Abuse of Power

File - Thai riot police officers stand in line at the criminal court building in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012. Hundreds of "Red Shirt" supporters gathered outside a Bangkok court to learn whether their leaders will return to prison.

Thai Opposition Loses Bid to Annul Election
Jakarta Globe By Agence France-Presse on 6:41 pm February 12, 2014. | Category International, SE Asia | Tags: Thailand, Thailand Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, Thailand protests | A motorcycle taxi rides throu... (photo: AP / Apichart Weerawong)

Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation

Criticism of Games reflects 'Cold War' mentality: Putin
Reuters SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - Western criticism of Russia's Winter Olympics was reminiscent of Cold War ambitions to hold the Soviet Union back, President Vladimir Putin said on Monday, despite signs that... (photo: World Economic Forum / Sebastian Derungs)

French forces grab a man looting a mosque before chasing him away in the Miskin district of Bangui, Central African Republic, Monday Feb. 3, 2014.

France in Central Africa : The reluctant interventionist
Al Jazeera Two months after the beginning of military operation of French troops in the Central African Republic, it is time to debunk a few myths. France's military intervention has raised eyebrows, both i... (photo: AP / Jerome Delay)

Russian President Vladimir Putin looks on during a recording of his annual televised New Year's message in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012, with the Assumption Cathedral, left, and the Troitskaya Tower, right in the background. The recording will be aired near midnight

Putin blames West for criticism of Games
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Jim DeMint, president of the Heritage Foundation, gestures during a news conference on immigration reform Monday, May 6, 2013, in Washington. The Heritage Foundation presented a study that immigration legislation would cost taxpayers $6.3 trillion to provide government benefits for millions of people now living in the U.S. illegally. Supporters of the legislation call the study deeply flawed.

Jim DeMint: Trust Obama on immigration? Why?
The Wichita Eagle President Obama has been quite up-front about it: He refuses to enforce laws he dislikes and unilaterally changes others without the consent of Congress. The Supreme Cour... (photo: AP / Evan Vucci)

This artist's rendering released March 8, 2006 by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory shows the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter near Mars. The NASA spacecraft successfully slipped into orbit around Mars Friday, March 10, 2006, joining a trio of orbiters already circling the Red Planet after a critical firing of its engines

NASA finds clues to possible water flows on Mars
CNTV WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- U.S. space agency NASA said Monday its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Odyssey orbiter have sent back clues that liquid water may still ex... (photo: AP / NASA/JPL)

President Barack Obama, right, and French President Francois Hollande, left, walk in before speaking to members of the media following their tour of Monticello, President Thomas Jeffersons estate, Monday, Feb. 10, 2014, in Charlottesville, Va.

Obama, Hollande hail "transformed" U.S.-France alliance
CNTV WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- The alliance of United States and France has "transformed" and reached a new level because of closely-aligned interests and values, the co... (photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Giorgi Margvelashvili takes the oath of office during his inauguration ceremony, in Tbilisi, Georgia, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2013. Georgia on Sunday inaugurated a new president, 44-year-old philosopher and former university rector Giorgi Margvelashvili, who pledged to strengthen the former Soviet republic's ties with the West and maintain its commitment to NATO. His inauguration brings to an end the nearly decade-long presidency of Mikhail Saakashvili, who aligned this Black Sea nation with the United States and put it on the path toward integration with the European Union.

Georgia to seriously consider Putin's remarks on ties: president
CNTV TBILISI, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili said on Monday his administration would seriously consider Russian President Vladimir Putin's remark... (photo: AP / Shakh Aivazov)

File - OWS Protestors march up Wall Street towards the New York Stock Exchange in Manhattan, 26 September, 2011.

Were Nazis and Kristallnacht More like Progressives or One Percenters?
WorldNews.com Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling | Tom Perkins, founder of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, just wrote a letter in the San Francisco Chronicler paralleling... (photo: Louis Lanzano)

A passer-by is seen in front of the electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo, Japan, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009. The benchmark Nikkei 225 average fell 257.83 points, or 3.12 percent to end morning session at 7,999.02.

Tokyo stocks close 1.77 pct higher, tracking U.S. stocks gain
CNTV TOKYO, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- Tokyo stocks advanced Monday, with the Nikkei index closing 1.77 percent higher on U.S. stocks gains despite weaker-than-expected nonfarm payro... (photo: AP / Itsuo Inouye)

Pakistani religious clerics and members of Taliban's negotiating committee, from left to right, Professor Ibrahim Khan, Maulana Sami-ul-Haq, and Maulana Abdul Aziz, answer a question during their press conference in Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014.

Taliban intermediaries wrap up two-day talks
CNTV ISLAMABAD, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- Pakistani Taliban and their intermediaries have wrapped up two-day talks in the Waziristan tribal region as part of the ongoing peace negot... (photo: AP / Anjum Naveed)

Hundreds of thousands of people protest in Tahrir Square on 4 February 2011

The US and the Arab Awakening: Deja vu?
Al Jazeera Three years ago, Washington experienced its own dose of "shock and awe" - the PR phrase used to sanitise its brutal invasion of Iraq - when hundreds of thousands, if not ... (photo: Creative Commons / Mona Sosh)

File - Internally Displaced Persons visit a health clinic at the Manik Farm camp to seek medical treatment, 23 May 2009, Sri Lanka.

Is Sri Lanka turning into a rogue state?
Al Jazeera As international pressure mounts on President Mahinda Rajapaksa to launch a credible process to investigate war crimes alleged to have taken place during the la... (photo: UN)