File - In this photo of Thursday, Jan.12, 2012, Aliye Amnor a victim of ethnic violence in Jonglei, state, South Sudan, waits in line at the World Food Program distribution center in Pibor to receive emergency food rations.
photo: AP / Michael Onyiego
UN says cattle raiding behind South Sudan massacre
read more STL Today
A U.N. staff member was shot during a clash that broke out as officials met to discuss a weekend cattle raid massacre that left 78 people dead, including many women and children, U.N. officials said Friday. The Wednesday meeting between U.N. and local officials to discuss the incident was broken up when armed men believed to be members of the South...

File - Occupy Wall Street protestors wearing Guy Fawkes masks commonly associated with the hacker group Anonymous wait for their turn to step off at the 39th annual Village Halloween Parade, Monday, Oct. 31st, 2011, in New York.
photo: AP / John Minchillo
Anonymous 'intercepts FBI, Scotland Yard call'
read more Digital Spy
Anonymous has released what the hacking group claims is a taped conference call between the FBI and UK police discussing a major international cyber-crime investigation. The conversation discusses the tracking of Anonymous and its various splinter groups, including dates of planned arrests and details of evidence held by police. The FBI and...

File - A sprawling refugee camp in Malkadiida, Ethiopia, where thousands of Somalis have taken up residence, fleeing drought and famine in their home country, 25 Augut, 2011.
photo: UN / Eskinder Debebe
UN declares Somalia's famine over, but says millions across East Africa still in crisis
read more Star Tribune
NAIROBI, Kenya - The United Nations said Friday that Somalia's famine is over, but the world body's Food and Agricultural Organization warned that continued assistance is needed to stop the region from slipping back. The world body moved the crisis from the top step of a five-point scale — based on the death rate — to the fourth step,...

Iran's Shahab-3 ballistic missile is paraded by Iranian Revolutionary Guard in front of a picture of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during a military parade ceremony marking the 29th anniversary of the start of the 1980-1988 Iraq-Iran war, in front the mausoleum of late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009.
photo: AP / Vahid Salemi
Iran's Khamenei warns over military strike, oil embargo threat
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday the Islamic Republic would not yield to international pressure to abandon its nuclear course, threatening retaliation for sanctions aimed at Iran's oil...

File - A young malaria patient near Alem Kitmama, North East of Addis-Abeba, Ethiopia.
photo: WHO / P. Virot
Malaria death toll far higher than previously thought
read more The Daily Telegraph
Malaria kills more than 1.2 million people a year, nearly 50 per cent more than previously thought, and inflicts a high toll among adults and older children and not just toddlers, a new investigation says. The death toll from malaria is higher than previously thought, but is falling steeply Photo: AFP tag --> 7:00AM GMT 03 Feb 2012...

In this photo released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, former Khmer Rouge S-21 prison commander Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, center, arrives in the courtroom for a session of U.N.-backed tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, as the court gives verdict on appeal filed by Duch against his conviction Friday, Feb. 3, 2012.
photo: AP / Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Nhet Sok Heng
Khmer Rouge jailer handed life on appeal
read more Khaleej Times
PHNOM PENH ' A Khmer Rouge jailer who oversaw the deaths of some 15,000 people was given life in prison on appeal Friday, bringing down the curtain on a landmark first case at Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes court. Survivors of the regime's reign of terror hailed the decision to increase the original jail term of 30 years handed in 2010 to Kaing...

Egyptian protestors run from tear gas fired by security forces during clashes near the interior ministry in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012.
photo: AP / Khalil Hamra
Egypt unrest: Two shot dead in clashes after football deaths
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Two people have been killed and more than 400 injured in protests across Egypt sparked by the deaths of 74 people after a football match. The two killed were shot by police trying to disperse angry crowds in the city of Suez, medical officials said. In the capital Cairo, thousands of protesters remained on the streets following a day of clashes...

ALTERNATE CROP OF PNG102 Three life rafts from the MV Rabaul Queen float above the sunken hull of the ferry in the open waters off Papua New Guinea's east coast, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012.
photo: AP / Post Courier, PAPUA NEW GUINEA OUT
238 saved, 100-plus missing as PNG ferry sinks
read more Sydney Morning Herald
AUSTRALIAN rescuers helped save more than 200 Papua New Guineans from drowning after their ferry sank at sea yesterday, but by nightfall fears remained for more than 100 still missing. Officials believe about 350 people were on board the Rabaul Queen when it went down in the Solomon Sea about 8.30am Melbourne time. It was headed for the PNG...

A man walks as snow and frozen wind billows cross the region, in Roncesvalles, northern Spain, Thursday Feb. 2, 2012. A cold spell has reached Europe with temperatures plummeting far below zero.
photo: AP / Alvaro Barrientos
Death toll from Europe's deep freeze rises to 160
read more Khaleej Times
WARSAW - A cold snap kept Europe in its icy grip on Thursday, pushing the death toll to 160 as countries from Italy to Ukraine struggled to cope with temperatures that plunged to record lows in some places. Nine more people died in Poland overnight as temperatures hit minus 32 Celsius (minus 25.6 Fahrenheit) in the southwest, bringing the overall...

Egyptians react after learning of the death of relatives during clashes at a soccer stadium outside a morgue in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012.
photo: AP / Muhammed Muheisen
Egypt mourns victims of football tragedy
read more Independent online (SA)
Egypt began three days of mourning on Thursday after 74 people were killed in an eruption of violence at a football match that sparked new anger against the military rulers for failing to ensure security. The rioting in the northern city of Port Said on Wednesday night marked one of the deadliest incidents in football history and sent shares on the...


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ubble Space Telescope image of the nearby spiral galaxy M74 is an iconic reminder of the impending season.
The Hubble space telescope has captured an image of a "barred spiral" galaxy that could help us better understand our own Milky Way. Most of the...
photo: NASA / ESA /Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration
The Red Cross workers, left, gives hot tea to homeless people in Donetsk, Ukraine, Monday, Jan. 30, 2012, during extremely cold weather conditions.
More than 100 people have now died as a result of freezing weather in Ukraine since last Friday, the government has announced in Kiev. Most of the 101 who died were homeless people and 64 of them were...
photo: AP / Photomig
The political leader of Tibet, Dr. Lobsang Sangay addressing during the 63rd Anniversary of International Human Rights Day, Dharamshala, India, 10th December 2011.
Dharamshala, Feb 3 (ANI): Tibetan Prime Minister in-exile Lobsang Sangay has expressed concern over rising Chinese military repression against Tibetans and urged the United Nations to send a fact-finding delegation to China to investigate its...
photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, left, and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak answer questions during a news conference at the Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, Oct. 3, 2011.
The West is trying desperately to talk Israel out of an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities amidst fears that a strike could come in the next few months. The United States is leading the persuasion initiative, even though Washington has largely...
photo: AP / Win McNamee
Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta re-enlists 21 Sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN 65).
WASHINGTON • President Barack Obama's administration scrambled Thursday to tamp down the fallout out from Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's surprise announcement that the United States would end its combat role in Afghanistan a year earlier than...
photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Scott Pittman
 Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, right, and Germany´s Chancellor Angela Merkel host a press conference after a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Monday, Aug. 27, 2007 in Beijing, China. Merkel met with Chinese leaders Monday on
AFP - German Chancellor Angela Merkel met China's president on Friday as she seeks to lift Beijing's confidence in Europe where the sovereign debt crisis threatens to tip the region into recession. China, the world's second-biggest economy, has...
photo: AP/Guang Niu, POOL
Vitaly Churkin, U.N. Russian Ambassador speaks at a Security Council meeting at U.N. headquarters Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008 during emergency consultations on the conflict between Russia and Georgia after France requested discussion of a new draft plan to end the hostiliti
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Arab and Western drafters of a U.N. Security Council resolution aimed at stopping Syria's bloody upheaval revised their text on Thursday in a last-ditch effort to avoid a Russian veto, though the new draft includes language...
photo: AP / David Karp

South Sudan violence leaves 120000 displaced; updated 02 Feb 2012; published 01 Feb 2012
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South Sudan violence leaves 120000 displaced
03 Feb 2012 A U.N. staff member was shot during a clash that broke out as officials met to discuss a weekend cattle raid massacre that left 78 people dead, including many women and children, U.N. officials said Friday. The Wednesday meeting between U.N. and local officials to discuss the incident was broken up when armed men believed to be members of the South...

FBI Conference Call - #FFF.; updated 03 Feb 2012; published 03 Feb 2012
16:43
FBI Conference Call - #FFF.
03 Feb 2012 Anonymous has released what the hacking group claims is a taped conference call between the FBI and UK police discussing a major international cyber-crime investigation. The conversation discusses the tracking of Anonymous and its various splinter groups, including dates of planned arrests and details of evidence held by police. The FBI and...

FAO declares end of famine in Somalia; updated 03 Feb 2012; published 03 Feb 2012
2:43
FAO declares end of famine in Somalia
03 Feb 2012 NAIROBI, Kenya - The United Nations said Friday that Somalia's famine is over, but the world body's Food and Agricultural Organization warned that continued assistance is needed to stop the region from slipping back. The world body moved the crisis from the top step of a five-point scale — based on the death rate — to the fourth step,...

Iran warns Israel on military action; updated 01 Feb 2012; published 10 Nov 2011
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Iran warns Israel on military action
03 Feb 2012 TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday the Islamic Republic would not yield to international pressure to abandon its nuclear course, threatening retaliation for sanctions aimed at Iran's oil...

Dr. Fauci's Malaria Research State of the Science address; updated 24 Jan 2012; published 02 Nov 2011
25:40
Dr. Fauci's Malaria Research State of the Science address
03 Feb 2012 Malaria kills more than 1.2 million people a year, nearly 50 per cent more than previously thought, and inflicts a high toll among adults and older children and not just toddlers, a new investigation says. The death toll from malaria is higher than previously thought, but is falling steeply Photo: AFP tag --> 7:00AM GMT 03 Feb 2012...

Khmer Rouge trial continues; updated 22 Dec 2011; published 23 Nov 2011
1:55
Khmer Rouge trial continues
03 Feb 2012 PHNOM PENH ' A Khmer Rouge jailer who oversaw the deaths of some 15,000 people was given life in prison on appeal Friday, bringing down the curtain on a landmark first case at Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes court. Survivors of the regime's reign of terror hailed the decision to increase the original jail term of 30 years handed in 2010 to Kaing...

Egypt soccer riot video: Over 70 dead at Port Said stadium; updated 03 Feb 2012; published 02 Feb 2012
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Egypt soccer riot video: Over 70 dead at Port Said stadium
03 Feb 2012 Two people have been killed and more than 400 injured in protests across Egypt sparked by the deaths of 74 people after a football match. The two killed were shot by police trying to disperse angry crowds in the city of Suez, medical officials said. In the capital Cairo, thousands of protesters remained on the streets following a day of clashes...

Ferry sinks off Papua New Guinea; updated 02 Feb 2012; published 02 Feb 2012
0:26
Ferry sinks off Papua New Guinea
02 Feb 2012 AUSTRALIAN rescuers helped save more than 200 Papua New Guineans from drowning after their ferry sank at sea yesterday, but by nightfall fears remained for more than 100 still missing. Officials believe about 350 people were on board the Rabaul Queen when it went down in the Solomon Sea about 8.30am Melbourne time. It was headed for the PNG...

Extreme freeze claims lives in eastern Europe; updated 02 Feb 2012; published 01 Feb 2012
1:22
Extreme freeze claims lives in eastern Europe
02 Feb 2012 WARSAW - A cold snap kept Europe in its icy grip on Thursday, pushing the death toll to 160 as countries from Italy to Ukraine struggled to cope with temperatures that plunged to record lows in some places. Nine more people died in Poland overnight as temperatures hit minus 32 Celsius (minus 25.6 Fahrenheit) in the southwest, bringing the overall...

Egypt soccer riot video: Over 70 dead at Port Said stadium; updated 03 Feb 2012; published 02 Feb 2012
1:16
Egypt soccer riot video: Over 70 dead at Port Said stadium
02 Feb 2012 Egypt began three days of mourning on Thursday after 74 people were killed in an eruption of violence at a football match that sparked new anger against the military rulers for failing to ensure security. The rioting in the northern city of Port Said on Wednesday night marked one of the deadliest incidents in football history and sent shares on the...

Tortured Freedom: Libya's new rulers resort to old tactics; updated 03 Feb 2012; published 27 Jan 2012
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Tortured Freedom: Libya's new rulers resort to old tactics
02 Feb 2012 Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. When Doctors Without Borders was suspended from working in Libyan prisons, it again reminded me of how the cruelty of man is organized in the State, and that the State is essentially criminal-or it would never exist.(1) And when Doctors Without Borders were forced to re-evaluate their service in...

'Syria resolution - proxy war against Iran'; updated 03 Feb 2012; published 01 Feb 2012
5:35
'Syria resolution - proxy war against Iran'
02 Feb 2012 Diplomats at the United Nations Security Council have said progress has been made in discussions over a resolution on the crisis in Syria. The British...

Early Out: 'US Afghan mission waste of lives & resources'; updated 03 Feb 2012; published 03 Feb 2012
4:56
Early Out: 'US Afghan mission waste of lives & resources'
02 Feb 2012 AFP - The United States plans to end its combat mission in Afghanistan in 2013 and shift to a training role, one year before most US troops are due to withdraw, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said. Although US commanders had already indicated a move towards an advisory mission in coming months, Panetta's comments marked the first time the US...

Russian UN envoy comments on Syria; updated 31 Jan 2012; published 15 Dec 2011
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Russian UN envoy comments on Syria
02 Feb 2012 MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Wednesday it would veto any U.N. resolution on Syria that it finds unacceptable, after demanding any measure rule out military intervention to halt the bloodshed touched off by protests against President Bashar al-Assad's rule. The political violence in Syria has killed at least 5,000 people in the past 10 months...

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