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NKorea capital preps for important convention

9/6/2010 4:05:11 AM

Posters lining Pyongyang's streets are promoting the Workers' Party convention — North Korea's biggest political meeting in 30 years — as a historic event amid speculation Monday that leader Kim Jong Il will grant his son a key party position and pave the way for his succession.

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Dozens killed, missing in Guatemala landslides

9/5/2010 8:13:51 PM

People stand in front of a bus partially covered by a landslide caused by heavy rains on the Pan-American highway at Tecpan, Guatemala, on Saturday. Torrential rains from a tropical depression caused landslides that have killed at least 38 people in Guatemala — some of them rescuers who had come to save people already trapped by a wall of mud.

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Female, single, over 30: Iraqis count cost of war

9/6/2010 2:09:42 AM

In this photo taken Monday, Aug. 16, 2010, Iraqi women shop at a market in central Baghdad, Iraq. Being female, single and 30-plus is not uncommon in Iraq, which lost hundreds of thousands of its young men in nearly 30 years of wars. The problem has been worsened by the bloody turmoil in Iraq since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion and nearly 13 years of U.N. sanctions that left generations of Iraqis too consumed by economic hardships to consider marriage. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)Only one of Nidal Haidar's six sisters is married. She has given up on ever getting hitched.

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History - Twentieth Century - Wars and Conflicts - Nidal Haidar - Iraq (link)

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