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Youssou N'Dour & Campino performing at the "Deine Stimme Gegen Armut" (Your Voice Against Poverty) concert in Rostock, Germany on June 7th, 2007.
Photos   Politics   Protesters   Senegal   Wikipedia: Senegalese presidential election, 2012  
 Jakarta Globe 
Senegal court says Wade can run for third presidential term
Protesters in Senegal clashed with police late Friday after a court approved President Abdoulaye Wade to seek a highly disputed third term, but barred music icon Youssou Ndour from running. | Anti-Wad... (photo: Creative Commons)
Children gather around a burntout police truck following an overnight attack at Sheka Police station in Kano, Nigeria, on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012.
Nigeria   Photos   Politics   Terrorism   Wikipedia: Boko Haram  
 Gulf News 
Nigeria faces an existential threat
| London: Nigeria is up against a hydra-headed monster in the Boko Haram sect that claimed responsibility for last Friday's devastating attacks on the city of Kano. | The group began its existenc... (photo: AP / Sunday Alamba)
File - A woman suspected of being a Gadhafi loyalist is seen behind bars inside a detention facility in Misrata, Libya, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011.  Zeenews 
Doctors Without Borders halts work in Misrata
Benghazi: Doctors Without Borders has suspended its work in prisons in the Libyan city of Misrata because it said torture was so rampant that some detainees were brought for care only to make them fit... (photo: AP / Manu Brabo)
Human Rights   Libya   Photos   Torture   Wikipedia: Aftermath of the 2011 Libyan civil war  
Peace Imperative for Dev: Rather  Kashmir Observer 
Peace Imperative for Dev: Rather
| Srinagar, Jan 26: Congratulating people for maintaining peace in the year 2011, the Finance Minister, Abdul Rahim Rather, on Thursday said peace was very imperative for any kind of development in Ja... (photo: WN / Imran Nissar)
Kashmir   Peace   People   Photos   Wikipedia: Kashmir conflict  
Top Stories
Protesters gather in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011. The Los Angeles Times
Egypt marks anniversary of 'Arab Spring' revolution
Reporting from Cairo— Tens of thousands of Egyptians poured into Tahrir Square in celebration and protest Wednesday, the anniversary of the revolution that brought ... (photo: AP / Khalil Hamra)
Arab   Egypt   Photos   Revolution   Wikipedia: 2011 Egyptian revolution  
Syrians carry national flags as they protest in support of Syrian President Bashar Assad at the Umayyad Square in downtown Damascus, Syria, Sunday, July 17, 2011. The Australian
UN stops counting Syrian dead
| THE United Nations has stopped compiling a death toll for Syria's crackdown on protests because it is too difficult to get information, UN human rights chief Navi ... (photo: AP / Bassem Tellawi)
Photos   Protests   Syria   UN   Wikipedia: 20112012 Syrian uprising  
British Prime Minister David Cameron chats to nurses as he tours a GAVI Alliance vaccine and immunisation clinic where children are being immunised against yellow fever, fund by the British Government on Tuesday July 19, 2011 in Lagos, Nigeria. The New York Times
Cameron Calls for European Court to Limit Its Reach
| BRUSSELS — Opening a new battle over the reach of Europe’s institutions, Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain on Wednesday called for the European Court ... (photo: AP / Christopher Furlong, Pool)
Britain   Brussels   Court   Photos   Wikipedia/David Cameron  
President Barack Obama gestures during a news conference in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, July 11, 2011, before meeting with Republican and Democratic leaders regarding the debt ceiling. Huffington Post
Semi-Tough: The President's State of the Union Address
| Last night in his State of the Union, President Obama presented himself as the champion of the American dream, or in his words, "the American promise" -- "that if you w... (photo: AP / Charles Dharapak)
Address   Champion   Family   Photos   Wikipedia/Barack Obama  
Fidel castro la verdad Palm Beach Post
Castro lambasts US Republican primary as idiotic
| HAVANA — Fidel Castro lambasted the Republican presidential race as the greatest competition of "idiocy and ignorance" the world has ever seen in a column publish... (photo: Public Domain / Giorgiopilato)
Competition   Havana   Photos   Race   Wikipedia/Fidel Castro  
The President, Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil addressing the Nation on the eve of the 63rd  Republic Day, in New Delhi on January 25, 2012. Zeenews
Be cautious in bringing reforms: President
New Delhi: In an apparent reference to the civil society movement for a strong Lokpal, President Pratibha Patil on Wednesday said one has to be cautious in bringing about... (photo: PIB of India)
Delhi   India   Photos   President   Wikipedia: Pratibha Patil  
Egyptians gather in Tahrir Square to mark the one year anniversary of the uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012. Chicago Tribune
A year after uprising, Egyptians celebrate and protest
| CAIRO (Reuters) - Tens of thousands massed in Cairo's Tahrir Square and other Egyptian cities on Wednesday, a year after an uprising erupted that toppled Hosni Mubarak,... (photo: AP / Muhammed Muheisen)
Arab World   Democracy   Egypt   Photos   Wikipedia: 2011 Egyptian revolution  
In this image made available Sunday Nov. 22 2009 and taken from Al Alam TV, a missile is fired in an unspecified location in Iran. Iran on Sunday Nov. 22 2009 began large-scale air defense war games aimed at protecting the country's nuclear facilities against any possible attack, state television reported. It said the five-day drill will cover an area a third of the size of Iran and spread across the central, western and southern parts of the country. Pakalert Press
Obama renews anti-Iran war rhetoric
Share US President Barack Obama has once again renewed threats against Iran, saying that Washington will maintain pressure on the Islamic Republic over its nuclear progra... (photo: AP / Al Alam TV)
Iran   Photos   War   Washington   Wikipedia: IranUnited States relations  
File - An Egyptian Pyramids, Sphinx and other ancient cultural heritage. Al Jazeera
Who should save Egypt's archives?
| - It has sometimes been claimed that, like human rights and democracy, the protection of Egypt's cultural heritage cannot be left to the Egyptians. Corruption, poverty ... (photo: WN / Noha)
Arab World   Culture   Egypt   Photos   Wikipedia: Egyptology  
Politics & Politicians United Nations
- Obama Buttresses Case for U.S. Resilience With Book From Unl
- No More Nice Guys: Fans Love ‘Nuclear Newt’
- Redistricting maps head to Florida House floor, critics cry
- Majority of Floridians support ban on texting while driving
Children gather around a burntout police truck following an overnight attack at Sheka Police station in Kano, Nigeria, on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012.
Nigeria faces an existential threat
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- One million children in Sahel at risk, UNICEF warns
- How Did 30 Pounds of Drugs Get Delivered to the United Natio
- Govt Calls On United Nations to Focus On Addressing Root Cau
- Resettle IDPs, Urges Annan
Somali refugee children share a meal inside a tent in Dollo Ado, Ethiopia.  Fleeing drought and famine in their home country, thousands of Somalis have taken up residence across the border in Dollo Ado
One million children in Sahel at risk, UNICEF warns
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Elections Global Affairs
- Russia: Liberal Candidate Is Barred From Election
- Dates set for elections to replace Giffords
- Dates set for elections to replace Giffords
- Injecting white money into elections will strengthen inner-p
Youssou N'Dour & Campino performing at the "Deine Stimme Gegen Armut" (Your Voice Against Poverty) concert in Rostock, Germany on June 7th, 2007.
Senegal court says Wade can run for third presidential term
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- Finance chiefs reassure CEOs over European crisis
- ECB chief, Geithner fuel hopes of taming eurozone crisis
- Finance chiefs reassure Europe on track
- Goodbye, Gingrich?
British Foreign Secretary William Hague arrives for an EU Foreign Ministers meeting at the EU Council in Brussels, Thursday March 10, 2011. The European Union is hitting the regime of Moammar Gadhafi with more financial sanctions just as France says it is recognizing the Libyan opposition's Interim Governing Council and plans to exchange ambassadors with it.
UK wants stronger, deeper ties with India: Hague
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Human Rights Policies Racism & Discrimination
- Remembering Howard Zinn
- Doctors Without Borders halts work in Misrata
- Syria security forces kill 34 civilians: rights group
- UN stops counting Syrian dead
File - Historian Howard Zinn lecturing at the Monona Terrace in Madison, Wisconsin, May 2, 2009.
Remembering Howard Zinn
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- Doreen Lawrence attacks government over racism
- Flying the flag for an Australia free of racism
- Government record on racism slammed
- Government record on racism slammed
British Prime Minister David Cameron walks prior to a meeting at the G8 summit in Deauville, France, Friday, May 27, 2011.
PM makes vow on racism
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Labor Affairs Terrorism
- Industries yield to labor power
- Romney's tax returns highlight debate: Is labor or inves
- Labor figure Kim Sattler named as go-between in protest
- Labor director says she'd bring legal eye to DHEC
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- 'Cowboy at heart' M. Wayne Dean protected royalty, f
- "What's Up Doc" Now Playing, The Documentary
- Bus driver to face probe for any 'terror links'
- Nigeria faces an existential threat
Children gather around a burntout police truck following an overnight attack at Sheka Police station in Kano, Nigeria, on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012.
Nigeria faces an existential threat
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