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China Expels First Accredited Foreign Journalist Since 1998
Beijing - China has expelled the English language correspondent of Al Jazeera, prompting the Qatar-based channel to close its Beijing bureau, an Al Jazeera spokesman said on Tuesday. Melissa Chan’s...
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With Two New Discoveries, Kenya Is Joining The Great African Oil Boom
Kenya has announced the second profitable oil discovery in two months, a development that could give a needed boost to Kenya's economy. With the May 7 announcement of a large oil deposit in the remote...
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North Korean Women Are Being Sold Into Slavery In China
The price for a North Korean woman named Kim Eun-sun, her mother, and sister, to escape toChina was 2,000 Chinese yuan, slightly more than $300. Like thousands of North Korean women before them, they...
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Putin's Decision To Not Attend This Week's G-8 Summit Is A Huge Snub, And No...
It's part Occupy Wall Street, part Hyde Park Corner, and entirely something new for Russia. The little encampment spontaneously created a week ago by a few hundred mostly young activists in a downtown...
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The Case Of Chen Guangcheng Has Revealed A Lot About China's Own Blind Spots
Beijing - Soon after blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng escaped from illegal house arrest late last month, after suffering 19 months of detention and beatings, he issued a dramatic video appeal to...
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This Is The Story Of How A Guy From Alabama Became A Jihadist Fighting In...
Insights into the minds of Westerners who have traveled to faraway lands to join the armies of radical Islam are usually confined to esoteric security websites and jihadist blogs rarely written in...
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This Week's Egyptian Election Looks Set To Be A Face-Off Between Islamists...
Egyptians will go to the polls to choose their president for the first time in modern history, but they are facing a choice of front-runners who represent some of the oldest forces in the state. On...
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Meet The Saudi Jihadis Starting A New Life (With The Help Of Government...
When Khalid Suliman al-Jhari stands up to speak in his freshly pressed white thobe (a traditional Arab tunic), he doesn't look like a hard-core jihadi who scurried around Tora Bora with Al Qaeda in...
View ArticleThe US And 18 Other Nations Have Just Wrapped Up A Massive Military Exercise...
More than 19 countries, led by the United States, wrapped up the sprawling Operation Eager Lion military exercise yesterday in Jordan at a time of heightened tensions in the region. Though the...
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Canadians Still Think Real Estate Has Nowhere To Go But Up
Actor and broadcaster Jeff Douglas says he knows there are “more responsible” things to do than take on a mortgage he will likely have to pay until he turns 70. But that didn’t stop him and his wife,...
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Obama's Man In Moscow May End Up Being His Own Worst Enemy
Mike McFaul, the earnest and plain-spoken Russia hand from the Obama White House who became US ambassador to Moscow, has been up to his neck in controversy since he took up his duties in January. But...
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Stephen King Will Suckerpunch The eBook Industry With His Next Bestseller
Legendary author Stephen King will be releasing a new book next June – but fans will have to get it in paper format only. King was on the forefront of the e-book revolution before now, releasing one...
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Why China Is Likely To Get More Involved In Afghanistan
As the United States and other Western nations prepare to withdraw their military forces from Afghanistan, China is growing nervous about the prospect of chaos after they have left. So, after years of...
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France Is Headed Toward An Undivided Leftist Government
President François Hollande and the French left took Round 1 yesterday of parliamentary elections that are being closely watched as harbingers of Europe’s political direction at a time of economic...
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Is Ron Paul About To Endorse Mitt Romney?
Is it possible that Ron Paul is getting ready to endorse Mitt Romney? More specifically, is he beginning the delicate task of preparing his supporters for the day when such an endorsement might come?...
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It Looks Like The UN's Legacy In Haiti Will Be All About The Sex Scandals And...
When the United Nations deployed peacekeepers to Haiti in 2004, its troops were charged with restoring order following the tumultuous departure of then-president Jean Bertrand Aristide. Their presence...
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The Drumbeat For An International War In Syria Is Building
Yesterday afternoon CNN aired a series of heartbreaking images from Syria: Gruesome close-ups of toddlers alleged to have been killed by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad. I looked up from my...
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How A High School Science Teacher Cut His Energy Bill By Two-Thirds
When high school science teacher Ray Janke bought a home in Chicopee, Mass., he decided to see how much he could save on his electric bill. He exchanged incandescent bulbs for compact fluorescents,...
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New Sea Level Estimates Will Make You Scared To Live In California
If greenhouse-gas emissions continue unabated, the expected additional warming could raise sea levels by up to four or five feet all along the US West Coast by 2100, according to an analysis released...
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Vladimir Putin Is Reportedly Always Late For Meetings, And Other World...
At the Crimean resort of Yalta last Thursday the president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, waited in sweltering heat for his honored guest, Russian President Vladimir Putin, to show up for a scheduled...
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