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A police officer walks past an engine block of last Friday suicide bomber's vehicle by the wall of the state police headquarters in Kano, Nigeria, on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012. The radical Islamist group Boko Haram were responsible for the attack.
Islam   Nigeria   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Boko Haram		  BBC News 
Nigeria's Boko Haram: Will dialogue end the insurgency?
Fri 27 Jan 2012
Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has challenged the Islamist militant group Boko Haram to come forward and state their... (photo: AP / Sunday Alamba)
File - Historian Howard Zinn lecturing at the Monona Terrace in Madison, Wisconsin, May 2, 2009.
Human Rights   Justice   Photos   US   Wikipedia: Howard Zinn		  Al Jazeera 
Remembering Howard Zinn
Fri 27 Jan 2012
Editor's note: Today, January 27, is the second anniversary of the death of Howard Zinn. An active participant in the Civil Rights movement, he was dismissed in 1963 from his position as a tenured... (photo: Creative Commons)
A group of participants march in front of their gay pride flag during the annual Pride March in Manila, Philippines, Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011.  Austin American Statesman  Thu 26 Jan 2012
Maine poised for 2nd public vote on gay marriage
AUGUSTA, Maine — Gay rights activists in Maine, the only New England state that doesn't allow gay marriage or civil unions, said Thursday that they are forging ahead with plans to put the... (photo: AP / Pat Roque)
Augusta   Maine   Marriage   Photos   Wikipedia/Gay
President Barack Obama delivers the State of the Union address in the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Jan. 24, 2012.  WorldNews.com  Thu 26 Jan 2012
The 'Malaise' of Hope
Before Dante Alighieri descended into hell in the "Divine Comedy," an inscription above the door read: Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here. Listening to President Barack Obama's State of the Union... (photo: White House / Chuck Kennedy)
Defence   Photos   Politics   US   Wikipedia: American imperialism
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President Barack Obama talks about the ongoing budget negotiations, Monday, July 11, 2011, in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. Detroit news Thu 26 Jan 2012
Obama tickets draw hundreds of U-M students
By Tom Greenwood The Detroit News Comments Students lined up overnight to get tickets to see Barack Obama's second appearance at the university as president. (David... (photo: AP / Carolyn Kaster)
Government   Obama   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Barack Obama
India Village Woman making food on the roadside at Kolkata in Eastern India City Al Jazeera Thu 26 Jan 2012
Will India's poor remain hungry?
- As India's proposed new Food Security Act hovers in political limbo, the nation remains hungry. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made headlines in early January when he... (photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick)
India   Photos   Politics   Poverty   Wikipedia: Poverty in India
Larger section of Kashmiri youth have little interest in politics, a study report says. DNA India Thu 26 Jan 2012
DNA exclusive: GenNext in Valley largely uninterested in politics
An official study initiated to study psyche and perception of Kashmiri youth has revealed their glaring disconnect with the rest of country. A study commissioned by the... (photo: WN / Imran Nissar)
India   Kashmir   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Kashmir   Youth
Protesters gather in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011. The Los Angeles Times Thu 26 Jan 2012
Egypt marks anniversary of 'Arab Spring' revolution
Reporting from Cairo— Tens of thousands of Egyptians poured into Tahrir Square in celebration and protest Wednesday, the anniversary of the revolution that brought... (photo: AP / Khalil Hamra)
Arab   Egypt   Photos   Revolution   Wikipedia: 2011 Egyptian revolution
Chrysler Detroit news Wed 25 Jan 2012
Chrysler Illinois factory to hire workers to build Dodge Dart
By Bryce G. Hoffman The Detroit News Comments Chrysler Group LLC has begun hiring workers at its factory in Belvidere, Ill., to build the all-new Dodge Dart. The company... (photo: Creative Commons / Karrmann)
Detroit   Factory   Photos   Wikipedai/Chrysler   Workers
Cast member George Clooney, left, Brittish actress Lisa Snowdon, center, and cast member Brad Pitt arrive for the premiere of "Ocean's Twelve," at the Grauman's Chinese Theatre in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2004. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian) The Hollywood Reporter Wed 25 Jan 2012
The Many Revolutions of Brad Pitt
share Frank W. Ockenfels 3 The superstar with multiple Oscar nominations has everything: a brilliant career, a partner he wants to marry and, in "Moneyball," a seeming... (photo: AP / Kevork Djansezian))
Disaster   Hollywood   Oscar   Photos   Wikipedia/Brad Pitt


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British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg delivers a speech setting out the Government's plans for political reform at the City and Islington College in London Wednesday May 19, 2010. UK's deputy chief plans civil liberties drive The Press Democrat
President Barack Obama waves as he walks across the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009, as he departed for a day on the road to promote his health care agenda. Obama is traveling to Warren, Ohio and Pittsburgh, to talk about health care reform, then on to a fundraiser in Philadelphia for Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., who is facing reelection in Pennsylvania. Afflictions of liberty The Guardian
Google Google and India Test the Limits of Liberty Wall Street Journal
Amnesty International
File - A woman suspected of being a Gadhafi loyalist is seen behind bars inside a detention facility in Misrata, Libya, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011. Doctors Without Borders halts work in Misrata Zeenews
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen (right) meets with UK Prime Minister David Cameron (left), 15 June, 2011. Cameron warned his reforms will lead to rise in human rights abuses The Independent
Fidel castro la verdad Castro lambasts US Republican primary as idiotic Palm Beach Post
Women's Rights
Bill and Melinda Gates Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation commits $750 mil to Global Fund The Examiner
The President, Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil addressing the Nation on the eve of the 63rd Republic Day, in New Delhi on January 25, 2012. Be cautious in bringing reforms: President Zeenews
Jan Kubis (centre, in red tie), the newly-appointed Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan and Head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), arrives in Kabul to take up his post, 17 January, 2011. UN's new Afghan envoy heartened by talk of peace Austin American Statesman
Slavery
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor argues with a photographer as he awaits the start of the prosecution's closing arguments during his trial at the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in Leidschendam February 8, 2011. Accused war criminal Taylor 'worked with CIA' Al Jazeera
Newborn Baby - Infant Is your baby's name a reflection on you? The Grio
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