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Anti-film protests spread across Muslim world
Angry protests over an anti-Islam film spread across the Muslim world Friday, with demonstrators scaling the walls of U.S. embassies in Tunisia and Sudan and torching part of a German embassy. Amid the turmoil, Islamic militants waving black banners and...
Tags: Hillary Clinton, Pakistan, U.S. Embassy, U.S. Department of State, Religious Conflicts
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Libyan officials: U.S. ambassador killed in attack
A mob enraged by a film ridiculing Islam’s prophet killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans in a fiery attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi. President Barack Obama strongly condemned the violence, vowed Wednesday to bring...
Tags: Injuries and Wounds, YouTube, Libya, Politics, Egypt
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Syria defiantly denies killings, U.N. condemns attack
Syria on Sunday strongly denied allegations that its forces killed scores of people — including women and children — in one of the deadliest days of the country’s uprising, but the U.N. Security Council after an emergency session...
Tags: Weaponry, Massacres, Military Equipment, Armed Conflicts, Bashar Assad
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Egypt's Mubarak on life support after heart stops
Associated PressEgypt’s Hosni Mubarak was being kept alive by life support after he was rushed from prison to a military hospital in a rapidly worsening condition, officials said. The 84-year-old ousted leader’s health crisis added a new element of...Tags: Government, Parliament, Elections, Civil Rights, Justice and Rights
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Protest groups move into place as G-8 Summit begins
andrews@herald-mail.comWith world leaders on their way to Camp David for a Group of Eight summit, protesters trickled into nearby Thurmont to speak their minds. The movement started slowly Friday morning, with just two representatives of the Larouche Political Action Committee...Tags: Weis Markets Incorporated, Cheng Yu-tung, Frederick County (Maryland), Camp David, Protest
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Group protests genocide in Ethiopia in Thurmont square
andrews@herald-mail.comProtesters speaking out against genocide in Ethiopia took to Thurmont's main intersection Saturday, when a G-8 Summit in nearby Camp David was scheduled to wrap up. Police in riot gear stood in rows in the street as dozens of protesters held signs, waved...Tags: Massacres, Politics, Hate Crimes, Genocide, Summits
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Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, Banking, Riots, Strikes, Immigration
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Obama apologizes for burning of Qurans at military base in Afghanistan
Associated PressPresident Barack Obama apologized Thursday for the burning of copies of the Muslim holy book at a U.S. military base this week, as violent protests raging nationwide led a man dressed in an Afghan army uniform to kill two U.S. troops. The Afghans’...Tags: Government, Oslo (Norway), Armed Conflicts, Armed Forces, Afghanistan
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Tags: Punishment, Trials, Defendants, Hosni Mubarak, Justice System
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Art Callaham: Baseball and Hagerstown a winning combination
acallaham@myactv.netI received several comments and even an opinion letter about my suggestion to develop a vision for Hagerstown’s downtown. The letter was critical of me for allegedly using a “20th-century premise” that a city’s center is the...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Politics
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