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Patrons sit at a café in central Kirkuk, 180 miles north of Iraq's capital Baghdad

Iraq Compromise Allows Elections, but Kurdish Tensions Remain

Allowing a vote for those expelled by Saddam Hussein from Kirkuk breaks a stalemate, but doesn't resolve the disputed oil-rich city's fate

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TIME: 50 Years In the South Pacific

In 1959, TIME magazine published its first edition for Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific. We look back at the politicians and pop idols, activists and athletes who shaped the region of the past five decades

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Scenes from the Tuna Trade

Tuna populations around the world are being fished more aggressively. Even General Santos, the so-called Tuna Capital of the Philippines, sashimi export and canneries have been hit by a downturn in the number of fish coming to port.

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Desert Refugees in Algeria Await Recognition

In the western desert of Algeria, the Sahrawi people hold an annual film festival to bring attention to their three decades in exile

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Guinea-Bissau: World's First Narco-State

Drug cartels have converted a tiny African country into an international nexus of illegal trade

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