An employment and labor law attorney says teachers in Wisconsin will have little choice left but to end their demonstrations, return to the classroom and hope the next election ends in their favor. (Feb. 23)
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Judge eases Chris Brown restraining order; Singer Buju Banton found guilty in cocaine case; Alyssa Milano expecting her first child. (Feb. 23)
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Hoda Abdel Hamid reports from the city of Tobruk, around 140km west of the border with Egypt. Egyptians on the road fleeing Libya told her that there had been fighting in towns along the way, and the situation remains chaotic. One man told her there had been a “bloodbath”. Mercenaries, some French-speaking and allegedly from Chad, roam during the night. Police have fled or are in hiding, citizens told Hamid, and they control the east up to the city of Benghazi.
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s office has confirmed that it fell for a prank call from a liberal blogger who was apparently posing as David Koch. A blogger at buffalobeast.com posted audio of a call he claimed was with Walker earlier on Wednesday. At time of writing, buffalobeast.com appears to be down. Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : TPMmuckraker Discovery Date : 23/02/2011 13:16 Number of articles : 10
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At a press conference in Peru, Sting reveals his hopes and concerns about the violence and repression in Libya. He says we should start treating the Arab culture in a better way. (Feb. 23)
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Foreigners were continuing to flee Libya the day after a defiant Moammar Gadhafi vowed to fight to stay in power. Unrest in Libya and elsewhere in the Middle East has hit stock markets and sent oil prices soaring around the world. (Feb. 23)
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Libya witnessed another day of chaos on Wednesday, as a defiant Muammar Gaddafi refused to step down in the face of widespread protests, calling instead for his supporters to “cleanse” the country “house by house”. Calling those who stand against him “rats” and “mercenaries”, he said during a televised address on Tuesday that he would fight to the last, and that he would rather die “a martyr” than quit office. On Wednesday, Franco Frattini, the Italian foreign minister, said that reports of 1000 people being killed in a violent anti-government crackdown on protests that has raged since February 17th were “credible”. Al Jazeera’s Lawrence Lee reports.
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A jury in Phoenix has convicted a 50-year-old Iraqi immigrant of second-degree murder for running over and killing his daughter in a case prosecutors called an `honor killing.’ (Feb. 23)
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This is the first time that the changes sweeping the Arab world have hit a major oil producer and there are now fears that the spike in oil prices could hurt the fragile global economy. While Libya only produces two per cent of world oil production, 85 per cent of that is sent to Europe. Al Jazeera’s Nick Spicer reports from Berlin.
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