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UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Saturday night to impose military and financial sanctions against Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi and his inner circle and to refer his regime’s crackdown on protesters to a war crimes tribunal for an investigation of possible crimes against humanity. Read more
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TOKYO – North Korea on Sunday threatened to fire cross-border shots if South Korea continues a leaflet-launching propaganda campaign, which aims in part to inform the hermetic North of popular revolts in the Middle East. Read more
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A division of Johnson & Johnson is recalling 43 over-the-counter medicines made for infants and children — including liquid versions of Tylenol, Motrin, Zyrtec and Benadryl — after federal regulators identified what they called deficiencies at the company’s manufacturing facility. The voluntary recall, which was announced late Friday by McNeil Consumer Healthcare, affects hundreds of [...]
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VENEZUELA Chávez opponents jailed in crackdown Two foes of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez who had publicly criticized the socialist government in recent days found themselves in jail this week as part of a crackdown on opposition figures that has prompted alarm about the state of democracy in the oil-rich Latin American country. On Monday, former [...]
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IN CHULA VISTA, CALIF. As kidnappings soar in Mexico, U.S. companies and well-to-do Mexican families are turning to private American firms to rescue their loved ones and employees from brutal criminal gangs. Read more
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BENGHAZI, LIBYA – The popular revolt that has already seen opponents of Moammar Gaddafi’s 41-year-rule claim the eastern half of the country spread deeper into the west on Sunday, with rock-wielding residents expanding control over key towns even as loyalist forces appeared poised to counterattack or impose blockades. Read more
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BEIJING – Police and security officials displayed a show of force here and in other Chinese cities Sunday, trying to snuff out any hint of protests modeled on the uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa. In Shanghai, several hundred people trying to gather were dispersed with a water truck. This Story Gaddafi opponents [...]
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SANTIAGO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A strong quake of 6.0 magnitude struck on Sunday about 23 miles south of Concepcion, Chile, at a depth of 10.4 miles, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Read more
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Rebels awaited counter-attack by Muammar Gaddafi’s forces on Monday, after the Libyan leader defied calls for him to quit in the hardest-fought of the Arab world’s wave of uprisings so far. Read more
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Libya’s border with Tunisia is being overrun with migrants, many of them from Egypt, fleeing turmoil in Libya, aid workers say. Read more
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DUBLIN (AFP) – Ireland’s Prime Minister Brian Cowen conceded Saturday his ruling Fianna Fail party faced its worst ever election defeat as voters vented their anger over the country’s international financial bailout. Read more
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ZAWIYAH, Libya (Reuters) – Armed rebels who have seized control of Zawiyah, close to the capital Tripoli, were preparing for a counter-attack as Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi vowed to cling on to his 41-year-old rule. The rebels said on Sunday about 2,000 troops loyal to Gaddafi had surrounded the city. “If we are fighting for [...]
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Prince William and Kate Middleton have made a happy return to the university where their fairytale romance began. Read more
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Ashley Cole has been rapped by his bosses at Chelsea Football Club after he shot a work placement student with an air rifle, it was claimed today. Read more
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Seven recently freed leaders of Thailand’s anti-government “Red Shirt” movement are calling for the release of more than 180 of their colleagues who have been jailed since a violent military crackdown last year. Read more
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Here are profiles of various leaders throughout Arab and Islamic nations, ranging from Northern Africa to the Hindu Kush. Read more
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A week ago I wrote a column about hopes that the revolutionary fervor in the Middle East would spread to the Asian country of Burma, helping pick up where the Saffron Revolution left off in taking down the junta (but putting leader Aung San Suu Kyi in danger of being rearrested by the regime). Today [...]
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After PolitiFact took on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, Maddow took on PolitiFact: , PolitiFact then took on Maddow again, though didn’t address several of her longer range claims that PolitiFact engages in PolitiFiction. Read more
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The United Nations Security Council has agreed a range of sanctions against Libya, including an arms embargo and freezing the assets of Colonel Gaddafi. [...]
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© WENN / Joseph Marzullo American comic Joan Rivers has hit out at Jennifer Aniston, accusing the actress of being boring. Rivers made the comments with daughter Melissa while the two discussed which stars they were looking forward to seeing at tomorrow night’s Academy Award ceremony. “I would like to take Jennifer Aniston and put [...]