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Arbil residents cast their votes
People in the Kurdish city of Arbil headed to polling centers to elect the new government that will run the country for the coming four years. Unlike in the capital Baghdad, polling in Arbil was conducted in a peaceful atmosphere.
Maliki addresses voters
Iraqi leaders cast their ballots in the country's second parliamentary elections since the 2003 invasion, while election monitors praise the operation as being 'exemplary'.
VIDEO: Nuclear disarmament talks at issue
South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan says North Korea's top nuclear envoy plans to visit the United States in early March.
State dinner for Medvedev
French President Nicolas Sarkozy toasted the end of the Cold War at a state dinner at the end of a two-day visit by his Russian counterpart Dimitri Medvedev.
Australian FM arrives in New Delhi
Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith is in New Delhi, beginning a three-day state visit to India.
U.S. Envoy Bosworth in Asia
U.S. special envoy to North Korea Stephen Bosworth met with Japanese Foreign Minister to discuss ways to resume the six-party talks on Pyongyang's nuclear programme.
VIDEO: Ukraine's Yanukovich takes oath
Viktor Yanukovich was sworn in as president of Ukraine saying the country is facing "colossal debts", poverty, corruption and possible economic collapse.
Brazil and Cuba sign accords
On his last official visit to Cuba before his term expires, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attended a meeting with Cuban President Raul Castro.
Court upholds death penalty
South Korea's highest court has upheld the death penalty in that country. The ruling comes 13-years after the last time convicted felons were executed in South Korea.
VIDEO: Pakistani, Indian FMs will meet
The foreign secretaries of Pakistan and India will meet in New Delhi tomorrow. It will be the first official talks between the hostile neighbours since the Mumbai terror attacks put a stop to a Peace Process between them.

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