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By Bob Dreyfuss Put in context, the simultaneous raids in Libya and Somalia last month, targeting an alleged al-Qaeda fugitive and an alleged kingpin of the al-Shabab Islamist...
Goal
Roma can make it 10 victories from 10 against Chievo on Thursday - a Serie A record start - and, with this in mind, Goal takes a look at the top domestic winning runs in Europe...
Asia Times
By Jiwan Kshetry Speaking Freely is an Asia Times Online feature that allows guest writers to have their say. if you are interested in contributing. The Global Slavery Index...

US Report: Afghan Forces Effective But Need Help
The United States says Afghan soldiers and police are sustaining the gains made by NATO forces during a troop surge two years ago, but they will require more support to be successful in the long run. That is the view of U.S. Defense...
photo: US Army / Clay Beyersdorfer
Hotspot issues in Africa, Middle East remain UN Security Council focus
UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- Hotspot issues in Africa and the Middle East continued to be the focus of the UN Security Council in the past year, the rotating president of the council said on Thursday. Liu Jieyi, also China's permanent...
photo: UN / Tobin Jones
World's 'most flagrant abusers' set to join UN Human Rights Council
Saudi Arabia, China, Cuba, Vietnam, Russia – sounds like a list of countries targeted by international nongovernmental organizations for gross violations of human rights. Well, yes, it’s that, too. But it’s also a partial list of the countries that...
photo: UN / Evan Schneider
Draghi: euro zone won't be fixed by weakening strong members
HAMBURG (Reuters) - Economic imbalances in the euro zone must be overcome but without weakening the bloc's strongest economies, European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said on Thursday. Draghi said policymakers should not harm Germany's...
photo: European Community / EC
blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2013.
The 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic torch has been blasted into space on a rocket, where cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin will take the historic flame on its first ever spacewalk. The torch cannot be lit in space, of course, and will not burn inside the capsule or...
photo: AP / Dmitry Lovetsky
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks to the assembly of the 37th session of the General Conference of Unesco, or United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in Paris, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2013.
As negotiations begin in Geneva, Mohammad Javad Zarif says 'only a few more steps' needed to reach agreement Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant in the south of the country. Photograph: Majid Asgaripour/AP Iranian negotiators are entering new round of...
photo: AP / Michel Euler
In this Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011 file photo, Emomali Rakhmon, President of Tajikistan,
Tajikistan's President Imomali Rakhmon has won a new seven-year term in Wednesday's election, receiving 83.1 percent of the vote after all ballots were counted, according to the country's Central Election Commission (CEC). Rakhmon, 61,...
photo: AP / Gero Breloer