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Syrian President Bashar Assad, left, and his wife Asma Assad, listen to explanations as they visit a technology plant Tuesday July, 13, 2010 in Tunis. President Assad is on a two-day visit to Tunisia.
photo: AP / Hassene Dridi
EU slaps sanctions on Assad's wife, relatives
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BRUSSELS - EU foreign ministers have slapped sanctions on the wife and other close relatives of Syrian President Bashar Assad, freezing their assets and banning them from traveling to the EU in a continuing attempt to stop the violent crackdown on opposition, officials said Friday. Four members of the Assad family and eight government ministers... Pin It

French special intervention police officers of Research Assistance Intervention Dissuasion unit, and firefignters 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
France asks: Were warnings missed on Toulouse killer?
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March 23, 2012 -- Updated 0636 GMT (1436 HKT) Toulouse suspect died while shooting (CNN) -- Did French intelligence services miss vital clues as Mohammed Merah showed signs of growing radicalization? In the words of the French newspaper, L'Express, on Thursday: "Did the security services fail in their surveillance?" How do western intelligence... Pin It

Syrian Kurds citizens who live in Lebanon and opposed to Syrian President Bashar Assad, hold up a Kurdish flag, right, and a Syrian revolution flag, left, chant slogans against the Syrian regime as they celebrate the Nowruz day in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, March 21, 2012.
photo: AP / Bilal Hussein
Syrian divisions reflected closely in Lebanon
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"There is no god but God!" protesters chant as they march through Tripoli's old town. The Islamist party Hizb ul-Tahrir assembles its supporters every Friday after prayers, and on... Pin It

In this image made from KRT video, and made available Tuesday April 7, 2009, showing for the first time, the launch of a missile from Musudan-ri, North Korea on Sunday, April 5, 2009.
photo: AP / KRT TV
Japan prepares defences against N. Korean rocket
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Japan's defence minister on Friday ordered missile defence systems to be prepared so the military could shoot down a North Korean long-range rocket if it threatened the country. "I have ordered officials to prepare to deploy the PAC-3 and Aegis warships,"... Pin It

FILE - In this Aug. 23, 2011 file Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System photo, Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, 1st platoon sergeant, Blackhorse Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division participates in an exercise at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif. A U.S. official on Thursday, March 22, 2012 said Bales will be charged with 17 counts of murder in the massacre of Afghan villagers.
photo: AP / DVIDS, Spc. Ryan Hallock, File
Bales to be charged with murder in Afghan killings
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Washington: Army Staff Sgt Robert Bales will be charged with 17 counts of murder as well as assault and a string of other offenses in the massacre of Afghan villagers as they slept, a US official said on Thursday. The charges against Bales include 17 counts of murder, six counts of attempted murder and six counts of aggravated assault as well as... Pin It

A relative reacts during the Mohamed Legouad's funeral in the Grand Mosque of Lyon, central France, Thursday, March 22, 2012. Mohamed Legouad, 24, a French paratrooper, was killed in Montauban by the suspected French Islamic extremist Mohammad Merah.
photo: AP / Laurent Cipriani
Did France ignore the Islamic radical threat?
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According to Marine Le Pen, feisty head of the National Front, the Toulouse killings are evidence that France has "dangerously underestimated the threat of Islamic fundamentalism". Is that fair? As a criticism, it cannot be dismissed out-of-hand just because she is on the far right. Seven people have been murdered in... Pin It

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
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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


Woman - Depression - Loneliness
People of working age who live alone increase their risk of depression by up to 80% compared with people living in families, says a Finnish study. It says the main factors are poor housing conditions for women and a lack of social support for men,...
photo: WN / Yolanda Leyba
Whitney Houston 'drowned in bath after taking cocaine'
Grammy-winning pop legend Whitney Houston died from accidental drowning in her hotel bathtub after taking cocaine which could have triggered a heart attack, coroners said. Houston, who died at age 48 in the bathtub of a Beverly Hills hotel room last...
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This photo released by the Fars News Agency claims to show an Iranian satellite launching rocket named "Safir-2", translated in English as "Ambassador-2", carrying the satellite "Omid", or "Hope" in English, left, photographed prior to launch at an undisclosed location on Monday, Feb. 2, 2009. Iran has successfully sent its first domestically made satellite into orbit, the country's president announced Tuesday, claiming a significant step in an ambitious space program that has worried many international observers. An Iranian flag flutters at foreground right.
Noshahr, March 22, IRNAHead of Iranian Space Agency, Hamid Fazeli, said that the Iranian shuttle, Kavoshgar-5 (Explorer-5) carrying monkey to space will be launched into space during March-August 2012....
photo: AP / Fars News Agency
UN condemns Mali coup, World Bank stops aid
The UN Security Council has condemned the coup in Mali while top officials said fallout from the Libya civil war had increased the frustration of soldiers who ousted the president. Security Council members "strongly condemn the forcible seizure...
photo: UN / Iason Foounten
Computer keyboard and a mouse.
Thirteen Australians have been arrested in a police bust on an international child pornography ring. Australian Federal Police raided 19 properties in Victoria, NSW, Queensland and the ACT, arresting the 13 men, with one of...
photo: WN / Priya Dashini
Indian policemen stand near the wreckage of a car which was blown up by a blast in Bijbehara, 49km (30 miles) south of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 22 march 2012. At least one person was killed and 20 others were wounded in the explosion, official said. Police said slain man is a suspect militant. Locals said the intensity of the blast shattered glass panes of buildings in the vicinity and created panic among the residents.
SRINAGAR, India (AP) — A bomb exploded Thursday in a car outside the main city of Indian-controlled Kashmir, killing the driver and wounding at least 23 other people in what police said may have been an accident involving suspected rebels....
photo: WN / Imran Nissar
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

Imogen Calls Out Asma Assad Former Classmate _ Current First.; updated 19 Mar 2012; published 18 Mar 2012
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Imogen Calls Out Asma Assad Former Classmate _ Current First.
Seattle Times 23 Mar 2012, BRUSSELS - EU foreign ministers have slapped sanctions on the wife and other close relatives of Syrian President Bashar Assad, freezing their assets and banning them from traveling to the EU in a continuing attempt to stop the violent crackdown on opposition, officials said Friday. Four members of the Assad family and eight government ministers...

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BBC News™ - France Shootings - Toulouse Jewish school attack kills four Ⓒ2012 #yoursayday; updated 22 Mar 2012; published 19 Mar 2012
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BBC News™ - France Shootings - Toulouse Jewish school attack kills four Ⓒ2012 #yoursayday
CNN 23 Mar 2012, March 23, 2012 -- Updated 0636 GMT (1436 HKT) Toulouse suspect died while shooting (CNN) -- Did French intelligence services miss vital clues as Mohammed Merah showed signs of growing radicalization? In the words of the French newspaper, L'Express, on Thursday: "Did the security services fail in their surveillance?" How do western intelligence...

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Fighters 'entering Syria from Lebanon'; updated 15 Mar 2012; published 17 Feb 2012
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Fighters 'entering Syria from Lebanon'
BBC News 23 Mar 2012, "There is no god but God!" protesters chant as they march through Tripoli's old town. The Islamist party Hizb ul-Tahrir assembles its supporters every Friday after prayers, and on...

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North Korea's Rockets Shrouded in Uncertainty; updated 20 Mar 2012; published 18 Mar 2012
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North Korea's Rockets Shrouded in Uncertainty
Jakarta Globe 23 Mar 2012, Japan's defence minister on Friday ordered missile defence systems to be prepared so the military could shoot down a North Korean long-range rocket if it threatened the country. "I have ordered officials to prepare to deploy the PAC-3 and Aegis warships,"...

Robert Bales A Perfect Example Of A Man Pushed Too Far; updated 21 Mar 2012; published 19 Mar 2012
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Robert Bales A Perfect Example Of A Man Pushed Too Far
Zeenews 23 Mar 2012, Washington: Army Staff Sgt Robert Bales will be charged with 17 counts of murder as well as assault and a string of other offenses in the massacre of Afghan villagers as they slept, a US official said on Thursday. The charges against Bales include 17 counts of murder, six counts of attempted murder and six counts of aggravated assault as well as...

BBC News™ - France Shootings - Toulouse Jewish school attack kills four Ⓒ2012 #yoursayday; updated 22 Mar 2012; published 19 Mar 2012
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BBC News™ - France Shootings - Toulouse Jewish school attack kills four Ⓒ2012 #yoursayday
BBC News 22 Mar 2012, According to Marine Le Pen, feisty head of the National Front, the Toulouse killings are evidence that France has "dangerously underestimated the threat of Islamic fundamentalism". Is that fair? As a criticism, it cannot be dismissed out-of-hand just because she is on the far right. Seven people have been murdered in...

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
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...

Budding Occupy Wall Street Movement Gives Voice to Anger Over Greed, Corporations; updated 18 Mar 2012; published 06 Oct 2011
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Budding Occupy Wall Street Movement Gives Voice to Anger Over Greed, Corporations
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...

BBC News™ - France Shootings - Toulouse Jewish school attack kills four Ⓒ2012 #yoursayday; updated 22 Mar 2012; published 19 Mar 2012
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BBC News™ - France Shootings - 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...

BBC News™ - France Shootings - Toulouse Jewish school attack kills four Ⓒ2012 #yoursayday; updated 22 Mar 2012; published 19 Mar 2012
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BBC News™ - France Shootings - 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...

Mutiny in Mali over Tuareg rebellion; updated 22 Mar 2012; published 22 Mar 2012
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Mutiny in Mali over Tuareg rebellion
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 Shootings - Toulouse Jewish school attack kills four Ⓒ2012 #yoursayday; updated 22 Mar 2012; published 19 Mar 2012
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BBC News™ - France Shootings - 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...





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