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Libyan anti-government fighters celebrate as they control a checkpoint on the outskirts of the southwestern town of Nalut, Libya, Monday, Feb. 28, 2011.
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World raises pressure on Libya
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TRIPOLI - The United States and other foreign governments discussed military options for dealing with Libya on Monday as Muammar Gaddafi scoffed at the threat to his goverment from a spreading popular uprising. With government forces massing to try to take back strategic coastal cities from rebels, the United States said it was moving US naval and...
File - United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) peacekeepers prepare to depart on a joint patrol mission with their FDS (Government Defense and Security Forces) counterparts in the city of Deukoue, Côte d'Ivoire.
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U.N. charge on Ivorian arms smuggling is denied
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ABIDJAN (Reuters) – Confusion surrounded U.N. charges on Monday that Belarus had broken an arms embargo against Ivory Coast by delivering attack helicopters to Laurent Gbagbo, the leader who has refused to step down after a disputed election. Gbagbo's government denied the report as a "lie" and U.N. diplomats said the allegation...
A Pro-Gadhafi supporter simulates the salute portrayed in a photograph of the Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi, as he and others stage a small rally, standing on the stage of the Roman amphitheatre at the Sabratha archaeological site, after following foreign journalists there who visited on a government-provided tour, in Sabratha, Libya, Monday, Feb. 28, 2011. Gadhafi supporters said Monday that they were in control of the city of Sabratha, west of Tripoli, which has seemed to vacillate between the two camps over the past week, with some anti-Gadhafi graffiti scrawled on walls being painted over by residents.
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Pentagon positions forces around Libya as Gaddafi claims supporters will die for him
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THE US military is moving naval and air forces into position around Libya, as Western countries weigh intervention against Muammar Gaddafi's regime. The...
Former dictators Jorge Rafael Videla, right, and Reynaldo Bignone attend their trial in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday Feb. 28, 2011. Videla and Bignone face life sentences if convicted on charges of implementing a systematic plan to steal the babies of political prisoners during the 1976-1983 dictatorships. Also charged are six other former military and police officials.
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Argentina baby theft trial begins
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Two of Argentina's former dictators have appeared in court in Buenos Aires to face charges in connection with the kidnapping of hundreds of babies, seized from their mothers during military rule in the 1970s and 80s. The trial of Jorge Videla and Reynaldo Bignone began on Monday, with about 80 people expected to testify about a systematic plan by...
British Airways plane tail fins are reflected in windows of London Heathrow Airport Terminal five, as flights continue to be delayed and some cancelled due to extra security measures after a foiled alleged terror plot to blow-up airplanes in mid-air, Sunday, Aug 13, 2006.
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British Airways worker Rajib Karim guilty of plot to blow up plane
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A BANGLADESHIi Islamic militant working for British Airways has been found guilty of plotting to blow up a plane after conspiring with radical US-Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Awlaki. Rajib Karim, 31, was convicted of four counts of preparing...
A supporter of the leading reformist Iranian presidential candidate, Mir Hossein Mousavi, holds his poster during a rally in Tehran, Iran, Monday, June 1, 2009. The name of the candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi is written on the poster in the Farsi language. Iranian presidential elections will be held on June 12.
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Iran opposition leaders Mousavi and Karroubi 'arrested'
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi gestures during a meeting in downtown Milan, Italy, Monday, Feb. 28, 2011. Premier Silvio Berlusconi went back on trial Monday for alleged tax fraud, the first of several court cases to resume after Italy's Constitutional Court watered down an immunity bill sparing the premier from trial. Prosecutors say Berlusconi's Mediaset media empire purchased TV rights for U.S. movies through two "offshore" companies and falsely declared the costs to reduce the tax bill. Berlusconi, who wasn't in court Monday, has denied the allegations.
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Berlusconi tax fraud trial resumes
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Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has gone back on trial in Milan in a case alleging tax fraud involving his Mediaset business empire. Mr Berlusconi did not appear in court. The trial was suspended in April 2010 because of a law, now partially struck down, granting him temporary immunity. Mr Berlusconi, (74) has...
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak looks on during a meeting with his Iraqi counterpart Jalal Talabani at the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday May 9, 2010.
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Egypt Prosecutor Sharpens Case Against Mubarak
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CAIRO — The public prosecutor of Egypt imposed an international travel ban on former President Hosni Mubarak and his immediate family on Monday, as well as a freeze on their Egyptian assets, as part of the first publicly announced investigation into the first family’s considerable wealth. Multimedia Interactive Feature Middle East...
A taxi navigates the main Sohar roundabout as smoke rises from Lulu hypermarket in Sohar, Oman, Monday Feb. 28, 2011. Omani security forces have blocked roads to Sohar, about 120 miles (200 kilometers) northwest of the capital of Muscat, after deadly clashes between pro-democracy protesters and riot police.
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Protesters shot as violence spreads to Oman
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Police shot dead two demonstrators as the wave of protests sweeping the Arab world engulfed the normally placid sultanate of Oman. Police opened fire with...
An armed resident gestures a victory sign in the main square in Zawiya, 30 miles (50 kilometers) west of Tripoli, in Libya, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011.
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West moves to help Libya rebels as Gadhafi keeps hold in capital, where food prices spiral
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TRIPOLI, Libya - The West moved to send its first concrete aid to Libya's rebellion in the east of the country, hoping to give it the momentum to oust Moammar Gadhafi. But the Libyan leader's regime clamped down in its stronghold in the capital, where residents said food prices have skyrocketed. The two sides in Libya's crisis appeared entrenched,...
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House prices edged ahead by 0.3pc in February as the property market continued to ''tread water'', Nationwide said on Tuesday. The price of an average home was £161,183 in February Photo: PA The increase, which was only the second gain recorded since...
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Ton Plat, a 32-year-old fisherman, pulls in the nets while fishing on the Ijsselmeer inland sea in the Netherlands on this Dec. 2, 1997 file photo. A court fined Dutch fishing village Urk's official Fish Auction 130,000 euro (US$180,000) for fraud on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007, after determining it had fudged its books to help local fishermen sidestep European quotas. "The court considers it proven that the between 2002 and 2005, accounts were falsified to avoid E.U. law," the District Court in Leeuwarden said in a written summary of its ruling. Judges agreed with prosecutors that there was a conspiracy in Urk, between the fish regulator, the fishermen and the fish shops.
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Continue reading the main story Related Stories EU looking to stop fish discards Fish discards 'over-simplified' EU warning on mackerel sanctions Plans to ban discards, where fish are thrown back in to the sea by fishermen who have used up their EU...
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Libyan oil output 'cut 50 per cent' read more
A Libyan oil worker walks in front of a refinery inside the Brega oil complex, in Brega east of Libya, on Saturday Feb. 26, 2011. Production at Brega has dropped by almost 90 percent amid the country's crisis because many employees have fled and few ships are coming to offload the product
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Libya's oil output is down by half as a consequence of political unrest in the country, the International Energy Agency says. That figure matched a 50 per cent fall in production claimed by the North African country's National Oil Company with the...
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Yemen parties jostle for allegiance of the tribes read more
Anti-government protestor shout slogans during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, Feb. 28, 2011. Yemen's opposition parties said Sunday they are joining young protesters in their push to bring down the country's beleaguered president.
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IONA CRAIG in Sana'a POLITICAL DIALOGUE ground to a halt in Yemen yesterday as ailing president Ali Abdullah Saleh and his adversaries tried to outwit each other in the rush to gain the allegiance of the tribes amid growing anti-government protests....
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Oil spill link suspected as dead dolphins wash ashore read more
Institute for Marine Mammal Studies veterinary technician Wendy Hatchett lifts a dead bottlenose dolphin that was found on Ono Island, Ala., and brought for examination to Gulfport, Miss., Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011. Researchers say that more than a dozen young dolphins, either aborted before they reached maturity or dead soon after birth, have been collected along the Gulf Coast in the past two weeks -- about 10 times the normal number for the first two months of the year. Samples have been sent for testing to see whether the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was a factor in their deaths.
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The discovery of more than 80 dead dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico is raising fresh concerns about the effect on sea life from last year's massive BP oil spill. The dead dolphins began appearing in mid-January along the coasts of Louisiana,...
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Your report (£11.6bn profit, 1% tax, 19 February) and subsequent reports have referred to Barclays UK corporation tax payment in 2009 being "only 1% of the profit before tax for the group". I would like to provide some context. In fact, Barclays'...
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The casket of 5-month-old Baxtor Gowland is placed in a car following a service in Christchurch, New Zealand, Monday, Feb. 28, 2011. Baxtor was killed in Tuesday Feb. 22, 2011's magnitude 6.3 temblor by falling debris as he slept. Police said the death toll from the quake had reached 148 and was expected to rise further. Around 200 people are listing as missing, though many are believed to be among bodies already collected but whose identities have not been established.
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CHRISTCHURCH— Christchurch prepared Tuesday to observe a two-minute silence exactly one week after the devastating earthquake which was believed to have killed more than 200 people. Prime Minister John Key has asked all New Zealanders to fall silent...
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