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Rescuers and police work amid the wreckage of a tourist bus from Belgium at the accident site in a tunnel of the A9 highway near Sierre, western Switzerland, early Wednesday, March 14, 2012.
photo: AP / KANTONSPOLIZEI WALLIS/POLICE OF VALAIS, Handout
Belgium plans national day of mourning after coach crash kills 28, including 22 schoolchildren
read more The Independent
A further 24 children were hospitalised after the head-on collision, which took place shortly after 9pm last night on the A9 highway near the town of Sierre, not far from the Swiss border with Italy. Police said the bus was carrying 52 people, mostly 11 and 12-year-old students from two different Belgian schools returning to the towns of Heverlee... Pin It

Rescuers recover bodies of victims of a ferry that capsized in the Meghna River in Munshiganj district, about 32 kilometers (20 miles) south of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Wednesday, March 14, 2012.
photo: AP / Pavel Rahman
Death toll reaches 112 in Bangladesh ferry sinking
read more Denver Post
DHAKA, BangladeshRescue workers found more bodies Wednesday inside the salvaged wreckage of a Bangladesh ferry that capsized with about 200 people on board, bringing the death toll to 112.... Pin It

Alleged Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga, right, enters the courtroom of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, in this photo made available by the International Criminal Court, Monday, Jan. 26, 2009. Lubanga pleaded not guilty to recruiting child soldiers and sending them to fight and die in ethnic battles as the International Criminal Court began its historic first trial. The trial of Thomas Lubanga has been hailed as a legal landmark by human rights activists because it is the first international criminal prosecution to focus solely on child soldiers.
photo: AP / ICC-CPI/Michael Kooren
Congo warlord convicted of using child soliders
read more The Wichita Eagle
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Judges have convicted a Congolese warlord of snatching children from the street and turning them into killers. The ruling is the International Criminal Court's first judgment 10 years after it was established as the world's first permanent war crimes tribunal. Thomas Lubanga did not react as Presiding Judge Adrian... Pin It

An Afghan child watches a security checkpoint, unseen, following Sunday's killing of civilians by a U.S. soldier in Kandahar province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, March 12, 2012.
photo: AP / Allauddin Khan
'Act of Valor' or More Naziwood? (Part Two)
read more WorldNews.com
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling The young American soldier that just went on a shooting spree, killing 16 civilians, including nine children, had for most of his life carried "pictures-" and hostile "images in his head"(1) of Afghanis. He too had been defined and shaped by the hegemonic values and principles of Naziwood (See Part One... Pin It

Rescuers and police work amid the wreckage of a tourist bus from Belgium at the accident site in a tunnel of the A9 highway near Sierre, western Switzerland, early Wednesday, March 14, 2012.
photo: AP / KANTONSPOLIZEI WALLIS/POLICE OF VALAIS, Handout
Switzerland Bus Crash Claims 28 Lives, Including 22 Children
read more Huffington Post
GENEVA -- A bus carrying Belgian students returning from a ski holiday crashed into a wall in a Swiss tunnel, killing 22 Belgian 12-year-olds and six adults, police said Wednesday. Another 24 students were hospitalized with injuries, Valais cantonal (state) police spokesman Jean-Marie Bornet told The Associated Press. The bus carrying 52 people,... Pin It

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao speaks to reporters at a press conference after the closing ceremony of the National People's Congress in Beijing's Great Hall of the People Tuesday, March 18, 2008. The annual session of China's ceremonial parliament was drawing to a close Tuesday, overshadowed by deadly anti-government protests in
photo: AP / Robert F. Bukaty
China's Wen Jiabao calls for 'urgent' political reform
read more The Daily Telegraph
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has said political reform in the country is "urgent", warning that a tragedy like the turbulent Cultural Revolution could happen again without it. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao Photo: LIU JIN/AFP/Getty Images 6:30AM GMT 14 Mar 2012 "We must press ahead with both economic structural reform and political structural... Pin It

In this Sunday, March 11, 2012 file photo, Free Syrian Army fighters celebrate after hearing that their comrades destroyed a Syrian Army tank in Idlib, north Syria.
photo: AP / Rodrigo Abd
Assad replies to UN proposals to end bloodshed
read more Khaleej Times
DAMASCUS ' Syrian President Bashar Al Assad responded to UN-Arab League proposals to end the bloodshed in his country, as monitors said nearly 50 more people were killed and a pro-regime daily reported the capture of a rebel city. The move came as rights group Amnesty International on Wednesday alleged detainees in Syria's year-old crackdown on... Pin It

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Christian Aleman, from Miami, assigned to 1st Platoon, Alpha Battery, 2nd Battalion, 377th Parachute Field Artillery Regiment, Task Force Steel, provides security on the Khowst Prevention Headquarters in Khowst City, March 5, 2012.
photo: US Army
Bring Home the Troops Now
read more truthout
Washington - It was clear before Sunday's horrific massacre of civilians that it's past time for the U.S. mission in Afghanistan to end. Now the only question should be how quickly we can get our troops onto transport planes to fly them home. What are we accomplishing, aside from enraging the Afghan population we're allegedly trying to... Pin It

Chinese miners watch on TV Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, deliver a speech at the opening ceremony of the National People's Congress (NPC), at the Daihe Mining Company in Huaibei in central China's Anhui province on Monday, March 5, 2012.
photo: AP
Obama denounces China on rare earth metals
read more Canberra Times
US President Barack Obama Tuesday accused China of breaking global trade rules by restricting exports of rare earth elements used in an array of hi-tech products from iPods to wind turbines. "If China would simply let the market work on its own we would have no objections, but their policies currently are preventing that from happening and they go... Pin It

File - Internally Displaced Persons wait for the arrival of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the Manik Farm Camp, Vavunyia, Sri Lanka, 23 May, 2009.
photo: UN
Investigate Lanka's human rights abuses, says Amnesty
read more DNA India
Ahead of a crucial vote in the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva seeking to censure Sri Lanka on alleged war-time human rights violations, Amnesty International raised the pitch, saying the world body must support an independent international investigation. In a 63-page report titled,... Pin It


Thirty years ago, it was widely thought that the perfect solution to unemployment and poverty...
The sound of Israeli jets and the rumble of explosions were heard again in Gaza on Monday....

India Tibetans Supporters Join the resistance : Tens of Thousands take to the streets for 10 March Tibetan Uprising Day at Kolkata on saturday 10 March 2012
Several hundred Tibetans have protested against Chinese rule in the western province of Qinghai after a monk there set himself alight, rights groups say. The Tibetan monk set fire to...
photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick
Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, left, and U.S. President Barack Obama, right, shake hands during their bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Toronto, Saturday, June 26, 2010.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron presented a unified front on Wednesday to ratchet up pressure on Iran and Syria and stay the course in Afghanistan even as they papered over differences on...
photo: AP / Lefteris Pitarakis
Picture provided by German governmental press office shows German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, talking as they are on their way to a working dinner during the EU summit Brussels Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011.
PARIS (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel will not appear at French President Nicolas Sarkozy's election rallies, but the two are set to meet before the April-May French presidential election, Sarkozy said on Wednesday. Merkel's Christian...
photo: AP / Bundesregierung, Guido Bergmann, Pool
The Netherlands, The Hague, 20-03-2006 First Appearance before the Pre-Trial Chamber I of Mr Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, Democratic Republic of Congo
The International Criminal court is about to deliver its first verdict, almost a decade after its launched. On Wednesday, the court will pass judgement on the Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga. Detained six years ago, he faces two charges of...
photo: ICC-CPI / Hans Hordijk
These rare-earth oxides are used as tracers to determine which parts of a watershed are eroding. Clockwise from top center: praseodymium, cerium, lanthanum, neodymium, samarium, and gadolinium.
The United States, the European Union and Japan filed complaints Tuesday with the World Trade Organization charging that China is limiting its export of rare earths, minerals that are vital to the production of technology components. China has a...
photo: Public Domain / Peggy Greb, US department of agriculture.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left, gestures to the crowds, with Hezbollah's commander in south Lebanon Sheik Nabil Kaouk, at right, during a rally organized by Hezbollah in the southern border town of Bint Jbeil, Lebanon, on Thursday Oct. 14, 2010
Hizballah's response to military action against Iran could be shaped by rational cost-benefit analysis, a perceived spiritual obligation to defend its Shiite patron in Tehran, or both. The potential consequences of an American or Israeli preemptive...
photo: AP / Hussein Malla
Displaced persons from the civil war on Sri Lanka.
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Tuesday stressed the need for a “credible and independent investigation” into the allegations of human rights violations and killings during the last phase of the war in Sri Lanka...
photo: Creative Commons / trokilinochchi

28 Belgians killed in Swiss coach crash; updated 14 Mar 2012; published 14 Mar 2012
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28 Belgians killed in Swiss coach crash
The Independent 14 Mar 2012, A further 24 children were hospitalised after the head-on collision, which took place shortly after 9pm last night on the A9 highway near the town of Sierre, not far from the Swiss border with Italy. Police said the bus was carrying 52 people, mostly 11 and 12-year-old students from two different Belgian schools returning to the towns of Heverlee...

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Death toll in Bangladesh ferry sinking rises to 66; updated 14 Mar 2012; published 14 Mar 2012
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Death toll in Bangladesh ferry sinking rises to 66
Denver Post 14 Mar 2012, DHAKA, BangladeshRescue workers found more bodies Wednesday inside the salvaged wreckage of a Bangladesh ferry that capsized with about 200 people on board, bringing the death toll to 112....

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Thomas Lubanga becomes ICC's first convict; updated 14 Mar 2012; published 14 Mar 2012
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Thomas Lubanga becomes ICC's first convict
The Wichita Eagle 14 Mar 2012, THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Judges have convicted a Congolese warlord of snatching children from the street and turning them into killers. The ruling is the International Criminal Court's first judgment 10 years after it was established as the world's first permanent war crimes tribunal. Thomas Lubanga did not react as Presiding Judge Adrian...

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Afghan analyst on US soldier's shooting spree; updated 14 Mar 2012; published 11 Mar 2012
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Afghan analyst on US soldier's shooting spree
WorldNews.com 14 Mar 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling The young American soldier that just went on a shooting spree, killing 16 civilians, including nine children, had for most of his life carried "pictures-" and hostile "images in his head"(1) of Afghanis. He too had been defined and shaped by the hegemonic values and principles of Naziwood (See Part One...

Video: Shocking Swiss bus crash kills 28, most children; updated 14 Mar 2012; published 14 Mar 2012
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Video: Shocking Swiss bus crash kills 28, most children
Huffington Post 14 Mar 2012, GENEVA -- A bus carrying Belgian students returning from a ski holiday crashed into a wall in a Swiss tunnel, killing 22 Belgian 12-year-olds and six adults, police said Wednesday. Another 24 students were hospitalized with injuries, Valais cantonal (state) police spokesman Jean-Marie Bornet told The Associated Press. The bus carrying 52 people,...

China premier calls for political reforms; updated 14 Mar 2012; published 14 Mar 2012
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China premier calls for political reforms
The Daily Telegraph 14 Mar 2012, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has said political reform in the country is "urgent", warning that a tragedy like the turbulent Cultural Revolution could happen again without it. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao Photo: LIU JIN/AFP/Getty Images 6:30AM GMT 14 Mar 2012 "We must press ahead with both economic structural reform and political structural...

Assad's licence to kill? Syria interview with Jan Egeland; updated 14 Mar 2012; published 13 Mar 2012
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Assad's licence to kill? Syria interview with Jan Egeland
Khaleej Times 14 Mar 2012, DAMASCUS ' Syrian President Bashar Al Assad responded to UN-Arab League proposals to end the bloodshed in his country, as monitors said nearly 50 more people were killed and a pro-regime daily reported the capture of a rebel city. The move came as rights group Amnesty International on Wednesday alleged detainees in Syria's year-old crackdown on...

US soldier kills Afghan civilians in Kandahar; updated 14 Mar 2012; published 11 Mar 2012
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US soldier kills Afghan civilians in Kandahar
truthout 13 Mar 2012, Washington - It was clear before Sunday's horrific massacre of civilians that it's past time for the U.S. mission in Afghanistan to end. Now the only question should be how quickly we can get our troops onto transport planes to fly them home. What are we accomplishing, aside from enraging the Afghan population we're allegedly trying to...

President Obama Speaks on Enforcing Trade Rights with China; updated 14 Mar 2012; published 13 Mar 2012
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President Obama Speaks on Enforcing Trade Rights with China
Canberra Times 13 Mar 2012, US President Barack Obama Tuesday accused China of breaking global trade rules by restricting exports of rare earth elements used in an array of hi-tech products from iPods to wind turbines. "If China would simply let the market work on its own we would have no objections, but their policies currently are preventing that from happening and they go...

Sri Lankan war crimes: Govt to explain its stand today; updated 14 Mar 2012; published 14 Mar 2012
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Sri Lankan war crimes: Govt to explain its stand today
DNA India 13 Mar 2012, Ahead of a crucial vote in the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva seeking to censure Sri Lanka on alleged war-time human rights violations, Amnesty International raised the pitch, saying the world body must support an independent international investigation. In a 63-page report titled,...

Power of Kentucky tornado caught on tape; updated 14 Mar 2012; published 05 Mar 2012
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Power of Kentucky tornado caught on tape
Lexington Herald-Leader 13 Mar 2012, An insurance company plans to make an initial $5 million payment Tuesday to cover losses to Kentucky school systems from recent severe weather, including the deadly March 2 tornadoes. Of that, the Magoffin...

Middle East Monitor - Oct. 28, 2011 - NATO, Tunisia, Arab Spring; updated 28 Oct 2011; published 28 Oct 2011
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Middle East Monitor - Oct. 28, 2011 - NATO, Tunisia, Arab Spring
Real Clear Politics 13 Mar 2012, With the tectonic changes taking place in the heart of the Middle East little attention is given to developments in the periphery, one of the most important of which is the quiet revolution taking place in Greater Kurdistan, namely among the Kurds of Iraq, Turkey, Iran and Syria. The best illustration of the new Kurdish dynamism was the congress...

Annan optimistic after talks with Syria's Assad; updated 12 Mar 2012; published 11 Mar 2012
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Annan optimistic after talks with Syria's Assad
Al Jazeera 13 Mar 2012, Kofi Annan, the UN-Arab League envoy to Syria, says he expects a response from Damascus on "concrete proposals" he put forward during his recent visit to the country, as government forces continued a military assault in the northern province of Idlib. The former UN chief was speaking from the Turkish capital Ankara on Tuesday, where he...

Punches thrown at UN meeting; updated 14 Mar 2012; published 13 Mar 2012
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Punches thrown at UN meeting
BBC News 13 Mar 2012, A scuffle has broken out at the United Nations after a North Korean envoy rejected a report critical of the country's human rights. Pyongyang said the report by special rapporteur on human rights Marzuki Darusman was "fabricated by hostile elements". As the North Korean delegate So Se-pyong left the meeting of about 500 delegates, a...





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