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Obama, Women, City Hunger and Animal Terror
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling After listing a litany of major crises facing America, like the rise in unemployment and homelessness, predatory lending practices and the rapid increase in student debt and home foreclosures, forty-seven million people without health insurance and adequate healthcare while the government continues to...
In this Dec. 7, 2011 photo, Shaquoia Waring, right, and Daniel Jefferson look at their rejection letter during an interview with The Associated Press outside a homeless intake center in the Bronx borough of New York. Up until now, homeless single men and women have been granted shelter by the city, no questions asked. But now officials want to interview them to determine if a shelter is truly their only option.
photo: AP / Mary Altaffer

Annan: Iran can be part of Syria 'solution'
Full Article Al Jazeera
Kofi Annan, the joint United Nations-Arab League envoy on Syria, has welcomed Iranian support for his efforts to secure peace in the country, telling Tehran that it can be "part of the solution". Annan was speaking in Tehran on Wednesday following talks with Ali Akbar Salehi, the Iranian foreign minister. He stressed again the urgency of finding a...
Kofi Annan, ehemaliger UNO Generalsekretaer, spricht am Swiss Economic Forum (SEF), am Freitag 4. Mai 2007 in Thun.
photo: AP / KEYSTONE/ Peter Schneider

China calls for support amid Bo Xilai shockwave
Full Article BBC News
China called for support for its probe into Bo Xilai, a day after news of his dismissal and the questioning of his wife over the death of a UK businessman sent shockwaves around the country. A widely-published...
FILE - In this file photo taken on March 11, 2012, Chongqing party secretary Bo Xilai attends a plenary session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
photo: AP / Andy Wong, File

Santorum drops out, clearing the way for Romney
Full Article Ohio
GETTYSBURG, Pa.: Rick Santorum, with an abrupt decision to end his campaign Tuesday, cleared the way for Mitt Romney to claim the Republican nomination while dashing the hopes of social conservatives who had propelled Santorum’s surprisingly successful challenge to the Republican establishment. Santorum, a former senator from Pennsylvania,...
Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum turns to his wife Karen, left, after announcing he is suspending his candidacy effective today in Gettysburg, Pa., Tuesday, April 10, 2012.
photo: AP / Gene J. Puskar

North Korea celebrates 'Juche 101'
Full Article Al Jazeera
As the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea (DPRK) heralds an imminent rocket launch from the Tongchang-ri site, its neighbours anxiously await the fallout. While the North says the send-off is merely to put a civilian satellite into space, the country's adversaries have denounced what they describe as provocation by...
A group of journalists walk down a road in front of North Korea's Unha-3 rocket, slated for liftoff between April 12-16, at Sohae Satellite Station in Tongchang-ri, North Korea on Sunday April 8, 2012.
photo: AP / David Guttenfelder

UN agencies warn of 'dramatic' crisis in Sahel
Full Article The Miami Herald
GENEVA -- Northern Africa's Sahel region risks being plunged into a dramatic humanitarian crisis unless aid for those affected by drought, conflict and poverty is scaled up soon, three senior United Nations officials warned Tuesday. The U.N.'s High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, said the situation in the...
File - Niger Families Face Drought and Rising Food Prices: Young girls eat a midday meal at the World Food Programme (WFP) school feeding centre in Guidam Makadam, Niger.
photo: UN / WFP/Phil Behan

UN plan in tatters as Syria fires into Turkey
Full Article Business Day
SYRIAN forces fired across the border yester day into a refugee camp in Turkey, as a United Nations (UN)-brokered plan to end more than a year of violence this week all but collapsed, authorities said. Also yester day, Russia hosted Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem for talks. Syrian soldiers were believed to be firing at rebels who tried to...
In this Friday, April 6, 2012 photo, Free Syrian Army fighters stand guard during fighting with Syrian troops in a suburb of Damascus, Syria.
photo: AP

Airlines change flight path to avoid North Korea rocket
Full Article BBC News
Three Asian airlines are making changes to flight paths to avoid a North Korean rocket launch due to take place between 12 and 16 April. Philippine Airlines, Japan Airlines (JAL) and All Nippon Airways (ANA) have announced changes to several routes. North Korea has moved into its rocket into place on the launch...
South Korean Army soldiers watch a TV news program which shows North Korea's Unha-3 rocket at Seoul train station in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 9, 2012.
photo: AP / Ahn Young-joon

Gaddafi son 'to face Libyan trial'
Full Article The Guardian
The decision comes despite appeals by rights groups to Libyan authorities to hand him over to the International Criminal Court in The Hague for trial, amid fears that he may not get a fair trial in Libya. A trial in the capital Tripoli would however mark a small step forward for the central government, which has been struggling to unify the country...
In this image provided by the Libyan Youth Group that was taken Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011, revolutionary fighters flank Seif al-Islam Gadhafi in Zintan, Libya, following his capture near the Niger border.
photo: AP / Libyan Youth Movement

Egypt's Islamist candidate says IMF deal unlikely
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has warned the government it will not support an IMF loan unless the terms are changed or it moves aside and allows a new administration to oversee how the funds are spent, its candidate for president said on Sunday. The government has been negotiating a $3.2 billion loan with the International Monetary...
An Egyptian Muslim cleric shouts slogans with hundreds of supporters of Muslim Brotherhood presidential hopeful Khairat el-Shater outside the Higher Presidential Elections Commission, in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, April 5, 2012.
photo: AP / Amr Nabil


Surrounded by his family Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum announces he is suspending his candidacy in Gettysburg, Pa., Tuesday, April 10, 2012.
Gettysburg: Rick Santorum cleared the way for Mitt Romney to claim victory in the long and hard-fought battle for the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday, giving up his "against all odds" campaign as Romney's tenacious conservative rival....
photo: AP / Gene J. Puskar
Coup leader Amadou Haya Sanogo, center, stands with Mali's parliamentary head Dioncounda Traore, right, at junta headquarters in Kati, outside Bamako, Mali Monday, April 9, 2012.
Bamako - Mali's parliament speaker will be sworn in as interim president on Thursday, ending a brief period of military rule that saw Tuareg rebels and Islamists seize half of the west African country. The Constitutional Court formally approved the...
photo: AP / Harouna Traore
Police Use Force To Foil Employees’ March
Srinagar, April 10: Chaos erupted near the Old Secretariat here on Tuesday as the police came down with batons and water cannon on agitating state employees, with union leaders announcing a state-wide strike on April 17. A Joint Consultative...
photo: WN / Imran Nissar
US Special Forces Now Need A Warrant To Raid Suspected Afghan Insurgents
Pressure mounts on Bahrain as hunger striker reaches 62nd day Seventh grader steers bus to safety in Washington (+video) Tax deductions: There's still time for small business...
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File - An armed female Police officer guards the car park of the court in Oslo, Norway, Monday, July 25, 2011. The Oslo district court judge decided Monday to hold the arraignment behind closed doors for Anders Behring Breivik
Click photo to enlargeThe public prosecutor Svein Holden, right, during the presentation of the second report, of some 300 pages, regarding the mental health of Anders Behring Breivik, stacked onto a table inside the court in Oslo, Norway, Tuesday,...
photo: AP / Frank Augstein
A Syrian rebel peers through the scope on his weapon in Idlib, Syria, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012.
Syrian tanks shelled the central city of Hama in the early hours of Tuesday morning, an activist said, and tanks continued to patrol the streets on the day President Bashar al-Assad has agreed to start withdrawing government forces from urban areas....
photo: AP
File - Mohammad al-Qahtani, one of 13 activists who began a rare public hunger strike Thursday, poses for a picture at his home in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008.
RIYADH, Saudi ArabiaMohammad Fahad Al-Qahtani is a busy man with a dangerous passion. A human rights activist and relentless writer of letters and legal briefs, he challenges a kingdom that demands unquestioned authority. He slips videos...
photo: AP / Hassan Ammar

US poverty-News Analysis-12-15-2011; updated 01 Apr 2012; published 16 Dec 2011
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US poverty-News Analysis-12-15-2011
WorldNews.com 11 Apr 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling After listing a litany of major crises facing America, like the rise in unemployment and homelessness, predatory lending practices and the rapid increase in student debt and home foreclosures, forty-seven million people without health insurance and adequate healthcare while the government continues to...

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Inside Syria - Will Annan's Syria peace plan succeed?; updated 09 Apr 2012; published 08 Apr 2012
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Inside Syria - Will Annan's Syria peace plan succeed?
Al Jazeera 11 Apr 2012, Kofi Annan, the joint United Nations-Arab League envoy on Syria, has welcomed Iranian support for his efforts to secure peace in the country, telling Tehran that it can be "part of the solution". Annan was speaking in Tehran on Wednesday following talks with Ali Akbar Salehi, the Iranian foreign minister. He stressed again the urgency of finding a...

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China Purges Bo Xilai From Party Posts; updated 11 Apr 2012; published 10 Apr 2012
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China Purges Bo Xilai From Party Posts
BBC News 11 Apr 2012, China called for support for its probe into Bo Xilai, a day after news of his dismissal and the questioning of his wife over the death of a UK businessman sent shockwaves around the country. A widely-published...

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Watch Rick Santorum Speech Announcing Withdrawal From Presidential Campaign; updated 11 Apr 2012; published 10 Apr 2012
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Watch Rick Santorum Speech Announcing Withdrawal From Presidential Campaign
Ohio 11 Apr 2012, GETTYSBURG, Pa.: Rick Santorum, with an abrupt decision to end his campaign Tuesday, cleared the way for Mitt Romney to claim the Republican nomination while dashing the hopes of social conservatives who had propelled Santorum’s surprisingly successful challenge to the Republican establishment. Santorum, a former senator from Pennsylvania,...

North Korea receives warnings against rocket launch; updated 11 Apr 2012; published 11 Apr 2012
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North Korea receives warnings against rocket launch
Al Jazeera 10 Apr 2012, As the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea (DPRK) heralds an imminent rocket launch from the Tongchang-ri site, its neighbours anxiously await the fallout. While the North says the send-off is merely to put a civilian satellite into space, the country's adversaries have denounced what they describe as provocation by...

Sahel Drought; updated 24 Mar 2012; published 15 Feb 2012
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Sahel Drought
The Miami Herald 10 Apr 2012, GENEVA -- Northern Africa's Sahel region risks being plunged into a dramatic humanitarian crisis unless aid for those affected by drought, conflict and poverty is scaled up soon, three senior United Nations officials warned Tuesday. The U.N.'s High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, said the situation in the...

Syria's refugee crisis; updated 27 Mar 2012; published 26 Mar 2012
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Syria's refugee crisis
Business Day 10 Apr 2012, SYRIAN forces fired across the border yester day into a refugee camp in Turkey, as a United Nations (UN)-brokered plan to end more than a year of violence this week all but collapsed, authorities said. Also yester day, Russia hosted Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem for talks. Syrian soldiers were believed to be firing at rebels who tried to...

Protests against North Korean rocket launch; updated 08 Apr 2012; published 04 Apr 2012
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Protests against North Korean rocket launch
BBC News 10 Apr 2012, Three Asian airlines are making changes to flight paths to avoid a North Korean rocket launch due to take place between 12 and 16 April. Philippine Airlines, Japan Airlines (JAL) and All Nippon Airways (ANA) have announced changes to several routes. North Korea has moved into its rocket into place on the launch...

Saif on home ground: Gaddafi son avoids Hague 'joke' trial; updated 10 Apr 2012; published 05 Apr 2012
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Saif on home ground: Gaddafi son avoids Hague 'joke' trial
The Guardian 09 Apr 2012, The decision comes despite appeals by rights groups to Libyan authorities to hand him over to the International Criminal Court in The Hague for trial, amid fears that he may not get a fair trial in Libya. A trial in the capital Tripoli would however mark a small step forward for the central government, which has been struggling to unify the country...

The Muslim Brotherhood's Spring? Will the Islamists Take Control of Egypt?; updated 10 Apr 2012; published 07 Apr 2012
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The Muslim Brotherhood's Spring? Will the Islamists Take Control of Egypt?
Yahoo Daily News 09 Apr 2012, CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has warned the government it will not support an IMF loan unless the terms are changed or it moves aside and allows a new administration to oversee how the funds are spent, its candidate for president said on Sunday. The government has been negotiating a $3.2 billion loan with the International Monetary...

Police: 2 Suspects Arrested in Oklahoma Shooting; updated 09 Apr 2012; published 08 Apr 2012
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Police: 2 Suspects Arrested in Oklahoma Shooting
The Associated Press 09 Apr 2012, TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- Police have arrested two men in a shooting rampage that killed three people, terrorizing Tulsa's African-American community, and said one suspect might have been trying to avenge his father's shooting two years ago by a black man. Jake England, 19, and Alvin Watts, 32, were arrested about 2 a.m. Sunday at a home in Turley, just...

Keep Out the Grass: 'Israel behaving like Iran'; updated 10 Apr 2012; published 09 Apr 2012
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Keep Out the Grass: 'Israel behaving like Iran'
WorldNews.com 09 Apr 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. Those attacking German novelist Gunter Grass, who wrote a poem criticizing Israel's nuclear weapons program and arsenal, should recall what Pablo Picasso once said: "Art is not done to decorate apartments, it is an instrument of war against brutality and darkness."(1) Picasso had just finished...

Anchorage Record Snow Fall 2011-12.mp4; updated 09 Apr 2012; published 08 Apr 2012
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Anchorage Record Snow Fall 2011-12.mp4
The Los Angeles Times 09 Apr 2012, ANCHORAGE — A spring snowfall has broken the nearly 60-year-old seasonal snow record of Alaska's largest city. Inundated with nearly double the snow they're used to, Anchorage residents have been expecting to see this season's snowfall surpass the record of 132.6 inches in the winter of 1954-55. The 3.4 inches that fell by Saturday afternoon...

Video: N. Korea reveals Unha-3 rocket ready for launch; updated 11 Apr 2012; published 09 Apr 2012
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Video: N. Korea reveals Unha-3 rocket ready for launch
Yahoo Daily News 09 Apr 2012, CHOLSAN, North Korea/SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has readied a rocket for a launch from a forested valley in its remote northwest this week that will showcase the reclusive state's ability to fire a missile with the capacity to hit the continental United States. Pyongyang says the rocket, to be launched this week, will only carry a weather...





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