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Thousands of police deployed for Greek protest

Fears over an annual march commemorating the violent crackdown on student movement in 1973 sees 7,000 policemen take to the streets in Athens

Profile: New Italian PM Mario Monti

New Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti boasts expertise in economics but is limited in experience in public posts, where his abilities are yet to be tested

US, Philippines boost alliance amid row with China

US and Philippines signed a declaration calling for multilateral talks to resolve maritime disputes, contrasting China's policy of negotiating one-on-one with the Philippines and other Asian claimants

Groups say cluster bombs remain in 69 nations

Internationally banned cluster bombs remain in use, says activist coalition, killing or injuring approximately 17,000 in 2010 alone

Karzai outlines conditions for US bases in Afghanistan

Afghan president discuss the terms and conditions for long term relation with US including the American military bases in country

US drone strike kills up to 18 in Pakistan

Around ten missiles crash into a compound near northwest Pakistan killing up to eighteen people, in a US mission against the Taliban

City officials resume Occupy London eviction moves

London's Occupy protesters to face eviction from their camp outside St. Paul's Cathedral pitched in October

Neo-Nazi murders, film confession shock Germany

A film found in a burned-out mobile home of two far right-wing men, who had committed suicide, shows stills of murdered bodies of immigrants

Big protest set for Thursday at New York Stock Exchange

Occupy Wall Street protesters hope to rebound on Thursday with a march on the New York Stock Exchange to show their battle against economic inequality still has life after they were evicted from a nearby park

'Occupy' activists worldwide rally in defence of Egypt uprising

Occupy squared

Who's bombing Somalia? French, US trade blame

The US and France both deny responsibility for Sunday strike targeting Al-Shabab fighters on outskirts of Somali capital

Republican hopefuls challenge Obama on Iran

Republican presidential candidates attack the Obama administration as being soft on Iran and propose hawkish alternatives to eliminate Tehran's nuclear threat

Amnesty slams 'authoritarian' Azerbaijan over crackdown

In a detailed report about Azerbaijan , Amnesty international says that President Ilham Aliyev regime violated the human right by using excessive force against peaceful protesters and criminalizing activists

Anti-Wall Street protests take root on Harvard lawn

Occupy Wall Street moved to Harvard university as hundreds of student accuse their elite university of eceducating the "one percent" they blame for the global financial crisis

Torture charges hurt UK status

British government claims its international standing has been undermined by allegations that its spies conspired in torture yet states it should preserve the secrecy that the espionage needs

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