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An Afghan protester points towards a US soldier in front of the US base of Bagram during an anti US demonstration in Bagram north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012.
photo: AP / Musadeq Sadeq
Anti-American Koran demos across Afghanistan
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Anti-American protests are taking place across Afghanistan for a third day following the burning of the Koran at a US military base. Local police said several hundred people chanting "Death to America" marched through the main town in Laghman province, east of Kabul. Other peaceful demonstrations are taking place across the country. Meanwhile the...

Ahmed Ali inspects his destroyed car after a car bomb explosion in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012.
photo: AP / Hadi Mizban
Iraq: Bombings, shootings kill 35 across Baghdad
read more Zeenews
Baghdad: A swift series of bombings and shootings killed 35 people across the Iraqi capital early Thursday in attacks that mostly appeared to target police, officials said. In the worst attack, a car bomb went off near a security checkpoint in Baghdad's downtown shopping district of Karradah killing nine people. Twenty-six people were wounded in...

This combo shows a photo of American journalist Marie Colvin, left, and one of French photographer Remi Ochlik. The two journalists were killed Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012 by Syrian government shelling of the opposition stronghold of Homs, France's government said.
photo: AP
Syria reporters' deaths condemned
read more Joy Online
The killings of two Western reporters in the city of Homs and reported deaths of some 60 people across Syria have triggered further Western outrage towards the Damascus government. Sunday Times reporter Marie Colvin, an American, and French photographer Remi Ochlik died in shelling by Syria's government forces. The US said it was "another example...

Afghans shout slogans during an anti-US demonstration in Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012.
photo: AP / Rahmat Gul
Karzai urges calm as 6 die in Afghan Quran protests
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Kabul: Afghan President Hamid Karzai appealed for calm Wednesday after officials said six people were shot dead and dozens wounded in protests over the burning of copies of the Quran, Islam's holy book, at NATO's main base in the country. The US embassy said their staffs were in "lockdown" and travel had been suspended as thousands of people...

Firemen rescue wounded passengers from a commuter train after a collision in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday Feb. 22, 2012.
photo: AP / Leonardo Zavattaro,Telam
Argentina train slams into station, 49 dead
read more The Times of India
SHARE AND DISCUSSTweet BUENOS AIRES (Argentina) : A packed train slammed into the end of the line in Buenos Aires' busy Once station Wednesday, killing 49 people and injuring hundreds of morning commuters in Argentina's worst train accident in decades. Federal Police Commissioner Nestor Rodriguez says the dead include 48 adults and one child. That...

Cypriot finances in good shape despite Greek exposure, EU says
photo: EC / EC
Cypriot finances in good shape despite Greek exposure, EU says
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Brussels - Half-a-year after it was posited as the European Union's next bailout victim, Cyprus remains on track to whittle down its deficit to 2.7 per cent, the bloc's executive said Wednesday in the run-up to the island's turn at the rotating EU presidency. The wide-ranging exposure of its banking system to Greek debt had been at the center of...

File - In this photo of Tuesday Aug. 9, 2011 released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team, Ugandan soldiers serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia, AMISOM, patrol through the deserted streets of Bakara Market in central Mogadishu.
photo: AP / AU-UN IST/ Stuart Price
'Somalia should be enjoying its own Arab Spring'
read more Independent online (SA)
London - Somalia should be enjoying an Arab Spring of its own but its Al-Shebab insurgents are fomenting jihad both in and out of the country, British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Wednesday. Speaking on the eve of an international conference on Somalia being held in London, Cameron said the terror threat emanating from the Horn of Africa...

An Afghan policeman aims his rifle toward protestors, unseen, during an anti-U.S. demonstration in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012.
photo: AP / Ahmad Jamshid
Five killed in Afghan protests over Koran burning
read more Jakarta Globe
A total of five demonstrators were shot dead on Wednesday in anti-US protests in Afghanistan over the burning of the Koran at a US military base, officials said. Three were killed in Shinwar district of Parwan province north of Kabul, provincial administration spokeswoman Roshna Khalid told AFP. "The protests got violent. They attacked police with...

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, black smoke rise from an oil pipeline, in Baba Amr neighborhood in Homs province, central Syria, on Wednesday Feb. 15, 2012.
photo: AP / SANA
Two Western journalists killed in Homs
read more Toronto Sun
Syrian troops and militia loyal to President Bashar al-Assad captured and then shot dead 27 young men in northern villages and two foreign journalists were killed in shelling of the besieged city of Homs, activists said on Wednesday. The two Western journalists were killed on Wednesday when shells hit the house they were staying in, activists and...

An Afghan policeman walks through black smoke rising from tyres that were burnt by protesters during an anti-US demonstration in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012.
photo: AP / Ahmad Jamshid
Afghans protest for a 2nd day after Quran burning
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February 22, 2012 -- Updated 0655 GMT (1455 HKT) ISAF commander makes Quran apology Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- The U.S. Embassy in Kabul went into lockdown Wednesday as demonstrators took to the streets in various parts of Afghanistan in a second day of protests over the burning of the Quran. Protesters burned tires and threw rocks outside Camp...


Reporting from New Orleans— Spill 4.9 million barrels of oil into the ocean, and this is...
But his decision to sing "My People", written long after he decided to embrace Islam...

Republican presidential candidates, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, right, and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum argue a point during a Republican presidential debate Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012, in Mesa, Ariz.
During two hours of often scratchy sparring in what may have been the last in a long series of primary debates, Mr Santorum was frequently on the defensive as he tried to explain past votes that seemed to undercut his record on for example opposing...
photo: AP / Jae C. Hong
Indian paramilitary soldiers keep vigil  in Srinagar on October 25, 2011. Three policemen were injured in co-ordinated grenade attacks by suspected militants in Srinagar, the main city of Indian Kashmir, officials said. The two blasts came after a peaceful summer in Muslim-majority Kashmir, where a 20-year insurgency against rule from New Delhi has often brought normal life to a halt amid riots, clashes with security forces and curfews.
At least nine Indian soldiers have died and 11 others were trapped in two snow avalanches that hit defence installations in Indian-administered Kashmir, officials say. Six of the deaths took place in Gurez, a...
photo: WN / Imran Nissar
shows Gamal, center left, and Alaa Mubarak, left in white prison uniforms, the two sons of Hosni Mubarak, in a cage
Given a last opportunity to address the court in Cairo, where for much of the past six months he has lain on a hospital bed in a cage listening to the evidence against him, Mr Mubarak refused, telling the judge he had no comments to make. "What...
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb
Afghans, US may defer issues in strategic deal
The U.S. and the Afghan governments are considering pushing through a long-delayed partnership agreement by moving the contentious issues of night raids and control over detainees to separate negotiations, officials from both countries said. The two...
photo: US DoD / erin A. Kirk-Cuomo
Security Council calls for large increase to African peace force in Somalia
UNODC Executive Director Yury Fedotov addresses the Security Council on the situation in Somalia. UN Photo/Devra Berkowitz22 February 2012 – The Security Council today called on the African Union (AU) to increase the strength of its peacekeeping...
photo: UN / UN
AMISOM soldiers walking between the civilians in the Karan district of Mogadishu , Somalia Thursday, Aug.11, 2011.
For all the difficulties it has faced, Somalia has the resilience, talent and natural resources to shape a better future UK foreign secretary William Hague with officials at Mogadishu airport. Hague puts remittances from the Somali diaspora at £1bn a...
photo: AP / Ali Bashi
This 24-Year-Old Founder Wants To Keep A Billion More Cars Off The Road
During the summer of 2009 at the Singularity University, Google co-founder Larry Page challenged a class of 40 students to pick an idea that could impact one billion people. One of the program's students, Jessica Scorpio, thought if she could get...
photo: WN / Marzena

Quran Burning Sparks Angry Afghan Protest; updated 22 Feb 2012; published 22 Feb 2012
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Quran Burning Sparks Angry Afghan Protest
BBC News 23 Feb 2012, Anti-American protests are taking place across Afghanistan for a third day following the burning of the Koran at a US military base. Local police said several hundred people chanting "Death to America" marched through the main town in Laghman province, east of Kabul. Other peaceful demonstrations are taking place across the country. Meanwhile the...

12/22/11 worst Iraq violence since 2006, early pullout could be catastrophic - Krauthammer; updated 06 Jan 2012; published 23 Dec 2011
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12/22/11 worst Iraq violence since 2006, early pullout could be catastrophic - Krauthammer
Zeenews 23 Feb 2012, Baghdad: A swift series of bombings and shootings killed 35 people across the Iraqi capital early Thursday in attacks that mostly appeared to target police, officials said. In the worst attack, a car bomb went off near a security checkpoint in Baghdad's downtown shopping district of Karradah killing nine people. Twenty-six people were wounded in...

2 Western Journalists Killed in Syria Amid Escalating Violence in Homs; updated 23 Feb 2012; published 23 Feb 2012
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2 Western Journalists Killed in Syria Amid Escalating Violence in Homs
Joy Online 23 Feb 2012, The killings of two Western reporters in the city of Homs and reported deaths of some 60 people across Syria have triggered further Western outrage towards the Damascus government. Sunday Times reporter Marie Colvin, an American, and French photographer Remi Ochlik died in shelling by Syria's government forces. The US said it was "another example...

Quran Burning Sparks Angry Afghan Protest; updated 22 Feb 2012; published 22 Feb 2012
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Quran Burning Sparks Angry Afghan Protest
Zeenews 22 Feb 2012, Kabul: Afghan President Hamid Karzai appealed for calm Wednesday after officials said six people were shot dead and dozens wounded in protests over the burning of copies of the Quran, Islam's holy book, at NATO's main base in the country. The US embassy said their staffs were in "lockdown" and travel had been suspended as thousands of people...

Rail tragedy strikes Argentina; updated 22 Feb 2012; published 22 Feb 2012
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Rail tragedy strikes Argentina
The Times of India 22 Feb 2012, SHARE AND DISCUSSTweet BUENOS AIRES (Argentina) : A packed train slammed into the end of the line in Buenos Aires' busy Once station Wednesday, killing 49 people and injuring hundreds of morning commuters in Argentina's worst train accident in decades. Federal Police Commissioner Nestor Rodriguez says the dead include 48 adults and one child. That...

Stefan Fule anti-Cyprus Foul at EU - 1; updated 31 Jul 2010; published 31 Mar 2010
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Stefan Fule anti-Cyprus Foul at EU - 1
m&c; 22 Feb 2012, Brussels - Half-a-year after it was posited as the European Union's next bailout victim, Cyprus remains on track to whittle down its deficit to 2.7 per cent, the bloc's executive said Wednesday in the run-up to the island's turn at the rotating EU presidency. The wide-ranging exposure of its banking system to Greek debt had been at the center of...

Somalia factions accused of using children; updated 21 Feb 2012; published 21 Feb 2012
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Somalia factions accused of using children
Independent online (SA) 22 Feb 2012, London - Somalia should be enjoying an Arab Spring of its own but its Al-Shebab insurgents are fomenting jihad both in and out of the country, British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Wednesday. Speaking on the eve of an international conference on Somalia being held in London, Cameron said the terror threat emanating from the Horn of Africa...

Koran protests erupt in Afghan cities; updated 11 Sep 2011; published 27 Oct 2009
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Koran protests erupt in Afghan cities
Jakarta Globe 22 Feb 2012, A total of five demonstrators were shot dead on Wednesday in anti-US protests in Afghanistan over the burning of the Koran at a US military base, officials said. Three were killed in Shinwar district of Parwan province north of Kabul, provincial administration spokeswoman Roshna Khalid told AFP. "The protests got violent. They attacked police with...

2 Western Journalists Killed in Syria Amid Escalating Violence in Homs; updated 23 Feb 2012; published 23 Feb 2012
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2 Western Journalists Killed in Syria Amid Escalating Violence in Homs
Toronto Sun 22 Feb 2012, Syrian troops and militia loyal to President Bashar al-Assad captured and then shot dead 27 young men in northern villages and two foreign journalists were killed in shelling of the besieged city of Homs, activists said on Wednesday. The two Western journalists were killed on Wednesday when shells hit the house they were staying in, activists and...

Quran Burning Sparks Angry Afghan Protest; updated 22 Feb 2012; published 22 Feb 2012
1:19
Quran Burning Sparks Angry Afghan Protest
CNN 22 Feb 2012, February 22, 2012 -- Updated 0655 GMT (1455 HKT) ISAF commander makes Quran apology Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- The U.S. Embassy in Kabul went into lockdown Wednesday as demonstrators took to the streets in various parts of Afghanistan in a second day of protests over the burning of the Quran. Protesters burned tires and threw rocks outside Camp...

Kevin Rudd resigns as Australian Foreign Minister - ABC 7.30 (22/2/2012); updated 22 Feb 2012; published 22 Feb 2012
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Kevin Rudd resigns as Australian Foreign Minister - ABC 7.30 (22/2/2012)
Denver Post 22 Feb 2012, SYDNEY—Australia's foreign minister resigned Wednesday amid an ongoing leadership squabble, saying he could not continue in his role without the support of Prime Minister Julia Gillard. Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd announced his resignation during an early morning news conference...

MaximsNewsNetwork: ETHIOPIA - SUDAN - DARFUR MEETINGS (UNAMID); updated 26 Aug 2010; published 11 May 2010
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MaximsNewsNetwork: ETHIOPIA - SUDAN - DARFUR MEETINGS (UNAMID)
Scoop 22 Feb 2012, Wednesday, 22 February 2012, 2:53 pm Press Release: UN News New York, Feb 21 2012 7:10PM A 55-person patrol of the United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur returned to its home base today after the team had been blockaded for nearly two days by armed rebels in the northwest of the troubled Sudanese region. The mission (UNAMID) said...

Yemeni protesters continue fight for change; updated 20 Feb 2012; published 18 Feb 2012
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Yemeni protesters continue fight for change
Yahoo Daily News 22 Feb 2012, SANAA/ADEN (Reuters) - Separatist violence in the south loomed over a presidential election in Yemen that had just a single candidate, but Washington praised the vote ending three decades of rule by its ally Ali Abdullah Saleh. The uncontested vote anointed Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi - a general who served as Saleh's vice president and close confidant...

Financial Fascism? 'Greeks should revolt against debt slavery!'; updated 22 Feb 2012; published 21 Feb 2012
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Financial Fascism? 'Greeks should revolt against debt slavery!'
Sydney Morning Herald 21 Feb 2012, AP Greeks have greeted uneasily the news that their country will probably avoid defaulting on its debts next month and the euro should remain their currency - but at the cost of years of economic hardship. The relief created by the 17-nation eurozone's approval of a new 130 billion euro ($A161 billion) rescue package was offset by a grim reality:...





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