President Barack Obama delivers a speech to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011.
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Text of President Obama's address to Congress
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Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of Congress, and fellow Americans: Tonight we meet at an urgent time for our country. We continue to face an economic crisis that has left millions of our neighbors jobless, and a political crisis that's made things worse. This past week, reporters have been asking, "What will this speech mean for the...
In this image taken from RTP Portugal TV, filmed in Tripoli, Libya, Thursday March 17, 2011, showing Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, during an interview as he comments on the prospects of a United Nations resolution against Libyan government forces. The interview made available Friday March 18, was filmed Thursday before the United Nations voted to authorize the use of "all necessary measures" to protect civilians under attack by government forces in Libya.
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Interpol issues arrest warrant for Muammar Gaddafi
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PARIS (Reuters) - Interpol has issued arrest warrants for Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, his son Saif al-Islam, and intelligence chief Abdullah...
U.S. Army Spc. Andy DeLeon helps with the evacuation effort in the wake of Hurricane Irene in Lawrenceville, N.J., Aug. 28, 2011.
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Days of rain turn into fatal East Coast flooding
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Matt Rourke John Souder views rising floodwaters, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011, in Plymouth, Pa. Widespread flooding brought on by the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee was being blamed for two deaths in Pennsylvania, where inundated communities were evacuated and state offices closed down on Thursday because of the rising waters. "factbox" --> More News...
 U.S. Army Sgt. Matt Frieman, of the 1st Battalion, 102nd Infantry Regiment, Connecticut National Guard, and a few Afghan police officers secure a road during a scheduled meeting between key leaders in the Kunar province of Afghanistan Feb. 4, 2007. The p
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On the Afghan frontline, U.S. soldiers see longer war ahead
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KUNAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - U.S. soldiers deployed on the rugged mountains of eastern Afghanistan say the war isn't going away for another ten years, even after Washington pulls troops from a country locked in a deadly Islamist insurgency. With failing public support for the war, President Barack Obama has announced a plan to gradually draw down...
North Korean defectors watch the balloons after releasing them with leaflets to condemn North Korean leader Kim Jong Il during a rally held on the day of the 63rd anniversary of North Korea's founding, at the Imjingak near the demilitarized zone of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Friday, Sept. 9, 2011.
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North Korea military parade shows leaders' succession on course
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SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il flanked by his son reviewed a military parade of goose-stepping North Korean soldiers in Pongyang's central square on Friday, underlining a planned third generation of dynastic rule is on track. Kim and his son Kim Jong-un marked the 63rd anniversary of the state's founding standing atop a dais as...
NEW YORK, New York (Sept. 17)--A view of the World Trade Center destruction from the 20th floor of the World Financial Building 2 Sept. 17, 2001.
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9-11 and the United States' Empire of Language and Ideas
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Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. When it was reported that al-Qaeda was preparing to launch its first online newspaper, it reminded me of what Nicholas Ostler wrote in "Empires of the Word, A Language History of the World." (Since words and phrases, along with their meanings, are usually defined and then redefined again by...
President Barack Obama delivers a speech to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011. Watching are Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker John Boehner.
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Obama unveils $447bn jobs plan
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Washington, September 09: Barack Obama used a televised address to the nation to unveil a $447bn package aimed at bringing down the country's high jobless total, the issue that could determine whether he wins re-election next year. In a rare joint session of Congress on Thursday night, the president challenged the Republicans to end the "political...
Former rebels rest at the last former rebel's checkpoint between Tarhouna and Bani Walid, in Wai Dinar, Libya, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011.
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NATO And U.S. Make Libya Safe For Plutocracy
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-The Libyan story is the same tale that's been told since Western governments and their well-connected benefactors started pushing their weight around the last 500 years. It's just the latest chapter in this tale. It is doubtful Western elites shared the optimism of President Obama when he recently announced that the end of Moammar Gadhafi means...
Undated handout photo made available by the Baha Mousa Public Inquiry shows Iraqi man Baha Mousa and family. Mousa was beaten and killed while in the custody of U.K. troops and was the victim of "an appalling episode of serious gratuitous violence" and a serious breach of discipline, an investigation found Thursday Sept 8, 2011.
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Baha Mousa's death casts a shadow over British army, says top general
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Sir Peter Wall, head of the British army, reacts to the Gage report by saying the 'shameful' incident must never be repeated Baha Mousa's family say soldiers must pay Link to this video...
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, reviews an honor guard, as he is accompanied by Vice-President Mohammad Reza Rahimi, during a departure ceremony for him, while he departs Tehran's Mehrabad airport for a trip to Tajikistan, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2011.
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Syrian ally Iran urges dialogue, end to violence
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BEIRUT - Syrian security forces kept up a deadly crackdown on dissent Thursday as the embattled regime faced surprising calls to end the violence from its closest ally, Iran, in a sign of growing alarm over the 6-month-old uprising. In a live interview in Teheran, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Syrian President Bashar Assad should back...
New Zealand's Sonny Bill Williams passes the ball to teammate Richard Kahui during their Rugby World Cup game against Tonga at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand, Friday, Sept. 9, 2011.
New Zealand 41-10 Tonga: Minute-by-minute report • Watch World Cup video highlights, interviews and more • Browse our interactive guide to the venues and fixtures New Zealand's Sonny Bill Williams scores a try during the All Blacks' 2011 Rugby...
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A police officer stands guard in New York's Times Square as the ABC news ticker displays news of an al-Qaida terror threat, Friday, Sept. 9, 2011.
US counter-terrorism officials are chasing a credible but unconfirmed al Qaida threat to use a car bomb on bridges or tunnels in New York City or Washington. It was the first "active plot" timed to coincide with the sombre commemoration of the terror...
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President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, speaks about the health care reform bill, Tuesday, March 23, 2010, at the Interior Department in Washington
Washington - President Obama emphatically announced the much needed jobs bill before Congress and America in a powerful speech, Thursday Sept. 8, 2011. Unfortunately, candidates of the GOP debate held just a day earlier, were dwarfed under the...
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A war ship sails during graduation ceremony for naval academy cadets in the naval base of Haifa, Israel, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011.
Turkey's naval forces would escort Turkey's humanitarian aid ships bound for the Gaza Strip, said Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, following Israel's refusal to apologise for its deadly raid on an aid flotilla heading to the Palestinian...
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a religious ceremony for the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Saturday, Aug 27, 2011.
The Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, made it clear last night that he was going ahead with his application for statehood at the UN and suggested the international community had left it "too late" to find a formula that would forestall the...
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His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama addressing during Dr. Lobsang Sangay's swearing-in ceremony as the new political leader of Tibet at the main Tibetan Temple in McLeod Ganj, Dharmshala, India, Monday, Aug. 8, 2011. The Harvard-trained legal scholar has been sworn in as head of the Tibetan government in exile and is transferring as political leader of the exile movement.
Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama Montreal, Canada: The spiritual leader of Tibet, His Holiness the Dalai Lama's program for September 7, 2011 began in the morning with a visit to the Manjushri Buddhist Centre in the city of Longueuil, on the...
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President Barack Obama receives an economic briefing from Brian Deese, Deputy Director of the National Economic Council, at the Fisher House at Blue Heron Farm in Chilmark, Massachusetts, August 24, 2011.
It is President Obama's big speech on jobs tonight. Big? Many commentators are convinced there will be nothing new in it. The markets have discounted it. Congressional Republicans...
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Libyan men react as the main fuel depot in Misrata, Libya burns after a bombing by pro-Gadhafi forces early Saturday, May 7, 2011. Brazil's Neymar walks in the field during a Copa America quarterfinal soccer match against Paraguay in La Plata, Argentina, Sunday, July 17, 2011. Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Wednesday, March 31, 2010 New satellites battle pollution 'ghosts'
President Barack Obama delivers a speech to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011. FC Barcelona's coach Pep Guardiola, right, Lionel Messi, from Argentina, second left, and Carles Puyol, second right, attend a training session at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, May 23, 2011. FC Barcelona will play against Manchester United in the final of the Champions League at Wembley stadium in London on May 28. U.S.'s Andy Roddick plays a return to Britain's Andy Murray during their singles semifinal tennis match at the Queen's Club grass court championships in London, Saturday, June 11, 2011. Murray won by 6-3, 6-1. Cypriot woman making Halloumi ( Greek cheese) and other Cypriot foods  in her back yard    Polemidia, Limassol Cyprus 2008
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Uruguayan peacekeepers with the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) receive medals of recognition for their work, during a rainy ceremony in Les Cayes, Haiti., 25 August, 2011. The new head coach of Colombia's national soccer team, Leonel Alvarez, right, speaks during a news conference in Bogota, Thursday Sept. 8, 2011. Alvarez replaces Hernan Dario Gomez, who resigned following reports he struck a woman outside a Bogota bar in early August. Netflix 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.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, reviews an honor guard, as he is accompanied by Vice-President Mohammad Reza Rahimi, during a departure ceremony for him, while he departs Tehran's Mehrabad airport for a trip to Tajikistan, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2011. Undated handout photo made available by the Baha Mousa Public Inquiry shows Iraqi man Baha Mousa and family. Mousa was beaten and killed while in the custody of U.K. troops and was the victim of "an appalling episode of serious gratuitous violence" and a serious breach of discipline, an investigation found Thursday Sept 8, 2011. Thousands of Israeli gather to protest against the cost of living in Israel, in a main square in central Tel Aviv, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2011.  A cameraman, films, surveillance equipment, top right, set by inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency, (IAEA) at the Uranium Conversion Facility of Iran, just outside the city of Isfahan, 410 kilometers, (255 miles) south of the capital Tehr
The Pentagon in flames moments after a hijacked jetliner crashed into building at approximately 0930 on September 11, 2001. Al-Qaida were later determined to be responsible. File - FIFA President Sepp Blatter speaks during the 23rd AFC Congress at a hotel in downtown Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Friday, May 8, 2009. An B737-300 of US Airways 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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