Food prices trigger glob, UK refused call with hostage in Mali - cable and other World news
The world news of 2011-02-04 on Tamugaia - Food prices trigger global unrest: UN, and UK refused call with hostage in Mali - cable.
Food prices trigger global unrest: UN -
UN food agencies warn that record-high prices for basic commodities are helping generate unrest around the world....
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UK refused call with hostage in Mali - cable -
A newly leaked US diplomatic cable suggests UK officials refused to speak with a British hostage who was later killed by his al-Qaeda captors in West Africa....
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Iraq not immune from Arab anger - clerics -
Iraq is not immune to protests elsewhere in the Arab world because it is a democracy, and its leaders must work to fight corruption and promote social justice, clerics have said....
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Egypt Crisis Has Other Arab Leaders Worried -
The protests in Tunisia and now Egypt have led to concerns among other leaders in the Arab world that the dissent could spread to their countries....
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Cyclone Yasi: Oz Troops Deployed To Clean-Up -
Australia has mounted its biggest domestic military operation in 30 years to help repair the widespread damage caused by Cyclone Yasi....
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Four Held After Girl, 14, Whipped To Death -
Four people have been arrested in Bangladesh after a young girl was whipped to death for allegedly having an affair with a married man....
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Israeli Fears Over Regime Change In Egypt -
Many Israelis have been gripped by TV footage of the unfolding democratic revolution in Cairo - they fear, quite simply, a change of regime in Egypt could endanger the Jewish state....
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Cameron: stop tolerating extremism -
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UK May Day holiday may be moved -
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China spies penetrate FO computers -
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Munich Security Conference: Is there more to life than missile defense? -
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Uprisings in Egypt may be orchestrated by the Americans – expert -
Hosni Mubarak has announced his resignation by saying he won’t run in the next presidential election, which is likely to be held earlier as a result of the large-scale anti-government protests in Cairo,...
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Russian Press - Behind the Headlines, February 4 -
Tatarstan authorities criticized over anti-Tatar policies / Russia launches farmed caviar exports / Defense Ministry hires experienced diplomat to oversee military cooperation...
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Musings of a Russophile: Statistics know everything! -
The weapon of the economist is statistics. Competing economists seem to always find the numbers to make their point appear true. I can’t help but think of the hilarious lines in Soviet-era The Twelve Cha...
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Transmissions from a Lone Star: A Brief Encounter with Holy Death -
For a while now I have been hoping for an encounter with death- Saint Death, that is, or Santa Muerte, affectionately known to her (largely Mexican) followers as La Flaca- the Skinny Girl. She’s all bone...
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U.S. presses Egyptian army to bless talks with opposition -
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Burmese parliament chooses junta insider Thein Sein for president -
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Laid-back attitude leavens the revolution -
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