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A man suspected of being mercenary for Moammar Gadhafi, is held in a district sports center next to the medina, set up as provisionary jail in Tripoli, Libya, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2011.
photo: AP / Francois Mori
World powers, NTC to map out rebuilding
read more Independent online (SA)
Paris - Leaders of the Libyan uprising that overthrew Muammar Gaddafi sit down with world powers on Thursday to map out the country's rebuilding, 42 years to the day after the former strongman seized power in a coup. French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister David Cameron, whose gamble to spearhead the West's intervention in Libya...
Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff delivers a speech as he attends the 4th Edition of the March of Daisies, an annual demonstration in support of women's rights in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011.
photo: AP / Eraldo Peres
Brazil's President Rousseff grapples with corruption
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Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, just eight months in the job as her country's first female leader, is regarded as one of the world's most powerful women. So powerful, in fact, that she only trails German Chancellor Angela...
File - Assist vessels fire water cannons at the Deepwater Horizon in an attempt to control and extinguish a fire April 21, 2010, which has engulfed the mobile offshore drilling unit after an explosion April 20.
photo: USCG / PO3 Tom Atkeson
The New Shock Corporations and Shock Workers
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. It was what you would call a "chance" meeting, one that emotionally disrupts your sense of normalcy and complacency. A slurred, broken voice called out, "Do you... uh... remember...me?" Sadly I did not, but I should have. The young man was a former student who had just graduated from school. Like his...
A Libyan rebel stands guard as worshippers gather in the former Green Square, renamed Martyr's Square, for the morning Eid prayer marking the end of Ramadan and to celebrate their victory over Moammar Gadhafi in Tripoli, Libya, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2011.
photo: AP / Abdel Magid Al Fergany
While Tripoli celebrates 'freedom', refugees from Africa fear for their lives
read more The Independent
Free Libya's first Eid al-Fitr out of the shadow of the dictator was a day of celebration and thanksgiving. A stream of families flocked to Martyrs' Square, in the heart of Tripoli, in their best finery. Prayers were held by the roadside, women ululated, there was joyous laughter and ceremonial gunfire. But in another part of the Libyan capital the...
In the wake of Irene, The Weather Channel turns to Katia and Lee
photo: US DoD
In the wake of Irene, The Weather Channel turns to Katia and Lee
read more The Examiner
The Weather Channel is keeping an eye on two new storms that could potentially spell trouble for the United States. In the wake of Hurricane Irene and its aftermath, meteorologists from TWC are turning to Katia and Lee as the next potential threats. “Not surprisingly, since we are in the peak of hurricane season, the tropics are staying...
Rebel fighters start their patrol of the village of Heisha, some 100 kilometers east from Misrata, LIbya, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2011.
photo: AP / Sergey Ponomarev
Elections in Libya Should be Deferred
read more Middle East Online
While the Libyan rebels have rightfully celebrated the ousting of Muammar al-Qaddafi after 42-year reign in Libya, turning him from all powerful-dictator to a cowered fugitive, the real challenges for a new Libya are just beginning. The road to writing a new constitution, forging new political parties, rebuilding a battered infrastructure,...
In this Wednesday, June 8, 2011 photo, Myanmar refugees share a bed in their room in a suburb of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
photo: AP / Mark Baker
Australian High Court blocks Malaysia refugee swap
read more Breitbart
Protesters oppose Australia's plan to send asylum-seekers to Malaysia in Sy... Map locating Darwin in Australia where blazes broke out Wednesday in an imm... Asylum-seekers protest on top of a building at Sydney's Villawood Detention... Australia's High Court on Wednesday blocked Canberra's plans to send asylum-seekers to Malaysia, saying they...
Hurricane Irene among the costliest catastrophes in the U.S.
photo: US Army / Rick Breitenfeldt
Hurricane Irene among the costliest catastrophes in the U.S.
read more Seattle Times
Hurricane Irene will most likely prove to be one of the 10 costliest catastrophes in the nation's history, but analysts warned that much of the damage might not be covered by insurance because so much of it was caused not by winds but by flooding, which is excluded from many standard policies. Industry estimates put the cost of the storm at $7...
People demonstrate against Moammar Gadhafi at the Green Square in Tripoli, Libya, late Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2011.
photo: AP / Alexandre Meneghini
Libya's interim leaders reject UN military personnel
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Libya's interim leadership has rejected the idea of deploying any kind of international military force, the UN envoy to the country has said. Ian Martin said the UN...
In this photo taken during a government-organised tour for media, Syrian army soldiers, background, stand in front of fire extinguishers, foreground, which, according to the army were set as an explosive devices, in the town of Jisr al-Shughour, north of Damascus, Syria, on Monday June 13, 2011.
photo: AP / Bassem Tellawi
Violence mars end of holy month in Syria
read more Newsday
-- Syrian security forces killed at least seven people, including a 13-year-old boy, as thousands of protesters poured out of mosques and marched through cemeteries yesterday at the start of Eid ul-Fitr, a holiday when pious Muslims traditionally visit graves and pray for the dead. The three-day holiday marks the end of the holy month of , a time...
Article by WN.com Guest Writers Dr. Ismail Salami and Kourosh Ziabari As the United States is...
When the Emir of Qatar flew to see President Abdelaziz Bouteflika of Algeria early this summer,...
Liberal interventionists are having a "mission accomplished" moment. They had thought their...
 
Indian Army soldiers patrol outside their army camp at Gurez, about 180 kilometers (113 miles) north of Srinagar, India, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2011. Indian troops in Kashmir fought a deadly gunbattle with suspected rebels crossing the military Line of Control from Pakistani-controlled territory Saturday, the army said. One soldier and 11 suspected rebels were killed, army spokesman Lt. Col. J.S. Brar said, but only six suspected rebels' bodies were recovered. He said the other five bodies were lost when they fell into a river during the fighting in the disputed Himalayan region.
Islamabad/New Delhi - The Pakistan Army said Thursday that Indian forces fired at a border post in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, killing three of its troops. India said one of its officers was killed. The incident occurred Tuesday night...
photo: WN / Imran Nissar
Gucci-wearing Dalai Lama misleading world on Tibet: China
Calling the Dalai Lama "a small figure", China today dismissed him as an old Lama who wears Gucci shoes and likes to travel around the world to mislead the international community on Tibet. "Since 1959, the Dalai has been in exile (in India). He is...
photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang
Tibetans and monks offering prayers during a march event for the Kirti monastery of Ngaba Tibet held in Dharamshala, India
Article by Yeshe Choesang, WN Correspondent Dharamshala. Dharamshala: - A local Chinese court in Ngaba county of eastern Tibet Tuesday, 30 August, jailed two Tibetan monks of Kirti Monastery after accusing them of "intentional homicide" over...
photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang
In this image from amateur video made available by the Ugarit News group on Tuesday Aug. 30, 2011, an armoured vehicle from which a public announcement is being made via loudspeakers is seen in the streets of Daraa, Syria.
BEIRUT - Syrian security forces conducted house-to-house raids in the central city of Hama yesterday, hunting for activists involved in the country's uprising, residents and activists said. Several tanks and military buses were parked on the eastern...
photo: AP / Ugarit News Group via APTN
President Barack Obama talks about the ongoing budget negotiations, Monday, July 11, 2011, in the briefing room of the White House in Washington.
Washington, Sept 1 (PTI) Thursday, September 01, 2011 --> US President Barack Obama has avoided a major political showdown with the opposition Republican as he agreed to address the joint session of the Congress on September 8 instead of September 7...
photo: AP / Charles Dharapak
Swollen rivers begin falling across Northeast
KILLINGTON, Vt. (AP) -- Swollen rivers began falling Wednesday in much of the Northeast, easing the flooding that paralyzed parts of the region after Hurricane Irene and allowing emergency crews to reach all but one of the Vermont towns that had been...
photo: WN / Minakumari
East struggles to recover from Irene
Meghan Morrow sweeps mud and debris from what is left of the Windham Spa,... Corrinne Levin, left, kisses her daughter Jillianne Davis, who's home was... People try to get a car out of a flooded parking lot in Washingtonville,... NEWFANE, Vt. (AP) -...
photo: USAF / Sgt. Brittany E. Jones
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File - Assist vessels fire water cannons at the Deepwater Horizon in an attempt to control and extinguish a fire April 21, 2010, which has engulfed the mobile offshore drilling unit after an explosion April 20. Kim Kardashian arrives at the People's Choice Awards on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011, in Los Angeles. T-Mobile, Vaňkovka, Brno A bulk of oranges. Oranges are widely grown in warm climates worldwide, and the flavours of oranges vary from sweet to sour. The fruit is commonly peeled and eaten fresh, or squeezed for its juice.
Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff delivers a speech as he attends the 4th Edition of the March of Daisies, an annual demonstration in support of women's rights in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011. Brazil's national soccer team players Robinho speaks to the media at stadium in Tallinn,Estonia,Tuesday, Aug.11, 2009. The Brazil soccer team, record five-time World Cup winners, are arriving in Estonia to play a friendly soccer match against Estonia, on Wednesday, Aug. 12. Yamaha Corporation. A worker operates a part of the drill that is being used for Plan B, the second option conceived to rescue 33 miners trapped at the San Jose mine in Copiapo, Chile, Friday, Sept. 24, 2010.
In this photo taken on a government-organized tour, residents cheer Syrian soldiers on military vehicles as they leave the eastern city of Deir el-Zour, Syria, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2011. File - A U.S gunship flies by the Um Al-Qura Sunni mosque in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Oct. 14, 2005. File - President Barack Obama talks with members of his staff in the Oval Office following a meeting with the Congressional leadership, July 7, 2011. A member of a pro-Islamic group holds a crossed-out poster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak with words in Turkish that reads "dictator Mubarak, get out of Egypt " as people demonstrate in show of solidarity with protestors in Egypt, outside the Fatih Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011.
Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Cuba, addresses the high-level segment of the 2011 Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, Switzerland. File - FIFA President Sepp Blatter speaks during the 23rd AFC Congress at a hotel in downtown Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Friday, May 8, 2009. Irene cleanup could take days along East Coast Why It Took Eleven Months Instead of Three Weeks to Show that Haiti’s Cholera Is Nepalese: a Tale of Noble and Ignoble Scientists, Harvard, and the U.N.
In this Wednesday, June 8, 2011 photo, Myanmar refugees share a bed in their room in a suburb of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Aerial photo of Round Mountain open pit, 2008. Dimensions of the pit are about 2,500 m × 1,500 m (8,200 ft × 4,900 ft). Mining benches (the "contour lines") are about 10.7 m (35 ft) high Gold jewellery-precious metal-Bangles-India. A boy, afflicted with Dengue fever, left, receives medical attention at the hospital Reid Cabral in Santo Domingo, Thursday, Aug. 9, 2007.
 

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