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not seen in east Jerusalem Tuesday March 16 2010. Dozens of masked Palestinians hurled rocks at police and set tires ablaze across the holy city's volatile eastern sector where thousands of officers including reinforcements brought in from other locations were in place for a fifth straight day. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)" border="0" />AP - Hundreds of Palestinians in east Jerusalem set tires and garbage bins ablaze on Tuesday and hurled rocks at Israeli riot police who responded with rubber bullets and tear gas. The heaviest clashes in months broke out as an American envoy abruptly canceled a visit deepening a U.S.-Israeli diplomatic feud.

Iraq Sunday March 14 2010. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's political coalition took an early vote lead Saturday in the election's all-important battleground of Baghdad pulling away from its two closest rivals in the latest indication that Iraqis want a moderate government instead of Shiite religious hard-liners leading the postwar nation. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)" border="0" />AP - The coalition led by Iraq's prime minister has accused an election official of manipulating vote counts from the country's parliamentary elections and called for a recount a candidate from the bloc said Tuesday.

March 16 2010 at an anti-government rally in Bangkok Thailand. Protest leaders say they will collect '1 million cubic centimeters' of protestors' blood or about 264 gallons (1 000 liters) to spill at Government House in the Thai capital by Tuesday evening. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)" border="0" />AP - Anti-government protesters who donated their own blood Tuesday prepared to splatter gallons of it at the Thai government headquarters in a symbolic sacrifice to press their demands for new elections.

2010 file photo Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani right welcomes Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai for bilateral talks at the prime minister's official residence and office in Islamabad Pakistan. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash File)" border="0" />AP - The Afghan government was holding secret talks with the Taliban's No. 2 when he was captured in Pakistan and the arrest infuriated President Hamid Karzai according to one of Karzai's advisers.

March 14 2010. Netanyahu is urging calm following another stern rebuke from Washington over plans to build 1 600 apartments in contested east Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Jim Hollander Pool)" border="0" />AP - The U.S. is pressing Israel to scrap a contentious east Jerusalem building project whose approval has touched off the most serious diplomatic feud with Washington in years American and Israeli officials said Monday.