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UN presses Syria to allow gas attack inspection
Full Article Otago Daily Times
23 Aug 2013

The United Nations has demanded Syria give its chemical weapons experts immediate access to rebel-held Damascus suburbs where poison gas appears to have killed hundreds just a few miles from the UN team's hotel. There was no sign, however, that scientists would soon be taking samples at the scene of horrors that have drawn comparison with the...
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This citizen journalism image provided by the Local Committee of Arbeen which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a Syrian girl receiving treatment at a makeshift hospital in Arbeen town, Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013.
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updated 21 Aug 2013; published 21 Aug 2013
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Syria: Hundreds Killed in 'Toxic Gas Attack' Near Damascus
updated 21 Aug 2013; published 21 Aug 2013
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Syria war: a very large scale attack with alleged chemical weapons
updated 22 Aug 2013; published 22 Aug 2013
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Horrific aftermath of chemical gas attack in Damascus
updated 21 Aug 2013; published 21 Aug 2013
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Syrian Rebels: '1,300 Killed in Gas Attack' | 'Chemical Weapons Attack' in Syria
updated 21 Aug 2013; published 21 Aug 2013
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Syrian chemical weapons attack claims: Assad accused of deadly chemical attack in Damascus
updated 21 Aug 2013; published 21 Aug 2013
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Syrian Rebels '1,300 Killed In Gas Attack'
Obama's thick red line on Syria
Full Article BBC News
22 Aug 2013

A year ago President Barack Obama gave a speech saying that if the Assad regime used chemical weapons, that would cross a red line and change his calculations. Has that red line now been crossed? The simple answer is that we don't yet know. And one opportunity to find out more will now pass us by. The president's main military adviser has...
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File - President Barack Obama meets with his national security team on Afghanistan and Pakistan in the Situation Room of the White House, April 25, 2011.
photo: White House / Pete Souza

updated 20 May 2012; published 20 May 2012
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In Performance at the White House: Red, White and Blues - President Obama Welcomes Guests (2012)
updated 15 Oct 2012; published 15 Oct 2012
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President Obama(Song) 2012-Written By Red Carpet** I'M still Nowhere-Offical Vid!!!
updated 24 Sep 2009; published 24 Sep 2009
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Chinese Flag Raising By The White House - Red China Flag Over Washington - Legacy of President Obama
updated 31 Jul 2013; published 31 Jul 2013
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Obama Protesters Were Out in Force
updated 14 Jun 2013; published 14 Jun 2013
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Russia will greet US arming of Syria rebels 'with horror'
updated 26 Apr 2012; published 26 Apr 2012
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How Cool is President Obama? -- "Red Eye" -- 4-26-12
Robert Mugabe Sworn In For New Term As Zimbabwe's President
Full Article Huffington Post
22 Aug 2013

HARARE, Zimbabwe — President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, 89, was sworn in Thursday for another five-year term after disputed elections in which the opposition alleged widespread vote-rigging. Mugabe dismissed charges of voting fraud, criticized Western powers, vowed to press ahead with black ownership of white and foreign-owned companies and...
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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe delivers a speech following his inauguration in Harare, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013.
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updated 22 Aug 2013; published 22 Aug 2013
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Zimbabwe: Mugabe sworn in for another five years as president
updated 22 Aug 2013; published 22 Aug 2013
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Zimbabwe - Robert Mugabe sworn-in as president
updated 21 Aug 2013; published 21 Aug 2013
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TANZANIA FORMER PRESIDENTS MWINYI AND MKAPA IN HARARE FOR MUGABE SWEARING
updated 22 Aug 2013; published 22 Aug 2013
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RAW VIDEO: Zimbabwe's President Mugabe Sworn in for New Term
updated 22 Aug 2013; published 22 Aug 2013
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Robert Mugabe Sworn In For Seventh Term
updated 12 Aug 2013; published 12 Aug 2013
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Mugabe Claims Victory In Zimbabwean Presidential Elections?
A 'Liberated' Democracy to Die For
Full Article WorldNews.com
22 Aug 2013

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. Even democracies need liberated, that is, to be truly set free from traditional constraints and socially engineered mindsets steeped in years of political and economic bondage. Unlike many of today's passive and irresponsible democracies barely existing-those which every few years permit their...
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Egyptian protesters argue with military police during a rally in Cairo's Tahrir Square, Egypt, Friday, March 18, 2011, as demonstrators call for a "no" vote in Saturday's referendum on constitutional amendments. A package of key constitutional amendments sponsored by Egypt's ruling military will be put to a nationwide vote Saturday.
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updated 03 Jun 2013; published 03 Jun 2013
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Muslim Brotherhood - Wiki Article
updated 25 Jan 2012; published 25 Jan 2012
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The Muslim Brotherhood - Egypt, October 2005
updated 28 May 2012; published 28 May 2012
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Egyptian Cleric Safwat Higazi- Muslim Brotherhood Presidential Candidate Will Liberate Jerusalem.
updated 16 Feb 2011; published 16 Feb 2011
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CNN: Muslim Brotherhood, What's next?
updated 10 Jul 2011; published 10 Jul 2011
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In Memory of Robert F. Kennedy assassinated by PLO!! The Muslim Brotherhood is not our Friend!!
updated 14 Apr 2011; published 14 Apr 2011
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Robert Spencer discusses the Muslim Brotherhood, Glenn Beck Show, Fox News, April 14, 2011
Syria: Call For 'Force' If Chemicals Proven
Full Article Skynews
22 Aug 2013

France is seeking a reaction with "force" if a massacre in Syria involving chemical weapons is confirmed, its foreign minister has said. "If it is proven, France's position is that there must be a reaction, a reaction that could take the form of a reaction with force," Laurent Fabius told BFM-TV. "There are possibilities for...
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In this citizen journalism photo provided by the Local Committee of Arbeen, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a man and woman mourn over the dead bodies of Syrian men after an alleged poisonous gas attack fired by regime forces, according to activists in Arbeen town, Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013.
photo: AP / Local Committee of Arbeen

updated 22 Aug 2013; published 22 Aug 2013
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Syria: Force Threat Over Syria's 'Chemical Massacre' | Call For 'Force' If Chemicals Proven
updated 14 Jun 2013; published 14 Jun 2013
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CONFIRMED: Chemical Weapons Used In Syria
updated 11 Jun 2012; published 11 Jun 2012
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Syria Responds to Chemical Weapon Threat Through Escalation of Force
updated 22 Aug 2013; published 22 Aug 2013
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Syria Call For 'Force' If Chemicals Proven
updated 26 Apr 2013; published 26 Apr 2013
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USA Suggests the Use of Chemical Weapons in the Syria
updated 08 Dec 2012; published 08 Dec 2012
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FOX NEWS: What chemical weapons could Syria use
President Robert Mugabe to be sworn in as Zimbabwe leader today
Full Article The Independent
22 Aug 2013

President Robert Mugabe is due to be sworn in today for a seventh term as Zimbabwe's leader. Thursday has been declared a public bank holiday to allow his supporters to attend the ceremony. Mr Mugabe won the election with a landslide 61 per cent of the total votes against...
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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe , delivers his speech at the launch of his party's election campaign in Harare, Friday, July, 5, 2013.
photo: AP / Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi

updated 22 Aug 2013; published 22 Aug 2013
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Zimbabwe: Mugabe sworn in for another five years as president
updated 22 Aug 2013; published 22 Aug 2013
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Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe Sworn In As President
updated 22 Aug 2013; published 22 Aug 2013
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Zimbabwe: Robert Mugabe Sworn In As President - Today's News
updated 22 Aug 2013; published 22 Aug 2013
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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe Sworn in for New Five Year Term
updated 22 Aug 2013; published 22 Aug 2013
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Robert Mugabe is sworn in as president of Zimbabwe for seventh term -- VOA60 Africa
updated 22 Aug 2013; published 22 Aug 2013
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Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe sworn in as president
House arrest for ex-leader Mubarak
Full Article London Evening Standard
22 Aug 2013

The announcement came hours after a court ordered Mubarak be released for the first time since he was first detained in April 2011, a move threatening to further stoke tension in a deeply divided Egypt. Many feared Mubarak's release would amplify Islamist allegations that last month's military coup was a step toward restoring the old regime. Prime...
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In this Saturday, June 2, 2012 file photo, Egypt's ex-President Hosni Mubarak lays on a gurney inside a barred cage in the police academy courthouse in Cairo, Egypt.
photo: AP

updated 22 Aug 2013; published 22 Aug 2013
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Report Mubarak taken from prison to house arrest
updated 22 Aug 2013; published 22 Aug 2013
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Egypt Hosni Mubarak Released From Prison
updated 22 Aug 2013; published 22 Aug 2013
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Egypt s Hosni Mubarak faces house arrest following release
updated 22 Aug 2013; published 22 Aug 2013
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Egypt s Mubarak flown from prison to hospital
updated 22 Aug 2013; published 22 Aug 2013
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Hosni Mubarak to be released from prison within hours
updated 22 Aug 2013; published 22 Aug 2013
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Hosni Mubarak released from prison and flown to Cairo military hospital
Mistrust between U.S., Syrian rebels hinders military aid
Full Article CNN
21 Aug 2013

August 21, 2013 -- Updated 1722 GMT (0122 HKT) Washington (CNN) -- The Obama administration is likely to come under new pressure to take more decisive steps in Syria following opposition claims that Bashar al-Assad's government used chemical weapons to kill hundreds of people. While the regime denied the fresh accusations and CNN could not verify...
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In this citizen journalism image provided by the Media Office Of Douma City, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a Syrian man mourns over a dead body after an alleged poisonous gas attack fired by regime forces, according to activists, in Douma town, Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013.
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updated 22 Aug 2013; published 22 Aug 2013
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Mistrust between U S , Syrian rebels hinders military aid
updated 16 Jun 2013; published 16 Jun 2013
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Challenges For America! - U.S. To Supply Military Aid To Syria Rebels - AMB John Bolton
updated 29 May 2013; published 29 May 2013
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Syrian Rebels: Arm them today, fight them tomorrow?
updated 25 Oct 2012; published 25 Oct 2012
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A Considered Approach to Syria
updated 12 Apr 2012; published 12 Apr 2012
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Ceasefire in Syria: Assad, rebels hold fire as deadline arrives
updated 03 Mar 2012; published 03 Mar 2012
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Syrian forces pound Homs, block aid convoy
Mubarak, Egypt's 'Pharaoh', ordered freed from jail
Full Article Baltimore Sun
21 Aug 2013

CAIRO (Reuters) - When President Hosni Mubarak was toppled in a 2011 revolt and later jailed, Egyptians who rose up against him hoped he would be a convict for life, or executed. However, an Egyptian court ordered Mubarak's release on Wednesday, his lawyer said, meaning he could leave prison on Thursday as there are no longer any legal grounds for...
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File - Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, center, listens to proceedings from inside the defendant cage while flanked by his sons Alaa, left and Gamal, right, in a courtroom in Cairo, Saturday, July 6, 2013.
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updated 12 May 2013; published 12 May 2013
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Mubarak back in court for retrial
updated 24 Oct 2012; published 24 Oct 2012
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Is Egypt's Hosni Mubarak only gone in name?-Africa Today-10-23-2012
updated 10 Feb 2011; published 10 Feb 2011
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Egypt protests, Tahrir square, the final Pharaoh
updated 06 Dec 2012; published 06 Dec 2012
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Hundreds call on Morsi to step down
updated 03 Jun 2013; published 03 Jun 2013
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Anonymous - Operation Egypt #opEgypt
updated 14 Aug 2013; published 14 Aug 2013
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Egypt Coup Crisis: Bloodshed reported in Cairo as troops clear pro-Morsi Islamist protest camp
Bradley Manning's 35-year sentence is a halfway house
Full Article BBC News
21 Aug 2013

It will be little consolation to the slight, young soldier whose face didn't flicker as sentence was passed, but the judge went for a halfway house - 35 years in prison. Not the 60 years demanded by the prosecution, nearer the 25 asked for by the defence. Although Pte First Class Bradley Manning's supporters are angry at his treatment -...
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Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted into a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013, before a sentencing hearing in his court martial.
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updated 05 Aug 2013; published 30 Jul 2013
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Manning Not Guilty of Aiding the Enemy But Faces 130 Years in Prison
updated 17 Jul 2013; published 13 Jul 2013
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Prisons Bureau banned activist Tim DeChristopher from dangerous acts of social justice
updated 13 Jul 2013; published 13 Jun 2013
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Piers Morgan Uses Grandma Shooting Intruder to Prove We Don't Need Assault Weapons
updated 18 Feb 2013; published 18 Feb 2013
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Christopher Dorner's Manifesto to Anderson Cooper, CNN: WHISTLEBLOWER (Part 2)
updated 04 Oct 2012; published 24 Dec 2010
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Cenk's Julian Assange Interview
updated 09 Aug 2013; published 05 Dec 2011
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Why is UAE Harboring Blackwater's War Criminal Crusader Erik Prince?

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Is Mugabe an Entrenched Leader or a Changed Man?
Voa News
Anita Powell JOHANNESBURG — Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has been sworn in after another election that critics and observers say was marred. Mugabe was unapologetic as he...
The Globalization of Militarism
CounterPunch
Events in Egypt take on cosmic significance as the forward edge of world counterrevolution. Not simply an eruption, a slightly more strident form of business-as-usual, but...
Snowden reporter: Won't be silenced by detention
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SHARECONNECTTWEETCOMMENTEMAILMORE LONDON (AP) - The American journalist who has written stories based on leaked documents from former National Security Agency contractor Edward...

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Staff Sgt. Bales apologizes for Afghan massacre
Television trucks are parked Monday, Nov. 5, 2012, near the barricaded road outside the building housing a military courtroom on Joint Base Lewis McChord in Washington state, where a preliminary hearing began Monday for U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales.
Dayton Daily News
The U.S. soldier who massacred 16 Afghan civilians during pre-dawn raids last year apologized for the first time for his "act of cowardice," but could not explain the atrocities to a military jury considering whether he should one day have a shot at...
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Insurgent attacks across Iraq kill at least 24
Civilians inspect the scene of a car bomb attack in the Kamaliyah neighborhood, a predominantly Shiite area of eastern Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 20, 2013.
Chicago Sun-Times
BAGHDAD (AP) — Insurgent attacks across Iraq, including a suicide bombing targeting a Shiite wedding party, killed at least 24 people Thursday, authorities said. Attacks have been on the rise in Iraq since a deadly security crackdown in April on a...
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Photos   Shiite Wedding   Suicide Attack   Terrorism in Iraq   Wikipedia: Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal)
Striking a Conciliatory Note, Mugabe Takes Oath of Office
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe arrives for the burial of a prominent member of his party, Misheck Chando, in Harare, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2009.
The New York Times
JOHANNESBURG — Robert G. Mugabe was sworn in as president of Zimbabwe on Thursday in a pomp-filled ceremony in the capital, Harare, that extends by five years his 33-year rule. Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international...
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Google Doodle celebrates influential composer Claude Debussy with Clair de lune sequence
The Blue Grotto French composer Claude Debussy was a regular visitor to Anacapri.
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Google has marked the 151st anniversary of the birth of French composer Claude Debussy with a musical doodle. The works of Achille-Claude Debussy were considered a seminal force in the classical music of the 20th Century. His highly influential and...
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China’s Bo Xilai Denies Taking Bribes
FILE - In this file photo taken on March 11, 2012, Chongqing party secretary Bo Xilai attends a plenary session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
Voa News
William Ide BEIJING — The trial of fallen political star Bo Xilai has begun in the eastern Chinese coastal city of Jinan - one of China’s biggest political cases in decades. And while direct access to the hearing has been tightly...
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Stocks Open Higher After Six Days of Declines
In this photo taken July 8, 2010, traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
The New York Times
NEW YORK — Encouraging news from Europe and China sent the stock market higher in early trading despite another batch of bleak earnings from retailers. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 36 points, or 0.2 percent, to 14,933 shortly after the...
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Pro-Morsi alliance calls for protest against Egyptian army
Supporters of ousted Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi chant slogans during a rally, in Nasser City, Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, July 4, 2013.
The Siasat Daily
Cairo, August 22: Supporters of Egypt's ousted president Mohamed Morsi called on the Egyptian people to protest against the army Friday. The National Alliance to Support Legitimacy, consisting of 33 Islamic movements, including the Muslim...
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