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robcrilly
BBC News - Turkey - Somalia aid pioneers?
22 February 2012 Last updated at 13:01 ET Somalia remains a notoriously hard place to help. But on a windswept hilltop along the coast a few miles south of the capital, Mogadishu, a giant, almost l...
bbc.co.uk
Politics
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robcrilly
Assad commits nearly all his forces in race to crush uprising, experts say
Jonathan S. Landay McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — Syrian President Bashar Assad is now using most of his regular ground forces in an intensified drive to crush the uprising against his family's ...
mcclatchydc.com
World
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robcrilly
Shabaab abandons western city as Ethiopian troops advance
View Larger MapAs Ethiopian forces continue to press their offensive in Somalia, Shabaab forces have relinquished control of a key southern city that has been under the terror group's control for t...
longwarjournal...
World
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omar_quraishi
Sacha Baron Cohen Banned From Oscars 2012
BREAKING… EXCLUSIVE: The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has pulled actor Sacha Baron Cohen‘s tickets from the 84th Academy Awards. This means he is banned from attending the Oscars even ...
deadline.com
Art & Entertainment
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UmarCheema1
Indian woman charged over murder of fellow journalist
Thursday, February 23, 2012 MUMBAI: A female journalist working for a leading Indian newspaper has been charged over her alleged role in the murder of a Mumbai crime reporter by gangsters...
thenews.com.pk
Crime
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UmarCheema1
Maharashtra CM warned against attacks on journalists
Thursday, February 23, 2012 MUMBAI: The Press Council of India Wednesday issued a show cause notice to Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan asking why his government should not be...
Politics
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OmarWaraich
Bhatti murder suspect cleared of charge – The Express Tribune
Special Judge ATC-II Rana Massod released Abid Malik after testimony by a close relative of the deceased minister. Special Judge ATC-II Rana Massod released Abid Malik after testimony by a cl...
tribune.com.pk
World
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kalsoom82
At least my face was spared, says grateful petrol-attack survivor – The Express Tribune
20-year-old from Nawabshah struggles to recover from 30% burns. “She is burnt from head to toe. There was nothing left of her clothing,” her mother, Sabra, says. PHOTO: PPI KARACHI: Hisses of p...
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Pakistannews
Iran forces kill four Jundallah members | Newspaper
Four senior members of the group were killed in an ambush overseen by the intelligence ministry in Sistan-Baluchestan province, IRNA said. — File PhotoTEHRAN: Security forces in Iran have killed fo...
dawn.com
World
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OmarWaraich
Role of security establishment | Opinion
WHAT is a human life worth in Pakistan? Guessing from the impunity with which the intelligence agencies engage in the alleged torture and extrajudicial murder of its own people, apparently not much...
Politics
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kalsoom82
Fostering The Next Generation Of Social Entrepreneurs Through Service
Robert Fogarty was a hotshot when he graduated from college. Full of talent and energy he headed across the country to New York where he landed a Wall Street job at high pay. Though Fogarty was doi...
fastcoexist.com
Environment
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Pakistannews
The forgotten people | Opinion
RECENTLY, a report titled Pakistan flood emergency: Lessons from a continuing crisis was prepared by a collaborative group of over a dozen leading international and national humanitarian aid agenci...
Environment
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OmarWaraich
In Syrian City, 'There Aren't Enough Coffins' | PBS NewsHour | Feb. 22, 2012
JEFFREY BROWN: And now to Syria, where the government intensified its assault against the city of Homs, raining down rockets and bombs on the opposition stronghold. In all, across the country, acti...
pbs.org
World
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nzoha
Deadly Quran Protests More Proof US Has 'Lost' Afghanistan?, Christian News
(Photo: Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)Afghan men shout anti-U.S slogans during a protest outside the U.S. military base in Bagram, north of Kabul, Feb. 21, 2012. More than 2,000 Afghans protested outside...
global.christi...
World
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OmarWaraich
Ghastly Images Flow From Shattered Syrian City
CAIRO — During a terrifying two minutes on Wednesday morning, 11 rockets slammed into a single apartment building in the Baba Amr neighborhood of Homs, the city in Syria that has been besieged by g...
nytimes.com
World
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kalsoom82
U.S Pushed Ahead With Drone Strikes Despite Pakistani Resistance
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Shortly before the United States ended a two-month pause in missile strikes on militants in Pakistan last month, senior U.S. officials telephoned their Pakistani counterparts...
World
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defencetalk
Defense Technology & Military Forum
Friendly Fire? Hey all! Backtracking to my question about snipers in the whole desert environment. The mission continues, but there is an accident involving an MQ-9 Reaper Drone, which is in autono...
defencetalk.com
Politics
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Pakistannews
SC urged to order general election before Senate polls | Newspaper
Supreme Court of Pakistan. — ReutersISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court was requested through a petition on Wednesday to direct the Chief Election Commissioner to hold the general election before Senate e...
Politics
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kalsoom82
Women Entrepreneurs on the Rise
What do Gilt, Foodspotting and TaskRabbit all have in common? They were all co-founded by women. This is an encouraging sign in a field that has too few female entrepreneurs.A recent article in San...
huffingtonpost...
Business
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Islamabad
Baloch for reining in spy agencies
ISLAMABAD – Secretary General Jamaat-e-Islami, Liaqat Baloch, on Wednesday said that role of spy agencies should be limited as they are further annoying already outraged people of Balochistan.“Time...
nation.com.pk
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