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President Barack Obama and President François Hollande of France, with interpreters, hold a discussion following their bilateral meeting in the Oval Office, May 18, 2012.
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Obama backs France on Mali offensive
Sat 26 Jan 2013
Washington - US President Barack Obama voiced support Friday for France's military intervention in Mali and vowed to work with French counterpart Francois Hollande to tackle extremism across North... (photo: Public Domain / Pete Souza)
Mali: More territory taken from rebels
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Mali: More territory taken from rebels
Sat 26 Jan 2013
French-backed forces in Mali have taken more territory from Islamist rebels and are now about 150 kilometres from one of the two key cities still held by the... (photo: AP Photo / Jerome Delay)
In this Monday, May 10, 2010 file photo, Malian special forces drill to face off an ambush as an unidentified U.S. Special Forces soldier gives instructions from a Malian truck in Kita, Mali, during a joint training exercise. A new Tuareg rebel group, whose members include former pro-Gadhafi fighters, say Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012, that they have launched a second day of attacks in northern Mali towns.  Irish Times  Sat 26 Jan 2013
Mali: not another Afghanistan
12 The headline on the front page of a Mali newspaper reads 'Hollande the liberator'. photographs: eric gaillard/reuters and jerome delay/apOn guard: French soldiers at an observation post outside... (photo: AP / Alfred de Montesquiou)
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Security Council Debates Counter-terrorism Susan Rice, Permanent Representative of the United States to the UN, addresses the Security Council open debate on a comprehensive approach to counter-terrorism.  Foreign Policy  Wed 23 Jan 2013
Susan Rice floats U.N. peacekeeping force in Mali
Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United States, quietly floated the idea of organizing a U.N. peacekeeping force to help stabilize Mali after France puts down the Islamist insurgency there. Rice... (photo: UN / Eskinder Debebe)
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Secretary-General Addresses Assembly on 2013 UN Challenges and Priorities Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon briefs the General Assembly on what the UN and Member States have achieved together over the past year and “where concerted action today can yield great gains tomorrow.” Among the challenges he cited were the situations in Syria, Mali and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as progress on sustainable development and achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. The Washington Post Tue 22 Jan 2013
UN secretary-general says ‘dialogue not possible at this time’ with Mali’s Islamic insurgents
UNITED NATIONS — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says “dialogue is not possible at this time” with Mali’s Islamic insurgents and that the... (photo: UN / Rick Bajornas)
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Soldiers drive through a street one week after a military coup, in Bamako, Mali Wednesday, March 28, 2012. The Guardian Tue 22 Jan 2013
France: 1,000 African troops now in Mali
... (photo: AP / Rebecca Blackwell)
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Fighters from Islamist group Ansar Dine stand guard in Timbuktu, Mali. BBC News Tue 22 Jan 2013
UK to consider boosting French Mali operation support
The UK government is to discuss offering more help to French forces fighting Islamist rebels in Mali. David Cameron has said there could be further assistance with... (photo: AP)
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French troops inspect the charred remains of military vehicles used by radical Islamists on the outskirt of Diabaly, Mali, some 460kms (320 miles) north of the capital Bamako Monday Jan. 21, 2013. Reuters Mon 21 Jan 2013
French troops take town in central Mali as rebels slip away
DIABALY, Mali (Reuters) - French and Malian armored columns rolled into the central Mali town of Diabaly on Monday after the al Qaeda-linked Islamist rebels who seized it... (photo: AP / Jerome Delay)
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File - Spc. Wickham, an infantryman and 240B gunner, and another soldier, assigned to Company D, 1st Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), pull rear security while on a short halt during an Afghan National Security Forces-led mission in rural areas of Zormat district, Afghanistan, Dec. 10, 2012. Stars and Stripes Sun 20 Jan 2013
Is Mali the next Afghanistan?
WASHINGTON -- The war rages about cities with names such as Goa and Timbuktu, in a sparsely populated, mostly flat, dusty and landlocked country in northwest Africa.... (photo: US Army / Sgt. 1st Class Abram Pinnington)
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Residents of San in central Mali, some holding a French flag, gather around a convoy of French troops as they pass through San en route to Sevare, Mali, Friday, Jan. 18, 2013 Denver Post Sat 19 Jan 2013
French troops encircle key al-Qaeda-held town in Mali
BAMAKO — French troops encircled a key Malian town on Friday to stop radical Islamists from striking closer to the capital, a French official said. The... (photo: AP / Harouna Traore)
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File - Egyptian defendants who face charges relating to the deaths after a soccer match in the Mediterranean city of Port Said Feb. 1, 2012, chant slogans inside a cage during their trial at a court house in Cairo Egypt, Tuesday, April 17, 2012. Death sentences over Egypt football massacre Al Jazeera
Egyptian protesters take cover as they clash with riot police, not seen, near Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Jan. 25, 2013   Protests In Egypt Leave Several Dead On Anniversary Of Uprising The Inquisitr
Egyptian protesters pull barbed wires during a protest in front of the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Jan. 25, 2013. Nine killed, hundreds wounded on 2nd anniversary of Egypt uprising Ha'aretz
A Congolese policeman in riot gear keeps an eye on Goma residents including street children who gathered for an anti Kabila demonstration supported by the M23 rebel movement in Goma, eastern Congo, Wednesday Nov. 28, 2012. UN 'plans to fight rebels in DRC' BBC News
File - Indian peacekeepers with the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), deployed to the country's North Kivu Province, stand guard over Bunagana and the rebel stronghold of Runyonyi, as fighting continues between the M23 splinter group and Government FARDC forces, 23 May, 2012. UN to expand DR Congo peacekeeping mission Al Jazeera
Egyptian protesters throw stones at riot police, not seen, and use scrap metal to deflect stones being returned by security forces during clashes near Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Jan. 25, 2013. Street-Level Views of Protests in Cairo to Mark Two Years of Revolution The New York Times
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US protests against ‘State of Palestine’ placard in UN US protests against ‘State of Palestine’ placard in UN Khaleej Times
Bilateral meeting between NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and the Jordanian Foreign Foreign Minister, Mr. Nasser Judeh, at NATO Headquarters. Jordan reels over Syrian refugee crisis Al Jazeera
File - A staff sergeant marshalls an MQ-9 Reaper after it returned from a mission Dec. 1, 2010, at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan. UN launches major investigation into civilian drone deaths Antiwar
A worker rides a bike in front of the reactor building of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, just outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran, Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010. Iran nuclear power plant stokes worries closer to home, too Daily Press
Japan's new Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a press conference at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012. Kishida, 55, is an expert on issues relating to frictions on the southern island of Okinawa between local residents and the nearly 20,000 U.S. troops based there. Kishida was in charge of territorial issues in Abe's previous administration of 2006-2007. A former banker, he entered politics to inherit the constituency of his father. Japan appreciates UN resolution on DPRK rocket launch: FM CNTV
Karzai at the 2011 Afghan Independence Day in Kabul, which is held every year on 19 August to commemorate Afghanistan's independence from British control over its foreign affairs. Karzai calls for prison torture investigation Al Jazeera
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