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10 Things to Know Today - Jan. 18
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1. FOR ARMSTRONG, NOT AS EASY AS RIDING A BIKE Lance Armstrong acknowledges in a TV interview what he has lied about repeatedly for years: He used...
Tags: Elections, Dining and Drinking, Republican Party, Politics, Arts and Culture
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Colonial Virginia gentry embraced stranded North African
As the political epicenter of British America’s richest and most populous colony, the town of Williamsburg played host to a rich cross-spectrum of humanity during the 1700s. Planters, merchants and tradesmen of all shades and stripes came from...
Tags: Georgetown, Arts and Culture, Politics, England, Government
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Revisiting Jean-Luc Godard's 'Le Petit Soldat'
Jean-Luc Godard made his second feature film, "Le Petit Soldat," in 1960, but it was banned until 1963 because of its tough look at the then-current French-Algerian conflict and unblinking portrayal of torture. Opening Friday at the Nuart in a new 35-...
Tags: Entertainment, Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Movies
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Libya's south teeters toward chaos — and militant extremists
SABHA, Libya — Their fatigues don't match and their pickup has no windshield. Their antiaircraft gun, clogged with grit, is perched between a refugee camp and ripped market tents scattered over an ancient caravan route. But the tribesmen keep...
Tags: Armed Forces, Substance Abuse, Niger, Islam, Al-Qaeda
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Channeling the spirits in color and line at Ellicott City gallery
Ephrem Kouakou prefers to work while the world sleeps. The artist says that in the dead of night, absent the sound of any human voice or music, he can best hear the "spirits" talking. He says he's been hearing the spirits steer his brush since he...
Tags: Human Interest, Artists, Côte d'Ivoire, Howard University, Arts and Culture
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Questions that need asking
WASHINGTON -- Republicans wanted nothing more than to summon Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Capitol Hill and grill her about the tragic fiasco in Benghazi. Sadly for them, they got their wish. Clinton's smooth and confident performance at...
Tags: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Rand Paul, Politics, Islam
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Want to fight terrorism? Educate women
The jihadists stoning women to death in Mali and taking hostages in Algeria are harbingers of much worse to come. Osama bin Laden may be dead, but Al Qaeda in Africa now threatens an area twice the size of Germany. Mali is just one country in the Sahel,...
Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Niger, Al-Qaeda, Feminism, U.S. Military
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Hostage crises, then and now
The State Department is probably very pleased with the outcome of last week's hostage crisis in Algeria, although given the loss of innocent lives it would be impolitic for officials to say so. In case you missed it, Islamic militants had held an...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, U.S. Congress, Politics, U.S. Navy, U.S. Department of State
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A Pyrrhic victory?
Algerian forces claimed a decisive victory this weekend over al-Qaida-affiliated Islamist militants who took over a giant natural gas plant near the country's border with Mali last week and threatened to kill hostages and blow up the facility. But the...Tags: Coup d'Etat, Al-Qaeda, North Africa, Muammar Gaddafi, France
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Cameron: Fewer than 30 Britons still caught up in Algeria crisis
LONDON – After warning his compatriots to brace themselves for “bad news,” British Prime Minister David Cameron said Friday that there were now significantly fewer than 30 Britons still caught up in the crisis in Algeria but that the...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics, Government, United Kingdom, BP Plc
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In Africa, resilient Al Qaeda flaunts power to terrorize
A deadly hostage-taking at an Algerian gas complex and an armed international confrontation in Mali herald the opening of another front in the global war on terrorism and serve as stark reminders that Al Qaeda retains the power to inflict death and...
Tags: Armed Forces, Defense, Al-Qaeda, Islam, Yemen
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Algeria attackers reportedly led by one-eyed militant
WASHINGTON -- The attackers who seized an Algerian gas field and took foreigners hostage early Wednesday were commanded by the notorious one-eyed Algerian militant Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the Mauritanian news agency ANI reported as the crisis continued....
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, U.S. Department of State, Al-Qaeda, Energy Resources, Mali
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Jan 25, 2013
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Jan 25, 2013
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Jan 23, 2013
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Jan 22, 2013
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Jan 18, 2013
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Jan 16, 2013
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