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Obama, China’s Hu open talks as world watches

  President Barack Obama says that strong dialogue between the U.S. and China benefits not just those two nations but the whole world. Full story

South and Central Asia
Image: Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari smiles during his meeting with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi at Chigi palace in Rome
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Power struggle threatens Pakistan’s leader

A series of political confrontations could lead to a constitutional crisis, Pakistan and U.S. officials tell NBC News. Full story

12 Afghans die as militants target general
Africa
APTOPIX Kenya Secret Militia
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Kenyans recruited to fight in Somalia

Many of those being trained are Somalis living in crowded refugee camps and Kenyan nationals who are ethnic Somalis living nearby. Full story

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Image: Kalsoom, 6, who was fleeing a military offensive in South Waziristan, sits in a queue with others to receive food handouts at a distribution point for IDPs in Dera Ismail Khan
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Image: A boy fleeing a military offensive in South Waziristan, Pakistan
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Image: Atleast 70 mostly women and children killed in a bomb blast in Peshawar
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