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WikiLeaks' Julian Assange, Pt. 1

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Images from Egypt's protests

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Cambodian and Thai Foreign Ministers Meet to Solve Border Dispute

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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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Powerful cyclone Yasi hits Queensland in Australia

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Zimbabwe's Mugabe & Tsvangirai Sign Power-Sharing Power-Sharing Pact Deal Mugabe Relaxes His Grip On Power Historic Handshake Test Of Africa's Model Zimbabwe Sanctions Kept Replaces $10 Trillion Banknote Prime Minister Says Mugabe Can't Be Prosecuted

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10 SAVE OUR PLANET Thousands endangered by Somali drought

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Anti-government rallies hit Yemen

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File - Geoff Morrell, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, discusses the Defense Department's response to the release of classified documents to Wikileaks during a press briefing at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., Aug. 5, 2010.

photo: US DoD / Cherie Cullen

Is WikiLeaks hi-tech terrorism or hype? Washington can't decide
read more The Guardian

How embarrassed government officials and US intelligence agencies have reacted to the US embassy cables Hillary Clinton chairs a meeting at the state department in Washington. The department has pulled its diplomatic traffic from the network where Bradley Manning allegedly found the US embassy cables. Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP...

Egyptian anti government protesters throw stones during clashes in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011.

photo: AP / Khalil Hamra

Egypt's government may meet with opposition as protests continue
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Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- Negotiations could begin Saturday between Egypt's vice president and some opposition groups, as anti-government protests continue for a 12th day. The mood in Cairo's Tahrir Square Saturday morning was tense, but peaceful. Cars traveled over a nearby overpass. Some protesters prayed. Others who had spent the night swept...

A Thai border patrol policeman surveys the damage on a school in Si Sa ket Province, Thailand on Saturday, Feb. 5, 2011.

photo: AP

Thai soldier dies in fighting at Cambodia border
read more Khaleej Times

BANGKOK - Thai and Cambodian soldiers exchanged fire for a second day on Saturday in a brief clash that killed at least one Thai soldier, the latest flare-up in a long-running feud over land around an 11th-century temple. Thai army spokesman, Col. Sansern Kaewkamnerd, said one soldier was killed and four were wounded during shelling in a 4.6-sq-km...

President Barack Obama addresses the Business Council in Washington, Tuesday, May 4, 2010.

photo: AP / Susan Walsh

Obama: Mubarak must make 'right decision'
read more Yahoo Daily News

WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Barack Obama has delivered a clear hint that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak should step down now, saying the proud "patriot" should listen to his people and make the "right decision." Obama did not explicitly call on Mubarak to resign, but said the Arab strongman had already made the...

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, right, shakes hands with US President George W. Bush (tmg1)

photo: AP / Nasser Nasser

Mubarak and Bush: Worse Than Hobbes?
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. Recently, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak declared he would like to resign immediately but feared the nation would descend into utter chaos and disorder. He then warned of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood Party. He believes they are in the process of usurping power and will rule by repressing others...

An anti-government protestor prays in Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Feb. 4, 2011.

photo: AP / Emilio Morenatti

Egypt Protesters Throng Square After Violence
read more ABC News

The Associated Press By HAMZA HENDAWI Associated Press CAIRO February 4, 2011 (AP) A soldiers stands by anti-government protestors lining up to enter Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt,... A soldiers stands by anti-government protestors lining up to enter Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Feb. 4, 2011. The Egyptian military guarded thousands of...

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
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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...

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Iraq PM takes big pay cut as Mideast protests rage read more

Prime Minister of Iraq Nuri al-Maliki listens to an opening speech during the Sarafiya bridge opening in Kadhimiya, Iraq.

Khaleej Times

BAGHDAD - Iraq's prime minister has pledged to halve his salary in a move that appears aimed at placating frustrations over mounting inequality and poor basic services, as protests rage around the Middle East. Nuri al-Maliki made the promise in a...

photo: USAF / Staff Sgt. Jessica J. Wilkes

Thirteen dead in fresh Sri Lanka floods read more

A swath of paddy fields is submerged by floodwaters in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka, Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011.

Yahoo Daily News

COLOMBO (AFP) – Renewed rains in Sri Lanka have flooded a large number of towns and villages and killed at least 13 people, officials said Saturday. Heavy monsoon downpours have driven some 800,000 people out of their flooded homes and into...

photo: AP / Eranga Jayawardena

Multiculturalism has failed: British PM read more

Britain opposition Conservative Party leader, David Cameron addresses the media as he launchs a campaign calling on the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, pictured on the poster in the background, to hold a referendum on the EU Lisbon Treaty , London, Monday, April 27, 2009.

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London: Prime Minister David Cameron will condemn Britain's long-standing policy of multiculturalism as a failure on Saturday as he sets out his vision for how to combat home-grown Islamist extremism. In a speech to the Munich Security Conference,...

photo: AP / Sang Tan

Rasmussen calls for stronger EU-Nato ties read more

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen answers questions to the media during a joint press conference with Czech Prime Minister Jan Fischer, unseen, at the government's headquarters in Prague, Czech Republic Friday, March 5, 2010

Irish Times

DEREK SCALLY in Munich NATO SECRETARY general Anders Fogh Rasmussen has called for greater co-operation between the EU and the military alliance to offer greater security in a time of budget austerity. Opening the Munich security conference, Mr...

photo: AP / Petr David Josek

Afghan women fear for the future read more

An Afghan women and her child arrive at the Lindenau Clinic at Forward Operating Base Price, Helmand province, Afghanistan, Jan. 23, 2010, to receive medical treatment.

The Hindu

Homa Khaleeli As the West prepares to pull out, it could mean a reversal of hard-won improvements....

photo: USAF / Tech. Sgt. Efren Lopez

Global Fund Against Aids cracks down on fraud read more

An unaccompanied boy, Seragio, who is sick with malaria, is interviewed by a woman social worker, who rests a hand on his forehead as he lies on a blanket in a tent, in a camp for some 40,000 people displaced by the recent flooding, near the town of Chac

BBC News

Continue reading the main story Related Stories Graft fears halt Zambian HIV aid Germany halts Aids fund payment The UN-backed Global Fund Against Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria has announced it is strengthening financial safeguards following...

photo: Unicef file photo

As Germany Booms, It Faces a Shortage of Workers read more

People with shopping bags are seen in the city center of Berlin, Germany, Saturday, Dec. 2, 2006 in this file photo. German business confidence slipped again in February, a widely watched survey showed Friday, Feb. 23, 2007, but analysts said Europe's largest economy was still set to grow through

The New York Times

BERLIN — Dana Russow longs for the day when she will not have to worry about staffing problems. “It’s not easy finding qualified staff to take care of the elderly,” said Ms. Russow, 41, director of Residenz Zehlendorf, a...

photo: AP / Michael Sohn, file

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