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A protestor shouts slogans as he holds a caricatured photo of former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, during a demonstration in Tunis, Monday, Jan. 24. 2011. The protesters are angry that holdovers from former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's regime hold leading posts in the interim government in place since last week. Ben Ali fled the country Jan. 14 after 23 years in power, pushed out by weeks of deadly protests driven by anger over joblessness, corruption and repression.
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Tunisia calls up reservists
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Tunisia has asked military reservists to report for duty in a new drive to restore order, three weeks after an uprising overthrew the north African nation's long-term president. Tuesday's order came as security officials in the coalition government said there was a conspiracy by officials close to the old administration to...
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor is seen at the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in Leidschendam, Netherlands, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010. Naomi Campbell appeared at a Dutch courthouse to give evidence at the war crimes trial of former Liberian ruler Charles Taylor after the supermodel lost her battle to avoid testifying. Campbell will be questioned about claims made by actress Mia Farrow that Taylor gave the British model an uncut diamond after a dinner party hosted by Nelson Mandela in South Africa in 1997. Prosecutors say if that's true, it's evidence that he received diamonds from Sierra Leone rebels in exchange for weapons during that country's 1992-2002 civil war. The court did not give permission to take photos of Naomi Campbell.
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Charles Taylor's lawyer storms out of court
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Former Liberian President Charles Taylor awaits the start of the prosecutio... Former Liberian President Charles Taylor, center between guards, awaits... Former Liberian President Charles Taylor, center rear between guards, awaits... LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AP) - Calling the trial "a farce," Charles Taylor's lawyer stormed out of court Tuesday...
Egyptian anti-government demonstrators pray in Tahrir Square, the center of anti-government demonstrations, in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Feb. 7, 2011.
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Cairo struggles for normalcy in face of protests
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CAIRO - As Egypt's revolt entered its third week, the government of President Hosni Mubarak sought to seize the initiative yesterday from protesters still crowding Tahrir Square, offering a pay raise for public employees, announcing a date for opening the stock market, and projecting an air of normalcy in a city reeling just days ago. The...
Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron talks during a news conference at an EU summit in Brussels, Friday, Feb. 4, 2011.
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Cameron's The White Man's 'Multiculturalism' Burden
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. When Prime Minister David Cameron condemned Britain's policy of maintaining a social environment that encourages multiculturalism, it was reminiscent of Rudyard Kipling's The Whiteman's Burden. Cameron continued to call Britain's attempt at promoting multiculturalism as a complete failure, mainly...
In this handout photo released from the Defense Ministry shows North Korean counterpart Col. Ri Sun Gyun, right front, arrives with other North Korean soldiers for a military meeting at the south side of the truce village of Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone (DMZ) that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, north of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011. Military officers from North and South Korea met Tuesday to try to lay the groundwork for high-level defense talks aimed at easing hostilities on the Korean peninsula.
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North and South Korea hold first talks since shelling
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Continue reading the main story Inside North Korea Q&A;: Inter-Korean crisis Q&A;: North Korea nuclear talks Why border hot-spot is war relic Rare peek into China-N Korea ties Military officials from North and South Korea have held their first talks since the North shelled a South Korean island in November, killing four people....
Libyan Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who was found guilty of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing but recently released from his Scottish prison on compassionate grounds, is seen below a portrait of Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi, as he is visited by a group of African parliamentarians, not pictured, at Tripoli Medical Center in Tripoli, Libya Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009.
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Labour helped free Lockerbie bomber, says report
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MARK HENNESSY, London Editor FORMER BRITISH prime minister Gordon Brown's Labour government did all it could to help Libya win the release of convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi from a Scottish jail, but did not pressurise the Scottish authorities into making the decision, an official...
Police detain a protestor during a demonstration against Haiti's President Rene Preval in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday Feb. 7, 2011. Preval's term had been scheduled to end Monday but will stay in office for three more months as his country chooses a successor in a delayed election, said his chief of staff. A group protested outside the National Palace, blocking traffic with overturned trash bins and burning tires and chanting “Preval is a crook!”
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Protesters call for Préval's removal
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Protesters demanding that Haiti's outgoing President René Préval leave office immediately set up burning barricades yesterday and threw stones at police and UN peacekeepers. The police, backed by United Nations peacekeepers who were standing by,...
FILE - This undated frame grab image taken from files made available by IntelCenter and taken from a video posted on a pro-rebel Web site Wednesday March 31, 2010, purports to show Chechen militant leader Doku Umarov.
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Chechen warlord Doku Umarov claims Moscow airport bomb
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Continue reading the main story Related Stories Moscow attacker 'is identified' Profile: Doku Umarov Russia airport bomb: Lives cut short One of Russia's most wanted men, Chechen warlord Doku Umarov, has said he ordered the deadly bomb attack last month on a...
An Egyptian Army soldier looks out of the turret of his tank as anti-government protesters pray at the continuing protest in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Feb. 7, 2011. Egypt's  embattled regime announced Monday a 15 percent raise for government employees in an attempt to shore up its base and defuse popular anger but the gestures so far have done little to persuade the tens of thousands of protesters occupying Tahrir Square to end their two-week long protest, leaving the two sides in an uneasy stalemate.
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Egypt's new Cabinet offers sops to quell unrest
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Dubai: Egypt's new cabinet on Monday announced a 15 per cent raise in the salaries of government employees in an attempt to defuse anger against President Hosni Mubarak. Wael Ghonim, Google's head of marketing for the Middle East and North Africa, was also released on Monday. These moves follow earlier promises to investigate election fraud...
Southern Sudanese celebrate the formal announcement of independence referendum results in the southern capital of Juba on Monday, Feb. 7, 2011. Referendum officials indicated that nearly 99 percent of all voters cast ballots in favor of southern independence. Southern Sudan will remain united with the north until the expiration of Comprehensive Peace Agreement in July 2011.
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South Sudan votes for independence by a landslide
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - South Sudan voted overwhelmingly to declare independence in final results of a referendum announced on Monday, opening the door to Africa's newest state and a fresh period of uncertainty for the fractured region. A girl holds a South Sudan flag during the announcement of the preliminary results of voting in Sudan, January 30,...
Leaders of the Church of Scientology last night launched a vigorous defence of their...
After thirty unbroken years as President of Egypt, it had seemed as if Hosni Mubarak's charmed...
PARIS — After the great recession, Europe has embarked on a great regression. Wages,...
 
Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman, center, meets with representatives of protesters of 25th January movement in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Feb. 6, 2011. Egypt's largest opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, said it would begin talks Sunday with the government to try to end the country's political crisis but made clear it would insist on the immediate ouster of longtime authoritarian President Hosni Mubarak.
Omar Suleiman, Egypt's recently appointed vice-president, has long long seen by Israel as the favoured successor to Hosni Mubarak, the current president, according to a leaked diplomatic cable obtained by WikiLeaks, the...
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Anti-government protesters pray in front of an army tank and armored personnel carrier at the continuing protest in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Feb. 7, 2011.
Who doesn't love a democratic revolution? Who is not moved by the renunciation of fear and the reclamation of dignity in the streets of Cairo and Alexandria? The worldwide euphoria that has greeted the Egyptian uprising is understandable. All...
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CodePink activists, including Danielle Greene, right, hold signs in support of U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, the alleged leaker of documents to WikiLeaks, who is currently jailed, Monday, Jan. 17, 2011, during a demonstration outside FBI headquarters in Washington.
Lawyers acting for Bradley Manning, the US intelligence analyst accused of stealing classified diplomatic cables later made public by WikiLeaks, may file for the charges against him to be dismissed on the grounds that the nine months he has been held...
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Former US secretary of state's memoirs express regret for saying 'stuff happens' over Iraq war Donald Rumsfeld's autobiography Known and Unknown has provoked John McCain and shifted the blame to Paul Bremer. Photograph: Jacquelyn Martin/AP...
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Demonstrators hold pictures of Haiti's ousted President Jean Bertrand Aristide during a protest demanding his return in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday Feb. 2, 2011. Aristide  is a former priest and liberation theologist who rose to become Haiti's first democratically elected president. He was overthrown in a coup, restored to power, then ousted again in 2004.
Continue reading the main story Related Stories Haiti's run-off candidates named Haiti to give Aristide passport The Haitian government says it has issued former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide with a passport, opening the way for his possible...
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Three members of a dinosaur expedition led by Illinois paleontologist Dr. William Hammer, from Augustana College in Rock Island, Ill., look out across the summer landscape last month from the dig site at 13,000 feet on Mount Kirkpatrick, about 400 miles from the South Pole. The expedition, bundled in fleece and hacking away with drills, jackhammers and dynamite, found pieces of rock-encased fossils which they believe might match the first dinosaur fossil ever found onAntarctica's mainland, discovered by Hammer 13 years ago.
By Howard Falcon-Lang Royal Holloway, London Dinosaurs once foraged beneath the Southern Lights in Antarctica Continue reading the main story Related Stories Antarctic Scott's lasting legacy Two new dino species discovered It may be hard to believe,...
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Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders, right, and his lawyer Bram Moszkowicz, left, are seen inside the court building in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Wednesday Jan. 20, 2010.
MATT STEINGLASS in Amsterdam GEERT WILDERS, the Dutch far-right politician, stepped up his rhetoric against Islam and immigration at preliminary hearings before a trial for incitement to hatred and discrimination. He claimed yesterday that Islam was...
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, center, arrives with his lawyer Jennifer Robinson, left, at Belmarsh Magistrates' Court in London, Monday, Feb. 7, 2011. Assange  is accused of sexual misconduct by two women he met during a visit to Stockholm last year and Swedish authorities want him extradited to face the allegations. A two-day hearing that begins Monday will decide Assange's legal fate.
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-A display shows the level of the German stock index (DAX) at the stock exchange in Frankfurt, Germany, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2008. European markets surged Thursday as a stunning comeback on Wall Street overnight heartened investors over concerns about the U.S. economy. Markets in Britain, Germany, and France followed most Asian markets to rise Thursday morning, helping erase losses from their steep slide earlier this week that was driven by fears of a recession in the U.S., a vital export
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Haitian President Rene Preval pauses during a joint news conference with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Tuesday, March 9, 2010, at the State Department in Washington
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses a session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. In a nod to the post-crisis atmosphere, the World Economic Forum shifts its attention on Friday to austerity measures and priorities for improving the economy.
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Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner talks with attendees in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 9, 2009, before President Barack Obama spoke about the Consumer Financial Protection Agency, regulatory reform and the financial markets.
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Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, faces the media in the grounds of Ellingham Hall, the home of Front Line Club founding member Vaughan Smith, at Bungay, England, Friday, Dec. 17, 2010. Assange said he feared that the United States is getting ready to indict him, saying Friday that he believed that a grand jury was meeting to consider charges against him. He has repeatedly voiced concerns that American authorities were getting ready to press charges over WikiLeaks' release of some 250,000 secret State Department cables, which have angered and embarrassed officials in Washington.
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Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting performs stretching exercises during a practice session in Hyderabad, India, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009. Australia and India will play the fifth one-day international cricket match of the ongoing series on Thursday in Hyderabad.
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An unidentified wool shed worker throws a Merino sheep pelt on a sorting table during the annual shearing season at Yarran Station near Young, 300 kilometers (187 miles) west of Sydney, Australia, Friday, March 5, 2004.
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