This file photo made from video provided by the Israeli Defense Force on May 31, 2010 shows what the IDF says is one of several commandos being dropped onto the Mavi Marmara ship by helicopter in the Mediterranean Sea.
photo: AP / Israel Defense Force
Turkey expels Israeli ambassador over Gaza flotilla row
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Turkey is to expel the Israeli ambassador after details emerged of a UN report into last year's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla. Officials in Ankara said it was also suspending all remaining military agreements with Israel. Turkish...
A Libyan boy carries a can of water as shortage of public water distribution hits the population of Tripoli in Jamal Goubtan district inTripoli, Libya, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011.
photo: AP / Francois Mori
UN says Libya short of water, fuel, medicine
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Freedom fighters climb on a tank for a lookout at a defensive outpost, some... Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton talks with with Libyan Transitional... U.S Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton leaves the Elysee Palace in... TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) - The United Nations humanitarian coordinator for Libya says the country faces critical...
In this photo taken during a government-organised tour for the media Wednesday Aug 10 2011, Syrian soldiers stand on their armored vehicle which is placed on a flatbed truck heading out of the city after a weeklong military assault that the government said was aimed at rooting out "terrorists," in Hama city, Syria, which has seen some of the largest anti-government protests of the 5-month-old uprising.
photo: AP / Bassem Tellawi
Global calls for tougher sanctions on Syria
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World leaders have called for a tougher stance over Syria's bloodly crackdown on protesters, demanding new international sanctions on President Bashar al-Assad and his regime. In a round of talks on the sidelines of Thursday's "Friends of Libya" summit in Paris, the US, Britain and France discussed plans to escalate international action aimed...
Mavi Marmara side.jpg
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Gaza ship raid excessive but blockade legal, says UN
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A UN report says Israel used "excessive force" in its raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla last year, but said the naval blockade was legal, according to the New York Times. The UN also found that Israeli commandos were met with "organised and violent resistance" when they boarded the Mavi Marmara, the paper reports. The Turkish-flagged ship was part...
In this Friday, Aug. 26, 2011 file photo, a Libyan walks inside the Abu Salim prison in Tripoli, Libya. For decades, Libyans knew Tripoli's Abu Salim prison as one of the darkest tools of Moammar Gadhafi's regime
photo: AP / Sergey Ponomarev
Rebel military chief says he was tortured by CIA
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The overthrow of Gaddafi has brought together strange allies, but few stranger than Abdulhakim Belhaj, the military commander of all rebel military forces in Tripoli, and Nato. An Islamist whom Gaddafi tried to have the US list as a terrorist, Mr Belhaj says he was tortured by CIA agents after being arrested in the Far East in 2004 and later handed...
In this citizen journalism image made on a mobile phone and acquired by the AP, Syrian anti-government protesters carry banners in Arabic that read: "Freedom means to stop the killing and arrests," during a rally in the northeastern city of Qamishli, Syria, Friday, May 13, 2011.
photo: AP
Syrian forces continue crackdown
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Security forces have killed at least five people in Syria, activists said, urging fresh anti-regime protests under the banner of "death rather than humiliation". The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said three people were killed and several more were wounded when security forces opened fire on protesters in the central region of Homs. The...
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, right, talks with Libyan National Transitional Council chairman Mustafa Abdel Jalil at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Thursday, Sept.1, 2011.
photo: AP / Jacques Brinon
Gaddafi vows to fight, Libya conference begins
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi, driven into hiding by his foes, on Thursday urged his supporters to fight on, even as Libya's new interim rulers met world leaders to discuss reshaping a nation torn by 42 years of one-man rule and six months of war. Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi looks on during a news conference at the Quirinale palace in Rome...
File - Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) meets with members of the Oregon National Guard, the Oregon Department of Veterans Affairs, and family support groups at Portland State University in Portland, Ore., June 29, 2009.
photo: USAF / Tech. Sgt. Nick Choy
Is the US government spying on Americans?
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The rise of government surveillance is a troublesome legacy of the September 11 attacks. Today, video cameras are visible everywhere in public places, recording people’s every move. But what about spying that can’t be spotted? Ten years after 9/11, new questions are being raised about what the US government is secretly doing on the...
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
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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...
Journalists are not supposed to have political opinions, and yet we all do. Our "biases" are...
Ten Years Later, Americans Still Stupid and Vulnerable They say everything changed on 9/11. No...
Lady Eliza Manningham-Buller uses BBC lecture to criticise 'unhelpful' term, attack Iraq...
 
A view Earth from the International Space Station - Katia was a tropical storm gathering energy over the Atlantic Ocean when one of the Expedition 28 crew took this photo on Aug. 31, 2011.
The amount of junk in space is rising exponentially, with continuous collisions between abandoned equipment, spent rockets and other debris creating ever growing clouds of dangerous fragments, an influential report warned on Thursday. The report,...
photo: NASA
Many US homes still without power after Irene
Residents of several states in the northeast US approached the Labour Day holiday weekend mired in mud and stuck in the dark nearly a week after Hurricane Irene swallowed parts of the region with flooding. About one million homes and businesses...
photo: WN / Periasamy
File - Birds sit on the concertina wire overlooking detainees at Joint Task Force (JTF) Guantanamo, Cuba, as they observe morning prayers before sunrise inside Camp Delta Oct. 28, 2009.
WASHINGTON -- The secret airlift of terrorism suspects and American intelligence officials to CIA-operated overseas prisons via luxury jets was mounted by a hidden network of U.S. companies and coordinated by a prominent defense contractor, newly...
photo: US Navy file / Marcos T. Hernandez
U.S. Service members at the USO facility at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, watch President Barack Obama's television address May 2, 2011, following the death of Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.
WASHINGTON—On a steady slide. On the ropes. Taking shots to the body and head. That's how White House counterterrorism chief John Brennan described al-Qaida on Wednesday as he offered the first on-record confirmation that al-Qaida's latest...
photo: USAF / Staff Sgt. Stephen Schester
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
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This file photo made from video provided by the Israeli Defense Force on May 31, 2010 shows what the IDF says is one of several commandos being dropped onto the Mavi Marmara ship by helicopter in the Mediterranean Sea. Uruguay's Diego Forlan, left, celebrates after scoring in a penalty shootout as Argentina's goalkeeper Sergio Romero reacts during a Copa America quarterfinal soccer match in Santa Fe, Argentina, Saturday, July 16, 2011. A woman enters a euro discount store in south Dublin, Ireland, Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. Ireland's banks will be pruned down, merged or sold as part of a massive EU-IMF bailout, the government says as a shellshocked nation comes to grips with its failure to protect its financial institutions. France's President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, welcomes German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Elysee Palace, in Paris Tuesday Aug. 16, 2011.
U. S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, and United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary William Hague speak during a meeting of Libya Contact Group in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, July 15, 2011. Delegates from nearly 40 countries seeking an end to the Libyan conflict met in Istanbul on Friday to discuss more financial aid and diplomatic support to Libya's main opposition group as the rebels struggled to defeat Gadhafi-loyal forces. Senior U.S. officials have said the Obama administration is preparing to strengthen ties with the Transitional National Council once it presents detailed plans for a democratic, transparent and inclusive government as it becomes increasingly clear that the Council will govern a post-Gadhafi Libya. Fireworks Display in Fireworks Competition in Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines 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. Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic celebrates after winning a point against Andy Roddick of the US during a men's singles round robin match at the ATP World Tour Finals tennis tournament at the O2 Arena, in London, Wednesday, Nov. 24. 2010. 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 during a government-organised tour for the media Wednesday Aug 10 2011, Syrian soldiers stand on their armored vehicle which is placed on a flatbed truck heading out of the city after a weeklong military assault that the government said was aimed at rooting out "terrorists," in Hama city, Syria, which has seen some of the largest anti-government protests of the 5-month-old uprising. Suveying down town in Bagdad 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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