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An Israeli flag is seen back-dropped by the Dome of the Rock Mosque in Jerusalem's Old City, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009....Full Story

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(Photo: AP / Khalid Mohammed)Shiites in Firing Line as Dozens Killed at Iraq Funeral March
People clean the scene of a car bomb attack in Zafaraniyah, Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Jan. 27, 2012....Full Story

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Market for Films Signals Good, Not Great, Year for Sundance
| PARK CITY, Utah — “The buzz means nothing,” said Robert Redford as the Sundance Film Festival opened in this ritzy ski town last week. “Wait until it’s over, and see what sticks.” Multimedia Slide Show Playing at Sundance Sundance F...Full Story
Has Apple created a BlackBerry robot?
| BANGCRASHCREAK *coughcough* We're free! 7 days in Mobile, TechRadar's alternative and mostly fictitious look at the week's events, has freed itself from its prison under the disused BenQ Siemens HQ and has returned to find the world is a wholly different place. | We w...Full Story
Pouty Man Sues Ex for Writing Mean Things About Him on the Internet
| An attorney from New Jersey has sued two of his ex-girlfriends after both of them posted unflattering things about him on a website called LiarsCheatersRUs. The man says the vitriolic postings are ruining his career, the women won't back down, and the site can't even ...Full Story
Hrant Dink's Voice
| Last week, tens of thousands of people marched from Istanbul's Taksim Square to the offices of the Armenian weekly Agos to commemorate the death of its founding editor, Hrant Dink, and to protest a long-awaited verdict against Dink's murderers, which had been delivere...Full Story
Lee & Low Books Acquires Children's Book Press Assets
    --Continues Expansion in Recessionary Times-- | --Foresees Increasing Demand for Diversity Texts-- | --Two Latina Books Win Top Library Awards-- | , Jan. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Continuing to expand despite a difficult economy, Lee & Low Books, a...Full Story
Another Rough Year Ahead for Indonesian Press
If violence and intimidation was the order of the day for Indonesia’s journalists in 2011, this year is shaping up to be no better, press freedom advocates and pundits contend. | On Wednesday, France-based watchdog Reporters Without Borders released its 2011 Press Fre...Full Story
Week ahead in Parliament
Related Stories | Democracy Live: Commons live stream (when sitting) Democracy Live: House of Lords live stream (when sitting) | The same old, same old in Parliament this week, with the Lords chewing their way through the fine details of some big bills while MPs amble t...Full Story
Phone images capture a moral minefield
| How far should citizen journalists go? Geesche Jacobsen investigates. | When amateur footage of a police officer allegedly punching a spectator at the SCG was released a week ago, police promptly announced an internal review. | Shortly before Christmas, a worried pass...Full Story
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Taking Liberties: A Lawsuit Worthy Of A Google Search
Newsvine | Taking Liberties: A Lawsuit Worthy Of A Google Search | He was the youngest prosecutor in Norwalk, Conn. He worked for the NFL and was an analyst on Court TV. | But if you Google Matt Couloute, the first thing that comes up is: Liarscheatersrus.com...
Who's a hero?
Ha'aretz | Little did director-cinematographer Yoav Shamir dream, when embarking on an Internet campaign to raise funds for his latest movie, that he would hook the biggest fish of all: Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore. Never before has the acclaimed and...
Brandon Knight's mother sues Hyatt Regency, alleging discrimination, assault
Lexington Herald-Leader | Turgenia "Tonya" Knight, the mother of former University of Kentucky basketball player Brandon Knight, has sued Lexington's Hyatt Regency Hotel and the hotel's operations director, Jeff Westin, for discrimination, battery, assault and defamation st...
Pen Ultimate / Truths that are not self-evident
Ha'aretz | There is a saying, usually attributed to Haim Nahman Bialik, concerning the way Jews can prove that they have indeed become - according to Zionism's stated aim - a "normal" nation among nations. He apparently said such proof would be the existence ...
Michele Bachmann named as witness in lawsuit in Nashville
Nashville Tennessean | Former Republican presidential candidate and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann has been named as a witness in a messy, multimillion-dollar federal lawsuit in Nashville. | Led by prominent Republican fundraiser and millionaire Bill Hemrick of Brentwoo...
Romanov descendant looks for love on Ukraine show
Atlanta Journal | KIEV, Ukraine — He is a descendant of Russia's last czar — and has lived in the jungle, starred in Bollywood movies and trained as a stuntman. Election 2012: Across the nation | Romney is the aggressor in final Florida debate FACT CHECK...
Australian gov't, activists trade blame for clash
Atlanta Journal | SYDNEY — Authorities and indigenous-rights protesters blamed each other Friday for a heated clash in which bodyguards had to rush Prime Minister Julia Gillard out of an event marking the anniversary of British colonization. Prime Minister Jul...
Thousands battle forest fire in southwestern China
Atlanta Journal | BEIJING — Thousands of fire fighters are battling a blaze in the forest near the famed southwestern Chinese tourist town of Lijiang. Election 2012: Across the nation | Romney is the aggressor in final Florida debate FACT CHECK: Debate over 'g...
Portland: boy arrested with loaded gun on train
Atlanta Journal | PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland transit police have arrested an 11-year-old boy who displayed a loaded gun during a dispute on a light rail train. Election 2012: Across the nation | Romney is the aggressor in final Florida debate FACT CHECK: Debate...
Sánchez: What’s wrong with mediation
Sun Star | WHAT’S wrong with mediation? Frankly speaking, nothing. | I have been a court-annexed mediator for nearly the past eight years. And I find the work, maybe even a vocation, of helping people resolve their issues with other people. | Have something...
Aboriginal rights advocates burn Australian flag
Atlanta Journal | SYDNEY — Supporters of indigenous rights have burned an Australian flag on the steps of the nation's Parliament House. Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard, second from left, is escorted out for safety by body guards and police through a ...
Prison dilemma: surging numbers of older inmates
Atlanta Journal | NEW YORK — In corrections systems nationwide, officials are grappling with decisions about geriatric units, hospices and medical parole as elderly inmates — with their high rates of illness and infirmity — make up an ever increasi...
Pentagon: Army, Marines to shrink as budget slows
Atlanta Journal | WASHINGTON — The Pentagon outlined a plan Thursday for slowing the growth of military spending, including cutting the size of the Army and Marine Corps, retiring older planes and trimming war costs. It drew quick criticism from Republicans, s...
No energy industry backing for the word 'fracking'
Atlanta Journal | NEW YORK — A different kind of F-word is stirring a linguistic and political debate as controversial as what it defines. FILE - In this Jan. 23, 2012 file photo, Gillie Waddington of Enfield, N.Y., raises a fist during rally against hydraulic...
Killing Iraqis Makes Us Safer - and Other SOTU Lies
Scoop Friday, 27 January 2012, 4:41 pm | Column: David Swanson | Killing Iraqis Makes Us Safer - and Other SOTU Lies | By | January 25, 2012 | In the news around the world and even in the United States on Tuesday was the anger among Iraqis at the failure o...
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