BENGHAZI, LIBYA – Government paramilitary forces opened fire Friday on protesters who swarmed the streets of Tripoli in what opponents hoped would be a final push to topple Moammar Gaddafi’s regime. Witnesses described multiple casualties from the fiercest violence yet in the Libyan capital.

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Gaddafi forces fire on protesters in Tripoli; defiant leader urges thousands of supporters to take up arms

Benghazi, Libya – Thousands of mercenary and other forces struck back at a tightening circle of rebellions around the capital, Tripoli, on Thursday, trying to fend off an uprising against the 40-year rule of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, who blamed the revolt on “hallucinogenic” drugs and Osama bin Laden. read more

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Qaddafi Strikes Back as Rebels Close In on Libyan Capital

Moroccans joined in the battle for Middle Eastern democracy Sunday, as demonstrations in major cities measured in the thousands. In Rabat, the capital, and in Casablanca, the largest city, there were an estimated 3,000-5,000 protesters, and smaller…

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The EU has been urged to take action over the thousands of migrants who have travelled to Italy from Tunisia, following the country’s recent revolution.

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VIDEO: Warning over north African refugee ‘crisis’

Speaking on behalf of the White House, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced in a statement that she admired the “courage” and “aspirations” of the thousands of anti-government protesters in Iran and encouraged the country’s leaders to follow…

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Clinton Reacts to Protests in Iran

A new centre opens designed to help some of the thousands of people who have been raped in DR Congo.

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New rape centre opens in DR Congo

One day in 2004, a 29-year-old man with a terrible stomach problem stepped off a plane from the United States in Thailand. He wasn’t there for the sights, or the food, or the beaches. He had traveled thousands of miles for worms — parasitic worms whose eggs he intended to swallow by the thousands.

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Man claims parasitic worms heal

This has to be cold comfort for the thousands of people wronged by Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff. Court documents reveal that two months prior to Madoff’s arrest for fraud, JP Morgan Chase suspected the investment banker of wrongdoing, but the bank…

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JP Morgan Chase Suspected Madoff

The water in almost 15,000 D.C. homes that received repairs during a massive effort to remove lead pipes may still be contaminated by dangerous levels of the metal, according to a report released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Lead may be leaching into thousands of D.C. homes

For the thousands of British troops serving in Afghanistan, being able to open presents from home on Christmas Day is a big boost to morale.

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Inside the British Forces post office

In a war where the weapon of choice is a makeshift bomb, traumatic brain injury, or TBI, is plaguing U.S. soldiers by the thousands. Previously shrugged off, doctors now believe that even mild cases of TBI – a signature wound of Iraq and Afghan War…

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