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Mubarak says 'history will view me fairly'
Full Article Al Jazeera
12 May 2013

In his first interaction with the media since he was removed from power in February 2011, Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's former leader, has said President Mohamed Morsi faces a difficult job and it is too early to judge his performance. Mubarak made the comments in an interview with the newspaper El-Watan on Saturday. "He is a new president who...

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In this Saturday, April 13, 2013 file photo, former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak waves to his supporters from behind bars as he attends a hearing in his retrial on appeal in Cairo, Egypt.
photo: AP

updated 18 Jun 2011; published 18 Jun 2011
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Per. 2 Ap World History takes Mubarak
updated 22 Jun 2011; published 22 Jun 2011
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Per.2 ApWH Takes Mubarak (2)
updated 03 Dec 2012; published 28 Nov 2012
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FOX NEWS: Journalists in Gaza claim Israel targeted them as militants
updated 15 Apr 2013; published 16 Jan 2013
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Egypt: Block of flats collapse 14 dead
updated 22 Feb 2013; published 14 Jan 2011
28:47
Valemount LIVE Ep 55 Wintervention Year in review
updated 14 Mar 2011; published 25 Dec 2010
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Prof Yashpal on the failure of GSLV-5P Satellite (25dec 2010)
Turkey Warns Syria Over Car Bomb Attacks
Full Article Skynews
12 May 2013

Turkey has said it reserves the right to take "every kind of measure" after car bomb attacks killed 43 people near the border with Syria. The explosions in the town of Reyhanli were caused by two car bombs. The bombs ripped into crowded streets near Reyhanli's shopping district in the early afternoon, scattering concrete blocks, smashing cars...

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The site of one of the explosions after several explosions killed at least 40 people and injured dozens in Reyhanli, near Turkey's border with Syria, Saturday, May 11, 2013, Turkish Interior Minister Muammer Guler said.
photo: AP / IHA

updated 12 May 2013; published 11 May 2013
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Turkey: Second Car Bomb Explosion on Camera Bomb Attack Turkey ( Hatay Reyhanlı ) 40 Killed
updated 11 May 2013; published 11 May 2013
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Aftermath of two car bombs in the Turkish Reyhanli town near the border with Syria
updated 11 May 2013; published 11 May 2013
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40 dead in Turkey Car Bomb Explosion Near Syria border May 11, 2013 [RAW VIDEO]
updated 11 May 2013; published 11 May 2013
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Bomb Attack Turkey ( Hatay Reyhanlı ) 40 Killed [Deadly explosions on Turkey's border]
updated 11 May 2013; published 11 May 2013
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LATEST NEWS - Blasts kill dozens in Turkish town Reyhanli on Syria border
updated 11 May 2013; published 11 May 2013
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Two cars bombs attacked at Reyhanli in Turkey near Syrian border, at least four people killed
Pak votes for change, Nawaz Sharif set for third term as Pak PM
Full Article The Times of India
12 May 2013

ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: Nawaz Sharif is set for a third term as Pakistan's Prime Minister as his PML-N party took a massive lead over its rivals in early poll results, making a remarkable comeback from being toppled in a military coup and sent into exile. Official results were emerging slowly early on Sunday morning but TV projections suggested no single...

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Nawaz Sharif set for third term as Pak PM
photo: AP / Anjum Naveed

updated 12 May 2013; published 12 May 2013
3:40
Pakistan Election: Nawaz Sharif set for third term as PM
updated 12 May 2013; published 12 May 2013
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Pak polls: Nawaz Sharif stages comeback but still short of majority
updated 12 May 2013; published 12 May 2013
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Pak polls: Sharif set for third term as Pak PM
updated 12 May 2013; published 12 May 2013
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Pakistan Election: Nawaz Sharif ki vapsi ka Jashn
updated 12 May 2013; published 12 May 2013
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Pakistan Election: Nawaz Sharif set for third term as PM
updated 12 May 2013; published 12 May 2013
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Pakistan Election: Nawaz Sharif set to win
Pakistan election: Nawaz Sharif 'set for victory'
Full Article BBC News
12 May 2013

Former Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif is celebrating with his supporters, amid early signs that his party will be the largest after parliamentary elections. Media projections based on partial results suggest a big lead for Mr Sharif's Muslim League, and he has already claimed victory. The election should lead to the country's first transition...

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Former Prime Minister and leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-N party Nawaz Sharif waves to his supporters at a party office in Lahore, Pakistan, Saturday, May 11, 2013.
photo: AP / K.M. Chaudary

updated 12 May 2013; published 12 May 2013
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Pakistan Election: Nawaz Sharif claims victory
updated 12 May 2013; published 12 May 2013
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Pakistan Election: Nawaz Sharif set for third term as PM
updated 12 May 2013; published 12 May 2013
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Pak polls: Nawaz Sharif stages comeback but still short of majority
updated 12 May 2013; published 12 May 2013
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NewsX: Top News of this hour
updated 11 May 2013; published 11 May 2013
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Pakistan's Nawaz Sharif declared victory in Pakistani general election, 2013
updated 12 May 2013; published 12 May 2013
1:39
Pakistan election Nawaz Sharif's Muslim League celebrating victory
Rafsanjani's last-minute entry transforms Iranian presidential race
Full Article The Times of India
11 May 2013

DUBAI: Former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani threw himself into Iran's election race on Saturday as a flurry of heavyweight candidates rushed to beat the registration deadline in the most unpredictable contest for decades. Iranian media reported that Rafsanjani — a relative moderate — had registered for the June 14 presidential election with...

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Former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani waves to reporters, as he registers his candidacy for the upcoming presidential election, at the election headquarters of the interior ministry in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, May 11, 2013.
photo: AP / Ebrahim Noroozi

updated 11 May 2013; published 11 May 2013
5:18
Main figures enter Iran's presidential race
updated 27 Dec 2012; published 27 Dec 2012
3:15
Hashemi Rafsanjani and 2013 elections in Iran.
updated 20 Mar 2013; published 20 Mar 2013
1:34
Iran TV predicts election plans of Ahmadinejad and Rafsanjani
updated 18 Sep 2009; published 18 Sep 2009
6:00
1989 Iranian Presidential Elections
updated 31 Dec 2011; published 31 Dec 2011
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Iranian authorities block access to former President Rafsanjani's website
updated 02 Jan 2012; published 02 Jan 2012
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P4 Freedom of Thought and Speech in Islamic Iran, What the Problem
Guatemalans hail historic genocide verdict
Full Article Al Jazeera
11 May 2013

- For the first time in history, a former head of state has been found guilty of genocide for crimes committed in the country itself, marking the biggest successful prosecution in Latin America. When Efrain Rios Montt seized control of the country in a March 1982 coup, it gave way to the bloodiest period of Guatemala's 36-year-civil war....

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Guatemala's former dictator Jose Efrain Rios Montt speaks during his genocide trial in Guatemala City, Thursday, May 9, 2013.
photo: AP / Moises Castillo

updated 09 May 2013; published 09 May 2013
4:51
Prosecutors Seek 75-Year Sentence for U.S.-Backed Guatemalan Dictator Ríos Montt in Genocide Trial
updated 19 Apr 2013; published 19 Apr 2013
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Genocide Trial of Former Dictator Ríos Montt Suspended After Intervention by Guatemalan President
updated 19 Apr 2013; published 19 Apr 2013
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Genocide Trial of Guatemala's Rios Montt
updated 19 Apr 2013; published 19 Apr 2013
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Genocide Trial of Former Dictator Ríos Montt Suspended After Intervention by Guatemalan President
updated 10 May 2013; published 10 May 2013
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Despite Evidence of Massacres, Former Guatemalan Dictator Proclaims Innocence at Genocide Trial
updated 11 May 2013; published 11 May 2013
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Guatemala court finds former dictator guilty of genocide
Pakistanis vote in landmark, unpredictable election
Full Article Fox News
11 May 2013

May 10, 2013: Pakistani election staff carry ballot boxes for tomorrow;s elections in Islamabad, Pakistan.AP ISLAMABAD – Despite a bloody campaign marred by Taliban attacks, Pakistan was holding historic elections Saturday pitting a former cricket star against a two-time prime minister once exiled by the army and an incumbent blamed for...

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Pakistani women clad in traditional burqa, or veil, cast their votes in Peshawar, Pakistan,
photo: AP / Mohammad Zuabair

updated 11 May 2013; published 11 May 2013
1:32
Pakistan elections: 85 million people to vote
updated 10 May 2013; published 10 May 2013
1:23
Pakistan's game-changing election
updated 11 May 2013; published 11 May 2013
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Voting hours extended in Pakistan's historic vote
updated 11 May 2013; published 11 May 2013
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Pakistan : Pak goes to Vote
updated 12 May 2013; published 11 May 2013
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Pakistanis vote amid deadly violence
updated 11 May 2013; published 11 May 2013
1:34
Pakistan Election voters face security threats
Carbon dioxide level passes feared milestone
Full Article Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
11 May 2013

The level of the most important heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere, carbon dioxide, has passed a long-feared milestone, scientists reported Friday, reaching a concentration not seen on the Earth for millions of years. Scientific monitors reported that the gas had reached an average daily level that surpassed 400 parts per million -- a sobering...

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File -  A chemical factory in Medico City polluting the air, 1972. Pollution of the environment has become so widespread that all forms of life are threatened.
photo: UN / F Botts

updated 31 May 2012; published 31 May 2012
1:51
Warming Gas Levels Hit 'Troubling Milestone'
updated 11 May 2013; published 11 May 2013
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Carbon dioxide levels pass symbolic mark...
updated 05 May 2013; published 05 May 2013
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Economy and Prepper Strategy plus general ranting
updated 09 May 2013; published 09 May 2013
2:11
Kanary Diamonds Pour It Up Freestyle)_DigitalDripped.com
updated 11 May 2013; published 11 May 2013
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carbondioxide-level-passes-long-feared-milestone
updated 11 May 2013; published 11 May 2013
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Age of consent should be 13, says barrister and I'm wearing a Totoro onesie
Former Guatemala dictator Rios Montt found guilty of genocide
Full Article Daily Press
11 May 2013

MEXICO CITY -- Efrain Rios Montt, the former Guatemalan military dictator who ruled his country during one of the bloodiest phases of its civil war, was found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity Friday for the systematic massacre and displacement of ethnic Mayan people. He was sentenced to 80 years in prison. The landmark ruling by a...

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Guatemala's former dictator Jose Efrain Rios Montt, left, smiles as he attends his hearing in Guatemala City, Monday, Jan. 28, 2013.
photo: AP / Moises Castillo

updated 11 May 2013; published 11 May 2013
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Former Guatemala leader convicted of genocide
updated 11 May 2013; published 11 May 2013
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Guatemala court finds former dictator guilty of genocide
updated 11 May 2013; published 11 May 2013
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Efrain Rios Montt GUILTY OF GENOCIDE Former Guatemala Dictator Against Ixil Mayans
updated 11 May 2013; published 11 May 2013
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Former Guatemala Dictator Rios Montt Convicted of Genocide
updated 11 May 2013; published 11 May 2013
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Former Guatemala dictator Rios Montt found guilty of genocide
updated 11 May 2013; published 11 May 2013
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GUILTY OF GENOCIDE Efrain Rios Montt - Former Guatemala Dictator Against Ixil Mayans
Beware of Turning Away Immigrant Einsteins
Full Article WorldNews.com
10 May 2013

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Perhaps a backlash against newly arrived non-indigenous immigrants is justifiable, especially in reference to the recent Boston Marathon Bombing. And maybe there are a few non-native immigrants that take advantage of social uplift programs, or that commit crimes. But generally speaking, the United...

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Albert Einstein and Robert Oppenheimer in a posed photograph at the Institute for Advanced Study. The two did not in reality have much in common and did not get along.
photo: US Govt. Defense Threat Reduction Agency

updated 05 Aug 2012; published 05 Aug 2012
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Dr. West at Einstein's Alley Smart Immigration Conference FV2
updated 12 Apr 2013; published 12 Apr 2013
9:36
Top 5 ways anti-immigrant hate makes its way into media and policy
updated 15 Jun 2011; published 15 Jun 2011
1:26
Bloomberg: U.S. Immigration System Causing 'National Suicide'
updated 27 Aug 2012; published 27 Aug 2012
1:57
Could Immigration Policy Deport the Next Albert Einstein?
updated 01 Jun 2012; published 01 Jun 2012
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Schloss Einstein Folge 502
updated 07 Mar 2013; published 07 Mar 2013
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2013 H-1B Immigrant Visa Quota

Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - With the Dow and the S&P; 500 setting another string of record closing highs this week, the old Wall Street adage "Sell in May and Go Away" is starting to look...
CounterPunch
In the vast and ever expanding firmament of Western Human Rights NGO’s, PEN, America Center, the writers’ organization, is far from the most luminous and ordinarily barely visible....
The Examiner
Clearly, any attempt to explain or deny the reality of violence would be foolish indeed when raw emotion is what we are in touch with. Living in the face of violence is not a...

U.N. LAND MINE TEAM KIDNAPPED
KABUL, AfghanistanUnidentified kidnappers have abducted 11 Afghans working in a U.N.-affiliated land mine-clearing program in the east of the country, officials said Saturday. The 11 were taken Thursday in a remote part of Nangarhar province,...
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Iran's top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili delivers a speech in front of the former US Embassy, during an annual state-backed rally, on Friday, Nov. 4, 2011, marking the anniversary of the seizure of the US Embassy by militant students on Nov. 4, 1979, when militant Iranian students who believed the embassy was a center of plots against the Persian country held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days. The US severed diplomatic ties in response, and the two countries have not had formal relations since. Iran's top nuclear negotiator says Iran plans to complain to the United Nations about U.S. "terror" operations, including killing its nuclear scientists. He said Iran's U.N. ambassador will present "documents of U.S. terror plots against Iran" to the U.N. on Friday. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
TEHRAN, May 11 (Xinhua) -- To many's surprise, Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili made an announcement on Saturday about his decision to run for the country's upcoming presidential contest. Earlier in the day, he appeared in Iran's Interior...
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Military ambush: Soldiers should not victimize their fellow troops
The biggest threat these days to unit cohesion in the U.S. military is the tolerance for sexual assaults in the ranks. A Pentagon report released Tuesday underscored the seriousness of the problem. Last year, the Defense Department recorded 3,374...
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Afghan newspapers disclose Kabul-Washington bargaining over security pact
KABUL, May 11 (Xinhua) -- The Afghan newspapers gave coverage to the ongoing talks between Kabul and Washington and bargaining over inking security pact and staying of limited U.S. military in Afghanistan after the 2014 withdrawal of NATO-led forces,...
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Ahmet Davutoglu, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Turkey during the High Level Segment of the  22nd Session of the Human Rights Council. 25 February 2013. Photo by Jean-Marc Ferré
Turkey has warned it will take any necessary measure to protect itself after two car bombs exploded in a town on its border with Syria. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu vowed to catch those behind the attack, adding: "Nothing will go...
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In this Tuesday Feb. 14, 2012 file photo, Libyan militia members from towns throughout the country's west parade through Tripoli, Libya.
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Gunmen ended a nearly two-week siege of Libya's Foreign Ministry in the capital after reaching a deal with the government, its Supreme Security Committee said late on Saturday. In the oil-rich east, meanwhile, hundreds of leaders...
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Economic malpractice: time for a moral crusade against tax scams
Africa is on the crest of a global commodities boom. Mozambique and Tanzania are emerging as major exporters of natural gas; Guinea and Sierra Leone have iron ore; while in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, cobalt mining is booming. Strong demand...
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