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VIDEO: Tunisia prepares for landmark vote

By Siraaj Cassiem | 2011-10-21 07:35:05

Voters in Tunisia prepare to go to the polls in the country’s first election since the Arab Spring uprising.

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VIDEO: Muammar Gaddafi: Obituary

By Siraaj Cassiem | 2011-10-20 15:14:04

A senior National Transitional Council official has said that deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has died of his wounds after being captured near his hometown of Sirte.

Muammar Gaddafi came to power in 1969 in a coup at the age of 27 and went on to rule Libya for 42 years with an iron fist.

He has left Libya in tatters and despite the vast oil wealth, a vast majority of Libyans still live on about $2 a day and 40 per cent remain unemployed.

Gaddafi wanted to be the leader of the Arab world and modeled himself on Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser.

He published the Green Book which established rule of the people but in reality he exercised absolute power.

The former Libyan leader was accused of bombing Pan Am Flight 103 in Scotland, a charge he always denied. After this Libya remained under internatinal isolation for years.

When the uprising gathered momentum earlier this year he blamed everyone, from US to al-Qaeda, and called the protesters rats and cats of Libya.

Many will remember Gaddafi as the leader who set Libya back by many years.

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VIDEO: AMAZON TRIBE: Warning after park ranger shot by arrow

By Siraaj Cassiem | 2011-10-18 14:16:31

Authorities in Peru have made contact with an isolated Amazon tribe but are warning people not to approach them after a ranger was shot with an arrow. Report by Mark Morris.

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VIDEO: Clashes in Yemen turn deadly

By Siraaj Cassiem | 2011-10-17 12:01:43

CNN’s Mohammed Jamjoom reports on gunfire in Taiz, targeting protesters with signs saying “Don’t Attack Us.”

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CHEAPEST IPAD RIVAL: India’s new tablet a snip

By Siraaj Cassiem | 2011-10-09 07:31:58

India has revealed the world’s cheapest tablet, the $35 Aakash, which is aimed at students

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Smartphone revolution

By Siraaj Cassiem | 2011-10-07 08:22:12

CNN’s George Howell takes a look at how smartphones have changed the way we live.

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White South Africans return home

By Siraaj Cassiem | 2011-10-04 12:51:01

After the fall of apartheid, nearly one million white South Africans left their country to move to Britain, Australia or New Zealand. Now the exodus appears to be reversing. Many are returning home, drawn to the quality of life, a growing economy and political stability.

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Mexico City: 2 Severed Heads Found With Message

By Siraaj Cassiem | 2011-10-04 12:30:31

Two severed heads were found around a vehicle in Mexico City Monday accompanied by a message claiming to be from a drug cartel.

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NY Violence: ‘Media happy to show protests but not in our backyards’

By Siraaj Cassiem | 2011-10-03 12:33:51

A wave of public discontent in the U.S. shows no sign of abating, following Saturday’s protest, where hundreds of peaceful demonstrators were arrested, sparking accusations of heavy-handed policing. Defiant anti-Wall street activists refuse to back down, saying more marches against corporate greed and social inequality are in the pipeline. Both the crackdown on Wall street and the way existing financial institutions are run, show that ‘U.S. democracy’ is just an empty phrase – that’s according to UK-based investigative journalist Tony Gosling.

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Raw Video: Dramatic Pictures of Kirkuk Blast

By Siraaj Cassiem | 2011-09-29 13:43:21

Police say a suicide bomber has killed two people after detonating his explosives-packed car near a bank where policemen were picking up their paychecks in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk.