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By Gregg Carlstrom in Middle East on May 31st, 2010
Protesters in Istanbul wave Palestinian flags after the raid (Photo: AFP)

Early Monday morning, Israel attacked a flotilla of aid ships bound for the Gaza Strip; up to 10 people were killed in the pre-dawn raid, according to organisers and media sources.

We'll be live-blogging the aftermath of this incident throughout the day; keep checking back for international reaction, news from our correspondents on the ground, photos and video. (All times are GMT, except where noted.)

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By Omar Chatriwala in Business on May 15th, 2010
Photo by Getty Images

Facebook, the social sharing website, has come under growing criticism for recent changes to its privacy settings, which make it easier for users' information to be spread beyond the site.

The number of Facebook users interested in deleting their accounts on the website, which boasts more than 400 million registered members, has double in the past week, according to figures released by the search engine Google.

A website has also now been launched, urging those "sick of Facebook’s lack of respect for your data" to quit the website in joint protest on May 31. In the site's first day, it had garnered more than 680 pledges to do so.

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By Al Jazeera Staff in Europe on May 5th, 2010
Photo by AFP

Britain has held what appears to be the tightest election race in a generation.

The Conservative party took the lead but failed to gain a clear parliamentary majority, leaving the UK with a hung parliament. Eyes are now on the Liberal Democrats, as the two main parties attempt to woo them into forming an alliance.

You can follow the the latest news from Al Jazeera's UK election team right here.  

1636 GMT It's not just Nick Clegg that David Cameron is going to have to convince of the merits of a coalition. As this story from the Financial Times shows, he faces a battle persuading his own party.

By Fatma Naib in Africa on April 13th, 2010
Photos by Fatma Naib

On the second day of Sudan's turbulent election, the lines at polling stations are not getting any longer and the streets of Khartoum are as quiet as the first.

We came across a group of young first-time voters who are disgruntled with the elections, but they chose a different way to express themselves.

Some have decided to boycott the elections all together by urging people, through social media such as Facebook, to stay at home and change their profile pictures to black to show that they are mourning the elections.

Others, like Al-Agib Abdelrahman, a pharmacist, have chosen a different method of protest.

Voting blank

He decided to vote, but would choose a presidential candidate that is boycotting the elections, and leave the rest of the ballot blank. This is his way of expressing himself.

By Omar al-Saleh in Middle East on March 1st, 2010

Campaigning for Iraq's election on March 7 is entering the final stage, with only four days left for candidates to convince their voters before a two-day period of silence, Then on March 5, special voting gets under way for those serving in the military, those sick in hospitals and prisoners.

Candidates are using the social networking website Facebook for the first time in addition to appearing on local and Arab television stations to present their messages. And there’s a lot of talk of vote buying too - giving gifts and cash.

On the streets of Baghdad, there is a sea of posters everywhere - in public squares, gardens, on electric poles; someone even thought to put their posters on a big balloon and send it into the sky.

By Cath Turner in Americas on February 6th, 2010

The Tea Party movement does not have one, single leader. And that's just the way the Tea Partiers like it.
 
Many observers describe them as "disorganised". They prefer to use the word "decentralised".
 
This movement believes it has several hundred leaders across the country within each county, each district, each state. The Tea Partiers believe one person taking the lead and heading to Washington to represent them would be the death of their cause. 
 
The first ever Tea Party Convention is designed to bring dozens of groups together, to share ideas, connect like-minded people and work out where to take the movement from here. 

By Omar Chatriwala in Americas on January 20th, 2010
Photos courtesy of Ushahidi

It's now more than a week since the Caribbean nation of Haiti was rocked by a massive 7.0 magnitude earthquake, but the situation on the ground remains unstable, with people still being pulled from the rubble and the death toll continuing to rise.

With landlines in the country badly damaged, and ground transportation a significant problem, relief workers pouring into the country have had to turn to non-traditional means to try to get information from - and to - survivors of the quake.

By Omar Chatriwala in Americas on January 13th, 2010
Photo by Carel Pedre via Twitter

At 21:53GMT on Tuesday, the Caribbean nation of Haiti was hit by its strongest earthquake in more than 200 years, causing what is being described as "a catastrophe of major proportions".

Heavy casualties are feared after numerous buildings were levelled by the 7.0 magnitude earthquake.

This blog post, previously named "Haiti Earthquake: Latest updates", followed events in the immediate aftermath of quake.

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