Pro-regime protesters gesture toward a statue of a solider during a rally at Umayyad Square in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011. Syrian troops assaulting a northwest town with machine gun fire and shelling have killed dozens in one of the deadliest episodes of the 9-month-old uprising against President Bashar Assad's regime, activists said Wednesday.
photo: AP / Bassem Tellawi
Syria opposition urges UN action over 'massacres'
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Syria's main opposition group on Wednesday urged the UN Security Council and Arab League to hold emergency meetings into "the bloody massacres" as it reported 250 people killed in the past 48 hours. Washington warned of new international measures against Syria, and said if Damascus did not fully implement an Arab League plan to contain the...
In this Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009, file photo, Iraq's vice President Tariq al-Hashemi speaks during a news conference in Baghdad, Iraq.
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Iraq PM tells Kurds to hand over Sunni VP
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BAGHDAD - Iraq's Shiite prime minister told Kurdish authorities Wednesday to hand over the Sunni vice president, who fled to the semiautonomous region to escape an arrest warrant on charges he ran hit squads targeting government officials. The charges, leveled a day after the last American troops left Iraq, have opened up a new round of the...
The mourning procession with a carriage with the coffin of former President Vaclav Havel arrive at the Prague Castle in Prague, Czech Republic, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011.
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Vaclav Havel's body lies in state at Prague Castle
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December 21, 2011 -- Updated 1414 GMT (2214 HKT) (CNN) -- Admirers of the late Czech President Vaclav Havel lined Prague's famous Charles Bridge Wednesday as his coffin was moved to Prague Castle ahead of his state funeral Friday. Havel, who helped bring down communism in Czechoslovakia's 1989 Velvet Revolution, died Sunday, aged 75. A fiercely...
File - U.S. Army Spc. Brad Cook, an infantryman from Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, provides security during a mission in Fara Shia, Iraq, Feb. 8, 2008.
photo: USAF / Tech. Sgt. William Greer
Analysis - Iraq crisis raises spectre of sectarian strife
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - When the last American soldiers left Iraq this week almost nine years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, U.S. officials were keen to portray it as a stable, democratic, if still troubled nation. Just a few days later, the buffer of U.S. military presence gone, Iraq very quickly slipped back into the sectarian squabbling that pits...
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem speaks at a press conference in Damascus, Syria, Monday, Dec. 19, 2011.
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Syria brings in death penalty for opposition
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President Bashar al-Assad, facing international condemnation for his brutal crackdown on opposition to his rule, has accused demonstrators of being foreign-backed "armed terrorists", and not the peaceful protesters that the West and human rights organisations say they are. The uprising has become increasingly violent in recent months as...
US Vice President Joe Biden addresses the participants of the International 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, 2
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Biden urges Iraq PM to resolve crisis
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US Vice President Joe Biden Tuesday urged Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to work with other parties to resolve a worsening crisis threatening Iraq's fragile political truce. The nation's Sunni Arab Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi has defiantly denied terror charges lodged against him the day after US troops left Iraq -- bringing to an end the...
In this photo released by the Korean Central News Agency and distributed in Tokyo by the Korea News Service, Kim Jong Un, third from left, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's youngest known son and successor, bows with No. 2 man Kim Yong Nam, fourth from left, as he visits the body of the senior Kim with top military and Workers' Party officials in a memorial palace in Pyongyang, North Korea, Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011. Kim died on Saturday, Dec. 17, North Korean state media announced Monday.
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Next leader Kim Jong-un leads mourning as father's body lies in state
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NORTH Korea's new leader, Kim Jong-un, bowed in mourning before the coffin of his father, Kim Jong-il, as the government propaganda machine bestowed new titles upon him in a concerted effort to shore up the succession. State television showed the portly, dark-suited Mr Kim leading a delegation of senior mourners to the Kumsusan Memorial Palace...
In this image from TV made available Thursday Dec. 15, 2011, showing a man lying dead in the street in Homs, Syria, Wednesday Dec. 14, 2011.
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Syria and Politics of Impaling People Around the World
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling "The King knows that all lands hate us." -Ancient Assyrian prophetic dispatch. Although modern day Syria was formed after World War I as a French mandate, in ancient times it was central to important trade routes connecting Asia, Africa and Europe. As a result of its strategic location, just east of...
Residents retrieve a car which was washed away in Friday's flash flooding in Iligan city in southern Philippines Monday Dec. 19, 2011.
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Philippines buries its dead as flood toll tops 1,000
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Philippines authorities on Tuesday began burying the dead from flash floods that have left more than 1,000 dead or missing, as President Benigno Aquino declared a national disaster. Aquino flew to Mindanao island to inspect the ports of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan -- choked with drying mud, crumpled homes, and hundreds of decomposing corpses after...
Protesters hold pictures of Wukan villagers as they march to the China Liaison Office during a protest in Hong Kong Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011.
photo: AP / Kin Cheung
China village protest: Wukan residents plan march
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Residents in the southern Chinese fishing village of Wukan say they are determined to march to the city in an ongoing dispute over land grabs. Violent protests erupted earlier this month when their negotiator, Xue Jinbo, died in police custody. A...
It was a few years ago that I grasped that Zionism was just one manifestation of Jewish...
President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday ordered the release of a prominent presidential aide two...
 
The Russian Federal State Education Institute- Tuva State University Honouring His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet for his outstanding work of peace and religious harmony, Dharamshala, India, 21st December 2011.
Article by Yeshe Choesang, WN Correspondent Dharamshala. Dharamshala: - After three days of teaching and initiation events in Dharamshala, India, today, December 21st, the Russian Federal State Education Institute, Tuva State University, has awarded...
photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang
File - Southern Sudan rebel leader George Athor, looks on during a press conference in Nairobi, Kenya, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2011.
South Sudanese rebels will continue their fight against the newly independent government in Juba despite the killing of their leader George Athor, his spokesman said on Wednesday. "To me, the mission is alive," James Puot told AFP. "Only one man has...
photo: AP / Sayyid Abdul Azim
Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted from a security vehicle to a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., Monday, Dec. 19, 2011, for a military hearing that will determine if he should face court-martial for his alleged role in the WikiLeaks classified leaks case.
Last week, after an astounding 567 days in prison, Bradley Manning - the US Army private accused of leaking the WikiLeaks documents - finally began his pre-trial hearing. In the year and a half since he has been in jail, Manning has been severely...
photo: AP / Patrick Semansky
Alexei Navalny, a prominent anti-corruption whistleblower and blogger, left, is escorted by police to court in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Opposition leader Alexei Navalny used his release from jail on Wednesday to call on Russians to unite against Vladimir Putin whom he said would try to snatch victory in a March 4 presidential election that was sure to be unfair....
photo: AP / Mikhail Metzel
Syrian citizens watch Syrian President Bashar Assad on tv as he addresses Parliament, in Damascus, Syria, on Wednesday March 30, 2011.
The assessments of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad following his interview with Barbara Walters in early December all strike a common theme. A U.S. State Department spokesman, for instance, declared that Assad appears to be "utterly...
photo: AP / Hussein Malla
Enrique Pena Nieto, former governor of Mexico State and the unopposed presidential candidate for the Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI, delivers a speech to supporters during a rally in Mexico City, Sunday Nov. 27, 2011.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - For over two years Enrique Pena Nieto has lorded it over rivals as hot favorite to become Mexico's next president. But just weeks...
photo: AP / Marco Ugarte
File - Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, meets with Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, March 17, 2008.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Konstantin owns apartments in Moscow and London, drives a $150,000 Mercedes-Benz car and buys his groceries at the expensive Azbuka Vkusa store. At the age of 44 he is part of Russia's new generation of rich bankers, but is too...
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Gov. Jerry Brown discusses his proposal to rollback public employee pension benefits during a news conference at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011. Brown's plan, which would require approval from the Legislature, would raise the retirement age to 67 for new employees, who are not public safety workers and require state and local employees to pay more toward their retirement and health care. The governor also proposes a mandatory 'hybrid" system in which future retirees would get their retirement from a guaranteed benefit and a 401(k)-style plan.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) AS Roma forward Marco Borriello reacts after Cagliari forward Mostapha El Kabir, of Morocco, not seen, scored during a Serie A soccer match between AS Roma and Cagliari, at Rome's Olympic stadium, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011. Cagliari won 2-1. Dog - Pet - Animal A woman using laptop for internet surfing
Protesters hold pictures of Wukan villagers as they march to the China Liaison Office during a protest in Hong Kong Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011. Santos' soccer player Neymar, of Brazil, gestures during an interview in Santos, Brazil, Saturday Oct. 15, 2011.  KLps1 - July 07 - Aussie Dollar - AUD - Australian Dollar - Currency - Money. (ps1) hen - chicken - bird flu
Walking from his simple palace in exile to the main temple, His Holiness the Dalai Lama's four day teaching in Dharamshala, H.P., India, on October 4, 2011. The teachings were held at the Main Tibetan Temple and were given at the request of a group from Taiwan. Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund Christine Lagarde, right, speaks with Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos during a meeting of eurozone finance ministers in Brussels on Friday, Oct. 21, 2011. Brazil and Sub-Saharan Africa Pursue Steadily Stronger Economic and Political Ties - New Report In this Friday, Oct. 30, 2009 picture a caretaker looks after a baby girl in the Siaya hospital in Western Kenya. The girl was found abandoned in the street and suffering with malaria. A new vaccine being tested at the hospital is giving the medical community hope that for the first time it will soon be able to reduce by half the number of African children killed by the mosquito-borne disease every year.
File - Venezuelan Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, also known as Carlos the Jackal, left, sits in a Paris courtroom in this Nov. 28 2000 photo, with his French lawyer Isabelle Coutant-Peyre, right. Queens Park Rangers' Joey Barton, left, taps Liverpool's Luis Suarez on the head during their English Premier League soccer match at Anfield, Liverpool, England, Saturday Dec. 10, 2011. Brazil lawsuit against Chevron may scare investors Spectators watch FIFA President Sepp Blatter during a live viewing of the 2018 and 2022 World Cup hosts announcement, at the King Baudouin stadium in Brussels, Thursday Dec. 2, 2010.
Pro-regime protesters gesture toward a statue of a solider during a rally at Umayyad Square in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011. Syrian troops assaulting a northwest town with machine gun fire and shelling have killed dozens in one of the deadliest episodes of the 9-month-old uprising against President Bashar Assad's regime, activists said Wednesday. File - A U.S. Army Soldier from Delta Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, and a U.S. Army Interpreter, question an Iraqi Civilian at her home during a Cordon and Search in the town of Al Intisar, Mosul, Iraq, on May 1, 2008. In this file photo taken Wednesday April 23, 2003 engineer Ali Hussein steps around crude oil that has leaked from a pipe at the K-1 pumping station near the Babagurgur oil fields in Kirkuk, 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of Iraq's capital Baghdad. Early in the morning at lovely Corniche, Abu Dhabi
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 Mahendra Singh Dhoni throws a ball for a catching drill during a practice session in Kingston, Jamaica, Saturday June 18, 2011. The first Test of the three-match series between India and the West Indies starts on Monday.  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 A shop selling variety designs of treadmill for exercise was seen at a mall in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
 

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