A VBSS team from the guided-missile cruiser USS San Jacinto (CG 56) search a skiff suspected of participating in recent pirate activity.
photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Ja'lon A. Rhinehart
The Ottoman's Solution to Piracy
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Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. Due to years of a combination of decolonization and globalization, the marginal of the world, such as pirates, are becoming more desperate. At the same time, major powers are suffering from economic crises and a shortage of funding. For example, the United States is struggling to pay for its...
Women with a banner depicting Moammar Gadhafi celebrate the revolution against Gadhafi's regime and demand more women's rights in Tripoli, Libya, Friday, Sept. 2, 2011.
photo: AP / Alexandre Meneghini
What should justice for Gaddafi look like?
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LA JOLLA - As rebels shore up control of Libya and hunt for the man who ruled the country for 42 years, the legal prospects for Muammar Gaddafi are as murky as the political vacuum he leaves behind. US and other officials believe that Gaddafi remains in Libya and may be hiding in one of the desert or coastal patches still under control of his...
Fire fighters stand near a covered dead body after an explosion in Menlo Park, Calif., Friday, Sept. 2, 2011.
photo: AP / Paul Sakuma
One dead in chemical blast at Menlo Park plant
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(09-02) 19:02 PDT MENLO PARK -- One person was killed and another was seriously injured Friday when a methane...
Syrian protesters carry a long syrian flag while shouting anti presidential slogans against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad during a protest march organised by the syrian citizens in Bucharest Sept. 2, 2011.
photo: AP / Octav Ganea
EU bans Syrian oil
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BEIRUT ' The European Union banned oil imports from Syria on Friday in a move that will cost the embattled regime millions of dollars each day as it tries to crush a resilient uprising that has railed against the country's authoritarian government for more than five months. President Bashar Assad's assault on protests continued, killing at least 13...
This file photo made from video provided by the Israeli Defense Force on May 31, 2010 shows what the IDF says is one of several commandos being dropped onto the Mavi Marmara ship by helicopter in the Mediterranean Sea.
photo: AP / Israel Defense Force
Turkey expels Israeli ambassador over Gaza flotilla row
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Turkey is to expel the Israeli ambassador after details emerged of a UN report into last year's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla. Officials in Ankara said it was also suspending all remaining military agreements with Israel. Turkish...
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, centre left, leads advisors as he arrives to speak to the media in Ankara, Turkey, Friday, Sept. 2, 2011.
photo: AP
Turkey downgrades ties with Israel
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Turkey has downgraded diplomatic ties with Israel and suspended military co-operation between the countries in anticipation of the release of a United Nations report into Israel's raid of a Gaza-bound ship. Ahmet Davutoglu, the Turkish foreign minister, announced the measures on Friday hours before Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, was...
A Libyan boy carries a can of water as shortage of public water distribution hits the population of Tripoli in Jamal Goubtan district inTripoli, Libya, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011.
photo: AP / Francois Mori
UN says Libya short of water, fuel, medicine
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Freedom fighters climb on a tank for a lookout at a defensive outpost, some... Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton talks with with Libyan Transitional... U.S Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton leaves the Elysee Palace in... TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) - The United Nations humanitarian coordinator for Libya says the country faces critical...
In this photo taken during a government-organised tour for the media Wednesday Aug 10 2011, Syrian soldiers stand on their armored vehicle which is placed on a flatbed truck heading out of the city after a weeklong military assault that the government said was aimed at rooting out "terrorists," in Hama city, Syria, which has seen some of the largest anti-government protests of the 5-month-old uprising.
photo: AP / Bassem Tellawi
Global calls for tougher sanctions on Syria
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World leaders have called for a tougher stance over Syria's bloodly crackdown on protesters, demanding new international sanctions on President Bashar al-Assad and his regime. In a round of talks on the sidelines of Thursday's "Friends of Libya" summit in Paris, the US, Britain and France discussed plans to escalate international action aimed...
A Turkish Airlines aircraft stands after skidding off the taxiway at the Mumbai International Airport in Mumbai, India, Friday, Sept. 2, 2011.
photo: AP
Turkish plane skids off Mumbai airport runway, all passengers safe
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MUMBAI: A Turkish plane with 97 passengers and crew on board skidded off the runway at the Mumbai Airport early Friday. There were,...
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Gaza ship raid excessive but blockade legal, says UN
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A UN report says Israel used "excessive force" in its raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla last year, but said the naval blockade was legal, according to the New York Times. The UN also found that Israeli commandos were met with "organised and violent resistance" when they boarded the Mavi Marmara, the paper reports. The Turkish-flagged ship was part...
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Journalists are not supposed to have political opinions, and yet we all do. Our "biases" are...
Ten Years Later, Americans Still Stupid and Vulnerable They say everything changed on 9/11. No...
 
The Kalon Tripa of the Central Tibetan Administration, Dr. Lobsang Sangay addressing the historic occasion of the 51st Tibetan Democracy Day celebrations at Tsuglagkhang, the main temple, in Dharamsala, on 2 September 2011. Photo: TPI
Article by Yeshe Choesang, WN Correspondent Dharamshala. Dharamshala:- Dharamshala: Thousands of Tibetans including officials, students, monks and nuns living in exile celebrated their 51st Democracy Day Friday, September 2. The ceremony was graced...
photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang
President Barack Obama receives an update on Hurricane Irene in the Situation Room of the White House, August 27, 2011.
In a surprise move which risks consolidating the growing perception of him as a back-down, back-off leader, President Barack Obama announced yesterday he was giving up his plans to impose stricter air quality regulations for fear it would add to the...
photo: White House / Pete Souza
A rebel fighter sits on top of a weapon outside a military base approximately 45 kilometers outside of Bani Walid, Libya, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2011.
West fears heatseeking surface-to-air missiles will fall into terrorists' hands Rebel fighters plunder arms and ammunition from an army base in Ajdabiya, Libya, in March 2011. Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian...
photo: AP / Gaia Anderson
Britain's Prime Minister and Labour Party leader, Gordon  Brown during a citizens' meeting in central London, Monday, May 3, 2010.
Gordon Brown has stepped up his campaign against Rupert Murdoch's News International media group, sending tape recordings to the Metropolitan Police earlier today which he says challenge the Sunday Times's assurances that it broke no laws when...
photo: AP / Sang Tan
Brits likely to get away on European holidays during Olympics
travelmatch.co.uk say that many British tourists will avoid London during the month of the 2012 Olympics because of the high rates hotels in the capital are charging. Instead the company believe that people will be looking for a range of cheap...
photo: WN / Marzena Jazowska
British Prime Minister David Cameron answers a question during his and Afghan President Hamid Karzai, not in photo, news conference after their talks in Kabul, Afghanistan
Prime minister suggests further military actions may lie ahead as Arab League members 'toughen stance' against Syria Libyan rebels stand on a missile at a military base destroyed by a Nato airstrike this week. Photograph: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters...
photo: AP / Alexander Zemlianichenko
A view Earth from the International Space Station - Katia was a tropical storm gathering energy over the Atlantic Ocean when one of the Expedition 28 crew took this photo on Aug. 31, 2011.
The amount of junk in space is rising exponentially, with continuous collisions between abandoned equipment, spent rockets and other debris creating ever growing clouds of dangerous fragments, an influential report warned on Thursday. The report,...
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Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Cuba, addresses the high-level segment of the 2011 Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, Switzerland. File - FIFA President Sepp Blatter speaks during the 23rd AFC Congress at a hotel in downtown Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Friday, May 8, 2009. Irene cleanup could take days along East Coast Why It Took Eleven Months Instead of Three Weeks to Show that Haiti’s Cholera Is Nepalese: a Tale of Noble and Ignoble Scientists, Harvard, and the U.N.
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