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Russian woman casts her ballot paper as electoral commission staff, left, looks on in the village of Lomakino, Smolensk region, western Russia, Sunday, March 4, 2012.
photo: AP / Sergei Grits
Exit polls: Putin wins Russia's presidential vote
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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin rolled to victory in Russia's presidential election on Sunday, according to exit polls cited by state television, but the vote was tainted by claims of violations, including "carousel voting" in which voters were bused around to cast several ballots. Putin tallied 58 percent, according to a nationwide exit poll...

In this photo released by the Israeli government Press office, Israeli President Shimon Peres, left, meets with U.S President Barack Obama in Washington, Sunday, March 4, 2012.
photo: AP / Moshe Milner, GPO, HO
Obama warns Iran he will use force if needed
read more Al Jazeera
US President Barack Obama has said he prefers to use diplomacy to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, but he made clear that he will not "hesitate to use force" when necessary to defend the US and its interests. Obama also said in a speech to a powerful pro-Israel organisation on Sunday that "there is too much loose talk of war" these...

The iron cage that housed the heart of St. Laurence O'Toole sits broken and empty Sunday, March 4, 2012, inside Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin.
photo: AP / Shawn Pogatchnik
900-year-old saint's heart vanishes from cathedral
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By Richard Allen Greene and Peter Taggart, CNN The heart of a 900-year-old saint has vanished from Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland, police and the Cathedral said. St. Laurence O'Toole's heart was kept in a heart-shaped wooden box in a cage bolted to a wall in Saint Lauds Chapel, Irish police said. It disappeared between Friday...

An injured man is treated by health workers at a hospital, after multiple explosions occurred at a munitions depot, in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo Sunday, March 4, 2012.
photo: AP / Elie Mbena
Official: 136 killed in Republic of Congo blasts
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BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo (AP) — A morgue in the capital of the Republic of Congo has taken in 136 bodies of those killed in blasts caused by arms depot fire in the capital. More bodies were coming into the morgue Sunday afternoon. A local hospital reported at least 237 wounded people. Sunday's blasts flattened many buildings in Brazzaville...

An Iranian mural artist paints a portrait of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, looking out from above a major street in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Feb. 24, 2012.
photo: AP / Vahid Salemi
Iran leader consolidates power, vote results suggest
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March 4, 2012 -- Updated 1235 GMT (2035 HKT) Iran's election: What it means (CNN) -- Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, appeared to gain ground in his power struggle with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as preliminary results came in from parliamentary elections. Candidates from Khamenei's camp look set to capture about three-quarters of...

New North Korean leader Kim Jong Un waves at Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang after reviewing a parade of thousands of soldiers and commemorating the 70th birthday of the late Kim Jong Il on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012.
photo: AP / David Guttenfelder
North Korean Leader Takes a Defiant Stance as He Visits Border
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SEOUL, South Korea — The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, visited the heavily armed border with the South and ordered his troops on higher alert, the North’s state-run media said Sunday, escalating the militaristic rhetoric just a week after Pyongyang agreed to freeze its nuclear efforts in return for badly need food aid....

Deputies and store security personnel keep crowds under control Friday, Feb. 24, 2012, in Orlando, Fla., one day after a limited number of Nike's Foamposite Galaxy shoes at the Foot Locker store in the Florida Mall sparked a large scale riot involving hundreds of shoppers.
photo: AP / Reinhold Matay
From Heaven's Gate to Corporatocracy's Gate
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling It was infamously apolitical and ahistorical for the new Nike Shoe, Foamposit Galaxy, to have arrived around the same time that the 38 members of Heaven's Gate group committed mass suicide. In America's Corporatocracy, where corporate conglomerates rule internally by brainwashing an individual's mind...

Unidentified family members dig through the remains of a house where a woman was killed by a tornado Saturday, March 3, 2012 in Moscow, Ohio.
photo: AP / Tom Uhlman
Tornadoes demolish small towns in Indiana, Kentucky
read more Nashville Tennessean
WEST LIBERTY, KY. — Across the South and Midwest, survivors emerged Saturday to find blue sky and splinters where homes once stood, cars flung into buildings and communications crippled after dozens of tornadoes chainsawed through a region of millions, leveling small towns along the way. At least 38 people were killed in five states, but a...

A Russian woman casts her ballot at a polling station in the village Little Oesh Kolyvansky outside Novosibirsk, Russia, Sunday, March 4, 2012.
photo: AP / (AP Photo/Ilnar Salakhiyev
Putin seeks Kremlin return as Russia votes
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Russians voted on Sunday in presidential polls expected to return strongman Vladimir Putin to the Kremlin for a record third term, despite a wave of protests against his 12 years of domination. Voters from Vladivostok on the Pacific to the Kaliningrad exclave on the Baltic will cast their ballots in a marathon election stretched over 21 hours in...

Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond, second left, arrives for a meeting with Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron,at St Andrew's House in Edinburgh, Scotland Thursday, Feb 16, 2012.
photo: AP / Scott Heppell
Scottish independence: May start for 'yes' campaign
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A "yes" campaign for Scottish independence will start soon after the Scottish government's consultation and May local elections, Alex Salmond says. The first minister told the BBC's Sunday Politics that the timing was because his Scottish...


Article by Gilad Atzmon As'ad AbuKhalil has now completed his transformation into a honorary...
Once a Roman city, where the crusaders committed their first act of cannibalism – eating their...
IF I were to follow the call of my heart, I would appeal to our government to send the Israeli...

Aid reaches Homs, refugees flee to border
The Red Cross has delivered emergency aid to areas around the battered Baba Amro district of the Syrian city of Homs, but was blocked for a third day from entering the former rebel bastion amid reports of bloody reprisals by state forces. Activists...
photo: DOD / Public Domain
2011 State of the Union Obama
President Barack Obama says the US "will not hesitate" to use force to stop Iran obtaining nuclear weapons, but says diplomacy could still succeed. Addressing an influential pro-Israel lobby group, Mr Obama also warned against "loose talk" of war in...
photo: Public Domain / Pete Souza
File - In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a motorized division of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) takes part in a military exercise in central China's Henan Province, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2006.
BEIJING — China announced a double-digit increase in military spending Sunday, a rise that comes amid an intensifying strategic rivalry between the United States and China in Asia and concerns in Washington about the secrecy...
photo: AP / Xinhua, Li Gang
A motorist fuels up his truck at a gas station Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012 in San Francisco.
THE threat of an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities has pushed world oil prices up by 15 per cent in the past month and raised fears that the fissile geopolitics of the Middle East might once again spell global economic havoc. Israel...
photo: AP / Marcio Jose Sanche
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Va., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012, to discuss the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act, or STOCK Act.
Eric Cantor, the second-ranking Republican in the House, threw his support behind Mitt Romney just days before the marquee day of the GOP presidential nominating race -- Super Tuesday. The House majority leader and Virginia congressman said Romney...
photo: AP / Jacquelyn Martin
Chevrolet Volt photographed at the 2009 Washington DC Auto Show.
General Motors Co. (GM), missing sales goals for the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid, plans to halt production of the sedan for five weeks beginning later this month rather than discount the high-technology cars. GM will stop making Volts at its...
photo: Public Domain / IFCAR
Participation of José Manuel Barroso, President of the EC, at the EU-Canada Summit with, from left to right: João Vale de Almeida, Director General DG RELEX, José Manuel Barroso Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council
* Interest rates may rise if budget rules not met-Van Rompuy * Taking sanctions has to be credible - Van Rompuy * Dutch euro exit would be end of EU - Van Rompuy AMSTERDAM, March 4 (Reuters) - European Council President Herman Van Rompuy warned...
photo: EC / © European Union 2010

Election 2012: Russia votes, Putin wins; updated 04 Mar 2012; published 04 Mar 2012
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Election 2012: Russia votes, Putin wins
STL Today 04 Mar 2012, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin rolled to victory in Russia's presidential election on Sunday, according to exit polls cited by state television, but the vote was tainted by claims of violations, including "carousel voting" in which voters were bused around to cast several ballots. Putin tallied 58 percent, according to a nationwide exit poll...

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Odyssey Of Free Iran Super Star Heroes, Response To President Obama & Peres Nowruz Messages; updated 21 Jun 2011; published 22 Mar 2009
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Odyssey Of Free Iran Super Star Heroes, Response To President Obama & Peres Nowruz Messages
Al Jazeera 04 Mar 2012, US President Barack Obama has said he prefers to use diplomacy to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, but he made clear that he will not "hesitate to use force" when necessary to defend the US and its interests. Obama also said in a speech to a powerful pro-Israel organisation on Sunday that "there is too much loose talk of war" these...

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Patron Saint of Ireland Heart Stolen; updated 03 Mar 2012; published 03 Mar 2012
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Patron Saint of Ireland Heart Stolen
CNN 04 Mar 2012, By Richard Allen Greene and Peter Taggart, CNN The heart of a 900-year-old saint has vanished from Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland, police and the Cathedral said. St. Laurence O'Toole's heart was kept in a heart-shaped wooden box in a cage bolted to a wall in Saint Lauds Chapel, Irish police said. It disappeared between Friday...

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Scores dead in Congo munitions depot blasts; updated 04 Mar 2012; published 04 Mar 2012
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Scores dead in Congo munitions depot blasts
The Guardian 04 Mar 2012, BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo (AP) — A morgue in the capital of the Republic of Congo has taken in 136 bodies of those killed in blasts caused by arms depot fire in the capital. More bodies were coming into the morgue Sunday afternoon. A local hospital reported at least 237 wounded people. Sunday's blasts flattened many buildings in Brazzaville...

Iran 3 Feb 2012 Islamic Regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's Speech About Parliament Elections; updated 27 Feb 2012; published 03 Feb 2012
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Iran 3 Feb 2012 Islamic Regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's Speech About Parliament Elections
CNN 04 Mar 2012, March 4, 2012 -- Updated 1235 GMT (2035 HKT) Iran's election: What it means (CNN) -- Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, appeared to gain ground in his power struggle with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as preliminary results came in from parliamentary elections. Candidates from Khamenei's camp look set to capture about three-quarters of...

A New Era For Kim Jong-Un Begins; updated 16 Feb 2012; published 30 Dec 2011
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A New Era For Kim Jong-Un Begins
The New York Times 04 Mar 2012, SEOUL, South Korea — The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, visited the heavily armed border with the South and ordered his troops on higher alert, the North’s state-run media said Sunday, escalating the militaristic rhetoric just a week after Pyongyang agreed to freeze its nuclear efforts in return for badly need food aid....

Metropolitan Jonah: Perils of a consumerist society; updated 10 Jan 2012; published 07 Dec 2011
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Metropolitan Jonah: Perils of a consumerist society
WorldNews.com 04 Mar 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling It was infamously apolitical and ahistorical for the new Nike Shoe, Foamposit Galaxy, to have arrived around the same time that the 38 members of Heaven's Gate group committed mass suicide. In America's Corporatocracy, where corporate conglomerates rule internally by brainwashing an individual's mind...

Midwest Tornado Aftermath: Death Toll Rises; updated 01 Mar 2012; published 01 Mar 2012
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Midwest Tornado Aftermath: Death Toll Rises
Nashville Tennessean 04 Mar 2012, WEST LIBERTY, KY. — Across the South and Midwest, survivors emerged Saturday to find blue sky and splinters where homes once stood, cars flung into buildings and communications crippled after dozens of tornadoes chainsawed through a region of millions, leveling small towns along the way. At least 38 people were killed in five states, but a...

Election 2012: Russia votes, Putin wins; updated 04 Mar 2012; published 04 Mar 2012
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Election 2012: Russia votes, Putin wins
Jakarta Globe 04 Mar 2012, Russians voted on Sunday in presidential polls expected to return strongman Vladimir Putin to the Kremlin for a record third term, despite a wave of protests against his 12 years of domination. Voters from Vladivostok on the Pacific to the Kaliningrad exclave on the Baltic will cast their ballots in a marathon election stretched over 21 hours in...

Salmond is Jolly for 'the Weans' (BBC Scotland's Children in Need); updated 18 Feb 2012; published 15 Nov 2008
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Salmond is Jolly for 'the Weans' (BBC Scotland's Children in Need)
BBC News 04 Mar 2012, A "yes" campaign for Scottish independence will start soon after the Scottish government's consultation and May local elections, Alex Salmond says. The first minister told the BBC's Sunday Politics that the timing was because his Scottish...

China to Double Military Budget by 2015; updated 29 Feb 2012; published 15 Feb 2012
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China to Double Military Budget by 2015
The Star 04 Mar 2012, BEIJING (Reuters) - China will boost military spending by 11.2 percent this year, the government said on Sunday, unveiling Beijing's first defence budget since President Barack Obama launched a "pivot" to reinforce U.S. influence across the Asia-Pacific. Soldiers of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) march in front of the Great Hall of the...

Chinese Regime Defends its Veto of UN Resolution That Condems Syria's Violence; updated 09 Feb 2012; published 07 Feb 2012
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Chinese Regime Defends its Veto of UN Resolution That Condems Syria's Violence
CNN 04 Mar 2012, March 4, 2012 -- Updated 0144 GMT (0944 HKT) Graffitti reading "Thank you, Russia" and "Thank you, China" on the wall of the Russian Embassy in Damascus, February 15. Beijing (CNN) -- China is calling on the Syrian government and others involved to "immediately" stop violence, particularly against innocent civilians, and pursue a political solution...

Maritime Lawyers, Arnold & Itkin, Discuss the Deepwater Horizon Case; updated 02 Feb 2012; published 02 Feb 2012
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Maritime Lawyers, Arnold & Itkin, Discuss the Deepwater Horizon Case
BBC News 04 Mar 2012, The US government says it will continue its case against BP over the Deepwater Horizon oil rig spill despite a deal the company reached on Friday with the largest group of private claimants. The $7.8bn...

Washington Week | Political Landscape: Ohio; updated 02 Mar 2012; published 02 Mar 2012
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Washington Week | Political Landscape: Ohio
Newsday 04 Mar 2012, rolled to a double-digit victory in state's presidential caucuses last night, his fourth campaign triumph in a row and a fresh show of strength in the run-up to 10 Super Tuesday contests in all regions of the country. Rick and battled for second place, while ran a distant fourth. Romney said in a statement that his win meant Washington state's...





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