Thousands of Spaniards defied a ban on a preelection demonstration and mounted a protest camp in the heart of the Spanish capital to express anger at political parties and the country’s handling of the economic crisis. Read full article > >

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Demonstrations in Spain protest political parties and economic crisis

Another Thai soldier dies in border clashes with Cambodia, as Cambodia petitions the UN’s highest court to clarify a judgement at the heart of the dispute.

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Cambodia seeks UN border ruling

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal jury convicted Barry Bonds of a single charge of obstruction of justice Wednesday but failed to reach a verdict on the three counts at the heart of allegations that he knowingly used steroids and human growth hormone and lied to a grand jury about it.

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Bonds convicted of obstruction of justice, jury deadlocks on other counts

Corporate lawyer Matthew Kluger is alleged to have been at the heart of one of the largest and longest-running insider-trading schemes ever prosecuted, but when he appeared in a federal court in Alexandria on Wednesday, he said he could not afford an attorney, according to a Justice Department spokesman.

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District lawyer Kluger arrested for insider trading is assigned public defender

The massive and unfolding tragedy in Japan encapsulates in extreme form the intersection of the three crises that this blog deals with. The unprecedented earthquake and tsunami were obviously unpredictable natural disasters, but they also reflect the growing ecological fragility that is at the heart of the fears about the looming environmental crisis. read more

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Disasters and Financial Markets: More Fallout from Japan’s Crises

The massive and unfolding tragedy in Japan encapsulates in extreme form the intersection of the three crises that this blog deals with. The unprecedented earthquake and tsunami were obviously unpredictable natural disasters, but they also reflect the growing ecological fragility that is at the heart of the fears about the looming environmental crisis. read more

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Disasters and Financial Markets: More Fallout from Japan’s Crises

A tent city in the heart of Bahrain’s capital was wiped away Wednesday after the government dispatched troops against pro-democracy demonstrators in defiance of U.S. warnings.

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Bahrain unleashes assault against protesters’ camp in capital

Just 5 percent of the residents in the heart of Little Italy are Italian-American; in 1950, nearly half were.

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New York’s Little Italy, Littler by the Year

A day after thousands of joyous Bahrainis retook a major square in the heart of the island nation’s capital, seven opposition groups were meeting in Bahrain to consider their next steps after an appeal from Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad al Khalifa for a national dialogue.

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Bahrain groups plan next steps

Car bombs ripped through the oil-rich Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Wednesday, killing six and wounding at least 35 people in the heart of a region of long-simmering ethnic tensions.

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Egypt is throbbing with resistance. Cairo is cloven between the forces of revolution and those of counterrevolution. Hundreds of thousands of people – on Tuesday, February 1, well over a million – have been streaming each day into Tahrir Square, the largest plaza in the Arab world, located in the heart of downtown Cairo. Army tanks line the streets, helicopters and F16s buzz overhead, and pro-Mubarak demonstrators, many of them hired thugs, bloodied thousands of protesters yesterday in Tahrir and elsewhere. read more

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Egyptian Protests Grounded in Decades of Struggle; Portend Regional Transformation

The prestigious Hotel de Crillon in the heart of Paris is sold to a Saudi royal, reportedly for around 250m euros.

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Saudis buy landmark Paris hotel

BAGHDAD – In the heart of Baghdad’s Green Zone, just yards from the mighty fortress of the biggest U.S. embassy in the world, a small but symbolic challenge to America’s rapidly waning influence in Iraq is taking shape in the form of an Iranian ice cream parlor.

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In Green Zone, an icy challenge to U.S. power

Education Secretary Mike Russell tells MSPs a rejection of tuition fees lies “at the heart” of the Scottish government’s proposals for university funding.

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No up-front tuition fees for Scots

Enough Project names 21 companies that use minerals at the heart of the Congo conflict. Nairobi, Kenya – What’s the true cost of that mobile phone in your pocket? That’s the big question human rights group Enough Project wants you to ponder this year as it urges holiday consumers to be strategic when buying electronic gifts. read more

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Is Your New Mobile Phone Made With Conflict Minerals?