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Ivory Coast, Deadly Clashes as Gbagbo Forces Disperse Pro-Ouattara Rally, 20/02/2011

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Egypt inspires Iraq protests

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THE REVOLUTION SPREADS in Arab World -- Protest in Jeddah Saudi arabia against govt corruption

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Military spending, collapse of US empire

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Attorney- Swedish Case is a 'Holding Charge' to Get Julian Assange Extradited to US

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Apache Helicopter bombs Gaza دوي مرعب بعد قصف غزة

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US defense budget bringing down empire?

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Be'er-Sheva Grad rocket impact (LIVE)

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Libya protests: 140 Massacred As Gaddafi Sends In Snipers & Mercinaries

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Presuda: Vlastimir Đorđević (1/3. dio) - 23. februar 2011

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Dramatic aerial video: Strong earthquake hits Christchurch, New Zealand

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Video of bloody Libya unrest as protests rage in Tripoli, Benghazi

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Living Planet Report - Coral Reefs

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Libyans and foreigners flee to Malta

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Mideast Unrest Spreads in Bahrain, Yemen, Libya

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People walk past the burnt-out shell of a police truck in the Abobo district of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011.

photo: AP / Emanuel Ekra

Ivory Coast fighting threatens 6-year ceasefire
read more The Guardian

MARCO CHOWN OVED Associated Press= ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Heavy fighting in Ivory Coast over the country's disputed election may auger a return to civil war, the United Nations warned Thursday as clashes raged in Abidjan and in western regions of the country. Residents reported automatic arms fire Thursday morning in the Abobo district of...

Protesters chant anti-Iraqi government slogans during a protest at Tahrir Square in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011.

photo: AP / Khalid Mohammed

Iraqi PM to country: Stay away from Friday demo
read more The Guardian

HAMID AHMED Associated Press= BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's prime minister warned his people to boycott a planned anti-government protest scheduled for Friday, saying it was being organized by supporters of Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki gave no proof for his assertion in a nationally televised speech Thursday, which echoed...

Saudis cruise the streets with car covered with Saudi flags and pictures of the Saudi King Abdullad and Saudi Crown Prince Sultan after the convoy of the King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia passes from the Airport and through the streets of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011.

photo: AP / Hassan Ammar

Saudi intellectuals ask monarch for reforms to maintain the kingdom's national unity
read more Star Tribune

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Influential intellectuals have asked Saudi Arabia's monarch to adopt far-reaching political and social reforms. They said in a statement Thursday that Arab rulers should derive a lesson from the uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya and listen to the voice of disenchanted young people. The group includes renowned Islamic...

The Mistral French amphibious assault ship/helicopter carrier/hospital ship docks on the Neva River in downtown St. Petersburg, Russia, Monday, Nov. 23, 2009, with one of the city landmarks, St. Isaac's Cathedral, in the background

photo: AP / Dmitry Lovetsky

Russia plans $650bn defence spend up to 2020
read more BBC News

Continue reading the main story Related Stories Russian defence industry fights for clients Russian missile test launch fails Eight nuclear submarines, 600 jets and 1,000 helicopters feature in plans to renew Russia's military by 2020, priced at 19tn roubles (Â£400bn; $650bn). One hundred warships are also due to be bought in, including two...

The founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange speaks to the media after his extradition hearing at Belmarsh Magistrates' Court in London, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011. Julian Assange can be extradited to Sweden in a sex crimes inquiry, a British judge ruled Thursday, rejecting claims by the WikiLeaks founder that he would not face a fair trial there. Assange's lawyer said he would appeal. Judge Howard Riddle said the allegations of rape and sexual molestation by two women against Assange meet the definition of extraditable offenses and said the Swedish warrant had been properly issued and was valid.

photo: AP / Matt Dunham

Judge says WikiLeaks' Assange can be extradited
read more NZ Herald

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited to Sweden over sex crimes claims, a judge said Thursday. Assange's lawyer said he would appeal against the ruling to the High Court. Judge Howard Riddle ruled that the allegations of rape and sexual molestation by two women are extraditable offenses and a Swedish warrant was properly issued....

Libyan protetsers protest against Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi, in Tobruk, Libya, on Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011.

photo: AP / Hussein Malla

Libyan's dissidents vow to march on Tripoli
read more Yahoo Daily News

AL-BAIDA, Libya (AFP) – Residents of Libya's dissident-held east, frenzied by a deadly crackdown by Moamer Kadhafi's crumbling regime, vowed on Thursday to march on the capital Tripoli as a string of towns famous as World War II battlegrounds fell under their control. With big chunks of the army defecting to the week-old protest...

Bahraini soldiers stand guard near the Pearl roundabout in Manama, Bahrain, Saturday, Feb. 19, 2011. Bahrain's Shiite opposition has rejected any dialogue with the Gulf kingdom's Sunni royal family until "tanks are off the streets" and the army stops "shooting at peaceful protesters."

photo: AP / Hassan Ammar

The 'Arsenic' of Democracy
read more WorldNews.com

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. "To survive in such a world, we would have to convert ourselves permanently into a militaristic power on the basis of war economy...We must have more ships, more guns, more planes-more of everything. This can only be accomplished if we discard the notion of 'business as usual'...We must be the great...

Israeli police work at the site where a rocket fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip landed in the city of Beersheba, southern Israel, Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011. Police say Gaza militants fired two rockets at the Israeli city of Beersheba, reaching deeper into Israel than ever before.

photo: AP / Yehuda Lahiani

For first time since Operation Cast Lead, Grad rocket from Gaza hits Be'er Sheva
read more Ha'aretz

A Grad rocket fired from the Gaza Strip struck Be'er Sheva last night - the first time since Israel's Gaza offensive just over two years ago. Two Grads struck southern Israel, with one hitting a residential neighborhood in Be'er Sheva, the Negev's largest city....

A Libyan protester holds up a sign against Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi during a demonstration, in Tobruk, Libya, Wednesday Feb. 23, 2011. Heavy gunfire broke out in Tripoli as forces loyal to Gadhafi tightened their grip on the Libyan capital while anti-government protesters claimed control of many cities elsewhere and top government officials and diplomats turn against the longtime leader.

photo: AP / Hussein Malla

Gadhafi Flails as Libya Splinters
read more Wall Street Journal

By ANGUS MCDOWALL in Dubai, MARGARET COKER in Cairo and CHARLES LEVINSON in Baida, Libya David Degner for The Wall Street Journal Rebels secured the eastern Libyan city of Baida. One man held aloft an image of dictator Col. Moammar Gadhafi affixed to a shoe—a sign of deep disrespect in the Arab world. Forces loyal to strongman Col. Moammar...

Former Serb police general Vlastimir Djordjevic takes his seat at the start of his initial appearance before the war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday June 19, 2007. Djordjevic, Serbia's assistant interior minister and chief of the Public Security Department from 1997 to 2001, told the Yugoslav tribunal in The Hague he would exercise his right to delay a plea by 30 days to give him time to hire an attorney.

photo: AP / POOL/Rick Nederstigt

Milosevic police chief jailed for 27 years over Kosovo massacres
read more The Independent

The former head of Serbia's police force was jailed for 27 years yesterday for war crimes, crimes against humanity and the murders of at least 724 civilians in Kosovo 12 years ago. Dressed in dark blue suit and white shirt, Vlastimir Djordjevic remained emotionless as the presiding judge, Kevin Parker, passed sentence at the International Criminal...

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A revolution against neoliberalism? read more

Egyptian protesters, sit on the ground in front of Egyptian Army soldiers at Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt.

Al Jazeera

Ahmed Ezz, one of several NDP officials arrested since Egypt's revolution began [EPA] On February 16th I read a comment was posted on the wall of the Kullina Khalid Saed ("We are all Khaled Said") Facebook page administered by the now very...

photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb

Gadhafi: Bin Laden behind Libya uprising read more

This photo was taken on February 19, 2011 in Franklin Mcpherson Square, Washington, DC, US, using a Sony SLT-A55V.

Newsday

Quick ReadGadhafi says al-Qaida's bin Laden behind Libya uprising, giving youth drugs in their coffee Photos...

photo: Creative Commons / Ted

Oil tops $100 a barrel read more

Doug Kemp, of Sturbridge, Mass., pumps gas at the Ell-Bern service station, Tuesday, March 10, 2009 in Boston.

CNN

Click on chart for oil and other commodity prices. February 24, 2011: 8:26 AM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Oil prices held firmly above $100 a barrel early Thursday, as the political upheaval in Libya has curtailed production from the North African...

photo: AP / Lisa Poole

G.M. Reports an Annual Profit, Its First Since 2004 read more

Mechanic Chris Neiderer works on a SUV at the service center at Chapman Chevrolet in Philadelphia, Tuesday, June 2, 2009. General Motors Corp. filed for bankruptcy protection Monday. Chrysler LLC, which filed in April, is preparing to exit bankruptcy protection under an operating agreement with Italian automaker Fiat SpA.

The New York Times

DETROIT — General Motors, which nearly collapsed from the weight of its debts two years ago before reorganizing in a government-sponsored bankruptcy, said Thursday that it earned $4.7 billion in 2010, the most in more than a decade. Add to...

photo: AP / Matt Rourke

Indonesia cleric denies charges read more

Al Jazeera

Indonesia's best known Islamic cleric has denied that he helped set up, fund and arm a training camp for fighters in the country's west. Abu Bakar Bashir, the spiritual leader of the al-Qaeda-linked network Jemaah Islamiyah, appeared at a South...

photo: AP / Irwin Fedriansyah

US in Burma aid talks with Aung San Suu Kyi read more

Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi talks to supporters before cerebrations for the 96th birthday anniversary of her late father, General Aung San, and Myanmar Children Day at her National League for Democracy party's headquarters Sunday, Feb.13, 2011, in Yangon, Myanmar.

BBC News

Continue reading the main story Burma: Battle for Democracy Profile: Thein Sein In pictures: Parliament opens Burma election: Q&A; Burma's evolving opposition...

photo: AP / Khin Maung Win

Hawaii's governor signs civil unions into law read more

Hawaii House member Blake Oshiro, top left , Hawaii Senator Clayton Hee, top second left, Lt. Gov. Brian Schatz, top right center, Hawaii Senator Brickwood Galuteria, second right and House Speaker Calvin Say, right look on as Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie signs the Hawaii Civil Unions bill into law at a ceremony held at Washington Place Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011 in Honolulu. The new law makes Hawaii the seventh state to give essentially the same rights of marriage to same-sex couples through civil unions or similar laws.

San Fransisco Chronicle

0 (02-23) 16:18 PST Honolulu, HI (AP) -- Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie signed same-sex civil unions into law Wednesday, granting gay and lesbian couples the same state rights as married partners. Civil unions in the Rainbow State would start Jan. 1,...

photo: AP / Eugene Tanner

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