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President Barack Obama greets Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of Pakistan in the Oval Office prior to their bilateral meeting, Oct. 23, 2013.
Crimes   Drug   Photos   Washington   Wikipedia: Drug Enforcement Administration  
 Huffington Post 
Obama Commutes Sentences Of 8 People Convicted Of Drug Crimes
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is commuting the sentences of eight people he said were serving unduly harsh sentences for drug crimes. | Obama has commuted only one other sentence in the f... (photo: White House / Pete Souza)
File - A detainee prepares for the mid-day meal at Joint Task Force (JTF) Guantanamo.
Guantanamo Prison   Human Rights   Pentagon   Photos   Wikipedia: Guantanamo Bay detention camp  
 Al Jazeera 
Guantanamo's secretive review boards
There are 162 prisoners still held at Guantanamo. They fall into three categories: 84 were cleared for release in January 2010 by the high-level, inter-agency Guantanamo Review Task Force that US Pres... (photo: US Navy / MCS3 Joshua Nistas)
Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy speaks during a meeting with Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tuskat at the Moncloa Palace in Madrid, Spain, Monday July 15, 2013. Conservative Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is certain to face a barrage of questions in a press conference following newspaper publication of alleged text message exchanges between him and a now jailed former party treasurer that have prompted opposition demands for the premier to resign. El Mundo published Sunday what it said were friendly text messages between Rajoy and former Popular Party treasurer Luis Barcenas. Barcenas is at the heart of a probe into a slush-fund scheme that allegedly included payments to top party figures including Rajoy. He is to be quizzed by a judge in the case again Monday.  US News 
Spain to present new restrictive abortion law
Comment () Tweet | MADRID (AP) — Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy says his government is about to approve an abortion law that rolls back current legislation permitting the procedure without... (photo: AP / Andres Kudacki)
Abortion   Madrid   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Mariano Rajoy  
Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho seats between Foreign Minister Paulo Portas, left, and Finance Minister Maria Luis Albuquerque during the presentation of a no-confidence vote by the Green Party in the Portuguese parliament chamber in Lisbon Thursday, July 18 2013. The vote comes amid a political crisis in the coalition government sparked by a disagreement between Passos Coelho and Portas on the appointment of Albuquerque to replace the former finance minister.  US News 
Portugal scrambles to find new spending cuts
Comment () Tweet | LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal's prime minister says his government is looking for new savings to meet its budget targets next year after a court disallowed planned cuts in ... (photo: AP / Armando Franca)
Business   Economy   Lisbon   Photos   Wikipedia: Pedro Passos Coelho  
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News conference of Vladimir Putin Swissinfo
Putin says to pardon jailed tycoon Khodorkovsky
Energy Arab Spring | Reuters | December 19, 2013 - 15:07 | By Alexei Anishchuk and Timothy Heritage | MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin is to pardon one of his ... (photo: Russian Presidential Press and Information Office)
Business   Moscow   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Mikhail Khodorkovsky  
Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico listens to questions during a media conference at an EU summit in Brussels, Friday March 20, 2009. Swissinfo
Slovak PM Fico says will run for president next year
  | Reuters | December 18, 2013 - 15:17 | PRAGUE (Reuters) - Slovakia's leftist Prime Minister Robert Fico announced on Wednesday he would run in the country's presi... (photo: AP / Thierry Charlier)
Business   Elections   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Robert Fico  
Ronnie Biggs, one of Britain's most notorious criminals, attends a news conference to mark the release of his autobiography "Odd Man Out: The Last Straw", London, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011. Biggs was a member of a gang that stole 2.6 million pounds from a Glasgow-to-London mail train in August 1963, in what was called the "heist of the century." He spent decades in exile in Brazil before agreeing to return to Britain, and prison, in 2001. CNN
'Great Train Robber' Ronnie Biggs dies, aged 84
December 18, 2013 -- Updated 1136 GMT (1936 HKT) | FILE: Ronnie Biggs holds up a poster of himself during the promotion of his book on January 21, 1994 in Rio de Janeiro.... (photo: AP / Kirsty Wigglesworth)
British Criminal   London   Photos   Ronnie Bigg   Wikipedia: Ronnie Biggs  
Executive Directors of the World Bank at the EC Swissinfo
World Bank says $52 billion pledged to help poorest
Climate change | Reuters | December 17, 2013 - 18:33 | By Anna Yukhananov | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rich and emerging-market nations agreed to commit a record $52 billion ... (photo: EC / EC)
Bank   Financial Institute   Fund   Photos   Wikipedia: World Bank  
File - President Barack Obama talks with Michael Froman at the Working Dinner at the G8 Summit at the Deerhurst Resort in Muskoka, Canada, June 25, 2010. Fresno Bee
California groups report strategies, challenges of plugging Obamacare
Freebies and refreshments were effective enticement tools. | Wordy brochures and door hangers didn’t work as well. | Common themes emerged among the nonprofits, labo... (photo: White House / Pete Souza)
Challenges   Obamacare   Photos   Us   Wikipedia: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act  
In this photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis washes the foot of an inmate at the juvenile detention center of Casal del Marmo, Rome, Thursday, March 28, 2013. CounterPunch
Pope Francis I on Capitalism
Pope Francis I is no ideological jester. He should not fool any one at this point of time, nor is he attempting to. He is a formidable figure and has a sense of his enemi... (photo: AP / L'Osservatore Romano)
Argentina   Capitalism   Church   Photos   Wikipedia: Pope Francis  
Enrique Pena Nieto speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at the Los Pinos presidential residence in Mexico City, Monday, Dec. 10, 2012. Pena Nieto says he'll mount a "real fight" against production and trafficking of marijuana, despite its legalization in two U.S. states. Baltimore Sun
Mexico's president says he will enact energy reform soon
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - President Enrique Pena Nieto said on Monday he would soon enact a sweeping overhaul of Mexico's ailing energy sector which is aimed at boosting gr... (photo: AP / Dario Lopez-Mills)
Industry   Mexico   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Enrique Peña Nieto  
A U.S. Sailor, foreground, assigned to the Navy Expeditionary Guard Battalion conducts an early morning patrol while detainees stand by in the background at the recreation yard inside Camp Delta at Joint Task Force (JTF) Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba, July 7, 2010. Swissinfo
U.S. repatriates two Guantanamo detainees to Saudi Arabia
  | Reuters | December 16, 2013 - 15:10 | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has sent two detainees being held at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility back to... (photo: USAF / Tech. Sgt. Michael R. Holzworth)
Arabia   Guantanamo   Photos   Rapatriation   Wikipedia: Guantanamo Bay detention camp  
Politics Terrorism
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- Chile beats a path
Cuba's President Raul Castro delivers his speech at the closing of the second day of a twice-annual legislative sessions, at the National Assembly in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, July 7, 2013
Cuba president notes tone of recent relations with U.S.
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- Obama plan uses Hollywood to lure Iran toward peace
- Britain may fill U.S. void in Mideast
- When the Right to Bear Arms Includes the Mentally Ill
- South Africa, the nation that gave up its nukes
President Barack Obama greets Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of Pakistan in the Oval Office prior to their bilateral meeting, Oct. 23, 2013.
Obama Commutes Sentences Of 8 People Convicted Of Drug Crimes
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- Court docs: Texas Rangers' Leonys Martin victim in rans
Ronnie Biggs, one of Britain's most notorious criminals, attends a news conference to mark the release of his autobiography "Odd Man Out: The Last Straw", London, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011. Biggs was a member of a gang that stole 2.6 million pounds from a Glasgow-to-London mail train in August 1963, in what was called the "heist of the century." He spent decades in exile in Brazil before agreeing to return to Britain, and prison, in 2001.
'Great Train Robber' Ronnie Biggs dies, aged 84
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Enrique Pena Nieto, candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and apparent winner of Mexico's presidential election, speaks during a news conference in Mexico City, Monday, July 2, 2012.
Mexican president signs law opening oil industry
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- Obama plan uses Hollywood to lure Iran toward peace
- Mob associate's ties to city go beyond $1M contract
- Spain approves new restrictive abortion law
- Australian Christmas feasts: Guy Grossi’s Christmas
Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy speaks during a meeting with Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tuskat at the Moncloa Palace in Madrid, Spain, Monday July 15, 2013. Conservative Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is certain to face a barrage of questions in a press conference following newspaper publication of alleged text message exchanges between him and a now jailed former party treasurer that have prompted opposition demands for the premier to resign. El Mundo published Sunday what it said were friendly text messages between Rajoy and former Popular Party treasurer Luis Barcenas. Barcenas is at the heart of a probe into a slush-fund scheme that allegedly included payments to top party figures including Rajoy. He is to be quizzed by a judge in the case again Monday.
Spain to present new restrictive abortion law
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- Mob associate's ties to city go beyond $1M contract
- Chinese tourism: 'Finally, we are seeing the world'
- Topless protest falls flat on Rio's beaches
- Brazil: Few women attend Rio topless ban protest
Cuba's President Raul Castro delivers his speech at the closing of the second day of a twice-annual legislative sessions, at the National Assembly in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, July 7, 2013
Cuba president notes tone of recent relations with U.S.
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- Chinese tourism: 'Finally, we are seeing the world'
- When the Right to Bear Arms Includes the Mentally Ill
- Chinese tourism: 'Finally, we are seeing the world'
- Cuba warns it will move slowly in allowing private business
News conference of Vladimir Putin
Putin says to pardon jailed tycoon Khodorkovsky
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FC Barcelona's Lionel Messi, from Argentina, reacts after scoring a penalty against Levante during a Spanish La Liga soccer match at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday, Aug. 18, 2013.
Messi slams Barca vice president over contract comments
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