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Bahrain King Claims to Have Foiled 'Foreign Plot'

MANAMA, Bahrain - Bahrain's king said Monday that a foreign plot to "subvert security and stability" in the Gulf island kingdom has been foiled, and praised the Saudi-led force he invited to help quell the unprecedented unrest in this majority Shiite nation. Any reference to a foreign conspiracy against Bahrain's Sunni...

Bahrain Army Tears Down Pearl Square Monument, Symbol of Protests

MANAMA, Bahrain - Bahrain on Friday tore down the 300-foot (90-meter) monument at the heart of a square purged of Shiite protesters this week, erasing a symbol of an uprising that's inflaming sectarian tensions across the region. The monument - six white curved beams topped with a huge cement pearl - was built in Pearl...

Jonathan Franzen Has 'Delightful' Meeting With President Obama

(Oct. 25) -- Did they talk "Freedom," "The Corrections" or another book entirely? Acclaimed author Jonathan Franzen popped by the White House for a private meeting with President Barack Obama, ABC's Jake Tapper reports. What the two men talked about has not been revealed, much like another recent high-profile...

National Book Awards Snub Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom'

(Oct. 14) -- It's one of the more glaring literary snubs in recent memory. Jonathan Franzen's "Freedom," the literary sensation of the year (a "work of total genius," says New York magazine; selected by Oprah Winfrey despite her earlier contretemps with Franzen), was not listed among the National Book Awards finalists this...

Background on freedom

Freedom of speech is the political right to communicate one's opinions and ideas via speech. The term freedom of expression is sometimes used synonymously, but includes any act of seeking, receiving and imparting information or ideas, regardless of the medium used.

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