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In this Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010 photo, former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin addresses attendees at the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville.

photo: AP / Ed Reinke

Palin's Revolution or Palin's Expansionism?
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Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. When Sarah Palin spoke at a recent gathering of Tea Party Activists and told them that America was ripe for another revolution, one has to wonder what type of revolution she is hoping (or should I say "hope-y") for. And while the mainstream media describes Palin and the Tea Party Movement as an...

U.S. Soldiers with Bravo Company, 4th Battalion, 23th Infantry Regiment inspect their equipment at Camp Tombstone in Helmand province, Afghanistan, Feb. 6, 2010.

photo: USAF / Tech. Sgt. Efren Lopez

Bombs, Booby Traps Slow Marjah Assault
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NATO, Afghan Troops Meet Little Taliban Resistance but Face Daunting Patchwork of Explosives in Town Font size Print E-mail Share 0 Comments Play CBS Video Video Battle Looms in Afghanistan American and allied forces have launched a major new offensive against the Taliban. About 15,000 U.S. Marines and British and Afghan soldiers are targeting a...

People gather on the national day of mourning outside the earthquake damaged National Palace in Port-au-Prince, Friday, Feb. 12, 2010. Thousands gathered one month after the deadly quake that left the Caribbean country struggling for survival.

photo: AP / Rodrigo Abd

Haiti pauses to catch its breath and remember
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Washington, February 13: In tent cities, outside demolished churches, and at the mass graves that have become a symbol of their appalling loss, the people of Haiti paused yesterday to mark the one month anniversary of the natural disaster that killed 230,000 people and left millions more struggling for survival. The national day of mourning brought...

File - Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo, right, gestures while speaking prior to a meeting at an EU Africa summit in Lisbon, Saturday Dec. 8, 2007.

photo: AP / Michel Euler

Ivory Coast President Gbagbo dissolves government
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Ivory Coast's President Laurent Gbagbo has dissolved the government and electoral commission, casting doubt on when long-delayed elections will occur. Prime Minister Guillaume Soro has been asked to form a new government. Mr Gbagbo had accused the electoral commission of registering more than 400,000 people...

Afghan troops fighting alongside the US 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines regiment play a march song and clap their hands on their front line outposts on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010, on the outskirts of Marjah, Afghanistan, where NATO commanders are planning a major offensive against the Taliban in the coming days.

photo: AP / Alfred de Montesquiou

Nato launches major Afghan assault
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US-led Nato troops have launched a long-expected attack on the biggest Taliban-held town in the south of the country. Helicopter-borne US Marines and Afghan troops swooped down on the Taliban-held town of Marjah in the centre of Helmand province early on Saturday. The offensive seeks to re-establish government control and undermine support for...

Police block off area around the Shelby Center on the campus of the University of Alabama in Huntsville where a suspect killed three fellow faculty on Friday, Feb. 12, 2010, in Huntsville, Ala.

photo: AP / Butch Dill

6 Shot, 3 Killed at Alabama Campus Faculty Meeting
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Three faculty members at the University of Alabama in Huntsville were shot to death, and three other people were seriously wounded, at a biology faculty meeting on Friday afternoon, university officials said. The Huntsville Times, quoting university officials, reported that a biology professor was being held in the shooting. WAFF, the NBC affiliate...

Sri Lankan ethnic Tamil victims of a shell attack wait outside their makeshift tents in Tiger controlled No Fire Zone in Mullivaaykaal, Sri Lanka, Sunday, May 10, 2009.

photo: AP

Up to 40,000 civilians 'died in Sri Lanka offensive'
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The bitter controversy surrounding the final stages of the Sri Lankan government's operation to crush separatist rebels has been reopened after a former UN official claimed that up to 40,000 civilians may have been killed. In the final stages of last year's move to defeat the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the UN protested strongly about the...

An Iraqi soldier, assigned to 3rd Brigade Quick Reaction Force, secures the roof of a building being used for a Medical Civil Assistance Program in the Hay Al Saddam neighborhood, in Mosul, Iraq, Oct. 15, 2009.

photo: US Army / Pfc. Ali Hargis

Saddam shadow darkens Iraq elections
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The legacy of Saddam Hussein continues to divide Iraq. Preparations for the country's parliamentary election have been thrown into chaos by a row over a decision to ban hundreds of candidates because of alleged links to the former president's now outlawed Baath Party. At a recent demonstration in Baghdad, there was a palpable sense of anger among...

Two Yemeni soldiers operate at a checkpoint in the streets of San'a, Yemen Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010.

photo: AP file/ Nasser Nasser

Soldiers dead as rebels break truce: Yemen army
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SANAA (AFP) – The Yemeni army said Shiite rebels broke a ceasefire on Friday, just hours after it came into force, killing several soldiers in a string of attacks in the far north of the country. The head of military operations in Saada province, General Mohammed Abdullah al-Qussi, said he himself came under rebel attack. "I escaped an...

photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb

Israel rejects UN demands over Gaza war report
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Jerusalem, February 12: Israel has rejected United Nations demands of an independent probe into its last year war on the Gaza Strip which claimed the lives of more than 1,400 Palestinians. A senior official in the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said on Friday that the report Israel gave UN...