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File - President Barack Obama listens to remarks by Senior Advisor David Plouffe during a Cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Jan. 31, 2012.
photo: White House / Pete Souza
Obama rules out unilateral U.S. military action on Syria
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Reporting from WashingtonPresident Obama on Tuesday ruled out a unilateral U.S. military campaign to support the beleaguered rebels in Syria, calling such an operation "much more complicated" than the NATO-led air war launched to help protect civilians during the civil war in Libya last year. At a White House news conference, Obama...

Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum speaks to supporters at an election-night party in the gymnasium of Steubenville High School in Steubenville, Ohio, Tuesday, March 6, 2012.
photo: AP / Gene J. Puskar
Romney, Santorum battle to wire on Super Tuesday
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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum battled to the wire in a close Super Tuesday finish, as each chalked up victories in states they expected to win and ran neck-and-neck in the fight for the day's biggest prize, Ohio. Romney won Virginia, Vermont and Massachusetts, piling up convention delegates, and told cheering supporters in Boston...

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton speaks during a media conference after a meeting of EU foreign ministers at the EU Council building in Brussels on Monday, Jan. 23, 2012.
photo: AP / Virginia Mayo
Global powers agree to resume nuclear talks with Iran
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BRUSSELS: The global powers dealing with Iran’s disputed nuclear program said Tuesday that they had accepted its offer to resume negotiations broken off in stalemate more than a year ago — a move that could help relieve increased pressure from Israel to use military force against Tehran. “I have offered to resume talks with Iran...

Libyan men, one waving a pre-Gadhafi flag, attend a funeral in Benghazi, Libya, Monday, March 5, 2012 for victims buried in a mass grave.
photo: AP / Manu Brabo
Eastern Libyan leaders declare semi-autonomy
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March 7, 2012 -- Updated 0003 GMT (0803 HKT) Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- Leaders of oil-rich eastern Libya declared it Tuesday to be a semi-autonomous region and voted for a 79-year-old former military man to lead it. "We're talking about the whole eastern region of the country," said Ahmed Zubair al-Senussi, a member of the ruling National...

In this picture released by Iranian Fars News Agency, on Monday, Jan. 2, 2012, a Ghader missile is launched at the shore of sea of Oman during Iran's navy drill.
photo: AP / Fars News Agency, Hamed Jafarnejad
How Iran might respond to Israeli attack
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Iran has made it clear that if it is attacked either by Israel or the United States it will respond in kind. But just what could Iran do to strike back?...

File - Palestinian Samir Badran, center, embraces one of her daughters during the funeral of her husband Issam Badran in the West Bank village of Qusra, Saturday, Sept. 24, 2011. Badran, shown in picture in foreground, was shot dead during a clash with Israeli soldiers and settlers.
photo: AP / Bernat Armangue
Revenge of the settlers
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Fadi Quran is little different from any other Palestinian living in the West Bank, where violence from Israeli settlers is part of daily life. Hailing from the town of Al-Bireh, less than one kilometre from the settlement of Psagot, the 23-year-old Master's degree student has been forced to deal with attacks and harassment for years. "Settler...

U.S. Navy SEALs exit a C-130 Hercules aircraft during a training exercise.
photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Anthony Harding
'Act of Valor' or More Naziwood? (Part One)
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Seldom is it acknowledged that a massive film and media industry supported Hitlerism and Nazism. It was an industry that had embraced, knowingly and unknowingly, the values and principles of the Third Reich. Silent too is how Germany and its people had been defined and dominated by Hollywood. Popular...

In this Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012 photo, Afghan villagers search for avalanche victims in Raghistan, Badakhshan province, north of Kabul, Afghanistan. Around 29 people have died in avalanches reported since Monday in Badakhshan province, according to the Afghan National Disaster Management Agency and at least 40 more people have been injured and rescuers were struggling to reach areas of Afghanistan's mountainous northeast that have been cut off by heavy snows.
photo: AP / Sharif Shayeq
Afghanistan avalanche kills 37 in Badakhshan
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At least 37 people have been killed by an avalanche in Afghanistan's north-eastern Badakhshan province, say officials. The...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, second right, gestures, as he 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 miles (410 kilometers), south of Tehran, Iran, Thursday, April 9, 2009.
photo: AP / Vahid Salemi
Iran 'to allow military site inspection'
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Iran has said it will allow international inspectors access to its Parchin military complex, according to the ISNA news agency, after the head of the UN nuclear watchdog raised concerns about activities at the site. The Iranian news agency reported on Tuesday that Iran's diplomatic mission to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)...

In this photo released by Jess Dawson, a man takes advantage of high flood waters to fish from his front lawn in Moree, Northern New South Wales, Australia, Friday, Feb. 3, 2012.
photo: AP / Jess Dawson
Thousands flee Australian town as flood fears grow
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Sydney: More than 8,000 people fled their homes in Australia's flood-hit southeast Tuesday as fears grew that a levee holding back the swollen Murrumbidgee River would fail. Floods have hit three eastern states this week, sweeping two men to their deaths after they attempted to cross waterways in cars while inundating hundreds of homes and...


Afghanistan's top religious council has said women should not mix with men in school, work...
By Gilad Atzmon http://www.deliberation.info/the-atzmon-defamation-league-adl/ At the bottom of...

A Libyan rebels carries rockets on a checkpoint on the frontline near Zwitina, the outskirts of the city of Ajdabiya, south of Benghazi, eastern Libya, Thursday, March 24, 2011.
RAMI AL-SHAHEIBI Associated Press= BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — Tribal leaders and militia commanders declared a semiautonomous region in oil-rich eastern Libya on Tuesday, a unilateral move that opponents fear will be the first step toward outright...
photo: AP / Anja Niedringhaus
U.S. Rep. Donald M. Payne, D-N.J., reacts while sitting in the audience during a ceremony to honor him by naming a plaza at the Essex County court complex the Congressman Donald M. Payne Plaza in Newark, N.J., Monday, April 20, 2009.
Representative Donald M. Payne of New Jersey, a former chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus and the first black to be elected to Congress from New Jersey, died on Tuesday. He was 77. Susan Walsh/Associated Press Representative Donald Payne of...
photo: AP / Mike Derer
Police officers block opposition protesters after the massive rally in Pushkin Square protest in downtown Moscow, Russia, Monday, March 5, 2012.
WITHIN 24 hours of Vladimir Putin's presidential election victory, widely seen as inevitable and even more widely marred by allegations of fraud, riot police were dragging his opponents across a frozen pond in Moscow's central Pushkin Square to paddy...
photo: AP / Sergey Ponomarev
European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton addresses the inauguration ceremony of the Palestinian security services headquarters in the West Bank city of Jenin on August 28, 2011. AFP PHOTO/SAIF DAHLAH
Six major world powers and Iran are to hold fresh talks on Tehran's nuclear programme, the EU has said. EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said she had replied to a letter from Iran on behalf of the five UN Security Council...
photo: European Community / EC
Samajwadi Party supporters dance as they celebrate the early leads of the party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav outside the party office in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, March 6, 2012.
LUCKNOW, India (AP) -- India's governing Congress party was badly beaten in a key state election Tuesday, a sharp rebuke that could cripple the already embattled national government over the final two years of its term. With early returns showing...
photo: AP / Pankaj Nangia
Palestinian students drink water from a public tap in the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) headquarters in Rafah refugee camp in the southern of Gaza Strip on November 02, 2011. The United States cut its funding to the UN's cultural arm after a majority of member states defied American and Israeli warnings and voted to allow jubilant Palestinians full membership in the organisation. PHOTO BY AHMED DEEB/WN
The Millennium Development Goal for access to clean water has been reached, ahead of the target date of 2015. Now 89% of the population of the world have access to improved water supplies, up from 76% in the base year of 1990....
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the 66th session of the General Assembly at United Nations headquarters Friday, Sept. 23, 2011.
AMY TEIBEL Associated Press= WASHINGTON (AP) — Israel's prime minister on Monday vigorously asserted his country's right to defend itself against the nuclear threat emanating from Iran, warning that time was growing short and declaring he wouldn't...
photo: AP / Seth Wenig

The Real McCain: 'Call to strike Syria ASAP exposes neo-con mindset'; updated 06 Mar 2012; published 06 Mar 2012
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The Real McCain: 'Call to strike Syria ASAP exposes neo-con mindset'
Chicago Tribune 07 Mar 2012, Reporting from WashingtonPresident Obama on Tuesday ruled out a unilateral U.S. military campaign to support the beleaguered rebels in Syria, calling such an operation "much more complicated" than the NATO-led air war launched to help protect civilians during the civil war in Libya last year. At a White House news conference, Obama...

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Webcast: Super Tuesday 2012; iPad HD; updated 06 Mar 2012; published 06 Mar 2012
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Webcast: Super Tuesday 2012; iPad HD
Sacramento Bee 07 Mar 2012, COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum battled to the wire in a close Super Tuesday finish, as each chalked up victories in states they expected to win and ran neck-and-neck in the fight for the day's biggest prize, Ohio. Romney won Virginia, Vermont and Massachusetts, piling up convention delegates, and told cheering supporters in Boston...

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'Israel saber-rattles at Iran hoping for tougher sanctions'; updated 06 Mar 2012; published 06 Mar 2012
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'Israel saber-rattles at Iran hoping for tougher sanctions'
Ohio 07 Mar 2012, BRUSSELS: The global powers dealing with Iran’s disputed nuclear program said Tuesday that they had accepted its offer to resume negotiations broken off in stalemate more than a year ago — a move that could help relieve increased pressure from Israel to use military force against Tehran. “I have offered to resume talks with Iran...

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Eastern Libya leaders seek semi- autonomy; updated 06 Mar 2012; published 06 Mar 2012
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Eastern Libya leaders seek semi- autonomy
CNN 07 Mar 2012, March 7, 2012 -- Updated 0003 GMT (0803 HKT) Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- Leaders of oil-rich eastern Libya declared it Tuesday to be a semi-autonomous region and voted for a 79-year-old former military man to lead it. "We're talking about the whole eastern region of the country," said Ahmed Zubair al-Senussi, a member of the ruling National...

Israeli PM: Iran nuclear aims must end; updated 06 Mar 2012; published 06 Mar 2012
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Israeli PM: Iran nuclear aims must end
BBC News 07 Mar 2012, Iran has made it clear that if it is attacked either by Israel or the United States it will respond in kind. But just what could Iran do to strike back?...

Homes of War: Israel settlements set Palestine on fire; updated 28 Feb 2012; published 19 Dec 2011
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Homes of War: Israel settlements set Palestine on fire
Al Jazeera 06 Mar 2012, Fadi Quran is little different from any other Palestinian living in the West Bank, where violence from Israeli settlers is part of daily life. Hailing from the town of Al-Bireh, less than one kilometre from the settlement of Psagot, the 23-year-old Master's degree student has been forced to deal with attacks and harassment for years. "Settler...

Pentagon's propaganda in full view; updated 16 Feb 2012; published 31 Dec 2010
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Pentagon's propaganda in full view
WorldNews.com 06 Mar 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Seldom is it acknowledged that a massive film and media industry supported Hitlerism and Nazism. It was an industry that had embraced, knowingly and unknowingly, the values and principles of the Third Reich. Silent too is how Germany and its people had been defined and dominated by Hollywood. Popular...

Afghan Avalanche Rescue; updated 25 Aug 2010; published 10 Feb 2010
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Afghan Avalanche Rescue
BBC News 06 Mar 2012, At least 37 people have been killed by an avalanche in Afghanistan's north-eastern Badakhshan province, say officials. The...

Nuclear inspectors plan more visits to Iran; updated 08 Feb 2012; published 01 Feb 2012
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Nuclear inspectors plan more visits to Iran
Al Jazeera 06 Mar 2012, Iran has said it will allow international inspectors access to its Parchin military complex, according to the ISNA news agency, after the head of the UN nuclear watchdog raised concerns about activities at the site. The Iranian news agency reported on Tuesday that Iran's diplomatic mission to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)...

Australian Floods Feb 2012; updated 07 Feb 2012; published 02 Feb 2012
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Australian Floods Feb 2012
Gulf News 06 Mar 2012, Sydney: More than 8,000 people fled their homes in Australia's flood-hit southeast Tuesday as fears grew that a levee holding back the swollen Murrumbidgee River would fail. Floods have hit three eastern states this week, sweeping two men to their deaths after they attempted to cross waterways in cars while inundating hundreds of homes and...

Netanyahu Addresses AIPAC 2012 (3.5.12); updated 06 Mar 2012; published 06 Mar 2012
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Netanyahu Addresses AIPAC 2012 (3.5.12)
Al Jazeera 06 Mar 2012, Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, has stated Israel's right to defend itself against the possible threat of a nuclear-armed Iran and said the world cannot wait for much longer to take action against Tehran. Netanyahu was addressing the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the powerful pro-Israel lobbying group, in...

News Wrap: Refugees Flee Syria for Lebanon as Crackdown Extends; updated 06 Mar 2012; published 06 Mar 2012
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News Wrap: Refugees Flee Syria for Lebanon as Crackdown Extends
The Independent 06 Mar 2012, Human rights groups have said that gunmen who seized the Homs district of Baba Amr last week were rounding up anyone over the age of 14, torturing them and killing them. The Independent, meanwhile, has spoken to activists inside the city who have said that dozens of civilians have been savagely murdered during the past few days by the feared...

Video: Teary-eyed Putin addresses 110000 crowd near Kremlin; updated 04 Mar 2012; published 04 Mar 2012
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Video: Teary-eyed Putin addresses 110000 crowd near Kremlin
Jakarta Globe 05 Mar 2012, Police arrested dozens of Russians protesting Vladimir Putin's crushing victory in presidential elections that the opposition denounced as illegitimate and international monitors said were skewed. Western powers reacted warily to the prospect of Putin returning in a May inauguration to the Kremlin for a six year term from his current job as...

[Congo] 150 feared dead in arms depot blasts [Brazzaville © EuroNews]; updated 04 Mar 2012; published 04 Mar 2012
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[Congo] 150 feared dead in arms depot blasts [Brazzaville © EuroNews]
m&c; 05 Mar 2012, Johannesburg/Dakar - Security forces in Brazzaville pulled bodies from wreckage sites on Monday evening, after a series of blasts at a munitions depot in the capital Brazzaville killed at least 206 people and injured about 1,500. Medical staff have been overwhelmed by cases in the aftermath of the five explosions Sunday, which government officials...





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