French President Nicolas Sarkozy addresses the 20th congress of the European People's Party, EPP, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011 in Marseille, southern France.
photo: AP / Jean-Paul Pelissier
France's Sarkozy warns Europe risks disintegration
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy has warned that "never has the risk of disintegration been greater" for Europe. He was addressing a gathering of European...
A woman tries to present a scarlet rose to a police officer during protests against alleged vote rigging in Russia's parliamentary elections in Triumphal Square in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011.
photo: AP / Ivan Sekretarev
Putin says U.S. stoked Russian protests
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accused the United States on Thursday of stirring up protests against his 12-year rule and said foreign countries were spending hundreds of millions of dollars to influence Russian elections. Police detain an opposition activist during a protest against the recent election results in St. Petersburg...
Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), addresses the opening of the high-level segment of the COP17/CMP7 UN Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa, 6 December, 2011.
photo: UN / Mark Garten
UN edges towards global climate fund
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Representatives at a UN climate conference are edging towards an agreement to create a Green Climate Fund (GCF), which will help poor nations tackle global warming and allow them to effectively contribute to a new global effort to fight climate change. "I have a fair amount of confidence this is going to get done in a positive way,"...
A pro-Syrian regime protester waves a Syrian flag as he stands in front of portrait of Syrian President Bashar Assad, during a protest against sanctions, Damascus, Syria, Friday Dec. 2, 2011.
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US Republicans urge covert ops against Iran, Syria
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Republican US presidential candidates have redoubled their public calls for "covert" operations against Iran and Syria, including sabotage, assassination and aid to opposition forces. Former House speaker Newt Gingrich, who has led the calls for secret war, told a gathering of party activists on Wednesday he would use "covert capability" to bring...
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, speaks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel during a round table session at an EU summit in Brussels, Friday, Feb. 4, 2011. EU leaders meet for a one-day summit on Friday, with energy, the eurozone debt crisis and unrest in Egypt set to dominate the agenda.
photo: AP / Yves Logghe
Eurozone: France and Germany urge common taxes
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The Franco-German alliance is going at full throttle ahead of the summit. The leaders of France and Germany have called jointly for eurozone countries to have common corporation and financial transaction taxes. The tax policy would apply initially to the 17-member eurozone. France has long complained about Ireland's low corporation tax rate of...
Syrian President Bashar Assad addresses the opening session of the transit Arab Parliamentarian Union in Damascus, Syria, Sunday, Nov. 9, 2008. Syria's president has criticized a proposed American-Iraqi security pact that would keep U.S. troops in Iraq for three more y
photo: AP / Bassem Tellawi
Syria’s Assad denies ordering crackdown
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BEIRUTSyria’s President Bashar al-Assad distanced himself Wednesday from the bloodshed in his country, saying he never ordered the suppression of demonstrations, even as activists reported dozens of tanks and hundreds of soldiers converging on the central city of Homs, where residents said violence was at its peak since...
Italian policemen escort fugitive mobster Michele Zagaria, center, at the police headquarters in Naples, Southern Italy, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011.
photo: AP / Salvatore Laporta
Italian police arrest alleged Mafia boss hiding in bunker
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December 7, 2011 -- Updated 1529 GMT (2329 HKT) Rome (CNN) -- Police in Italy on Wednesday arrested an alleged top Mafia boss hiding in an underground bunker below his home in a small town near Naples, according to police and...
Afghans carrying a body for the funeral of a victim, who was killed in Tuesday's suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011.
photo: AP / Musadeq Sadeq
Kabul blast raises fears of sect war
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AN OBSCURE Pakistani extremist cell has claimed responsibility for the unprecedented bombing of a Shiite religious ceremony in Kabul, but there are growing fears across Afghanistan the attack could open a new, sectarian front in the country's long-running war. The little-known, but radical, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi...
File - An Iraqi contractor (back row, right) assists an Iraqi mother and her children  by pushing a wheel barrow carrying food and supplies collected at a humanitarian assistance site, manned by U.S. Marine Corps Bravo Company, Combat Service Support Group 15, 2nd Transportation Service Battalion, Marines, at Jolan Park in the city of Fallujah, Al Anbar Province, Iraq, on Dec. 27, 2004, during Operation Al Fajr.
photo: USMC / Lance Cpl. Jeremy W. Ferguson
Birth defects, rubble still scar Iraq's Falluja
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FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - As U.S. forces pull out of Iraq, residents and officials in Falluja say they leave behind bullet-riddled homes, destroyed infrastructure and a worrying increase in birth defects and maladies in a city polluted by weapons and war chemicals. Women walk at a market in Falluja city, 50 km (31 miles) west of Baghdad December 6,...
The USS Arizona (BB-39) burning after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941.
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US marks 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbor
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The US Pacific Fleet in flames following the surprise attack on Pearl Harbo... A woman and children look on as soldiers are greeted by loved ones at Wheel... The United States on Wednesday marks the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor with memorial services, lowered flags and silence at the moment the history-changing assault began....
Asia's return to the centre of world affairs is the great power shift of the twenty-first...
With the date for US forces to be fully withdrawn from Iraq fast approaching, it is important...
 
Pakistani fire fighters try to extinguish fire engulfed NATO oil tankers after militants attacked a terminal in Nowshera near Peshawar, Pakistan on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010.
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Assailants torched more than 20 tankers in Pakistan carrying fuel for U.S. and NATO troops in neighboring Afghanistan on Thursday, in the first reported attack since Islamabad closed the border to protest coalition...
photo: AP / Mohammad Sajjad
File - Indian street children  on the roadside footpath in Kolkata,Eastern India
Nearly 11 children go missing in India every hour and at least four of them are never found, according to a study by a child rights organisation. The report by Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA) covers 392 of India's 640 districts and is the first such...
photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed shortly after his capture in Pakistan, 2003. Mohammed was allegedly held in a secret CIA prison in Romania prior to his transfer to Guantanamo.
For years, the CIA used a government building — codenamed "Bright Light" — as a makeshift prison for its most valuable detainees. There it held al-Qa'ida operatives Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of 9/11, and others in a basement...
photo: US DoD
British MP: MR. NORMAN BAKER, MR. TIM LAWTON and MRS. JULIE MORGAN
Article by Yeshe Choesang, WN Correspondent Dharamshala. London, UK: - In an adjournment debate in the House of Commons, Wednesday, the first on Tibet in three years, Members of Parliament called on the British Government to make a public statement...
photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang
Afghans carry a body for funeral ceremony, who was killed on Tuesday's suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011.
KABUL ' The fallout from this week's deadly suicide bombing in Kabul has further splintered Afghanistan's relations with neighboring Pakistan and set back the US-led military campaign to stabilize the region before international troops leave at the...
photo: AP / Ahmad Jamshid
In this photo taken Friday, Aug. 13, 2010, US Army soldiers from 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, prepare to board a military aircraft in Baghdad, Iraq, as they begin their journey home.
A senior U.S. official Wednesday warned Iraq against using violence to evict unarmed Iranian dissidents from a camp north of Baghdad by the end of the month, as a top member of Congress accused the State Department of moving at a snail’s pace...
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Members of the 451st Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron unit push an MQ-1 Predator toward a hangar for a routine maintenance inspection shortly after landing June 8, 2010, at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan.
Reports in the US media published earlier this year, suggested the US ambassador is informed of the intended target of every strike and asked for his agreement. Subsequently, campaigners have written to Cameron Munter, saying that unless he explains...
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