Supporters of opposition presidential candidate Etienne Tshisekedi are caught between tear gas fired by Congolese riot police and armed Presidential guardsmen at Kinshasa Airport in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011.
photo: AP / Jerome Delay
DR Congo votes after campaign marred by violence
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The Democratic Republic of Congo held national elections Monday after a campaign marred by violence, including clashes Saturday in which at least two people died. Voting officially began in the east of the country at 6:00 am (0400 GMT), and was due to start in the country's western time zone an hour later. At the Imara school complex in Lubumbashi,...
A U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter with the Charlie Company, Task Force Talon, takes off.
photo: AP / Brennan Linsley
Un-occupy Pakistan and Plant Seeds of Peace
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. When the Pakistani Taliban recently declared a cease-fire to encourage promising peace talks to move forward, it was both sad and tragic that this gesture was met by renewed U.S.-NATO military campaigns, campaigns that have killed innocent civilians. The most recent military assault occurred this...
This Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011 photo shows an eviction notice sign posted at the Occupy LA encampment on the grounds of Los Angeles City Hall.
photo: AP / Andrew Dalton
Occupy LA protesters await eviction deadline
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Occupy Wall Street protesters camped outside City Hall in Los Angeles have said they plan to hold eviction parties as a deadline to leave the site looms. Overnight, police handed out leaflets informing occupants of the nearly 500 tents that the clock was ticking. Protesters have until midnight local time (0800 GMT) to leave. Los Angeles...
Egyptians protest against the country's ruling military council during a demonstration in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Nov. 27, 2011.
photo: AP / Bela Szandelszky)
Egypt heads to landmark vote in turmoil, confusion
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SHARE AND DISCUSSTweet CAIRO: Egyptians prepared to vote Monday in the first elections since Hosni Mubarak's ouster, a milestone many hoped would usher in a democratic age after decades of dictatorship. Instead, the polling is already marred by turmoil in the streets and the population is sharply polarized and confused over the nation's direction....
Congolese riot police club supporters of opposition presidential candidate Etienne Tshisekedi at Kinshasa Airport in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011.
photo: AP / Jerome Delay
Congo to vote despite violence
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KINSHASA (Reuters) - Congo plans to push ahead with the country's second-post war election on Monday, defying fears that a delay would be needed due to logistical problems and critics who called for the process to be reviewed because of irregularities. Opposition UDPS members hold up a blood-splattered poster of leader Etienne Tshisekedi after the...
Pro-Syrian regime protesters wave a Syrian flag and shout slogans during a protest against the Arab League meeting, in Damascus, Syria, Thursday Nov. 24, 2011.
photo: AP / Bassem Tellawi
Arab League approves Syria sanctions
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The Arab League has approved sanctions against Syria to pressure the government to end its eight-month crackdown on dissent. Damascus described the move, announced on Sunday, as a betrayal of Arab solidarity. At a press conference in Cairo, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani, the Qatari foreign minister, said 19 of the bloc's 22 member...
Panama - File photo of an errant U.S. missile strike that killed a carload of Panamanian civilians, 1989.
photo: WN / Dallas Darling
Weekend Dissent: Remnants of Imperial Footsteps
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. Driving along the Panama Canal Zone, one cannot help but notice dozens of cemeteries dotted with thousands of small, white crosses. The crosses, standing upwards on gentle green slopes, are overshadowed by large billboard-like signs. The signs display foreign flags which denote a nation that attempted...
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft, sealed inside its payload fairing atop the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, clears the tower at Space Launch Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, 26 November, 2011.
photo: NASA / Bill White
Mars Curiosity rover launch marks boldest ever interplanetary mission
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The Mars Curiosity rover takes off from Cape Canaveral on an Atlas V rocket. Photograph: Rex Features Nasa has launched its Mars Curiosity rover on a journey of eight and a half months to the red planet. It is the biggest and best equipped robot ever sent to explore another planet. Curiosity will reach Mars next summer – if all goes to plan,...
Pakistani security personnel stop trucks carrying supplies for NATO forces in neighboring Afghanistan at Takhtabeg check post in Pakistani tribal area of Khyber, Pakistan, on their way to Torkham border post on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011.
photo: AP / Muhammad Sajjad
Pakistan stops NATO supplies after raid kills up to 28
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YAKKAGHUND, Pakistan (Reuters) - NATO helicopters and fighter jets attacked two military outposts in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, killing as many as 28 troops and plunging U.S.-Pakistan relations, already deeply frayed, further into crisis. Paramilitary forces patrol the streets of Peshawar, in northwest Pakistan November 26, 2011....
Pro-Syrian regime protesters appear from a huge Syrian flag as they wave Syrian and Baath party flags, during a protest against the Arab League decisions, in Damascus, Syria, on Friday Nov. 25, 2011.
photo: AP / Muzaffar Salman
Syria unrest: Arab League drafts economic sanctions
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Members of the Arab League have drafted a list of economic sanctions to impose on Syria, after a meeting in Cairo. The proposals include the halting of dealings with the Syrian central bank, the suspension of commercial flights and a travel ban on senior officials. Arab ministers are to vote on the proposals on Sunday - the latest move to punish...
Maoist rebels in India have called for a two-day-long countrywide strike in protest at the...
Americans Elect could potentially scramble the calculations of both parties just as the...
 
FILE - In this Oct. 11, 2011 file photo, Wales' manager Gary Speed looks on during his team's Euro 2012 Group G qualifying soccer match against Bulgaria at Vassil Levski stadium in Sofia. The Football Association of Wales says Sunday, Nov. 27, 2011, national team manager Gary Speed has died at the age of 42.
Truly shocking news. Wales manager Gary Speed has been found hanged at his home in Cheshire, it was revealed today. The former Leeds United, Everton, Newcastle and Bolton star, who appeared on BBC’s Football Focus show yesterday, was aged 42....
photo: AP / Oleg Popov
MSL Launches to the Red Planet: The Atlantic Ocean provides a backdrop as the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket clears the tower at Space Launch Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Sealed inside the rocket's protective payload fairing is NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) spacecraft, beginning a 9-month interplanetary cruise to Mars. Liftoff was at 10:02 a.m. EST Nov. 26. MSL's components include a car-sized rover, Curiosity, which has 10 science instruments designed to search for signs of life, including methane, and help determine if the gas is from a biological or geological source.
CAPE CANAVERAL -- A rover of “monster truck” proportions zoomed toward Mars on an 8 1/2 -month, 354 million-mile journey Saturday, the biggest, best equipped robot ever sent to explore another planet. NASA's six-wheeled, one-armed...
photo: NASA / Darrell L. McCall
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels stand in formation during a practice ceremony for the Boliviarian Movement, a new clandestine political party for the rebels, outside of San Vicente del Caguan in the FARC controlled zone of Colombia on Friday, April 28, 2000. The FARC are Colombia's oldest and largest rebel group numbering over 15,000 rebels, and will officialy begin the political party Saturday.
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian FARC rebels executed four members of the security forces during a botched mission to free them from a decade as hostages, the most violent act by the group since troops killed its leader Alfonso Cano this month. The...
photo: AP / Scott Dalton
Delegates from many nations with Dr. Lobsang Sangay at the outside of the main Tibetan temple in McLeod Ganj, Dharamshala, India during Dr. Lobsang Sangay's swearing-in-ceremony as a new political leader of Tibetan people and Tibetan government.
Article by Yeshe Choesang, WN Correspondent Dharamshala. Dharamshala: - Twelve young Tibetans have self-immolated in eastern Tibet since 2009, in acts of protest against Chinese repression and to demand the return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and...
photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang
Protesters wave Egyptian national flags and chant slogans as they gather in Tahrir Square, the focal point of the Egyptian uprising, in Cairo, Egypt,
Revolutions are known to devour their children, and popular uprisings driven by the promise of change for the better have been notorious for turning into nightmares. The so-called Arab Spring is another dark night unfolding across the Middle East....
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb
Euro coins are seen next to U.S. Dollar bills in Frankfurt, central Germany, in this Sept. 20, 2007 file photo. The dollar's slide against other major currencies in recent years has helped drive up prices for energy and food and in turn contributed to the economic hardship some consumers face. A further drop in the dollar in 2008 could spell more troubl
NEW YORK: The euro fell beneath the $1.33 level on Friday, as debt troubles continued to roil markets with little end in sight to the eurozone crisis. Amid mounting concerns that the bloc's political leaders cannot produce a solution to the eurozone...
photo: AP / Michael Probst, file
A group of masked environment activists dig underneath the railway track near Metzingen, northern Germany, Friday Nov. 25, 2011.
Police have used water cannons against anti-nuclear protesters in northern Germany as a train carrying some 150 tonnes of reprocessed nuclear waste from France made its way to a nearby storage facility. Protesters lit flares in the woods...
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