 What Gives Them The Right To Frisk Henry Kissinger?
| No one should have been surprised when Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger issued a statement praising the the Transportation Securit... (photo: Creative Commons / Flickr upload bot) Huffington Post
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 Yemen: Suicide bomber kills 96 at military parade
Zeenews Bureau | Sana'a: A suicide bomber killed at least 96 soldiers during a rehearsal for a military parade in Yemen's capital city of Sana'a, a report said on Monday.... (photo: AP / Hani Mohammed) Zeenews
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 When might is not right
THE name Muammar al-Jarud, for many across the globe, means little, if anything. In Libya, al-Jarud represents a victim of misuse of global power by Nato, a loose associa... (photo: UN / Evan Schneider) Independent online
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 UK rules out further Lockerbie inquiries after Al-Megrahi's death
| The prime minister said the court case, which convicted Megrahi, was properly conducted and news of his death on Sunday should “be a time to remember the 270 peop... (photo: AP / Abdel Magid Al Fergany) Mail Guardian South Africa
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 UN Trial of Former Bosnian Serb Military Leader Ratko Mladic
Monday, 21 May 2012, 5:42 pm | Press Release: UN News | Trial of Former Bosnian Serb Military Leader Ratko Mladic Opens At UN Tribunal | New York, May 16 2012 - The trial... (photo: UN / Evan Schneider) Scoop
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 Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, Convicted in 1988 Lockerbie Bombing, Dies at 60
| Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the only person convicted in the 1988 bombing of an American jetliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, has died in Libya, family members told news... (photo: AP / Amr Nabil) The New York Times
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 Families of Lockerbie victims still seek answers
| NEW YORK — The death of the only man convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing has left some victims' relatives relieved and others raising questions about his guil... (photo: EC / EC) Dayton Daily News
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 Secular or Islamist? Egypt chooses a president
| CAIRO - Sixty years after their country came under military dictatorship, Egyptians are for the first time freely electing their president. | The voting that begins Wed... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb) Herald Tribune
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 Dershowitz demolishes Zimmerman prosecution
| After writing in the New York Daily News that murder charges should be dropped against George Zimmerman in the slaying of Trayvon Martin, liberal law professor and auth... (photo: AP / Anja Niedringhaus) The Examiner
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 Sri Lanka set to release jailed ex-army chief
| COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka's president has ordered authorities to free the country's jailed former army chief turned presidential candidate. | A presidential... (photo: AP / Chamila Karunarathne) The Guardian
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 Blind Chinese activist Chen arrives in United States
SHARE | AND | DISCUSSTweet NEW YORK: Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng arrived in the United States on Saturday and declared "equality and justice have no boundarie... (photo: AP / Henny Ray Abrams) The Times Of India
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 Thousands flee DR Congo violence
| Fighting between government troops and rebels has displaced hundreds of thousands people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). | The fighting has been mo... (photo: UN) Al Jazeera
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 South Africa targets rainbow tourists
There is arguably no worse place in the world to be gay than Africa. Today more than two-thirds of African countries have laws criminalising homosexual acts and across th... (photo: Creative Commons / NJR ZA) BBC News
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 Court to Texas: Pay $2 million to man imprisoned for 26 years
| HOUSTON -- The Texas Supreme Court the Lone Star State to pay more than $2 million to a former inmate who spent 26 years in prison for murder, a ruling that could set a... (photo: Public Domain / WhisperToMe) The Los Angeles Times
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 Biden softens his attack on Romney, Bain Capital
| The Daily Briefing | Even before he came out in favor of same-sex marriage, President Barack Obama's re-election campaign was benefitting from money raised by lesbian, ... (photo: Creative Commons / Terence Burlij/PBS NewsHour) The Columbus Dispatch
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 China sentences fugitive smuggler Lai to life term
| BEIJING—The man once considered China's most-wanted fugitive was sentenced to life in prison for smuggling and bribery in a lurid corruption case that reached int... (photo: AP / Greg Baker) Denver Post
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 Documents shed more light on Trayvon Martin shooting
ATLANTA — On the night George Zimmerman fatally shot unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida, a witness said he saw some of the scuffle — and describ... (photo: AP / Orlando Sentinel, Gary W. Green, Pool) The Los Angeles Times
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 Donna Summer, queen of disco, dies of cancer at 63
| Donna Summer, the multimillion-selling singer and songwriter whose hits captured both the giddy hedonism of the 1970s disco era and the feisty female solidarity of the ... (photo: WN / Aruna Gilbert) Austin American Statesman
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 Error sees 'Butcher of Bosnia' trial suspended
| The war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic was abruptly halted, just a day after it opened, because of prosecution "irregularities'' in the hig... (photo: UN / JC McIlwaine) NZ Herald
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 PDP Dismantled Instruments of Abuse: Mehbooba
| Srinagar, May 18: Flaying the National Conference for its attempt at trivializing the Kashmir issue Peoples Democratic Party today said the six decade old problem was n... (photo: WN / Imran Nissar) Kashmir Observer
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