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  • ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS 
A Uighur woman facing paramilitary police officers demands the return of members from her community in China's Xinjiang province as journalists visit in July 2009.  At least 300 Uighurs are thought to have fled the country amid a government crackdown, but many nations quickly extradite refugees back to China.

    Uighurs flee China after riots

    Nearly a year after the worst riots in China's far west in more than a decade, stories of asylum seekers are among the few accounts to emerge of how some Uighurs got out amid a government crackdown.


  • Dutchman Joran van der Sloot has confessed to killing a young woman in his Lima hotel room last week, Peruvian police said. (Associated Press)

    Report: Van der Sloot mentally ill, mother says

    Joran van der Sloot, the main suspect in the killing of a young woman in Peru last month and in the 2005 disappearance of U.S. teenager Natalee Holloway, suffers from mental problems, his mother told a Dutch newspaper in an interview published on its website Sunday.


  • Dutch court sentences 5 Somali pirates to 5 years

    Five Somali men were sentenced to prison Thursday for attacking a Dutch Antilles-flagged cargo ship with automatic weapons and a rocket-propelled grenade, in the first piracy case to come to trial in Europe in modern times.


  • Japan's Keisuke Honda, right, and Japan's Junichi Inamoto, left, celebrate their victory following the World Cup group E soccer match between Japan and Cameroon at Free State Stadium in Bloemfontein, South Africa, Monday, June 14, 2010. Japan won 1-0. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)

    Japan scores first-ever road win in World Cup

    The Japanese earned their first World Cup victory on foreign soil Monday when Keisuke Honda scored in the first half for a 1-0 victory over uninspired Cameroon in Group E of the World Cup.


  • **FILE** The Supreme Court (Getty Images)

    Supreme Court to review prison-overcrowding ruling

    The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to reconsider a lower court's order that California release tens of thousands of inmates because of overcrowding issues in that state's prisons.


  • Author: Ideas not war can defeat radical Islam

    The only way to prevent the spread of Islamic ideology is to "compete," says Ayaan Hirsi Ali in her new book "Nomad."


  • Illegal workers in Paris give sit-down eatery new meaning

    Tucked into a gritty corner of Avenue de Lafayette in northern Paris, Chez Papa is better known for serving up french fries and steak than a workers revolution.


  • Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

    Appease Iran?

    In a German editorial last year, Mathias Dapfner, CEO of the huge German publisher Axel Springer AG, wrote a scathing attack in Die Walt, Germany's largest daily paper, against Europe's failure to grasp the extent of the Islamic threat.


  • Appease Iran?

    In a German editorial last year, Mathias Dapfner, CEO of the huge German publisher Axel Springer AG, wrote a scathing attack in Die Walt, Germany's largest daily paper, against Europe's failure to grasp the extent of the Islamic threat.


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