World Watch: Sing Your Life

* Norway: Some 40,000 people gathered in Oslo and sang en masse “Children of the Rainbow”, a popular children's song that mass murderer Anders Breivik insulted last week.

* Liberia: An international tribunal in The Hague convicted former Liberian President Charles Taylor of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during Sierra Leone's civil war.

* Japan: “Increasing competition from casual gamers playing on their smartphones” has been cited as one of the reasons behind Nintendo posting its first annual loss last year.

* Syria: The Local Coordination Committees of Syria opposition group claimed that they’ve identified the bodies of 462 people killed since a U.N. mission entered the country ten days ago.

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World Watch: Barely breathing

* Greece: Prime Minister George Papandreou barely won a confidence vote though he may have to soon step down due to the county’s economic crisis.

* Afghanistan: U.S Army Major General Peter Fuller was fired from his role in a military training program after he allegedly made “inappropriate” comments against the Afghani government.

* U.S.: Federal authorities are investigating a Texas family law judge who was secretly videotaped abusing his then-teenage daughter in 2004.

* Liberia: Opposition candidate Winston Tubman said that he would not participate in next week’s presidential runoff.

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Weekend World Watch: Intervention

* Uganda: U.S. president Barack Obama announced that 100 troops and military advisers will be sent to Uganda in order to combat the Lord's Resistance Army rebels.

* Yemen: At least twelve people at an anti-government rally were shot and killed by “security forces and plain-clothed government loyalists.”

* U.S.: A federal judge recommended that Al-Qaeda pay $9 billion for “property loss, business interruption, and related damages, and attest that these damages were directly caused by the September 11th terrorist attacks.”

* Liberia: Opposition candidates threatened with withdrawing from the presidential elections due to alleged electoral fraud favoring recent Nobel Peace laureate and current president Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf.

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Online Sources- Reuters, The Guardian, New York Daily News, BBC News

World Watch: Liberia votes

* Liberia: Recent Nobel Peace Prize co-recipient Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf may require a runoff in order to win a second straight presidential term.

* Iran: Iranian officials emphatically denied that their government was behind a foiled plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the U.S.

* U.S.: The accused “underwear bomber” who tried to blow up a commercial flight on Christmas Day 2009 pled guilty to all the charges against him.

* Thailand: An estimated two-thirds of the country has been swamped by some of the worst flooding in over a century.

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