South Korean marines patrol along on Yeonpyeong island, South Korea, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010. North Korea backed off threats to retaliate against South Korea for military drills Monday and reportedly offered concessions on its nuclear program _ signs it was looking to lower the temperature on the Korean peninsula after weeks of soaring tensions.
photo: AP / Ahn Young-joon
Seoul begins military drills despite NKorea threat
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South Korea on Monday began live-fire military drills from front-line islands near its disputed sea border with North Korea, despite Pyongyang's threat to attack. The drills, scheduled to last two hours, happened in an area that was the target of...

A protester with a placard placed on on a rake chats with another protester at Syntagma square in front of the Greek parliament , in central Athens, on Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012.
photo: AP / Kostas Tsironis
Eurozone finance ministers to discuss Greek rescue
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Eurozone finance ministers are due to meet to decide whether Greece has done enough to merit a huge bailout loan. Athens needs the 130bn euros (£110bn; $170bn) in order to avoid bankruptcy in...

Chairman and CEO of News Corporation, USA, Rupert Murdoch gestures while speaking during a media conference at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Wednesday Jan. 28, 2009. Business participants will search for solutions to the financial crisis with some 40 world leaders, but without the top finance officials of the new U.S. administration who are occupied by the crisis or by the confirmation process at h
photo: AP / Virginia Mayo
News Corp to launch "Sun on Sunday" UK tabloid Feb. 26
read more The Guardian
By Stephen Mangan LONDON, Feb 19 (Reuters) - News International , the British newspaper arm of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp group, announced on Sunday it would publish a Sunday edition of Britain's scandal-hit Sun tabloid for the first time next weekend. In an internal memo to all staff, News International chief executive Tom Mockridge said the first...

Law enforcement officers stand outside another residence of Amine El Khalifi in Arlington, Va., Friday, Feb., 17, 2012.
photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais
Capitol bomb plot arrest capped yearlong probe
read more The State
WASHINGTON - Within the last week, authorities say, Amine El Khalifi's plan was proceeding as hoped: An al-Qaida associate handed him an automatic weapon to kill security officers inside the U.S. Capitol. A bomb-laden vest would detonate the building. He'd die as a martyr. But there was a problem: The explosives were inert, the gun inoperable and...

This photo released by the Iranian President's Office, claims to show Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, second left being escorted by technicians during a tour of Tehran's research reactor centre in northern Tehran, Iran, Wednesday Feb. 15, 2012.
photo: AP / Iranian President's Office
Iran 'building up nuclear site near Qom': BBC
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LONDON ' Iran may be preparing to expand its nuclear programme at an underground plant near the city of Qom, a diplomat has told the BBC, just days ahead of a visit by United Nations nuclear inspectors. Iran appears to be poised to install thousands of new...

The coffin holding the remains of singer Whitney Houston is carried to a hearse after funeral services at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, N.J., Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012. Houston died last Saturday at the Beverly Hills Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif., at the age 48.
photo: AP / Mel Evans
Whitney Houston’s voice soars at hometown funeral
read more Ohio
NEWARK, N.J.: After all the testimonials from relatives and friends, the songs from legends and pop stars, the preaching and even laughter, the raw emotion of Whitney Houston’s funeral came down to just one moment: The sound of her own voice. As the strains of her biggest record, I Will Always Love You, filled the New Hope Baptist Church at...

UN Voices Alarm At Humanitarian Situation In Sudan
photo: UN / Victoria Hazou
UN Voices Alarm At Humanitarian Situation In Sudan
read more Scoop
Sunday, 19 February 2012, 3:16 pm Press Release: United Nations UN Relief Chief Voices Alarm At Humanitarian Situation In Sudanese States The United Nations relief chief has expressed deep concern at the deteriorating humanitarian conditions in Sudan's states of South Kordofan and Blue Nile, where...

Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari, center, holds the hands of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, left, and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after their joint news conference at the President house in Islamabad, Pakistan on Friday, Feb. 17, 2012.
photo: AP / B.K. Bangash
Kabul hopeful of Islamabad's help in peace drive
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Islamabad: Afghanistan is optimistic that regional power Pakistan will help the Kabul government advance a reconciliation process with the Taliban, the Afghan president's spokesman said yesterday. Pakistan, seen as crucial to efforts to end the war in Afghanistan, has repeatedly said it wants peace in its neighbour. Afghans, however, have...

In this citizen journalism image made on a mobile phone and acquired by the AP, Syrian anti-government protesters, some of them wearing their death shroud, march during a demonstration in Banias, Syria, Sunday, April 17, 2011. Gunmen opened fire during a funeral for a slain anti-government protester Sunday, killing at least three people on a day when tens of thousands of people took to the streets nationwide as part of an uprising against the country's authoritarian regime, witnesses and activists said.
photo: AP
Syria forces fire on funeral, China urges bloodshed end
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Security forces shot dead a mourner at a huge funeral on Saturday for demonstrators killed in rare protests in the Syrian capital, as a senior Chinese envoy issued a plea for the bloodshed to end. The Damascus funerals were for four people, two of them teenagers, killed when security forces fired on protesters in the capital's Mazzeh district,...

British Foreign Secretary William Hague faces a joint press conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London, Tuesday Feb. 15, 2011. Lavrov started a two-day visit to Britain on Monday to improve relations still marred by a succession of Cold War-style scandals, despite a landmark oil deal that underlined the potential of economic ties.
photo: AP / Ben Stansall, pool
Hague fears 'new cold war' against Iran
read more Belfast Telegraph
Iran's nuclear ambitions could plunge the world into "a new Cold War" with the Middle East, Foreign Secretary William Hague warned today. He predicted a nuclear arms race among rival Middle Eastern states that would carry the dangers without the safety mechanisms of the old rivalry between the West and the USSR. In an interview with The Daily...


Fear of Iran’s nuclear program is pushing Israel into a dangerous corner. The state could find...
Egyptian election officials have failed to confirm the date of the first presidential election...
Mr Hollande, holding a substantial but narrowing lead in the polls nine weeks before the first...

3 dead in Wash. avalanche were expert skiers
STEVENS PASS, Wash. (AP) - Authorities say three men killed in an avalanche in Washington state were all expert skiers. King County Sheriff's Sgt. Katie Larson says the men were among three groups of people skiing out-of-bounds at the Stevens Pass...
photo: Creative Commons / Alexander Joss
Boxen, Schwergewicht, WBC Weltmeisterschaft, Vitali Klitschko (Ukraine) vs. Dereck Chisora (USA), Samstag (18.02.12), Olympiahalle, Muenchen: Klitschko (r.) boxt gegen Chisora. (zu dapd-Text)
Boxer Dereck Chisora was arrested on Sunday after an with fellow British heavyweight David Haye following a WBC title clash in Munich on the previous night. Saturday's incident, which left Haye's manager Adam Booth with nasty facial cuts, erupted...
photo: AP / Sebastian Widmann/dapd
Egypt delays announcing final date for presidential vote
CAIRO (Reuters) - The judicial committee supervising Egypt's first presidential election since Hosni Mubarak was...
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb
Wrongheaded UN Vote on Syria: US-NATO "Arm Twisting" at the General Assembly
On February 4, Russia and China vetoed the Arab League's one-sided Syria resolution (SC/10536). It illegitimately called for Assad to step down. Under international law, no nation or combination thereof, may interfere in the internal affairs of...
photo: UN / UN
Eurozone nears deal with Greece
The Eurozone and Greek officials are near agreement on releasing bailout funds, after Greece has agreed to new austerity measures. Greece had a week to find an additional 325 Million euros in savings, which it did by slashing 100 Million...
photo: EC / © European Commission
Muslim students across Northeast monitored by NYPD
NEW YORKThe New York Police Department monitored Muslim college students far more broadly than previously known, at schools far beyond the city limits, including the Ivy League colleges of Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, The...
photo: US Army / Teddy Wade
A Syrian, whio lives in Cairo, shouts anti-Syrian regime slogans as others wave by Syrian flags during a demonstration to support the Syrian protesters who protest against Bashar Assad's regime, in Cairo, Egypt , Saturday, June 18, 2011.
Cairo has recalled its ambassador to Syria as President Bashar al-Assad's forces continue their campaign against opponents of his rule. No reason for the envoy's recall was...
photo: AP / Amr Nabil

South Korean army's winter drill; updated 06 Feb 2012; published 11 Jan 2012
1:44
South Korean army's winter drill
STL Today 20 Feb 2012, South Korea on Monday began live-fire military drills from front-line islands near its disputed sea border with North Korea, despite Pyongyang's threat to attack. The drills, scheduled to last two hours, happened in an area that was the target of...

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Greek FM: several eurozone countries 'want us out'; updated 16 Feb 2012; published 15 Feb 2012
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Greek FM: several eurozone countries 'want us out'
BBC News 20 Feb 2012, Eurozone finance ministers are due to meet to decide whether Greece has done enough to merit a huge bailout loan. Athens needs the 130bn euros (£110bn; $170bn) in order to avoid bankruptcy in...

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'Murdoch dead, body discovered': LulzSec hacks 'The Sun'; updated 31 Jan 2012; published 19 Jul 2011
2:00
'Murdoch dead, body discovered': LulzSec hacks 'The Sun'
The Guardian 20 Feb 2012, By Stephen Mangan LONDON, Feb 19 (Reuters) - News International , the British newspaper arm of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp group, announced on Sunday it would publish a Sunday edition of Britain's scandal-hit Sun tabloid for the first time next weekend. In an internal memo to all staff, News International chief executive Tom Mockridge said the first...

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Moroccan charged with attempted Capitol Hill bombing; updated 19 Feb 2012; published 18 Feb 2012
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Moroccan charged with attempted Capitol Hill bombing
The State 19 Feb 2012, WASHINGTON - Within the last week, authorities say, Amine El Khalifi's plan was proceeding as hoped: An al-Qaida associate handed him an automatic weapon to kill security officers inside the U.S. Capitol. A bomb-laden vest would detonate the building. He'd die as a martyr. But there was a problem: The explosives were inert, the gun inoperable and...

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Iran's 'nuclear assets'; updated 19 Feb 2012; published 15 Feb 2012
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Iran's 'nuclear assets'
Khaleej Times 19 Feb 2012, LONDON ' Iran may be preparing to expand its nuclear programme at an underground plant near the city of Qom, a diplomat has told the BBC, just days ahead of a visit by United Nations nuclear inspectors. Iran appears to be poised to install thousands of new...

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WHITNEY HOUSTON FUNERAL: Kevin Costner fights back tears and gets standing ovation; updated 19 Feb 2012; published 18 Feb 2012
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WHITNEY HOUSTON FUNERAL: Kevin Costner fights back tears and gets standing ovation
Ohio 19 Feb 2012, NEWARK, N.J.: After all the testimonials from relatives and friends, the songs from legends and pop stars, the preaching and even laughter, the raw emotion of Whitney Houston’s funeral came down to just one moment: The sound of her own voice. As the strains of her biggest record, I Will Always Love You, filled the New Hope Baptist Church at...

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Sudan gives UN deadline to exit; updated 22 Dec 2011; published 30 May 2011
2:40
Sudan gives UN deadline to exit
Scoop 19 Feb 2012, Sunday, 19 February 2012, 3:16 pm Press Release: United Nations UN Relief Chief Voices Alarm At Humanitarian Situation In Sudanese States The United Nations relief chief has expressed deep concern at the deteriorating humanitarian conditions in Sudan's states of South Kordofan and Blue Nile, where...

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Backdoor Rebels: 'Iran & Co. send message of defiance to US'; updated 19 Feb 2012; published 17 Feb 2012
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Backdoor Rebels: 'Iran & Co. send message of defiance to US'
Gulf News 18 Feb 2012, Islamabad: Afghanistan is optimistic that regional power Pakistan will help the Kabul government advance a reconciliation process with the Taliban, the Afghan president's spokesman said yesterday. Pakistan, seen as crucial to efforts to end the war in Afghanistan, has repeatedly said it wants peace in its neighbour. Afghans, however, have...

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Syrian forces shoot at funeral crowd; updated 19 Feb 2012; published 18 Feb 2012
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Syrian forces shoot at funeral crowd
Yahoo Daily News 18 Feb 2012, Security forces shot dead a mourner at a huge funeral on Saturday for demonstrators killed in rare protests in the Syrian capital, as a senior Chinese envoy issued a plea for the bloodshed to end. The Damascus funerals were for four people, two of them teenagers, killed when security forces fired on protesters in the capital's Mazzeh district,...

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Foreign Secretary William Hague gives Iran diplomats 48 hours to leave Britain; updated 06 Feb 2012; published 30 Nov 2011
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Foreign Secretary William Hague gives Iran diplomats 48 hours to leave Britain
Belfast Telegraph 18 Feb 2012, Iran's nuclear ambitions could plunge the world into "a new Cold War" with the Middle East, Foreign Secretary William Hague warned today. He predicted a nuclear arms race among rival Middle Eastern states that would carry the dangers without the safety mechanisms of the old rivalry between the West and the USSR. In an interview with The Daily...

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Budding Occupy Wall Street Movement Gives Voice to Anger Over Greed, Corporations; updated 05 Feb 2012; published 06 Oct 2011
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Budding Occupy Wall Street Movement Gives Voice to Anger Over Greed, Corporations
WorldNews.com 18 Feb 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Standing on the periphery of the massive protest in front of the Presidential Palace, one could sense unbridled tension and fear. Suddenly, and as troops and security forces surrounded the demonstrators, some 30,000 strong, a few of the protesters started to flee. Others, about 300, rushed to the...

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Escobar: Al-Qaeda agents worm into Syrian rebel army; updated 19 Feb 2012; published 18 Feb 2012
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Escobar: Al-Qaeda agents worm into Syrian rebel army
Zeenews 18 Feb 2012, Ankara: NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the Western alliance had no intention of intervening in Syria even in the event of a UN mandate to protect civilians, and urged Middle East countries to find a way to end the spiralling violence. Rasmussen said on Friday he also rejected the possibility of providing logistical support for...

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'If Israel bombs Iran, Arab states will support Tehran'; updated 19 Feb 2012; published 19 Feb 2012
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'If Israel bombs Iran, Arab states will support Tehran'
Sacramento Bee 18 Feb 2012, WASHINGTON – The United States and the European Union signaled Friday that negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program could soon resume for the first time in more than a year, even as a telecommunications network vital to the global banking industry prepared to expel Iranian banks. While senior U.S. and European officials stopped short of...

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Message from Syria to 1st Conference for Iraqi Bloggers; updated 20 Feb 2012; published 20 Feb 2012
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Message from Syria to 1st Conference for Iraqi Bloggers
Al Jazeera 18 Feb 2012, Syrian government forces have continued a crackdown on protests against President Bashar al-Assad's government, despite the arrival of a Chinese diplomat for talks on the unrest. Zhai Jun, China's vice foreign minister, arrived in Damascus late on Friday, and is due to hold talks with the Syrian president on resolving the country's crisis. Protests...

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