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Syria says it will comply with truce deadline
Full Article Al Jazeera
Syria has told Kofi Annan, the special peace envoy of the UN and Arab League, that it will halt all fighting by Thursday morning but reserves the right to respond to any attack by "armed terrorist groups", his spokesman said. In a letter the Syrian Foreign Ministry said Damascus agreed "to cease all military fighting throughout Syrian...
In this Friday, April 6, 2012 photo, Free Syrian Army fighters gather on a corner during fighting with Syrian troops in a suburb of Damascus, Syria.
photo: AP

Afghan elite raiders say they are U.S. equals
Full Article Daily Press
KABUL (Reuters) - It's a special-forces entry like no other and guaranteed to spoil the element of surprise, but Afghanistan's new elite soldiers insist they will be no less effective in countering insurgents than controversial night raids by U.S. forces. Under cover of darkness, Afghan soldiers will surround the homes of suspected insurgent...
Afghan elite raiders say they are U.S. equals
photo: DOD / Public Domain

Afghan security forces to be reduced after 2014
Full Article Foreign Policy
Planning ahead: Afghan Defense Minister Gen. Abdul Rahim Wardak said Tuesday that the number of Afghan security forces will likely be reduced to 230,000 from their peak strength of 352,000 following the NATO withdrawal in 2014 (NYT). The projected number is based on a "conceptual model" of army, police, and border-protection troops that...
Afghan security forces to be reduced after 2014
photo: US DoD / Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo

Vladimir Putin: NATO 'Relic Of The Cold War Era'
Full Article Huffington Post
MOSCOW -- Vladimir Putin on Wednesday called NATO a "relic of the Cold War era," but said Russia should nonetheless continue supporting the alliance's mission in Afghanistan. Putin, who won a third presidential term last month, defended the government's intention to offer NATO a new logistics facility on Russian territory to facilitate transit of...
Russian Prime Minister and President-elect Vladimir Putin gestures while speaking at the State Duma, Russian Parliament's lower house, in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, April 11, 2012.
photo: AP / Ivan Sekretarev

Indonesia issues tsunami warning after 8.9-magnitude earthquake
Full Article The Guardian
Tremors from earthquake off Aceh province reportedly felt in Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and India Indonesia's westernmost Aceh province was devastated by the tsunami of 26 December 2004. Photograph: Kimimasa Mayama/Reuters...
File: Residents flee their homes after an earthquake in Banda Aceh on Sumatra island, Indonesia, Wednesday, April 7, 2010.
photo: AP / Heri Juanda

Aung San Suu Kyi meets with Myanmar's president
Full Article Denver Post
Click photo to enlargeU.S. Democratic Sen. Jim Webb gestures while talking to journalists during a press conference at the U.S. Embassy Wednesday, April 11, 2012, in Yangon, Myanmar. «1»YANGON, Myanmar—The architects of political reconciliation in Myanmar, President Thein Sein and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, met Wednesday...
Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, second left, talks to journalists during a press conference after meeting with the representatives of the Karen National Union (KNU) at her lakeside residence Sunday, April 8, 2012, in Yangon, Myanmar.
photo: AP / Khin Maung Win

Obama, Women, City Hunger and Animal Terror
Full Article WorldNews.com
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


April 08, 2012 "Salon" -- One of the more extreme government abuses of the post-9/11 era...
Fatima Atwi clung to the railings of the balcony over the road from the beautiful village...

This is a Monday Dec.13, 2010. file photo of the first Algerian president Ahmed Ben Bella seen in Algiers. Ahmed Ben Bella served as Algeria's first president after this North African country gained independence from France after a brutal seven-year war.
Algeria's first post-independence president, Ahmed Ben Bella, who died Wednesday at the age of 95, was a charismatic revolutionary who fought alongside the French during World War II before becoming a hero of his own country's liberation struggle....
photo: AP
Prime Minister Lucas Papademos, arrives for his meeting with the leaders of the three parties backing Greece's coalition government, in Athens on Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012.
Greece is to hold a snap general election on May 6 amid popular opposition to European Union imposed austerity measures and deep anger at how the Greek governing coalition has handled the country's economic crisis. Greece's Prime Minister Lucas...
photo: AP / Kostas Tsironis
Hillary Clinton hops onto 'Texts from Hillary' meme
Reporting from Washington— In what may be the first approval of a meme by the State Department, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took time to throw her endorsement behind the popular Tumblr account. Based off of photos of Clinton taken by...
photo: European Community / EC
BJP protests Mamata's sops to imams
Kolkata: The BJP on Wednesday criticised West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's announcement of sops to imams and said no government could provide...
photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick
Anti-Syrian regime protesters chant slogans, during a demonstration against Syrian President Bashar Assad and to show their solidarity with the Syrian people, in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Friday, Feb. 24, 2012. The United States, Europe and Arab countries were set Friday to back a proposal for Syria's president to step aside and allow in humanitarian assistance to end a brutal crackdown against opponents. (AP Photo)
BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's state-run news agency says the military will stop fighting in time for Thursday's deadline for a cease-fire brokered by special envoy Kofi Annan. But the report on Wednesday said Syria reserves the right to respond to any...
photo: AP
The Winners and Losers of the Taliban Reintegration Process
In Foggy Bottom, Washington, D.C., the future of Afghanistan regularly features as the theme of intense discussions at the U.S. Department of State and the United States Institute for Peace (USIP). As the 2014 deadline for withdrawal of international...
photo: DOD / Public Domain
Vladimir Putin 32nd G8 Summit-5
Vladimir Putin declared the post-Soviet period over and promised Russia a rosy economic future in his last major speech as prime minister on Wednesday, but failed to address the recent wave of public discontent over his return to the presidency....
photo: Creative Commons / Presidential Press and Information Office

Kofi Annan: Syria needs UN presence; updated 08 Apr 2012; published 06 Apr 2012
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Kofi Annan: Syria needs UN presence
Al Jazeera 11 Apr 2012, Syria has told Kofi Annan, the special peace envoy of the UN and Arab League, that it will halt all fighting by Thursday morning but reserves the right to respond to any attack by "armed terrorist groups", his spokesman said. In a letter the Syrian Foreign Ministry said Damascus agreed "to cease all military fighting throughout Syrian...

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Afghan security forces airmen from the Kandahar Air Wing conducting a foot patrol; updated 07 Mar 2012; published 02 Mar 2011
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Afghan security forces airmen from the Kandahar Air Wing conducting a foot patrol
Daily Press 11 Apr 2012, KABUL (Reuters) - It's a special-forces entry like no other and guaranteed to spoil the element of surprise, but Afghanistan's new elite soldiers insist they will be no less effective in countering insurgents than controversial night raids by U.S. forces. Under cover of darkness, Afghan soldiers will surround the homes of suspected insurgent...

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Pentagon: US In Afghanistan Until 2024; updated 22 Mar 2012; published 19 Oct 2011
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Pentagon: US In Afghanistan Until 2024
Foreign Policy 11 Apr 2012, Planning ahead: Afghan Defense Minister Gen. Abdul Rahim Wardak said Tuesday that the number of Afghan security forces will likely be reduced to 230,000 from their peak strength of 352,000 following the NATO withdrawal in 2014 (NYT). The projected number is based on a "conceptual model" of army, police, and border-protection troops that...

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Putin: Who gave NATO right to kill Gaddafi?; updated 10 Apr 2012; published 26 Apr 2011
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Putin: Who gave NATO right to kill Gaddafi?
Huffington Post 11 Apr 2012, MOSCOW -- Vladimir Putin on Wednesday called NATO a "relic of the Cold War era," but said Russia should nonetheless continue supporting the alliance's mission in Afghanistan. Putin, who won a third presidential term last month, defended the government's intention to offer NATO a new logistics facility on Russian territory to facilitate transit of...

EARTH QUAKE AND TSUNAMI in INDONESIA 11- 4-2012; updated 11 Apr 2012; published 11 Apr 2012
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EARTH QUAKE AND TSUNAMI in INDONESIA 11- 4-2012
The Guardian 11 Apr 2012, Tremors from earthquake off Aceh province reportedly felt in Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and India Indonesia's westernmost Aceh province was devastated by the tsunami of 26 December 2004. Photograph: Kimimasa Mayama/Reuters...

Truth vs Hype - Inside Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi's moment; updated 10 Apr 2012; published 09 Apr 2012
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Truth vs Hype - Inside Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi's moment
Denver Post 11 Apr 2012, Click photo to enlargeU.S. Democratic Sen. Jim Webb gestures while talking to journalists during a press conference at the U.S. Embassy Wednesday, April 11, 2012, in Yangon, Myanmar. «1»YANGON, Myanmar—The architects of political reconciliation in Myanmar, President Thein Sein and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, met Wednesday...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

Dead Wrong: Colin Powell's UN Speech; updated 29 Mar 2012; published 02 Oct 2006
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Dead Wrong: Colin Powell's UN Speech
Jakarta Globe 11 Apr 2012, United Nations. Syria’s yearlong turmoil could stoke violence in neighboring Iraq, where more than 600 people were killed in religion-related attacks in the first three months of...

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...





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