Egyptian fans rush into the field following Al-Ahly club soccer match against Al-Masry club at the soccer stadium in Port Said, Egypt Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012.
photo: AP
74 die as Egypt football fans clash
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At least 74 people were killed and 248 injured after clashes between football fans in the Egyptian seaside city of Port Said. The violence was sparked by an unexpected victory by the home team over Egypt's top club, setting off a stampede. The violence - which followed an Egyptian league match between Al-Masry, the home team in the Mediterranean...

U.S. Army Pvt. 1st Class Tyler Jennings, a cannon crew member, assigned to Alpha Battery, 2nd Battalion, 377th Parachute Field Artillery Regiment, Task Force Spartan Steel, conducts security combat patrols in Khost province, Afghanistan, Jan. 25, 2012.
photo: US Army / Staff Sgt. Jason Epperson
Afghan Taliban deny they're ready to talk peace
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KABUL, Afghanistan - The Taliban denied Wednesday that the movement is planning direct talks with the Afghan government to end the 10-year-old war, while a leaked NATO report suggested the insurgents are confident they will regain power after international troops leave. While both developments were setbacks to Afghan President Hamid Karzai's...

A Kosovo Albanian man strolls near the damn of the artificial lake of Badovac Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012. Heavy snow and freezing weather on Monday led to some deaths in Serbia and Bulgaria
photo: AP / Visar Kryeziu
Europe freeze: Heavy snow across the continent
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Heavy snow has caused disruption across Europe, carpeting much of Italy to the south and Turkey to the east. The freeze that has swept south through the continent has caused at least 70 deaths, mainly in Ukraine and Poland....

Police arrest a protester in Dakar, Senegal Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012.
photo: AP / Gaby Barnuevo
Tense Senegal braces for more protests as anger mounts
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February 1, 2012 -- Updated 0719 GMT (1519 HKT) A Senegalese court has ruled that President Abdoulaye Wade can run for office again. Dakar, Senegal (CNN) -- A tense Senegal braced for more protests Wednesday following days of demonstrations over a court decision allowing the incumbent president to run for a third term. President Abdoulaye Wade, 85,...

Members of Stab A from the Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team (KPRT) conduct a foot patrol in district 9 of Kandahar City, Afghanistan, on 2 February 2010
photo: ISAF / Master Corporal Matthew McGregor
Taliban "poised to retake Afghanistan" after NATO pullout
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KABUL (Reuters) - A secret U.S. military report says that the Taliban, backed by Pakistan, are set to retake control over Afghanistan after NATO-led forces withdraw from the country, The Times newspaper reported on Wednesday. Lt Col Jimmie Cummings, a spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), confirmed the...

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, greets supporters at his Florida primary primary night rally in Tampa, Fla., Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012.
photo: AP / Gerald Herbert
Romney wins big in Florida, routing Gingrich
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TAMPA -- Mitt Romney routed Newt Gingrich in the Florida primary Tuesday night, rebounding smartly from an earlier defeat and taking a major step toward the Republican presidential nomination. Gingrich vowed to press on despite the one-sided setback Romney, talking unity like a nominee, said he was ready to take the Republican helm and "lead this...

CIA Director David Petraeus listens at right as Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012, before the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing to assess current and future national security threats.
photo: AP / Jacquelyn Martin
Iran sanctions "biting" in recent weeks: Petraeus
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iran is feeling the bite from economic sanctions imposed over its nuclear program, which is capable of producing a weapon although Iranian leaders have not yet decided to do so, top intelligence chiefs told Congress on Tuesday. "The sanctions have been biting much, much more literally in recent weeks than they have until this...

Pakistani tribal villagers walk on their way to visit a house hit by alleged U.S. missile in Damadola village in the Pakistani tribal area of Bajur near Afghanistan border Thursday, May 15, 2008. A top Taliban leader vowed Thursday to target the U.S. in revenge for an alleged missile strike that killed several people in a Pakistani tribal region, a threat that bodes ill for the new government's efforts to negotiate peace deals with militants.
photo: AP / Mohammad Sajjad

Prisoners reach through the bars in the F Cellhouse at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Okla., where they are housed in old-fashioned cells with metal bars, Friday, Jan. 18, 2008.
photo: AP
Why are so many Americans in prison?
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The US has the highest prison population in the world - some of whom have been subjected to lengthy sentences for relatively minor crimes. And that population has surged over the past three decades. Although there has been a slight reduction in the past year, more than two million people are either incarcerated in prison or in jail awaiting trial....

File - The amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD 5) transits the Strait of Hormuz, 29 October, 2011.
photo: US Navy / Quartermaster 1st Class Thomas E. Dowling
The 'Other' USS Carriers in the Persian Gulf
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling We Americans might think of ourselves as democratized, but with out a doubt we are extremely virulent, even Ebolaized. This was evident as Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced America would maintain a fleet of 11 formidable aircraft carriers costing billions of dollars despite sharp increases in...


True, the Syrian regime has never confronted opposition on such a scale. If the fatalities do...
Last week, as Jewish Lobbies continue to invest enormous efforts in dictating and imposing a...

A United Airlines 767-300ER arriving at Ezeiza International Airport. The 767-300ER, the extended-range version of the 767-300, entered service with American Airlines in 1988.
DALLAS — The parent of American Airlines wants to eliminate about 13,000 jobs — 15 percent of its workforce — as the nation's third-biggest airline remakes itself under bankruptcy protection. The company proposes to end its...
photo: Creative Commons / Luis Argerich
Exterior of Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif., Monday, Jan. 3, 2011.
Facebook is going public eight years after its computer-hacking chief executive Mark Zuckerberg started the service at Harvard University. That means anyone with the right amount of cash will be able to own part of a Silicon Valley icon that quickly...
photo: AP / Paul Sakuma
People walk by the London Stock Exchange in the City of London, Friday, Aug. 12, 2011.
LONDON (AP) — Four British men fueled by the words of a U.S.-born Muslim cleric pleaded guilty Wednesday to involvement in an al-Qaeda-inspired plot to spread terror and cause economic damage by bombing the London Stock Exchange at...
photo: AP / Sang Tan
Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar speaks during a joint press conference with her Afghan counterpart Zalmai Rasool, unseen, at the foreign ministry in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012.
Pakistan's foreign minister says her country has no hidden agenda in Afghanistan, in response to a leaked secret Nato report on Islamabad's links to the Afghan Taliban. Speaking...
photo: AP / Ahmad Jamshid
From left, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., meet with reporters following the vote on a short term funding bill on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Sept. 26 2011.
Voicing serious concern over the deteriorating situation in Tibet, six top American Senators have introduced a resolution in the US Congress asking China to suspend implementation of religious control regulations and immediately start a dialogue with...
photo: AP / J. Scott Applewhite
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, waves to supporters at his Florida primary primary night rally in Tampa, Fla., Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012.
WASHINGTON-Brother, can you spare $1 million? The significant "super" political action committees in this year's presidential campaign on Tuesday revealed the names of their wealthy donors, a detailed accounting that underscored how millionaires and...
photo: AP / Gerald Herbert
The United Nations Security Council holds a meeting on the situation in Syria, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012 at United Nations headquarters.
UNITED NATIONS-Vowing to avoid "another Libya," the U.S. and its allies challenged Russia on Tuesday to overcome its opposition to a U.N. draft resolution demanding that Syrian President Bashar Assad yield power and end the violence that has killed...
photo: AP / Mary Altaffer

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