| Ba'ath Party The Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party (also spelled Ba'th or Baath; ) was founded in Damascus in the 1940s by Michel Aflaq, a Syrian intellectual, as the original secular Arab nationalist movement, to unify all Arab countries in one State and to combat Western colonial rule that dominated the Arab region at that time. Ba'ath_Party
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| Nepal Nepal
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| Women's suffrage The term women's suffrage refers to the economic and political reform movement aimed at extending suffrage — the right to vote — to women. The movement's modern origins lie in France in the 18th century. Of currently existing independent countries, New Zealand was the first to give women the right to vote in 1893. Women's_suffrage
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| Gush Emunim Talk:Gush_Emunim
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| Cyprus dispute The Cyprus dispute is a territorial conflict between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots over Cyprus, an island nation in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Since the arrival of the British on the island of Cyprus, the "Cyprus Dispute" was identified as the conflict between the peoples of Cyprus and Great Britain as a colonial ruler. Cyprus_dispute
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| Eli Cohen This article is about the Israeli spy. For other people with the same name, see Eli Cohen (disambiguation).Eli Cohen (, born 26 December 1924, died 18 May 1965) was an Israeli spy. Eli_Cohen
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| Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo Maria Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (April 5, 1947) is the fourteenth and current president of the Philippines. Arroyo is the country's second female president, and the daughter of late former Philippine President Diosdado Macapagal.A professor of economics, Arroyo entered government in 1987, serving as assistant secretary and undersecretary of the Department of Trade and Industry upon the invitation of President Corazon Aquino. Gloria_Macapagal-Arroyo
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| Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Khalid_Sheikh_Mohammed
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| Paul Wolfowitz Paul_Wolfowitz
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| Benazir Bhutto Benazir Bhutto (, , ; 21 June 1953 Pakistani politician who chaired the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), a centre-left political party in Pakistan. Bhutto was the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state, having twice been Prime Minister of Pakistan (1988–1990; 1993–1996). Benazir_Bhutto
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| Shebaa farms Shebaa Farms (, 'Havot Sheba‘a or הר דוב, Har Dov) is a limited area of land with disputed sovereignty located on the border between Lebanon and the Israeli-occupied and -controlled part of the Golan Heights. The area measures about 9Shebaa and about 5 to 7Druze village of Majdal Shams.The Shebaa Farms area is situated on the southeastern side of a long, broad ridge descending to the southwest from Mount Hermon. Shebaa_farms
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| Bagram Air Base Bagram Air Base or Bagram Air Field is a militarized airport and housing complex that is located next to the ancient city of Bagram, southeast of Charikar in Parwan province of Afghanistan. The Air Field is currently occupied and maintained by the 5th Aviation Battalion (Assault),and 6th Aviation Battalion (GSAB) of the United States Army, with the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing of the United States Air Force and other US Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and their coalition partner units having sizable tenant populations. Bagram_Air_Base
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| International Solidarity Movement Talk:International_Solidarity_Movement
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| Leishmaniasis Leishmaniasis is a disease caused by protozoan parasites that belong to the genus Leishmania and is transmitted by the bite of certain species of sand fly (subfamily Phlebotominae). Two genera transmit Leishmania to humansLutzomyia in the New World and Phlebotomus in the Old World.Most forms of the disease are transmissible only from animals (zoonosis), but some can be spread between humans. Leishmaniasis
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| Casualties of the Iraq War Casualties of the conflict in Iraq since 2003 (beginning with the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and continuing with the ensuing occupation of Iraq coalition presence, as well as the activities of the various armed groups operating in the country) have come in many forms, and the accuracy of the information available on different types of Iraq War casualties varies greatly.The table below summarizes some of the Iraqi casualty figures. Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War
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| Oil-for-Food Programme Oil-for-Food Programme, established by the United Nations in 1995 (under UN Security Council Resolution 986) and terminated in late 2003, was intended to allow Iraq to sell oil on the world market in exchange for food, medicine, and other humanitarian needs for ordinary Iraqi citizens without allowing Iraq to rebuild its military.The programme was introduced by United States President Bill Clinton's administration in 1995, as a response to arguments that ordinary Iraqi citizens were inordinately affected by the international economic sanctions aimed at the demilitarisation of Saddam Hussein's Iraq, imposed in the wake of the first Gulf War. Oil-for-Food_Programme
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| Richard Perle Talk:Richard_Perle
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| Anti-satellite weapon Anti-satellite weapons (ASATs) are space weapons designed to incapacitate or destroy satellites for strategic military purposes. Currently, only the USA, the former USSR (now Russia) and the People's Republic of China are known to have developed these weapons. On January 11, 2007, China destroyed an old orbiting weather satellite. The United States also destroyed a malfunctioning reconnaissance satellite on February 21, 2008. Anti-satellite_weapon
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| Halabja poison gas attack The Halabja poison gas attack (Kurdish:Kîmyabarana Helebce) occurred in the period 16–17 March 1988, during the Iran-Iraq War. Chemical weapons (CW) were used by the Iraqi government forces in the Iraqi Kurdish town of Halabja, killing thousands of people, most of them civilians (3,200-5,000 dead on the spot and 7,000-10,000 injured Halabja_poison_gas_attack
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| Drudge Report Drudge_Report
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| Flag of Iraq The flag of Iraq () has had five different designs since the Kingdom of Iraq was established in 1921. The current flag was adopted in 2008 for a year and is intended to be an interim measure until a permanent solution to the flag issue is found. Note that, as with other flags inscribed with Arabic script — in this case Allahu Akbar ("God is great") — the hoist is to the right of the obverse (front) of the flag. Flag_of_Iraq
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| National Museum of Iraq The National Museum of Iraq (Arabic:المتحف العراقي) is a museum located in Baghdad, Iraq. It contains priceless relics from Mesopotamian civilization, thousands of which were looted in 2003 during the Iraq War.In Feb. 23th. 2009 the museum was reopened for a day by Iraqi prime minster Al-Maliki, with about half of its looted contents still missing. The museum also has been renewed by adding more room to it, and more than 12 different countries helped in that including the UN. National_Museum_of_Iraq
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| Ramsey Clark William Ramsey Clark (born December 18, 1927) is a lawyer and former United States Attorney General. He worked for the U.S. Department of Justice, which included service as the 66th United States Attorney General under President Lyndon B. Johnson. Ramsey is known for his advocacy for civil and human rights causes. Ramsey_Clark
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| Ahmed Chalabi Ahmed_Chalabi
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| Saddam Hussein/Archive 1 Talk:Saddam_Hussein/Archive_1
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| Ali Abdullah Saleh Field Marshal Ali Abdullah Saleh (), born March 21, 1942, is the current President of Yemen. He was President of the Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) from 1978 to 1990 and became president of the newly united Republic of Yemen in 1990.Saleh was Yemen's first directly elected president in 1999, winning 91.2% of the vote. Ali_Abdullah_Saleh
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| Human rights in the People's Republic of China Since the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, the human rights issue of China has come to the forefront. Multiple sources, including the U.S. State Department's annual People's Republic of China human rights reports, as well as studies from other groups such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, have documented the PRC's abuses of human rights in violation of internationally recognized norms. Human_rights_in_the_People's_Republic_of_China
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| Suharto Suharto (8 June 1921 President of Indonesia, holding the office from 1967 to 1998.Suharto was born in a small village near Yogyakarta, during the era of Dutch colonial control. His ethnic Javanese peasant parents divorced not long after his birth, and he passed between several foster parents for much of his childhood. Suharto
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| Poti Poti () is a port city in Georgia, located on the eastern Black Sea coast in the region of Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti in the west of the country. Built near the site of the ancient Greek colony of Phasis, the city has become a major port city and industrial center since the early 20th century. Poti
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| Svalbard and Jan Mayen This article is about the collective term "Svalbard and Jan Mayen" as defined by the ISO. For details of the two separate territories, see Svalbard and Jan Mayen respectively.Svalbard and Jan Mayen is a statistical designation defined by ISO 3166-1 of two parts of Norway located in the Arctic Ocean under separate jurisdictionsSvalbard and Jan Mayen. While the two are combined for the purposes of the ISO category, they are not administratively related. Svalbard_and_Jan_Mayen
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| Workers' Party (Brazil) The Workers' Party (Portuguese:Partido dos Trabalhadores, PT) is a center-left social-democratic political party in Brazil. It is recognized as one of the largest and most important left-wing leadership movements of Latin America. Workers'_Party_(Brazil)
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| Sri Lankan Civil War Sri_Lankan_Civil_War
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| Rihab Taha Rihab Rashid Taha al-Azawi (born 1957) is an Iraqi microbiologist, dubbed Dr. Germ by United Nations weapons inspectors, who worked in Saddam Hussein's biological weapons program. A 1999 report commissioned by the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) named her as one of the world's most dangerous women. (pdf; p. 20) Dr Taha has admitted producing germ warfare agents, but said they had been destroyed. Rihab_Taha
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| Mahmoud Abbas Mahmoud Abbas ( Maḥmūd ʾAbbās) (born 26 March 1935), also known by the kunya Abu Mazen (), has been the Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation since 11 November 2004 and became President of the Palestinian National Authority on 15 January 2005 on the Fatah (فتح Fataḥ) ticket. Mahmoud_Abbas
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| Puntland Puntland
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| Road map for peace "road map" for peace is a plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict proposed by a "quartet" of international entitiesUnited States, the European Union, Russia, and the United Nations. The principles of the plan, originally drafted by U.S. Foreign Service Officer Donald Bloome, were first outlined by U.S. President George W. Bush in a speech on June 24, 2002, in which he called for an independent Palestinian state living side by side with Israel in peace Road_map_for_peace
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| Charles Taylor (Liberia) Charles McArthur Ghankay Taylor (born 28 January 1948) served as President of Liberia from 2 August 1997 to 11 August 2003. He was once one of Africa's most prominent warlords during the First Liberian Civil War in the early 1990s and was elected president at the end of that conflict. Charles_Taylor_(Liberia)
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| Neutron bomb Talk:Neutron_bomb
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| List of scandals with "-gate" suffix The suffix -gate derives from the Watergate scandal of the United States in the early 1970s, which resulted in the resignation of U.S. President Richard Nixon. The word Watergate is derived from the Watergate Complex, where the scandal started. On June 17, 1972, agents of the Nixon White House and the Nixon reelection campaign were arrested while breaking into the office of the Democratic National Committee, which at the time was located in the Watergate Complex (a combination of residences and offices located near the Potomac River) in Washington, D.C. List_of_scandals_with_"-gate"_suffix
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| Music of Iraq The music of Iraq or Iraqi Music, (Arabic,موسيقى عراقية, also known as the music of Mesopotamia) belongs to the music of the Arab World but, for reasons of geographically proximity, it is also influenced by the Iranian musical tradition.Iraq is recognized mainly for two instrument named oud and rebab. The most renowned oudists are Ahmed Mukhtar, Naseer Shamma, Rahim Alhaj, and Munir Bashir. Music_of_Iraq
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| Al-Azhar University Al-Azhar University (pronounced "AZ-har", ; 'Egypt, founded in 975, is the chief centre of Arabic literature and Sunni Islamic learning in the world Al-Azhar_University
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| Ibrahim al-Jaafari Ibrahim abd al-Karim Hamzah al-Ashaiqir al-Jaafari (; born 1947) is an Iraqi politician who was Prime Minister of Iraq in the Iraqi Transitional Government from 2005 to 2006, following the January 2005 election. A Shiite, he was previously one of the two Vice-Presidents of Iraq under the Iraqi Interim Government from 2004 to 2005, and he was the main spokesman for the Islamic Dawa Party. Ibrahim_al-Jaafari
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| People's Mujahedin of Iran The People's Mujahedin of Iran (PMOI, also MEK, MKO) (Persian:sāzmān-e mojāhedin-e khalq-e irān) is a militant Islamic socialist organization that advocates the overthrow of the Islamic Republic government of Iran. Founded in 1965, the PMOI was originally devoted to armed struggle against the Shah of Iran, capitalism, and Western imperialism. People's_Mujahedin_of_Iran
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| Ahmed Jibril Ahmed Jibril (; born c. 1938) is the founder and leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command (PFLP-GC), part of the left-wing, secular Palestinian national liberation movement.Since its inception in 1968, the PFLP-GC has staged numerous attacks against Israeli and other targets, both military and civilian. Ahmed_Jibril
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| Revolutionary United Front The Revolutionary United Front (RUF) was a rebel army that fought a failed eleven-year war in Sierra Leone, starting in 1991 and ending in 2002. It later developed into a political party, which existed until 2007. The three most senior surviving leaders, Issa Sesay, Morris Kallon and Augustine Gbao, were convicted in February 2009 of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Revolutionary_United_Front
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| State of emergency A state of emergency is a governmental declaration that may suspend certain normal functions of government, alert citizens to alter their normal behaviors, or order government agencies to implement emergency preparedness plans. It can also be used as a rationale for suspending civil liberties. State_of_emergency
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| Annette Lu Annette Lu (; POJ:June 7, 1944), a Taiwanese politician, is a former Vice President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) and member of the Democratic Progressive Party. Lu is a prominent feminist activist and became the first female vice president in 2000. She announced her intentions to run for president on March 6, 2007, but withdrew in order to rally behind DPP presidential nominee, Frank Hsieh. Annette_Lu
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