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Iranian lawmakers talk in an open session of parliament  to debate on impeachment of Transportation Minister Hamid Behbahani, unseen, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011. The Iranian parliament has dismissed the transportation minister and ally of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the wake of several deadly plane crashes in the country.
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Iran's Leadership Cracks Down
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By FARNAZ FASSIHI The Iranian government threatened opposition leaders with execution and made a fresh wave of arrests, a day after the largest protests in a year prompted clashes in which at least two people were killed and dozens injured. Tehran and other Iranian cities quieted down on Tuesday as the opposition regrouped and assessed the impact...
A woman sorts garlic at a wholesale market in Gauhati, India, Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. According to new reports, a rise in vegetable prices, especially onion, pushed India's food inflation to a 10-week high in the week ended Dec. 18.
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Food prices at dangerous levels: World Bank
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WASHINGTON: Rising global food prices has pushed an estimated 44 million more people into extreme poverty in developing countries over the past eight months, the World Bank said on Tuesday. The poverty-fighting institution said its food price index increased by 15 percent between October 2010 and January 2011 and is just 3 percent below its 2008...
Demonstrators chant and wave Bahraini flags near the Pearl Monument on a main square in Manama, Bahrain, Tuesday Feb. 15, 2011. Thousands of protesters poured into the square in Bahrain's  capital in an Egypt-style rebellion that sharply escalated pressure on authorities as the Arab push for change gripped the Gulf for the first time. Oppositions groups are calling for greater political freedom and an end to the ruling Sunni monarchy's grip on key decisions and government posts. The nation's majority Shiites have long complained of discrimination.
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Bahrain latest focus for Arab anger
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Thousands of protesters took over a main square in Bahrain's capital this morning in a bold attempt to copy Egypt's uprising and force high-level changes in one of Washington's key allies in the Gulf. The move by demonstrators capped two days of clashes across the tiny island kingdom that left at least two people dead, parliament in limbo by an...
Changkouth Sinchot, a young boy lies of a bed, in Juba Teaching Hospital after he suffered a bullet wound to his left leg during the February 9-10 attacks on the town of Fangak when southern rebel leader George Athor and his men attacked the town and fought with southern security forces. Southern leaders say more than 200 were killed. .
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Renegade militia kills over 200 in S.Sudan: officials
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By Jeremy Clarke JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - Attacks by a renegade militia in south Sudan's oil state of Jonglei have killed at least 211 people, a southern minister said on Tuesday, doubling earlier estimates of the death count. The violence has rekindled concern for the security of the underdeveloped region, where voters last month overwhelmingly...
President Barack Obama gestures during a news conference on the White House complex in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011.
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Obama praises Egypt, talks budget at news conference
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The president says Egypt is sending 'the right signals' regarding developing democratic systems and is optimistic on U.S. domestic economic issues. Share Related Stories See more stories » X By Michael A. Memoli and Michael Muskal Los Angeles Times...
Migrants arrive at the harbor in Ragusa after a boat was intercepted by the Italian coast guard off the city of Ragusa, Italy, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011. Overnight, Italian authorities intercepted a boat of 32 people believed to be from Egypt off the coast of Ragusa on Sicily, indicating that the exodus was not confined to Tunisia alone. Some 2,000 of the 5,337 Tunisians who arrived in recent days remained on Lampedusa, a tiny island with a permanent population of about 6,000 that is closer to Africa than the Italian mainland, awaiting transfer to immigrant holding centers elsewhere in Italy
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Tunisia migrants: Italy puts Europe on alert
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BBC's Matt Cole: "They really are swamped" Continue reading the main story Related Stories In pictures: Tunisian migrant influx Tunisia rejects Italy police call Q&A;: Tunisia crisis Italy has warned that an influx of Tunisian migrants arriving on its shores could have devastating consequences for all European nations. Interior Minister Roberto...
File - Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi gestures at the opening of a textile industry fair in Milan, Italy, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009.
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Silvio Berlusconi to face trial in underage sex case
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Judge orders Italian prime minister to stand trial on charges of paying for sex with an underage prostitute and abuse of office Silvio Berlusconi, who faces up to three years in prison on the juvenile prostitution charge, and up to 12 years on the charge of abusing his official authority. Photograph: Andrew Medichini/AP...
This photo, taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran shows Iranian protestors throwing stones at ant-riot police officers, during an anti-government protest in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Feb. 14, 2011.
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Mideast uprisings spur new protests in Iran
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CAIRO - Tens of thousands of protesters faced club-wielding security forces Monday in Bahrain, Yemen and Iran in what experts said may be shaping up as a pro-democracy wave ignited by the revolts that drove Egypt's and Tunisia's autocratic rulers from power. At least one protester was confirmed killed in Bahrain, and there were unconfirmed reports...
Egyptian police officers carried on the shoulders of protesters shout "The police and the people are one hand", in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011.
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Why the West Has Failed to Spread Democracy (Part One)
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. Whereas France has long taken pride in its resounding slogan of "Liberty!, Equality!, and Fraternity!", Great Britain boasted of its natural rights of life, liberty and property. The United States of America too prides itself of being the first colonial independence movement to have established a...
Soldiers stand on a semi-submersible vessel in Timbiqui, southwestern Colombia, Monday Feb. 14, 2011. The vessel was seized from drug traffickers during an operation Monday, authorities said.
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Colombia nabs fully submersible drug submarine
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BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian soldiers have for the first time seized a fully submersible drug-smuggling submarine capable of reaching the coast of Mexico, authorities announced Monday. Last July, another fully submersible "narcosub" was seized just across the border by authorities in neighboring Ecuador. Previous drug-carrying vessels found in...
WASHINGTON — She says what she wants, does what she wants and makes no apologies. And...
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German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, right, talks with Spanish Finance Minister Elena Salgado, prior to the start of the EU finance ministers council at the European Council building in Brussels, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011.
By SIMON NIXON The markets may be getting ahead of themselves over the prospects for an end to the euro zone crisis—judging by the performance so far this year of the bank sector; the European bank equity index is up 17%; credit default swaps...
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 International doctors march outside Britain´s Department of Health to protest newly-proposed government immigration rules that will stop them applying for work in the UK, in central London Friday April 21, 2006. Under changes announced last month,
Continue reading the main story Related Stories Failed asylum seekers 'neglected' Tougher English rules on way - PM UK migration 'unlikely to plunge' Non-European Union workers earning more than £150,000 a year are to be excluded from the...
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gestures while speaking in the International Conference of Islamic World Publishers, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, June 20, 2010.
2011-02-16 07:36:16.0Iran blames West for provoking unrestiran protest, egypt opposition, Ahmad Reza Radan11004220Global General2@webnews/enpproperty--> TEHRAN - Iranian officials blamed the West Tuesday for provoking unrest inside the country, local...
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Supporters of the Yemeni government chant slogans supporting President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011. Thousands of people marching for the ouster of Yemen's  U.S.-allied president clashed Tuesday with police and government supporters, and at least three demonstrators were injured in a fifth straight day of Egypt-inspired protests.
Tweet - Pro-regime supporters armed with batons and stones Tuesday waded into anti-government protesters trying to march on Yemen’s presidential palace, sparking clashes dispersed by police, witnesses said. At least three people were injured as the...
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India's former Telecoms Minister Andimuthu Raja, left, talks to the media as he leaves the Central Bureau of Investigation court in New Delhi, India, Friday, Dec. 24, 2010. Indian authorities began questioning the country's former telecommunications minister on Friday as part of investigations into a telecoms scandal that cost the country billions and paralyzed proceedings in parliament for nearly four weeks. The Central Bureau of Investigation, India's equivalent of the FBI interrogated Andimuthu Raja, for his role in the 2008 sale of second-generation, or 2G, cellular licenses, which have resulted in losses of nearly $36 billion in potential revenue for the government, a CBI official said.
NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation has refuted the government's "zero loss" claim in the 2G telecom scam. It said revenue loss due to manipulation of policy and under-pricing of spectrum could be to the tune of Rs 50,000 crore. According...
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A hazardous materials unit worker is hosed down on Capitol Hill in this Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2001 file photo where worked continued inspecting buildings and offices for anthrax contamination. A top U.S. biodefense researcher, Bruce E. Ivins, 62, apparently committed suicide just as the Justice Department was about to file criminal charges against him in the anthrax mailings that traumatized the nation in the weeks following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Los Angeles Times reported in their Friday Aug. 1, 2008 edition
Researchers say they have no reason to believe federal scientist Bruce Ivins was not involved in mailing letters containing anthrax that killed five people -- but they find some cracks in the conclusions the FBI based on the scientific evidence....
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Army soldiers march in front of the burned down building of Hosni Mubarak's National Democratic Party in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday Feb. 15, 2011.
CAIRO - Egypt's military said on Tuesday it hoped to hand over to an elected government in six months, but the Muslim Brotherhood said ending emergency law and freeing political prisoners would build a 'bridge of confidence'. Rumours swirled about...
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Three boys hold Egyptian flags in front of the Egyptian TV headquarters, guarded by army soldiers, in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday Feb. 15, 2011. Egypt's  military is trying to push ahead quickly with a transition after Mubarak resigned Friday in the face of 18 days of popular protests.
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England soccer player Theo Walcott  during an England press conference in Watford, England, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010. England will play Bulgaria in a European Championship qualifying match at Wembley on Friday.
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This photo, taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran, shows a female supporter of the Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi holding his poster after Friday prayers in Tehran, Iran, Friday, July 17, 2009.
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A visitor adjusts his glasses as he studies stock prices at the Australian Securities Exchange in Sydney, Australia, Monday, Jan. 21, 2008. The Australian stock market closed lower for the eleventh session in a row on Monday. At the close the S&P/ASX200 index was down 2.9 per cent to 5,580.4 with the All Ordinaries down 2.91 per cent to 5630.9.
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