Afghan police officers stand guard at a check point following death of Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, in Kabul, Afghanistan Tuesday, May 3, 2011.
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Raid's success may sway policy
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WASHINGTON -- The death of Osama bin Laden stands to reshape U.S. policy by strengthening the position of officials in Washington who want to sharply scale down the 10-year-old war in Afghanistan. The incident also places dangerous strains on the shaky U.S. partnership with Pakistan. One day after bin Laden died, many argued that the mission showed...
Syrian pro-government supporters shout slogans as they carry pictures of Syrian President Bashar Assad on a government-provided tour in old Damascus, Syria, Saturday, April 30, 2011.
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Widespread arrests reported in Syria's rebellious zones
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BEIRUTSyrian security forces have escalated an arrest campaign in the country's most rebellious regions, detaining hundreds over the past few days in the besieged city of Daraa and towns on the outskirts of the capital, Damascus, activists said Monday. Since the uprising began six weeks ago against the rule of President Bashar Assad,...
 Canada´s Prime Minister Stephen Harper holds a joint press conference along with his Australian counterpart John Howard on his visit to Canberra, on Tuesday September 11, 2007. Harper is visiting Canberra as part of the bilateral guest of governmen
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Canada's Stephen Harper 'wins elusive majority'
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STEPHEN Harper has been re-elected Canada's prime minister at the head of a majority Conservative government, television projections say. Canadian voters delivered Harper his first majority...
President Barack Obama listens during one in a series of meetings discussing the mission against Osama bin Laden, in the Situation Room of the White House, May 1, 2011.
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World 'safer' without Bin Laden, says Obama
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US President Barack Obama has hailed the death of al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden as a "good day for America," saying the world is now a safer and a better place. Bin Laden was killed in a raid by US special forces on a compound in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad. He is believed to have ordered the attacks on New York and Washington on 11...
 Exiled al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden is shown in Afghanistan in this April 1998 photo. Four followers of bin Laden were convicted Tuesday, May 29, 2001, in New York, of charges in the nearly simultaneous 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa th
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Osama Bin Laden casting a shadow long after death
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THEY couldn't have done it better - the killing of Osama bin Laden. In a daring, breathtaking and clinically lethal operation they cut him down right where he lived. The raid marks the passing of a long, bloody decade of war since the 9/11 horror. It comes as the great price of treasure and blood - about 6000 US combat deaths and hundreds of...
In this file television image broadcast on Qatar's Al-Jazeera TV, is said to show Osama bin Laden, at the wedding of his son in January of 2001.
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Death Comes for the Master Terrorist: Osama bin Laden (1957-2011)
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Almost 10 years ago, Osama bin Laden ghosted away from the Afghan battlefields. Since then, it is as if the doomsday sheikh had slipped into a twilight zone where the only proof that he was alive was the chilling voice on a spool of tape, the occasional video image - and a string of terrorist outrages and wars lengthening around the globe that...
President Barack Obama stands with Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley, left, Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., and others, as they toured tornado damage in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Friday, April 29, 2011.
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Can Obama Construct a Different Presidential Legacy?
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Article by WN.Com Correspondent Dallas Darling. "I have never seen devastation like this...this is heartbreaking...We're going to make sure you're not forgotten." -President Barack Obama on visiting cities destroyed by tornadoes. "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job." Former President George W. Bush congratulating his appointee to FEMA after...
Pro-Taliban demonstrators march in the street in Rawalpindi, Pakistan on Friday, Nov. 16, 2001. A few hundred people gathered for the demonstration, which ended peacefully. Suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden is seen on poster.
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Osama bin Laden is dead, Obama announces
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Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind al-Qaida, is dead, President Obama to announce from the White House Osama bin Laden has been killed by US operatives in Pakistan, President Obama announced. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images...
In this photo taken on a government organized tour, ruins of a house are seen at the site of a NATO missile attack in Tripoli, Libya, Saturday, April 30, 2011.
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Gaddafi son's killing puts Nato in firing line
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Russia and Venezuela join Libyan regime in accusing Nato of attempting to assassinate Muammar Gaddafi Libyan officials accuse Nato of attacking Saif al-Arab Gaddafi's house in hopes of killing Muammar Gaddafi. Photograph: Staff/Reuters...
Anti-government protestors shout slogans during a demonstration demanding the resignation of of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday, April 26, 2011.
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Arab uprising: The U.S. must take a nonviolent stance
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If the U.S. wishes to see democracy displace coercion in the Arab world, it ought to set the right example....
by William T. Vollmann Info...
The raid emboldens policymakers who have argued for targeted strikes in the war on terrorism....
Cairo - Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood said on Monday that US soldiers should be withdrawn from...
 
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez waves to supporters and militia troops during an event marking the 9th anniversary of the failed 2002 coup in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, April 13, 2011.
Some leaders can become so demonised that it's impossible to assess their achievements and failures in a balanced way Development professionals find it hard to be objective about Venezuela's president, Hugo Chavez. Photograph: Jorge Silva/Reuters...
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TOKYO/NEW YORK: Sony's Internet security crisis deepened with the company revealing hackers had stolen data of another 25 million users of its PC games system in a second massive breach for the consumer electronics giant. Sony's latest revelation...
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Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari, widower of assassinated former Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto gestures during a press conference in Islamabad, Pakistan on Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2008. Zardari took office as the country's new president, facing immediate pressure to crack down on Islamic militants and address daunting economic problems.
Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari has denied that the killing of Osama Bin Laden in his country is a sign of its failure to tackle terrorism. In a forthright editorial in the Washington Post, Mr Zardari said his country was "perhaps the world's...
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Osama a martyr, says Geelani
Hardline Hurriyat chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Monday called al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden a martyr who died fighting US oppression in the...
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In this citizen journalism image made on a mobile phone and acquired by the AP, Syrian anti-government protesters hold a bloodied national flag during a funeral procession for slain activists in Izraa, Syria, Saturday, April 23, 2011.
A photo released by the Syrian Arab news Agency (SANA) shows the funeral pr... A photo released by the Syrian Arab news Agency (SANA) shows the funeral pr... The Syrian authorities have set a deadline of 15 days for people who had co... The...
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al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden speaks to a selected group of reporters in mountains of Helmand province in southern Afghanistan A person familiar with developments said Sunday, May 1, 2011 that bin Laden is dead and the U.S. has the body.
Washington, D.C. -- Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks that killed thousands of Americans, was slain in his luxury hideout in Pakistan early last week in a firefight with U.S. forces, ending a manhunt that...
photo: AP / Rahimullah Yousafzai
A Japanese watches TV on the death of Osama bin Laden, at an electronics retailer in Tokyo on Monday May 2, 2011.
May 2 2011, NYT: Monday, May 02, 2011 --> Osama bin Laden, who was killed in Pakistan on Sunday, was a son of the Saudi elite whose radical, violent campaign to recreate a seventh-century Muslim empire redefined the threat of terrorism for the 21st...
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