Fri Jul 1, 2011 5:57 AM EDT
- Bahrainis living abroad have been ordered to spy on their countrymen in the wake of a deadly crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators.
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Thu Jun 2, 2011 11:54 AM EDT
- American policymakers should heed the recommendations of a damning report that said the global war on drugs has failed, a former British ambassador to Colombia and longtime advocate for the legal regulation of drugs told msnbc.com on Thursday.
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Wed Apr 20, 2011 6:44 AM EDT
ISTANBUL, Turkey - Funda Altintas picks at her lamb kofte and salad and tentatively describes her dream.
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Wed Apr 20, 2011 6:34 AM EDT
ISTANBUL, Turkey - A few dozen protesters held yellow banners emblazoned with "BDP" on an icy day in Turkey's largest city. Most pedestrians in Taksim, Istanbul's main shopping district, took little notice of the men wearing dingy dark jackets and women in fringed headscarves and peasant-style skirts.
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Wed Apr 20, 2011 6:26 AM EDT
ISTANBUL, Turkey — The fragrance of oranges mingles with the smell of tear gas in Sinem Yoruk's memories of the night a mob rampaged through her neighborhood.
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Thu Oct 29, 2009 7:23 AM EDT
COVENTRY, U.K. - Photographs of President Barack Obama run on a constant loop in the foyer of a factory here, roughly 100 miles northwest of London.
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Sun Feb 1, 2009 1:03 PM EST
If my family were totally honest we would admit that food is our religion. It’s our most important pastime, our biggest obsession and greatest source of pleasure and strife. Food was the biggest reason our disparate clan put down roots in New Orleans, a place that has transformed food, drink and generally carrying on into high art.
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Wed Oct 22, 2008 8:00 PM EDT
- During the go-go years of the late 1990s and early 2000s, Britain found itself at the center of the world’s economy. Conventional wisdom had it that The City — London's financial district — had surpassed Wall Street as the global money center.
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