A Libyan rebel soldier provides security as nearly 1,200 migrant workers who were evacuated from Misrata by boat, many suffering from dehydration and needing medical attention, line up to disembark after they arrived at the port in Benghazi, Libya, Friday, April 15, 2011. Moammar Gadhafi's troops launched a powerful assault with tanks and rockets Friday on Misrata, the last major rebel city in western Libya, sending residents fleeing to increasingly crowded safe areas of the city that are still out of the Libyan leader's reach, witnesses said.
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Libya conflict: Gaddafi 'cluster bombing Misrata'
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Pro-government forces in Libya have been accused by a human rights campaign group of using cluster bombs, which are banned by more than 100 countries. Human Rights Watch said one of its...
Syrian pro-government protesters carry pictures of Syrian President Bashar Assad as they shout slogans after Friday prayers outside the Omayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria, Friday, April 15, 2011.
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Syria protests swell as tens of thousands turn out
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Demonstrations are reported across the country, including in Damascus a day after concessions from Assad. 'People are not afraid anymore," says a human rights lawyer....
Libyan rebel fighters riding armed pickup trucks join rebels gather by the western gate of Ajdabiya, Libya, Friday, April 15, 2011. NATO foreign ministers meeting in Berlin sought to overcome deep differences over the military campaign in Libya on Friday, amid calls for the alliance to show a united front.
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Nato mission in disarray as criticisms mount
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The International mission in Libya appeared to be running out of momentum yesterday as Barack Obama admitted the situation on the ground had reached a military "stalemate" and France conceded a new UN resolution might be necessary to oust Muammar Gaddafi from power. As the regime's rockets continued to hit the beleaguered rebel town of Misrata and...
Teachers shouts slogans as they burn boxes during a protest in La Paz, Bolivia, Wednesday April 13, 2011. The protest was called by the Bolivian Workers Central (COB) to demand a higher increase in minimum wage in response to the government's March 2 announcement of a 10% increase. A 10% increase would bring the minimum wage up to 815 Bolivianos ($116) per month.
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Bolivia protests challenge Evo Morales
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Protesters in Bolivia have blocked main roads and clashed with police, on the ninth day of nationwide demonstrations against the government. Police used tear gas to clear the main road south of La Paz, and protesters fought back with stones and slingshots. Teachers and health workers are on strike to demand a 15% pay increase. The unrest is the...
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika speaks at the Supreme Court in Algiers, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008. Algeria's president, 72, who led his oil-rich and gas-rich North African nation out of a bloody Islamic insurgency, started clearing the way Wednesday to give himself a third term in office, announcing plans to abolish limits that would have prevented his re-election.
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Algeria president to launch major political reforms
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ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika said on Friday he will launch legislative reforms and amend the constitution, a move aimed at heading off a wave of pro-democracy uprisings sweeping the Arab world. "I will urge the parliament to review all the legislative framework," Bouteflika, 74, said in a speech broadcast by...
Argentine Hebe De Bonafini, president of Argentina's group "Mothers of Plaza de Mayo" stands next to billboard of Allende in front of La Moneda Presidential palace in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2003, during a demonstration to mark the 30th anniversary of the military coup led by former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet who toppled leftist President Salvador Allende in September 1973. The billboard reads: "The future is with the people. Allende lives on in the herat of Chile. "
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Judge orders Allende exhumed
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A JUDGE has ordered the remains of former president Salvador Allende exhumed for an investigation into whether he was murdered in a 1973 coup. Until now, Allende's death had been ruled a suicide, although that has long been questioned by some politicians and human rights groups. Judge Mario Carroza ordered...
Afghan and NATO forces secure the entrance of the police headquarters after a Taliban suicide attack killed the police chief of southern Afghanistan's Kandahar province, Khan Mohammad Mujahid and his two bodyguards, in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Friday April 15, 2011.
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Suicide-bomb attack kills Afghan police chief
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The Taliban claims responsibility for the attack, which comes a day after a foiled strike on a local police station. Related By Molly Hennessy-Fiske Los Angeles Times...
Residents gather at the main square to view live transmission from the UN court, in Zagreb Croatia, Friday, April 15, 2011. A UN court has convicted a key wartime Croatian commander, Gen. Ante Gotovina, of committing atrocities in a campaign of shelling, murder and persecution aimed at driving Serbs out of Croatia's Krajina border region in 1995.
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U.N. Court Convicts Former Croatian Generals
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PARIS — A United Nations court on Friday found a wartime Croatian general, Ante Gotovina, guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity in a campaign he led to regain Croatian land and drive Serbs out of the Krajina region in 1995. Mr. Gotovina was sentenced to 24 years in prison for shelling towns and killing and persecuting civilians....
In this April 12 1961 photo rocket engineer Oleg Ivanovsky leads Yuri Gagarin, left, to the Vostok spacecraft before the launch from what will later become known as the Baikonur cosmodrome.
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First in Space, First into the Mind
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Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. This week the world, especially Russia, celebrated a great technological achievement that occurred on April 12, 1961. Yuri Gagarin became the first known human to enter outer space, when his Vostok 1 spacecraft orbited Earth. In one sense, it reflected humanities longing to manipulate and...
Supporters of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi chant slogans as they gather at the Bab Al Azizia compound in Tripoli, Libya, early Friday, April 15, 2011.
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Western leaders insist 'Gaddafi must go'
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Leaders of Britain, France and the United States have vowed to continue their military campaign in Libya until Muammar Gaddafi leaves power. In a strongly worded, jointly written article published in newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic, British prime minister David Cameron, French president Nicolas Sarkozy and US president Barack Obama...
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A vendor sells a local newspaper, with four presidential aspirants on the page, in Katsina, Nigeria,Friday, April 15, 2011. The body of late President Umaru Yar'Adua is in an unmarked grave in this northern city, buried in the sandy soil along with many voters' hopes here that the country's ruling party would have chosen a Muslim candidate to run in Saturday's election.
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By WILL CONNORS IBADAN, Nigeria—Lawmakers and candidates are among the targets and alleged perpetrators of violence in the run-up to Nigeria's presidential elections on Saturday, as a wave of suspected political score-settling raises fears that...
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy gestures at his press conference at the G20 Summit at the Excel centre in London, Thursday, April 2, 2009. The objective of the London Summit is to bring the world's biggest economies together to help restore global economic growth through enhanced international coordination.
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RUADH�N Mac CORMAIC in Paris FRANCE'S SOCIALIST Party yesterday taunted Nicolas Sarkozy with accusations he was "losing his sangfroid" after three more opponents joined an expanding field of candidates hoping to unseat the president next year....
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A vehicle rests on a tree after an overnight tornado in Tushka, Okla., Friday, April 15, 2011.
The Times of India
CHICAGO: At least nine people, including three young children, were killed as a powerful storm whipped up tornadoes across the central United States, officials said. The storm toppled trees and power lines, tore roofs off houses, and scattered...
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Obama kicks off re-election bid, says he has to 'finish job' read more
President Barack Obama gestures during his interview with The Associated Press, Friday, April 15, 2011, in Chicago.
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CHICAGO: US President Barack Obama said on Thursday a Republican debt-reduction plan would create "a nation of potholes" as he used the first events of his 2012 re-election bid to strike a sharp contrast with his opponents. Seeking to...
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G20 name-and-shame risky economies read more
France's Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, who serves as chair of the Group of 20, begins a news conference at the International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings in Washington, Friday, April 15, 2011.
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SOME of the world's top economies were expected to be listed by the G20 for dangerous economic imbalances. China, the United States and other leading economies were expected on the G20's list, but whether they would be publicly "named and...
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Libyans carry the coffin of Faraj Omar Boushaiha, 51, who his relatives said died in Ajdabiya on Thursday, past murals depicting Moammar Gadhafi in a derogatory manner, after Friday prayers in the square next to the courthouse on the corniche in Benghazi, Libya Friday, April 15, 2011. President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Nicolas Sarkozy wrote in a joint newspaper opinion piece Friday that while their mandate under a U.N. Security Council resolution does not include removing Gadhafi by force, "it is impossible to imagine a future for Libya with Gadhafi in power."
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BARACK Obama has added his name to a commitment from David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy to support military action in Libya until Muammar Gaddafi is overthrown. In a joint article published in The...
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A May 14, 2007 photo showing Dr. Binayak Sen, a prominent physician and outspoken government critic sitting inside a police jeep as he was arrested at Raipur in the eastern Indian state of Chattisgarh. Indian authorities insisted that a controversial case against a jailed human rights activist will go forward, with one official saying Wednesday May 21, 2008, that a group of Nobel laureates pressing for his freedom have no respect for the law.
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NEW DELHI — India’s Supreme Court granted bail Friday to a prominent doctor who was appealing a sentence of life imprisonment after being convicted of sedition for helping Maoist rebels in the central tribal areas of the country. The...
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