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Tripartite Talks To Bring Peace In Syria Among Russia, UN, Arab League Ended In Disagreement

Tripartite Talks To Bring Peace In Syria Among Russia, UN, Arab League Ended In Disagreement

In this Sunday Nov. 4, 2012 photo, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, Arab League Secretary General Nabil Alaraby, center, and Lakhdar Brahimi, the U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria, right, hold a late-night joint press conference, but they differed in their assessments, after talks in Cairo, Egypt. Brahimi called the situation “deplorable,” adding, “The solution […]

An Afghan Worker Puts Finishing Touch On Carpet Which Used To Be Column Of Its Economy

An Afghan Worker Puts Finishing Touch On Carpet Which Used To Be Column Of Its Economy

An Afghan worker cuts carpet at a carpet factory in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Nov. 3, 2012. Carpet production is the column of Afghan economy. However, the export of carpet has significantly declined over the past couple of year due to lack of machinery and raw materials, according to the officials. Afghan workers sort threads at […]

Sri Lankan Government Under Blast For Planning To Impeach Chief Justice

Sri Lankan Government Under Blast For Planning To Impeach Chief Justice

Opposition lawmakers and rights activists participate in a protest against the government in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, Nov. 5, 2012. Hundreds of Sri Lankans staged the protest march to demand that the government halt a plan to impeach the country’s chief justice and condemning what they say is intimidation of the judiciary. <AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe>

G20 Finance Ministers, Central Bank Governors Meeting Opens In Mexico City

G20 Finance Ministers, Central Bank Governors Meeting Opens In Mexico City

(From L to R) Jose Angel Gurria, secretary-general of the Organization for the Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Jose Antonio Meade Kuribrena, Mexico’s Finance Minister, Jim Yong Kim, presidente of the World Bank, pose for a photo during the event titled “Increasing financial resilience through Disaster Risk Management” within the ambit of the G20 Finance […]

Dancers Perform “Tengchong Deam,” Featuring History, Customs Of Tengchong Region, China

Dancers Perform “Tengchong Deam,” Featuring History, Customs Of Tengchong Region, China

Dancers perform during a tourism dance “Tengchong Dream” in Tengchong County of southwest China’s Yunnan Province, Nov. 4, 2012. The large-scale tourism dance is a national-standard grand cultural banquet which takes Tengchong’s history and local customs as the main contents and can perfectly reflect the local features of Tengchong. A dancer performs during a tourism […]

Filipinos Including Those With Hearing Disability March Street Asking Congress To Declare Filipino Sign Language As National Sign Language

Filipinos Including Those With Hearing Disability March Street Asking Congress To Declare Filipino Sign Language As National Sign Language

Protesters, some of whom are persons with hearing disability, march towards the Philippine Congress to call for the passage of a bill “Declaring Filipino Sign Language as the National Sign Language of the Filipino Deaf” and the official language of the Philippine Government in all transactions involving the deaf at suburban Quezon city northeast of […]

Ninth Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Summit Opens In Vientiane, Laos, Amid Attendance Of Leaders From Asia, Europe

Ninth Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Summit Opens In Vientiane, Laos, Amid Attendance Of Leaders From Asia, Europe

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (C front) attends the opening ceremony of the 9th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Summit in Lao capital of Vientiane on Nov. 5, 2012. The opening ceremony of the 9th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Summit is held in Lao capital of Vientiane on Nov. 5, 2012. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao attended the opening ceremony […]

Fashion Creations By Indonesian Designer Introduced In Islamic Fashion Festival In Kuala Lumpur

Fashion Creations By Indonesian Designer Introduced In Islamic Fashion Festival In Kuala Lumpur

Models present creations by designer Dian Pelangi from Indonesia during the Islamic Fashion Festival in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Monday, Nov. 5, 2012. A model presents a creation by designer Paul Robb from Indonesia during the Islamic Fashion Festival in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Monday, Nov. 5, 2012. <AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin>

Pakistani Students Attend Class Amid Gov’t Effort To Raise Literacy Rate To 60 Percent By 2015

Pakistani Students Attend Class Amid Gov’t Effort To Raise Literacy Rate To 60 Percent By 2015

Pakistani students attend a class at a public school in southwest Pakistan’s Quetta on Nov. 5, 2012. Pakistan ranks 113th among 120 countries regarding literacy rate, which is projected to reach 60 percent till 2015 from the existing 55 percent. <Xinhua/Iqbal Hussain>

Cutting my losses

Cutting my losses

Don’t tell my supervisor but I’m calling in sick Wednesday. I heard the margin in Tuesday’s presidential election will be so tight there may not be a clear winner until the wee hours of the morning. This Barack Obama vs. Mitt Romney smackdown is turning into the political olympics. I can’t stop twitching in anticipation […]

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