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Libya rebels in Tripoli, Gadhafi defenses collapse
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) - Libyan rebels claimed to be in control of most of the Libyan capital on Monday after their lightning advance on Tripoli heralded the fall of Moammar Gadhafi's nearly 42-year regime. Scattered battles erupted, and the mercurial...Tags: Wars and Interventions, International Court or Tribunal, Libya, Disasters and Accidents, Crime, Law and Justice
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Breaking News: Libya officials say Gadhafi captured, possibly killed
Associated PressSIRTE, Libya (AP) - Libyan transitional government officials said Moammar Gadhafi was captured and possibly killed when revolutionary forces overwhelmed the ousted leader's hometown, Sirte, the last major bastion of resistance two months after his...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Libya, Misrata (Libya), Iraq, Interim Transitional National Council
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Syria's government presses battle in key rebel city of Qusair
BEIRUT -- Renewed clashes were reported Monday in the strategic Syrian city of Qusair, where government forces pressed an offensive aimed at chasing rebels from the supply and logistics hub. There were conflicting accounts from the government and the...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Emergency Incidents, Lebanon, Rebellions, News Agency
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Lehigh Valley Wine Trail to make stop at Blue Mountain Vineyards May 18 and 19
Blue Mountain Vineyards in New Tripoli is taking part in the Lehigh Valley Wine Trail in Bloom on from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, May 18 and noon-5 p.m. Sunday, May 19. The event celebrates the buds breaking on the vines and the importance of the quality...Tags: New Tripoli, Wines
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Whistle-blower's yarn fails to tie Benghazi lapses to politics
WASHINGTON -- They summoned a whistle-blower to Capitol Hill, but instead they got a virtuoso storyteller. Gregory Hicks, the No. 2 U.S. diplomat in Libya the night Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed, was to be the star...
Tags: Joint Chiefs of Staff, Hillary Clinton, U.S. Department of State, Libya, Crime, Law and Justice
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Envoy describes night of Benghazi attack
WASHINGTON — Minutes after Greg Hicks learned that the perimeter of the U.S. mission in Benghazi had been breached by men with guns, he punched a cellphone number to reach Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, his immediate boss, who was at the scene....
Tags: Hillary Clinton, Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Military, Wars and Interventions
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Republicans say military could have done more in Benghazi
WASHINGTON — The latest chapter in the political battle over the killing of four Americans in Libya is unfolding this week, with Republicans pointing to the testimony of a State Department official as evidence that the U.S. military could have...Tags: Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S. Military, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Embassy, Jason Chaffetz
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Me and My Grandma: Once at the beach we had ice cream for breakfast
•Name: Brynn Easterday •Age: 8 •Hometown: New Tripoli •Grandma's name: Helene Easterday •Where from: New Tripoli •What you call her: Nanny or Nana •What she calls you: Brynn •What makes her special?...
Tags: Apple iPod, New Tripoli, Foods and Beverages, Potatoes, Ice Cream
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French embassy in Tripoli hit by car bomb
Residents living near the embassy compound, in the capital's Hay Andalus area, said they heard two blasts early in the morning around 7:00 a.m. "We think it was a booby trapped car," a French embassy official told Reuters. "There was a lot of damage and...
Tags: Emergency Incidents, Libya, Benghazi, Explosions
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Comments on response
Here is a point-by-point response to Mr. Zachary's Slayback's most recent letter to the editor. First, libertarians are an ill-defined bunch, ranging much more widely over the political and cultural spectrum than do conservatives. One familial stripe...Tags: Values, Judges, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Separation of Church and State
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Old animosities thrive in post-Kadafi Libya
ZINTAN, Libya — The prized scion of Moammar Kadafi is a prisoner of tribesmen in these mountains of scrub and ocher rock. The rebels who captured him after the 2011 civil war that toppled his father have refused to turn him over to the central...
Tags: International Court or Tribunal, Wars and Interventions, Human Rights Watch, Libya, Egypt
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Arab hip-hop's El Rass takes on rap and revolution
BEIRUT — When Mazen El Sayed, a.k.a. El Rass, picks up a microphone, his provocative phrasings may lock in on any number of targets: Islamic clerics, the West, Arab regimes, social inequities. "We are all made from the same steel," the Lebanese hip-...Tags: Poetry, Arab Spring, Entertainment, Religion and Belief, Islam
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Apr 29, 2013
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Apr 23, 2013
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Apr 12, 2013
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Apr 8, 2013
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Mar 30, 2013
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