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Once she got to the podium, microphone in hand, she quickly got on with business. "I came...
Cuba will listen with respect to Pope Benedict XVI during his visit next week even if he...
I am brought yet again to this horrid conclusion by the annual report of the Open University....

Afghans: US paid $50,000 per shooting spree death
KANDAHAR, AfghanistanThe United States has paid $50,000 in compensation for each Afghan killed in the shooting spree attributed to a U.S. soldier in southern Afghanistan, an Afghan official and a community elder said Sunday. The families of...
photo: US DOD / Public Domain
Vice President Dick Cheney makes remarks at the Philadelphia Financial Center, which disburses payments on behalf of federal agencies, in Philadelphia, Thursday, May 8, 2008.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney had a heart transplant Saturday and is recovering at a Virginia hospital, his office said. An aide to Cheney disclosed that the 71-year-old, who has had a long history of cardiovascular trouble including numerous...
photo: AP / Matt Rourke
Dalai Lama is US-controlled Nazi: China
SHARE AND DISCUSSTweet BEIJING: China's state-run media on Saturday described the Dalai Lama as a US-controlled "Nazi" and blamed the Buddhist leader for inciting Tibetans to commit self-immolations to protest Chinese rule in Tibet. "It is...
photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang
Strain of war taking its toll on troops
More Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales last year at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin. (AP Photo/DVIDS, Spc. Ryan Hallock,file) — AP...
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Cooperation needed in pursuing global balance
The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged cooperation between developing and developed countries and “south-to-south” interaction in pursuing a balanced economy and harmonious development across the world. “There should be a chorus of...
photo: UN / Eskinder Debebe
Palestinians inspect the damage following an Israeli airstrike, east of Gaza City, Sunday, 12 February 2012. Palestinian officials say Israeli airstrikes have killed a 71-year-old security guard, guarding an orchard, in the Gaza Strip .
US lawmakers have released $88.6m (£56m) in development aid for the Palestinians that has been frozen since for more than six months. The move comes after two senior Republicans from the House of Representatives dropped their...
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb
Human Rights Council Demands End to Violence in Syria
Saturday, 24 March 2012, 5:08 pm Press Release: United Nations UN Human Rights Council Demands End to Violence And Widespread Abuses in Syria New York, Mar 23 2012 3:10PM The United Nations Human Rights Council today adopted a resolution demanding...
photo: UN / Evan Schneider

'Annan mission last chance for Syria to avoid bloody war'; updated 25 Mar 2012; published 25 Mar 2012
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'Annan mission last chance for Syria to avoid bloody war'
The Daily Telegraph Australia 25 Mar 2012, RUSSIAN President Dmitry Medvedev has warned that Kofi Annan was Syria's last chance to avoid a civil war. Mr Medvedev's stark message to Moscow's traditional ally came only hours after US President Barack Obama announced plans to send "non-lethal" aid to the Syrian rebels and new waves of violence swept the battle-scarred country....

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Mali Coup d'état; defected forces claim govt. control; updated 23 Mar 2012; published 22 Mar 2012
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Mali Coup d'état; defected forces claim govt. control
Zeenews 25 Mar 2012, Bamako: A delegation of UN and African officials has told the military junta that seized power in Mali on Wednesday night to hand back power, saying its plan to fix Mali's problems and restore security before stepping down will not work. The message was delivered on Friday during a lightning visit by UN and African Union officials and the head of...

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Senegal Elections; updated 22 Feb 2012; published 22 Feb 2012
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Senegal Elections
Al Jazeera 25 Mar 2012, More than five million voters in Senegal are set to go to the polls to vote in a presidential runoff between incumbent Abdoulaye Wade and opposition leader Macky Sall. Both sides expressed confidence before polling stations opened across the West African nation on Sunday, a month after a first round vote whittled the field down to two...

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US President Barack Obama peers across South Korea's border; updated 25 Mar 2012; published 25 Mar 2012
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US President Barack Obama peers across South Korea's border
MSNBC 25 Mar 2012, CAMP BONIFAS, South Korea — President Barack Obama visited South Korea's tense border with the North on Sunday in a show of solidarity with U.S. ally Seoul and a message of resolve to Pyongyang's new young ruler in his country's nuclear standoff with the West. Only on msnbc.com AFP - Getty Images Updated 7 minutes ago 3/25/2012 3:24:53...

Hong Kong election hinges on Chinese whispers; updated 23 Mar 2012; published 23 Mar 2012
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Hong Kong election hinges on Chinese whispers
The New York Times 25 Mar 2012, Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. Twitter List: Reporters and Editors HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong's elite are casting their ballots to choose the next leader of the southern Chinese financial hub. Most of Hong Kong's 7.1 million residents have no say, with the decision up to members...

74 fans die in Egypt football clash; updated 07 Feb 2012; published 02 Feb 2012
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74 fans die in Egypt football clash
Daily Press 24 Mar 2012, PORT SAID, Egypt (Reuters) - One person was shot dead and 18 injured when angry soccer fans clashed with security forces in Egypt's Port Said after their club was banned over the country's worst stadium disaster, a medical source said on Saturday. The Egyptian Football Association (EFA) banned the club, al-Masry, for two seasons for a pitch...

US 'Afghan shooter' Bales faces 17 murder counts; updated 24 Mar 2012; published 23 Mar 2012
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US 'Afghan shooter' Bales faces 17 murder counts
WorldNews.com 24 Mar 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling The last time a U.S. president admitted "partial" responsibility was over fifty years ago. After the 1961 Bay of Pigs debacle, which was an ill-fated military invasion of Cuba that revealed a lack of political foresight and military intelligence, President John F. Kennedy accepted some responsibility...

Meeting Joseph Kony - Uganda June 2006; updated 24 Mar 2012; published 08 Mar 2012
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Meeting Joseph Kony - Uganda June 2006
Zeenews 24 Mar 2012, Entebbe: The African Union says it will send 5,000 soldiers to join the hunt for notorious rebel leader Joseph Kony, a new mission that comes amid a wildly popular Internet campaign targeting the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army. The mission is to be launched in South Sudan on Saturday and will last until Kony is caught, United Nations and...

Mali Coup d'état; defected forces claim govt. control; updated 23 Mar 2012; published 22 Mar 2012
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Mali Coup d'état; defected forces claim govt. control
The Times of India 24 Mar 2012, SHARE AND DISCUSSTweet BAMAKO: Soldiers looted petrol stations and hijacked cars in Mali's capital Bamako on Friday, 48 hours after a military coup, and the African Union said it had assurances that President Amadou Toumani Toure was safe. The AU suspended Mali's membership after the coup, which has left the West African nation in limbo and jangled...

Raw Video: Pope Going to Mexico; updated 24 Mar 2012; published 23 Mar 2012
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Raw Video: Pope Going to Mexico
France24 24 Mar 2012, AFP - Pope Benedict XVI arrived for a three-day visit to Mexico, his first trip to Spanish-speaking Latin America, condemning the "evil" of drug gangs and praying for victims of violence. Crowds of cheering, flag-waving faithful stood in the blazing sun along the 20-mile (34 kilometer) journey to the city of Leon made by the pontiff in the pearly...

Trayvon Martin 911 Call; updated 24 Mar 2012; published 20 Mar 2012
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Trayvon Martin 911 Call
San Francisco Chronicle 24 Mar 2012, Washington -- Declaring that "if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon," President Obama chose a highly personal way to join the heated national debate over the death of Trayvon Martin, the black teenager shot to death by a neighborhood watch volunteer in Florida. Obama took care to voice no opinion on the conduct of the shooter, George Zimmerman, or...

Mali Coup d'état; defected forces claim govt. control; updated 23 Mar 2012; published 22 Mar 2012
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Mali Coup d'état; defected forces claim govt. control
Al Jazeera 23 Mar 2012, African Union officials said they have suspended Mali and will send a mission to the West African nation to assess the situation after a group of mutinous soldiers seized power. Jean Ping, the AU's chairman, told a delegation that met in Ethiopia's capital on Friday for an emergency peace and security meeting that a mission would deploy...

Russian marine vs Somalia pirates; updated 24 Mar 2012; published 08 Jan 2011
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Russian marine vs Somalia pirates
France24 23 Mar 2012, AFP - The European Union authorised its navies to strike Somali pirate equipment on land as foreign ministers on Friday beefed up the anti-piracy mission and extended it until December 2014. The EU's Operation Atalanta has deployed between five and 10 warships off the Somali coast since 2008 to escort humanitarian aid shipments and...

UK cannot ban Asma Assad from travel; updated 24 Mar 2012; published 23 Mar 2012
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UK cannot ban Asma Assad from travel
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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