In this photo taken on Tuesday, March 29, 2010, people walk with their belongings towards a railway station as they leave Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
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As many as 1,000 killed in Ivory Coast town, Red Cross says
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Reporting from Johannesburg, South Africa— As forces loyal to rival presidents fought pitched battles in the country's biggest city, the reported an ominous development in the increasingly brutal struggle for control: the massacre of up to 1,000 civilians in a western town. The killings in Duekoue reportedly came over the course of three days...
RETRANSMISSION OF TOK101 FOR BETTER QUALITY - In this Friday, April 1, 2011, photo released by Tokyo Electric Power Co., workers for the company experimentally spray adhesive synthetic resin over the ground at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, northeastern Japan. TEPCO expects the resin spraying to prevent dust exposed to radiation materials from spreading out of the premises. The March 11 earthquake off Japan's northeast coast triggered a tsunami that barreled onshore and disabled the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant.
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Japan Nuclear Plant: 2 Missing Fukushima Workers Found Dead
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TOKYO — A massive tsunami that crippled a nuclear power plant also killed two workers there, the Japanese operator announced Sunday, confirming the first deaths at the complex. The two workers – a 21-year-old and a 24-year-old – had been missing since a massive March 11 earthquake spawned the wave, but their bodies were discovered...
Afghan protestors walk with sticks, as they carry a wounded colleague during a demonstration to condemn the burning of a copy of the Muslim holy book by a U.S. Florida pastor, in Kandahar southern of Afghanistan on Saturday, April. 2, 2011.
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State Officials: Koran-Burning Led To 20 Deaths
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.  — WPBF.com State officials said that Pastor Terry Jones's act of burning the Koran in March 20 fanned the flames of anti-American sentiment and led to dozens of deaths as Muslims attacked a United Nations headquarters in Afghanistan. Seven months after Jones bowed to public pressure and vowed to never burn the...
Unidentified troops drive past in the city of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Friday, April 1, 2011.
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Battle for Abidjan rages, 'carnage in west'
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The fierce standoff between fighters loyal to Laurent Gbagbo, the incumbent president of Cote d'Ivoire, and Alassane Ouattara, the country''s internationally recognised leader, intensified on Saturday. Gbagbo's force retook the bridge leading to his presidential palace on Saturday, after the opposition had appeared poised to topple the...
A Libyan rebel stands guard on the middle of the road at the front line near Brega, Libya, Saturday, April 2, 2011.
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Libya: Coalition air strike near Brega kills rebels
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At least 12 people are reported to have been killed when a coalition plane enforcing the no-fly zone fired on a rebel convoy between Brega and Ajdabiya late on Friday night. Doctors at...
File - A U.S. Marine watches a statue of Saddam Hussein being toppled in Firdaus Square, in downtown Bagdhad in this April 9, 2003 file photo.
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The Politics of Toppling Statues
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Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. Democracy in any real sense of the word is difficult to find in the Middle East, as it is in the United States. This was proven once again when Syrian protesters tore down the Hafez al-Assad statue, Syria's former president. In the midst of this popular revolt, which also included burning the...
Supporters of longtime opposition leader Alassane Ouattara whose presidential election victory has been acknowledged by the U.N., U.S., France and the African Union gather around three dead men in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Thursday Dec. 16, 2010.
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Red Cross: 800 killed in Ivory Coast town
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — The International Committee of the Red Cross says that more than 800 people were killed in intercommunal violence in a town in western Ivory Coast. The town was the first of many in Ivory Coast to fall earlier this week to an armed group vying to install the country's democratically elected leader, Alassane Ouattara. Red...
Smoke rises from the UN's office following a demonstration to condemn the burning of a copy of the Muslim holy book by a U.S. Florida pastor, in Mazar-i- Sharif north of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Friday, April 1, 2011.
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Mob kills 8 U.N. workers in Afghanistan
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Officials say a crowd of up to 1,000 people attacked the United Nations compound in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif, killing eight guards believed to be from the Philippines. The attack was sparked by a mosque sermon describing the burning of the Koran by an American pastor....
Troops supporting former president Laurent Gbagbo drive past in a armored car in the city of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Thursday, March 31, 2011.
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Showdown for Ivory Coast rivals
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Troops supporting the UN-recognised president of Ivory Coast, Alassane Ouattara, appear poised for a final push to oust his rival, Laurent Gbagbo, who refuses to give up the presidency. In the main city, Abidjan, pro-Ouattara forces have launched an assault on the fortified presidential residence. French troops have taken about 500 foreigners to a...
Libyan rebels maintain a heavy machine gun mounted on top of a pickup truck during an exchange of fire with pro Gadhafi forces, along the front line outside the eastern town of Brega, Libya Thursday, March 31, 2011.
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Battles rage in Libya amid defections of key Gadhafi allies
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Libyan opposition leaders emerge Are you in Libya? Send your pictures, video to iReport. Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- As Moammar Gadhafi's inner circle showed possible signs of cracking Friday, heavily armed forces loyal to the Libyan leader continued pounding cities that were once some of the country's most prosperous places. Officials and analysts...
On 10 April 2006, a DC-9 jet landed in the port city of Ciudad del Carmen, on the Gulf of...
The rebel fighters were celebrating "victory" in their usual wasteful way, loosing off round...
The US seems to be scratching its head over how to handle anti-government protests in Syria,...
 
A former Libyan army soldier, foreground, shows new Libyan rebel recruits how to use an assault rifle during a training session after they signed up with forces opposed to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, at a training base in Benghazi, eastern Libya, Thursday March 3, 2011.
TRIPOLI — The question has hovered over the Libyan uprising from the moment the first tank commander defected to join his cousins protesting in the streets of Benghazi: Is the battle for Libya the clash of a brutal dictator against a...
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Ships and drilling rigs surround the Discoverer Enterprise as it continues to recover oil from the Deepwater Horizon drill site June 15, 2010.
SAN FRANCISCO — Transocean Ltd. gave its top executives bonuses for achieving the "best year in safety performance in our company's history" – despite the explosion of its oil rig that killed 11 people and spilled 200 million gallons of...
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Federal police agents secure the area after members of a drug gang rammed a car into two police patrol vehicles in retaliation for the arrest of a top gang leader in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Thursday, July 15, 2010.
A Mexican human rights organisation says thousands of people have disappeared in Mexico since 2006. Mexico's human rights commission, CNDH, said 5,397 people had been reported missing since President Felipe Calderon declared war on the...
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Obama thinking
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is about to make one of Washington's worst kept secrets official: He wants a second term. Democratic officials familiar with the president's plans said Saturday that Obama intends to file papers as early as this...
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 GAZA CITY, GAZA STRIP -JUNE, 2, 2007: Palestinians carry the body of Islamic Jihad militant Fadi Abu Mustafa, cry during his funeral at Khan Younis camp in the southern Gaza strip June 2, 2007. Abu Mustafa was targeted from the air and was killed by an I
Israel has called on the UN to cancel a report that said it possibly committed war crimes during its 2008-2009 military offensive in Gaza. The report's author, South African judge Richard Goldstone, said on Friday that new...
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People queue to cast their votes at a polling station in the city of Ibadan, Nigeria, Saturday, April 2, 2011, before an announcement to postpone the election.
ABUJA, Nigeria (Reuters) — After polls opened in Nigeria on Saturday, parliamentary elections were suddenly postponed for two days because, officials said, many areas had yet to receive voting materials. The problems were a major blow to hopes...
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Members of the Indian cricket team celebrate with the trophy after winning the Cricket World Cup final match between Sri Lanka and India in Mumbai, India, Saturday, April 2, 2011.
Watch highlights on Red Button (satellite/cable) and BBC Sport website at 2200 BST, 2230 on Freeview and 2325 on BBC Two ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 final, Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai: India 277-4 beat Sri Lanka 274-6 by four wickets Match scorecard By...
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Brazil's Vice President Jose Alencar smiles during a news conference moments before leaving the hospital where he stayed for the last 26 days and underwent a 17-hour surgery to remove abdominal tumors, in Sao Paulo, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2009. The 77-year-old Alencar has been battling abdominal cancer since 1997.
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