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A member of Kurdish security forces casts her ballot inside a polling station during early voting for the parliamentary election in Irbil, in Iraq's Kurdistan region, on April 28, 2014.

Iraq is holding parliamentary elections in spite of horrific violence

Global Politics

Iraqi authorities are going to great lengths to pull off a national vote for its parliament on Wednesday, the first since the US troop withdrawal in 2011. The hardest part is to create a sense of normalcy in a country suffering from unrelenting sectarian violence.

A member of Kurdish security forces casts her ballot inside a polling station during early voting for the parliamentary election in Irbil, in Iraq's Kurdistan region, on April 28, 2014.

Iraq is holding parliamentary elections in spite of horrific violence

Global Politics

Remembering the Holocaust: the Thersienstadt Ghetto

The World

Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest girls’ school in Israeli town

Conflict & Justice

Tripoli’s Drinking Water Problem

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Who are the Libyan Rebels?

President Obama addressed the nation and his critics last night to explain and defend America’s involvement in Libya. However, the question remains: Who are the rebel fighters in Libya? The BBC’s Kevin Connolly talked to a British man who left home to fight in Libya. Britain to fight. Rashad is from from Manchester, England and […]

Rebels Advance on Sirte

Conflict & Justice

BBC correspondent Kevin Connolly explains how the fight between rebels and Gadhafi forces has been playing out now that the allies have stepped in.

Libya: Update from Tobruk

Conflict & Justice

So far, allied force has halted pro-Gadhafi forces in their tracks in the East, keeping Benghazi under rebel control. The BBC’s Kevin Connolly reports from Tobruk.

Untangling the Truth in Libya

There are conflicting reports from Libya. Witnesses say there’s been gunfire in Tripoli, but a regime spokesperson says “there is absolutely no fighting” there. State TV says troops have retaken control of towns including Zawiya, Misurata and Tobruk, but reporters say that there isn’t eye witness evidence to support those claims. All of this conflciting […]

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Weighing the loyalties in Tripoli

Conflict & Justice

Marco Werman speaks with the BBC’s Kevin Connolly in Libya’s second-largest city Benghazi about the difficulty in assessing what is really happening in the battles between rebels and forces loyal to Colonel Gaddafi.

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