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New Egypt PM addresses Tahrir rally

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'US will try to assasinate Gaddafi"

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Reuters Video: Three Killed In Ivory Coast Violence

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Raw Video: Violent Clashes in Yemen Protests

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Obama Tells Libya's Gadhafi to Go

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Mosaic News - 02/25/11: Crisis in Libya, Protests Across Middle East

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San Bruno Pipeline Explosion #1

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North Korean Defectors Graduate in South Korea

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China seeks to reassure public over economy

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Lou Dobbs Tonight 03.29.07 - Mexican Trucks - US Highways

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War? South & North Korea fire artillery shells, houses ablaze

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THE ARAB REVOLUTION - DOMINO EFFECT

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Petraeus for President in 2012

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Price Shock: Food Inflation in China

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Tunisia Uprising: Ben Ali has been officially removed, Mebazaa named interim pres.

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Egyptian Prime Minister designate Essam Sharaf, with microphone, speaks to demonstrators at Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt Friday, March 4, 2011. Egypt's new prime minister designate has vowed before thousands of mostly young demonstrators at a central Cairo square that he'll do everything he can to meet their demands, pleading they turn their attention to "rebuilding" the country.

photo: AP / Nasser Nasser

Egypt's military appoints new PM after Mubarak ally quits
read more Daily Star Lebanon

Compiled by Daily Star staff Friday, March 04, 2011 - Powered by --> Egypt’s Prime Minister Ahmad Shafiq resigned Thursday and the military asked a former transport minister to form a new government which pro-democracy activists want to be purged of Hosni Mubarak’s old guard. The opposition hailed the decision as another victory for...

Defected Libyan soldiers and volunteers shout and cheer on the outskirts of the eastern town of Brega, Libya, Friday, March 4, 2011.

photo: AP / Tara Todras-Whitehill

Libya clashes widen, unrest erupts in Tripoli
read more Khaleej Times

TRIPOLI - Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi widened attacks on rebel-held areas in an escalation of Libya's crisis on Friday and unrest spread to the capital when gunmen opened fire to break up dissident protests. Eastern-based rebels pressed home their push to the west with an attack on the oil town of Ras Lanuf, claiming to have taken its airport....

A supporter of Alassane Ouattara wields a branch as he mans a roadblock in the Abobo neighborhood of Abidjan, Ivory Coast Friday, March 4, 2011. Soldiers backing Ivory Coast's defiant leader Laurent Gbagbo killed at least six female protestors Thursday in Abobo, shocking a nation where women's marches have historically been used as a last resort against an unrestrained army.

photo: AP / Rebecca Blackwell

Ivory Coast: parts of Abidjan resemble war zone - UN
read more BBC News

Continue reading the main story Ivory Coast crisis Eyewitness: 'We were slaughtered' Life on hold Rebel capital: 'Running for water' Q&A;: Ivory Coast election crisis Parts of Ivory Coast's main city of Abidjan resemble a "war zone", the UN refugee agency head in the West African nation, Jacques Franquin, told the BBC....

Anti-government protestors chant slogans during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, March 3, 2011. Two anti-government protesters are shot and killed in southern Yemen. A hospital official says the deaths occur during demonstrations in the town of Sadr, in the province of Lahaj. Protesters also clashed with government supporters and security forces in the Red Sea city of Hodeida. Thirteen protesters are injured in confrontations that included the use of sticks and rocks.

photo: AP / Muhammed Muheisen

Yemen Protesters Claim Attack By Army forces
read more Orange News

North Yemen Shi'ite rebels claim military forces fired rockets at their anti-government protest killing two people and wounding seven. A rebel at the scene is reported to have said: "A military site bombed a number of protesters and struck dozens". More to follow... Political unrest continues across the Middle East with demonstrations expected in...

Libyan gunmen from the forces against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi fire in the air during a mass funeral for rebel gunmen killed in fighting in Ajdabiya, eastern Libya, Thursday, March 3, 2011.

photo: AP / Kevin Frayer

Analysis: Obama refines talk of Libya intervention
read more Yahoo Daily News

The Obama administration has spoken with two voices on Libya. On the one hand Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has repeatedly said that "nothing is off the table so long as the Libyan Government continues to threaten and kill Libyans." That talk has been amplified by calls from the Senate Foreign Relations chairman John Kerry and Senators Joe...

Hundreds of supporters of Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi gather for an organized rally in Green Square in Tripoli, Libya Wednesday, March 2, 2011. In a speech Wednesday Gadhafi vowed "We will fight until the last man and woman" and lashed out against Europe and the United States for their pressure on him to step down, warning that thousands of Libyans will die if U.S. and NATO forces intervene in the conflict.

photo: AP / Ben Curtis

Tripoli protesters plan more demos
read more London Evening Standard

Protesters in Tripoli face a test of courage as they prepare for fresh demonstrations amid a deadly crackdown by forces loyal to Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. A wave of arrests, killings and disappearances has terrorised the capital as Gaddafi opponents try to organise new protests. Bodies of people who vanished have been dumped in the street...

Jerry Guernsey walks in the burnt remains next to the home he lived in for 25 years in San Bruno, Calif., Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010.

photo: AP / Jeff Chiu

San Bruno blast: Feds find more flaws in gas line
read more San Fransisco Chronicle

0 Michael Macor / The Chronicle A piece of the natural gas pipeline was lying in the street last year near the blast site in San Bruno. (03-03) 18:51 PST SAN BRUNO -- A defective seam weld wasn't the only time bomb lurking in the natural-gas pipeline that exploded in San Bruno in September, a newly released federal document shows. The girth welds...

Visitors walk back the way as the military barbed wire fence surround the Imjingak Pavilion near the border village of Panmunjom, on the demilitarized zone (DMZ) that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, South Korea, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011.

photo: AP / Lee Jin-man

Pyongyang demands return of 31 nationals
read more Irish Times

North Korea has demanded South Korea return all 31 of its nationals who drifted across the western sea border by boat last month after four of them said they did not want to return home. The government in Seoul "pressured them to remain in South Korea by appeasement, deception and threat," North Korea's Red Cross said late...

Chinese People's Liberation Army soldiers stand on military vehicles during a military parade marking China's 60th anniversary near the Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009.

photo: AP / Vincent Thian

China says defence budget to rise 12.7 pct
read more The Times of India

BEIJING: China said on Friday its military spending for 2011 would rise 12.7 percent over last year, resuming double-digit hikes that have stoked regional disquiet about Beijing's expanding strength. The increase in spending for the People's Liberation Army is likely to intensify concerns in Taiwan, Japan, India and other parts of Asia where other...

President Barack Obama and Mexico's President Felipe Calderon listen to a question during thier joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 3, 2011.

photo: AP / Charles Dharapak

U.S. and Mexico agree on trucks, easing tensions
read more Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon announced a solution Thursday to their long-running dispute over the passage of trucks across the border, settling one of the issues that has aggravated tensions between the two countries. The agreement was cheered by business leaders, who say the dispute hurt trade. But...

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Christchurch earthquake: Searchers close to finding dead read more

CHCH City - Cathedral1.jpg Image from Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3K Orion that conducted aerial surveillance of areas affected in Christchurch earthquake on 22 February 2011

NZ Herald

Rescuers were on the verge of recovering bodies from the Christchurch Cathedral's collapsed spire last night, after 10 painstaking days spent securing the fragile structure. New Zealand and American search and rescue teams were working around the...

photo: Creative Commons / New Zealand Defence Force

Clegg defiant despite Lib Dems' slump in Barnsley poll read more

Britain's Liberal Democrats party leader Nick Clegg, right, speaks to the media as he leaves his house in London on Monday, May 10, 2010.

BBC News

Nick Clegg has said people should not "write off" the Lib Dems despite the party slumping to sixth place in the Barnsley Central by-election. The party finished behind UKIP, the BNP and an independent as its share of the vote dropped to...

photo: AP / Simon Dawson

ICC launches investigation into possible crimes against humanity in Libya read more

In this Dec. 15, 2010 file photo the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Luis Moreno Ocampo speaks at a press conference in The Hague, Netherlands. Moreno Ocampo said Monday, Feb. 28, 2011, it has been in contact with Libyan army officers in its first attempt to gather information on civilian deaths, and pledged "no impunity" for anyone found to have committed crimes against humanity.

Pravda RU

The International Criminal Court has started a formal investigation into possible crimes against humanity in Libya that will focus on the role of the country's leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, several of his sons and members of his...

photo: AP / Bas Czerwinski, Pool, File

Two N.J. terror suspects plead guilty read more

This undated combination file photo provided by the U.S. Marshals on June 9, 2010 shows Carlos Eduardo Almonte, left and Mohamed Mahmood Alessa, right, who were arrested at New York's Kennedy Airport on June 5, 2010. Authorities believe Almonte, 24, and Alessa, 21, were headed for Somalia in hopes of getting terrorism training. The two New Jersey men entered guilty pleas Thursday, March 3, 2011 in Newark Federal Court on charges that they tried to join an al-Qaida-affiliated group overseas

The Boston Globe

NEWARK - Two New Jersey men pleaded guilty yesterday to charges that they tried to join an Al Qaeda-affiliated group overseas. Mohamed Alessa and Carlos Eduardo Almonte, known as Omar, entered into a packaged plea deal in a Newark federal courtroom....

photo: AP / U.S. Marshals, File

Mazda recalls the Mazda6 due to spider infestation read more

Mazda Motor Corp. President Hisakazu Imaki poses with a fully remodeled Atenza (known as Mazda6 overseas) as he launches the sedan in Tokyo Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2008. The remodeled Atenza features new MZR 2.5-liter in-line four-cylinder engine, matched with five-speed and six-speed automatic transmissions which are combined with Active Adaptive shift (AAS) control.

The Examiner

Look out, here comes a spider jam. Mazda announced today that it is recalling 65,000 Mazda 6's because they are infested with itsy bitsy spiders. Yellow sac spiders are apparently building nests in the rubber fuel tank hoses on...

photo: AP / Katsumi Kasahara

Some Antarctic ice forms from the bottom up read more

US Navy Seabees can be seen near the edge of this ice barrier at Kainan Bay, Antarctica. Little America V, one of seven research stations built by the US Navy, was located near this ice edge

Khaleej Times

OSLO - Some of Antarctica's ice sheet is formed by water re-freezing from below not just by snow falling on top as was traditionally thought, findings showed on Thursday that will help scientists project effects of climate change. Experts are seeking...

photo: National Science Foundation / US Navy photo

Media rivals cry foul as Murdoch wins battle for full control of BSkyB read more

Protesters wearing masks depicting Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, left, and News Corporation owner Rupert Murdoch lie in a bed after the British government approved plans by News Corp. to buy full control of satellite TV operator British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC in central London, Thursday, March 3, 2011. In a controversial move, the Conservative-led coalition said Thursday it will give News Corp. the green light to buy the remaining 61 percent of BSkyB it does not already own _ on the condition that it spin off its Sky news channel as an independent company.

The Independent

Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation empire was yesterday given Government approval to take full control of BSkyB, a decision that was derided as a "whitewash" by media rivals and "cavalier" by political opponents. Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt had...

photo: AP / Sang Tan

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