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In this Monday, Feb. 20, 2012 photo, Pakistani Army soldiers with the 20th Lancers Armored Regiment gather before a patrol atop the 8000-foot mountain near their outpost, Kalpani Base, in Pakistan's Dir province on the Pakistan-Afghan border. Kalpani is on the front line in the 10-year war against militant Islamists
photo: AP / Anja Niedringhaus
Pakistani Troops Feel West Undervalues Their War
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KALPANI BASE, Pakistan (AP) — The wind was howling and the snow outside their bullet-pocked bunker lay knee-deep as the men of the 20th Lancer armored regiment bedded down for the night, nearly 2,500 meters (8,000 feet) up a mountain on one of the world's most inhospitable borders. They cheered themselves up by singing songs. Their commander gazed... Pin It

Opposition protesters with their flags gathered in center of Moscow during a rally, Russia, Saturday, March 10, 2012.
photo: AP / Ivan Sekretarev
Putin Opponents Rally ‘For Fair Elections’
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MOSCOW, March 10 (RIA Novosti) – Thousands of opponents of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin demonstrated in central Moscow on Saturday in protest at recent presidential elections won by the Russian leader which they claim were unfair. Organizers of the rally, held under the banner “For Fair Elections” used in other mass opposition demonstrations... Pin It

In this March 23, 2011 photograph, a U.S. military guard watches over detainee cells inside the Parwan detention facility near Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan.
photo: AP / Dar Yasin
U.S. to transfer control of detainees to Afghanistan
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KABUL -- U.S. officials have agreed to gradually transfer control of most of their detainees here to the Afghan government over the next six months, U.S. and Afghan officials announced Friday, possibly eliminating an irritant in Washington's strained relationship with Kabul as the U.S. military mission starts winding down. The step appeared to... Pin It

Kofi Annan, Secretary-General, United Nations (1997-2006); Member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum; Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2009, captured during the session 'Fresh Solutions for Food Security' at the Annual Meeting 2009 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 30, 2009..
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Annan to meet Assad, seeking end to Syria violence
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BEIRUT - UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan meets President Bashar Al Assad on Saturday to press for a political solution to Syria's year-long uprising and bloody crackdown in which thousands of people have been killed. Annan's talks in Damascus come a day after activists said Assad's forces killed at least 68 people as they sought to extend control... Pin It

Protesters attend an anti corruption demonstration in Bratislava, Slovakia, Friday, March 9, 2012. Hundreds of Slovaks are protesting in the capital to demand that top politicians accused of corruption step down. Slovakia is holding early general elections on Saturday, March 10, 2012.
photo: AP / Petr David Josek
Slovak left eyes election win as scandal stumps rivals
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AFP - Slovaks vote in an early general election Saturday, with the left-wing party of ex-premier Robert Fico eyeing victory as a corruption scandal has right-wing rivals fighting for political survival. Opinion polls showed Fico's Smer social democrats poised for power in the wake of the so-called "Gorilla" corruption scandal, which has syphoned... Pin It

Government ministers attend a cabinet meeting at the Greek Parliament in Athens, Friday, March 9, 2012.
photo: AP / Thanassis Stavrakis
Greek debt swap 'historic' but fears remain
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PRIVATE investor acceptance of a Greek debt swap is a historic chance to stabilise Greece officials said, but analysts warned that this is not the end of the Greek drama. The head of Eurogroup eurozone finance ministers Jean-Claude Juncker said the "elements were now in place" to proceed with final approval for a second bailout for... Pin It

A general view shows an open session of Iranian parliament, in Tehran, Iran, Monday, March 5, 2012.
photo: AP / Vahid Salemi
Ahmadinejad's fall, Khamenei's rise
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It was not Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s finest hour. For years he was described as the protege of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, but now the 56-year-old president has been cast out by Iran’s most powerful man. Most of his supporters running for the country’s legislative elections have been trounced. They were defeated by... Pin It

A pedestrian looks a sign in a shop reading: ''One euro, price haircut'' in Athens on Thursday, March 8, 2012.
photo: AP / Thanassis Stavrakis
Greek bond swap lifts rescue hopes
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Greece has successfully closed a bond swap offer aimed at reducing its colossal debt pile and averting a chaotic default that would pitch the euro zone into a fresh crisis. Officials said take-up had clearly surpassed the minimum threshold required for the deal to go through, despite early fears that it could fall apart and derail a broader rescue... Pin It

An Occupy Wall Street protestor is grabbed by police as he tries to escape a scuffle in Zuccotti Park, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011, in New York.
photo: AP / John Minchillo
America's Long AND Great Purge
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. "There was no evidence that any of us was acting as an agent of a foreign power. What we were doing was carrying out our responsibility as citizens of the United States, expressing our opinions and doing everything within the law to make this a better country. If we think our country is doing... Pin It

In this undated photo provided by the family of Chris McManus via the British Foreign Office, Chris McManus poses for a photograph at an unknown location.
photo: AP
Nigeria rescue bid: Kidnapped Briton and Italian killed
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A Briton and an Italian abducted in Nigeria last year have died in a rescue bid by UK and Nigerian forces, Prime Minister David Cameron has announced. He said it appeared Chris McManus - from north-west England - and Franco Lamolinara had been "murdered by their captors before they could be rescued". The BBC's Gordon Corera said UK troops "were... Pin It


A new type of 'super' aspirin which appears to have extremely strong anti-cancer properties but...
Schoolchildren should spend at least an hour a day doing “vigorous” physical...

Mississippi Employment Security Commission interviewer Greyce Powell prepares an unemployment insurance policy form for a jobless client, Jan. 13, 2003 in Jackson, Miss. Mississippi and Oregon had the biggest unemployment increases for April 2003 and 2004, according to a regional jobs report released Friday, May 21, 2004, by the U.S. Department of Labor. Mississippi's unemployment rate jumped 1.9 percent while Oregon took a 1.8 percent hit. Mississippi has a 4.6 percent unemployment rate, according to the Mississippi Employment Security Commissio
President Barack Obama seized on news of another burst of job growth as proof the U.S. economy is rebounding on his watch from a disastrous recession. The struggling economy has haunted the president as he seeks a second four-year term in November,...
photo: AP / Rogelio Solis
Vladimir Putin
MOSCOW -- Excessive cheerfulness is not a trait generally associated with Russians, and Russian intellectuals in particular, which is one reason this city's three-month-old opposition movement has been so unusual. The rallies that began in December...
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Palestinians pray next to the bodies of Kamal al-Nairab, the leader of an armed Palestinian faction, and other members and child during their funeral in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip August 19, 2011. An Israeli air strike killed the leader of an armed Palestinian faction, a top lieutenant, three other members in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday, the group said, hours after Israel blamed gunmen from the territory for cross-border attacks.  (Photo By Ahmed Deeb/WN)
AFP - Twelve Palestinians, most of them fighters, were killed and at least 20 wounded in a series of Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medics said early Saturday. The Israeli raids came as Palestinians fired dozens of rockets and...
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb
A Chinese woman, center, looks at the vegetables she bought at a market in Beijing Friday, March 9, 2012.
China swung into a huge trade deficit of $31.48 billion in February as oil imports rocketed, according to the latest customs data. China is normally a net exporter of goods -- it recorded a surplus of $27.28 billion in January -- but total monthly...
photo: AP / Andy Wong
U.S. Army Spc. Rufo Lujan-Espinosa, a unit supply specialist with the 10th Support Group, looks at tsunami damage as he leads a fuel convoy into Aichi prefecture, Japan, April 8, 2011, during Operation Tomodachi.
It began with the huge quake that struck off the coast of the city of 71,000 at 2:46pm. Less than an hour later, Mr Sakurai was on the roof of the city office, squinting toward the sea about six miles away. "We could see this huge cloud of dust...
photo: US Army / Sgt. Derek Kuhn
Republican presidential candidate former House Speaker Newt Gingrich reacts to a question at the start of the Republican presidential candidate debate at the North Charleston Coliseum in Charleston, S.C., Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012.
Gingrich faces a must-win situation as he hangs on in the Republican race, and polls show he has a chance in the south Former House speaker Newt Gingrich, accompanied by his wife Callista, at a rally in Jackson, Mississippi. Photograph: Rogelio...
photo: AP / David Goldman
President Barack Obama addresses the Families USA 16th Annual Health Action Conference, in Washington, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Families USA is an consumer advocacy health care organization. At left is Families USA Executive Director Ron Pollack.
KEN THOMAS Associated Press= PRINCE GEORGE, Va. (AP) — President Barack Obama on Friday praised another month of added jobs as a sign the economy is building strength in this election year. But with millions still looking for work, Obama warned of...
photo: AP / J. Scott Applewhite

AJE Exclusive: Pakistan Taliban leader plays waiting game; updated 21 Feb 2012; published 02 Jan 2012
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AJE Exclusive: Pakistan Taliban leader plays waiting game
National Public Radio 10 Mar 2012, KALPANI BASE, Pakistan (AP) — The wind was howling and the snow outside their bullet-pocked bunker lay knee-deep as the men of the 20th Lancer armored regiment bedded down for the night, nearly 2,500 meters (8,000 feet) up a mountain on one of the world's most inhospitable borders. They cheered themselves up by singing songs. Their commander gazed...

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Raw Video: Riot Police Disperse Putin Protesters; updated 07 Mar 2012; published 06 Mar 2012
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Raw Video: Riot Police Disperse Putin Protesters
Novosti 10 Mar 2012, MOSCOW, March 10 (RIA Novosti) – Thousands of opponents of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin demonstrated in central Moscow on Saturday in protest at recent presidential elections won by the Russian leader which they claim were unfair. Organizers of the rally, held under the banner “For Fair Elections” used in other mass opposition demonstrations...

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Detainee Provision: Martial Law v. Exec Power; updated 27 Jan 2012; published 29 Nov 2011
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Detainee Provision: Martial Law v. Exec Power
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 10 Mar 2012, KABUL -- U.S. officials have agreed to gradually transfer control of most of their detainees here to the Afghan government over the next six months, U.S. and Afghan officials announced Friday, possibly eliminating an irritant in Washington's strained relationship with Kabul as the U.S. military mission starts winding down. The step appeared to...

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Annan warns against use of force in Syria; updated 10 Mar 2012; published 09 Mar 2012
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Annan warns against use of force in Syria
Khaleej Times 10 Mar 2012, BEIRUT - UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan meets President Bashar Al Assad on Saturday to press for a political solution to Syria's year-long uprising and bloody crackdown in which thousands of people have been killed. Annan's talks in Damascus come a day after activists said Assad's forces killed at least 68 people as they sought to extend control...

Slovaks to ditch scandal-hit centre-right, say polls; updated 09 Mar 2012; published 09 Mar 2012
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Slovaks to ditch scandal-hit centre-right, say polls
France24 10 Mar 2012, AFP - Slovaks vote in an early general election Saturday, with the left-wing party of ex-premier Robert Fico eyeing victory as a corruption scandal has right-wing rivals fighting for political survival. Opinion polls showed Fico's Smer social democrats poised for power in the wake of the so-called "Gorilla" corruption scandal, which has syphoned...

Protests in Greece as cabinet does debt deal; updated 24 Feb 2012; published 11 Feb 2012
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Protests in Greece as cabinet does debt deal
The Daily Telegraph Australia 09 Mar 2012, PRIVATE investor acceptance of a Greek debt swap is a historic chance to stabilise Greece officials said, but analysts warned that this is not the end of the Greek drama. The head of Eurogroup eurozone finance ministers Jean-Claude Juncker said the "elements were now in place" to proceed with final approval for a second bailout for...

Iran's Election Ayatollah Khamenei Orders Probe, Protests Spark for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Mir Hossein Mousavi ABC News; updated 04 Feb 2012; published 15 Jun 2009
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Iran's Election Ayatollah Khamenei Orders Probe, Protests Spark for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Mir Hossein Mousavi ABC News
Gulf News 09 Mar 2012, It was not Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s finest hour. For years he was described as the protege of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, but now the 56-year-old president has been cast out by Iran’s most powerful man. Most of his supporters running for the country’s legislative elections have been trounced. They were defeated by...

Greece avoids default, but for how long?; updated 09 Mar 2012; published 09 Mar 2012
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Greece avoids default, but for how long?
Irish Times 09 Mar 2012, Greece has successfully closed a bond swap offer aimed at reducing its colossal debt pile and averting a chaotic default that would pitch the euro zone into a fresh crisis. Officials said take-up had clearly surpassed the minimum threshold required for the deal to go through, despite early fears that it could fall apart and derail a broader rescue...

Ken O'Keefe on what the NDAA will do to America; updated 09 Mar 2012; published 06 Mar 2012
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Ken O'Keefe on what the NDAA will do to America
WorldNews.com 09 Mar 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. "There was no evidence that any of us was acting as an agent of a foreign power. What we were doing was carrying out our responsibility as citizens of the United States, expressing our opinions and doing everything within the law to make this a better country. If we think our country is doing...

Hostages killed during SBS rescue attempt in Nigeria; updated 09 Mar 2012; published 09 Mar 2012
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Hostages killed during SBS rescue attempt in Nigeria
Joy Online 09 Mar 2012, A Briton and an Italian abducted in Nigeria last year have died in a rescue bid by UK and Nigerian forces, Prime Minister David Cameron has announced. He said it appeared Chris McManus - from north-west England - and Franco Lamolinara had been "murdered by their captors before they could be rescued". The BBC's Gordon Corera said UK troops "were...

Devastating Joplin, Missouri EF-5 Tornado - May 22, 2011; updated 09 Mar 2012; published 23 May 2011
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Devastating Joplin, Missouri EF-5 Tornado - May 22, 2011
IMDb 09 Mar 2012, Funnyman David Spade has donated $100,000 (£62,500) to help the survivors of a string of tornadoes which struck America's Midwest and southern states last week (ends04Mar12). Missouri and Illinois were among the areas hit when the storm struck, and 39 people are reported to have lost their lives. The American Red Cross is spearheading the...

Drought Crisis In Africa; updated 09 Mar 2012; published 09 Mar 2012
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Drought Crisis In Africa
Huffington Post 09 Mar 2012, Aid agency Oxfam launches $37m emergency appeal to help 1 million of the most vulnerable in West and Central Africa Some 13 million people are at severe risk from a food crisis which is set to escalate into a full scale humanitarian emergency in the Sahel region of West and Central Africa if urgent action is not taken, international agency Oxfam...

Greek Finance Minister hails 'historic' debt deal; updated 09 Mar 2012; published 09 Mar 2012
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Greek Finance Minister hails 'historic' debt deal
The Independent 09 Mar 2012, Athens' latest €130bn (£109bn) rescue package hinges on a swap deal, under which Greece's private-sector creditors agree to exchange their existing bonds for those of much lower value, wiping €100bn off the nation's debt. The deal comes after months of negotiations with increasingly impatient European leaders, the toppling of socialist Prime...

Annan warns against use of force in Syria; updated 10 Mar 2012; published 09 Mar 2012
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Annan warns against use of force in Syria
Yahoo Daily News 08 Mar 2012, CAIRO/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Kofi Annan, the U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria, said on Thursday he would urge President Bashar al-Assad and his foes to stop fighting and seek a political solution, drawing angry rebukes from dissidents. "The killing has to stop and we need to find a way of putting in the appropriate reforms and moving forward," said...





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