Egyptian security forces respond to a burning vehicle during clashes with protesters in Cairo Egypt, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2011.
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At least 24 dead in new religious unrest in Cairo, curfew imposed
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Cairo - At least 24 people were reported killed in clashes between troops and mostly Coptic Christian demonstrators in central Cairo. The casualty figures given by the Health Ministry and reported in the media put the number of injured at more than 200 in Sunday's clashes outside the state television building. Egypt's military rulers imposed a...
Prime Minister Donald Tusk, center, celebrates with Health Minister Ewa Kopacz, right, and Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski, background left, as the first exit poll is published during the election party of Tusk's Civic Platform, a centrist and pro-EU party, in Warsaw Sundey, Oct. 9, 2011.
photo: AP / Alik Keplicz
Polish PM scores historic election win
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WARSAW (Reuters): Donald Tusk will be the first Polish prime minister since the fall of communism in 1989 to rule for two successive terms after his centre-right Civic Platform trounced its rivals in a parliamentary election. An exit poll showed Tusk's pro-business party had won nearly 40 percent of votes in Sunday's election, short of an absolute...
Poland's centrists win new term: exit polls
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Poland's centrists win new term: exit polls
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Poland's governing centrists won a landmark second term in Sunday's general election, exit polls showed, seeing off a challenge from the conservative opposition. Pollsters TNS OBOP said Prime Minister Donald Tusk's Civic Platform (PO) had obtained 212 seats, up from 208 in the outgoing parliament. Its junior coalition partner, the rural-based...
Bahraini mourners run from tear gas fired by riot police as clashes break out Friday, Oct. 7, 2011, in Abu Saiba, Bahrain, west of the capital of Manama, at the end of a funeral procession for a teenager allegedly killed by police.
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Politics of Funerals and Processions
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. As a former pastor, I became somewhat at ease with performing the last rites of the dying and conducting funeral services for individuals that had lived a long and fulfilled life. After all, their deaths had been expected and were due of natural causes. But it was always the unnatural, the tragic, or...
Pro-EU prime minister seeks second term in Poland
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Pro-EU prime minister seeks second term in Poland
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WARSAW, Poland — Poles are voting in parliamentary elections that will determine whether the country continues on its conciliatory course with Russia and Germany, or whether it returns to a more combative stance with its historic foes. Before Sunday's voting, surveys showed Prime Minister Donald Tusk's centrist and pro-EU party in...
A Thai resident wades through a flooded area in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, Oct. 3, 2011.
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Floods devastate Thailand and Cambodia
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  Deadly floods have wreaked havoc in Thailand and Cambodia, severing rail links and damaging highways, and sparking fears of a potential spread of water-borne and communicable diseases. Thai officials say at least 253 people have been killed since the worst monsoon rains in decades started in the past two months while in Cambodia at...
A supporter of a religious group holds a poster of Mumtaz Qadri, the confessed killer of a liberal Pakistani governor, as others listen to the speech of their leader during a rally to condemn the court decision against Qadri, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2011 in Lahore, Pakistan.
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Sympathy for an Assassin: The Worrisome Protests in Pakistan
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It isn't hard to find the home of Pakistan's most famous killer. At every corner in this maze of tightly packed streets, mere miles from the army's headquarters, taxi drivers and street vendors readily gesture toward the birthplace of Mumtaz Qadri, the police bodyguard who, nine months ago, pumped 27 bullets into Salmaan Taseer, the Governor of...
The Liberian-flagged container ship MV Rena is stuck hard aground on a reef 12 nautical miles off the coast of Tauranga, New Zealand, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011, after striking the reef early in the morning.
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N.Zealand PM demands oil slick answers
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Salvage crews were scrambling to off-load oil from a stranded container ship in New Zealand's pristine Bay of Plenty, as Prime Minister John Key demanded to know why the vessel hit a reef in calm waters. With the official Metservice forecasting deteriorating conditions, including possible gale-force winds, from Monday afternoon, the race to remove...
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh gestures while delivering a speech to university professors and students in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday, March 1, 2011. Yemen's embattled president has accused the United States and Israel of trying to destabilize his country and the Arab world.
photo: AP / Hani Mohammed
Yemen president says he wants to leave power
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SANAA, Yemen — In his first major speech since returning to Yemen, President Ali Abdullah Saleh made vague comments Saturday that he is willing to leave power but offered no concrete plan for the country’s future. Yemen’s opposition voiced doubt that the embattled leader was serious. It was not the first time Saleh has expressed a...
French President Nicolas Sarkozy reacts at a news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel during a meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, on Monday, June 14, 2010.
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Angela Merkel, Nicolas Sarkozy meet to tackle differences over euro crisis
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BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel will thrash out differences with French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Sunday over how to use the euro zone's financial firepower to counter a sovereign debt crisis threatening the global economy. With the turmoil threatening to spiral into financial meltdown as the value of banks' sovereign bond holdings...
Normally, you need a distinctive first name not to need a last name, but in this - as in...
We have learned in the last few days that some Jewish 'anti' Zionist elements are planning to...
Back in December a humble fruit vendor in Tunis, scorned and humiliated by those in power, set...
 
Exit poll: Tusk's party leading in Polish election
WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- An exit poll shows that the centrist Civic Platform party of Prime Minister Donald Tusk is winning Poland's national election with 39.6 percent of the votes....
photo: WN / Marzena Jazowska
Tributes for Apple co-founder Steve Jobs at Apple Store Regents Street London, Thursday, 06 Oct' 11.
The Hollywood studios hoping to film a biopic of Steve Jobs will have to untangle his personal life first, writes Philip Sherwell in Cupertino, Silicon Valley Steve Jobs, who died last week at 56  tag -->...
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A Saturday Aug. 16, 2008 photo taken at an undisclosed location in Iran which the Fars News Agency claim shows Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, second right, looking at an Iranian satellite launching vehicle. Iran has test launched a rocket it plans to use to carry a research satellite into orbit, state television reported Sunday. Saturday's test of the two-stage rocket, called the Safir-e Omid, or Ambassador of Peace, was successful, state TV said, broadcasting images of the nighttime launch. The rocket released equipment that beamed flight data back to ground control, said Reza Taghipoor, the head of Iran's Space Agency, in a live television inter
Tehran, Oct 9, IRNA – Iran is the 8th world country which has succeeded to develop a complete cycle of space technology, Minister of Communications and Information Technology Reza Taqipour said...
photo: AP / Fars News Agency, Vahid Reza Alae
Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir, left, walks past the Sudanese honour guard with South Sudan's president Salva Kiir, right, after his arrival in Khartoum, Sudan, Saturday, Oct. 8, 2011.
The presidents of both Sudan and South Sudan have said they are committed "not to go back to war". They made the pledge on the first visit by South Sudan President Salva Kiir to the...
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Sudan, South Sudan say to settle disputes peacefully
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan and South Sudan will resolve their disagreements through dialogue, Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir and southern counterpart Salva Kiir said, but gave no hint of any progress after several meetings on Saturday. Kiir...
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, talks with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, during their meeting at the presidency in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009.
A key aide to Iran's supreme leader said on Saturday Turkey must radically rethink its policies on Syria, the NATO missile...
photo: AP / Vahid Salemi
In this photo released by Mehr News Agency Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, meets with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Dec. 3, 2006. A photo of Iran´s late leader Ayatollah Khomeini hangs on
TEHRAN (Reuters) - A key aide to Iran's supreme leader said on Saturday Turkey must radically rethink its policies on Syria, the NATO missile shield and promoting Muslim secularism in the Arab world -- or face trouble from its own people and...
photo: AP Photo, Mehr news agency
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In this frame grab taken from Venezolana de Television, VTV, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez delivers a televised speech aired from Cuba, Thursday, June 30, 2011. Brazil's Neymar sits on the ground during a Copa America group B soccer match against Paraguay in Cordoba, Argentina, Saturday, July 9, 2011. Neymar was substituted and the match ended in a 2-2 draw.  Large earth moving Caterpillar equipment is seen at the Altorfer Caterpillar dealership and authorized service center in Springfield, Ill., Tuesday, July 22, 2008. Caterpillar Inc.'s second-quarter profit jumped 34 percent as stronger international sales outpaced higher raw material and freight costs for the maker of backhoes and other heavy equipment. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman) Brazilian model Gisele Bundchen is seen during a press conference in Madrid, Tuesday, March 20, 2007. Bundchen is in Madrid to promote a new collection of shoes that support the 'Y Ikatu Xingu, Pure Xingu Water' campaign for protection of Brazilian environmental diversity.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh gestures while delivering a speech to university professors and students in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday, March 1, 2011. Yemen's embattled president has accused the United States and Israel of trying to destabilize his country and the Arab world. File - Soldiers in Iraq provide security while their platoon attends a local council meeting outside Forward Operating Base Taji, Iraq, July 3, 2010. File - An Egyptian anti-Mubarak protester demonstrates during a protest outside the police academy in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug.3, 2011 A Palestinian man exchanges currency, in the in city of Rafah the southern Gaza Strip, the U.S. dollar and shekel in black markets in the Gaza Strip on Sep. 20, 2011. Significant increase to the U.S. dollar $1000 against Israel 3.63. shekel in the Palestinian territories, the first time in five years, gets high for the dollar a due to protests in Israel, analysts said economy Palestinian. ( Photo by Ahmed Deeb/WN)
President of South Africa Addresses High-Level Meeting to Commemorate 10th Anniversary of Durban Declaration  CONCACAF General Secretary Chuck Blazer (left), President of US Soccer Dr Robert Contiguglia, OC President Franz Beckenbauer and OC Vice President Wolfgang Niersbach, during the 29th leg of the Welcome Tour on 23 February 2006, in New York´s Gotham Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 757-200 (ET-AMT) lands at London Heathrow Airport, England Seabirds LC0141
President Barack Obama talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a phone call from the Oval Office, New York forward Thierry Henry, left, and Los Angeles Galaxy midfielder David Beckham practice together Monday, July 25, 2011, in New York, ahead of the Major League Soccer All-Star Game against Manchester United on Wednesday at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, N.J. Aussie Dollar - AUD - Australian Dollar - Currency - Money. IPad 2 on newspaper
 

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