Chinese President Hu Jintao gestures to U.S. President Barack Obama, left, after a joint press conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009.
photo: AP / Ng Han Guan
China's Central Country and U.S. Exceptionalism
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. "Who would exhaust China's resources to quarrel with serpents and swine?" -Ou-yang Hsiu, Chinese Poet It is too bad that President Barack Obama's new military posturing throughout the Pacific Rim and Asia, specifically aimed at China, did not appease Republican conservatives and militant liberals....
A general view of a parliament session as Greek Prime minister speaks, about the next year's state budget, in Athens, on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011.
photo: AP / Petros Giannakouris
Greek lawmakers approve 2012 austerity budget
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ATHENS, Greece — Greece's lawmakers overwhelmingly approved next year's austerity budget early Wednesday, extending tough spending cuts that have already left Greeks struggling as the country tries to slash its vast debts and tame a severe recession. With three parties, including the majority socialists and their rival conservatives,...
The European Central Bank. Notice a sculpture of the euro sign.
photo: Creative Commons / Eric Chan
EU officials working to avoid treaty referendum
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ARTHUR BEESLEY, European Correspondent THE AUTHORITIES in Brussels are working to avert the need for a referendum in Ireland or any other country if they grant Germany's wish for changes to the European treaties to toughen the enforcement of EU budget rules. Although Berlin's push to reopen the Lisbon Treaty for a second time since its enactment...
Afghans are seen near the scene of a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011.
photo: AP / Musadeq Sadeq
Afghan shrine blasts kill 58 on Shiite holy day
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Twin blasts at Afghan shrines on the Shiite holy day of Ashura killed at least 58 people on Tuesday with one massive suicide attack in Kabul ripping through a crowd of worshippers including children. The blast in Kabul and another in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif came a day after an international meeting in Germany meant to further efforts to...
Congolese riot police stands in front of the parliament building in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Monday Dec. 5, 2011.
photo: AP / Jerome Delay
Kinshasa tense ahead of DRC vote result
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- The winner of last week's presidential election in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is due to be named on Tuesday, stirring fears of new unrest in the conflict-prone country. The latest result projections, announced early on Tuesday by the country's electoral commission, gave Joseph Kabila, the incumbent president, 46.4 per...
File - A local Afghan woman picks up bags of toys and clothes at Bagram Airfield's Korean Hospital, Kabul, Afghanistan.
photo: US Army / U.S. Army Sgt. Grant Matthes
Aid Agencies in Afghanistan Fear Reversals After U.S. Exit
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Even as President Hamid Karzai beseeched nations at a conference in Germany on Monday to continue aid to Afghanistan for another decade, the American withdrawal from Afghanistan has already started, at least among civilian aid workers, raising anxieties that Afghanistan will be abandoned and that the hard-earned development...
Syria's Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi speaks during a press conference in Damascus, Syria, on Monday, Dec. 5, 2011.
photo: AP / Muzaffar Salman
Syria 'accepts' observers
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AFP Syria has conditionally accepted observers as part of an Arab plan, as a rights group reported militiamen loyal to the regime killed 34 civilians and dumped their bodies in a city square. The Arab League, which has threatened to impose new sanctions on Damascus if it fails to comply with the plan for monitors, said it was considering the Syrian...
A statue which depicts a woman holding up the symbol of the euro is seen at the European Parliament in Brussels, Thursday March 18, 2010.
photo: AP / Virginia Mayo
Euro nations face credit downgrade
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The eurozone debt crisis has deepened as Germany, France and 13 other members of the single currency faced having their credit ratings downgraded. In a move that will pile pressure on euro Uzone leaders and is likely to hit markets on Tuesday morning, it emerged that ratings agency Standard & Poor's had put all but...
Egyptian women vote inside a polling station in Nasr City, a neighborhood of Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Dec. 5, 2011.
photo: AP / Tara Todras-Whitehill
Islamist rivals in Egypt election stand-off
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CAIRO: Rival Islamists in Egypt's parliamentary election played up their differences in a first-round run-off vote, with the top-placed Muslim Brotherhood anxious to show a moderate face to Egyptians hungry for stability. Hardline Salafis were the surprise runner-up in last week's opening stage, the biggest test of the public mood since street...
Russian police officers detain an opposition activist during a protest against vote rigging in St. Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, Dec. 4, 2011.
photo: AP / Dmitry Lovetsky
Russia election: OSCE sees 'numerous violations'
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International observers have cited numerous violations in Sunday's parliamentary elections in Russia. The OSCE said the polls were slanted in favour of pro-Kremlin party...
The deadly and unprecedented attack on a packed shrine in a historic district of Kabul has put...
Interviewees said police treated them in a degrading way when they were stopped – particularly...
 
David Cameron
BRITISH Prime Minister David Cameron has threatened to block a new European Union treaty designed to save the euro from the debt crisis if London's demands are not met. Cameron said Britain's huge financial sector and the single market would...
photo: Creative Commons / CMEC
File - British policemen guard the entrance to the Palace of Westminster near a sign that indicates that pass holders only will be allowed in this entrance, in London, Tuesday Oct. 16, 2007.
This morning we published details of how Bell Pottinger boasted about its access to the heart of Government to journalists posing as potential clients. The revelations have increased pressure for the Government to introduce a statutory register of...
photo: AP / Alastair Grant
His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet offering teachings of Nagajuna's Tantric text composed by Panchen Choegyal, over 10,000 devotees gathered at the Gyudmed Tantric University, Sunsur Rabgyeling settlement located near District Mysore, Karnataka State of South India, 5th December 2011.
Article by Yeshe Choesang, WN Correspondent Dharamshala. Dharamshala, India: - The spiritual leader of Tibet, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, began a three-day spiritual visit to South India on Monday, 5th December, saying that one should strive to...
photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang
Sailors assigned to Navy Expeditionary Guard Battalion escort a Guantanamo detainee.
As parliamentary elections begin in Egypt, Reprieve's Life After Guantanamo team is working against the clock for the luckless Egyptian ex-Guantanamo prisoner Adel al-Gazzar, now re-imprisoned in Cairo. Like that of most Egyptians, Adel's future...
photo: US Navy / MCS2 Elisha Dawkins
Former Iranian President, Abolhassan Bani Sadr, is seen during an interview with the Associated Press in Versailles, west of Paris, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2009.
To view this content you need Flash and Javascript enabled in your browser. Please download Flash from the Adobe download website. Joey Jones, deputy political editor David Cameron has fallen into the Iranian regime's trap, the former president of...
photo: AP / Michel Euler
File - A 43 year old Congolese patient, right, who has been confirmed to have Ebola hemorrhagic fever, following laboratory tests, is comforted by Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders) nurse Isabel Grovas, left, and Doctor Hilde Declerck, not pictured, in Kampungu, Kasai Occidental province, Congo, Saturday, Sept. 29, 2007.
Scientists have developed a vaccine that protects mice against a deadly form of the Ebola virus. First identified in 1976, Ebola kills more than 90% of the people it infects. The researchers say that this is the first Ebola vaccine to...
photo: AP / WHO, Christopher Black
The view from the work deck of the Seacor Lee July 9, 2010. The Seacor Lee is serving as the command and control center for the off shore Deepwater Horizon oil spill response.
December 6, 2011 -- Updated 0058 GMT (0858 HKT) Fire boats battle a fire at the off shore oil rig Deepwater Horizon on April 21, 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico. (CNN) -- BP is accusing Halliburton of having "intentionally destroyed evidence" related to...
photo: US Coast Guard / PO1 Matthew Belson
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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin looks on during a cabinet meeting in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Dec. 5, 2011. Inter Milan manager Rafael Benitez FILE - In this July 28, 2010 file photo specialist Donald Civitanova, left, and trader Maier Tarlow work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange A photograph of the waterfall 'Gulfoss' in Iceland during early April, partially frozen.
Chinese President Hu Jintao gestures to U.S. President Barack Obama, left, after a joint press conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009. Canada forward Sidney Crosby  Cisco Systems Inc. /wam2 U.S. Army Pfc. Shawn Williams of the 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division based in Fort Wainwright, Alaska, gives the thumbs-up to members of his unit as he is evacuated after being injured by a roadside bomb, Friday, June 17, 2011, in the Kandahar Province of Afghanistan.
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet arriving at the Dzongkar Choede Monastery, Karnataka State of India, 6th December 2011. A passer-by looks at an electronic stock board in downtown Tokyo Friday, Oct. 31, 2008. Japan's benchmark stock index closed down 5 percent Friday with investors dumping stocks after the central bank's smaller-than-expected cut in its key interest rate. The Nikkei 225 index lost 452.78 points to close at 8,576.98 point fashionable hair clips in the retail shop in India - business Fertilizers bags displays in a fair
Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff, left, looks at Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez during a ceremony upon her arrival to Miraflores presidential Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011. Werder Bremen soccer team player Claudio Pizarro eyes the ball during a training session in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday May 19, 2009. Werder Bremen will play Shakhtar Donetsk in the final of the UEFA Cup in Istanbul on Wednesday May 20. In this frame grab taken from Venezolana de Television, VTV, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez delivers a televised speech aired from Cuba, Thursday, June 30, 2011. Apple iPhone 4 - Smartphone
Syria's Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi speaks during a press conference in Damascus, Syria, on Monday, Dec. 5, 2011. A Palestinian man inspects the damage at a target of Israeli airstrikes in the southern Gaza Strip on november 19, 2010. Israeli air strikes hit Khan Yunis and on other town in the Gaza strip on Friday wounding five people, the Israeli army and Palestinian medical sources said( Photo By Ahmed Deeb/WN) Petrol pump mp3h0355 Solar energy operated product-water heating system using solar power-India.
Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Kamla Persad-Bissessar speaks during the concluding press conference for Commonwealth Heads Of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Perth, Australia, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011. India's captain Suresh Raina, center, is congratulated by his batting partner Rohit Sharma after he shot a four off West Indies' captain Darren Sammy, left, during their first one-day international cricket match in Port of Spain, Trinidad, Monday June 6, 2011.  A child walks away from a store selling Fisher-Price toys in Beijing, China, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2007. China said it would work with the United States to improve product safety amid a massive U.S. recall by Fisher-Price of 1 million plastic preschool toys Venezuela's Hugo Chavez waves to photographers during the opening session of the Arab- South American Summit in Doha, Qatar, Tuesday, March 31, 2009. Latin American leaders are set to begin a summit meeting with their Arab counterparts in Qatar, looking to boost ties between South American and Arab states
 

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