Belarus election ends. Lukashenko wins fourth term amid arrests
Seven presidential candidates face up to 15 years in prison after postelection violence in Belarus. Andrei Sannikov, who won 2.4 percent, was beaten and may have a broken leg. Vladimir Neklyayev was also injured as security cracked down and 700 were arrested overall.
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Minsk
Belarus
Pavel Sapelko
Andrei Sannikov
Alexander Lukashenko
Sannikov
Vesna
Tamara Sidorenko
Vladimir Neklyayev
Grigory Kostusyev
Dmitry Uss
KGB
Lukashenko
Europe
Russia
Ukraine
Poland
Baltic
European Union
Lion
Associated Press
Kostusyev
Irina Khalip
Nataliya Radina
Nikolai Statkevich
Vitaly Rymashevsky
Ales Mikhalevich
Reporters Without Borders
Kazakhstan
Moscow
Anna Chapman Joins Putin Loyalist Youth Wing
Former spy Anna Chapman publicly allied with Russia by joining the Young Guards, the youth wing of United Russia. At a Kremlin event she spoke of changing the country by changing herself and later dodged questions about duties while a bodyguard escorted her. The Young Guards are known for anti U S rhetoric and past violent pranks against critics.
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Moscow
Anna Chapman
Russia
Vladimir Putin
United Russia Party
Chapman
United States
Young Guards
Timur Prokopenko
Andrei Tatarinov
U.S
Kremlin
Georgia
Ukraine
America
White House
Associated Press
UN increases Somalia peacekeeping force by 50 percent
The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves boosting AMISOM from 8 000 to 12 000 troops in Somalia and extending AU deployment to Sept 30 2011 to boost protection for the Transitional Federal Government and civilians amid clashes with al Shabab Hizbul Islam and other groups. Ugandan participation will add 4 000 troops.
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United Nations
Somalia
U.N
al-Shabab
Hizbul Islam
African Union
Osama bin Laden
Council
Jamaica mayor allied with Coke to curb Kingston crime
A U S diplomatic cable says Kingston Mayor Desmond McKenzie described a years long alliance with Christopher Coke to fight crime in West Kingston. The memo warns of severe repercussions if Coke were extradited and notes Coke’s influence in JLP politics and slum communities.
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Kingston
Jamaica
U.S
Desmond McKenzie
Christopher “Dudus” Coke
West Kingston
Bruce Golding
McKenzie
Jamaica Labor Party
Washington
Coke
Isiah L. Parnell
WikiLeaks
the Guardian
Tivoli Gardens
New York
United States
U.S. Justice Department
Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation
Daryl Vaz
Golding
JLP
Oe Clinton
New Yor
Charles Rangel