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Eight years and three months after "liberating Iraq", a time of unrelenting savage strife in...
 
In this image from TV shown on the Internet made available Thursday Dec. 15, 2011, an Iraqi woman lying in a Damascus, Syria, street as men trying to retrieve the body, in this video thought to have been made Wednesday Dec. 14, 2011. The woman named Shatha al-Kubeisi is thought to have been shot by Syrian government snipers.
BEIRUTTens of thousands of Syrians, some of them calling for their president's execution, protested against the authoritarian regime on Friday, as the Arab League indefinitely postponed a meeting on the crisis because of divisions over how...
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Rwandan Callixte Mbarushimana sits in the courtroom of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands, Friday, Sept. 16, 2011.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - International Criminal Court judges dismissed charges Friday against a Rwandan rebel accused of involvement in the murder, rape and torture of Congolese villagers by a Hutu militia in 2009. The judges ordered the release of...
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A confirmed insurgent stronghold goes up in smoke after a strategic aerial strike during combat operations while US Marine Corps (USMC) Marines, 1st Battalion (BN), 8th Marine Regiment (1/8), search for insurgents and weapon caches during a Security and Stabilization Operation (SASO) conducted as part of Operation AL FAJR, which is an offensive operation to eradicate enemy insurgents in Fallujah, Al Anbar Province, Iraq, during Operation Iraqi Freedom, 2004.
War, we are told, is a rational instrument of policy. States go to war to achieve specific objectives. On such a view, determining the outcome of a war is a kind of bookkeeping exercise. One need only measure the results against the original...
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Special forces line up to examine the area in Utoya island, Norway, Sunday, July 24, 2011.
OSLO (Reuters) - Norwegian police responded as quickly as possible when an anti-Islamic gunman set off a bomb in Oslo and shot dead dozens of teenagers at a summer camp in July, the head of an internal police commission assessing the response said on...
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The Internally Displaced Persons wait for the arrival of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the Manik Farm Camp, Vavuniya, Sri Lanka, 23 May 2009
A commission set up by Sri Lanka's president to investigate the conduct of the civil war has said the government did its best to protect civilians. It concluded the military gave the "highest priority" to protecting civilians and said Tamil Tiger...
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Walking from his simple palace in exile to the main temple, His Holiness the Dalai Lama's four day teaching in Dharamshala, H.P., India, on October 4, 2011. The teachings were held at the Main Tibetan Temple and were given at the request of a group from Taiwan.
Article by Yeshe Choesang, WN Correspondent Dharamshala. Dharamshala, India: - The spiritual leader of Tibet, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, expressed his desire last week to visit Burma to pay homage at the country's holiest shrine of the Shwedagon...
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Supporters of Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, known as "Carlos the Jackal," protest demanding his repatriation in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday Nov. 7, 2011.
PARIS (AP) - Carlos the Jackal, the flamboyant Venezuelan who symbolized Cold War terrorism, was sentenced to life in prison—again—in a Paris trial that ended late Thursday with him rallying for revolution and weeping for Moammar Gadhafi....
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The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh on Russia tour- India- Politics Neymar, center, stretches during a practice session of the Brazilian soccer squad in Stuttgart, southern Germany Tuesday Aug. 9, 2011. Brazil will face Germany in a friendly soccer match on Wednesday. The Union Finance Minister, Shri Pranab Mukherjee - India- Politics A man is checked for radiation after arriving at a vehicle decontamination center at J-Village, a soccer training complex now serving as an operation base for those battling Japan's nuclear disaster at the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, in Fukushima prefecture, Japan, Friday, Nov. 11, 2011.
In this Monday Oct. 31, 2011 photo, Venezuelan Judge Maria Lourdes Afiuni sits in her apartment while under house arrest in Caracas, Venezuela. Afiuni infuriated President Hugo Chavez when she ordered the release of an imprisoned banker who was charged with flouting the country's currency exchange controls. A day after her arrest nearly two years ago, Chavez demanded on national television that she face 30 years in prison. Now under house arrest, she is barred by a court order from speaking to the news media and instead uses Twitter to air her protests, calling herself a "judge kidnapped by order of Chavez." Leicester City's Richie Wellens, left, and Jack Hobbs compete for the ball with Manchester City's Carlos Tevez during their third round English FA Cup soccer match at the Walkers stadium, Leicester, England. Sunday, Jan. 9, 2011. 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. Spectators watch FIFA President Sepp Blatter during a live viewing of the 2018 and 2022 World Cup hosts announcement, at the King Baudouin stadium in Brussels, Thursday Dec. 2, 2010.
Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Kamla Persad-Bissessar speaks during the concluding press conference for Commonwealth Heads Of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Perth, Australia, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011. Kolkata Knight Riders captain Gautam Gambhir, right talks with bowler Brett Lee during the Indian Premier League (IPL)cricket match in Kolkata, India, Wednesday, April 20, 2011.  A child walks away from a store selling Fisher-Price toys in Beijing, China, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2007. China said it would work with the United States to improve product safety amid a massive U.S. recall by Fisher-Price of 1 million plastic preschool toys Free Pictures of Elephant Seals - Public Domain Photos and Pictures - Royalty Free
 

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