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Policemen place a Brazilian flag at a top point of the Complexo do Alemao slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, Nov. 28, 2010. Rio's most dangerous slum that was the backbone of the city's biggest drug gang was taken by 2,600 police and soldiers Sunday, an unprecedented accomplishment by authorities in their fight to secure this seaside metropolis that will host the 2016 Olympics.
Brazil   Crime   Photos   Police   Wikipedia: Crime in Brazil  
 Al Jazeera 
Murders soar in Brazil city as police strike
| The Brazilian government has sent federal troops to the state of Bahia to restore order after a labour strike by police opened the door to a crime wave, authorities said. | By Saturday, th... (photo: AP / Silvia Izquierdo)
Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund Christine Lagarde, right, speaks with Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos during a meeting of eurozone finance ministers in Brussels on Friday, Oct. 21, 2011.
Debt   Finance   Greece   Photos   Wikipedia: Greek government debt crisis  
 Al Jazeera 
Greece faces 'deadline to clinch bailout'
| Greece has only one day left to clinch a eurozone bailout and a bond swap with creditors to manage its crushing debt repayments, its finance minister has said, warning that talks were "on a knife ed... (photo: AP / Virginia Mayo)
Statue of Barbarossa Hayrettin Pasha near the Turkish Naval Museum on the Bosphorus in Istanbul  The Examiner 
Turkey's economy and tourism is one of the fastest growing in the world.
| Sahit Muja: Turkey's economy and tourism is one of the fastest growing in the world. Turkey one of the best travel destination in the world. | About 35 million foreign visitors v... (photo: WN / Akgun Semra)
Economy   Photos   Tourism   Trade   Turkey   Wikipedia: Turkey  
Lone Pine Peak, just left of Mt. Whitney and the rest of the Sierra Nevada, dominates the views west of town  Al Jazeera 
Will Republicans suggest an economic cure in Nevada?
| - As the Republican candidates depart the southeast United States to head to Nevada, one topic seems to have escaped their attention entirely: a credible economic cure for what ails the states where... (photo: Creative Commons / Bobak Ha'Eri)
Economy   Nevada   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Nevada  
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Opposition demonstrators carry a banner reading "Dissenters' march" during an anti-Kremlin protest in Moscow, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2008. Police thwarted an anti-Kremlin protest organized by chess great Garry Kasparov's opposition group Sunday, seizing demonstrators and shoving them into trucks. Later About 50 protesters, one with a banner of Kasparov's group United Civil Front, which is part of Other Russia, gathered at another site in central Moscow and marched about 1 kilometer (half a mile) along a major street, shouting slogans such as "Russia without Putin!" before they disper Al Jazeera
Rival Putin rallies hold protests in Moscow
| Tens of thousands of protesters have gathered in the Russian capital to challenge Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's grip on power, a month before he s... (photo: AP / Ivan Sekretarev)
Moscow   Photos   Protesters   Russia    
Palestinians receive medical care at the al-Najar Hospital in Rafah town in the southern Gaza Strip. after one Palestinian was killed and seven injured by overnight Israeli air strikes across the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medics said. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said the sites were targeted in response to the firing of a rocket from the Gaza Strip at the city of Beersheva. (Photo By Ahmed DEEb/ WN) Al Jazeera
Two Palestinians wounded in Israeli airstrike
| Two Palestinians in the Gaza Strip were wounded by Israeli airstrikes, medical workers said, only hours after a visit by the UN chief to the territo... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb)
Gaza   Israel   Palestinians   Photos   Wikipedia: GazaIsrael conflict  
File - In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian photographers take pictures of burnt police vehicles, after a weeklong military assault that the government said was aimed at rooting out "terrorists," in Hama city, Syria, on Wednesday Aug. 10, 2011, which has seen some of the largest anti-government protests of the 5-month-old uprising. Al Jazeera
Syria: The revenge of Hama 30 years on
| - On February 2, 1982, a state declared war on its own citizens. It did what it did and thought it won. On February 2, 2012, Hama is exacting its revenge on the Assads,... (photo: AP / SANA)
Democracy   Human Rights   Photos   Syria   Wikipedia: Hama massacre  
Vitaly Churkin, U.N. Russian Ambassador speaks at a Security Council meeting at U.N. headquarters Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008 during emergency consultations on the conflict between Russia and Georgia after France requested discussion of a new draft plan to end the hostiliti The Star
Arabs, West seek to avert Russian veto of U.N. Syria
| UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Arab and Western drafters of a U.N. Security Council resolution aimed at stopping Syria's bloody upheaval revised their text on Thursday in a... (photo: AP / David Karp)
Arab   Photos   Russia   Syria   Wikipedia: 20112012 Syrian uprising  
Islamist member of Kuwait's parliament Musalam Al Barrak, left, and other opposition lawmakers protest during the National Assembly session of Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010 in Kuwait City. The prime minister Sheik Nasser Mohammed Al Sabah faced a rare grilling from opposition MPs seeking to force his resignation over accusations of using strong-arm tactics against government critics.The political revolt against the Premier could threaten the stability of the government in one of the West's key allies in the Gulf and an important transit point for U.S. military forces leaving Iraq. The Washington Post
Widening Kuwait opposition seeks gains in parliament election
| KUWAIT CITY — Opposition groups in Kuwait urged for high voter turnout Thursday in parliamentary elections that could increase the voice of government critics &md... (photo: AP / Gustavo Ferrari)
Arab   Election   Kuwait   Photos   Wikipedia: Kuwaiti parliamentary election, 2012  
Boeing 777-223ER - American Airlines (reg:N756AM Al Jazeera
American Airlines to cut 13,000 jobs
| The parent company of American Airlines says it needs to eliminate about 13,000 jobs, as one of the largest US airlines remakes itself under bankruptcy protection. | Th... (photo: Creative Commons / Eluveitie)
Company   Employees   Jobs   Photos   Wikipedia: American Airlines  
A Kuwaiti man casts his vote during the country's parliamentarian elections at a polling station in Dasman, in Kuwait City on Saturday, May 16, 2009. The Star
Kuwait opposition seen making gains in snap election
| KUWAIT (Reuters) - Kuwaitis head to the polls Thursday for the fourth time in six years in a snap parliamentary election in which opposition candidates expect to expand... (photo: AP / Gustavo Ferrari)
Arab   Election   Kuwait   Photos   Wikipedia: 20112012 Kuwaiti protests  
Business Politics
- UAE firms 'may lose out to foreign competitors'
- Dubai Refreshments finds high sugar prices bittersweet
- Oman Insurance eyes expansion of products, services
- Middle East mergers up 4% amid slower growth
Sugar
Dubai Refreshments finds high sugar prices bittersweet
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- UAE Vice-President receives Bhutanese envoy
- Kuwait’s parliament to convene on February 15
- After UN veto, US proposes Syria coalition
- Hillary Clinton calls UN Syria vote a 'travesty'
An anti-government protester chants slogans during a demonstration in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011
Cairo protesters seek early vote, clash with police
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Education Health
- Learning support for special needs students
- Ajman Ruler opens new college
- Network promotes higher education to make country a regional
- The American Dilemma by Gilad Atzmon
File - President Barack Obama arrives to speak at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) convention in Washington, Sunday, May 22, 2011, after a contentious couple of days this week when he clashed publicly with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over ideas for a permanent Palestinian state.
The American Dilemma by Gilad Atzmon
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- moh signs contract with Wekaya
- Parents of toddler who fell from building face jail
- Female taxi drivers to serve women, families
- Black magician stabs man 'to cure illness'
Egyptian anti-government activists throw stones at riot police during clashes in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011. Egyptian anti-government activists clashed with police for a second day Wednesday in defiance of an official ban on any protests but beefed up police forces on the streets quickly moved in and used tear gas and beatings to disperse demonstrations.
Egypt clashes rage into fourth day
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Terror Oil
- US warns of 'brutal civil war' in Syria
- After UN veto, US floats coalition on Syria
- Qatar tries to untangle Afghan knot
- Just a bluff? Fears grow of Israeli attack on Iran
Syrian policeman, left, and army soldier, right, look inside the burned court building that was set on fire by Syrian anti-government protesters, in the southern city of Daraa, Syria, Monday March 21, 2011. Mourners chanting "No more fear!" have marched through a Syrian city where anti-government protesters had deadly confrontations with security forces in recent days. The violence in Daraa, a city of about 300,000 near the border with Jordan, was fast becoming a major challenge for President Bashar Assad, who tried to contain the situation by freeing detainees and promising to fire officials responsible for the violence.
Mass slaughter in Syria: UN holds urgent vote - but Russia and China veto it ...
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- Iran threatens to hit any country used to attack its soil
- Just a bluff? Fears grow of Israeli attack on Iran
- Just a bluff? Fears grow of Israeli attack on Iran
- Just a bluff? Fears grow of Israeli attack on Iran
Iranian villagers walk through ruins after an earthquake at the Zeynabi village in the Iranian Qeshm Island in the Persian Gulf, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008. A strong earthquake rocked southern Iran on Wednesday, sending tremors across the Persian Gulf and shaking the skyscrapers of Dubai. Iranian state television reported that five people were killed and 26 others were injured.
Iranians bemoan sanctions hardship as vote approaches
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