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submitted by GG92 228 weeks 5 days 7 hours ago
This is a great overview of the horror engulfing Kenya right now -- one by one the stable African countries tumble into strife while the West just watches. When are we going to care?
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submitted by elvis 190 weeks 4 days 5 hours 52 minutes ago
Somalia’s notorious pirates have staged perhaps their most brazen attack yet, seizing a Ukrainian ship in the Indian Ocean full of arms bound for Kenya’s military, including dozens of battle tanks, maritime and diplomatic officials said Friday.
Somalia’s 1,880-mile coastline is infested with pirates, and they have...(more)
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submitted by AB 196 weeks 4 days 9 hours 46 minutes ago
A top Russian general said Friday that Poland's agreement to accept a U.S. missile interceptor base exposes the ex-communist nation to attack, possibly by nuclear weapons, the Interfax news agency reported.
The statement by Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn is the strongest threat that Russia has issued against the...(more)
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submitted by Micca 187 weeks 3 days 9 hours 31 minutes ago
Together they form an “Axis of Diesel”. Buoyed by petrodollars, Russia, Iran and Venezuela hectored the West as they extended their reach abroad, backing separatists in Georgia, Islamists in the Middle East and Leftists around the world.
Now those oil-producing powers may be forced to draw in...(more)
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submitted by Ari 233 weeks 1 day 7 hours 30 minutes ago
A new assessment by American intelligence agencies concludes that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and that the program remains on hold, contradicting an assessment two years ago that Tehran was working inexorably toward building a bomb.
The conclusions of the new assessment are likely...(more)
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submitted by elvis 196 weeks 4 days 7 hours 21 minutes ago
President Pervez Musharraf's spokesman on Friday rejected reports that the embattled Pakistani leader was set to resign, even as another ally said back-channel talks were under way on ways to avoid his impeachment.
The spokesman, Rashid Qureshi, also called claims that Musharraf was seeking legal immunity in...(more)
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submitted by cat man 212 weeks 6 days 1 hour 3 minutes ago
MONTROUIS, Haiti (Reuters) - Acute hunger and the rising cost of living could send a new wave of boat people from Haiti, where rising food prices set off deadly riots two weeks ago and drove the prime minister from office, officials and analysts say.
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submitted by Ari 151 weeks 4 days 2 hours 28 minutes ago
The direct confrontation over Iran’s presidential election was effectively silenced Friday when the main opposition leader said he would seek permits for any future protests, an influential cleric suggested that leaders of the demonstrations could be executed, and the council responsible for validating the election repeated...(more)
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submitted by Julia Leigh 197 weeks 2 days 6 hours 47 minutes ago
Russian news agencies say the Defense Ministry is claiming to have sunk a Georgian missile boat that was trying to attack Russian navy ships in the Black Sea.
Russia's Defense Ministry refused to comment on the Sunday reports to The Associated Press and Georgian officials could not...(more)
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submitted by elvis 153 weeks 2 days 9 hours 39 minutes ago
I've known a lot of Iranians and I can tell you that the nutjobs running the country aren't representative of the average Iranian. They're a good, sophisticated and honest people. So I weep for what's happening there now.
This amazing video from Italian TV shows one of...(more)
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submitted by ollie 151 weeks 6 days 4 hours 47 minutes ago
A really heartbeaking report on CNN from a young woman who said a busload of protesters who were assaulted by Iranian forces.
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submitted by GG92 194 weeks 6 days 5 hours 11 minutes ago
Western observers, including the the Los Angeles Times, jumped on recent comments by Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei that appeared to be a ringing endorsement for firebrand president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as he prepares to compete for a second term next year.
