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  1. In a special show, Al Jazeera investigates what the crisis in the remote region of Southern Kordofan means for #Sudan | aje.me/HmpPje
  2. Opinion: Scores of #Palestinian civilians were massacred at #Deir Yassin in 1948 aje.me/HnKp2M
  3. Video: In the Titanic’s wake 100 years on aje.me/HmhVWW
  4. The #Syrian regime has formally accepted Annan's six-point peace plan, but is it just a time-gaining tactic? | aje.me/HsBAJv
  5. Opinion: @PaulHRosenberg analyses a new #US budget plan and says #Obama has embraced #conservative ideas aje.me/HmSCnF
  6. Policemen injured in Bahrain blast aje.me/HokSqf
  7. Opinion: #Internet regulators in #Pakistan want to #censor up to 50 million websites aje.me/HnJijF
  8. On @AJEarthrise: A solution to the problem of cow #methane, #Filipino electric tricycles & #sustainable fisheries | aje.me/HsxWzi
  9. Peru rebels kidnap gas workers aje.me/Hofp2t
  10. Syria's cross-border shooting decried aje.me/Hvb6qR
  11. Sport: Windies on top in first Test aje.me/HobWRG
  12. Opinion: What do you call a "balanced budget plan" that won't balance the #US #budget until 2040? asks @PaulHRosenberg aje.me/HmShl7
  13. Op-ed: The conflict in #Indonesia came to a grinding halt when the December 2004 #tsunami struck the shores of #Aceh aje.me/HmRGQn
  14. Feature: An #Israeli attack on #Iran is imminent; at least that's what someone reading Western media might think aje.me/HnLpDV
  15. Opinion: Israelis and Palestinians alike cannot move forward without addressing the original sins Israel was built upon aje.me/HnKO5l
  16. Video: India fishermen call for water policies aje.me/HuRuDc
  17. Video: Russia battles Soviet-era abortion attitudes aje.me/Ho31j7
  18. Video: Migrants bear brunt of UK jobless woes aje.me/HuRumU
  19. Video: Libya's fuel sector returns to pre-war levels aje.me/Ho31j5
  20. Sport: Chelsea squander top-four chance aje.me/HuQQ8Q