Revolutionary fighters, beside an anti-aircraft machine gun, center, demonstrate in favor of the National Transitional Council, NTC, at Tripoli's main square, Libya, Monday, Oct. 3, 2011.
photo: AP / Alexandre Meneghini
Libya's ex-rebels demand 40% of NTC places
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TRIPOLI - Libya's former rebels, who battled the forces of dead dictator Moamer Gathafi, are demanding greater representation in the National Transitional Council, a commander from Misrata said on Monday. The "thwars" (revolutionaries) demand that 40 percent of the NTC be composed of former rebels "because they are the symbol of this revolution,"...
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan shake hands as they pose for cameras before their talks in Ankara, Turkey, Friday, Feb. 25, 2011.
photo: AP
France, Turkey and Reflections on Genocide
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. While France and Turkey continue to accuse each other of committing past genocides, it is worthy to note how Albert Camus and Henry Morgenthau addressed such a volatile issue. Camus, a French polemicist born in Algeria, wrote "The Plague," a story of how people in an Algerian port town responded to an...
Flash flood victims cross a river after receiving relief goods in Iligan city, southern Philippines on Christmas day Sunday Dec. 25, 2011.
photo: AP
Philippines floods death toll nears 1,500
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The death toll from flash floods that swept away entire villages in the southern Philippines climbed to nearly 1,500 today, as authorities widened their search for bodies. The Office of Civil defence's latest tally listed 891 dead in Cagayan de Oro and an additional 451 in nearby Iligan city. The rest came from several other provinces. Most of the...
A Syrian Kurdish boy carries a banner during a protest outside the Arab League office in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011.
photo: AP / Bilal Hussein
Arab monitors arrive in Syria amid more bloodshed
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AFP - A first team of Arab League observers landed in Syria late on Monday to monitor a deal to end nine months of deadly violence, as 30 people died in gunfire in and near the besieged central city of Homs. CNN reported that members of the team were due to travel Tuesday to Homs, which has been a focal point of the government's crackdown on...
Los Angeles County Fire Dept. rescue team members search for survivors in a damaged house in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, northern Japan, Tuesday, March 15, 2011, four days after a powerful earthquake-triggered tsunami hit Japan's east coast.
photo: AP / Shizuo Kambayashi
World 'dangerously unprepared' for future disasters
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The world is "dangerously unprepared" for future disasters because rich nations are not doing enough, warns the international development secretary. Andrew Mitchell blames the failure of several countries to pay into...
Onlookers gather around a destroyed car at the site of a bomb blast at St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla, Nigeria, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011.
photo: AP / Sunday Aghaeze
Nigeria probes Christmas carnage
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Nigeria on Monday probed a wave of Christmas Day bomb attacks that killed at least 40 and was blamed on Islamists, including one blast that ripped through a crowd of worshippers exiting mass. The government blamed Islamist sect Boko Haram for three attacks on Sunday, including bomb explosions at two churches -- the deadliest as Christmas mass ended...
Mourners bow in prayer at a mass funeral Saturday, Dec. 24, 2011 for 44 people killed in twin suicide bombings that targeted intelligence agency compounds in Damascus, Syria.
photo: AP / Muzaffar Salman
Arab League observers expected in Syria on Monday
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December 26, 2011 -- Updated 0709 GMT (1509 HKT) Homs under siege (CNN) -- Dozens of Arab League observers are expected to arrive in Syria on Monday to monitor whether President Bashar al-Assad's government complies with an agreement to end a brutal crackdown on protesters calling for the end to his regime. The arrival of the observers follows...
Protesters gather to protest against alleged vote rigging in Russia's parliamentary elections on Sakharov avenue in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Dec. 24, 2011.
photo: AP / Alexander Zemlianichenko
Largest protest since collapse of Soviet Union rocks Russia
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The rally on Moscow's Sakharov Avenue on Saturday was the fourth and by far the biggest of the mass demonstrations provoked by the parliamentary vote held on 4 December. The ruling United Russia party, led by the Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, held on to a slim majority in parliament in those elections, but the results have been tainted by claims...
Onlookers gather around a car destroyed in a blast next to St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla, Nigeria, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011.
photo: AP / Sunday Aghaeze
Christmas attacks in Nigeria by sect kill 39
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JON GAMBRELL Associated Press= LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Terror attacks across Nigeria by a radical Muslim sect killed at least 39 people Sunday, with the majority dying on the steps of a Catholic church after celebrating Christmas Mass as blood pooled in dust from a massive explosion. Authorities acknowledged they could not bring enough emergency...
File - Bolshevik forces marching on Red Square during the Russian Revolution, 1917.
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The Other World War I 'Christmas' Truce
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling By the time Josepef Tomann, a young Austrian recruited into military service, wrote, "It is Christmas Eve, on my own in a hostile country...I cannot rest today, my weary mind is troubled by dreams and sweet visions, that fill the air like phantoms...When we were children we looked forward to Christmas...
Brazil now world's 6th largest economy, says think tank
AFP - Brazil has overtaken Britain as the world's sixth largest economy, a London-based research group said Monday. In its latest World Economic League Table, the Centre for Economics and...
photo: WN / Marzena Jazowska
An Iranian woman walks past an anti-US mural, painted on the wall of the former US Embassy in Tehran, Iran, at the side lines of an annual state-backed rally, on Friday, Nov. 4, 2011, marking the anniversary of the seizure of the US Embassy by militant students on Nov. 4, 1979.
Before the first bomb falls disinformation specialists prepare the ground. Leading media outlets, foreign policy journals and a plethora of think tanks funded by elite foundations, energy and weapons' conglomerates, "right," "left" or "center" take...
photo: AP / Vahid Salemi
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men gather around a sign that reads in Hebrew: "Women are asked not to linger in this area" outside a synagogue in the central Israeli town of Beit Shemesh, Monday, Dec. 26, 2011.
Ultra-orthodox Jews have clashed with police in the Israeli town of Beit Shemesh, near Jerusalem. One police officer was slightly hurt and a number of Orthodox Jews detained, say reports. The town has become a focus of friction between...
photo: AP / Oded Balilty
Felipe Cabrera Sarabia, alias "El Inge," is shown to the press under the custody of army soldiers at the federal organized crime investigations headquarters (SIEDO) in Mexico City, Monday Dec. 26, 2011.
Mexico City - The Mexican defence ministry on Monday paraded before the media a man suspected of being a senior aide to the country's most wanted drug trafficker, Joaquin “Shorty” Guzman, the boss of the powerful Sinaloa cartel. In a...
photo: AP / Marco Ugarte
File - Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, left, talks to Czech former President Vaclav Havel, right, at the opening night of the 11th Forum 2000 Conference in Prague, in this Oct. 7, 2007 file photo.
During the last year of revolutionary protests across the Arab world, one of the things that most surprised me was how little Vaclav Havel and the Velvet Revolution he helped to lead, was mentioned by activists or even commentators as a model for...
photo: AP / Petr David Josek
A resident wades through a flooded street with an electric fan following a flash flood that inundated Cagayan de Oro city, Philippines, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011.
December 26, 2011 -- Updated 0644 GMT (1444 HKT) A boy holds a placard on a street in Cagayan de Oro on December 24, 2011. (CNN) -- The death toll from the tropical storm that lashed the southern Philippines just over a week ago has risen further,...
photo: AP / Froilan Gallardo
In this undated photo released by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service in Tokyo Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010, Kim Jong Un, second from left, the third son of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, claps after inspecting the construction site of the Huichon Power Station with his father in Chagang Province, North Korea.
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea's main state newspaper is calling Kim Jong Il's heir the head of the ruling Workers' Party Central Committee. The reference means Kim Jong Un will control one of the country's highest decision-making bodies...
photo: AP / Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service
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