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Chaos in Arab world could be bonanza for Canada's oilsands
At the height of the crisis in Egypt earlier this month, just a day before Hosni Mubarak succumbed to revolutionary pressures, a group of worried U.S. lawmakers met in a congressional office building just off Capitol Hill to seek answers to a seemingly intractable American problem.
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Saudi Arabia faces succession battle amid regional turmoil
As Libya collapses into anarchy and demands for political reform continue to flare across the Middle East, the pictures of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah returning home carried a message of foreboding.
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Fear stalks Tripoli, celebrations in Libya's east
BENGHAZI, Libya, Feb 23 - Libyans celebrated the liberation of the east of the country from the rule of Muammar Gaddafi, who has vowed to crush the revolt and on Wednesday was trying to assert his grip on the capital Tripoli, in the west.
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Canada can help build democratic institutions in the Middle East
It has been exactly 62 years, two months and two weeks since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by 48 members of the United Nations General Assembly on Dec. 10, 1948. Only eight were opposed, including six nations that fell under Communist domination, Saudi Arabia and South Africa.
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World grapples for response as battles divide Libya
World leaders condemned Moammar Gadhafi's bloody crackdown on a revolt that has split Libya, but took little action to halt the bloodshed from the latest upheaval reshaping the Arab world.
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Libya sees foreign journalists as 'al-Qaida': U.S. officials
The embattled Libyan government now considers foreign journalists who entered the country without authorization "al-Qaida collaborators," the U.S. State Department said Thursday.
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Libyan rebels tighten grip as western cities fall
World leaders condemned Moammar Gadhafi's bloody crackdown on a revolt that has split Libya, but took little action to halt the bloodshed from the latest upheaval reshaping the Arab world.
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Clashes between troops, rebels leave 50 people dead
Some 50 people, many of them fighters, were killed Wednesday in clashes across Somalia, witnesses and officials said. The deaths came as Somali government forces backed by African Union troops launched a fresh offensive against al-Qaida-inspired rebels.
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Countries rush to evacuate citizens under threat of full-scale civil war
Governments and private companies around the world scrambled Thursday to evacuate citizens and workers from violence-hit Libya, as Italy braced for a "biblical" exodus of up to 300,000 migrants.
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Families of Lockerbie dead hope Gadhafi is held accountable
A boast from Libya's defected justice minister that he can prove that Moammar Gadhafi ordered the 1988 bombing of a U.S. jetliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, stirred hope among families of the 270 dead that the rogue dictator might be held accountable someday.
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China, in face of Mideast protests, clamps down on 'jasmine rallies'
A previously unknown group has called on the Chinese to replicate the popular protests in the Middle East by staging their own peaceful "jasmine rallies" in cities across China every Sunday afternoon, to demand an end to corruption, greater accountability and an independent judiciary.
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Fear stalks Tripoli as 1,000 feared dead in Libya crackdown
Thousands of Libyans celebrated the liberation of the eastern city of Benghazi from the rule of Moammar Gadhafi, who was reported to have sent a plane to bomb them on Wednesday as he clung to power.
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Egypt's new cabinet, under attack, meets for first time
Egypt's new cabinet met for the first time on Wednesday with security high on its agenda and under attack from the Muslim Brotherhood and others who want it purged of ministers appointed by ousted president Hosni Mubarak.
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Key ministers remain unchanged in shuffle
Egypt's key portfolios of defence interior, foreign, finance and justice were unchanged in a cabinet reshuffle, state television confirmed on Tuesday when it broadcast the swearing in ceremony for the new ministers.
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Revolts in the north of Africa may throw sparks over sub-Saharan neighbours
Moammar Gadhafi was once crowned Africa's "King of Kings" by minions from south of the Sahara and the turmoil in Libya can only increase the chance of North Africa's revolts flinging sparks across the desert.
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Canada pulls out citizens as violence grows
Efforts are underway to whisk Canadians out of Libya, where anti-government demonstrations turned deadly after Col. Moammar Gadhafi called in the military to gun down civilian protesters to preserve his 41-year dictatorship.
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At least 3 die in clashes over presidenial conflict
Gunfire and explosions shook an area of Abidjan that supports Ivorian presidential claiment Alassane Ouattara on Tuesday, and at least three soldiers died in clashes with protesters calling on his rival to step down. The clashes carried on most of the day in Abobo, residents and the military said, while African presidents met with Ouattara on a trip aiming to end his violent post-election power struggle with incumbent Laurent Gbagbo.
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How to win a Nobel Peace Prize: Egypt, Tunisia and beyond
It would be a mistake to think that the hard part is over.
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Revolutions are usually decided by the Army
To predict the outcome of a revolution, keep your eyes on the men with the guns.
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Revolutions are usually decided by the army
Predictions of revolutionary chaos in North Africa and the Middel East are premature.
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