January 14, 2012
“The Iron Lady,” the new biopic starring Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher, was controversial before audiences even saw it, largely because of its portrayal of the aging former prime minister’s dementia. The current UK prime minister, David Cameron, suggested the movie was premature and shouldn’t have been made while Thatcher was alive. Her former [...]
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October 25, 2011
The body of Libyan ex-leader Moamer Kadhafi was buried overnight in a secret location after days of being put on display in a market freezer, a Misrata military council member said Tuesday. The body of slain despot Moamer Kadhafi was buried overnight in a secret location after being displayed in public for days, marking an [...]
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October 16, 2011
Chief of Vietnam Communist Party Nguyen Phu Trong (L) at a meeting with Wang Rong, leader of Shenzhen City Communist Party on Friday. Nguyen Phu Trong, General Secretary of Vietnam’s Communist Party, continued his visit to China Friday by a meeting with Shenzhen City’s party leader, Vietnam News Agency reported. At the meeting with the [...]
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August 16, 2011
A woman gestures as she listens to a pro-Gaddafi rally in Green Square, Tripoli, August 15, 2011. Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi fired a Scud missile for the first time in the country’s civil war, a US defense official said, after rebel advances left the Libyan leader isolated in his capital. Rebels fighting to end [...]
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August 11, 2011
Police officers prepare to carry out a raid in Pimlico, London, August 11, 2011. Prime Minister David Cameron vowed Thursday to hunt down the street gangsters and opportunistic looters he blamed for Britain’s worst violence in decades, and acknowledged that police tactics had failed at the start of the rioting. "The fightback has well and [...]
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July 29, 2011
Mustafa Abdel Jalil, top rebel leader and chairman of the Libyan National Transitional Council, makes a statement on the death of Abdel Fattah Younes in Benghazi July 28, 2011. Libya’s rebels said their military commander was shot dead in an incident that remained shrouded in mystery, pointing either to divisions within the movement trying to [...]
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July 25, 2011
A street sign is seen in front of the New York Stock Exchange. The White House and top lawmakers scrambled on Monday to reach a deal to save the world’s richest country from a disastrous default on its debt, amid fears that inaction could affect markets around the globe. With global financial markets on edge, [...]
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July 24, 2011
US President Barack Obama (R) meets with the US Speaker of the House John Boehner in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington, DC. President Barack Obama and top US lawmakers searched for an elusive deal Sunday necessary to avert an unprecedented debt default by the United States that economists warn could have [...]
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July 23, 2011
US President Barack Obama makes a statement to the media at the White House. US President Barack Obama angrily summoned top lawmakers for crisis talks Saturday on averting a disastrous early August debt default that could send shockwaves through the fragile global economy. With an August 2 deadline fast approaching, Obama warned that polarized lawmakers [...]
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May 31, 2011
South African army soldiers patrol at Matiga military airport in Tripoli, as part of a security delegation accompanying South African President Jacob Zuma, who held talks on ending the conflict in Libya. NATO pounded Libya’s capital on Tuesday, only hours after South Africa’s president left following talks that produced only a commitment to a peace [...]
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