November 21, 2011
An Egyptian protester tries to put out a fire at Cairo’s Tahrir Square during clashes with security forces. At least 13 people were killed as security forces tried to clear protesters from Cairo’s Tahrir Square, casting a dark shadow over Egypt’s first elections since Hosni Mubarak’s downfall. Police and military forces used batons, tear gas [...]
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November 19, 2011
US President Barack Obama (R) listens as Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao speaks during their meeting on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and East Asia summits in Nusa Dua, on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali, on November 19. Of all the people Barack Obama thought he would be running against next [...]
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November 12, 2011
President Barack Obama delivers remarks at the National Women’s Law Center’s Annual Awards dinner in Washington November 9, 2011. With Europe mired in crisis, President Barack Obama is launching a charm offensive this week to hitch the US economy to opportunities in Asia he hopes can help power the recovery he needs for re-election. Obama, [...]
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July 26, 2011
President Barack Obama speaks in a prime-time address to the nation from the East Room of the White House in Washington. The United States edged closer on Tuesday to a devastating default as Republicans and Democrats deadlocked over competing plans to raise the debt ceiling, one week before a deadline to act. President Barack Obama, [...]
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July 4, 2011
A Thai soldier stands guard outside a polling station in the country's restive southern province of Yala. Thailand’s powerful military will respect a landslide election win by allies of Thaksin Shinawatra who it toppled five years ago, the defense minister said Monday, easing fears of another coup. Thaksin’s sister Yingluck Shinawatra, a 44-year-old political newcomer [...]
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April 20, 2011
Libyan rebels are pictured with the former flag of the north African nation alongside the French national flag close to the strategic rebel-held town of Ajdabiya. A rebel official in Libya’s besieged city of Misrata pleaded for Britain and France to send troops to help fight Moamer Kadhafi’s forces, while a son of the strongman [...]
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April 10, 2011
A French soldier speaks to locals during a patrol in the “Deux Plateaux” district of Abidjan. Forces loyal to Ivory Coast incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo have stepped up a counter-attack on presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara by firing on his hotel headquarters in Abidjan. Rebel forces seeking to install Ouattara, who won an election last November [...]
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January 25, 2010
VietNamNet will provide portraits of the 12th National Assembly deputies through a new column: “Discover Vietnamese Congressmen”. Readers are invited to send questions to them at evnn@vietnamnet.vn. Thuyet was born in 1948 in Thai Nguyen, but his hometown is Hanoi. He graduated from the Philology Faculty of Hanoi University in 1969 and received his doctorate from [...]
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December 8, 2009
Social Democrat leader Mircea Geoana has won Romania’s presidential run-off on Sunday, according to the first exit poll announced as voting ended at 9:00 p.m. ( 1900 GMT). Romanian Social Democrat leader Mircea Geoana (C) celebrates his victory at the Social Democratic Party’s headquarters in Bucharest, capital of Romania, Dec. 6, 2009. (Xinhua/Agerpres) Geoana captured [...]
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December 8, 2009
Bolivian incumbent president Evo Morales is expected to win a five-year second term until 2015 in the general elections on Sunday, exit polls showed. People celebrate Evo Morales winning the presidential election in La Paz, Bolivia, on Dec. 6, 2009. Evo Morales from the ruling Movement for Socialism has won the presidential election in Bolivia [...]
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