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Colombia's drug war 1/3

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The Obama Budget 2011 $3.83 TRILLION Budget, Massive Deficits, Tax Increases.AVI

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Libya: UN aid arrives for the mounting numbers of refugees in Tunisia (raw video)

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Exiled Tunisian Islamist leader returns

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Germany's 'cut and paste' minister drops PhD

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Ivory Coast's Gbagbo vows to fight on

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Gaddafi loses Libya: Tripoli last target of opposition

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CUBA BEGINS LARGE-SCALE LAYOFF PLAN CCTV News

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Verdict on Godhra train burning case today

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Women pray for peace in Ivory Coast - no comment

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Libya : Protests against Qaddafi's regime in Ben ghazi

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Ex dictador argentino Jorge Videla fue condenado a cadena perpetua

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Former British Airways Employee Found Guilty in UK Terror Plot

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Iran riot: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad election, mir hossein mousavi, Mehdi Karroubi Iran riots khomeini

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Berlusconi reneges on vow to attend tax fraud trial

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A Colombia anti narcotic police officer cuts poppy plants, used to extract the raw material for heroin, in Villahermosa, near Samaniego, southern Colombia, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2007.

photo: AP / Fernando Vergara

UN narcotics body rewards Colombia's drug war efforts
read more BBC News

Continue reading the main story Related Stories 'Drug financier' held in Colombia How landmines complicate Colombia's drugs fight Peru 'rivalling Colombia' on coca The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) has dropped Colombia from its list of countries requiring special observation. It said Colombia remained the world's biggest producer of...

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney is seen during the daily news briefing at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March, 1, 2011.

photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais

House Approves Budget Measure to Avert Shutdown
read more The New York Times

WASHINGTON — The House on Tuesday passed a two-week budget measure that cuts $4 billion in federal spending, and Senate Democrats said they would quickly follow suit, averting any threat of a government shutdown when money runs out on Friday. Multimedia Interactive Map House Vote: Spending Measure Blogs The Caucus The latest on President...

Egyptian workers who crossed the Tunisian border react to a photographer after fleeing Libya on the Libya-Tunisia border in Ras Ajdir, Tunisia, Tuesday, March 1 , 2011.

photo: AP / Benjamin Girette

UN urges mass evacuation of thousands fleeing Libya
read more Inquirer

GENEVAThe UN refugee agency and an international migrant group issued an urgent appeal Tuesday for the mass evacuation of tens of thousands of people fleeing into Tunisia from strife-torn Libya. "The International Organization for Migration and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees are urgently appealing to governments for a massive...

Tunisian Islamist party leader Rachid Ghanouchi, center, is surrounded by supporters shortly after arriving at the international airport in Tunis, Tunisia, Sunday, Jan. 30, 2011. The leader of a Tunisian Islamist party that was long outlawed by authorities has returned to his homeland after two decades in exile.

photo: AP / Hassene Didri

Tunisia ends 20-year ban for Islamist party
read more The Guardian

BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press= TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A Tunisian Islamist party banned for more than 20 years was legalized Tuesday, while the country's most prominent opposition figure quit the unity government amid renewed uncertainty about where Tunisia is headed. The Ennahdha party — branded an Islamic terrorist group by Tunisia's deposed...

German Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg looks up during a news conference where he announced his resignation in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, March 1, 2011. The rising star in Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc and the country's most popular politician, resigned over allegations he plagiarized his doctoral thesis.

photo: AP / Michael Sohn

German minister resigns amid plagiarism scandal
read more The News & Observer

BERLIN -- Germany's defense minister, a rising star in Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc and the country's most popular politician, has resigned over allegations he plagiarized his doctoral thesis. Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg told reporters Tuesday he felt that he could no longer carry out his duties as minister. Guttenberg had admitted...

Women carry a sign reading 'Gbagbo Leave. Enough is Enough' as they arrive to join an unauthorized protest calling for Laurent Gbagbo to step down, in the Treichville neighborhood of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Monday, Feb. 28, 2011. In a dramatic escalation of the nation's conflict, Belarus has violated an international arms embargo by sending three attack helicopters to military forces supporting Ivory Coast's longtime ruler who refuses to cede power, alleged a Sunday statement issued by the office of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

photo: AP / Rebecca Blackwell

Ivory Coast's Gbagbo turns forces on UN
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Inhabitants of the Abobo district in Abidjan flee the area following fresh ... Inhabitants of the Abobo district in Abidjan flee the area following fresh ... Forces loyal to Ivory Coast strongman Laurent Gbagbo have opened fire on UN sanctions experts who tried to check on a suspected breach of the international arms embargo of the country, a UN...

Libyan anti-government fighters celebrate as they control a checkpoint on the outskirts of the southwestern town of Nalut, Libya, Monday, Feb. 28, 2011.

photo: AP / Lefteris Pitarakis

World raises pressure on Libya
read more Khaleej Times

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...

In this photo taken early morning on Feb. 17, 2011, a taxi driver waits for customers in front the capitol building in Havana. Hundreds of thousands of Cubans know the state plans to lay off half a million workers, yet more than five months after the announcement, layoffs have been delayed and the process paralyzed, leaving workers in an anxious limbo.

photo: AP / Javier Galeano

Castro says Cuba's mass layoffs delayed
read more Khaleej Times

HAVANA - Cuban President Raul Castro has admitted that plans to lay off 500,000 state workers by March are behind schedule and that the process will be delayed to help soften the impact of the cuts, state-run television said on Monday. The layoffs are a centerpiece of his reforms to modernize Cuba's Soviet-style economy, but the report said Castro...

Relief workers remove a body from one of the burned cars of a train carrying Hindu activists set on fire a Muslim mob set in Godhra, India Wednesday Feb. 27, 2002. Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee expressed concern over the attack and requested that the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, a Hindu nationalist group, not build a Hindu temple in Ayodhya, India "so peace can be obtained." At least 55 people, were killed in the attack.

photo: AP / Press Trust of India

Death for 11, life sentence for 20 in Godhra train burning case
read more The Times of India

NEW DELHI: A special court on Tuesday pronounced the death penalty for 11 convicted in the Godhra train burning case. 20 others have been awarded the life sentence. Thirty-one...

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.

photo: UN / Ky Chung

U.N. charge on Ivorian arms smuggling is denied
read more Yahoo Daily News

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...

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Emergency EU summit to review strategy on Libya read more

FILE -- In this Wednesday Feb. 11, 2009 file photo, The Prime Minister of Belgium, Herman van Rompuy, adressess the media following a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkerl in Berlin. Van Rompuy is believed to be one of the candidates for the position of the first full-time President of the European Union, whose appointment will be decided by EU leaders at a dinner in Brussels, Thursday Nov. 19, 2009.

Irish Times

ARTHUR BEESLEY in Brussels, MARK HENNESSY in London and RUADH�N Mac CORMAIC in Paris EUROPEAN COUNCIL president Herman Van Rompuy has called an emergency summit of EU leaders to discuss the turmoil in Libya and the Arab world generally. The summit,...

photo: AP / Michael Sohn, file

Hollywood sex symbol Jane Russell dies aged 89 read more

Actress Jane Russell and unidentified guest arrive at the Hollywood Awards Gala in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Monday Oct. 27, 2008.

Irish Times

DONALD CLARKE JANE RUSSELL, a Hollywood sex symbol of the 1940s and 1950s, has died in California at the age of 89. Russell was best known for comic turns in such pictures as The Paleface�(1948) and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes�(1953) and for offending...

photo: AP / Matt Sayles

Eurozone to consider closer economic scrutiny read more

Members of the Communist-affiliated PAME labor group stand behind a banner as they have blockaded the Athens Stock Market to protest government austerity measures aimed at tackling Greece's debt crisis in Athens, Greece, on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010.

BBC News

Continue reading the main story Global Economy India economy to sustain growth China lowers growth rate target US growth estimate revised down Euro growth weaker than forecast...

photo: AP / Petros Giannakouris

Chelsea fight back to beat Manchester United 2-1 read more

Chelsea's Frank Lampard, celebrates his goal against Fenerbahce during their European Champions League quarter-final, 2nd leg, soccer match at Stamford Bridge, London, Tuesday, April 8, 2008.

The Times of India

LONDON: Chelsea came from behind to beat Manchester United 2-1 thanks to Frank Lampard's 79th-minute penalty at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday and put the brakes on the visitors' charge towards the Premier League title. United deservedly led through...

photo: AP Photo / Tom Hevezi

UN suspends Libya over Colonel Gaddafi's brutal crackdown read more

Ban Ki-moon, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea, addresses the general debate of the sixtieth session of the General Assembly, today at UN Headquarters. The general debate focuses on the follow-up to the 2005 World Summit. (mb1)

The Australian

THE UN General Assembly today suspended Libya from the UN Human Rights Council over leader Muammar Gaddafi's brutal crackdown on opposition...

photo: UN /Steven Koh

Wisconsin Capitol ordered reopened by judge read more

Opponents to the governor's bill to eliminate collective bargaining rights for many state workers protest outside of the state Capitol in Madison, Wis., Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011. Union supporters are on 12th day of protests at the Capitol.

The Los Angeles Times

A Wisconsin judge issues a temporary restraining order requiring the Capitol building to be opened to the public, but union supporters so far have not been allowed to return. Share By Abby Sewell, Los Angeles Times...

photo: AP / Andy Manis

Yemen's embattled president blames Israel and the United States for 'destabilizing the Arab world' read more

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh gestures while delivering a speech to university professors and students in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday, March 1, 2011. Yemen's embattled president has accused the United States and Israel of trying to destabilize his country and the Arab world.

The Los Angeles Times

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has been a longtime ally of the U.S., says anti-government protests in his capital were being 'run by the White House.' In neighboring Oman, protests continue for a fourth day....

photo: AP / Hani Mohammed

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