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In this photo of a sketch by courtroom artist Janet Hamlin and reviewed by the U.S. military, defendant Ibrahim al-Qosi, far left, sits with a member of his defense team in the courthouse for the U.S. war crimes commission at the Camp Justice compound on Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba, Wednesday, July 15, 2009.
photo: AP / Janet Hamlin, Pool
U.S. cuts prison sentence for bin Laden's cook
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MIAMI (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden's former cook had his Guantanamo prison sentence cut on Wednesday to two years from 14, under a plea agreement that remains secret, the Pentagon said. The sentence reduction had been expected since Sudanese captive Ibrahim al Qosi, who was also bin Laden's sometime bodyguard, pleaded guilty in the U.S. war crimes...
Anti-government protestors hold Egyptian flags during a demonstration at Tahrir square in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011. Protesters appear to have settled in for a long standoff, turning Tahrir Square into a makeshift village with tens of thousands coming every day, with some sleeping in tents made of blankets and plastic sheeting.
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US says Egyptians' demands unmet
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The embattled government of Egypt had not met even a minimum threshold of reforms demanded by the people of the country, the White House said on Wednesday, warning that massive protests will likely continue until real reforms are instituted immediately. In a sharp escalation of rhetoric with one of its most important allies in the Middle East,...
**FILE** A photo taken Oct. 8, 2008 shows the 'Sirius Star' tanker anchored in the harbor of Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Pirates who seized the Saudi supertanker loaded with US dlrs 100 million in crude oil anchored the ship within sight of impoverished Somali fishing villages Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008 while the U.S. and other naval forces decided against intervention for now. The captors of the Sirius Star anchored the ship, with a full load of 2 million barrels of oil and 25 crew members, close to a main pirate den on the Somali coast, Harardhere.
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Somali piracy 'threatens global oil supplies'
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Continue reading the main story PIRACY CRISIS Growing risk Q&A;: Prosecuting pirates Spotlight on 'guns for hire' Somali piracy: Global map A tanker owners' group has urged governments to do more to combat piracy in the Indian Ocean, saying hijackings could disrupt global oil supplies....
Anti-government protestors hold candles as they walk past an Egyptian Army tank in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011. Protesters appear to have settled in for a long standoff, turning Tahrir Square into a makeshift village with tens of thousands coming every day, with some sleeping in tents made of blankets and plastic sheeting.
photo: AP / Emilio Morenatti
Egypt regime warns of crackdown
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Egypt's embattled regime has warned of a military crackdown as massive protests demanding its overthrow spilled out across the country and deadly unrest flared in the remote south. Hundreds of demonstrators marched on parliament from the epicentre of the uprising in Cairo's Tahrir Square, the day after the largest protests since the revolt began,...
Brazil's Economy Minister Guido Mantega speaks about the economy at a news conference in Brasilia, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009.
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Brazil cuts budget to cool economy, curb inflation
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* Brazil cuts 50 billion reais from 2011 budget * Finance minister says cuts won't hurt the economy * Gov't says infrastructure, social programs untouched (Adds quotes, details, context, market reaction) By Ana Nicolaci da Costa and Isabel Versiani BRASILIA, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Brazil's government unveiled budget cuts of about $30 billion on...
New Tunisian President Fouad Mebazaa attends the cabinet oath taking ceremony in Tunis, Tuesday Jan. 18, 2011. Four ministers quit Tunisia's day-old government on Tuesday, undermining its hopes of quelling unrest by sharing power with members of the opposition to the old regime. All who resigned were opponents of deposed President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's iron-fisted 23-year rule and had been named to the government Monday.
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Tunisia senate grants leader wide powers
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Tunisian President Foued Mebazaa poses during the swearing-in of the interi... Tunisia's Senate agreed unanimously Wednesday to grant wide powers to the interim president struggling to restore order to the country following the overthrow of ex-leader Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. The upper house followed the lead of the lower house of parliament which...
France's President Nicolas Sarkozy delivers a speech at the end of a meeting on national debate about dependent people in Paris, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011.
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Sarkozy to ministers: Take vacation in France
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JENNY BARCHFIELD Associated Press= PARIS (AP) — A government minister taking a sun-and-sea getaway paid by an unsavory autocrat? While that scenario would be unthinkable in many countries, in France some top figures have made a habit of planning their vacations around the largesse of foreign governments or influential tycoons. But the long-standing...
Security forces, emergency responders and civilians stand near a destroyed building after a car bomb attack in Kirkuk, 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011. Car bombs ripped through the oil-rich Iraqi city of Kirkuk  on Wednesday, killing several and wounding scores of people in the heart of a region of long-simmering ethnic tensions.
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3 car bombs kill 7 in Iraq
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67 are wounded as the car bombs shatter months of relative calm in Kirkuk. Arabs, Kurds and Turkmen all claim the oil-rich region of Iraq but are at odds over the province's future. Share Related Links By Asso Ahmed and Raheem Salman, Los Angeles Times...
Radical Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, second left, accompanied by his lawyer Achmad Midhan, third left, is escorted by police officers as he arrives to sign his dossier at the district prosecutor's office in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Dec. 13, 2010. Bashir was arrested in August this year for allegedly helping set up and fund a new terror cell that was plotting high-profile assassinations and deadly attacks on foreigners in the capital.
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Terrorism suspect cleric Abu Bakar Bashir faces his accusers
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RADICAL cleric Abu Bakar Bashir will be tried in Jakarta today, accused of motivating and funding terrorism, and of being the supreme leader of a group running a military training camp. The 72-year-old faces the death penalty when...
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor, right, and his defence lawyer Courtenay Griffits, left, are seen at the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, July 13, 2009.
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Charles Taylor boycotts war crimes trial again
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LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- Charles Taylor's lawyer launched a scathing attack Wednesday on judges in the former Liberian President's war crimes trial, accusing them of putting ego ahead of justice in the landmark case. Courtenay Griffiths spoke outside the courtroom after he and Taylor again boycotted the closing stages of his trial at the...
The British frigate HMS Portland heads through the Suez canal, in Ismailia, Egypt Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008. A European Union flotilla will begin anti-piracy operations off the coast of Somalia next week, the EU's foreign policy chief said Wednesday. Six warships and three maritime reconnaissance aircraft will replace a NATO naval force that has been patrolling the region and escorting cargo ships carrying relief aid to Somalia since the end of October.
It is perhaps one of Israel’s worst nightmares that the Muslim Brotherhood would come to power in Egypt and shut down the Suez Canal. Such a notion would also apply to United States and much of the global economy seeming as not only is oil shipped...
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In this Feb. 2, 2011 file picture, traders work in the Frankfurt stock exchange , Deutsche Boerse. Stock market operator NYSE Euronext  confirms it's in "advance discussions" about a potential business combination with Germany's Deutsche Boerse AG Wednesday feb. 9, 2011. It cautioned, however, that no agreement has been reached and there could not be any assurance that an agreement would eventually be reached. The statement comes on the heels of the merger between two other rival exchanges - the London Stock Exchange Group PLC and TMX Group Inc., which operates the Toronto Stock Exchange.
NYSE Euronext, the owner of the New York Stock Exchange, and Deutsche Börse are close to proposing to merge and form the world's largest equity exchange. The deal would directly challenge competition authorities and would accelerate the wave of...
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Job seekers line up for assistance at an Economic Development Department office in Sunnyvale, Calif., Friday, Feb. 27, 2009.
US lawmakers were warned yesterday that allowing states to declare bankruptcy would upend the $2.8 trillion (£1.7 trillion) municipal bond market, making it much harder and more expensive to fund local government, and potentially destablising the...
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Demonstrators asking for political change in their country face riot policemen in Algiers Saturday Jan. 22, 2011. Riot police have broken up a march by hundreds of protesters demanding Algeria  overturn a law banning public gatherings. Some demonstrators waved Tunisian flags _ a nod to the street unrest that led Tunisia's president to flee to Saudi Arabia on Jan. 14. Sign reads: Power Clear Off
RUADH�N Mac CORMAIC ALGERIA:�ALGERIA'S OPPOSITION has said it will go ahead with a planned protest on Saturday despite a ban by authorities. Hoping to build on the momentum generated by the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, the march's organisers -...
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Chadian army soldiers patrol the refugee camp Kou Kou Angarana some 30 kilometers from the Sudan border on Wednesday, April 19, 2006.
(AP) NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Chad's armed forces and Chadian and Sudanese rebel groups are recruiting children as young as 13 to become soldiers, Amnesty International said in a report released Thursday. The children are recruited from camps in eastern...
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A Youngstown State Police University officer patrols the street near the location of an early morning shooting at a fraternity house just north of the Youngstown State University campus that left student Jamail E. Johnson, 25 of Youngstown dead and 11 injured Sunday, Feb. 6, 2011 in Youngstown, Ohio.
By KRIS MAHER Police said Wednesday they expected to make additional arrests in connection with a shooting early Sunday morning near Youngstown State University in Ohio that left one person dead and 11 injured, one critically. "The initial...
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Census workers take details of a Kashmiri family on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011. Millions of census workers fanned out across India  on Wednesday as they began a mammoth effort to document every person in the world's second most populous country over the next three weeks.
Special Correspondent Enumeration will continue in the region till February 28...
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