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Suicide car bombing rock Mogadishu airport

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ICC to query case of Sudan's Bashir

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Kasab's lawyer Nikam on HC verdict

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Libya Protests: Hague Condemns "Horrifying" Violence

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Public Employees' Bargaining Battle: Coming Soon to Your State?

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Oil Spill From Space April 20 - May 24 2010 Deepwater Horizon

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French FM defends Tunisia links once again

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Bos 'zeer teleurgesteld' over Icesave-veto (1-11-2010).

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Ten children die in Estonian orphanage fire

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Uganda's President wins disputed poll

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US Vetoes UN Settlement Resolution - Obama's True Nature Fully Exposed

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Morocco Protests Planned for 20 February

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12 Killed in Tour Boat Sinking in Vietnam

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China tries to stamp out 'Jasmine Revolution'

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Suicide bombings strike Kabul

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Somali police officers look at the wreckage of a car destroyed in a suicide bombing attack which targeted a police station in southern Mogadishu's Waberi district, Somalia, Monday, Feb. 21, 2011. A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden car at a police station in the Somali capital Monday, killing at least half a dozen people, a police officer said.

photo: AP / Farah Abdi Warsameh

8 killed in suicide car bomb attack in Somalia
read more The Guardian

ABDI GULED Associated Press= MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden car at a police station in the Somali capital Monday, killing at least eight people and wounding 35, a police officer said. Thick smoke rose into the sky and human remains were scattered near the station, said officer Mohamed Abdi. "If the car...

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Egypt cabinet reshuffle brings in opposition read more

Protesters wave Egyptian flags in front of the Egyptian Parliament in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011. Around 2,000 protesters waved huge flags outside the parliament, located several blocks from Tahrir Square, where they moved a day earlier in the movement's first expansion out of the square. They chanted slogans demanding the dissolving of the legislature, where almost all the seats are held by the ruling party.

KDVR

By Yasmine Saleh and Shaimaa Fayed CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian cabinet reshuffle includes several opponents of the former president, media reported on Monday, a move...

photo: AP / Mohammed Abou Zaid

Shell to sell African downstream assets for $1bln read more

An oil installation belonging to Shell Petroleum Development Company in Odidi, Niger Delta area of Nigeria, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2006. Royal Dutch Shell PLC reported a 4 percent drop in fourth-quarter net profit and a 2 percent decline in sales Thursday, as lower production and the impact from hurricanes Katrina and Rita outweighed the high price of oil.

Yahoo Daily News

LONDON (AFP) – Anglo-Dutch energy giant Shell said Monday it agreed to sell most of its African downstream activities to Swiss group Vitol and Africa-based Helios Investment Partners for $1 billion (740 million euros). The...

photo: AP / George Osodi

APNewsbreak: Blagojevich seeks to toss wiretaps read more

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich looks up at Illinois Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas Fitzgerald before delivering his closing argument at his impeachment trial Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009, in Springfield, Ill.

Herald Tribune

CHICAGO - Attorneys for Rod Blagojevich are asking a judge to throw out secret wiretap recordings made of the former Illinois governor in 2008, claiming there are gaps in the tapes. Defense attorneys say the gaps may contain context needed to...

photo: AP / Seth Perlman

Philippine volcano blast prompts hundreds to flee read more

Mount Bulusan volcano in Irosin township, Sorsogon province, spews ash two kilometers into the sky Monday Feb. 21, 2011 in another phreatic explosion located about 600 kilometers southeast of Manila, Philippines. Volcanologists warned there might be "steam-driven" phreatic explosions in the next days but the alert level stays at No.1, its lowest level.

The Associated Press

MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Hundreds of villagers fled to safety Monday after a restive volcano belched ash and smoke into the sky after a monthlong lull, officials said. Despite Mount Bulusan's ash explosion, its 13th...

photo: AP / Aldrin Recebido

N. Korea sought military talks with US read more

A South Korean woman passes by a screen showing a portrait of North Korean Leader Kim Jong Il during a street campaign against the Chinese government's policy on North Korean refugees, in downtown Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Aug. 10, 2007. Thousands of North Koreans have fled their communist homeland to escape hunger and harsh political oppression in recent years, with many taking a long journey through the lands of China to Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and other Southeast Asian countries on their way to seek asylum with a great risk of getting repatriated if they were ever caught by Chinese authorities.

The Times of India

SEOUL: North Korea last month offered to hold high-level military talks with the United States to discuss tensions on the Korean peninsula and nuclear disarmament, a report said Monday. The North proposed the talks in a letter from its defence...

photo: AP / Ahn Young-joon

Mumbai court confirms gunman Qasab's death penalty read more

In this Nov. 26, 2008 file photo, a gunman identified by police as Ajmal Qasab walks at the Chatrapathi Sivaji Terminal railway station in Mumbai, India. Qasab, the only gunman captured after a 60-hour terrorist siege of Mumbai said he belonged to a Pakistani militant group with links to the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, a senior police officer said Sunday Nov. 30, 2008

BBC News

Continue reading the main story MUMBAI ATTACKS Surviving gunman guilty Deadpan amid media frenzy Deadlock over Pakistan suspects Twists and turns of court drama...

photo: AP / Mumbai Mirror, Sebastian D'souza

Merkel's party trounced in Hamburg poll read more

Olaf Scholz, right, top candidate of the German Social Democratic Party during the Hamburg state parliament elections, and his wife Britta Ernst, left, celebrate in front of party members in Hamburg, Germany, Sunday, Feb. 20, 2011. An ARD television exit poll sees the Social Democrats triumphant with 49.5 percent, up from 34.1 percent, virtually securing them an absolute majority in the state legislature. The Greens gained 2 percent, standing at 11.5 percent

The Independent

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling conservatives suffered a humiliating defeat in key state elections in Hamburg last night after they lost over twenty percent of the vote to the opposition Social Democrats in what amounted to their worst ever...

photo: AP / Michael Sohn

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