Libya former rebels' Tripoli military commander Abdel Hakim Belhaj, second left, speaks with Libya fighters prior to the arrival of Libyan Transitional National Council chairman Mustafa Abdel Jalil at Metiga airport in Tripoli, Libya, Saturday, Sept. 10, 2011.
photo: AP / Francois Mori
Libyan commander Abdel Hakim Belhaj to sue UK government
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A Libyan military commander has started legal action against the UK government, which he claims was complicit in his illegal rendition and torture. Abdel Hakim Belhaj said he and his wife were detained in Bangkok in 2004, then transferred to Abu Salim jail, Tripoli. He said he was held there for six years and often tortured. The UK Foreign Office...
File - President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden shake hands with the troops following the president's remarks at Fort Campbell, Ky., May 6, 2011.
photo: US Army
Obama's failed human rights moment
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It is no news that President Obama has been a disappointment to civil liberties advocates (among other segments of the coalition that helped to elect him). But Obama may have hit a new low by retreating from his threat to veto the National Defence Authorisation Act (NDAA), the annual military appropriations bill passed by Congress last week. The...
In this undated image from video seized from the walled compound of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, and released Saturday, May 7, 2011, by the U.S. Department of Defense a man, who the American government identified as Osama bin Laden, watches himself on television.
photo: AP / Department of Defense
Bin Laden-Thoreau Debate AND Agreements
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. Some might find this disturbing, but Osama bin Laden and Henry David Thoreau actually had quite a few things in common. (Notice "agreements" in the above title is plural whereas "debate" is singular.) A major difference, though, is that Thoreau's heroic act of civil disobedience and tax resistance was...
FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2010 file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il salutes soldiers while watching a massive military parade marking the 65th anniversary of the communist nation's ruling Workers' Party in Pyongyang, North Korea.
photo: AP / Vincent Yu, File
N. Korean leader Kim Jong Il, 69, has died
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SEOUL, SOUTH KOREAKim Jong Il, North Korea’s mercurial and enigmatic longtime leader, has died. He was 69. Kim’s death was announced Monday by the state television from the North Korean capital, Pyongyang. Kim is believed to have suffered a stroke in 2008 but he had appeared relatively vigorous in photos and video from recent trips to...
Residents return to their homes to save some household items Sunday, Dec. 18, 2011 at Iligan city in southern Philippines.
photo: AP / Bullit Marquez
Philippine floods leave 652 dead, country prepares for mass burials
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SHARE AND DISCUSSTweet ILIGAN: The Philippines prepared for mass burials of flash-flood victims Monday to minimise the health risk from rotting cadavers after a disaster that has left many hundreds dead or missing. Hard-pressed authorities in the port cities of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan, on the desperately poor and conflict-torn southern island of...
Released Palestinian prisoners arrive at the village of Rafat, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, late Sunday, Dec 18, 2011.
photo: AP / Nasser Shiyoukhi
Israel frees 550 Palestinian prisoners
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Israel on Sunday freed 550 Palestinian prisoners, completing the second phase of a deal which saw Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit freed in October, Israeli and Palestinian officials said. Officials and witnesses in the West Bank city of Ramallah said that the main contingent of freed prisoners entered the city on a fleet of 12 buses at around 10:00 pm...
Kazakh riot police officers detain a demonstrator during an opposition rally in Kazakhstan's commercial capital Almaty, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011.
photo: AP
Protests spread in troubled Kazakh oil region
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AKTAU, Kazakhstan - Protests in Kazakhstan's oil-producing Mangistau region, unprecedented in the Central Asian state's recent history, spread on Sunday to the regional capital, where hundreds of angry protesters faced reinforced police troops. Late on Saturday, one person was killed and 11 people were wounded in a fresh clash with police in the...
Last US troops leave Iraq, ending 9 years of war
photo: US DoD
Last US troops leave Iraq, ending 9 years of war
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The last convoy of US soldiers pulled out of Iraq on Sunday, ending nearly nine years of war that cost almost 4,500 American and tens of thousands of Iraqi lives and left a country still grappling with political uncertainty. The war launched in March 2003 with missiles striking Baghdad to oust dictator Saddam Hussein closes with a fragile democracy...
Residents save their household items amidst the devastation Sunday, Dec. 18, 2011 at Iligan city in southern Philippines.
photo: AP / Bullit Marquez
Philippines floods death toll climbs to over 650
read more The Observer
Philippines floods aftermath: residents return to their homes in Iligan after Typhoon Washi swept through the city. Photograph: Bullit Marquez/AP Rescuers are searching for more than 800 people missing in the southern Philippines on Sunday after flash floods and landslides swept houses into rivers and out to sea, killing more than 650 people in...
File - Former Czech Republic's President and director Vaclav Havel receives a standing ovations after a premiere for his new movie "Leaving", in Prague, Czech Republic, Tuesday, March 22, 2011.
photo: AP / Petr David Josek
Havel, Czech playwright and president, has died
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PRAGUE — Vaclav Havel, the dissident playwright who wove theater into politics to peacefully bring down communism in Czechoslovakia and become a hero of the epic struggle that ended the Cold War, has died. He was 75. Havel died Sunday morning at his weekend house in the northern Czech Republic, his assistant Sabina Dancecova said. Havel was...
To be honest, nobody knows for sure what may happen in North Korea following the sudden death...
Bradley Manning, the abandoned man of the WikiLeaks saga, may have been kept mostly in solitary...
 
In this photo released by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service on Monday, Oct. 11, 2010, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, right, and his son Jong Un, left, clap as they watch an evening gala to mark the 65th anniversary of the communist nation's ruling Workers' Party in Pyongyang, North Korea on Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010.
Seoul - The change at the top of the North Korean regime has come more rapidly than expected. On the death of dictator Kim Jong Il, state media said his third son, Kim Jong Un, would be the 'great successor', simultaneously launching a missile in a...
photo: AP / Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service
File - Cesaria Evora from the Cape Verde island of Sao Vicente, performs during her concert in southern coastal city of Larnaca, Cyprus, Monday, July 27, 2009.
Lisbon, Portugal -- Cesaria Evora, who started singing as a teenager in the bayside bars of Cape Verde in the 1950s and won a Grammy in 2003 after she took her African islands' music to stages across the world, died Saturday. She was 70. Ms. Evora,...
photo: AP / Petros Karadjias
South Koreans watch a news reporting about the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il on TV screens at the Yongsan Electronic shop in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Dec. 19, 2011.
Belying his caricature image as an eccentric playboy, Kim Jong-il was a politically skilled and ruthless ruler who kept North Korea's brutal regime in place despite famine and economic decline. Kim, who died on Saturday of a heart attack aged 69,...
photo: AP / Ahn Young-joon
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood supporters protest against the Syrian regime in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, June 24, 2011.
Reminiscent of their 1957 cover honouring the Hungarian Freedom Fighter, TIME Magazine has bestowed its highest honour - 2011 Person of the Year - upon "The Protester", an amalgamation of 2011's freedom fighters, occupiers and social justice...
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb
South Korean soldiers watch a news reporting about the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il on a TV screen at the Seoul train station in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Dec. 19, 2011.
By EVAN RAMSTAD SEOUL—Kim Jong Il, the dictator who used fear and isolation to maintain power in North Korea and the threat of nuclear weapons to menace his neighbors and the U.S., has died, North Korean state television reported early Monday....
photo: AP / Lee Jin-man
Egyptian protesters throw stones toward army soldiers during clashes near Tahrir Square in Cairo, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2011.
CAIRO -- Egypt's ruling military and the revolutionaries who demand they immediately step down battled for a third day in the streets yesterday -- and competed fiercely for the support of a broader public that has grown tired of turmoil since the...
photo: AP / Nasser Nasser
Former Czech President Vaclav Havel, seen during a press conference, in Prague, Czech Republic, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009, to mark 20th anniversary of the fall of the Iron Curtain, in Czechoslovakia
Havel was acknowledged leader of Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution" in November 1989 – the most magical of all the revolutions in eastern Europe during that astonishing year. It was an extraordinary experience to stand amidst the vast crowds on...
photo: AP / Petr David Josek
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 Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich speaks at the fourth Annual First Amendment Awards Honors event hosted by the Nackey Loeb School of Communication, Monday, Nov. 27, 2006, in Manchester, N.H. (kv1) Real Madrid's Sergio Ramos, left, celebrates after scoring against Valencia during their La Liga soccer match at Mestalla stadium in Valencia, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011. Delta Airlines Obese men and women seen at a restaurant
South Koreans watch a news reporting about the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il on a TV screen at a train station in Ulsan, South Korea, Monday, Dec. 19, 2011. Kim Jong Il's death after 17 years as leader was announced Monday, Dec. 19, 2011 by state television two days after he died. He was 69. 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. KFC restaurant 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.
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. Chelsea's Didier Drogba , center, scores the opening goal during the Champions League Group E soccer match between Bayer 04 Leverkusen and Chelsea FC Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011 in Leverkusen, Germany. Brazil and Sub-Saharan Africa Pursue Steadily Stronger Economic and Political Ties - New Report Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses the opening of the high-level segment of the COP17/CMP7 UN Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa, 6 December, 2011.
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. India's captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni throws a ball for a catching drill during a practice session in Kingston, Jamaica, Saturday June 18, 2011. The first Test of the three-match series between India and the West Indies starts on Monday.  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 A shop selling variety designs of treadmill for exercise was seen at a mall in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
 

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