People wade through floodwaters in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011.
photo: AP / Sakchai Lalit
Bangkok floods could last weeks: Thai PM
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Thailand's premier on Wednesday warned a confused and on-edge Bangkok that incoming floods could last for four weeks, as panic buying peaked and rising waters shut down the city's second airport. Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra told reporters that the capital's flood barriers might not be able to hold back a mass of run-off water from the north...
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, right, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel participate in a media conference at an EU summit in Brussels on Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011.
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Euro crisis: EU leaders to finalise debt-tackling plan
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European Union leaders are gathering for an emergency summit in Brussels designed to finalise details of a plan to tackle the eurozone debt crisis. Inconclusive weekend talks focused on a deal to force banks to secure capital to offset future losses, as well as increasing the firepower of the...
A motorcycle patrolman keeps Occupy Wall Street protesters on the sidewalk as they march down Broadway to the Charging Bull statue, Monday, Oct. 24, 2011, in New York.
photo: AP / Kathy Willens
Fighting the politics of illusion
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For three long years since the financial crisis began, American politics has been dominated by the politics of projection, displacement and denial-three basic subconscious ego defence mechanisms that are tremendously powerful in defending the indefensible. On the personal level, such defence mechanisms- analysed by Anna Freud in her 1937 book,...
Election officials count ballot papers at a polling station in Tunis, Tunsia, Sunday Oct. 23, 2011.
photo: AP / Amine Landoulsi
Tunisia's Islamists will 'steer clear of radicalism'
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The Islamist Ennahda party that emerged dominant in Tunisia's first free vote will not seek to impose Sharia-style restraints on a moderate-minded society whose economy relies on Western tourists, analysts say. The party, claiming to have taken a commanding lead as ballots were still being counted, has said it will seek a coalition on a new...
This video image taken from Turkish television Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is seen during an interview with the TV channel TRT, in Tripoli, Libya, Tuesday March 8, 2011. Gadhafi said in an interview broadcast Wednesday that Libyans would fight back if Western nations impose a no-fly zone to prevent the regime from using its air force to bomb government opponents staging a rebellion.
photo: AP / TRT
Libyans bury Gadhafi in secret location at dawn
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MISRATA, Libya (AP) - Longtime Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, his son Muatassim and a top aide were buried in an Islamic ceremony at dawn Tuesday in a secret location, with a few relatives and officials in attendance, officials said. The burial closed the book on Gadhafi's nearly 42-year rule and the 8-month civil war to oust him, but did not...
Indonesia an Important Part of ASEAN, says the US
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Indonesia an Important Part of ASEAN, says the US
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, NUSA DUA :President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono met with the US Defense Minister Leon Panetta at Ayodya Resort, Nusa Dua, Bali, to discuss enhanced collaboration yesterday. "The meeting stressed that Indonesia and ASEAN were important to the US’ global strategy,” said the Coordinating...
U.S. Special Operations Forces and Afghan National Army Commandos conduct a patrol during a clearing operation in Chak district, Wardak province, Afghanistan, Oct. 9, 2011.
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U.S.-NATO's Genetic-Generational Leash
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. It was only a matter of time before the North Atlantic Treaty Organization would transform itself into the North Atlantic Treaty Occupation. Although the Northern armies and their supporters naively believed they were "providing a secure environment for sustainable stability," which is declared in the...
An escavator removes a block of concrete as rescuers work to save people from debris of collapsed buildings in Ercis, Van, eastern Turkey, Monday, Oct. 24, 2011.
photo: AP / Burhan Ozbilici
Turkey earthquake: More aid pledged to worst-hit areas
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The Turkish government has pledged more aid to thousands of people affected by Sunday's deadly earthquake in the east. Officials said 12,000 more tents would be delivered to the cities of Ercis and Van and...
Rachid Ghannouchi, the leader of the Ennahda party poses for a photograph in his office at his party's headquarters in Tunis, Monday, Oct. 24, 2011.
photo: AP / Amine Landoulsi
Islamists claim win in Tunisia's Arab Spring vote
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TUNIS (Reuters) - Moderate Islamists claimed victory in Tunisia's first democratic election, sending a message to other states in the region that long-sidelined Islamists are challenging for power after the "Arab Spring." Official results will be announced on Tuesday, but the Ennahda party said it had already tallied results posted at polling...
FILE - In this Oct. 22, 2011 file photo, a man photographs the body of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi on a mattress in a commercial freezer at a shopping center in Misrata, Libya, Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, Romania's Nicolae Ceausescu, Liberia's Samuel Doe, Benito Mussolini and, now, Gadhafi.
photo: AP / David Sperry, File
Gadhafi to be buried in Libyan desert
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Combined wires services TRIPOLI -- will be buried today in a simple ceremony, attended by Muslim clerics, in a secret location in the Libyan desert, an official with the National Transitional Council said yesterday. The former Libyan leader "will be buried tomorrow in a simple burial with sheiks attending the burial. It will be an unknown location...
Media mogul: Rupert Murdoch The full scale of investor anger with Rupert Murdoch was laid bare...
Keith Vaz. Photograph: Rex Features The London mayor has already had a telling-off from Sir...
AP This undated handout photo provided by the National Nuclear Security Administration shows...
 
The Prime Minister of Thailand surveying the flooded regions in an armored vehicle
Fears of flooding across the Thai capital have grown after the Thai prime minister  warned that parts of Bangkok could face inundation for up to a month and experts pinned the city's fate on dykes along the Chao Phraya River. Yingluck...
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Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta conducts a press conference with reporters aboard a U.S. Air Force E-4B aircraft on his way to visit with defense leaders and U.S. troops stationed in the Asia-Pacific region, Oct. 21, 2011.
US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Wednesday warned Iran that it should not meddle in Iraq when American forces leave the country at the end of this year. The Pentagon chief said that even after the last of the 39,000 combat troops are out of Iraq,...
photo: USAF / Tech. Sgt. Jacob N. Bailey
Tunisian supporters of the moderate Islamic party Ennahda celebrate as they claim victory at the party's headquarters in Tunis, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011
TUNIS — The liberal political parties emerging as surprise runners-up in elections here argued Tuesday that their success had tempered the commanding victory of the Islamists while offering lessons for their secular allies around the region....
photo: AP / Amine Landoulsi
The prisoner swap in which Hamas released Israeli captive Gilad Shalit in exchange for 1,027 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons suggests that Israel and Hamas recognize each other's unmitigated reality and prerogatives. The deal was...
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb
HPV vaccine, Gardasil
October 25, 2011 -- Updated 1503 GMT (2303 HKT) HPV vaccine and boys Atlanta (CNN) -- A federal government advisory committee voted Tuesday to recommend that boys as young as 11 be vaccinated against the human papilloma virus, commonly referred to as...
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Asia is US' next big priority after ten years of war: Defense Secretary Panetta
Tokyo, Oct 25 (ANI): US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has said that the United States views Asia as its next big priority.   In his first trip to Japan as Defense Secretary, Panetta said that troop withdrawals from Iraq and Afghanistan will...
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Hurricane Rina on October 24, 2011
Hurricane Rina has swelled to a Category 2 as it sweeps towards Mexico's Yucatan peninsula and Caribbean beach resorts. Officials say they are still searching for a Nicaraguan navy vessel that went missing with 27 people on board. The National...
photo: NASA, MODIS Rapid Response System
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