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People receive serum at the St. Nicholas hospital in Saint Marc, Haiti, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010. Health officials said an outbreak of severe diarrhea has killed at least 54 people and sickened hundreds more while patients have been lying on blankets outside the crowded hospital and doctors are testing for cholera, typhoid and other illnesses that could have caused the outbreak.

photo: AP / Dieu Nalio Chery

Epidemic fears remain despite Haiti's progress in cholera fight
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The death rate appeared to be slowing, but fears of a cholera epidemic still gripped Haiti yesterday as health officials stressed that it was far too early to establish whether the recent outbreak of the disease had been properly contained. Only a handful of new cases were reported as a massive aid effort swung into action to provide extra supplies...

Germany: Hitler salutes marching Nazis in Weimar - Oct 1930

photo: German Federal Archive/Deutsches Bundesarchiv

German foreign ministry helped Nazis flee country after the war had ended
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It had always been regarded as Nazi Germany's only "decent" government ministry and one which shunned the persecution of the Jews, but a new and shocking study to be published this week exposes the Third Reich's foreign office as a "criminal organisation" which backed the Holocaust to the hilt. The disturbing report, which is the result of five...

Founder of the WikiLeaks website, Julian Assange, speaks during a press conference in London, Saturday, Oct. 23, 2010.

photo: AP / Lennart Preiss

U.S. says did not under-report Iraq civilian deaths
read more The Star

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Monday it did not under-report the number of civilian deaths in the Iraq war or ignore prisoner abuse by Iraqi forces, rejecting allegations arising from leaked U.S. documents. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange speaks during a news conference about the internet release of secret documents about the...

An Iraqi prisoner is seen at al-Muthanna prison in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, May 2, 2010.

photo: AP / Karim Kadim

Gulf states urge US to probe Wikileaks Iraq 'crimes'
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The Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) has urged Washington to investigate alleged "crimes against humanity" in Iraq after Wikileaks published...

In this photo of a sketch by courtroom artist Janet Hamlin and reviewed by a U.S. Department of Defense official, Canadian detainee Omar Khadr, left, attends his war crimes trial in the courthouse for the U.S. military war crimes commission at the Camp Justice compound on Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba, Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010.

photo: AP / Janet Hamlin, Pool

Canadian pleads guilty to war crimes at Guantánamo court
read more The Miami Herald

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- Toronto-born Omar Khadr, Guantánamo's youngest and last Western detainee, pleaded guilty Monday to committing war crimes in 2002 Afghanistan under a plea deal meant to send him home to his native Canada next year. His attorney, Army Lt. Jon Jackson, entered the plea on the Canadian's behalf and the judge...

Indian army soldiers and policeman fire towards Muslim militants during an encounter as separatist militants and soldiers fought a gunbattle in Maloora, a residential area of Srinagar, the main city in Indian Kashmir which has been under regular curfews for months, on October 21, 2010. Indian troops and counter-insurgency police surrounded a house where the militants were holed up early in the morning in the suburbs of the city.

photo: WN / Imran Nissar

J&K police fear terror attacks ahead of Obama's visit
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SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir police is suspecting a step-up in militancy in Kashmir valley in the wake of US president Barack Obama's visit to New Delhi early next month. Soon after Malooru encounter wherein three Jaish-e-Mohammad militants were killed, Operational chief of Jaish-e-Mohammad militant outfit, Sajjad Afgani on Thursday last...

An oil-covered pelican sits in thick beached oil at Queen Bess Island in Barataria Bay, just off the Gulf of Mexico in Plaquemines Parish, La., Saturday, June 5, 2010.

photo: AP / Gerald Herbert

BP sells four Gulf of Mexico oil fields to Marubeni
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BP has said it will sell four Gulf of Mexico oil fields to Japanese company Marubeni as part of its asset sale to help pay for the oil spill there. The deal, which is subject to regulatory approval, is expected to raise $650m...

Pakistani police officers and rescue workers gather at the site after a bomb blast in the shrine of Sufi Farid Shakar Ganj in Pak Pattan, some 200 kilometers (125 miles) from Lahore, Pakistan on Monday, Oct. 25, 2010.

photo: AP / Khalid Tanveer

Bomb kills 5 people at Sufi shrine in Pakistan
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PAKPATTAN, Pakistan - A bomb planted on a motorcycle exploded at the gate of a famous Sufi shrine in central Pakistan during morning prayers Monday, killing at least five people, officials said. The blast at the Farid Shakar Ganj shrine in Punjab province was the latest in a string of attacks targeting Sufi sites in Pakistan....

Afghan President Hamid Karzai listens during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Oct. 25, 2010. Karzai told reporters that once or twice a year Iran gives his office $700,000 to $975,000 for official presidential expenses.

photo: AP / Allauddin Khan

Karzai admits taking funding from Iran
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai today admitted that his office has received funding from Iran. He said that once or twice a year Iran gave up to...

File - Army doctor Cpt. Dana Nguyen, Task Force Med, Combined/Joint Task Force-76, checks the scabs on the head of a baby thought to have Leischmaniasis during a Medical Civil Aid mission in the Mazar-e Sharif region of Afghanistan.

photo: US Army / Sgt. Bertha A. Flores

Pre-emptive Wars and Post-emptive Diseases
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Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. With recent reports that the capital of Afghanistan has been hit hard by a disfiguring disease, it reminded me of a common strain that runs through the history of humankind and of the world. It consists of two parasitic creatures, one being natural and biological and the other one synthetic and...