President Barack Obama makes a point during one in a series of meetings in the Situation Room of the White House discussing the mission against Osama bin Laden, May 1, 2011.
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No release of Bin Laden photos
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President Barack Obama has decided that photos of the dead Osama Bin Laden should not be released. US officials have been discussing whether to publish...
In this image taken from Associated Press Television News footage an unidentified person runs away from a shelled checkpoint near the port area of Misrata, Libya, Sunday May , 2011 after Libyan government forces fired more than two dozen Grad rockets and mortars towards the area.
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Libyan leaders face arrest on war crimes charges
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Gaddafi regime systematically opened fire on peaceful protests, says international criminal court prosecutor Libyans rally against Muammar Gaddafi in Benghazi last month. Arrest warrants on war crimes charges are expected to be issued against top members of his regime. Photograph: Bernat Armangue/AP...
Internally displaced ethnic Tamils watch Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse arrive during his visit to the Manik Farm refugee camp, in Vavuniya, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009.
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US urges Sri Lanka to address abuse allegations
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka—A U.S. diplomat Wednesday asked Sri Lanka to address allegations of possible war crimes toward the end of the country's civil war and to share political power with an estranged Tamil minority for a lasting peace. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Robert O. Blake told reporters that Sri...
People gather at the scene of a car bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, May 4, 2011.
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Iraq car bomb kills 16, wounds dozens
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(05-04) 04:00 PDT Baghdad -- A car bomb tore through a cafe packed with young men watching a soccer match Tuesday in Baghdad, killing at least 16 people, officials said. It was the first major attack since U.S. commandos killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. Nobody claimed responsibility for the attack, which struck a Shiite enclave...
Lance Cpl. Michael Whitson, native of Boston, patrols an alleyway in Garmsir District, Afghanistan, April 26, 2011.
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Calls grow for Afghan exit
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WASHINGTON - Osama bin Laden's death fueled demands yesterday for a hastened drawdown of US forces in Afghanistan, despite warnings that a rapid withdrawal could lead that nation into chaos. Fewer than 100 Al Qaeda fighters are believed to remain in the country, according to CIA assessments, and bin Laden's death is the most dramatic illustration...
File - July 27, 2010 image from the North Pole webcam shows ponds created by the summer sea ice melt.
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Arctic ice melt 'alarming'
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Ice in Greenland and the rest of the Arctic is melting dramatically faster than was earlier projected and could raise global sea levels by as much as 1.6 metres by 2100, says a new study. The study released on Tuesday by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP) said there is a "need for greater urgency" in fighting global warming as...
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along with with members of the national security team, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House, May 1, 2011.
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Bin Laden was unarmed when SEALs stormed room
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WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden was unarmed when Navy SEALs burst into his room and shot him to death, the White House said Tuesday, a change in the official account that raised questions about whether the U.S. ever planned to capture the terrorist leader alive. The Obama administration was still debating whether to release gruesome images of...
Portugal's Prime Minister Jose Socrates speaks during a media conference at an EU Summit in Brussels on Saturday, March 12, 2011. Euro zone leaders agreed in principle on Friday to write limits on public debt and budget deficits into national law, meeting a German condition for a stronger euro zone financial safety net.
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Portugal reaches Euro78bn deal on bailout
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ARTHUR BEESLEY, European Correspondent in Brussels PORTUGAL REACHED a Euro78 billion bailout deal with the EU and IMF late last night, an agreement that marks the euro zone's third sovereign rescue after Ireland and Greece. In a televised address from his official residence in Lisbon, caretaker prime minister Jos� S�crates said the pact with the EU...
File - This television image broadcast on Qatar's Al-Jazeera TV, is said to show the wedding of Mohammed bin Laden, center, the son of Osama bin Laden, seated at right.
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Pakistan admits Bin Laden intelligence failure
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Pakistan's main intelligence agency, the ISI, has said it is embarrassed by its failures on al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden. An ISI official told the BBC the compound in Abbottabad where Bin Laden was killed by US forces on Sunday had been raided in 2003. But the compound "was not on our radar" since then, the official said....
In this Nov. 17, 2010 file photo, artist Ai Weiwei arrives at the Wenyuhe court to support fellow artist Wu Yuren during his trial in Beijing.
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Mandates of Earth or 'Who's Afraid of Ai Weiwei?'
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Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. Since the beginning of China's history, like most other nation states it has wrestled with the Mandate of Heaven and Mandates of Earth. Over three thousand years ago, the battle-hardened Zhou people of China overthrew the Shang. To justify their rebellion and to promote their legitimacy to...
Article by WN.com Guest Contributor Dr. Yossef Ben-Meir The fatal terrorist bombing of a...
So why are we in Afghanistan? Didn't the Americans and the British go there in 2001 to fight...
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The Damascus-based leader of Hamas Khaled Mashaal, left, and Arab League chief Amr Moussa, right, speak to the media during a press conference at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, May 3, 2011.
Jerusalem (CNN) -- The two largest Palestinian factions -- the West Bank-based Fatah and the Islamist group Hamas, which rules Gaza -- are expected to hold a formal signing of a political reconciliation agreement Wednesday in Cairo. As Palestinian...
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File - In this photo taken on Monday, June 1, 2009, North Korean soldiers along the river banks of Sinuiju in North Korea are seen from the Yalu river near Dandong, northeastern China's Liaoning province.
Report by human rights group cites ex-inmates and defectors' accounts of torture and executions in series of camps A satellite image showing the area of political prison camps in central North Korea. Photograph: Digitalglobe/Amnesty...
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File - Ultra-nationalist Serb Vojislav Seselj adjusts his earphones after entering the court room to face a charge of contempt of court , for allegedly threatening a witness, at the Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, Friday March 6, 2009.
The UN war crimes tribunal at the Hague is due to decide whether there are grounds to acquit Serbian ultra-nationalist Vojislav Seselj. Mr Seselj, leader of the Serbian Radical Party, is charged with 14 counts relating to the Croatian and Bosnian...
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President Barack Obama, accompanied by Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., left, and Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley, center, tours tornado in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Friday, April 29, 2011.
BOSTON: Between attending a glamorous White House correspondents' dinner and meeting families of victims of the Alabama storms, US president Barack Obama successfully managed to put up a "poker face" for nearly 72...
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 In this television image from Arab satellite station Al-Jazeera, Osama bin Laden, right, listens as his top deputy Ayman al-Zawahri speaks at an undisclosed location, in this image made from undated video tape broadcast by the station Monday April 15, 20
CAIRO (Reuters) - The man most likely to take the helm of al Qaeda after Osama bin Laden did not emerge from the crowded slums of Egypt's sprawling capital or develop his militant ideas in any religious college or seminary. Instead, Egyptian-born...
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The An Algerian man reads a newspaper in Algiers, Tuesday, May 3, 2011.
WASHINGTON/ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) – World leaders warned of revenge attacks after Osama bin Laden was killed in a U.S. assault in Pakistan on Monday that brought to a dramatic end the long manhunt for the al Qaeda leader who had become the...
photo: AP / Ouahab Hebbat
File - This televsion image released by Qatar's Al-Jazeera televison broadcast on Friday Oct. 5, 2001 is said to show the most recent images of Osama bin Laden, center, the prime suspect in the terrorist attacks on the United States on Sept. 11. At left is bin Laden's top lieutenant, Egyptian, Ayman al-Zawahri.
Abbottabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- After a day of international exaltation over the death of Osama bin Laden, questions remain about who might take over his terrorist group and whether a trove of material gathered from bin Laden's compound might tip off...
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