Onlookers gather around a destroyed car at the site of a bomb blast at St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla, Nigeria, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011.
photo: AP / Sunday Aghaeze
Nigeria probes Christmas carnage
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Nigeria on Monday probed a wave of Christmas Day bomb attacks that killed at least 40 and was blamed on Islamists, including one blast that ripped through a crowd of worshippers exiting mass. The government blamed Islamist sect Boko Haram for three attacks on Sunday, including bomb explosions at two churches -- the deadliest as Christmas mass ended...
Mourners bow in prayer at a mass funeral Saturday, Dec. 24, 2011 for 44 people killed in twin suicide bombings that targeted intelligence agency compounds in Damascus, Syria.
photo: AP / Muzaffar Salman
Arab League observers expected in Syria on Monday
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December 26, 2011 -- Updated 0709 GMT (1509 HKT) Homs under siege (CNN) -- Dozens of Arab League observers are expected to arrive in Syria on Monday to monitor whether President Bashar al-Assad's government complies with an agreement to end a brutal crackdown on protesters calling for the end to his regime. The arrival of the observers follows...
Protesters gather to protest against alleged vote rigging in Russia's parliamentary elections on Sakharov avenue in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Dec. 24, 2011.
photo: AP / Alexander Zemlianichenko
Largest protest since collapse of Soviet Union rocks Russia
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The rally on Moscow's Sakharov Avenue on Saturday was the fourth and by far the biggest of the mass demonstrations provoked by the parliamentary vote held on 4 December. The ruling United Russia party, led by the Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, held on to a slim majority in parliament in those elections, but the results have been tainted by claims...
Onlookers gather around a car destroyed in a blast next to St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla, Nigeria, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011.
photo: AP / Sunday Aghaeze
Christmas attacks in Nigeria by sect kill 39
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JON GAMBRELL Associated Press= LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Terror attacks across Nigeria by a radical Muslim sect killed at least 39 people Sunday, with the majority dying on the steps of a Catholic church after celebrating Christmas Mass as blood pooled in dust from a massive explosion. Authorities acknowledged they could not bring enough emergency...
File - Bolshevik forces marching on Red Square during the Russian Revolution, 1917.
photo: Public Domain
The Other World War I 'Christmas' Truce
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling By the time Josepef Tomann, a young Austrian recruited into military service, wrote, "It is Christmas Eve, on my own in a hostile country...I cannot rest today, my weary mind is troubled by dreams and sweet visions, that fill the air like phantoms...When we were children we looked forward to Christmas...
In this Saturday, Dec. 24, 2011 photo released by the Korean Central News Agency and distributed in Tokyo, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011, by the Korea News Service, Kim Jong Un, center, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's youngest known son and successor, visits at Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang, North Korea, to pay respect to his father.
photo: AP / Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service
Kim Jong Un succession gets boost from military
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Seoul -- North Korea broadcast television footage today of the top military brass flanking the country's young new leader, Kim Jong Un, as they paid their respects to Kim's father, who died of a heart attack a week ago, and pledged their allegiance to his chosen successor. Among the officials there was Jang Song Taek, Kim's uncle and a vice...
File - The leader of the Sudanese rebel group Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), Khalil Ibrahim, speaks during a press conference in Doha, Monday March 29, 2010, criticizing the Sudanese government and accusing it of not implementing the Doha framework agreement.
photo: AP / Osama Faisal
Sudanese army kills leader of Darfur rebel group
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KHARTOUM, SudanSudanese troops killed Khalil Ibrahim, the leader of the main Darfur rebel group, in fighting early Sunday west of the capital Khartoum, the military said. Ibrahim led the Darfur-based Justice and Equality Movement, or JEM, which unlike other Darfur rebel groups did not join a peace deal with the government in Khartoum. An...
Pope Benedict XVI delivers his blessing as he leaves after celebrating Christmas Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Saturday, Dec. 24, 2011.
photo: AP / Andrew Medichini
Pope Benedict condemns commercialisation of Christmas during midnight mass at St Peter's
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Christmas celebrations have officially got underway with Pope Benedict XVI holding a midnight mass service at a packed St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. The Pontiff used the ceremony to condemn the 'superficial glitter' that now surrounds the holiday, urging the faithful to instead discover its true meaning. The traditional service began with a...
Libya celebrates 60th anniversary of independence day for the 1st time in decades
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb
Libya celebrates 60th anniversary of independence day for the 1st time in decades
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TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — For the first time in more than four decades, Libyans on Saturday celebrated the 60th anniversary of the country's independence from Italy and France. Under Moammar Gadhafi's 42-year rule, the celebration was scrapped and instead, only the 1969 date of his coup was marked. "Today we begin the building of Libya as our...
Protesters gather to protest against alleged vote rigging in Russia's parliamentary elections on Sakharov avenue in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Dec. 24, 2011.
photo: AP / Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr
Moscow protests put heat on Russia leader Vladimir Putin
read more The Australian
TENS of thousands of opposition supporters have massed in Moscow to protest the alleged rigging of parliamentary polls, stepping up their challenge to Russian strongman Vladimir Putin's authority. The last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev dramatically called on Putin to quit, just as he had done when the USSR collapsed exactly two decades ago,...
AGRA, India - As far back as he can remember, people told Hari Kishan Pippal that he was...
It goes without saying that the most dynamic impact of these seismic convulsions has been on...
 
File - Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, left, talks to Czech former President Vaclav Havel, right, at the opening night of the 11th Forum 2000 Conference in Prague, in this Oct. 7, 2007 file photo.
During the last year of revolutionary protests across the Arab world, one of the things that most surprised me was how little Vaclav Havel and the Velvet Revolution he helped to lead, was mentioned by activists or even commentators as a model for...
photo: AP / Petr David Josek
A resident wades through a flooded street with an electric fan following a flash flood that inundated Cagayan de Oro city, Philippines, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011.
December 26, 2011 -- Updated 0644 GMT (1444 HKT) A boy holds a placard on a street in Cagayan de Oro on December 24, 2011. (CNN) -- The death toll from the tropical storm that lashed the southern Philippines just over a week ago has risen further,...
photo: AP / Froilan Gallardo
In this undated photo released by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service in Tokyo Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010, Kim Jong Un, second from left, the third son of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, claps after inspecting the construction site of the Huichon Power Station with his father in Chagang Province, North Korea.
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea's main state newspaper is calling Kim Jong Il's heir the head of the ruling Workers' Party Central Committee. The reference means Kim Jong Un will control one of the country's highest decision-making bodies...
photo: AP / Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service
Keyboard of an ACER laptop as seen on this November 5, 2009 photo.
LONDON - The loose-knit hacking movement "Anonymous" claimed Sunday to have stolen thousands of credit-card numbers and other personal information belonging to clients of U.S.-based security think tank Stratfor. One hacker said the goal was to pilfer...
photo: WN / Janice Sabnal
File photo of Scharnhorst, a German battleship, sunk during World War II.
On 26 December 1943 one of the great sea battles of World War II took place. Germany's most famous battleship - the Scharnhorst - was sunk by Allied...
photo: Bundesarchiv
Flanked by a Palestinian flag, left and a Turkish flag, right, Gaza Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh reacts as he speaks during Friday prayers at the Al-Omari mosque in Gaza City, Friday June 4, 2010. Tensions are high in the aftermath of an Israeli naval raid targeting an aid flotilla to Gaza that killed nine pro-Palestinian activists, mostly Turks, in the ensuing clash. Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip was imposed after the militant Hamas group seized power in the territory three years ago. Israel says the blockade is meant to keep weapons out of Gaza and to put pressure on its Hamas rulers. (Photo by Ahmed Deeb/WN)
Gaza City: Gaza's prime minister left the territory yesterday on his first trip abroad since his Hamas movement seized power in June 2007, hoping to improve ties with Muslim countries swept up in the uprisings convulsing the Arab world. Prime...
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb
File - As the sun crests the horizon, 1st Lt. Erik Rekedal, a platoon  leader with A Troop, 5th Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Advise and Assist Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, United States Division-Center, and a White Bear Lake, Minn., native, guides Soldiers in a Humvee along a congested road while on a reconnaissance mission in Iraq, May 18, 2011.
The United States is mulling a far more subdued role in Iraq after pulling its troops out, and has no intention to send its forces back in despite a spike in violence, The New York Times reported on Sunday. US officials told the Times that President...
photo: US Army / 2nd Lt. Devin Osburn
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