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Iran's 'nu­cle­ar as­sets'
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'Syria ref­er­en­dum gives Assad cred­i­bil­i­ty'
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Libyan Mili­tias Fight Gun-Bat­tles in Tripoli
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Raw Video: Hon­duras Prison Fire Kills Hun­dreds
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Afghan Tal­iban: abuse video will not stop peace talks
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Iran Shows the Ura­ni­um Ad­vances Progress to US & West
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Greece Reels as Gov­ern­ment OKs More Aus­ter­i­ty Mea­sures
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NATO in Afghanistan - Zahir Agh­bar, pres­i­dent of the Afghan Na­tion­al Olympic Com­mit­tee
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Sav­ing the Can­cer: 'Greece sac­ri­ficed in name of dying EU'
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Pres­i­dent Obama's Bi­lat­er­al Meet­ing with Vice Pres­i­dent Xi of China
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A Life Free From Hunger - Tack­ling Child Mal­nu­tri­tion
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15000 elite Ira­ni­an spe­cial-ops 'head' to Syria
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Marines repel Tal­iban at­tack
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India will have to choose be­tween Iran, Is­rael: Amer­i­can ex­pert-NewsX
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Obama's Bud­get Puts 2012 Deficit at $1.33 Tril­lion
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File - Street Children  on the roadside footpath in Kolkata in Eastern India City.
photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick
Poor diet kills 2.6 million infants a year, says survey by Save the Children
read more The Guardian
Charity calls on David Cameron to host a world hunger summit in London along with 2012 Olympics A boy is weighed in India: 48% of children in the country are reported to have stunted growth. Photograph: AP...

Children wait for food distributed by a Greek humanitarian group in central Athens on Monday, Jan. 30, 2012.
photo: AP / Petros Giannakouris
Greece and the World's New Spartan Conscripts
read more WorldNews.com
Article be WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Greece's up-and-down seesaw battle over its debt deal and severe austerity laws conjures up an ancient past when children were considered to be the property of the Spartan state. Like Chole Hadjimatheou reported from Athens in the BBC World Service, due to years of unemployment and a lack of food and...

U.S. Army 1st Lt. George Rousson, right, calls his soldiers back to their vehicles after combat engineers investigated and cleared an area of interest during a mission in eastern, Afghanistan, Jan. 19, 2012.
photo: US Army / Sgt. Victor Everhart
Bleak Report on the Afghan War
read more Middle East Online
An analysis by Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, which the US Army has not approved for public release but has leaked to Rolling Stone magazine, provides the most authoritative refutation thus far of the official military narrative of success in the Afghanistan War since the troop surge began in early 2010. In the 84-page unclassified report, Davis, who...

photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Pool
US welcomes peaceful rise of China: Obama
read more The Siasat Daily
, February 15: While setting a firm tone for future relations between the two world powers, US President Barack Obama Tuesday told visiting Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping that the US welcomes peaceful rise of China. "We believe that it's critically important that the United States and China develop a strong working relationship to help to bring...

Forensic and Red Cross workers load into a truck bodies of inmates killed during a fire inside the prison in Comayagua, Honduras, Wednesday Feb. 15, 2012.
photo: AP / Fernando Antonio
Death toll from Honduras prison fire reaches 377
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Tegucigalpa - A prison fire in northern Honduras has left at least 377 inmates dead, authorities said late Wednesday, as inmates accused the guards of leaving them locked in their cells. Most of the victims suffocated to death...

A protester holds a flare during a protest outside the Greek Parliament in Athens, Monday, Feb. 14, 2011. About 100 transport workers held a motorized demonstration through the Greek capital on motorcycles and scooters. Athens  metro and urban rail workers walked off the job Monday in the latest of a series of almost daily strikes and protests against a public transport sector shakeup that is part of Greece's cost-cutting reforms to improve public finances.
photo: AP / Thanassis Stavrakis
Eurozone ministers cancel Greece debt meeting
read more Al Jazeera
European finance ministers have cancelled a meeting scheduled for Wednesday that was to discuss Greece's second bailout. Eurozone members say Greece has failed to meet all the conditions needed in order to receive its next rescue loan. The group had demanded Greece detail how it will cover its budget gap of $428m. Al Jazeera’s John...

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.
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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...

Barack Obama and Netanyahu in the Oval Office, May 18, 2009. In March 2009 US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton traveled to Israel
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Iran 'must be stopped' says Israel
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In parliament today Mr Netanyahu reiterated Israel's claims that Iran was behind explosions this week that targeted Israeli diplomats in India and the former Soviet republic of Georgia. He said, "If this aggression...


In this photo released by the Iranian President's Office, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addresses the staff next to a poster with a picture of late Ayatollah Khomeini, during a tour of Tehran's research reactor centre in northern Tehran, Iran, Wednesday Feb. 15, 2012.
photo: AP / Iranian President's Office
Countdown to war with Iran must be halted
read more Sydney Morning Herald
Global pressure can end years of nuclear brinkmanship. THE standoff over Iran's nuclear program is close to spiralling out of control. Israel, which sees Iran as the worst threat to its existence, has canvassed the attitudes of US military and intelligence leaders to a military strike. Israel is reportedly ready to attack Iran as early as April. On...

In this photo taken on a government-organized tour for the media, a Syrian woman passes by Syrian government army soldiers, at one of several suburbs of Damascus that saw heavy fighting between troops and defectors before Assad's forces retook the areas in late January, in Harasta suburb, Damascus, Syria, on Wednesday Feb. 15, 2012.
photo: AP / Muzaffar Salman
Assad proposes referendum in strifetorn Syria
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AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian opposition leaders and the West have scorned a new offer by President Bashar al-Assad to hold multi-party elections, as his troops mounted more attacks on rebel-held areas. Assad promised a referendum in two weeks' time on a new constitution leading to elections within 90 days, but made clear he still planned to...

In this Feb. 14, 2012 photo, Libyan militias from towns throughout the country's west parade through Tripoli, Libya.
photo: AP / Abdel Magid Al Fergany
Libyan militias accused of torturing detainees
read more The Guardian
Amnesty International reports armed militias threaten the security of Libya with at least 12 detainees tortured to death since September Rebels armed with anti-aircraft guns at their base near Beni Walid. Amnesty International reports they now rule much of Libya Photograph: Alexandre Meneghini/AP...

Forensic and Red Cross workers load into a truck bodies of inmates killed during a fire inside the prison in Comayagua, Honduras, Wednesday Feb. 15, 2012.
photo: AP / Fernando Antonio
Death toll from Honduras prison fire reaches 377
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Tegucigalpa - A prison fire in northern Honduras has left at least 377 inmates dead, authorities said late Wednesday, as inmates accused the guards of leaving them locked in their cells. Most of the victims suffocated to death...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai addresses the media on the occasion of Eid al-Adha at the Presidential Palace mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Nov. 27, 2009.
photo: AP / Mustafa Quraishi
Afghanistan and US in 'secret Taliban talks'
read more Al Jazeera
The US and Afghan governments have begun secret three-way talks with the Taliban, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said. "There have been contacts between the US government and the Taliban, there have been contacts between the Afghan government and the Taliban, and there have been some contacts that we have made, all of us together, including the...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, bottom second left, visits Iran's Fuel Manufacturing Plant (FMP), a new facility producing uranium fuel for a planned heavy-water nuclear reactor, just outside the city of Isfahan 255 mile (410 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Thursday, April 9, 2009. The West fears the reactor could eventually be used for producing a nuclear weapon. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has announced the plant's opening during a ceremony in the central city of Isfahan. The plant will produce pellets of uranium oxide to fuel the heavy-water research reactor, which is scheduled to be completed in 2009 or 2010.
photo: AP / Vahid Salemi
Iran Touts Uranium Enrichment Advances
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Iran hailed its advanced nuclear capabilities Wednesday by unveiling what it says are a new generation of centrifuges to speed up uranium enrichment and its first domestically produced fuel rods. The semi-official Fars news agency reported Wednesday that the new carbon fiber centrifuges have been installed and operated at a uranium enrichment plant...

Children wait for food distributed by a Greek humanitarian group in central Athens on Monday, Jan. 30, 2012.
photo: AP / Petros Giannakouris
Greece and the World's New Spartan Conscripts
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Article be WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Greece's up-and-down seesaw battle over its debt deal and severe austerity laws conjures up an ancient past when children were considered to be the property of the Spartan state. Like Chole Hadjimatheou reported from Athens in the BBC World Service, due to years of unemployment and a lack of food and...

U.S. Army 1st Lt. George Rousson, right, calls his soldiers back to their vehicles after combat engineers investigated and cleared an area of interest during a mission in eastern, Afghanistan, Jan. 19, 2012.
photo: US Army / Sgt. Victor Everhart
Bleak Report on the Afghan War
read more Middle East Online
An analysis by Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, which the US Army has not approved for public release but has leaked to Rolling Stone magazine, provides the most authoritative refutation thus far of the official military narrative of success in the Afghanistan War since the troop surge began in early 2010. In the 84-page unclassified report, Davis, who...

A protester holds a flare during a protest outside the Greek Parliament in Athens, Monday, Feb. 14, 2011. About 100 transport workers held a motorized demonstration through the Greek capital on motorcycles and scooters. Athens  metro and urban rail workers walked off the job Monday in the latest of a series of almost daily strikes and protests against a public transport sector shakeup that is part of Greece's cost-cutting reforms to improve public finances.
photo: AP / Thanassis Stavrakis
Eurozone ministers cancel Greece debt meeting
read more Al Jazeera
European finance ministers have cancelled a meeting scheduled for Wednesday that was to discuss Greece's second bailout. Eurozone members say Greece has failed to meet all the conditions needed in order to receive its next rescue loan. The group had demanded Greece detail how it will cover its budget gap of $428m. Al Jazeera’s John...

photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Pool
US welcomes peaceful rise of China: Obama
read more The Siasat Daily
, February 15: While setting a firm tone for future relations between the two world powers, US President Barack Obama Tuesday told visiting Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping that the US welcomes peaceful rise of China. "We believe that it's critically important that the United States and China develop a strong working relationship to help to bring...

File - Street Children  on the roadside footpath in Kolkata in Eastern India City.
photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick
Poor diet kills 2.6 million infants a year, says survey by Save the Children
read more The Guardian
Charity calls on David Cameron to host a world hunger summit in London along with 2012 Olympics A boy is weighed in India: 48% of children in the country are reported to have stunted growth. Photograph: AP...

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
read more Jakarta Globe
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...


Iran's 'nuclear assets'
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Iran has unveilied major developments in nuclear technology according to Iranian based media reports. But says it is also ready for talks with the five permenant members of the UN Security Council, including Germany. At the same time, Russia has expressed concern about the progress in Iran's nuclear programme but sees no hard evidence of military aims The new technology was unveiled at the Natanz uranium enrichment site and shown on Press TV. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inserted the first Iranian -made nuclear fuel rod into the reactor. According to Tehran, the new generation of centrifuges will greatly speed up its uranium enrichment activities. Al Jazeera's Imran Khan has more now on what we know about Iran's nuclear assets.
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'Syria referendum gives Assad credibility'
'Syria referendum gives Assad credibility'
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has decreed to hold a new referendum in the country. Interview with Mohsen Saleh, professor of Lebanese University
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Libyan Militias Fight Gun-Battles in Tripoli
Libyan Militias Fight Gun-Battles in Tripoli
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For more news and videos visit ☛ english.ntdtv.com Follow us on Twitter ☛ http Add us on Facebook ☛ on.fb.me And in Libya, a deadly gunbattle between Misrata and Tripoli militias erupts in one of the capital's busiest streets. The clash casts new doubt over the new government's ability to maintain control in the post-Gaddafi era. Two fighters were killed when Libyan militias fought a gun battle across one of Tripoli's busiest streets on Tuesday, in a fresh sign that the new government is struggling to assert control in the post-Gaddafi era. Tripoli-based former rebels controlling a security compound in the capital fought an hour-long gun battle with at least 24 fighters from Misrata who had come to free a group of prisoners, according to medics and former rebels. Distraught friends and relatives wept over the body of one Misrata fighter. [Relative of Dead Fighter]: "This happened after the revolution but not before. They said there will be a government and order. 23 fighters came to claim territory and to kill young boys. They killed young boys for territory." More than two months after Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was captured and killed, real power still resides with the militias that ousted him. These have carved up the country and capital into competing fiefdoms, each holding out for the share of power they say they are owed. The Chairman of the Military Council of Tripoli, Abdulhakim Belhadj, whose militiamen took part in the clashes, says that a local dispute <b>...</b>
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Raw Video: Honduras Prison Fire Kills Hundreds
Raw Video: Honduras Prison Fire Kills Hundreds
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Trapped inmates screamed from their cells as a fire swept through a Honduran prison, killing at least 300 inmates, authorities said Wednesday. The fire broke out Tuesday night at a prison about 90 miles north of the country's capital. (Feb. 15)
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Afghan Taliban: abuse video will not stop peace talks
Afghan Taliban: abuse video will not stop peace talks
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www.euronews.net There has been anger in the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar at a video appearing to show US troops urinating on the dead bodies of insurgents in Afghanistan. The latest incident comes as America tries to encourage talks between insurgents and the Afghan government ahead of US troop withdrawal. Kandahar resident Tawab Khan said he thought the treatment of the corpses was against Islam and that it was the role of the international community to act. He called for an investigation by the Human Rights Commission and the arrest of those involved.
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Iran Shows the Uranium Advances Progress to US & West
Iran Shows the Uranium Advances Progress to US & West
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Iran shows the Uranium advances progress to us & west. Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claimed this story. More @ www.tunestweets.com
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Greece Reels as Government OKs More Austerity Measures
Greece Reels as Government OKs More Austerity Measures
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As Greece signed off on a new round of austerity measures in exchange for another bailout, European finance ministers said the cuts may not be enough. James Mates of Independent Television News reports on the start of a two-day strike over the cuts.
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NATO in Afghanistan - Zahir Aghbar, president of the Afghan National Olympic Committee
NATO in Afghanistan - Zahir Aghbar, president of the Afghan National Olympic Committee
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So far, four athletes have qualified to represent Afghanistan in the London Olympics this summer. They include two from the country's taekwondo team and two runners. Meanwhile, the president of the Afghan Olympic Committee, Zahir Aghbar, has been doing his bit to show support.
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Saving the Cancer: 'Greece sacrificed in name of dying EU'
Saving the Cancer: 'Greece sacrificed in name of dying EU'
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Greek party leaders have sent written commitments to Brussels saying they will stick to the agreed austerity measures even after the general elections in April. There are still EU demands Athens failed to fulfill, which led to the cancellation of a key meeting of Eurozone finance ministers. Greece is still struggling to secure the second bailout from its international creditors, without which it's due to default next month. For more on that RT talks to MEP and leader of the UK Independence Party, Nigel Farage. RT on Twitter twitter.com RT on Facebook www.facebook.com
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President Obama's Bilateral Meeting with Vice President Xi of China
President Obama's Bilateral Meeting with Vice President Xi of China
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President Obama and Vice President Xi Jinping of China make remarks before a bilateral meeting in Washington, DC. February 14, 2012.
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A Life Free From Hunger - Tackling Child Malnutrition
A Life Free From Hunger - Tackling Child Malnutrition
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15000 elite Iranian special-ops 'head' to Syria
15000 elite Iranian special-ops 'head' to Syria
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The regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria is expecting up to 15000 Iranian troops to help maintain order in the country's provinces, a Chinese newspaper reports. Iran has yet to confirm or deny the news. Read more on.rt.com RT on Twitter twitter.com RT on Facebook www.facebook.com
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Marines repel Taliban attack
Marines repel Taliban attack
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Patrol Base Georgetown was recently attacked by Taliban forces. Lance Cpl. Jacob Lagoze shows us how the Marines fought back.
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India will have to choose between Iran, Israel: American expert-NewsX
India will have to choose between Iran, Israel: American expert-NewsX
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A noted American expert has said that, now that Israeli diplomats have been targeted in India, the country will have to seriously factor the costs of oil trade with Iran to its rapidly growing defense ties with Israel . I quote, India will find it increasingly difficult to placate both Iran, on the one hand, and the US and Israel, on the other. In the coming months, India and Israel are expected to sign a number of military contracts involving co-production and sophisticated Israeli technologies.For more log onto: alpha.newsx.com.
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Obama's Budget Puts 2012 Deficit at $1.33 Trillion
Obama's Budget Puts 2012 Deficit at $1.33 Trillion
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President Barack Obama's budget request to Congress on Monday will forecast a deficit of $1.33 trillion in fiscal year 2012 and will include hundreds of billions of dollars of proposed infrastructure spending, according to draft documents viewed by Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal. Damian Paletta has details on The News Hub.
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Tibetan monks and lays carrying a huge banner calling "Please Invite His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Tibet", hundreds of Tibetans gathering at Yushul county, eastern Tibet recently. Indian player Gautam Gambhir bats during the third day of the third test cricket match against West Indies in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011. KRW South Korean Won banknotes 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.

Egyptian riot police officers secure a square to prevent any anti-government activists to gather, in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011. Zambia's Christopher Katongo, left, celebrates his goal past a dejected Siphiwe Tshabalala of South Africa, right, at the African Nations Cup Group C soccer match between South Africa and Zambia in which Zambia won 1-0 at Alexandria Stadium in Egypt Monday, Jan. 30, 2006. (jsen2 Chinese technicians man drilling equipment on an oil rig in Paloich, South Sudan. Militants apparently captured 29 Chinese workers after attacking a remote work site in the volatile South Kordofan region of neighboring Sudan, and Sudanese forces were increasing security for Chinese projects and personnel there, China said Sunday. Mobile Phone - Facebook Shortcut - China Phone

In this photo released on Feb. 4, 2012 by the state media website Cubadebate, Cuba's leader Fidel Castro holds two copies of his book 'Guerrillero del Tiempo,' or 'Time Warrior' during its presentation in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Feb. 3, 2012. FC Barcelona's Lionel Messi, from Argentina, left, reacts after scoring against Real Madrid during their semifinal, 1st leg Champions League soccer match at the Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, April 27, 2011. Smartphone - Nokia Salt in a container.

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard delivers her speech at the 2nd Australia China Economic and Trade Cooperation Forum and Prime Ministerial Dinner at a hotel in Beijing Tuesday, April 26, 2011. Australia and China signed a series of cooperation agreements on Tuesday at the start of a visit by Gillard intended to strengthen ties and smooth over recent spats with her country's top export market. Australian batsman Ricky Ponting inspects his bat as he leaves the ground after having been caught by New Zealand's Tim Southee off the bowling of Doug Bracewell during Australia's second innings in the fourth day of play in the second test match in Hobart, Australia, Monday Dec. 12, 2011. Australian Finance Minister Wayne Swan Perth,Australia - Ross & Galloway Realty - Residential - Property - Investment.


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FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2010 file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il salutes soldiers while watching a massive military parade marking the 65th anniversary of the communist nation's ruling Workers' Party in Pyongyang, North Korea.
JEAN H. LEE Associated Press= PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — Two months after the death of Kim Jong Il, North Koreans commemorated what would have been his 70th birthday Thursday with the flowers that bear his name, praising the longtime leader as a...
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Barack Obama California visit
KEN THOMAS Associated Press= LOS ANGELES (AP) — President Barack Obama mixed a pitch for manufacturing jobs with a dash for campaign cash on Wednesday, embarking on a three-day West Coast trip to haul in millions of dollars for his re-election bid....
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Soldiers run during clashes with the relatives of inmates after a deadly prison fire in Comayagua, Honduras, 90 miles (140 kilometers) north of the capital, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, early Wednesday Feb. 15, 2012.
Tegucigalpa - A massive fire swept through an overcrowded prison in Honduras and killed more than 350 inmates, including many trapped inside their cells, officials said on Wednesday. The attorney general's office said 357 people died in the blaze...
photo: AP / Fernando Antonio
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi raises his hands as he leaves an EU summit in Brussels on Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011.
Italian prosecutors in Milan have asked for former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi to be sentenced to five years in jail on bribery charges. He is accused of paying British lawyer David Mills $600,000 (£382,000) to lie about his business...
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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.
Martin Callanan said the next EU summit, scheduled for March 1, should not seek more cures for the Greek economic crisis but should concentrate on preparing for the country to drop out of the eurozone. Meanwhile the European Commission insisted that...
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Barack Obama and Netanyahu in the Oval Office, May 18, 2009. In March 2009 US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton traveled to Israel
In parliament today Mr Netanyahu reiterated Israel's claims that Iran was behind explosions this week that targeted Israeli diplomats in India and the former Soviet republic of Georgia. He said, "If this aggression...
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Egyptian protesters peer out of their tent in Tahrir Square, the focal point of the Egyptian uprising, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, July 22, 2011
Egypt's first presidential election since the fall of former President Hosni Mubarak will be held at the end of May, according to the state-owned Al-Ahram daily. Citing a government minister, the newspaper said on Wednesday that the...
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Iran's 'nuclear assets'; updated 15 Feb 2012; published 15 Feb 2012
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Iran's 'nu­cle­ar as­sets'
Sydney Morning Herald 16 Feb 2012, Global pressure can end years of nuclear brinkmanship. THE standoff over Iran's nuclear program is close to spiralling out of control. Israel, which sees Iran as the worst threat to its existence, has canvassed the attitudes of US military and intelligence leaders to a military strike. Israel is reportedly ready to attack Iran as early as April. On...

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'Syria referendum gives Assad credibility'; updated 15 Feb 2012; published 15 Feb 2012
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'Syria ref­er­en­dum gives Assad cred­i­bil­i­ty'
Yahoo Daily News 16 Feb 2012, AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian opposition leaders and the West have scorned a new offer by President Bashar al-Assad to hold multi-party elections, as his troops mounted more attacks on rebel-held areas. Assad promised a referendum in two weeks' time on a new constitution leading to elections within 90 days, but made clear he still planned to...

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Libyan Militias Fight Gun-Battles in Tripoli; updated 08 Feb 2012; published 04 Jan 2012
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Libyan Mili­tias Fight Gun-Bat­tles in Tripoli
The Guardian 16 Feb 2012, Amnesty International reports armed militias threaten the security of Libya with at least 12 detainees tortured to death since September Rebels armed with anti-aircraft guns at their base near Beni Walid. Amnesty International reports they now rule much of Libya Photograph: Alexandre Meneghini/AP...

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Raw Video: Honduras Prison Fire Kills Hundreds; updated 15 Feb 2012; published 15 Feb 2012
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Raw Video: Hon­duras Prison Fire Kills Hun­dreds
m&c; 16 Feb 2012, Tegucigalpa - A prison fire in northern Honduras has left at least 377 inmates dead, authorities said late Wednesday, as inmates accused the guards of leaving them locked in their cells. Most of the victims suffocated to death...

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Afghan Taliban: abuse video will not stop peace talks; updated 01 Feb 2012; published 12 Jan 2012
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Afghan Tal­iban: abuse video will not stop peace talks
Al Jazeera 16 Feb 2012, The US and Afghan governments have begun secret three-way talks with the Taliban, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said. "There have been contacts between the US government and the Taliban, there have been contacts between the Afghan government and the Taliban, and there have been some contacts that we have made, all of us together, including the...

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Iran Shows the Uranium Advances Progress to US & West; updated 15 Feb 2012; published 15 Feb 2012
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Iran Shows the Ura­ni­um Ad­vances Progress to US & West
Chosunilbo 16 Feb 2012, Iran hailed its advanced nuclear capabilities Wednesday by unveiling what it says are a new generation of centrifuges to speed up uranium enrichment and its first domestically produced fuel rods. The semi-official Fars news agency reported Wednesday that the new carbon fiber centrifuges have been installed and operated at a uranium enrichment plant...

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Greece Reels as Government OKs More Austerity Measures; updated 15 Feb 2012; published 11 Feb 2012
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Greece Reels as Gov­ern­ment OKs More Aus­ter­i­ty Mea­sures
WorldNews.com 15 Feb 2012, Article be WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Greece's up-and-down seesaw battle over its debt deal and severe austerity laws conjures up an ancient past when children were considered to be the property of the Spartan state. Like Chole Hadjimatheou reported from Athens in the BBC World Service, due to years of unemployment and a lack of food and...

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NATO in Afghanistan - Zahir Aghbar, president of the Afghan National Olympic Committee; updated 14 Feb 2012; published 14 Feb 2012
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NATO in Afghanistan - Zahir Agh­bar, pres­i­dent of the Afghan Na­tion­al Olympic Com­mit­tee
Middle East Online 15 Feb 2012, An analysis by Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, which the US Army has not approved for public release but has leaked to Rolling Stone magazine, provides the most authoritative refutation thus far of the official military narrative of success in the Afghanistan War since the troop surge began in early 2010. In the 84-page unclassified report, Davis, who...

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Saving the Cancer: 'Greece sacrificed in name of dying EU'; updated 16 Feb 2012; published 15 Feb 2012
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Sav­ing the Can­cer: 'Greece sac­ri­ficed in name of dying EU'
Al Jazeera 15 Feb 2012, European finance ministers have cancelled a meeting scheduled for Wednesday that was to discuss Greece's second bailout. Eurozone members say Greece has failed to meet all the conditions needed in order to receive its next rescue loan. The group had demanded Greece detail how it will cover its budget gap of $428m. Al Jazeera’s John...

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President Obama's Bilateral Meeting with Vice President Xi of China; updated 16 Feb 2012; published 14 Feb 2012
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Pres­i­dent Obama's Bi­lat­er­al Meet­ing with Vice Pres­i­dent Xi of China
The Siasat Daily 15 Feb 2012, , February 15: While setting a firm tone for future relations between the two world powers, US President Barack Obama Tuesday told visiting Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping that the US welcomes peaceful rise of China. "We believe that it's critically important that the United States and China develop a strong working relationship to help to bring...

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A Life Free From Hunger - Tackling Child Malnutrition; updated 14 Feb 2012; published 14 Feb 2012
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A Life Free From Hunger - Tack­ling Child Mal­nu­tri­tion
The Guardian 15 Feb 2012, Charity calls on David Cameron to host a world hunger summit in London along with 2012 Olympics A boy is weighed in India: 48% of children in the country are reported to have stunted growth. Photograph: AP...

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15000 elite Iranian special-ops 'head' to Syria; updated 16 Feb 2012; published 10 Feb 2012
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15000 elite Ira­ni­an spe­cial-ops 'head' to 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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Marines repel Taliban attack; updated 15 Feb 2012; published 07 Dec 2011
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Marines repel Tal­iban at­tack
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 15 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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