Election officials count ballots for the parliamentary elections in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011.
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Egypt's Islamists take big early election lead
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Cairo -- Islamist parties appeared to have swept the first round of elections for an Egyptian parliament that will probably erase the secular rule of Hosni Mubarak with a politics more intensely driven by religion. The Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party was projected to have won at least 40 percent of the vote, according to unofficial...
In this May 6, 2011, file photo Ismail Mcheik, center foreground, and other Muslims prays at the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, Mich. Muslim Americans say the death of bin Laden coupled with democracy movements in the Middle East are giving them hope that they can forge a new relationship with the rest of the country for the first time since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
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FBI violating privacy of Muslims, ACLU charges
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WASHINGTON -- The FBI is using its extensive community outreach to Muslims and other groups to gather intelligence secretly in violation of federal law, the American Civil Liberties Union alleged Thursday. Citing internal bureau documents, the ACLU said agents in California are attending meetings at mosques and other events and illegally recording...
Pakistanis chant slogans during a protest to condemn NATO helicopters attacks on Pakistani troops, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011.
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NATO attack threatens war on militants - Pakistan
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan, enraged by a NATO cross-border attack that killed 24 soldiers, could end support for the U.S.-led war on militancy if its sovereignty is violated again, the foreign minister said, warning that "enough is enough." The South Asian nation has already shown its anger over the weekend strike by pulling out of an...
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and pro-democracy opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi talk talk prior to dinner at the US Chief of Mission Residence in Rangoon, Myanmar, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011.
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Clinton meets Suu Kyi, urges Myanmar to expand reforms
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YANGON, Myanmar — Hillary Rodham Clinton dined Thursday with former political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi, forcefully underscoring a U.S. challenge to Myanmar's leaders on her historic visit: The new civilian government must expand recent reforms, including the release of political prisoners, to improve relations as it emerges from more...
In this photo taken during a government-organized tour for the media, Syrian army officers stand next to the coffins of 17 army members, including six elite pilots and four technical officers the military said were killed in an ambush on Thursday during their funeral procession, in Homs province, Syria, on Saturday Nov. 26, 2011.
photo: AP / Bassem Tellawi
UN rights chief says Syria death toll over 4,000
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GENEVA — The U.N.'s top human rights official says her office estimates the death toll in Syria's nine-month uprising is now "much more" than 4,000. Navi Pillay, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, gave the latest figure a day before the global body is due to hold an emergency meeting on the crisis in the country. Pillay told...
File - In this photo provided by the U.S. Navy, shows damage sustained on the port side of the Arleigh Burke class guided missile destroyer USS Cole after a terrorist bomb exploded during a refueling operation in the port of Aden, Yemen, in a Thursday, Oct. 12, 2000 file photo.
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Try the 'Other' Accomplices in the USS Cole Bombing
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Article by WorldNews.com correspondent Dallas Darling. When counterterrorism expert Richard Clarke appeared before the 9-11 Commission (You know, the other Super-committee.) and exclaimed, "Does al Qaeda have to attack the Pentagon to get their (Clinton and Bush Administrations) attention?",(1) he was actually making an honest assessment. He was...
A Saudi woman sets on the ground near police cars that have formed a check point near the site where a demonstration was expected to take place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Friday, March 11, 2011. Hundreds of police have deployed on the streets of the Saudi capital ahead of planned protests calling for democratic reforms in the kingdom.
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Amnesty accuses Saudi Arabia of repression of reform protests
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London - Saudi Arabia has reacted with a new 'wave of repression' to protests and arrested hundreds of people demanding political and social reforms, the human rights group Amnesty International said Thursday. 'Peaceful protesters and supporters of political...
A protester is arrested as Los Angeles police officers evict protesters from the Occupy Los Angeles encampment outside City Hall in Los Angeles Nov. 30, 2011
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Police shut Occupy camps in two US cities
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The overnight police raids in Los Angeles and Philadelphia that dismantled two of the nation's biggest Occupy Wall Street camps have left just a few major "occupations" still going on around the US. Police in riot gear and bio-hazard suits removed anti-Wall Street activists from their camp at Los Angeles City Hall on Wednesday,...
Myanmar President Thein Sein, right, shakes hands with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during a meeting at the President's Office in Naypyidaw, Myanmar Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011.
photo: AP / Saul Loeb, Pool
Hillary Clinton to press Burma's Thein Sein on reforms
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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is due to meet Burma's President Thein Sein to discuss the pace of reform, on the second day of her historic visit. Mrs Clinton, the most senior American to visit the country in half a century, says she wants to see for herself the government's commitment to change. The US maintains tight sanctions on senior...
British Foreign Secretary William Hague arrives at his official residence in London to meet Norway's Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere, shortly after he announced at the House of Commons that all Iranian diplomatic staff were ordered to leave the UK, in London, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011.
photo: AP / Sang Tan
Hague expels Iranian diplomats following attack on UK embassy
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The Iranian foreign ministry denounced the action as "hasty" and warned it could lead to further retaliation but other Western nations echoed British condemnation of the embassy protest, which Britain believes would not have been possible without at least implicit approval from the authorities. The European Union is due to announce today...
Most solidarity activists in this country would agree that the PSC (Palestine Solidarity...
WASHINGTON - Ignoring a presidential veto threat, the Democratic-controlled Senate on Thursday...
The young and secular revolutionaries in Tahrir or the growing list of successful Islamist...
 
Myanmar's pro-democracy opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, right, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton react after speaking to the press at Suu Kyi's residence in Yangon, Myanmar Friday, Dec. 2, 2011.
Aung San Suu Kyi voiced guarded hope Friday that democracy will come to Myanmar as the opposition leader warmly welcomed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to the home that was her prison for years. In scenes unthinkable before Myanmar's recent...
photo: AP / Saul Loeb
Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff, left, looks at Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez during a ceremony upon her arrival to Miraflores presidential Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011.
CARACAS, VenezuelaWhat if they threw a giant party for the Americas and didn't invite the United States or Canada? That's what Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is doing with a two-day, 33-nation summit starting Friday, welcoming nations from...
photo: AP / Ariana Cubillos
A market worker salvages metal sheeting from the bulldozed and burnt remains of Zongo market, in Cotonou, Benin, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011.
African economies were hit in the post-Lehman Brothers collapse in 2008, and history is repeating itself, says South Africa's finance minister. "The new epicentre of the crisis in the eurozone...
photo: AP / Rebecca Blackwell
Donald Ramotar, presidential candidate of the ruling People's Progressive Party casts his ballot during presidential and parliamentary elections in Georgetown, Guyana, Monday Nov. 28, 2011.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Guyana's ruling party will head a minority government that will not control the South American country's parliament, election officials announced Thursday after three days of counting paper ballots. Chief Elections Officer...
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy, listens to the national anthem as he attends the traditional autumn military review at the Hotel des Invalides in Paris, Monday, Nov. 28, 2011.
TOULON, France (Reuters) - President Nicolas Sarkozy will endeavor to warm the nation to giving Brussels more control over national budgets on Thursday as the euro zone crisis pushes France towards recession, squeezes its banks and threatens its AAA...
photo: AP / Christophe Ena
Mehbooba Mufti, president of People's Democratic Party (PDP), Kashmir's main opposition party, speaks after police stopped her protest march in Srinagar October 5, 2011. Indian police in Srinagar on Wednesday stopped a protest march of PDP led by its president Mufti to demand the resignation of Kashmir's chief minister Omar Abdullah over allegations of mass corruption by his government, Mufti said while addressing her supporters.
What is the most corrupt country in the world? In an attempt to answer that question, Transparency International, a Germany-based NGO that monitors corruption, has published an index ranking 183 countries according to how corrupt their public service...
photo: WN / Imran Nissar
The Croatian and EU flags are seen at the parliament building at St. Mark square in Zagreb, Croatia, Monday, May 24, 2010.
ZAGREB, Croatia -- Croatia's ruling conservatives, who have brought the country to the threshold of the European Union but are enmeshed in corruption scandals, are on course to lose power in Sunday's election. The parliamentary vote will pit the...
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