President Barack Obama delivers the State of the Union address in the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Jan. 24, 2012.
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The 'Malaise' of Hope
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Before Dante Alighieri descended into hell in the "Divine Comedy," an inscription above the door read: Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here. Listening to President Barack Obama's State of the Union Address (SOTU), this is sadly what I was reminded of. For someone who campaigned on the "audacity of hope," it seemed his speech was more about the...
In this Dec. 14, 2011 file photo, veteran leader Sir Michael Somare, second right, attends a press conference after claiming to have been reinstated as Papua New Guinea's prime minister in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
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Papua New Guinea rebel soldiers demand return of former PM
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(Reuters) - The leader of a small band of soldiers who mutinied in Papua New Guinea on Thursday demanded the governor-general reinstate former Prime Minister Michael Somare and set a seven-day deadline for lawmakers to resolve a constitutional crisis. The resource-rich Pacific Island nation has been through a prolonged period of political...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, delivers the opening address at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012.
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Merkel demands closer EU links to avoid financial meltdown
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Angela Merkel has called Europe the world’s economic ‘headache’ and demanded closer ties between eurozone nations to avoid financial meltdown. The German leader told the World Economic Forum in Davos that a ‘big rethink’ was needed – but Mr Cameron will today chide Europe’s leaders and demand less EU...
Revolutionary forces pray during a mission some 38 miles (60 kilometers) from Sirte, Libya, Thursday, Sept. 15, 2011 as smoke from rocket attacks landing close to former rebel's frontline is seen in the background.
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Detainees held by Libya rebels still tortured: U.N.
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Detainees from Libya's civil war held by revolutionary brigades continue to be subjected to torture despite efforts by the provisional government to address the issue, the U.N. human rights chief said on Wednesday. Navi Pillay told the U.N. Security Council she was extremely concerned about thousands of prisoners, most of...
File - U.S. Army Staff Sgt. David Heath, of the 56th Military Police Company, 101st Airborne Division, teaches basic rifle marksmanship with Iraqi Police Trainees at Forward Operating Base Danger,Iraq on Jan. 8, 2008.
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Iraq al-Qaida says US withdrew to save funds
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BAGHDAD (AP) — Al-Qaida in Iraq says the U.S. pulled its troops out because its economy is collapsing and it needed to save money. The message posted on its website Wednesday is al-Qaida's first online comment since the U.S. completed its pullout last month, ending a nine-year conflict. Al-Qaida in Iraq was one of the main U.S. enemies. In the...
Egyptians gather in Tahrir Square to mark the one year anniversary of the uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012.
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A year after uprising, Egyptians celebrate and protest
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Tens of thousands massed in Cairo's Tahrir Square and other Egyptian cities on Wednesday, a year after an uprising erupted that toppled Hosni Mubarak, spurred on revolts across the region and exposed rifts in the Arab world's most populous state. United last year by popular anger at Mubarak and his 30-year rule, Egyptians...
President Obama delivers his State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol, D.C., Jan. 25, 2011
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Remarks by the President in State of the Union Address
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(Transcript of President Obama's State of the Union Address) Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans: Last month, I went to Andrews Air Force Base and welcomed home some of our last troops to serve in Iraq. Together, we offered a final, proud salute to the colors under which more than a...
A pro-Syrian regime protester, shouts pro-Syrian President Bashar Assad slogans during a demonstration in Damascus, Syria, on Wednesday Nov. 16, 2011, during a demonstration against the Arab League meeting being held in Morocco.
photo: AP / Muzaffar Salman
Syria agrees to extend Arab observer mission
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DAMASCUS ' Syria has agreed to extend a widely criticised Arab League observer mission for a second month, just hours after launching an angry tirade against the bloc's efforts to mediate in the crisis. League officials had warned that the monitors, already depleted by the withdrawal of the six oil-rich Gulf states from the mission, would be...
President Barack Obama gestures while delivering his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012.
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Obama tax ideas face long odds ahead of election
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's bid to get millionaires and multinational companies to pay more taxes may play well with many voters but it faces long odds in the deadlocked U.S. Congress. Obama used his State of the Union speech on Tuesday to press the case for a new minimum 30 percent tax on Americans earning more than $1 million...
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan salutes lawmakers and supporters of his party as he addresses at the parliament in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012, a day after France's Senate voted a law that would make it a crime in France to deny that the killing of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire nearly a century ago was a genocide.
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Turkey's Erdogan lambasts France on genocide law
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan attacked the French parliament on Tuesday for passing a "discriminatory and racist" bill which makes it illegal to deny the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks nearly a century ago was genocide. With passions running high in Turkey on Monday's Senate vote, one newspaper denounced the...

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A woman is in custody in Norway accused of murdering her child while her boyfriend allegedly...

Rescue worker remove a car after a building collapsed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday Jan. 25, 2012.
AP - A multistory building collapsed in Rio’s center Wednesday evening, leaving rubble strewn over a wide area but confusion about the number of possible victims and the cause. Thick layers of debris covered cars and motorcycles. A neighboring...
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Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich, left, arrives with his military defense attorney, Meridith Marshall for a court session at Camp Pendleton in Camp Pendleton, Calif., Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012.
Haditha, Iraq -- In this town which saw 24 unarmed civilians die in a U.S. raid seven years ago, residents expressed disbelief and sadness that the Marine sergeant who told his troops to "shoot first, ask questions later" reached a deal with...
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Internet activists protest against the international copyright agreement ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, in front of the European Parliament office in Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012.
Thousands of young Poles hit city streets across the country in a mounting wave of off-and-online protest against a government decision to sign an international anti-online piracy accord. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement...
photo: AP / Alik Keplicz
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, on the right, and Catherine Ashton
MARK WEISS in Jerusalem EUROPEAN UNION foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton is engaged in a last-ditch effort to keep Israeli and Palestinian officials engaged as Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas announced that the current exploratory peace talks...
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Syrians carry national flags as they protest in support of Syrian President Bashar Assad at the Umayyad Square in downtown Damascus, Syria, Sunday, July 17, 2011.
THE United Nations has stopped compiling a death toll for Syria's crackdown on protests because it is too difficult to get information, UN human rights chief Navi Pillay said. Pillay gave a toll of more than 5000 dead when she spoke to the...
photo: AP / Bassem Tellawi
File - Britains opposition Labour Party leader Ed Miliband gives a speech on the third day of the annual Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, England, Tuesday Sept. 27, 2011.
The Office for National Statistics estimated a 0.2% contraction between October and December, figures the Prime Minister said were "disappointing" but not unexpected. Mr Cameron said they reflected the "overhang" of the debt and...
photo: AP / Tim Hales
Attendees at the National Retail Federation listen to a discussion about Google Wallet, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012 in New York.
An announcement from Google that it is revising how it uses data from users of its services has some worried that the Internet giant is violating its users' privacy. The California-based internet giant said in an blog post that the changes were...
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