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Listening Post Feature – Ethiopia: Journalism akin to terrorism
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In our feature presentation, we if vague, blanket laws could soon make journalism the number one terrorist activity in the African nation.
Inside Story – Heavy is the head …
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How can Kenya's new president govern while facing trial for crime against humanity in the Hague? Discussing with Jane Dutton are guests Muthoni Wanyeki, former executive director of the Kenyan Human Rights Commissio...
Italy Elections: Anything but Austerity| Interview with Webster Tarpley
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Abby Martin talks to author & investigative journalist, Webster Tarpley, about Italy's stagnant elections and the implications they have on the stability of ...
Vatican prepares for pope election
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Final preparations are being made at the Vatican for the election of a new Catholic pope. And as Roman Catholics keep a close eye on the ballot, the church's place in today's society is also under scrutiny. So too i...
Egyptian parties divided on elections approach
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Founder of Strong Egypt party and former presidential candidate Abdul Moniem Abdul Fotouh said his party will be running in the upcoming parliamentary elections set to start on April 22nd. Abul Fotouh said in a pres...
Italy’s chief executives on political change
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Rachel Sanderson, Milan correspondent, talks to Italy's business leaders about the country's inconclusive election results and the structural changes they hope to see implemented once a new government is elected. In...
Battle for Latin America ahead? ‘US to demonize Chavez post-mortem’
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The main question now is who will become Venezuela's new leader. Some analysts suggest it will be hard for the US-backed opposition to overturn Chavez's policies. However, Pepe Escobar, who's an investigative journa...
Forbes drops Mexican drug lord ‘El Chapo’ from billionaires’ club
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Every year Forbes magazine compiles a list of the world's billionaires, but this year there is one face you won't find in the pages of the publication. After four consecutive years, Sinaloa Cartel kingpin Joaquin 'E...
War in Vain: Stricter Sharia looms for Afghans as Taliban goes into politics?
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After more than a decade of war, hundreds of billions spent and vast numbers killed, we may be about to see the democratic election of a truly stable, and representative government in Afghanistan. Though not quite t...
Kenya Elections 2013: The Voters Speak
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Related article: nyti.ms Please visit nyti.ms in order to embed this video TimesCast: The Times's Jeffrey A. Gettleman talks with citizens about their election choices and hopes for the new term. Subscribe on YouTub...
Kenya takes to the polls
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Queues form at polling stations across around the country as people vote in Kenya's presidential and parliamentary elections. The two leading presidential candidates are Raila Odinga and Uhuru Kenyatta. For more vid...
Test for the easy money era
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Michael Mackenzie, the FT's US markets editor, wraps up the fallout on the markets from political and economic pressures in Italy and the US. For more video content from the Financial Times, visit
Syrian Foreign Minister visits Tehran
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Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem arrived in Tehran and held talks with Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi and other Iranian officials including Iran's Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council...
Kenya rights group releases cash-for-votes video
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Kenya's human rights commission has released damaging video showing members of the two main political parties handing out cash for votes. The organization says candidates from the parties of both Raila Odinga and Uh...
Dolce Vita Finita: ‘Hard life looms for Italy with austerity in air’
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Italy's looking for a way out of its election limbo after a hung parliament put Europe on tenterhooks and raised fears of fresh financial turmoil. No parties won a parliamentary majority and the results showed Itali...
Leading political party boycott upcoming vote in Egypt
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As the political turmoil in Egypt deepens ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections, the National Salvation Front decided unanimously to boycott the elections, scheduled to begin on April 22nd. The front also de...
Fears grow that Italy may be ungovernable
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Italian general elections provided an unpredictable outcome on Monday. The vote produced a stalemate with the ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi's center-right saying the vote should be declared too close to call. The cen...
Italian Elections Rekindle Eurozone Crisis
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Stratfor's Europe analyst Adriano Bosoni discusses the fractious results of the Italian elections and how they pose political and economic challenges for the European Union. For more analysis, visit: