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Syrian protesters carry a long syrian flag while shouting anti presidential slogans against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad during a protest march organised by the syrian citizens in Bucharest Sept. 2, 2011.
EU   Photos   Protest   Syria   Wikipedia: Timeline of the 2011 Syrian uprising
 Khaleej Times 
EU bans Syrian oil
Fri 2 Sep 2011
BEIRUT ' The European Union banned oil imports from Syria on Friday in a move that will cost the embattled regime millions of dollars each day as it tries to crush a resilient uprising that has railed... (photo: AP / Octav Ganea)
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.
Gaza   Israel   Photos   Turkey   Wikipedia: Gaza flotilla raid
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Turkey expels Israeli ambassador over Gaza flotilla row
Fri 2 Sep 2011
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... (photo: AP / Israel Defense Force)
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.  Breitbart  Fri 2 Sep 2011
UN says Libya short of water, fuel, medicine
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... (photo: AP / Francois Mori)
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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.  Al Jazeera  Fri 2 Sep 2011
Global calls for tougher sanctions on Syria
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... (photo: AP / Bassem Tellawi)
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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 The Independent Fri 2 Sep 2011
Rebel military chief says he was tortured by CIA
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... (photo: AP / Sergey Ponomarev)
CIA   Libya   Nato   Photos   Wikipedia: 2011 Libyan civil war
File - An unidentified Laotian explosives clearance technician uses a metal detector to hunt for cluster bombs Wednesday, May 28, 1997, near the village of Sam Neua, Laos, in the northeastern province of Houaphan. Scoop Fri 2 Sep 2011
Govt urged to rein in financial investments in cluster bombs
Friday, 2 September 2011, 10:40 am Press Release: Cluster Munitions Coalition Aotearoa New Zealand Cluster Munition Coalition Government urged to rein in financial... (photo: AP / David Longstreath)
Human Rights   N Zealand   Photos   Weapons   Wikipedia: Cluster bomb
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. Al Jazeera Fri 2 Sep 2011
Syrian forces continue crackdown
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... (photo: AP)
Mideast   Photos   Protest   Syria   Wikipedia: 2011 Syrian uprising
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. Huffington Post Thu 1 Sep 2011
CIA Rendition Program Secrets, Costs Revealed In New York Billing Dispute
WASHINGTON -- The secret airlift of terrorism suspects and American intelligence officials to CIA-operated overseas prisons via luxury jets was mounted by a hidden... (photo: US Navy file / Marcos T. Hernandez)
CIA   Photos   Terrorism   Washington   Wikipedia: Extraordinary rendition by the United States
Tibetans and monks offering prayers during a march event for the Kirti monastery of Ngaba Tibet held in Dharamshala, India WorldNews.com Thu 1 Sep 2011
Two More Monks jailed in Tibet, Rights Groups Condemn Unjust Trial
Article by Yeshe Choesang, WN Correspondent Dharamshala. Dharamshala: - A local Chinese court in Ngaba county of eastern Tibet Tuesday, 30 August, jailed two Tibetan... (photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang)
Buddhism   China   HumanRights   Photos   Tibet
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. The Boston Globe Thu 1 Sep 2011
Syrian forces said to be conducting searches for activists
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... (photo: AP / Ugarit News Group via APTN)
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