Muslims pray on a sidewalk during Friday prayers despite a ban on praying in the streets, in Paris, Friday, Sept. 16, 2011.
photo: AP / Michel Euler
Parisian Muslims and the Incorruptible General Will
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. At the start of the French Revolution, the infamous Bastille, where prisoners were tortured and gunpowder was stored, was not the only structure stormed by the people of France. Due to its abuses and excesses, hundreds of Parisians stormed the venerable cathedral of Notre-Dame which symbolized the...
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of the Republic of Iran, addresses the general debate of the sixty-sixth session of the General Assembly, 22 September, 2011.
photo: UN / Marco Castro
UN walkout at Ahmadinejad speech
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Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad went on the warpath against the West at the UN again sparking a mass walkout by outraged US and European delegations. The Iranian leader repeated comments casting doubt on the origins of the Holocaust and the September 11, 2001 attacks and criticized the United States for killing Osama bin Laden rather than...
A Yemeni soldier looks on as he stands guard during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, Sept. 16, 2011.
photo: AP / Hani Mohammed
President Ali Abdullah Saleh returns to Yemen
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Yemeni state television says President Ali Abdullah Saleh has returned to the country three months after surviving an assassination attempt. He went to Saudi Arabia in June for treatment following a bomb attack in the grounds of the...
A woman is reflected in a window as the Australian Stock market opens in Sydney, Australia.
photo: AP / Rick Rycroft
Asian stocks have fallen after slide in US and Europe
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Asian stocks have fallen on Friday, hefollowing a major sell-off in European and US markets. The drop was triggered by warnings from the International Monetary Fund and World Bank about the strength of the global economy. South Korea's main Kospi index lost 3.6%, while Australia's ASX shed 0.8%. Japan's Nikkei index is closed for a holiday. US...
Zambia's Patriotic Front (PF) presidential candidate Michael Sata, center, speaks to journalists after casting his vote in Lusaka, Zambia, Thursday Oct. 30, 2008. Zambians elected a replacement for their president who died in offic
photo: AP / Themba Hadebe
Challenger Michael Sata wins Zambia elections
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The chairwoman of the Electoral Commission of Zambia says challenger Michael Sata has defeated the incumbent in presidential elections. Irene Mambilima announced early Friday that with tallies completed from...
A bypasser walks by a poster of former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani during a rally in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday Sept. 21, 2011 after he was killed by a blast the previous day.
photo: AP / Kamran Jebreili
Pakistan ISI 'exporting violence' to Afghanistan: US
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WASHINGTON ' The US military's top officer bluntly accused Pakistan on Thursday of 'exporting' violent extremism to Afghanistan through proxies and warned of possible US action to protect American troops. In a scathing and unprecedented public condemnation of Pakistan, Admiral Mike Mullen said the country's main intelligence agency ISI was actively...
Anti-government protestors use a motorcycle to evacuate a wounded protester at the site of clashes with security forces, in Taiz, Yemen Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011.
photo: AP / Anees Mahyoub
Yemeni capital Sanaa shaken by fresh clashes
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Renewed clashes have broken out in the Yemeni capital Sanaa between government troops and forces opposing President Ali Abdullah Saleh, witnesses say. A medic told AFP news agency that snipers had shot dead two women in a protest camp dubbed Change Square in the city centre. Two men were also killed by mortar fire in...
Mahmoud Abbas (right), President of the Palestinian National Authority, arrives at UN Headquarters with his delegation, including Permanent Observer to the UN Riyad H. Mansour (left), before attending the general debate of the General Assembly’s sixty-sixth session.
photo: UN / JC McIlwaine
The two state solution is dead
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This week should be the end of the so-called peace process - and the ‘two state solution’. Whatever happens at the United Nations, the game is finished, and a transition to something else altogether is already underway. This month marks 18 years since the signing of the Oslo Accords, and the declaration from the Palestinian side that...
Former rebel fighters unload a tank from a truck in Wadi Dinar, Libya, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011.
photo: AP / Alexandre Meneghini
Libya: NATO leaders extend allied troops' mission
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London -- Leaders of NATO authorized a 90-day extension of the alliance's aerial mission over Libya on Wednesday, raising the prospect that U.S. and allied troops could be involved in the North African nation until Christmas. But NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen emphasized that the alliance could call home its...
Protesters from a communist-backed union chant slogans in an anti-austerity protest in central Athens, with several thousand people outside the Greek Parliament, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011.
photo: AP / Petros Giannakouris
Greece austerity cuts prompt strikes and protests
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Further protests are expected in Greece in response to toughened austerity measures being imposed by ministers. A 24-hour strike by public transport staff and taxi drivers is under way, while public sector workers will mass in central Athens later. The government has agreed to further cut pensions, extend...
Albert Einstein had the idea. A century of observations have backed it up. It's one of the...
Some Palestinian solidarity campaigners are excited this morning about Rabbi Eric Yoffie's...
UNITED NATIONS — At the baronial Morgan Library in Midtown Manhattan the other night,...
 
In this Friday, April 29, 2011 file photo, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh removes a necklace of jasmine presented by a Yemeni girl during a rally in his support, in Sanaa, Yemen.
President Ali Abdullah Saleh returned today to the Yemeni capital after more than three months of medical treatment in Saudi Arabia in a surprise move that could further enflame violence between forces loyal to him and his opponents. Saleh left Yemen...
photo: AP / Muhammed Muheisen
Albert Einstein in one of the book covers at the Bookshop or floating library of MV Doulos, docked at Pier 13, Manila, as seen in this March 18, 2009 photo.
SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press= GENEVA (AP) — A startling discovery by one of the world's foremost laboratories that a subatomic particle seemed to move faster than the speed of light has scientists around the world rethinking Albert Einstein and...
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai, 1st right, talks to the journalists as first Vice-President Marshal Mohammad Qaseem Fahim, 2nd right, and Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, Afghanistan Member of Parliament, 2nd left, during a press conference honoring former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani who was killed two days ago in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday Sept. 22, 2011.
Thousands of mourners were expected to attend a state funeral for Burhanuddin Rabbani, the government peace negotiator, whose assassination threatens to engulf Afghanistan in fresh chaos. An assassin with a bomb hidden under his turban and purporting...
photo: AP / Kamran Jebreili
An elderly anti-government protestor, left, shouts slogans along with other demonstrators during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, June 4, 2011.
SANAA, Yemen — Renewed violence in the Yemeni capital killed at least 15 people Thursday as forces loyal to the regime and its opponents shelled each other’s strategic positions from hills surrounding the city, medical and security...
photo: AP / Hani Mohammed
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, gestures, as he delivers his speech, after unveiling a five-volume book set containing "Documents on the Allied Occupation of Iran during World War II", at the presidency compound in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, July 20, 2011.
UNITED NATIONS — American diplomats led a walkout at the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday as Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad fiercely attacked the United States and major West European nations as "arrogant powers" ruled by greed and...
photo: AP / Vahid Salemi
Palestinian authority President Mahmoud Abbas talks during a presser following his meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, not pictured, at the Presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Nov. 21, 2010.
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas will today go ahead with his bid to secure UN membership for a Palestinian state, a top official said, amid protests on the West Bank against US leader Barack Obama. "Our people demonstrated yesterday and today to...
photo: AP / Amr Nabil
President of South Africa Addresses High-Level Meeting to Commemorate 10th Anniversary of Durban Declaration
Friday, 23 September 2011, 3:25 pm Press Release: UN News New York, Sep 21 2011 - South African President Jacob Zuma today told the General Assembly that his country supported the intention of the Palestinian Authority to seek full membership of the...
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