45 +0000

Need to know: As the crisis gripping the Catholic church deepened Wednesday, with calls for national inquiries to be held in Germany and Ireland to fully disclose the detail and extent of sexual abuse by priests, Pope Benedict XVI spoke on the issue. Addressing the Irish directly on St.

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Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:17:17 +0000

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Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:57:45 +0000

Need to know: The bloc of former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi has edged ahead of the coalition led by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Iraq's parliamentary vote, but Maliki remained ahead in the largest provinces, election officials announced Tuesday.

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Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:14:17 +0000

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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:53:42 +0000

Need to know: The weekend's deadly Mexico shootings of two Americans in the border city of Ciudad Juarez comes amid U.S. alerts urging Americans to limit travel to parts of Mexico during spring break.

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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:55:10 +0000

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Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:26:16 +0000

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Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:24:49 +0000

Need to know: Thousands of red-shirted anti-government protesters converged in Thailand's capital Saturday, giving the government an ultimatum to dissolve Parliament or face mass marches on key spots in the city. Although protest leaders stressed they would not resort to violence in their quest to oust the government, many businesses closed down.

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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:48:17 +0000

Need to know: Israeli forces sealed off the West Bank and massed riot squads around Jerusalem's Old City and Arab neighborhoods during Muslim weekly prayers on Friday, facing down Palestinian anger over Jewish settlement expansion.

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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:10:01 +0000

Need to know: Two suicide bombers killed at least 39 people in Lahore, Pakistan. The attacks occurred within seconds of each other and targeted military vehicles as they passed through a crowded area. Six of the dead were army personnel. About 95 people were wounded. There have been several attacks on Lahore in the past year. On Monday the Taliban destroyed a building used by intelligence services, killing 13.

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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:55:06 +0000

Need to know: Sweden's parliament has narrowly approved a resolution recognizing the 1915 mass killing of Armenians in Turkey as genocide. Turkey recalled its ambassador to protest the surprise decision, made days after a U.S. congressional committee approved a similar resolution, Swedish news agency TT said.

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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:26:24 +0000

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Need to know: Setting the stage for intense political maneuvering, early results in Iraq’s elections indicated that Prime Minister al-Maliki’s coalition was likely to win a plurality in an exceedingly close race. But a coalition of Shiite parties questioned the vote-counting process.

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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:54:18 +0000

Need to know: A Pennsylvania woman who called herself Jihad Jane was tied Tuesday to an alleged assassination plot against a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the prophet Muhammad atop the body of a dog.

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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:52:16 +0000

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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:43:47 +0000

Need to know: Iraq's electoral commission said Tuesday that it would announce partial results of parliamentary elections on Wednesday, providing an incomplete picture of the vote that will nevertheless provide the broad outlines of the country’s political landscape.

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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:08:38 +0000

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Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:38:19 +0000

Need to know: Nigerian authorities have begun arresting suspects connected with the massacre of up to 500 people, including children, in the central region of Jos. The weekend violence comes after sectarian killings in this region in January left more than 300 dead, most of them Muslim. Some victims were shoved into sewer pits and communal wells.

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Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:23:38 +0000

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Need to know: A strong, pre-dawn earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6 struck eastern Turkey on Monday, killing 57 people as it knocked down stone or mud-brick houses and minarets in at least six villages.

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Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:50:59 +0000

Need to know: Turnout appears to be strong in Iraq's second elections Sunday, although bombs have killed at least 35 people. Two buildings were destroyed in Baghdad and dozens of mortars were fired across the city and elsewhere. The border with Iran was closed, thousands of troops were deployed, and vehicles were banned from roads.