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Although leaders of the military coup in Mali appear to be rounding up and jailing potential opponents among politicians and policymakers, they seem to be trying to minimize disruptions to the economy and daily life, leaving in place government ministers in charge of finance, trade and industries.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced a series of tough measures in the wake of a string of killings in southern France by an Islamist terrorist. However, the President's new proposal to jail frequent visitors of terror-linked Websites has raised concern among journalists and legal experts in the country.

France currently has about 5-million Muslims, making it the largest Islamic community in Europe.

A coup d'etat currently underway in Mali is not affecting gold production there, miners in the country are saying, as events related to the military uprising seem confined to the country's capital, hundreds of miles away from where gold deposits are located.

Kizza Besigye, Uganda's principal opposition leader, was arrested Thursday after a demonstration took place in the capital. A police officer was fatally hit in the head with a stone, which prompted Besigye's arrest.

A Zimbabwe court judge announced that six activists who had been arrested for watching videos of the Arab Spring would not be sent to jail. Autocratic politicians there may be learning a lesson from uprisings abroad: the importance of restraint.

Putin, now Russia's president-elect, has said he would boycott the Group of Eight summit at Camp David and the NATO conference in Chicago this spring if U.S. missile defense plans weren't scrapped.

Mali was in turmoil Wednesday as soldiers stormed the state TV and radio station in Bamako and attacked the presidential palace.

Fredde and Mickan own a waterfront mansion in the Stockholm suburbs, hire Polish help and have endless cash to spend on state-of-the-art barbecues and designer labels.

According to the latest results received by the New York City Board of Elections, Republican candidate David Storobin held a 120-vote lead over Democratic candidate Lewis A. Fidler for New York's South Brooklyn Senate Seat. However, after months of political tension, both candidates for the 27th District seat declared victory to their supporters Tuesday night.

The popular former Florida governor and brother of ex-president George W. Bush is highly respected in the Republican Party and known for his ability to connect with Latino voters.

Burma has sent out invitations to the US, EU, and ASEAN member countries to send observers to the upcoming April 1st elections.

Anonymous Hispano, the Mexican branch of the online hacktivist collective based in Latin America lay siege to two Mexican websites on Tue, March 20 in protest of Pope Benedict XVI's upcoming visit in an cyber-operation referred to as #opFariseo (hypocrite) on Twitter. The hackers succeeded in temporarily knocking the websites offline and defacing them with their own message: Hacked system. The POPE is not welcome, out out!!!!!

The French president’s 2010 campaign seems reminiscent of the British election in 1979, when Conservative Margaret Thatcher fought to become the UK’s first Prime Minister.

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has comfortable win over Rick Santorum in Illinois.

In remarks on the Iranian New Year holiday of Nowruz, President Barack Obama invites Iranians to help remove Iran's electronic curtain that severely restricts Internet freedom.

Suu Kyi has waited over twenty years to stand for election – she has been under house arrest for much of the prior two decades

Under the House GOP budget plan, the personal income tax rate would be slashed into two brackets: a top rate of 25 percent and lower rate of 10 percent.

A manhunt has begun in France for the gunman who went on a shooting spree at a Jewish school in Toulouse on Monday.

The Illinois Republican voter will be heading to polls Tuesday to decide on their nominee to fight President Obama in November elections.

On Sunday night, a speech by Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum was preceded by a particularly fiery pastor in Louisiana. “If you don’t love America and you don’t like the way we do things, I’ve got one thing to say: Get out!” Dennis Terry said.