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Will Great Issues of the Day Finally Be Decided by Apologies?
Full Article WorldNews.com
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling If Prussian nationalist and militarist General Otto von Bismarck would have lived to witness World War I and World War II, most likely he would have no longer believed that the great issues of the day would be decided by iron and blood but instead, apologies. His much quoted statement: "it is not by...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center, talks with soldiers in the military camp in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, Monday, March 12, 2012.
photo: AP / Bundesregierung/Steffen Kugler

Syria agrees to April 10 peace deadline
Full Article Toronto Sun
Syria has pledged to withdraw all military units from towns by April 10 to pave the way for a ceasefire with rebels two days later, though Western envoys were skeptical on Monday about Damascus’ intent to halt its year-long assault on opponents. The U.N.-Arab League peace envoy Kofi Annan briefed the U.N. Security Council on the deadline...
In this Sunday, April 1, 2012 photo, Free Syrian Army fighters are seen in a neighborhood of Damascus, Syria.
photo: AP

Oakland school shooting: police identify gunman
Full Article The Daily Telegraph
Oakland police chief Howard Jordan identifies the suspect as One L Goh after seven people were killed and three more were injured at a small Christian university in California. 560 315 TelegraphPlayer_9182476 7:33AM BST 03 Apr 2012...
Oakland Fire officials work outside of Oikos University after a school shooting in Oakland, Calif., Monday, April 2, 2012.
photo: AP / Noah Berger

$10 mn bounty on 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed
Full Article Zeenews
Zeenews Bureau New Delhi: In a major boost to New Delhi’s fight against terrorism, the US administration of President Barack Obama has announced a reward of $10 million for the capture or any information leading to the arrest of 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed. Reports, Tuesday, claimed that the announcement by the Obama administration was formally...
Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, center, the leader of a banned Islamic group Jamaat-ud-Dawa addresses an anti-Indian rally over a water dispute between Pakistan and India, in Lahore, Pakistan, Sunday, March 7, 2010.
photo: AP / K.M.Chaudary

Farc Rebels Free Colombian 'Prisoners Of War'
Full Article Orange News
Colombia's Farc rebels have freed what it says were its last 10 soldier and police hostages as the weakened group seeks peace talks with the government. The captives had been held in jungle prisons for at least 12 years. They were flown to the eastern city of Villavicencio on a...
Accompanied by medical personnel, police sergeant Cesar Augusto Lasso, left, and army sergeant Luis Alfredo Moreno, third from left, gesture upon their arrival to an airport after being released by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, in Villavicencio Colombia, Monday, April 2, 2012. Colombia's main rebel group on Monday freed what it says were its last 10 soldier and police captives, all of whom had been held in jungle prisons for at least 12 years.
photo: AP / Fernando Vergara

Euro unemployment spikes to record 10.8 percent
Full Article The Washington Post
LONDON — Unemployment in the 17 countries that use the euro hit its highest level since the currency was introduced back in 1999, official figures showed Monday, adding to fears that the region is in recession. Eurostat, the European Union’s statistics office, said unemployment in the euro zone rose to 10.8 percent in February from 10.7...
Unemployed school teachers chant slogans at an anti-government demonstration staged by civil servants outside the Greek Parliament in Athens, Tuesday, April 27, 2010. Greece's debt crisis intensified Tuesday as its credit rating cut to junk status.
photo: AP / Thanassis Stavrakis

South Sudan says Sudan still bombing, won't be dragged to war
Full Article The Star
NAIROBI (Reuters) - South Sudan said on Monday Sudanese forces were still bombing regions in the oil-producing area straddling their border, but insisted it would not be dragged into war. South Sudan's Information Minister Barnaba Marial Benjamin accused Khartoum of wanting to deter investment in the crucial oil sector of the country that split...
South Sudan Minister of Information, Barnaba Marial Benjamin speaks to journalists in Nairobi, Kenya, Monday, April 2, 2012.
photo: AP / Khalil Senosi

Senegal's Macky Sall sworn in as president
Full Article Al Jazeera
Senegal's new president Macky Sall has taken the oath of office in a ceremony held one week after the country's longtime incumbent conceded defeat only hours after polls closed. Hundreds gathered in their finest clothes at a hotel on Monday in Senegal's seaside capital for the brief, low-key ceremony. Those who were not able to enter...
Senegalese president-elect Macky Sall smiles as he greets the press after incumbent President Abdoulaye Wade called him to concede, in Dakar, Senegal in the early hours of Monday, March 26, 2012.
photo: AP / Tanya Bindra

Pakistan Court Orders Deportation of Bin Laden’s Wives
Full Article The New York Times
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A Pakistani court has ordered three wives and two adult daughters of Osama Bin Laden to serve six weeks in prison for illegally entering the country and ordered their deportation after the prison term, according to the family’s lawyer. Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news...
Pakistani police officers secure the area around the house where Osama bin Laden's family are being detained in Islamabad, Pakistan on Monday, April 2, 2012.
photo: AP / B.K. Bangash

Suu Kyi hails Myanmar polls as 'new era'
Full Article Al Jazeera
Pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has hailed the recent round of Myanmar by-elections, overwhelmingly won by her party, as the harbinger of a "new era". Her National League for Democracy (NLD) claimed to have won all 44 parliamentary seats it contested, including one where Suu Kyi was in the fray. The veteran activist's election to...
Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi waves at her supporters from her car as she leaves after a brief visit to the headquarters of her National League for Democracy Party Monday, April 2, 2012, in Yangon, Myanmar.
photo: AP


Throughout the Bali Spirit Festival, the sun and hundreds of strangers from around the globe...
After repeated and devastatingly radical administrative moves over the past three years, the...

Ecuador's President Rafael Correa reacts after listening favorable reports about a referendum he proposed as he is interviewed during a TV broadcast at GamaTV station in Quito, Ecuador, Saturday, May 7, 2011.
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador's President Rafael Correa says he's decided to boycott this month's Summit of the Americas in Colombia because Cuba is not invited. Correa made the announcement in a letter he sent Monday to the host president, Juan...
photo: AP / Dolores Ochoa
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivers a speech on nonproliferation before the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009
Though the 2012 presidential election is months away, a growing number of public figures have in recent weeks thrown their support behind a Hillary Clinton candidacy in 2016. Add Nancy Pelosi's name to that list. Pelosi was in New York for a Q&A;...
photo: AP / Evan Vucci
Soldiers stand guard by communications towers in Corinto in southern Colombia, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009
VILLAVICENCIO, Colombia (AP) — Colombia's main rebel group on Monday freed what it says were its last 10 soldier and police captives, all of whom had been held in jungle prisons for at least 12 years. The release of the six police and four soldiers...
photo: AP / Christian Escobar Mora
Traders gather at the post that handles Global Payments Inc. on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, April 2, 2012, in New York. Visa Inc. has dropped Global Payments, the card processor involved in a massive data breach, from its registry of providers that meet data security standards, but may reinstate it after a new compliance report.
GLOBAL Payments today said that Visa has dropped the US-based payment processor after data from as many as 1.5 million credit cards was looted from its system. The word came as credit card titans Visa and MasterCard scrambled to thwart cyber crooks...
photo: AP / Richard Drew
Current speaker of the Hungarian Parliament Pal Schmitt, center, candidate of the ruling Fidesz, the Hungarian Civic Alliance Party swears in after being elected President of Hungary by MPs in the Parliament building in Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, June 29, 2010.
The president of Hungary has quit after being stripped of his university doctorate in a plagiarism scandal. Hungarian President Pal Schmitt announces his resignation at Parliament in Budapest Photo: MTI, Laszlo Beliczay/AP...
photo: AP / MTI, Szilard Koszticsak
People wait to cross a street in front of the electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo, Japan, Monday, April 2, 2012.
TOKYOJapanese business sentiment failed to improve as expected in the first quarter and is expected to remain muted in coming months, a survey by the central bank showed Monday, suggesting that the bank will remain under pressure to deliver...
photo: AP / Shizuo Kambayashi
Norwegian-born Eva Joly, of Europe Ecologie-Les Verts and Green Party candidate for the 2012 French presidential elections, presents her New Year's greetings to the media in Paris, Thursday Jan. 5, 2012.
Norwegian-born Eva Joly was a famed prosecutor who inspired a film based on her career but there are doubts about her campaign for the presidency Eva Joly, wearing her trademark red glasses, has said she is too 'strange' to be invited to take up a...
photo: AP / Francois Mori

US soldier kills Afghan civilians in Kandahar; updated 02 Apr 2012; published 11 Mar 2012
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US soldier kills Afghan civilians in Kandahar
WorldNews.com 03 Apr 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling If Prussian nationalist and militarist General Otto von Bismarck would have lived to witness World War I and World War II, most likely he would have no longer believed that the great issues of the day would be decided by iron and blood but instead, apologies. His much quoted statement: "it is not by...

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Mosaic News 4/2/2012: Israel Moves Palestinian Hunger Striker Hana Shalabi from Detention; updated 03 Apr 2012; published 03 Apr 2012
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Mosaic News 4/2/2012: Israel Moves Palestinian Hunger Striker Hana Shalabi from Detention
Toronto Sun 03 Apr 2012, Syria has pledged to withdraw all military units from towns by April 10 to pave the way for a ceasefire with rebels two days later, though Western envoys were skeptical on Monday about Damascus’ intent to halt its year-long assault on opponents. The U.N.-Arab League peace envoy Kofi Annan briefed the U.N. Security Council on the deadline...

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Cops: 7 Dead, 3 Hurt in Calif. School Shooting; updated 03 Apr 2012; published 02 Apr 2012
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Cops: 7 Dead, 3 Hurt in Calif. School Shooting
The Daily Telegraph 03 Apr 2012, Oakland police chief Howard Jordan identifies the suspect as One L Goh after seven people were killed and three more were injured at a small Christian university in California. 560 315 TelegraphPlayer_9182476 7:33AM BST 03 Apr 2012...

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India welcomes US 10 million dollar reward on Hafiz Saeed - NewsX; updated 03 Apr 2012; published 03 Apr 2012
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India welcomes US 10 million dollar reward on Hafiz Saeed - NewsX
Zeenews 03 Apr 2012, Zeenews Bureau New Delhi: In a major boost to New Delhi’s fight against terrorism, the US administration of President Barack Obama has announced a reward of $10 million for the capture or any information leading to the arrest of 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed. Reports, Tuesday, claimed that the announcement by the Obama administration was formally...

Colombia's FARC rebels free 10 hostages; updated 03 Apr 2012; published 03 Apr 2012
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Colombia's FARC rebels free 10 hostages
Orange News 03 Apr 2012, Colombia's Farc rebels have freed what it says were its last 10 soldier and police hostages as the weakened group seeks peace talks with the government. The captives had been held in jungle prisons for at least 12 years. They were flown to the eastern city of Villavicencio on a...

Baltic boom busts as mass unemployment spurs brain drain; updated 03 Apr 2012; published 01 Apr 2012
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Baltic boom busts as mass unemployment spurs brain drain
The Washington Post 03 Apr 2012, LONDON — Unemployment in the 17 countries that use the euro hit its highest level since the currency was introduced back in 1999, official figures showed Monday, adding to fears that the region is in recession. Eurostat, the European Union’s statistics office, said unemployment in the euro zone rose to 10.8 percent in February from 10.7...

George Clooney Witnesses War Crimes in Sudan's Nuba Mountains; updated 03 Apr 2012; published 13 Mar 2012
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George Clooney Witnesses War Crimes in Sudan's Nuba Mountains
The Star 02 Apr 2012, NAIROBI (Reuters) - South Sudan said on Monday Sudanese forces were still bombing regions in the oil-producing area straddling their border, but insisted it would not be dragged into war. South Sudan's Information Minister Barnaba Marial Benjamin accused Khartoum of wanting to deter investment in the crucial oil sector of the country that split...

Senegal's Macky Sall hails new era after poll victory; updated 26 Mar 2012; published 26 Mar 2012
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Senegal's Macky Sall hails new era after poll victory
Al Jazeera 02 Apr 2012, Senegal's new president Macky Sall has taken the oath of office in a ceremony held one week after the country's longtime incumbent conceded defeat only hours after polls closed. Hundreds gathered in their finest clothes at a hotel on Monday in Senegal's seaside capital for the brief, low-key ceremony. Those who were not able to enter...

Court awards 45 days jail to bin Laden wives; updated 02 Apr 2012; published 02 Apr 2012
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Court awards 45 days jail to bin Laden wives
The New York Times 02 Apr 2012, ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A Pakistani court has ordered three wives and two adult daughters of Osama Bin Laden to serve six weeks in prison for illegally entering the country and ordered their deportation after the prison term, according to the family’s lawyer. Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news...

Suu Kyi's Opposition Party Wins Big in Myanmar Election; updated 03 Apr 2012; published 03 Apr 2012
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Suu Kyi's Opposition Party Wins Big in Myanmar Election
Al Jazeera 02 Apr 2012, Pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has hailed the recent round of Myanmar by-elections, overwhelmingly won by her party, as the harbinger of a "new era". Her National League for Democracy (NLD) claimed to have won all 44 parliamentary seats it contested, including one where Suu Kyi was in the fray. The veteran activist's election to...

Candle burns for Falklands War heroes 02.04.12; updated 03 Apr 2012; published 03 Apr 2012
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Candle burns for Falklands War heroes 02.04.12
Jakarta Globe 02 Apr 2012, Britain and Argentina will on Monday mark 30 years since the invasion of the Falkland Islands triggered a 74-day war, the fallout from which has sparked a fresh diplomatic clash. The conflict ended in defeat for Argentina, costing the lives of 649 of its troops, after Britain sent a task force to the South Atlantic archipelago to reclaim the...

Aung San Suu Kyi set to win Burma parliamentary seat; updated 03 Apr 2012; published 01 Apr 2012
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Aung San Suu Kyi set to win Burma parliamentary seat
Irish Times 02 Apr 2012, CLIFFORD COONAN BURMA'S VOTERS gave a resounding seal of approval to Nobel Prize-winning democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi yesterday as she won a seat in parliament in a historic byelection, the first free polls in two decades. Supporters gathered outside the headquarters of the National League of Democracy and cheered wildly when the party said...

Malian coup leaders given ultimatum; updated 30 Mar 2012; published 30 Mar 2012
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Malian coup leaders given ultimatum
The Australian 01 Apr 2012, MALI'S Tuareg rebels have claimed control of the legendary desert town of Timbuktu, part of a dramatic push across the north, as the disorganised junta indicated it was ready to cede some power. Tuareg rebels assisted by Islamist fighters have swept across much of northern Mali since renegade soldiers staged a coup on March 22, saying they...

Flashpoint Funding: UK doubles Syria rebel cashflow; updated 03 Apr 2012; published 30 Mar 2012
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Flashpoint Funding: UK doubles Syria rebel cashflow
Huffington Post 01 Apr 2012, U.S.Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks with an Arab official as she arrives to join foreign ministers from dozens of countries gathered to set conditions for a new Syria, pushing for tighter sanctions and diplomatic pressure to further isolate President Bashar Assad, while urging the opposition to offer a democratic alternative to his...





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