Bashar Jafa’ari, Permanent Representative of Syria to the UN, addresses a meeting of the General Assembly on the situation in his country, 13 February, 2012.
photo: UN / Paulo Filgueiras
Syria rejects UN charges as Homs battered
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Syria flatly rejected UN charges of crimes against humanity on Tuesday, even as monitors said troops killed at least six civilians in the heaviest shelling of the protest city of Homs for days. Navi Pillay, the top human rights representative at the United Nations, said on Monday that the world body's inaction had "emboldened" Syria's government to...

File - Afghan President Hamid Karzai thanks the soldiers of the 101st Aviation Division and their families during a speech at Fort Campbell
photo: US Army / Spc. Jennifer Andersson
Afghan leader to push for access to Taliban in Pakistan
read more Daily Press
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai will press Pakistan to provide access to senior Afghan Taliban leaders when he visits Islamabad this week in a bid to advance a nascent peace process with the militant group, senior Afghan officials said Tuesday. Pakistan is seen as critical to efforts to reach a settlement to Afghanistan's conflict,...

Individuals believed to be from the Israeli Embassy, foreground left, look on after an explosion tore through a car belonging to the Israel Embassy, center, in New Delhi, India, Monday, Feb. 13, 2012.
photo: AP / Saurabh Das
Israel blames Iran for embassy attacks
read more Al Jazeera
Israel has accused Iran and its ally Hezbollah, Lebanon's Shia movement, of being behind twin bomb attacks that targeted its embassy staff in India and Georgia that wounded four people. Tehran denied involvement in Monday's attacks and accused Israel of carrying out the attacks itself. Hezbollah made no comment. In the Indian capital New Delhi, a...

President Barack Obama speaks about the "Community College to Career Fund" and his 2013 budget, Monday, Feb. 13, 2012, at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale, Va.
photo: AP / Susan Walsh
Obama's budget: Govt still growing, despite cuts
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Taking a pass on reining in government growth, President Barack Obama unveiled a record $3.8 trillion election-year budget plan Monday, calling for stimulus-style spending on roads and schools and tax hikes on the wealthy to help pay the costs. The ideas landed with a thud on Capitol Hill. Though the Pentagon and a number of Cabinet agencies would...

Bahraini anti-government protesters react to tear gas fired by riot police Monday, Feb. 13, 2012, on the outskirts of the capital of Manama, Bahrain.
photo: AP / Hasan Jamali
Bahrain police fire teargas at protesters in Manama
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Ahead of anniversary of Shia-led uprising forces launch stun grenades to curb protesters trying to regain Pearl Square Bahrain police fire teargas protesters around Manama's Pearl Square, a repeat of events in 2011 after the Shia-led uprising. Photograph: -/AFP/Getty Images...

Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani waves upon his arrival at the Supreme Court for a hearing in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, Feb. 13, 2012.
photo: AP / B.K. Bangash
Pak PM Gilani indicted for contempt, pleads not guilty
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SHARE AND DISCUSSTweetPak SC indicts PM Gilani for contempt of court ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani was on Monday indicted by the Pakistan Supreme Court on contempt charges for refusing to revive graft cases against President Asif Ali Zardari, a move that may force the beleaguered leader to quit. Gilani, 59, the first Pakistani prime...

File - President Barack Obama talks to Secret Service Uniformed Division officers as he walks through the magnetometer in the Northwest Gatehouse at the White House, following his visit to Blair House, Dec. 9, 2011.
photo: White House / Pete Souza
To Enter or Not to Enter a War with Iran
read more WorldNews.com
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling "If we would change the face of the earth, we must first change our own hearts." -Robert Hutchins, January 23, 1941. Before discussing the approaching rumblings of war clouds in the air between the United States and Iran, mainly the two executive orders signed by President Barack Obama: one that...

File - Rupert Murdoch, Chairman of News Corp. arrives at a meeting with Dow Jones representatives regarding his offer to buy The Wall Street Journal in Midtown Manhattan in New York, Monday, June 4, 2007.
photo: AP / David Karp
News Corp may face US inquiry after Sun arrests at News International
read more The Guardian
Alleged bribery in Britain could fall foul of US law as editor Dominic Mohan tries to rally staff at embattled tabloid News Corporation's headquarters in New York, where the company could face a US inquiry. Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty Images...

Umar Patek, an Indonesian militant charged in the 2002 Bali terrorist attacks, walks outside the courtroom after his trial in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Feb. 13, 2012.
photo: AP / Tatan Syuflana
Suspected Bali Bomb Mastermind Goes On Trial
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Bali bomb suspect Umar Patek arrives at the court in Jakarta The suspected mastermind of the 2002 Bali bombing that killed 202 people has gone on trial in Indonesia. Umar Patek is accused of making the explosives used in the Bali blasts and other alleged acts of terrorism after being on the run for nine years. The 45-year-old was captured in...

People gather against the new austerity measures in Iraklio city on the Greek island of Crete, late Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012.
photo: AP / Bastian Parschau
Greece passes new austerity deal amid rioting
read more Atlanta Journal
ATHENS, GreeceGreek lawmakers on Monday approved harsh new austerity measures demanded by bailout creditors to save the debt-crippled nation from bankruptcy, after rioters in central Athens torched buildings, looted shops and clashed with riot police. Greece's Prime Minister Lucas Papademos addresses lawmakers during a debate at the...


American student Amanda Knox talks with her lawyer Luciano Ghirga during a hearing of the trial where she is accused of murdering her flatmate, British student Meredith Kercher, in Perugia, Italy, Monday, July 25, 2011.
MILANItalian prosecutors appealed Tuesday to Italy's highest criminal court against the overturning of the murder convictions of American Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend in the brutal slaying of a British student. Perugia prosecutors...
photo: AP / Stefano Medici
Vice President Joe Biden, second from right, meets with Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, third from left, and their respective delegations in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012.
Washington - Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping began a series of meetings with US officials in Washington Tuesday with talks with US Vice President Joe Biden at the White House. Xi, who is expected to ascend to the presidency in 2013, is to later...
photo: AP / Charles Dharapak
Nicolas Sarkozy during his meeting in Toulouse on April, 12th 2007
PARIS (AP) — It's make or break time for Nicolas Sarkozy if he wants another term as French president. Polls show the brash, risk-taking and unabashedly pro-American French president, who took center stage in the Libya war and the battle to save the...
photo: Creative Commons / Guillaume Paumier
In Delhi, the capital of India, 08th February 2012 - a Tibetan girl and her tears in solidarity with Tibetans who have self-immolated in Tibet to Protest Against China's Rule.
Article by Yeshe Choesang, WN Correspondent Dharamshala. Dharamshala, India: - In the latest attempt to protest against Chinese rule in Tibet, an 18-year-old nun from Ngaba in Eastern Tibet self-immolated on the evening of February 11. Tenzin...
photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang
Riot police approach masked Bahraini youths chanting anti-government slogans and waving national flags behind their makeshift barriers of trash bins before dawn in the Shiite Muslim village of Daih, Bahrain, on the outskirts of the capital, Sunday, Aug. 7, 2011.
A heavy police presence is preventing people marking the first anniversary of pro-democracy demonstrations in Bahrain's capital, Manama. Opposition activists...
photo: AP / Hasan Jamali
President Barack Obama phones a Member of Congress
Share by Scott Lazarowitz I’m sorry to put it in such a crass way, but that is exactly what they are doing. Ever since the September 11th attacks, these power-grabbing scoundrels have been putting policies in place that were planned well before...
photo: US Government / Pete Souza
A Buddhist monk beating by Chinese police in Tibet: A new Drama show held by the ex-political prisoners group of Tibet, Guchusum movement Organization at TIPA, Mcleod Ganj, Dharamshala, India on 27th September: "A story of Tibetan political prisoners, including torture, beating, deprivation and long periods in isolation cells."
BEIJING - A Tibetan monk set himself on fire in western China and was beaten by security forces as they put out the flames, a rights group said, marking the latest in a series of dramatic protests against China's handling of its vast Tibetan areas....
photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang

Seeds of Conflict: Sectarian split creeps into Syria; updated 14 Feb 2012; published 14 Feb 2012
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Seeds of Conflict: Sectarian split creeps into Syria
Jakarta Globe 14 Feb 2012, Syria flatly rejected UN charges of crimes against humanity on Tuesday, even as monitors said troops killed at least six civilians in the heaviest shelling of the protest city of Homs for days. Navi Pillay, the top human rights representative at the United Nations, said on Monday that the world body's inaction had "emboldened" Syria's government to...

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NATO in Afghanistan - Former Taliban become deminers; updated 09 Feb 2012; published 06 Feb 2012
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NATO in Afghanistan - Former Taliban become deminers
Daily Press 14 Feb 2012, KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai will press Pakistan to provide access to senior Afghan Taliban leaders when he visits Islamabad this week in a bid to advance a nascent peace process with the militant group, senior Afghan officials said Tuesday. Pakistan is seen as critical to efforts to reach a settlement to Afghanistan's conflict,...

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India will have to choose between Iran, Israel: American expert-NewsX; updated 14 Feb 2012; published 14 Feb 2012
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India will have to choose between Iran, Israel: American expert-NewsX
Al Jazeera 14 Feb 2012, Israel has accused Iran and its ally Hezbollah, Lebanon's Shia movement, of being behind twin bomb attacks that targeted its embassy staff in India and Georgia that wounded four people. Tehran denied involvement in Monday's attacks and accused Israel of carrying out the attacks itself. Hezbollah made no comment. In the Indian capital New Delhi, a...

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Obama's Budget Puts 2012 Deficit at $1.33 Trillion; updated 11 Feb 2012; published 10 Feb 2012
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Obama's Budget Puts 2012 Deficit at $1.33 Trillion
WPXI 14 Feb 2012, Taking a pass on reining in government growth, President Barack Obama unveiled a record $3.8 trillion election-year budget plan Monday, calling for stimulus-style spending on roads and schools and tax hikes on the wealthy to help pay the costs. The ideas landed with a thud on Capitol Hill. Though the Pentagon and a number of Cabinet agencies would...

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Bahrain protests grow ahead of anniversary; updated 12 Feb 2012; published 04 Feb 2012
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Bahrain protests grow ahead of anniversary
The Guardian 13 Feb 2012, Ahead of anniversary of Shia-led uprising forces launch stun grenades to curb protesters trying to regain Pearl Square Bahrain police fire teargas protesters around Manama's Pearl Square, a repeat of events in 2011 after the Shia-led uprising. Photograph: -/AFP/Getty Images...

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pm yousuf gilani go to supreme court; updated 13 Feb 2012; published 19 Jan 2012
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pm yousuf gilani go to supreme court
The Times of India 13 Feb 2012, SHARE AND DISCUSSTweetPak SC indicts PM Gilani for contempt of court ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani was on Monday indicted by the Pakistan Supreme Court on contempt charges for refusing to revive graft cases against President Asif Ali Zardari, a move that may force the beleaguered leader to quit. Gilani, 59, the first Pakistani prime...

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Strait Talking: 'Iran sanctions backfire on recession-hit West'; updated 14 Feb 2012; published 05 Jan 2012
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Strait Talking: 'Iran sanctions backfire on recession-hit West'
WorldNews.com 13 Feb 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling "If we would change the face of the earth, we must first change our own hearts." -Robert Hutchins, January 23, 1941. Before discussing the approaching rumblings of war clouds in the air between the United States and Iran, mainly the two executive orders signed by President Barack Obama: one that...

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Murdoch's ex-CEO arrested: 'Case proves UK's endemic corruption'; updated 31 Jan 2012; published 17 Jul 2011
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Murdoch's ex-CEO arrested: 'Case proves UK's endemic corruption'
The Guardian 13 Feb 2012, Alleged bribery in Britain could fall foul of US law as editor Dominic Mohan tries to rally staff at embattled tabloid News Corporation's headquarters in New York, where the company could face a US inquiry. Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty Images...

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Trial Underway for Bali Bombing Suspect; updated 13 Feb 2012; published 13 Feb 2012
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Trial Underway for Bali Bombing Suspect
Skynews 13 Feb 2012, Bali bomb suspect Umar Patek arrives at the court in Jakarta The suspected mastermind of the 2002 Bali bombing that killed 202 people has gone on trial in Indonesia. Umar Patek is accused of making the explosives used in the Bali blasts and other alleged acts of terrorism after being on the run for nine years. The 45-year-old was captured in...

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Greece austerity deal hits people hard; updated 11 Feb 2012; published 09 Feb 2012
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Greece austerity deal hits people hard
Atlanta Journal 13 Feb 2012, ATHENS, GreeceGreek lawmakers on Monday approved harsh new austerity measures demanded by bailout creditors to save the debt-crippled nation from bankruptcy, after rioters in central Athens torched buildings, looted shops and clashed with riot police. Greece's Prime Minister Lucas Papademos addresses lawmakers during a debate at the...

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Seeds of Conflict: Sectarian split creeps into Syria; updated 14 Feb 2012; published 14 Feb 2012
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Seeds of Conflict: Sectarian split creeps into Syria
Khaleej Times 12 Feb 2012, DAMASCUS ' Syrian armour moved against protest flashpoints and a general was gunned down in Damascus on Saturday as the bloodshed showed no signs of abating, even spilling over into Lebanon. The Syrian National Council, or SNC, said Arab recognition of the opposition umbrella group was imminent, ahead of key talks on the crisis in Cairo on Sunday....

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BREAKING NEWS - Whitney Houston Dead At 48; updated 14 Feb 2012; published 12 Feb 2012
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BREAKING NEWS - Whitney Houston Dead At 48
BBC News 12 Feb 2012, American singer and actress Whitney Houston has died at the age of 48. A spokesman for Houston's family confirmed the news, telling Reuters: "Unfortunately, it is true." The cause and the location of her death were...

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Israel preparing for a nuclear Iran; updated 30 Jan 2012; published 03 Nov 2011
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Israel preparing for a nuclear Iran
The Star 11 Feb 2012, TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday that the Islamic Republic, targeted by tougher Western sanctions, would soon announce advances in its nuclear programme. EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on leaving the office to report, film or take pictures in Tehran. Iran's...

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Dozens dead as rebel bomb wave rips Syria's second city; updated 14 Feb 2012; published 10 Feb 2012
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Dozens dead as rebel bomb wave rips Syria's second city
Middle East Online 11 Feb 2012, WASHINGTON - The Iraqi branch of al-Qaeda carried out two recent bombings in Damascus and was likely behind suicide bombings Friday that killed at least 28 people in the Syrian city of Aleppo, McClatchy Newspapers reported. Citing unnamed US officials, the newspaper chain said the incidents appeared to verify Syrian President Bashar Assad's charges...

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