Anti-government protesters take to the streets in Algeria, Yemen and Tunisia
Globe and Mail
Policemen detain a protester (C) during a demonstration in downtown Algiers January 22, 2011. A small group of Algerian opposition supporters trying to hold a banned protest clashed with police in the capital and several people were injured, ...
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Haiti's Duvalier 'to face courts'
BBC News
Haiti's ex-leader Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier had the right to return to the country but must now face justice, President Rene Preval says. Mr Preval was making his first comments on the issue since Mr Duvalier's unexpected return from exile last ...
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Chasing the China Bandwagon
New York Times
By JEFF SOMMER CHINESE tanks and missiles rolled past the reviewing stand in Tiananmen Square, where I sat as a member of the foreign press corps in early October 1984. It was the annual National Day parade, and a phalanx of soldiers marched smartly by ...
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Berlo's 14 'bunga bunga' girls evicted from luxury houses
Times of India
LONDON: Fourteen women who were regulars at Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's infamous "bunga bunga" sex parties have been evicted from their homes. The women, who were given the apartments by the 74-year-old Prime Minister, were thrown out ...
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Two die in Russia shopping mall fire
Hindustan Times
At least two people died and five were injured on Saturday night when a fire broke out in a shopping centre in Russia's southwestern republic of Bashkiria, officials said. The bodies of a young woman and a man were discovered in the five-storey Europa ...
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Nepal Takes Command of Ex-Rebels
New York Times
By KIRAN CHAPAGAIN and JIM YARDLEY CHITWAN, Nepal — In a major step forward in Nepal's tortured peace process, Maoist political leaders on Saturday formally relinquished control of their 19000-member army to a special governmental committee. ...
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Students, activists stage rival demonstrations at Yemeni university
CNN International
(CNN) -- Hundreds of students and activists staged rival demonstrations Saturday at Sanaa University in Yemen's capital, the editor of the Yemen Post said. The larger of the two groups demanded that Yemen's president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, step down, ...
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Sherry Rehman, Pakistan's defiant prisoner of intolerance, vows to stay put
The Guardian
All Sherry Rehman wants is to go out – for a coffee, a stroll, lunch, anything. But that's not possible. Death threats flood her email inbox and mobile phone; armed police are squatted at the gate of her Karachi mansion; government ministers advise her ...
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Veena Malik slams cleric for criticism
Times of India
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani actress Veena Malik has mounted a fiery defence of her appearance in the controversial reality show 'Bigg Boss', taking on clerics who had criticized her. Malik took Mufti Abdul Kawi to task for calling her "baigharat" (immoral) on ...
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Central African Republic starts presidential, legislative elections
Xinhua
YAOUNDE, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- The Central African Republic started the presidential and legislative elections on Sunday. The polling stations opened at 6 am local time. The presidential election involves incumbent President Francois Bozize, ex-president ...
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National Society of High School Scholars | World News Blog
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National Society of High School Scholars, The top is assigned Tylynn A. Pettrey is taught at home daughter of Michael and Danielle Pettrey from Joppa, Maryland.
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King World News Weekly Metals Wrap : Welcome To Jim Sinclair's MineSet
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Joe Klein: Why Hillary Clinton Should Not Be Defense Secretary ...
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