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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.
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Investigate Lanka's human rights abuses, says Amnesty
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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

File - Celebration of the Kurdish people after results of the Kurdish elections in Sulaimaniya, northeast of Baghdad, Iraq.
photo: WN / Jamal Penjweny
The Kurdish Quiet Spring
read more Real Clear Politics
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... Pin It

Kofi Annan (right), Joint Special Envoy of the United Nations and the League of Arab States on the Syrian Crisis, meets with Bashar Ja’afari, Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the UN, 1 March, 2012.
photo: UN / Luiz Rampelotto
Annan awaits Syria response on peace plan
read more Al Jazeera
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... Pin It

File - Marzuki Darusman, UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), attends a meeting of the General Assembly’s Third Committee on the promotion and protection of human rights.
photo: UN / Rick Bajornas
Scuffle after North Korea rejects UN rights report
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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... Pin It

President Barack Obama delivers a televised address from the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 22, 2011 on his plan to drawdown U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Pool
Obama calls Afghan killings tragic, troops to stay
read more The Guardian
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says the massacre of Afghan civilians, allegedly at the hands of a U.S. soldier, won't change U.S. strategy or plans for keeping troops in Afghanistan. Obama tells an Orlando, Florida, television station that the deaths early Sunday were tragic. In the interview with WFTV on Monday, Obama says the killings... Pin It

Syrian anti-government protesters shout slogans as they demonstrate following Friday prayers in the central city of Homs, Syria, Friday, April 22, 2011.
photo: AP
Massacre in Homs ups ante for intervention
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BEIRUT - Dozens of civilians were murdered in the strife-torn city of Homs, the Syrian government and opposition activists said on Monday, as diplomats in New York and elsewhere struggled to forge terms for a possible cease-fire. Each side in the Syrian conflict blamed the other for the latest carnage in Homs, which has suffered the highest number... Pin It

Palestinians gather around the bodies of Emad Faragallah (R) and Qassem Abu Attawa during their funeral in Nusairat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip March 20, 2011. The two Palestinians were killed by Israeli gunfire on Saturday near Gaza's border with Israel, medical officials said on Sunday after their bodies were recovered. The Israeli army said on Saturday that two militants were targeted after approaching a frontier area that Israel has put off-limits to Palestinians, citing attacks against border patrols. ( Photo By Ahmed Deeb/wn)
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb
Israel, Gaza militants agree to truce: Egypt official
read more Yahoo Daily News
GAZA (Reuters) - Israel and militant factions in the Gaza Strip have agreed to an Egyptian-brokered truce to end four days of cross-border violence in which 25 Palestinians have been killed, a senior Egyptian security official told Reuters on Tuesday. The official said in a telephone call from Cairo that both sides had "agreed to end the current... Pin It

Anar Gul, right, is interviewed as she sits next to the body of her grandchild allegedly killed by a U.S. service member in Panjwai, Kandahar province south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, March 11, 2012.
photo: AP / Allauddin Khan
‘They should go and leave us in peace’
read more Independent online (SA)
Kandahar - The massacre of 16 villagers by a United States soldier has triggered angry calls for an immediate American exit from Afghanistan as Washington tries to negotiate a long-term presence to keep the country from sliding into chaos again. Just days before Sunday's attack, Kabul and Washington had made significant progress in negotiations on... Pin It

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton addresses a Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters, Monday, March 12, 2012.
photo: AP / Richard Drew
US and Russia clash over Syria at UN
read more The Guardian
EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press= UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States and Russia clashed over Syria at the U.N. Monday after Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the divided Security Council to speak with one voice and help the Mideast nation "pull back from the brink of a deeper catastrophe." Washington and Moscow both called for an end to the... Pin It

File - A woman and her children are pictured on the outskirts of Fertait, a village in Jonglei, South Sudan, burned down during the recent escalation of ethnic clashes in this area, 7 January, 2012.
photo: UN / /Isaac Billy
Many Feared Dead In South Sudan
read more Graphic
Hundreds of people are feared to have been killed in the latest of a series of ethnic clashes and cattle raids in South Sudan's Jonglei state. State Law Enforcement Minister Gabriel Duop Lam told the BBC that at least 200 people had been injured. The BBC's James Copnall, in Khartoum, says the figure... Pin It


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A manually operated needle dam-type weir near Revin on the Meuse River, France
Continued inefficient use of water could threaten Europe's economy, productivity and ecosystems, a report has warned. The European Environment Agency (EEA) said that water resources were under pressure and things were getting worse. It said...
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Chairman of News Corporation Rupert Murdoch, left, and Chief executive of News International Rebekah Brooks leave his residence in central London, Sunday, July 10, 2011.
Former Sun editor held by Operation Weeting detectives on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice Fomer Sun and News of the World editor, was among six arrested today in Operation Weeting's phone-hacking investigation. Photograph:...
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This undated amateur video image posted on the internet and shown on Syrian state television shows a Syrian army soldier and a policeman lying on the ground apparently dead from gunshot wounds in Jisr al-Shughour, northern Syria.
More than 8,000 people have died since anti-government protests erupted in Syria a year ago, a UN official says. UN General Assembly President Nassir Abdulaziz al-Nasser said many women and children were among the victims. His comments come...
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President Barack Obama and Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron stand together on stage after a joint news conference at Lancaster House in London, Wednesday, May 25, 2011.
David Cameron and Barack Obama have described the "unique and essential" relationship between the US and UK ahead of a visit by the prime minister to Washington. In a joint article for the...
photo: AP / Carolyn Kaster
The Yahoo flag flies at Yahoo headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif., Monday, April 20, 2009.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc sued Facebook Inc over 10 patents that include methods and systems for advertising on the Web, opening the first major legal battle among big technology companies in social media. The lawsuit, filed in a San Jose,...
photo: AP / Paul Sakuma
President Barack Obama meets with senior advisors in the Oval Office, April 14, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)This official White House photograph is being made available only for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph. The photograph may not be manipulated in any way and may not be used in commercial or political materials, advertisements, emails, products, promotions that in any way suggests approval or endorsement of the President, the First Family, or the White House.
Barack Obama has warned against "a rush for the exits" in Afghanistan as questions mount about US war strategy after a soldier's shooting rampage killed 16 civilians. In a string of interviews on Monday to local television stations, the US...
photo: White House / Pete Souza
Airport police operate a checkpoint for vehicles entering Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, Saturday, Dec. 26, 2009.
A 22-year sentence was unreasonably lenient for Al Qaeda-trained terrorist Ahmed Ressam, who drove a trunk full of powerful explosives into the United States from Canada with the intent of bombing Los Angeles International Airport, a federal appeals...
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War crimes: Lanka hopes India will take a 'responsible' decison; updated 13 Mar 2012; published 13 Mar 2012
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War crimes: Lanka hopes India will take a 'responsible' decison
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,...

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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...

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New massacre claims as Annan's Syria talks end without progress; updated 13 Mar 2012; published 12 Mar 2012
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New massacre claims as Annan's Syria talks end without progress
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...

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Diplomats from North and South Korea throw punches at UN meeting; updated 13 Mar 2012; published 13 Mar 2012
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Diplomats from North and South Korea throw punches 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...

Senior Taliban Commander in Kandahar Killed; updated 03 May 2011; published 08 Jun 2010
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Senior Taliban Commander in Kandahar Killed
The Guardian 13 Mar 2012, WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says the massacre of Afghan civilians, allegedly at the hands of a U.S. soldier, won't change U.S. strategy or plans for keeping troops in Afghanistan. Obama tells an Orlando, Florida, television station that the deaths early Sunday were tragic. In the interview with WFTV on Monday, Obama says the killings...

International Push to End Syria Crisis Stalls; updated 13 Mar 2012; published 12 Mar 2012
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International Push to End Syria Crisis Stalls
Star Tribune 13 Mar 2012, BEIRUT - Dozens of civilians were murdered in the strife-torn city of Homs, the Syrian government and opposition activists said on Monday, as diplomats in New York and elsewhere struggled to forge terms for a possible cease-fire. Each side in the Syrian conflict blamed the other for the latest carnage in Homs, which has suffered the highest number...

Israeli-Palestinian attacks continue; updated 13 Mar 2012; published 12 Mar 2012
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Israeli-Palestinian attacks continue
Yahoo Daily News 13 Mar 2012, GAZA (Reuters) - Israel and militant factions in the Gaza Strip have agreed to an Egyptian-brokered truce to end four days of cross-border violence in which 25 Palestinians have been killed, a senior Egyptian security official told Reuters on Tuesday. The official said in a telephone call from Cairo that both sides had "agreed to end the current...

US soldier kills Afghan civilians in Kandahar; updated 13 Mar 2012; published 11 Mar 2012
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US soldier kills Afghan civilians in Kandahar
Independent online (SA) 12 Mar 2012, Kandahar - The massacre of 16 villagers by a United States soldier has triggered angry calls for an immediate American exit from Afghanistan as Washington tries to negotiate a long-term presence to keep the country from sliding into chaos again. Just days before Sunday's attack, Kabul and Washington had made significant progress in negotiations on...

Clinton: UN Action to End Violence in Syria; updated 09 Mar 2012; published 01 Feb 2012
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Clinton: UN Action to End Violence in Syria
The Guardian 12 Mar 2012, EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press= UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States and Russia clashed over Syria at the U.N. Monday after Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the divided Security Council to speak with one voice and help the Mideast nation "pull back from the brink of a deeper catastrophe." Washington and Moscow both called for an end to the...

South Sudan struggles to help ethnic violence victims; updated 09 Feb 2012; published 08 Feb 2012
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South Sudan struggles to help ethnic violence victims
Graphic 12 Mar 2012, Hundreds of people are feared to have been killed in the latest of a series of ethnic clashes and cattle raids in South Sudan's Jonglei state. State Law Enforcement Minister Gabriel Duop Lam told the BBC that at least 200 people had been injured. The BBC's James Copnall, in Khartoum, says the figure...

Attack on Iran? 'Doubts Israel capable of launching war'; updated 13 Mar 2012; published 11 Mar 2012
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Attack on Iran? 'Doubts Israel capable of launching war'
The Siasat Daily 12 Mar 2012, March 12: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has launched a fresh tirade against the West, saying the Islamic Republic does not fear military action, Iranian media reported on Sunday. “The Iranian nation doesn’t fear your bombs and warships and planes. Such weapons are worth nothing,” the Fars News Agency quoted him as saying on a visit to the...

US soldier kills Afghan civilians in Kandahar; updated 13 Mar 2012; published 11 Mar 2012
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US soldier kills Afghan civilians in Kandahar
Zeenews 12 Mar 2012, Kandahar: US officials warned on Monday of possible reprisal attacks after 16 Afghan villagers, mostly children and women, were killed in a likely "rogue" shooting by a US soldier that weakens the West's tenuous grip on a decade-old war. Washington has rushed to distance the shootings, blamed on a lone US soldier, from the efforts of the...

FuNnY Bomb Blast In Pakistan Must WAtch____.mp4; updated 13 Mar 2012; published 13 Mar 2012
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FuNnY Bomb Blast In Pakistan Must WAtch____.mp4
The Times of India 12 Mar 2012, SHARE AND DISCUSSTweet PESHAWAR: A suicide bomber attacked a funeral attended by an anti-Taliban politician in northwest...

Chavez returns; updated 21 Jul 2011; published 06 Jul 2011
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Chavez returns
Gulf News 11 Mar 2012, Caracas: Thousands of supporters of Venezuela President Hugo Chavez held demonstrations across the country Saturday to show support for their leader while he recovers from cancer surgery in Cuba. Demonstrators danced, beat drums and waved flags as they marched through the Venezuelan capital. Crowds of Chavez supporters also held simultaneous...





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