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Khaleej Times
Military rule is not the answer to Thailand’s deadlocked politics When queried five months ago about the likelihood of a military coup, Thailand’s army chief opted for...
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Huffington Post
CAIRO -- A sense of celebration permeated the scene outside many polling stations here on Monday. People lining up to cast ballots for yet another president chanted and sang songs...
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Mashable
KIEV, Ukraine — "Acting from behind the scenes he directed his money to the heart of the protests: to its peaceful, and then to its bloodiest moments. How did a man with hidden...

Luxembourg's Finance Minister Jean Claude Juncker, right, and European Commissioner for the Economy Olli Rehn participate in a media conference after a meeting of eurogroup finance ministers at the Kiem Center in Luxembourg on Monday, Oct. 18, 2010.
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BRUSSELS (AP) — British Prime Minister David Cameron's recurring complaint that the European Union is "too big, too bossy, too interfering" gained traction at an EU summit on Tuesday, after election results that underscored voter apathy and hostility...
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Malian soldiers walk through clouds of dust as they work with French forces to battle radical Islamic rebels, in Gao, Mali, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013.
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BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali Defence Minister Soumeylou Boybeye Maiga resigned on Tuesday, less than a week after an embarrassing defeat of army forces by Tuareg separatist rebels who seized several northern towns, sources close to the minister said. The...
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Newly elected president of French conservative party UMP Jean Francois Cope is seen during a press conference, at the UMP headquarter, in Paris, Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012. Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservatives chose a right-leaning new leader on Monday in a razor-thin victory — 98 votes — and with so much rancor that some feared the party could break apart.
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PARIS — An anti-immigration movement founded by a man repeatedly convicted of anti-Semitism now leads polls in France. The mainstream conservative party risks collapse amid a financing scandal. The Socialist president is the most unpopular leader in...
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A member of the Kaiapo tribe holds a poster showing a picture of Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff during a protest by indigenous communities against the construction of Belo Monte hydroelectric dam in front the National Congress in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday Feb. 8, 2011. A Brazilian environmental agency has given approval for initial work to begin on a massive hydroelectric dam planned for the heart of the Amazon jungle. The 11,000-megawatt project to dam  the Xingu River, which feeds the Amazon, would be the third-largest such hydroelectric project in the world. The poster reads "Stop Belo Monte" and the number 604,317 refers to the number of people they say have signed a petition against the project."
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Click photo to enlarge Indigenous protesters in traditional headdress clash with military police during a protest against FIFA World Cup outside the National Stadium in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, May 27, 2014. Brazil's indigenous communities calling...
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U.S. President Barack Obama, left, is escorted by the Governor of Riyadh Prince Khalid Bandar bin Abdul-Aziz Al-Saud, right, during his departure on Air Force One at King Khalid International airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Saturday, March 29, 2014.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — The worst rupture in 40 years in U.S.-Saudi relations has been eased — but not healed — by a series of measures aimed at restoring damaged trust. In a sign of the significance of the relationship, both...
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United States President Barack Obama arrives at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan on 1 May 2012.
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President Barack Obama plans to announce on Tuesday that 9,800 soldiers will remain in Afghanistan after 2014, but there will be a continued reduction by the time he leaves office. Three senior administration officials revealed the...
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In this Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011 photo, a police officer armed with an AK-47 rifle walks past pedestrians as he patrols a major road in Maiduguri, Nigeria. The radical sect Boko Haram, which in August 2011 bombed the United Nations headquarters in Nigeria, is the gravest security threat to Africa's most populous nation.
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Boko Haram gunmen have attacked a Nigerian military base and adjacent police barracks in the northeastern town of Buni Yadi, killing 31 security personnel, security sources and witnesses said. The attack late on Monday in Yobe state occurred not far...
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