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Afghans carry a wounded man during an anti-U.S. demonstration in Kunduz, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012
photo: AP / Ezatullah Pamir
2 killed in Quran protest in northern Afghanistan
read more The Guardian
RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press= KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan officials say at least two demonstrators have been killed in northern Afghanistan as protests over last week's burning of Qurans turned violent. It marked the sixth day of deadly protests over the burning of Qurans and other religious materials at a U.S. base. The White House has called...

A Syrian woman casts her ballot paper at a polling station during a referendum on the new constitution, in Damascus, Syria, Sunday Feb. 26, 2012.
photo: AP / Muzaffar Salman
Unrest-hit Syria votes on new constitution
read more Jakarta Globe
Syrians were called to the polls on Sunday to vote on a new constitution in the face of opposition calls for a boycott and deadly violence that Washington said made the exercise "laughable." The new text ends the legal basis for the five-decade stranglehold on power of the ruling Baath party but leaves huge powers in the hands of President Bashar...

Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, right, casts his vote in presidential elections, in his home Point E neighborhood of Dakar, Senegal Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012
photo: AP / Rebecca Blackwell
Voters cast ballots in critical Senegal election
read more The Guardian
RUKMINI CALLIMACHI Associated Press= DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — After weeks of riots, Senegalese voters began casting their ballots Sunday in an election that threatens the country's image as one of the oldest and most robust democracies in Africa. This normally unflappable nation on the continent's western coast has been rocked by back-to-back protests...

An Afghan policeman calms down a protestor during an anti-U.S. demonstration in Kunduz, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012.
photo: AP / Ezatullah Pamir
Afghan police officer sought over Kabul Nato killings
read more BBC News
An Afghan police intelligence officer is being sought over the killing of two senior US Nato officers at the interior ministry in Kabul on Saturday. Abdul Saboor, 25, was "the main suspect" and had fled the ministry following Saturday's attack, counter-terrorism officials told the BBC. His family home in north-east Parwan province was raided...

Supporters of the Free Syrian Army ride a motorcycle with a rocket-propelled grenade in Kafar Taharim, Syria, Friday, Feb. 24., 2012.
photo: AP / Rodrigo Abd
Violence across Syria on eve of constitution vote
read more Ohio
DAMASCUS, SYRIA: Syria defied international calls to halt attacks on rebel enclaves as at least 89 people were killed nationwide Saturday on the eve of a constitutional referendum that the opposition sees as a ploy by President Bashar Assad’s regime. Assad presented the revised charter — which allows for at least a theoretical opening...

	NATO recalls all staff from Afghan ministries
photo: US DoD / Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo
NATO recalls all staff from Afghan ministries
read more San Francisco Chronicle
(02-25) 07:12 PST KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The commander of NATO and U.S. forces says that all NATO personnel are being recalled from Afghan ministries following an attack at the Interior Ministry in Kabul. Gen. John Allen says staff are being recalled "for obvious force protection reasons." He says NATO is investigating Saturday's shooting and...

Ministers, senior UN, international officials call for ‘Sustainable Energy for All’ in Africa by 2030
photo: UN / UN
Ministers, senior UN, international officials call for ‘Sustainable Energy for All’ in Africa by 2030
read more Ghana Business News
Environment Ministers of three nations, senior United Nations and international officers, have urged all stakeholders across Africa to make commitments, as part of the Action Agenda, on how to achieve sustainable energy for all by 2030. The ministers made the call at an event marking the Africa rollout of the International Year of Sustainable...

Yemeni women hold campaign posters of Yemen's Vice President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi with Arabic writing that reads, "together we build a new Yemen, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi," during a pro-election rally in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, Feb. 20, 2012
photo: AP / Hani Mohammed
Hadi sworn in as new Yemen president
read more The Guardian
Abed-Rabbo Mansour Hadi has taken the oath to replace Ali Abdullah Saleh, who ruled Yemen for 33 years Abed-Rabbo Mansour Hadi, centre, has been sworn in as Yemen's new president Photograph: AP...

A Kenyan soldier sits in the gun turret of an armored personnel carrier in the town of Dhobley, currently under control by Kenyan military and Somali government forces, in Somalia Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012.
photo: AP / Ben Curtis
Deaths in US drone strike in Somalia
read more Al Jazeera
A US air military drone strike in southern Somalia has killed four al-Shabab fighters, officials said. The strike destroyed two vehicles in a convoy in an area known as K60 around 60km south of the capital, Mogadishu. The US military, which has a base in neighbouring Djibouti, has previously carried out drone strikes in Somalia....

Haiti's new Prime Minister Garry Conille speaks with journalists after a press conference in Port-au-Prince, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011.
photo: AP / Dieu Nalio Chery
Haiti’s Prime Minister Quits After 4 Months
read more The New York Times
Haiti, whose recovery from the January 2010 earthquake has been stalled in part by political turmoil, has been dealt yet another setback with the resignation on Friday of its prime minister after weeks of mounting tension with President Michel Martelly and his cabinet. Swoan Parker/Reuters Prime Minister Garry Conille of Haiti, in 2011. He resigned...


KARIN LAUB Associated Press= AL-THALA, West Bank (AP) — Electricity from solar panels and wind...
(02-24) 15:39 PST (AP) -- Sneaker fanatics who lined up outside stores overnight got their...
NEXT week, the Supreme Court will hear a case with many potential ramifications for American...

2 US troops shot in Kabul; NATO pulls workers
A gunman killed two American military advisers with shots to the back of the head Saturday inside a heavily guarded ministry building, and NATO ordered military workers out of Afghan ministries as protests raged for a fifth day over the burning of...
photo: DOD / Public Domain
In this Jan. 1, 2012 image released by the Korean Central News Agency and distributed Monday, Jan. 2, 2012 in Tokyo by the Korea News Service, North Korea's new leader Kim Jong Un, 2nd right, inspects a room to educate about revolutionary achievement at Seoul Ryu Kyong Su 105 Guards Tank Division of the Korean People's Army in North Korea to congratulate servicepersons on New Year's day.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says its new leader, Kim Jong Un, has ordered troops to launch a powerful retaliatory strike against South Korea if provoked. The official Korean Central News Agency reported Sunday that Kim issued the order...
photo: AP / Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service
In this photo provided by the Nelson Mandela Foundation and taken on Friday, June 17, 2011, former South African President Nelson Mandela reads an advance copy of his latest book titled "Nelson Mandela By Himself" , at this home in Johannesburg, South Africa.
AAP Nelson Mandela is doing well in hospital after being admitted in a pre-planned visit for abdominal pains, a South African presidential spokesman says. "This was not an emergency admission. It was pre-planned. He was suffering from abdominal pain,...
photo: AP / Nelson Mandela Foundation, Debbie Yazbek
President Barack Obama speaks about education at TechBoston Academy in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood Tuesday, March 8, 2011.
US President Barack Obama has hailed the swearing in of a new president in Yemen as a "new beginning" for the country. Mr Obama said the US would be "a steadfast partner to Yemen" in its transition to democracy. He also offered US condolences for the...
photo: AP / Elise Amendola
	Taliban militants say they shot down US drone
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A U.S. drone crashed on Saturday in North Waziristan, not far from the Afghan border, Pakistan intelligence officials said, while Taliban militants said they had shot it down. Taliban militants led by Hafiz Gul Bahadur...
photo: DOD / Public Domain
A Pakistani boy walks past a poster of al-Qaida's slain leader Osama Bin Laden fixed on a grill by supporters of a Pakistani religious party Jamaat-e-Islami during an anti U.S. rally on the 10th anniversary of the Sept 11 attacks in US, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011 in Lahore, Pakistan.
Pakistan has begun to demolish the compound where US forces killed Osama Bin Laden in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad, residents and police say. The al-Qaeda leader was shot...
photo: AP / K.M. Chaudary
File - Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi waves after delivering his speech at the Lower Chamber, in Rome, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011.
Judges have thrown out a bribery case against former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, because it expired under the statute of limitations. Mr Berlusconi...
photo: AP / Andrew Medichini

Two American Officers Killed Inside Afghan Interior Ministry; updated 25 Feb 2012; published 25 Feb 2012
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Two American Officers Killed Inside Afghan Interior Ministry
The Guardian 26 Feb 2012, RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press= KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan officials say at least two demonstrators have been killed in northern Afghanistan as protests over last week's burning of Qurans turned violent. It marked the sixth day of deadly protests over the burning of Qurans and other religious materials at a U.S. base. The White House has called...

WATCH Syrians vote in referendum as death toll mounts HD; updated 26 Feb 2012; published 26 Feb 2012
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WATCH Syrians vote in referendum as death toll mounts HD
Jakarta Globe 26 Feb 2012, Syrians were called to the polls on Sunday to vote on a new constitution in the face of opposition calls for a boycott and deadly violence that Washington said made the exercise "laughable." The new text ends the legal basis for the five-decade stranglehold on power of the ruling Baath party but leaves huge powers in the hands of President Bashar...

Keeping It Real With Adeola - Episode 15; updated 25 Feb 2012; published 25 Feb 2012
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Keeping It Real With Adeola - Episode 15
The Guardian 26 Feb 2012, RUKMINI CALLIMACHI Associated Press= DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — After weeks of riots, Senegalese voters began casting their ballots Sunday in an election that threatens the country's image as one of the oldest and most robust democracies in Africa. This normally unflappable nation on the continent's western coast has been rocked by back-to-back protests...

Afghan protests continue over Quran burning; updated 25 Feb 2012; published 24 Feb 2012
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Afghan protests continue over Quran burning
BBC News 26 Feb 2012, An Afghan police intelligence officer is being sought over the killing of two senior US Nato officers at the interior ministry in Kabul on Saturday. Abdul Saboor, 25, was "the main suspect" and had fled the ministry following Saturday's attack, counter-terrorism officials told the BBC. His family home in north-east Parwan province was raided...

Syrians vote in referendum as death toll mounts; updated 26 Feb 2012; published 26 Feb 2012
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Syrians vote in referendum as death toll mounts
Ohio 26 Feb 2012, DAMASCUS, SYRIA: Syria defied international calls to halt attacks on rebel enclaves as at least 89 people were killed nationwide Saturday on the eve of a constitutional referendum that the opposition sees as a ploy by President Bashar Assad’s regime. Assad presented the revised charter — which allows for at least a theoretical opening...

Whistleblower US Army Colonel Explains How The Pentagon Is Lying About ALL Progress In Afghanistan; updated 25 Feb 2012; published 18 Feb 2012
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Whistleblower US Army Colonel Explains How The Pentagon Is Lying About ALL Progress In Afghanistan
San Francisco Chronicle 25 Feb 2012, (02-25) 07:12 PST KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The commander of NATO and U.S. forces says that all NATO personnel are being recalled from Afghan ministries following an attack at the Interior Ministry in Kabul. Gen. John Allen says staff are being recalled "for obvious force protection reasons." He says NATO is investigating Saturday's shooting and...

Farrakhan on
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Farrakhan on "Coalition of Demons" attacking Libya, Africa (June 15, 2011)
Ghana Business News 25 Feb 2012, Environment Ministers of three nations, senior United Nations and international officers, have urged all stakeholders across Africa to make commitments, as part of the Action Agenda, on how to achieve sustainable energy for all by 2030. The ministers made the call at an event marking the Africa rollout of the International Year of Sustainable...

Yémen: le nouveau président Mansour Hadi a prêté serment; updated 25 Feb 2012; published 25 Feb 2012
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Yémen: le nouveau président Mansour Hadi a prêté serment
The Guardian 25 Feb 2012, Abed-Rabbo Mansour Hadi has taken the oath to replace Ali Abdullah Saleh, who ruled Yemen for 33 years Abed-Rabbo Mansour Hadi, centre, has been sworn in as Yemen's new president Photograph: AP...

US Drone Attack in Somalia; updated 22 Feb 2012; published 30 Jun 2011
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US Drone Attack in Somalia
Al Jazeera 25 Feb 2012, A US air military drone strike in southern Somalia has killed four al-Shabab fighters, officials said. The strike destroyed two vehicles in a convoy in an area known as K60 around 60km south of the capital, Mogadishu. The US military, which has a base in neighbouring Djibouti, has previously carried out drone strikes in Somalia....

Haiti Scandal Politique - Garry Conille, Sophia Martelly, Senator Moise Jean-Charles; updated 25 Feb 2012; published 12 Sep 2011
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Haiti Scandal Politique - Garry Conille, Sophia Martelly, Senator Moise Jean-Charles
The New York Times 25 Feb 2012, Haiti, whose recovery from the January 2010 earthquake has been stalled in part by political turmoil, has been dealt yet another setback with the resignation on Friday of its prime minister after weeks of mounting tension with President Michel Martelly and his cabinet. Swoan Parker/Reuters Prime Minister Garry Conille of Haiti, in 2011. He resigned...

News Wrap: UN Team Says Iran Trip Yielded Little Nuclear Knowledge; updated 23 Feb 2012; published 23 Feb 2012
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News Wrap: UN Team Says Iran Trip Yielded Little Nuclear Knowledge
The Los Angeles Times 25 Feb 2012, Reporting from WashingtonIran has stepped up production of enriched uranium and has refused to answer key questions about its nuclear development program, the United Nations atomic watchdog agency declared Friday in a strongly worded report that does little to resolve Western concern about whether Tehran is seeking to build a nuclear bomb....

Aggressive NYPD spying on Muslim New Yorkers causes leaders to boycott Michael Bloomberg breakfast; updated 23 Feb 2012; published 30 Dec 2011
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Aggressive NYPD spying on Muslim New Yorkers causes leaders to boycott Michael Bloomberg breakfast
Austin American Statesman 25 Feb 2012, NEW YORKNew York's mayor served notice Friday that his police department will do everything in its power to hunt terrorists in the U.S., even if it means sending officers outside the city limits or placing law-abiding Muslims under scrutiny. "We just cannot let our guard down again," Mayor Michael Bloomberg warned. He warned of dire...

Yemen's one-horse presidential race; updated 21 Feb 2012; published 07 Feb 2012
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Yemen's one-horse presidential race
Austin American Statesman 25 Feb 2012, SANAA, Yemen — Yemen's election commission said Friday that 65 percent of registered voters in the country cast their ballot for Vice President Abed Rabo Mansour Hadi in this week's single-candidate presidential election aimed at bringing an end to months of political turmoil. The vote, part of a U.S.-backed agreement to ease out of office...

Red Cross negotiates Homs evacuations; updated 25 Feb 2012; published 25 Feb 2012
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Red Cross negotiates Homs evacuations
Al Jazeera 25 Feb 2012, The International Committee of the Red Cross has started to evacuate women, children and the wounded from parts of the besieged Syrian city of Homs. Ambulances from the Syrian Arab Red Crescent and the Red Cross drove into the suburb of Bab Amr, a rebel stronghold which has been under heavy attack, after negotiations earlier in the day. The...





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