Friday, September 16th, 2011 | 3 comments

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Mayor Bloomberg is sounding the alarm bell over the nation’s struggling economy.
“That’s what happened in Cairo. That’s what happened in Madrid. You don’t want those kinds of riots here.”
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Saturday, August 27th, 2011 | Post a comment

A Libyan rebel walks in the Bab Al-Aziziya compound in Tripoli, August 23, 2011.
Credit: Reuters/Louafi Larbi
A research center near Tripoli has stocks of nuclear material that could be used to make a “dirty bomb,” a former senior U.N. inspector said on Wednesday, warning of possible looting during turmoil in Libya.
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Sunday, February 27th, 2011 | One comment

A North Korean soldier on the northern side of the truce village of Panmunjom looks south in the demilitarised zone that separates North Korea from South Korea in Paju, north of Seoul January 19, 2011.
Credit: Reuters/Lee Jae-Won
North Korea will fire across a land border with South Korea if Seoul continues its anti-North psychological campaign, the North’s official media said on Sunday ahead of an annual, joint military drill between the United States and South Korea.
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