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Stocks squeeze out gains in oil-dominated week

NEW YORK (CNNe.ws) -- U.S. markets fell sharply Friday as oil prices jumped to more than $104 a barrel. Still, stocks managed to eke out gains for the week.

The Dow Jones industrial average (INDU) dropped 88 points, or 0.7%, to 12,170. The Dow had lost as much as 170 points earlier in the sess...

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Libya can still count on a few allies

(CNNe.ws) -- Despite facing intense pressure from parts of the international community to relinquish power, the Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi can still count on the continued support of some prominent world leaders, say analysts.

Much of Gadhafi's overseas backing is bas...

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Louisiana town cleans up after deadly tornado

(CNN) -- Utility companies will return Sunday to restore power in parts of Rayne, Louisiana, after a tornado pummeled the region, killing at least one person.

A Louisiana mother who died sheltering her child during the tornado was identified early Sunday as Jalisa Gra...

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NFL owners, players agree to extend talks

Washington (CNN) -- Negotiations between NFL owners and the players union on a new collective bargaining agreement will be extended for seven days -- until March 11 -- according to federal mediator George Cohen, who is overseeing the talks.

The talks had been extended Thursday for 24 ho...

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McQueen denies designing Kate Middleton royal wedding dress

Paris (CNN) -- The Alexander McQueen fashion house denied Sunday that it is designing the wedding dress of Kate Middleton, who's marrying Britain's Prince William next month.

Two representatives of the high-profile design house flatly denied the story in the Sunday Times newspaper.

"This is not true," spokeswoman Myria...

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Tough times for "Journalists"

Afghanistan

A photojournalist from United Kingdom Giles Duley, who was seriously injured by bomb blast planted roadside by taliban, on 7 February, while reporting with US and Afghan troops in Kandahar, Afghanistan, returned to England on 13 February for further medical care.

The 39-year-old photojournalist, who specialized in human rights issues and worked with various charity organizations, had to undergo many amputations at the local UN medical care center in Kandahar as a consequence of the injuries caused by bomb blast.

Giles Duley’s brother, David, was reported as told that Giles had lost one of his leg below the knee and another above the knee. Also his left arm had to be amputated above the elbow. He is currently being hospitalized at Queen Elizabeth hospital in Birmingham.We don't know how long they treat my brother.

Egypt

And an other story streets of Cairo, Anderson Cooper (CNN) talk viewers his Thursday show from an undisclosed, dimly lit room in Cairo, saying that he was "a little bit worry" for his safety in Egypt.

Cooper was punched repeatedly and attacked for minutes by a riot of supporters of President Hosni Mubarak on Wednesday. On Thursday, another group of pro-Hosni forces smashed a rock through his car window while he and his crew were in it. Cooper had been reporting from the Cairo streets, but by Thursday night he had gone to under ground.

"I can't ask you where i am, frankly for my own safety," Cooper said. "Systematically, we have seen reporters attacked...we would like to be showing you instead of...this strange sitchuation of us sitting on the floor of an undisclosed location in dim lighting, i would like to be showing you pictures, live pictures, of what's happened in Liberation Square right now, but we can't do that because our cameras have systematically been taken down through threats, through intimidation, through actual physical attacks." They were saying us "CIA agent" "CIA agent" "CIA agent"

He ask after, "I don't mind telling you I am a little bit scared, because i frankly don't really know what the next few time will hold. And I think there's a lot of people who are scared tonight in Egypt."

Libya

Reporting in Libya is too tough, where a pro-democracy uprising is being brutally suppressed, has become "virtually impossible," a media freedom group warned Wednesday, reported.

Even before the current crackdown on protesters in Libya it was difficult to reporting from Libya,

"It is now some time impossible for a journalist to work," group of journalists from Paris said.

The few foreign journalists who were already in Libya before the uprising began were under heavy surveillance and regional broadcasters, including Al Jazeera, have had their signals jammed.

The conditions have prevented all but a trickle of information reaching the outside world.

Past 48 hours several foreign reporters have managed to smuggle into the country through Egypt, but the conditions are extremely dangerous and hazardous.

The deputy foreign minister of Libya, Khaled Khaim, on Wednesday said journalists who entered Libya illegally would be considered "outlaws" and "as if they are collaborating with al-Qaeda."

(source: huffingtonpost.com : trend.az : freemedia.at)

Unrest in the Middle East and Africa:country by country

(CNNe.ws) -- Demonstrations have spread across parts of the Middle East and Africa. Here is the latest from each country and the roots of the unrest.

Saturday developments:

LIBYA

Foes of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi claimed successes Saturday on two key battle fronts, preventing pro-go...

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Irish parties agree to form coalition government

(CNNe.ws) -- The two largest parties after last week's election in Ireland agreed early Sunday to form a coalition government.

The center-right Fine Gael and center-left Labour parties made the deal after lengthy talks, meeting a weekend deadline, Fine Gael leader and Prime Minister-designate Enda Ke...

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Marissa DuBois in Slow Motion Full Fashion Week 2023, Fashion Channel Vlog,

Sunday, March 6, 2011