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2 hrs ago | WLNE-TV Providence

Blasts rock Libya's capital and eastern city

Two commuter trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in an accident that sent more than 60 people to Connecticut hospitals, severely damaged the tracks and threatened to snarl travel in the congested... Officials described a devastating scene of shattered cars and other damage where two trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in ... (more)

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, Train Disaster

2 hrs ago | The Miami Herald

Blasts rock Libya's capital and eastern city

Libyan officials say explosions went off in the capital Tripoli and the restive eastern city of Benghazi, but no casualties were reported.

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Related Topix: Africa, World News, Explosion

7 hrs ago | Ledger-Enquirer.com

A look at why the Benghazi issue keeps coming back

Why was a diplomatic outpost left so poorly protected? Should the Pentagon have rushed jets or special forces to the rescue when the assault began? Did President Barack Obama's administration obscure the true nature of the terrorist attack to help him get re-elected? Congressional Republicans are poking for evidence of incompetence and cover-up in ... (more)

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, 2012 Presidential Election, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Terrorism

Fri May 17, 2013

Media Matters for America

Krauthammer Peddles False Claims In Desperate Attempt To Keep Benghazi Scandal Alive

Fox News contributor and Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer pushed new and old falsehoods about the attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, by misrepresenting recently-released emails that prove that government agencies drafted talking points without references to terrorism in order to protect the ongoing investigation into the ... (more)

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, Terrorism, US News, US Federal Bureau of Investigation, Liberal Political News

Institute for War and Peace Reporting

IWPR Trains Reporters in Libya's Far East

In the most comprehensive media training programme to reach eastern Libya, IWPR has been working with newsrooms and individual reporters to raise standards and skills.

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Related Topix: Africa, World News

Newstime Africa

Psychosocial course aims to heal scars caused by Libyan conflict

African Press Organization - IOM, in partnership with Tripoli University, has completed a six-month course for 31 Libyan health, educational and social experts on how to cope with psychological reactions in the aftermath of 2011 Libyan conflict.

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Related Topix: Africa, World News

Inter Press Service

Tribes Keep Uneasy Peace in Southern Libya

Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan Tebu suffered from state-sanctioned discrimination, which stemmed in part from the failure of the semi-nomadic tribe to register under Libya's 1954 citizenship law.

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, Travel, Libya Travel, Africa Travel,

New Media Journal

Hillary Never Called Back

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her senior staff conducted a conference call with Gregory Hicks, deputy chief of the US mission in Libya, in the early morning hours of Sept.

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Frank Wolf

New Media Journal

Days of Distress, Rebuke & Disgrace

On September 12, 2012, the American public awakened to news about the attack on the diplomatic post in Benghazi, which included the Obama administration's carefully calculated lie it was incited by a video that vilified Islam.

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Related Topix: Terrorism, Hillary Clinton, US Politics, Africa, World News, Barack Obama

The Toronto Star

Canadian security investigators probe possible instigators of London terror suspects

Canadian national security investigators are probing intelligence about figures in London, Ont., who allegedly promoted extreme views of Islam and may have encouraged young Muslim men and converts to go abroad , the Star has learned.

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Related Topix: Canada, Terrorism, World News,

Thu May 16, 2013

Examiner.com

Why was Ambassador Christopher Stevens murdered?

The president of the United States, the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense have lied about the motivations leading to the murders at Benghazi on 9/11, blaming the attacks on an obscure, unknown video rather than a planned attack by the AlQaeda franchise, Ansar al Shariah.

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Related Topix: World News, Africa

IRIN

Libyans in North Africa scared to return home

Until government and revolutionary forces attacked the Libyan town of Bani Walid, about 170km southeast of the capital Tripoli in October last year, Abdullah Warfella had been determined never to leave.

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, Travel, Africa, Nigeria Travel, South Africa Travel, Nigeria Travel, Africa, South Africa Travel, Africa, Mali Travel, Africa Travel, Mali Travel, Muammar Gaddafi (Gadhafi)

Korea Herald

Uncovering the truth behind Benghazi decisions

"A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al-Qaida is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead." - President Barack Obama to the Democratic National Convention, Sept.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, World News, Africa, Mitt Romney, Terrorism

ANSA.it

Bonino confirms U.S. troops in Sicily over Libya concern

Rome, May 15 - Italian Foreign Minister Emma Bonino on Wednesday confirmed that only 200 American troops were being moved to Sicily to be ready for rapid deployment if any new attacks occur in Libya.

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, US Military, US Air Force

The Hill

White House releases Benghazi emails

The White House on Wednesday released more than 100 pages of inter-agency emails intended to bolster its argument it did not try to hide the fact that last year's attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, was terrorism.

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Related Topix: Terrorism, World News, Africa

Mother Jones

Former NSC Spox Talks About the Talking Points

Greg Sargent asked Tommy Vietor, who recently stepped down as the spokesman for the National Security Council, to provide his take on the whole Benghazi talking points affair.

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Related Topix: Africa, World News

Wed May 15, 2013

CNN

GOP using Benghazi to smear

Gregory Hicks, the former deputy chief of mission in Libya, arrives for a House committee hearing on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, May 8. State Department employees testified about the terror attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, 2012.

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, US News, US Military, US Navy, US Politics, Elijah Cummings, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Republican, Darrell Issa, Opinion

KHOU-TV Houston

Protesters close Libyan oil terminal, halt exports

Protesters and disgruntled job seekers forced the closure of an eastern Libyan oil terminal on Wednesday for the second time in six months, disrupting exports, said an oil ministry official.

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Related Topix: Africa, World News

St. Petersburg Times

PolitiFact: Fact-checking claims about Benghazi attacks

House Republicans held hearings last week on the 2012 attacks on a diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya.

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Related Topix: US News, World News, Africa, US Politics, Barack Obama, Republican, US House of Representatives, Representative Jason Chaffetz

AlertNet

Young Libyans find escape in Tripoli's "secret" cinema

In the basement of a villa in central Tripoli, young Libyans seeking an escape from violence and disorder watch an American movie classic screened using a simple projector and laptop.

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, Rebel Without a Cause, Drama Movies, James Dean, Celebrities