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Civilians cheer as mutinous soldiers drive past in Bamako, Mali Wednesday March 21, 2012.
photo: AP / Harouna Traore
Mali Cries Out
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Yesterday, during the visit of the Malian Defense Minister to a local military base, shots rang out. No one was killed and no one was hurt; the shots, aimed at the sky, weren't malicious. They were cries for help. Early this morning Lt. Amadou Konare representing the newly formed National Committee for the Restoration of Democracy came on national... Pin It

U.S. Park Police push Occupy DC demonstrators across a section of McPherson Square in Washington, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012.
photo: AP / Cliff Owen
The myth of freedom in the land of the free
read more Al Jazeera
In 1893, a massive financial panic sent demand for the Pullman Palace Car Company into a downward spiral. The luxury rail car company reacted by slashing workers' wages and increasing their work load. After negotiations with ownership broke down the following year, the American Railway Union, in solidarity with Pullman factory workers, launched a... Pin It

French special intervention police officers of Research Assistance Intervention Dissuasion unit, RAID, are seen near a building where the chief suspect in an al-Qaida-linked killing spree is holed up in an apartment in Toulouse, France Thursday March 22, 2012.
photo: AP / Remy de la Mauviniere
French gunman jumps to his death in hail of bullets
read more The Star
TOULOUSE, France (Reuters) - A 23-year-old gunman suspected of killing seven people in southwestern France in the name of al Qaeda, jumped from a window to his death in a hail of bullets after police stormed his apartment on Thursday. An undated and non-datelined frame grab from a video broadcast March 21, 2012 by French national television station... Pin It

Police officers carry unidentified containers next to the building in Toulouse, France, Wednesday March 21, 2012 where a suspect in the shooting at the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school has been spotted.
photo: AP / Bob Edme
France's blood-spattered election campaign
read more CBC
The trail of death began with a stolen scooter and the murder of a French soldier of North African origin near Toulouse, in the south of France. Ten days later a man on a scooter shot three more soldiers, paratroopers, two of them of North African origin, the third a black man from the French Caribbean. Two of the men died; one is in a coma. Four... Pin It

A soldier participating in a mutiny stands near civilians and burning tires lit in support of the mutiny, in Bamako, Mali Wednesday March 21, 2012.
photo: AP / Harouna Traore
Soldiers overthrow government in Mali
read more Indian Express
Soldiers stormed state television and announced early Thursday that they had seized control of the country, dissolving all of its institutions due to the nation's mishandling of an insurgency in the north. On national television, a group of about 20 soldiers were shown in fatigues crowding around a desk facing the camera.... Pin It

This undated and unlocated frame grab provided Wednesday, March 21, 2012, by French TV station France 2 shows Mohammad Merah, the suspect in the killing of 3 paratroopers, 3 children and a rabbi in recent days in France.
photo: AP / France 2
Blasts heard as French gunman siege enters second day
read more Deccan Chronicle
French police tried to flush out a 24-year-old gunman suspected of killing seven people in the name of al Qaeda, with explosions and gunfire heard outside his apartment on the second day of a siege in the southern French city of Toulouse. In a drama gripping France five weeks before a presidential election, some 300 police have laid siege since... Pin It

A wide view of the Security Council during a briefing by the Chair of the Council’s Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006), which deals with sanctions imposed on Iran.
photo: UN / Evan Schneider
Iran accused at UN of shipping weapons to Syria
read more Otago Daily Times
The United States and Britain have accused Iran at the United Nations of shipping weapons to Syria that are being used by the Syrian government against their own people. US, British and French diplomats voiced alarm over reports from governments that Iran has been violating UN sanctions and is illegally supplying weapons to Syrian President Bashar... Pin It

Syrian army soldiers look through a hole in a building as they search for Syrian rebels in a suburb of Damascus, Syria, on Tuesday, March 20, 2012.
photo: AP
UN chief: Syria unrest could have global impact
read more Seattle Times
BEIRUT - The "extremely dangerous" conflict in Syria could have global repercussions, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday as fresh violence erupted and an al-Qaida-inspired group claimed responsibility for two recent suicide bombings in the capital. The uprising that began a year ago has transformed into an armed insurgency that is... Pin It

An Israeli soldier directs an army vehicle at a gathering area near the border with the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel,Tuesday, March 13, 2012.
photo: AP / Ariel Schalit
Preparing Israel for war
read more Al Jazeera
- In response to the recent assassination of Zuhair al-Qaisi, the Secretary General of the Popular Resistance Committees in the Gaza Strip, along with another fighter, Palestinians fired rockets at southern Israel and the Israeli military launched air strikes at targets throughout the Strip. Within hours, the media fanfare began. Israeli news... Pin It

File - Iranian Jewish men recite a part of the Torah during Hanukkah celebrations at the Yousefabad Synagogue, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011.
photo: AP / Vahid Salemi
Can Haskalah Help Secure Israel and Judaism?
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling "When I find the road narrow, and can see no other way of teaching a well-established truth except by pleasing one intelligent man and displeasing ten thousand fools-I prefer to address myself to the one man." -Moses Maimonides, Jewish religious philosopher. Another burning bush burned bright during... Pin It


This photo taken Nov. 18, 2011 and released by Rio de Janeiro's government, shows an aerial view of a boat crossing an area of an oil spill in an offshore field operated by Chevron at the Bacia de Campos, in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil.
Seventeen Chevron and Transocean executives were formally charged with environmental crimes in an oil leak off Rio de Janeiro's coast amid prosecutor calls for damage payments and prison sentences. The companies applied excessive pressure when...
photo: AP / Rio de Janeiro's government,Rogerio Santana
Laborers carry coal to load onto a truck in Gauhati, India, Tuesday, May 29, 2007.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India lost up to $210 billion in revenue by selling coal deposits too cheaply, according to a government auditor's draft report, renewing pressure on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is already reeling from corruption...
photo: AP / Anupam Nath
Lava-flooded craters and large expanses of smooth volcanic plains on Mercury. On July 3, 2008, MESSENGER team member Thomas Zurbuchen announced that the probe discovered large amounts of water present in Mercury's exosphere, which was an unexpected finding
A Nasa spacecraft has found further tantalising evidence for the existence of water ice at Mercury's poles. Though temperatures here can soar above 400C, some craters at Mercury's poles are permanently in shadow, making them cold enough for...
photo: NASA / NASA / JHU/APL
Natural Disasters and Their After-Effects on Poverty
Earlier this month, the United States again witnessed the havoc natural disasters cause, including the devastation of lives and homes ripped to pieces by the recent tornadoes that have pummeled the middle of our country. But what we haven't seen are...
photo: DOD / Public Domain
France's President Nicolas Sarkozy delivers a speech at the end of a meeting on national debate about dependent people in Paris, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has told France not give in to a desire for revenge after the shootings of a rabbi, three children, and three soldiers of North African origin. 560 315 TelegraphPlayer_9157986...
photo: AP / Philippe Wojazer, Pool
Rosewood leaves the park by being floated downstream to waiting trucks. In 2005, illegal logging of rosewood was reported to have occurred more than 20 times.
Illegal logging generates $10-15bn (£7.5-11bn) around the world, according to new analysis from the World Bank. Its report, Justice for Forests, says that most illegal logging operations are run by organised crime, and much of the profit goes to...
photo: Creative Commons / Erik Patel
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney waves to supporters during his victory celebration after winning the Florida primary election Tuesday Jan. 31, 2012, in Tampa, Fla.
CHICAGO — Mitt Romney won the Illinois Republican primary Tuesday, according to exit polls and early results, using the full force of his campaign and an argument that he has the best chance of defeating President Barack Obama to overcome...
photo: AP / Gerald Herbert

Mali troops stage coup; updated 22 Mar 2012; published 22 Mar 2012
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Mali troops stage coup
Huffington Post 22 Mar 2012, Yesterday, during the visit of the Malian Defense Minister to a local military base, shots rang out. No one was killed and no one was hurt; the shots, aimed at the sky, weren't malicious. They were cries for help. Early this morning Lt. Amadou Konare representing the newly formed National Committee for the Restoration of Democracy came on national...

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Outlaw Occupy: US set to strangle protests with jail threats; updated 22 Mar 2012; published 19 Mar 2012
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Outlaw Occupy: US set to strangle protests with jail threats
Al Jazeera 22 Mar 2012, In 1893, a massive financial panic sent demand for the Pullman Palace Car Company into a downward spiral. The luxury rail car company reacted by slashing workers' wages and increasing their work load. After negotiations with ownership broke down the following year, the American Railway Union, in solidarity with Pullman factory workers, launched a...

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BBC News™ - France shooting - Toulouse Jewish school attack kills four Ⓒ2012 #yoursayday; updated 22 Mar 2012; published 19 Mar 2012
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BBC News™ - France shooting - Toulouse Jewish school attack kills four Ⓒ2012 #yoursayday
The Star 22 Mar 2012, TOULOUSE, France (Reuters) - A 23-year-old gunman suspected of killing seven people in southwestern France in the name of al Qaeda, jumped from a window to his death in a hail of bullets after police stormed his apartment on Thursday. An undated and non-datelined frame grab from a video broadcast March 21, 2012 by French national television station...

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BBC News™ - France shooting - Toulouse Jewish school attack kills four Ⓒ2012 #yoursayday; updated 22 Mar 2012; published 19 Mar 2012
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BBC News™ - France shooting - Toulouse Jewish school attack kills four Ⓒ2012 #yoursayday
CBC 22 Mar 2012, The trail of death began with a stolen scooter and the murder of a French soldier of North African origin near Toulouse, in the south of France. Ten days later a man on a scooter shot three more soldiers, paratroopers, two of them of North African origin, the third a black man from the French Caribbean. Two of the men died; one is in a coma. Four...

Mali soldiers say president toppled in coup; updated 22 Mar 2012; published 22 Mar 2012
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Mali soldiers say president toppled in coup
Indian Express 22 Mar 2012, Soldiers stormed state television and announced early Thursday that they had seized control of the country, dissolving all of its institutions due to the nation's mishandling of an insurgency in the north. On national television, a group of about 20 soldiers were shown in fatigues crowding around a desk facing the camera....

BBC News™ - France shooting - Toulouse Jewish school attack kills four Ⓒ2012 #yoursayday; updated 22 Mar 2012; published 19 Mar 2012
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BBC News™ - France shooting - Toulouse Jewish school attack kills four Ⓒ2012 #yoursayday
Deccan Chronicle 22 Mar 2012, French police tried to flush out a 24-year-old gunman suspected of killing seven people in the name of al Qaeda, with explosions and gunfire heard outside his apartment on the second day of a siege in the southern French city of Toulouse. In a drama gripping France five weeks before a presidential election, some 300 police have laid siege since...

GGN: US's False Flag Ship Heads to Iran, Israel/ US House MEK Terrorist, Israeli Weapons in Syria; updated 14 Mar 2012; published 13 Mar 2012
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GGN: US's False Flag Ship Heads to Iran, Israel/ US House MEK Terrorist, Israeli Weapons in Syria
Otago Daily Times 21 Mar 2012, The United States and Britain have accused Iran at the United Nations of shipping weapons to Syria that are being used by the Syrian government against their own people. US, British and French diplomats voiced alarm over reports from governments that Iran has been violating UN sanctions and is illegally supplying weapons to Syrian President Bashar...

Clinton calls UN move on Syria a 'positive step'.; updated 22 Mar 2012; published 21 Mar 2012
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Clinton calls UN move on Syria a 'positive step'.
Seattle Times 21 Mar 2012, BEIRUT - The "extremely dangerous" conflict in Syria could have global repercussions, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday as fresh violence erupted and an al-Qaida-inspired group claimed responsibility for two recent suicide bombings in the capital. The uprising that began a year ago has transformed into an armed insurgency that is...

We Love You - Iran & Israel; updated 22 Mar 2012; published 18 Mar 2012
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We Love You - Iran & Israel
Al Jazeera 21 Mar 2012, - In response to the recent assassination of Zuhair al-Qaisi, the Secretary General of the Popular Resistance Committees in the Gaza Strip, along with another fighter, Palestinians fired rockets at southern Israel and the Israeli military launched air strikes at targets throughout the Strip. Within hours, the media fanfare began. Israeli news...

Tal Becker: Is the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process Over?; updated 19 Mar 2012; published 18 Mar 2012
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Tal Becker: Is the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process Over?
WorldNews.com 21 Mar 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling "When I find the road narrow, and can see no other way of teaching a well-established truth except by pleasing one intelligent man and displeasing ten thousand fools-I prefer to address myself to the one man." -Moses Maimonides, Jewish religious philosopher. Another burning bush burned bright during...

BBC News™ - France shooting - Toulouse Jewish school attack kills four Ⓒ2012 #yoursayday; updated 22 Mar 2012; published 19 Mar 2012
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BBC News™ - France shooting - Toulouse Jewish school attack kills four Ⓒ2012 #yoursayday
The Star 21 Mar 2012, TOULOUSE, France (Reuters) - A gunman, suspected of killing three children and a rabbi at a Jewish school in the name of al Qaeda, said on Wednesday he would hand himself over to police after an hours-long siege in which he wounded three officers. Police forces block a street during a raid on a house to arrest suspects in the killings of three...

Life or Debt: 'Greece must escape bailout prison'; updated 21 Mar 2012; published 20 Mar 2012
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Life or Debt: 'Greece must escape bailout prison'
France24 21 Mar 2012, AFP - The Greek parliament formally ratified early Wednesday a second eurozone bailout scheme worth up to 130 billion euros ($170 billion) to save it from defaulting on its national debts. The text was approved overnight by 213 socialist and conservative parliamentary deputies and opposed by just 79 members from the communist left and far-right....

Obama: Nuclear-armed North Korea a Grave Threat; updated 11 Jan 2012; published 16 Jun 2009
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Obama: Nuclear-armed North Korea a Grave Threat
Al Jazeera 21 Mar 2012, US President Barack Obama will visit the tense border zone between the two Koreas after arriving in Seoul at a time of renewed nuclear acrimony with North Korea. On Sunday, the president will also meet South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak to prepare a 53-nation nuclear security summit in Seoul, a day before holding more key talks with China's...

BBC News™ - France shooting - Toulouse Jewish school attack kills four Ⓒ2012 #yoursayday; updated 22 Mar 2012; published 19 Mar 2012
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BBC News™ - France shooting - Toulouse Jewish school attack kills four Ⓒ2012 #yoursayday
CNN 20 Mar 2012, March 20, 2012 -- Updated 1125 GMT (1925 HKT) A policeman stands guard on Tuesday in front of the Jewish school where four people were killed the day before in Toulouse. School children are comforted at the scene of a fatal shooting in Toulouse, France on Monday, March 19. A gunman opened fire on the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school, killing four people...





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