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Japan death toll estimates surpass 10,000

  Officials confirm only 1,800 deaths as grim search for the missing in tsunami-ravaged northeast continues; Millions without water, food or power Font size  Print   E-mail   Share   2 Comments   Like this Story? Share...

Japan Pushes to Rescue Survivors as Quake Toll Rises

  European Pressphoto Agency People searched for survivors of a collapsed building in Iwaki city, Fukushima Prefecture, on Saturday. More Photos » By MARTIN FACKLER and MARK McDONALD Published: March 12, 2011 NAKAMINATO, Japan — While nuclear experts were grappling with...

Arab League asks U.N. for no-fly zone over Libya

  Gallery: Egypt- and Tunisia-inspired protests spread through Middle East, North Africa: Motivated by recent shows of political strength by neighbors in Egypt, demonstrators in the Middle East and North Africa are taking to the streets of many cities to rally for...

Yearning for Respect, Arabs Find a Voice

By ANTHONY SHADID Published: January 29, 2011 BEIRUT, Lebanon — In Yemen, the chants invoked Tunisia, a continent away. A Lebanese newspaper declared that all of the Middle East was watching Egypt. A long-dead North African poet’s most famous poem has become the anthem of a moment the most...

Remembering David Kato, a Gay Ugandan and a Marked Man

By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN Published: January 29, 2011 NAIROBI, Kenya — It was late at night and totally dark when I first met David Kato. He had been described to me as “the most out” gay Ugandan and the country’s leading gay rights crusader, reviled by many, revered by a small few — but...

Egyptian protesters feel world has passed them by

By Griff Witte Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, January 27, 2011; 4:46 PM   CAIRO - Abdel Zaher Dandarwi does not look like a revolutionary. At 53, his hair is graying at the temples, and his eyes betray more fatigue than fury. But it was fatigue - with the daily corruption, the...

Egyptian military delegation at Pentagon for annual meeting

Egyptian military delegation at Pentagon for annual meeting Awkward timing -- or a potentially restraining influence on the behavior of Egyptian security forces? Asked about anti-government protests sweeping Egypt, and recent unrest leading to government change in Tunisia and Lebanon,...
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