Participants listen to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, not seen, deliver a speech during the opening of the "loya jirga," or grand council in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011.
photo: AP / Musadeq Sadeq
Key Afghan elders' grand council convenes in Kabul
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KABUL, Afghanistan - The Afghan president told tribal elders on Wednesday that any ongoing partnership with the United States would need to include an end to widely unpopular nighttime raids by NATO and on the international forces handing over control of detention centers to Afghan troops. Hamid Karzai spoke at the opening of a grand council, or...
Syrian children pass next to a portrait of Syrian President Bashar Assad, in Barzeh suburb of Damascus, Syria, on Thursday Nov. 10, 2011.
photo: AP / Muzaffar Salman
Syria defectors 'attack military base in Harasta'
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Syrian army defectors have attacked a major military base near Damascus, a Syrian opposition group says. Parts of the Air Force Intelligence building in Harasta were destroyed in the overnight attack, said the Syrian Revolution General Commission. The Free Syrian Army used rockets and machine-guns, it said, in its highest-profile attack since...
U.S. President Barack Obama and Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard speak at a joint news conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011.
photo: AP / Charles Dharapak
Obama in Australia to boost military links
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US President Barack Obama is to strengthen military ties with Australia by updating a 60-year old security alliance as part of his two-day visit. Obama, making his first visit to the country since his election in 2008, was greeted by Julia Gillard, the Australian prime minister, as Air Force One landed in Canberra, the...
File - President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, left, casts his ballot during the Kazakh presidential election at a polling station in Astana, Kazakhstan, Sunday, April 3, 2011.
photo: AP / Nikita Bassov
Kazakhstan President Nazarbayev calls snap election
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Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev has dissolved parliament and called a snap election for mid-January. The move, which was widely expected after he won April's presidential poll, will dilute the governing party's monopoly. Mr Nazarbayev's Nur Otan party, which has 98 of the 107 parliamentary seats, is...
Italy's Prime Minister-designate Mario Monti meets the journalists at the Senate, in Rome, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011.
photo: AP / Gregorio Borgia
Italy: Monti races to put unity government together
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There was continued nervousness yesterday in the money markets, as Italy sold €3bn (£2.6bn) of five-year bonds paying a yield of 6.29 per cent – the highest since 1997 – in order to service debt payments. Friday's gains in share prices on news that austerity measures would pass through parliament were also wiped out at the prospect of several days...
Police make an arrest after entering an enclosed site near Canal Street where Occupy Wall Street protesters gathered on Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011. Protesters vowed to regroup after an early morning police raid removed their encampment from Zuccotti Park.
photo: AP / Seth Wenig
Occupy Wall Street, angry over eviction, occupies a new corner
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Hundreds of supporters of Occupy Wall Street vowed Tuesday to keep up their protests, convening at a busy corner for a meeting to discuss their next move; the city, meanwhile, appeared headed for a legal showdown over its eviction of protesters from the group's encampment. A hearing was scheduled later on protesters' quest for an order to prohibit...
File - An Afghan National Army commando from the 6th Kandak hands schoolbags to women and children during a humanitarian assistance mission March 25, 2009, at a school in Kabul, Afghanistan.
photo: US Army / Staff Sgt. Russell Klika
Doubt cast over glowing Afghan survey
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] A US-funded survey in Afghanistan says that 73 three percent of the population is satisfied with the government's performance, a claim which leaders and analysts have disputed as being far from reality. The survey, published by Asia Foundation, a US-based non-profit with more than a dozen offices across Asia, also said that nearly half of...
Pro-Syrian regime protesters, shout pro-Syrian President Bashar Assad slogans as they gather outside the Syrian foreign ministry where Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem helds a press conference, in Damascus, Syria, on Monday Nov. 14, 2011.
photo: AP / Muzaffar Salman
Jordan king urges Assad to quit
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Jordan's King Abdullah II urged President Bashar al-Assad to step down as the Syrian regime stood defiant in the face of growing international pressure and activists said dozens more were killed. Damascus stood increasingly isolated as the European Union and United States showered praise on the Arab League for its weekend decision to suspend...
A demonstrator yells at police officers as they order Occupy Wall Street protesters to leave Zuccotti Park, their longtime encampment in New York, early Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011.
photo: AP / Mary Altaffer
NY police clearing out anti-Wall Street protesters
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Police wearing helmets and carrying shields early on Tuesday began to clear Zuccotti Park in New York City's financial district, where protesters from the Occupy Wall Street movement have been camped since September. The office of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the protesters should "temporarily leave" the park and...
In this photo, reviewed by the U.S. military, guards stand on either side of a line-up of Guantanamo detainees, in white, to perform a search for unauthorized items, at Guantanamo's Camp 4 detention facility, at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba, Tuesday, May 12, 2009.
photo: AP / Brennan Linsley
Himmler's Ambiguity, Holder's Audacity
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. It was on this day in 1943 (November 15), that Heinrich Himmler, leader of the German SS, ordered Gypsies and "part-Gypsies" to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps." He also commanded the SS and Gestapo, along with other secret security organizations, that in cases of...
It looks like the Zionists and their AZZ (anti-Zionist Zionists) allies are losing the battle....
 
File - Juan Méndez, Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide, briefs journalists on his recent visit to Côte d'Ivoire and Sudan, today at UN Headquarters.
As a victim of persecution himself, United Nations special rapporteur on torture Juan Mendez is more than qualified for the post. He was arrested, held and tortured during Argentina's Dirty War - an era of state-sponsored...
photo: UN / Mark Garten
File - Palestinian women walk in front of a poster in the image of the late leader Yasser Arafat
For an unforgettable "Groundhog Day" experience, there is nothing better than a trip to Palestine and Israel. We've experienced multiple revolutions over the past six decades in information technologies, social mores and political...
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb
Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra talks to members of the press in Podgorica, Montenegro, Monday, April 26, 2010.
AFP Thailand's cabinet has endorsed a controversial amnesty decree that could pave the way for the return of fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, who is Thaksin's younger sister, has yet to confirm or...
photo: AP / Risto Bozovic
 Aishwarya Rai, Ash, Bollywood, Star, India (mk1)
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has given birth to a baby girl. The child is her first with husband Abhishek Bachchan, who broke the news via Twitter, simply writing: "It's a girl!" Rai Bachchan's father-in-law Amitabh Bachchan also tweeted: "I AM DADA to the...
photo: MGS/WN
Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Since the merge of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad with Al-Qaeda in juni 2001 he is the second man of Al-Qaeda, next to Osama bin-Laden
Al-Qaeda has released a video message in which Ayman al-Zawahiri, the group's leader, heaps praise on his predecessor Osama bin Laden for his "superior morals" and loyalty to his comrades. "Days with the imam, Part One", the half-hour tape...
photo: Public Domain
President Barack Obama at the Leaders Retreat at the APEC summit in Yokohama, Japan, Saturday, Nov. 13, 2010.
President Obama was wrong to say at the Asia-Pacific economic summit that America has gotten “lazy” in the past few decades at attracting foreign investment. What he should have said, in the light of his administration’s handling of...
photo: AP / Charles Dharapak
Italy's Prime Minister-designate Mario Monti meets the journalists at the Senate, in Rome, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011
NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press= ROME (AP) — Prime Minister-designate Mario Monti of Italy said Tuesday he is ready to present his new government to the president after winning wide backing — and important pledges of sacrifices — from political,...
photo: AP / Gregorio Borgia
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