File - U.S. Army Pvt. Anthony Salazar, of Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, pulls security during a patrol in the Furat area of Baghdad, Iraq, May 8, 2007.
photo: US Army / Staff Sgt. Bronco Suzuki
US to lower flag to end Iraq war
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The US flag is to be lowered in Baghdad, formally marking the end of US military operations in Iraq after nearly nine years of war. Most of the 5,500...
Relatives of victims gather at Diamond Harbour hospital, after dozens died and more than a hundred fell sick drinking bootleg liquor in the village of Sangrampur, about 30 kilometers (20 miles) from Kolkata, India, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011.
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India's toxic home brew death toll rises to 102
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A tainted batch of bootleg liquor killed 102 people and sent dozens more to the hospital in villages outside the eastern Indian city of Kolkata, officials said. Day laborers and other poor workers began falling ill late Tuesday after drinking the brew that was laced with the toxic methanol around the village of Sangrampur, about 30 kilometers south...
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, right, delivers a speech at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011 during the debate on the European debt crisis and the EU summit.
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Euro under pressure as EU summit optimism fades
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FRANKFURT, GERMANY: Investors have soured on the latest attempt to resolve the European debt crisis. Stocks tumbled around the world, the euro slid to an 11-month low and borrowing costs spiked for heavily indebted Italy. The markets’ jitters reflect rising doubts about the deal European Union leaders reached at a summit last Friday in...
File - A law enforcement officer patrols the main terminal of Washington Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Va., Saturday, Sept. 10, 2011.
photo: AP / Luis M. Alvarez
Terror suspect defence bill passes US House
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The US House of Representatives has passed a defence bill likely to change the way the US detains terror suspects. The bill passed after the White House lifted a veto threat, noting "several important changes" had been made. It is likely to go to the Senate on Thursday. The bill also includes additional sanctions against Iran's...
 Iranian women form a human chain, at the Isfahan Uranium Conversion Facility, to support Iran´s nuclear program, just outside the city of Isfahan, 410 kilometers (255 miles) south of Tehran, Iran, in this Aug. 16, 2005 file photo. In nearly every I
photo: AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File
Iran Says It May Move Uranium Enrichment to ‘Safer Places’
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Iran may relocate its uranium enrichment work to more secure locations, a senior Iranian defense official said Wednesday, an acknowledgment of increased concern that Iran’s suspected nuclear program could face a military attack from Israel or the United States. Related Explosion Seen as Big Setback to Iran’s Missile Program (December 5, 2011)...
An Egyptian candidate's representative, appointed to monitor the voting, wearing the Niqab, watches next to ballot boxes at a polling center in Giza, Egypt, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011.
photo: AP / Amr Nabil
Egypt's seculars desperate to balance Islamists
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CAIRO - Overwhelmed by Islamists in parliamentary elections, the secular and liberal youths who were the driving force behind Egypt's uprising are scrambling to ensure their voices are not lost as a new constitution and government take shape. Two Islamist blocs - newly emboldened after decades of repression under Mubarak's secular regime - won...
President Barack Obama speaks to troops at Fort Bragg, N.C., Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011.
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Obama marking end of Iraq war
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FORT BRAGG, North Carolina ' President Barack Obama saluted troops returning from Iraq Wednesday, declaring that the nearly nine-year conflict is ending honorably, 'not with a final battle, but with a final march toward home.' Marking the conclusion of the war at this military base that's seen more than 200 deaths over nearly nine years of fighting...
Police block the street in downtown Liege, Belgium, Tuesday Dec. 13, 2011, following a grenade attack in the city center, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011.
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Police find body at Liege killer's address
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The find took the death toll from yesterday's carnage to six, including the killer himself. Nordine Amrani was armed with grenades and an assault rifle when he attacked holiday shoppers at a central square in the eastern city. His victims included two teenage boys aged 15 and 17, a 75-year-old woman and an 18-month-old baby, who died in hospital...
Embattled Philippine Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona waves to the crowd, mostly lawyers and judges, prior to addressing them in a rally Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011 in Manila, Philippines.
photo: AP / Bullit Marquez
Philippine chief judge warns of 'dictatorship'
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MANILA, Philippines The chief justice of the Philippine Supreme Court warned Wednesday that President Benigno Aquino III's moves to oust him could lead to a dictatorship and vowed to defend himself in an impeachment trial. Chief Justice Renato Corona accused Aquino of seeking to impose his will on the court to contol the entire government. It was...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy listen during the Conference on Security Policy, Sicherheitskonferenz, at the hotel "Bayerischer Hof" in Munich, southern Germany, on Saturday, Feb. 7, 2009. Many notable leaders participate in the 45th annual Munich Security Conference until Sunday, Feb. 8, 2009.
photo: AP / Frank Augstein
'Into Africa' and the Euro Crisis
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. By the time English apologist and naturalist Thomas Browne wrote, "We carry within us the wonders we seek without: there is all Africa and her prodigies in us," he had witnessed Europe ravage the "Dark Continent," enslaving and murder millions of its inhabitants. But the "out of Africa" theory, or the...
Leon Panetta, the US defence secretary, has arrived in Afghanistan on a surprise visit. His...
Defence funding bill allows American citizens to be arrested as terrorists on home soil and...
 
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Nearly 20% of women in the US are raped or suffer attempted rape at some point in their lives, a US study says. Even more women, estimated at 25%, have been attacked by a partner or husband, the Centers for Disease Control said. The findings form...
photo: WN / Guillaume Poulet-Mathis
Former French President Jacques Chirac, center rear, leaves his home in a car, Tuesday, Sept.6, 2011 in Paris.
French judges are to rule Thursday in the unprecedented corruption case aga... French judges are to rule Thursday in the unprecedented corruption case against aged ex-leader Jacques Chirac, the first time a former French president has faced charges...
photo: AP / Yoan Valat
In this Dec. 5, 2011 file photo, an officer from the Suffolk County Police Department's K-9 Unit uses a dog to search through the brush along the median of Ocean Parkway, near Oak Beach in Long Island, N.Y. A year ago, the first of 10 sets of human remains were found strewn in the thicket along the seven-mile stretch of highway.
Privacy they didn't get, but news from the police they did. Just hours before the planned candlelit vigil on the stretch of shore road used as a dumping ground by the murderer, police announced they had found skeletal remains of another woman, victim...
photo: AP / Kevin P. Coughlin
In a Feb. 27, 2008 file photo euro coins and dollar bills are seen in Frankfurt, central Germany. The euro roared to another record high Tuesday, April 22, 2008 briefly crossing $1.60 in late afternoon trading in Europe after a pair of European Central Bank governors said high inflation may cause the bank to raise interest ra
The eurozone is facing a "bleak" winter, according to audit firm Ernst & Young. A "mild" recession is likely in the first half of next year, leading to economic growth of just 0.1% for the whole of 2012, it predicted. Ernst & Young also said...
photo: AP / Michael Probst, File
From left to right, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble, France's Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner pose during the family picture of the G20 Finance summit at Bercy Finance Ministry in Paris, Saturday, Feb. 19, 2011. Finance chiefs from the world's 20 industrialized and fastest developing nations wrestle over how to steady the world economy at a two-days meeting in Paris.
Michael Moran URL Michael Moran is Foreign Affairs columnist for GlobalPost, covering global economics, politics and U.S. foreign policy from New York. Recent Posts Business Roundtable survey: No hiring push in early 2012 MacBook Pro soon to come...
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Simulation of gas cloud after close approach to the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way
Researchers have spotted a giant gas cloud spiralling into the supermassive black hole at our galaxy's centre. Though it is known that black holes draw in...
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File - Soldiers in Iraq provide security while their platoon attends a local council meeting outside Forward Operating Base Taji, Iraq, July 3, 2010.
Barack Obama welcomed home some of the last US troops from Iraq on Wednesday, marking a symbolic end to a damaging war. US President Barack Obama speaks at Fort Bragg Photo: GETTY 6:04PM GMT 14 Dec 2011...
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