UN peacekeepers in Ivory Coast fire warning shots
UN troops in Abidjan fired warning shots to disperse a mob loyal to President Gbagbo as regional envoy Raila Odinga arrived to press the leader to cede office. Odinga met Gbagbo and later planned to visit Ouattara, while regional military chiefs consider intervention to end the stalemate.
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Ivory Coast
Abidjan
United Nations
Pullman
African Union
Raila Odinga
Associated Press
Eraman
Odinga
Kenya
Laurent Gbagbo
Alassane Ouattara
Nber
Africa
Ouattara
Gbagbo
Young Patriots
U.N
Charles Ble Goude
Egyptian man sets himself on fire outside parliament protest
An Egyptian man, Abdou Abdel-Monaam Hamadah, 48, set himself ablaze near central Cairo's parliament in a protest over bread subsidies. Police and bystanders extinguished the fire. he sustained light burns and was hospitalized.
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Cairo
Health Ministry
Abdel- Rahman Shahine
Abdou Abdel-Monaam Hamadah
Qantara
Suez Canal
Ismailia
Hamadah
U.S
Parliament
Fathi Sorour
Egypt
Al-Ahram
Mohamed Bouazizi
Tunis
Tunisia
Zine el Abidine Ben Ali
Algeria
Liberte
Ben Ali
Hosni Mubarak
U.N
Mubarak
National Democratic Party
Barak Defects from Labor to Form Independence Party
Israel defense minister Ehud Barak quits the Labor Party forming a centrist Independence party. He will remain in Netanyahu's coalition with four followers, while Labor's eight lawmakers resign, shifting the balance toward hawks in a fragile political landscape.
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Ehud Barak
Knesset
Israel
Jerusalem
Labor Party
Labor
Benjamin Netanyahu
Barak
Netanyahu
Ment
West Bank
East Jerusalem
Independence
David Ben-Gurion
Levi Eshkol
Golda Meir
Yitzhak Rabin
Likud
Berlusconi probe cites alleged sex with numerous prostitutes
Milan prosecutors said Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi had sex with a significant number of young prostitutes and used rent free apartments and cash payments to compensate them. They seek authority to search offices at a Segrate complex linked to his properties as part of a probe over a 17 year old girl nicknamed Ruby.
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Rome
Silvio Berlusconi
Milan
Ruby
Italy
Berlusconi
Fabrizio Cicchitto
Chamber of Deputies
Chamber
Arcore
Segrate
Edmondo Bruti
Liberati
Veronica Lario
Lario
Constitutional Court
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