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cairo, egypt paris maiduguri, nigeria
Egyptian police, protesters clash Candidate pushs exit from euro 2 soldiers, 1 child killed by sect
Egyptian riot police firing tear gas and The head of a French far-right party Police say two soldiers and a child are
rubber bullets stormed into Cairo’s Tah- who is running for president has unveiled dead after members of a radical Muslim
rir Square Saturday to clear a protest tent her vision for the country, including an sect ambushed them in a city in northeast
camp, setting off clashes with protesters exit from the euro and a tightening of Nigeria.
who fought back with stones and set an border controls. Local police commissioner Simeon
armored police vehicle ablaze. At least 81 As she spoke to hundreds of cheering Midenda said Saturday that the attack
people were injured, state TV reported. supporters in Paris on Saturday, Marine happened Friday night in Maiduguri,
The scenes of protesters fighting with Le Pen remained vague on the details the spiritual home for the sect known
black-clad police forces numbering in the of her plan, trotting out instead the tra- as Boko Haram. Witnesses said the sect
thousands were reminiscent of the 18-day ditional promises of her Front National members shot at a military patrol in the
uprising that forced out longtime President party: a preservation of family values, the city, and one of the stray rounds killed a
Hosni Mubarak in February. The violence fight against immigration and a rejection 9-year-old.
took place just nine days before Egypt’s first of globalization. No one has been arrested over the kill-
post-Mubarak parliamentary elections. She was particularly vague about her eco- ings.
Witnesses said the violence began when nomic policies — saying only that she would Boko Haram is also being blamed for
riot police dismantled a small tent camp reveal her “plan for vigor” in January. bombings and gunfights Nov. 4 that left
the associated press
set up to commemorate protesters killed Le Pen, who inherited the leadership more than 100 people dead in Damaturu,
a female protester gestures as she in the uprising and attacked about 200 of the Front National from her father, has a town 80 miles west of Maiduguri.
argues with egyptian riot police officers in peaceful demonstrators who had camped said she wants to broaden appeal for her
tahrir square in cairo, egypt on saturday. out in the square overnight. party. From Associated Press reports
Seif al-Islam Gadhafi captured and charged
By rami al-sHaHeiBi tured and killed by revolu- against the regime began He long was touted as ment has said it is treating
and ryan lucas tionary forces on Oct. 20. in mid-February and es- Gadhafi’s heir apparent him as a refugee.
the associated press But on Saturday, the calated into a civil war. and the man who would Their mother, Safiya,
National Transitional Gadhafi also had been modernize and reform the and sister Aisha fled to
TRIPOLI, Libya — Seif Council’s justice minister, charged. country, but that position neighboring Algeria.
al-Islam Gadhafi, consid- Mohammed al-Alagi, told Seif al-Islam always was always far from cer- Seif al-Islam presented a
ered Moammar Gadhafi’s The Associated Press that stood apart from his sib- tain, and he faced fierce dapper image to the West,
heir apparent, long drew Seif al-Islam had been cap- lings, who were better resistance from hard-liners with his shaved head and
Western favor by touting tured deep in Libya’s desert known for their antics and in the regime as well as his fashionable glasses.
himself as a liberalizing re- Friday night by revolution- eccentricities than their younger brother, Muatas- He pushed for modern-
former but then staunchly ary forces from the western achievements. sim, who served as national ization in a country crip-
backed his father in his mountain town of Zintan Educated in Britain security adviser. pled by decades of his fa-
brutal crackdown on reb- who had been tracking him and fluent in English, Muatassim also was ther’s idiosyncratic regime,
els in the regime’s final for days. Seif al-Islam found favor killed on Oct. 20, accord- and advocated normalizing the associated press
days. The International among prominent West- ing to officials of the tran- Libya’s long-strained rela-
seif al-islam gadHafi,
Moammar Gadhafi’s Criminal Court has ern intellectuals, exhibited sitional government. Killed tions with the West.
son of Libyan leader
second son, 39, went un- charged Seif al-Islam and his paintings at galleries earlier in the civil war were In a 2008 interview,
Moammar Gadhafi, is
derground as Tripoli fell former intelligence chief around the world, and won younger brothers Seif al- he even spoke of moving reported to have been
to revolutionary forces in Abdullah al-Senoussi with plaudits from world lead- Arab and Khamis. Libya from one-man rule captured on saturday.
late August and his where- crimes against humanity ers and rights campaigners Gadhafi’s other son, al- to a constitutional de-
abouts remained unknown for the brutal crackdown with talk of democracy and Saadi, fled to Niger in Sep- mocracy. lam was indeed his father’s
even after Gadhafi was cap- on dissent as the uprising development. tember, where the govern- But in the end, Seif al-Is- son.
Obama speaks to Asia, on his own terms
By Ben feller Obama might as well rooms, without defining pull the Israelis and Pales-
the associated press have borrowed his mantra moments of diplomacy or tinians back together have
of “We Can’t Wait” — a much engagement with lo- left him little to show.
BALI, Indonesia — An slogan from his re-election cal citizens. It did not hurt that
assertive President Barack campaign — and applied it Far from Washington, Obama had home-field ad-
Obama got much of what to his foreign agenda. Obama had few domestic vantage for about half the
he wanted during his Asia- Still, Obama returns distractions on his nine-day time he was away.
Pacific trip because the re- home without any firm trip. That allowed him to The United States hosted
sults didn’t depend on ne- commitments from Russia stay on his message of trade, the yearly Asia-Pacific eco-
gotiating with the world. or China over stiffer pen- security and human rights. nomic forum for the first in
He mostly just an- alties against Iran over its The region was eager for about 20 years. For the site,
nounced them. disputed nuclear program. America’s presence and in- Obama chose Hawaii, the
Obama expanded the Obama insisted that the fluence, often as a counter American foothold in the
U.S. military presence in three countries were uni- to China’s might. So Obama Pacific and his birthplace.
southeast Asia, sent tough fied on preventing a nucle- held more sway and ran When he made time to
signals to China in its back- ar-armed Iran and he said into less visible pushback, squeeze in a political fund-
yard, ordered his top dip- in general terms that they except for bristling from raiser outside Honolulu,
lomat on a breakthrough would figure out the next the Chinese. The White Obama saw longtime friends
mission to Myanmar and steps together. the associated press
House was careful not to and acknowledged the bias
presided over the jobs-cre- The president has few promise too much from for “the hometown kid.”
u.s. president Barack oBama attends the east asia
ating sale of Boeing planes lasting images to show this trip all along, making In Hawaii and across
summit at Nusa dua, Bali, indonesia.
to an Indonesian airline from the nine-day trip, its goals all that much more Australia and Indonesia,
company. which was ending Sun- possible to achieve. the goal was to show a deep
It was a trip on his terms, day with his return to the craft carrier in San Diego, basketball game. This was not, for exam- U.S. commitment to the
unlike the dynamic he has White House. One was the where Obama saluted vet- But much of his time ple, the Middle East, where fastest-growing part of the
with the U.S. Congress. scene aboard a docked air- erans and watched a college was spent in summit ball- Obama’s many attempts to world.
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