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ELECTION 2010- HAITIANS ARTISTS ABOUT MICHEL MARTELLY

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Chris Matthews Rumsfeld Blaming Bush for Iraq War

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Egypt's Protests Day of Anger Riots 25 Jan 2011 Demonstrations Rare Raw Footage.flv

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Powerful cyclone Yasi hits Queensland in Australia

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Anti-government rallies hit Yemen

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Is Beck promoting military mutiny?

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Obama Triggers Blackouts Nationwide Complete Videos On xesworld.com

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Dispatch: Western Focus on Belarusian Opposition

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UN Human Rights chief discusses human rights abuses in Sri Lanka, Iran, Sudan and the United States

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Yemen President Saleh Won't Seek Another Term / Day of Rage Protest Feb. 3rd, 2011

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Presidential Elections in Haiti - On Election Day workers count ballots at a polling station in Croix-des-Bouquets, near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 28 November, 2010.

photo: UN / Logan Abassi

Haiti reverses poll results
read more Al Jazeera

Haiti's fraud-tainted ruling party candidate is out of the presidential race. The country's Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) said on Thursday that former first lady Mirlande Manigat and musician Michel "Sweet Mickey" Martelly were the two top finishers of the chaotic November 28 vote, ahead of government technocrat Jude Celestin. The decision to...

Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld speaks to attendees at a memorial ceremony at the Pentagon remembering the fifth anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Pentagon, Washington, Sept. 11, 2006.

photo: US Navy / MCS1 Chad J. McNeeley

Rumsfeld writes of Bush's early Iraq focus
read more Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

WASHINGTON -- Just 15 days after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, President George W. Bush invited his defense secretary, Donald H. Rumsfeld, to meet with him alone in the Oval Office. According to Mr. Rumsfeld's new memoir, the president leaned back in his leather chair and ordered a review and revision of war plans -- but not for...

An anti-government protester swings an Egyptian flag, while smoking a cigarette, to beckon others to reinforce those at the frontline of clashes with pro-government supporters, near the Egyptian Museum in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011.

photo: AP / Ben Curtis

Egypt Braced For 'Day Of Departure' Demo
read more Orange News

Egypt is braced for more violence this morning on what is being called the "Day of Departure". Thousands of protesters are expected on the streets of Caril and Alexandria, calling for Egypt's beleaguered president Hosni Mubarak to stand down immediately. The president of 30 years says he will remain in control until September, when he will not...

A senior citizen's center is destroyed in Tully, Australia, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011, after Cyclone Yasi brought heavy rain and howling winds gusting to 186 mph (300 kph).

photo: AP / Rick Rycroft

Rains, flood threat hamper Aussie cyclone relief
read more Houston Chronicle

CAIRNS, Australia - Drenching rain and the threat of flash flooding hampered recovery efforts Friday following one of Australia's most damaging cyclones, as authorities confirmed the first death from the storm. Cyclone Yasi was downgraded Friday morning to less than hurricane strength after traveling almost 500 miles (800 kilometers) inland since...

A soldiers gestures in front of anti-government protestors just outside Cairo's main square, Egypt, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011.

photo: AP / Sebastian Scheiner

Egypt army moves to stop assault on protesters
read more Seattle Times

CAIRO - Egyptian army tanks and soldiers cleared away pro-government rioters and deployed between them and protesters seeking the fall of President Hosni Mubarak, as the prime minister made an unprecedented apology Thursday for the assault by regime backers that turned central Cairo into a battle zone. Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq told state TV that...

Yemeni demonstrators wave their national flags and hold banners during a demonstration against the government, in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011.

photo: AP / Hani Mohammed

Yemen braces for 'day of rage' protests
read more The Siasat Daily

Sanaa, February 03: Yemen is bracing for its “day of rage,” with massive protests against President Ali Abdullah Saleh, despite his pledge not to seek another term. About one million protesters are expected to rally in the Yemeni capital, Sana'a, on Thursday. So far, more than 20,000 Yemenis have taken to the streets of Sana'a, Reuters reported. On...

Rachel Winch, 26, of Washington, holds a sign during a demonstration outside FBI headquarters in Washington, Monday, Jan. 17, 2011, in support of U.S. Army Pfc Bradley Manning, the alleged leaker of documents to WikiLeaks who is currently jailed.

photo: AP / Jacquelyn Martin

Time Is Running Out for an Honorable Mutiny
read more WorldNews.com

Article by WN.com Dallas Darling. Two recent reports detailing how wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were taking a toll on active duty soldiers and returning veterans, are reminders of another time, another place, and of another war. The year was 1781, and time was running out for the Continental Army which was at war with the British Empire....

Pro-government demonstrators, bottom, clash with anti-government demonstrators, top right, as a palm tree burns from a firebomb, in Tahrir Square, the center of anti-government demonstrations, in Cairo, Egypt, early Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011.

photo: AP / Lefteris Pitarakis

Day of uncertainty begins with gunfire in Egypt
read more CNN

Heavy gunfire heard in Cairo Follow live blogging on "This Just In" and the latest tweets from CNN correspondents from the protests. Send your video, images to CNN iReport. Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- In a way, the events of the past week may have been a prelude to what could happen in Egypt on Thursday. The military, which has until now said it would...

Poland's Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski, top left and seen on screen, speaks at an at international donors' conference in Warsaw where governments were pledging money and other forms of support for the democratic opposition in Belarus, in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday Feb. 2, 2011.

photo: AP / Czarek Sokolowski

Belarus Opposition Gets Aid
read more Wall Street Journal

By GORDON FAIRCLOUGH Dozens of governments pledged more than $120 million in aid to opposition groups in Belarus, and Poland's foreign minister predicted that the former Soviet republic's authoritarian leader eventually would be driven from power by an angry public. The promises of assistance, made at a conference in the Polish capital, Warsaw, on...

An anti-government protester carries rocks during clashes in Tahrir, or Liberation square, in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011.

photo: AP / Tara Todras-Whitehill

As Violence Rages in Egypt is the United States a Democracy Hypocrite?
read more The Examiner

With the uprising in Egypt worsening this week, we should be reminded that the U.S. has been a proud sponsor of President Hosni Mubarak for the last 30 years. When the protests for more democratic input started last week, the White House and U.S. State Department sat quietly on the fence and wouldn’t support either side in the battle for democracy....

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Global food prices hit record high read more

Indian Villager Women and children Farmers on the paddy Field at South 24 Pargana in Eastern India, 15 January, 2011.

Al Jazeera

World food prices have hit their highest level on record in January, the United Nations has said. It said on Thursday that its Food and Agriculture Organisation Food Price Index rose for the seventh month in a row to reach 231, topping the peak...

photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick

Afghan prisoner dies in Guantanamo read more

In this photo taken Wednesday, May 13, 2009 and reviewed by the U.S. military, the sun rises over the Guantanamo detention facility at dawn, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. In a speech Thursday, President Barack Obama defended his plans to close the Guantanamo prison camp.

The Siasat Daily

Cuba, February 04: An Afghan detainee held without charges at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp for nearly eight years has died after exercising, the US military says. Awal Gul, 48, reportedly collapsed and died after working out on an exercise machine....

photo: AP / Brennan Linsley

Burma to elect first 'civilian' president in decades read more

Myanmar Prime Minister Thein Sein attends the ASEAN meeting with Southeast Asian business leaders during the 13th ASEAN Summit in Singapore on Tuesday November 20, 2007.

BBC News

PM Thein Sein is the front-runner Continue reading the main story Burma: Battle for Democracy In pictures: Parliament opens Burma's evolving opposition Burma election: Q&A; Burma election: The parties...

photo: (AP Photo/Romeo GACAD, POOL) /

Terror incidents down, infiltration up in J&K read more

Indian Army men on vigil During a Crackdown of Tral Town 45, KMS from Srinagar south kashmir were militants had opened fire on a patrolling party a night before.

The Times of India

NEW DELHI: Terrorist violence in Jammu & Kashmir has dipped but infiltration from across the Pakistan border has steadily risen, after recording the lowest level for several years in 2008. As the Kashmir region saw nearly three months of...

photo: WN / Imran Nissar

Cyclone Yasi: Queensland escapes wrath of super storm read more

Helby Haines walks with her grandchildren Cienna Haines, left, and Claudia Haines, right, past twisted roofing material strewn on the street in Tully, Australia, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011, after Cyclone Yasi brought heavy rain and howling winds gusting to 186 mph (300 kph).

The Daily Telegraph

North-eastern Australia had a miraculous escape on Thursday when the worst cyclone to hit the state of Queensland in a century missed two major cities, sparing thousands of people from its full force. Image 1 of 4 Helby Haines walks with her...

photo: AP / Rick Rycroft

Iranian cleric lauds Egypt revolution read more

ALTERNATE CROP OF BCO162 - Anti-government protestors throw stones during clashes in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011.

The Siasat Daily

Tehran, February 03: Iranian Grand Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi has lauded the popular revolution in Egypt as a “valiant” attempt for justice, freedom and true independence. In a message released on Thursday, Ayatollah Makarem said that popular...

photo: AP / Ben Curtis

Scandinavian travel groups cancel Egypt trips read more

Zeenews

Stockholm: Travel companies in Sweden, Norway and Denmark said on Wednesday they were cancelling all of this season's trips to Egypt amid the chaotic protests aimed at ousting President Hosni Mubarak. Swedish travel companies Fritidsresor, part of...

photo: WN / Marzena

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