In this Sunday Oct. 23, 2011 file photo, Andrew Holness, 39, waves to the crowd after being sworn in as Jamaica's ninth prime minister in Kingston, Jamaica.
photo: AP / Collin Reid
Youngest Jamaica PM faces ex-leader in tight vote
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KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Jamaica's two main political parties are in a neck-and-neck race to capture a majority of the country's 63 parliamentary seats and win control of the government for the next five years. Both sides were predicting victory after a hard-fought lead-up to Thursday's general elections pitting Jamaica's youngest prime minister and...
In this Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011 photo released by the Korean Central News Agency and distributed in Tokyo, Dec. 29, 2011 by the Korea News Service, mourners surround the hearse carrying the coffin of the late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il during his funeral procession through the streets of Pyongyang, North Korea.
photo: AP / Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service
N. Korea stages huge memorial service for Kim
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North Korea Thursday began a national memorial service featuring tens of thousands of soldiers and...
In this photo taken on Wednesday Dec. 21, 2011, anti-Syrian regime protesters shout slogans during a demonstration in the Baba Amr area, in Homs province, Syria. Arab League monitors kicked off their one month mission in Syria with a visit on Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011 to Homs, the first time Syria has allowed outside monitors to the city at the heart of the anti-government uprising. Several from the team of 12 stayed in the city overnight, and the team continued to work in Homs on Wednesday. The monitors are expected to visit Hama, Idlib and Daraa on Thursday, Dec. 29, all centers of the uprising.
photo: AP
Violence Flares in Syria Despite Observers’ Visit
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BEIRUT, LebanonViolence continued to flare in the Syrian city of Homs on Wednesday, despite the presence of Arab League observers who are supposed to be monitoring a withdrawal of government forces from the city. Associated Press A Syrian man Monday in Homs, in an alley shelled by Syrian government forces despite the presence of Arab...
A victim of a fire is carried in Pazundaung township, eastern Yangon suburb, Myanmar early Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011. Officials said the warehouse fire quickly spread to neighboring homes and buildings, killing at least more than a dozen.
photo: AP / Khin Maung Win
Yangon blast kills 17, injures 80-Myanmar police
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YANGON (Reuters) - At least 17 people died and 80 were injured in an unexplained explosion in an eastern suburb of Myanmar's biggest city, Yangon, at about 2:00 a.m on Thursday (1930 GMT on Wednesday), police said. Witnesses had earlier said about 50 dead bodies had been found, but a police officer said 12 men and five women had been confirmed dead...
Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, left, is escorted from a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011, after closing arguments concluded in a military hearing that will determine if he should face court-martial for his alleged role in the WikiLeaks classified leaks case.
photo: AP / Patrick Semansky
Manning, Guantanamo Prisoners and Reverse Trials
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Right before the Cantonsville Nine were arrested, a group of radical Catholic pacifists who destroyed draft files with blood and homemade napalm to protest the U.S.-Vietnam War, they alerted the news media and authorities ahead of time to ensure widespread publicity for their action. After seizing 378...
In a Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011 file photo, onlookers gather around a car destroyed in a blast next to St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla, Nigeria after an explosion ripped through a Catholic church during Christmas Mass near Nigeria's capital Sunday, killing scores of people, officials said.
photo: AP / Sunday Aghaeze
Nigeria Boko Haram clashes: 'Thousands flee Damaturu'
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About 90,000 people have been displaced in clashes between militant Islamists and the security forces in Nigeria's Damaturu city, an official has said. The Boko Haram group and troops were involved in heavy gun battles in the north-eastern city last week. The militants also planted bombs in Damaturu and outside a church near the capital, Abuja, on...
Members of Syrian security are seen at the site of a suicide bombing in Damascus, Syria, Friday, Dec. 23, 2011.
photo: AP / Muzaffar Salman
Syria 'releases 755 detained during unrest'
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Syrian state TV says the authorities have released 755 people detained during the nine-month-old uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. The prisoners had been involved "in recent incidents" but their "hands were not stained with blood", a report said....
An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man leans on a railing as a woman and children wait at a bus station in the central Israeli town of Beit Shemesh, Monday, Dec 26, 2011.
photo: AP / Oded Balilty
Religious extremists are undermining Israel's democracy
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The violent incidents in Beit Shemesh this week, beginning with little Na'ama Margolese, who was spat on and cursed on her way home from school, and followed by an attack on television crews that had come to cover the news, should set off major alarm bells. The public at large has sensed the danger and Tuesday evening they came to Beit Shemesh in...
In this Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011 photo released by the Korean Central News Agency and distributed in Tokyo Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011, by the Korea News Service, people lay flowers to pay respects to late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang, North Korea.
photo: AP / Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service
North Koreans mourn Kim Jong-il as state funeral begins
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Musicians in military garb played a mournful tune on state television in North Korea today, as foreign media reported that the isolated country had began a funeral for late leader Kim Jong-il. North Korea's new leader Kim Jong-un cries as his father Kim Jong-il lies in state during the run-up to his funeral in Pyongyang Photo: REUTERS/KCNA tag...
Karzai Agrees to Let Taliban Set Up Office in Qatar
photo: AP / Rafiq Maqbool
Karzai Agrees to Let Taliban Set Up Office in Qatar
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KABUL, Afghanistan — After prodding by his American and European backers, President Hamid Karzai dropped his opposition to allowing the Taliban to set up an office in the Persian Gulf state of Qatar, saying on Tuesday that he could abide by such a step if it was what the United States wanted. Related Afghanistan to Disband Irregular Police...
As a report earlier this week by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) noted,...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has questioned whether the US has developed a secret...
The sense of the crowd around me was one of betrayal and fear. "Don't they care? Don't...
 
This video image taken from Egyptian State Television showing 83-year-old former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak speaks to the court, using a microphone while laying on a hospital bed inside a cage of mesh and iron bars in a Cairo courtroom Wednesday Aug. 3, 2011, as his historic trial began on charges of corruption and ordering the killing of protesters during the uprising that ousted him from office. The scene, shown live on Egypt's state TV, was Egyptians' first look at their former president since Feb. 10, the day before his fall when he gave a defiant speech refusing to resign.
CAIRO - Hosni Mubarak, the former president of Egypt ousted in the revolution last February, was wheeled back into a courtroom here on a hospital gurney on Wednesday to resume his trial amid reports from supporters and opponents that the proceedings...
photo: AP / Egyptian State TV
Former prisoner Jose Menendez gives a piece of cheese to his cat Nelly after an interview at his home in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday Dec. 28, 2011. Menendez, 46, is among the prisoners being released after Cuba's President Raul Castro announced on Dec. 23 the pardoning of 2,900 prisoners.
HAVANA - Cuba appeared to be making quick progress in meeting a pledge to free 2,900 pardoned prisoners, most of them convicted of minor crimes, even as a top human rights official on the island criticized the year-end amnesty as a "media...
photo: AP / Franklin Reyes
North Korea's next leader, Kim Jong Un, front right, walks beside the hearse carrying the body of his late father and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il during the funeral procession in Pyongyang, North Korea.
The handing on of power from an old dictator to a new one can be a moment of great tension, especially if the new one is under 30 and has no political or administrative experience of any kind. Hence the...
photo: AP / Korean Central News Agency
Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner speaks during the G20 Business Summit in Seoul Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010. World leaders are coming together in Seoul Nov. 11-12 to discuss the state of the global economy as it emerges from the financial crisis.
ARGENTINA'S President Cristina Kirchner has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer and will undergo surgery on January 4, her spokesman says. Ms Kirchner, who was sworn in for a second four-year term earlier this month, was found to have cancer...
photo: AP / Aly Song, Pool
Taxi drivers on motor bikes drive past in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Tuesday, Aug 4, 2009. Police in northern Nigeria are investigating how a homegrown Islamist sect managed to unleash a wave of violence that left more than 700 people dead last week, a police spokesman said Monday.
ABUJA - Northern Nigerian Christians said yesterday they feared that a spate of Christmas Day bombings by Islamist militants that killed more than two dozen people could lead to a religious war in Africa's most populous country. The warning was made...
photo: AP / Sunday Alamba
Iran threatens to stop Gulf oil if sanctions widened
TEHRAN - Iran threatened on Tuesday to stop the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz if foreign sanctions were imposed on its crude exports over its nuclear ambitions, a move that could trigger military conflict with economies dependent on Gulf...
photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Anna Wade
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
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A victim of a fire is carried in Pazundaung township, eastern Yangon suburb, Myanmar early Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011. Officials said the warehouse fire quickly spread to neighboring homes and buildings, killing at least more than a dozen. Indian Gagan Narang removes the bullet from his gun during the Commonwealth Games Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions Pairs event in Melbourne, Australia, Monday March 20, 2006. The Indian pair of Narang and Abhinav Bindra won a gold position in the event. A man walks in froNikkei nt of the electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo indicating the benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average rose 121.81 points, to end morning session at 9048.35, Friday, Oct. 28, 2011. Bramhny duck - Ruddy Shelduck - bird - nature
In this video image taken from Egyptian State Television Alaa and Gamal Mubarak, sons of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak stand over him in a cage at the court building in Cairo Monday Aug. 15, 2011. Manchester's United's manager Sir Alex Ferguson smiles as he waits to answer questions at a press conference in Lens before his team's first knock out round Champion League soccer match against Lille in Lens Brazil and Sub-Saharan Africa Pursue Steadily Stronger Economic and Political Ties - New Report In this Friday, Oct. 30, 2009 picture a caretaker looks after a baby girl in the Siaya hospital in Western Kenya. The girl was found abandoned in the street and suffering with malaria. A new vaccine being tested at the hospital is giving the medical community hope that for the first time it will soon be able to reduce by half the number of African children killed by the mosquito-borne disease every year.
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