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Bradley fighting to give fractured Egypt World Cup hope
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By James M. Dorsey
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New images appear to cast doubt on the accuracy of two of the week's most widely-reported stories: the rumored pregnancy of Syria's first lady, and the pioneering space flight of an Iranian monkey.
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Why does the topic of guns arouse so much animosity and controversy in America? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp4N1Gwx_nA Filed under: International Tagged: america, guns, NRA
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Series 18 is Tom Baker's final one as the Doctor but before he bowed out he had some exciting adventures as the Time Lord, unfortunately, State of Decay is not one of them.
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Video recorded by South African police officers during the mass shooting at the Marikana mine has raised new questions about the official account.
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Director George Tillman Jr. and his longtime producer partner Robert Teitel will be honored with the Commitment to Chicago Award at the annual Chicago Film Crritcs Association Awards ceremomny next Saturday Feb. 9. Given to filmmakers who have shown support and dedication for filmmaking in Chicago, Tillman and Teitel, who are both graduates of the Columbia College Film School in Chicago, have made several films in Chicago inclusing Barbershop and Barbershop 2, Soul Food, Roll Bounce and Home for the Holidays. The event, in which the Chicago area film critics will present their top picks in choices for several 2012 film categories including Best Picture, Actor, Actress,...
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Only a day after al-Azhar announced a ten-point initiative to end violence in Egypt, there has been a new round of police/demonstrator violence near the Presidential palace in Heliopolis, leaving one dead and dozens injured. Predictably the Muslim Brotherhood and the Presidency (increasingly hard to distinguish) and the opposition are each blaming the other, and there are widespread complaints of police excesses, at least some if which were documented by video:
It's probably pointless to try to assign blame at this point: except that clearly, the police are still using their Mubarak-era rules of engagement.
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Through the "Warsay-Yikealo program" launched in 2002, forced free labour has been institutionalized and remains the main supplier of the bulk labour force for the Eritrean Economy. Thus all sectors and almost all economic activities are dependent on free forced labour. ...
Strategies were designed to effectively lock up the whole population in the forced free labour and put the economy under the absolute monopoly of the ruling party and military. To enforce this, the forced free labour policy, all the productive human resources were put under the control, ownership and administration of the ministry of defense. No individual has control and choice on his/her fate. He or she is the property of the government /ministry of defense. All government and party institutions and companies ...
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Protesters and security forces clashed at the presidential palace in Cairo on Friday as thousands rallied across Egypt against Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, who vowed "decisive" police action against violent demonstrations.
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C.J. Chivers has published a must-read article in the January 13 New York Times that shows that Iran has become an...
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Welcome to the inaugural post of our new weekly feature profiling the people behind are blogs and/or tumblrs curated by Africans, whether operating on the continent as well as in the diaspora. It takes a question-and-answer format. The posts will highlight influences, genres, and point to the kinds of work being produced by young African [...]
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After moving to PSG and pledging to give his salary away to charity, David Beckham is welcomed with open arms to France as the anti-Depardieu. Also, the temptation of saying "Mission Accompished" in Mali, Cameron in Algeria and Morsi's missed opportunity.
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After moving to PSG and pledging to give his salary away to charity, David Beckham is welcomed with open arms to France as the anti-Depardieu. Also, the temptation of saying "Mission Accompished" in Mali, Cameron in Algeria and Morsi's missed opportunity.
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