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File - French President Francois Hollande, right, gestures as he speaks during a joint news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following their meeting at the Elysee Palace, Paris, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012.
French Secularism   Mideast Peace   Nuclear Iran   Photos   Wikipedia: Laïcité
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French Secularists Remain Tough on Islam
Thu 17 Oct 2013
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Promises by France's President Francois Hollande to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, that his nation would remain "tough" on Iran's Islamic... (photo: AP / Jacques Brinon)
Indian children, working at a roadside hotel, carry a table in Hyderabad, India, Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012.
Global Slavery Index   Modern Slavery   Photos   Walk Free Foundation   Wikipedia : Modern Slavery   World
 Voa News 
Report: 30 Million People Enslaved Worldwide
Thu 17 Oct 2013
Anita Powell JOHANNESBURG — The Australian-based Walk Free Foundation has released its first-ever Global Slavery Index - a ranking of 162 countries by their prevalence of modern slavery. The Index... (photo: AP / Mahesh Kumar A.)
England soccer manager Roy Hodgson smiles during a press conference, Chandler's Cross, England, Monday Sept. 10, 2012. England will play against Ukraine in a group H world cup qualifying match at Wembley, London on Tuesday.  Goal  Thu 17 Oct 2013
England among second seeds for World Cup 2014
Roy Hodgson's men will have to settle for pot two, as must Euro 2012 runners-up Italy, while Netherlands are also unlikely to be seeded for next year's tournament in Brazil England will not be among... (photo: AP / Tom Hevezi)
England   Photos   Sportstars   Wikipedia: Roy Hodgson   World Cup
File - Women in Sharga, North Darfur, Sudan, prepare food at the village’s SAFE Centre during a visit from a delegation of European Union ambassadors, 18 October, 2012.  Al Jazeera  Thu 17 Oct 2013
Fiddling in Rome while our food burns
Rumour has it that the Roman emperor Nero played a fiddle and sang while Rome burned for five days in the Great Fire of 64. Nearly 2000 years later, at the very site where this devastating fire... (photo: UN / Albert González Farran)
Biofuel   Food Security   Photos   UN   Wikipedia: Food vs. fuel
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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny grimaces as he listens in a court room in Kirov, Russia, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013. A Russian courthouse in Kirov set Navalny free in July, the day after he was convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to five years in prison. Navalny has appealed both the conviction and the sentence. BBC News Wed 16 Oct 2013
Alexei Navalny appeal hearing opens
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has begun his appeal against a five-year prison sentence in a court the... (photo: AP / Evgeny Feldman)
Europe   Justice   Photos   Russia   Wikipedia: Alexei Navalny
Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron speaking to the media outside 10 Downing Street in London, Thursday, May 23, 2013. Belfast Telegraph Wed 16 Oct 2013
PM urged to examine foodbank use
David Cameron has come under pressure to launch an inquiry into why people are turning to foodbanks as demand for emergency supplies continues to surge. More than 350,000... (photo: AP / Alastair Grant)
Europe   Photos   Politics   UK   Wikipedia: David Cameron
Portugal’s coach Paulo Bento attends a press conference after their training in Guimaraes, Portugal, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013. Portugal will play Ecuador in a friendly soccer match next Wednesday, Feb. 6. Goal Wed 16 Oct 2013
Bento: Portugal should have finished first
The Seleccao coach thinks that Russia deserve automatic qualification but has no doubt that his players possess the quality to have avoided the play-offs Paulo Bento was... (photo: AP / Paulo Duarte)
Football   Photos   Portugal   Sports   Wikipedia: Paulo Bento
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. Daily Press Wed 16 Oct 2013
Japan's foreign minister may visit Iran next month: Nikkei
(Reuters) - Japan's foreign minister, Fumio Kishida, may visit Iran as early as November, the first such visit in more than four years, in an attempt to resolve the... (photo: AP / Shizuo Kambayashi)
Fumio Kishida   Iran Nuclear Talks   Nikkei   Photos   Wikipedia: Nuclear program of Iran
A woman walks past the embassy of the Netherlands in Moscow, Russia, on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013. BBC News Wed 16 Oct 2013
Dutch diplomat attacked in Russia
A senior diplomat at the Dutch embassy in Moscow has been beaten up in his flat, days after a spat involving a Russian official in The Hague. The diplomat, named by... (photo: AP / Ivan Sekretarev)
Attack   Dutch Embassy   Photos   Russia   Wikipedia: Netherlands–Russia relations
Crude oil traders work in the half empty pit on the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange, in this Feb. 21, 2008 file photo. The parent company of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade on Monday, March 17, 2008 said that it would buy the owner of the New York Mercantile Exchange in a cash-and-stock deal valued at almost $9.5 billion. NZ Herald Tue 15 Oct 2013
Oil falls toward $101 as US debt deal awaited
Oil fell toward $101 a barrel Tuesday as negotiations on Iran's nuclear program got under way in Geneva, and U.S. lawmakers tried to hammer out an agreement to raise the... (photo: AP / Stephen Chernin, file)
2013 US Debt Ceiling   Nymex   Oil Stock   Photos   Wikipedia : United States debt-ceiling crisis of 2013   Wikipedia: Price of petroleum


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