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Cairo protests against Mubarak-era candidates
Full Article Al Jazeera
Thousands of Egyptians have taken to the streets in support of parliamentary legislation that bans former top officials from the regime of Hosni Mubarak from running for president. The legislation, passed on Thursday, is subject to approval by the country's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), the military council which has been running the...
Egyptian protesters hold a giant Egyptian flag during a rally in Tahrir Square to denounce the presidential candidacies of Hosni Mubarak-era officials, including that of his former spy chief in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, April 13, 2012.
photo: AP / Amr Nabil

David Cameron calls for Burma sanctions to be suspended
Full Article The Independent
Making a historic visit to the former British colony, the Prime Minitser insisted that moves towards democratic reform should be rewarded. He was standing alongside the Nobel Peace Prize laureate in the garden of the lakeside villa where she spent 15 years under house arrest. "I think it is right to suspend sanctions that there are against...
File - In this photo taken on Thursday, March 22, 2012, a child from Myanmar scavenges for a living on rubbish at the dump site in Thailand's Mae Sot town near the Thai-Myanmar border.
photo: AP / Arturo Rodriguez

Iran's Now Ruz and the P5+1 Summit
Full Article WorldNews.com
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling It is too bad that in the midst of just celebrating Now Ruz (Iran's New Year), that U.S. leaders continue making quarrelsome, even aggressive, remarks against Iran. This new and hope-filled year for Iranians was met with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's comments that "they (Iran) have given little...
Iranian women play ball during a picnic marking the ancient festival of Sizdeh Bedar, or public picnic day, at the end of thirteen-day Iranian New Year holidays, outside the northeastern city of Esfarayen, Iran, Sunday, April 1, 2012.
photo: AP / Vahid Salemi

Afghan president mulls early presidential elections in 2013, raising option he could step down
Full Article Yahoo Daily News
KABUL - Afghanistan's president raised the prospect Thursday of holding presidential elections a year early to avoid a potentially deadly concurrence of a transition of power and a major drawdown of international forces in 2014. The suggestion could mean that President Hamid Karzai is looking for a graceful exit ahead of what many Afghans predict...
File - Hamid Karzai (on pedestal, right), President of Afghanistan, is greeted by the Afghan National Army honour guard as he arrives at his country’s parliamentary inauguration ceremony, the second since 2001, 25 January, 2011.
photo: UN / Eric Kanalstein

North Korea rocket launch failed, says South
Full Article Yahoo Daily News
North Korea on Friday launched a long-range rocket that appears to have disintegrated soon after blastoff and fallen into the ocean, South Korean and Japanese authorities said. South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-Hwan said Friday that North Korea's rocket launch had failed. "North Korea fired a de-facto long-range missile this morning, but it...
South Korean soldier watches a TV news reporting about North Korea's long-range rocket at Seoul train station in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, April 13, 2012.
photo: AP / Lee Jin-man

UN considering 30 military observers for Syria
Full Article Palm Beach Post
UNITED NATIONS — A draft resolution being considered by the U.N. Security Council would authorize a first group of up to 30 unarmed military observers to deploy to Syria to monitor a cease-fire between government forces and opposition fighters. The draft, obtained Thursday by The Associated Press, demands that the government ensure freedom of...
A pro-Syrian regime protester waves a Syrian flag as he stands in front of portrait of Syrian President Bashar Assad, during a protest against sanctions, Damascus, Syria, Friday Dec. 2, 2011.
photo: AP / Muzaffar Salman

End of 'one state, two armies', says Nepal Premier
Full Article The Hindu
Two days after the Nepal government took control of Maoist army cantonments, combatants and weapons, Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai declared that the situation of “one state, two armies” had ended. While certain “technical” issues remain, the Dr. Bhattarai asserted that the task of army integration was complete. In a...
Nepal’s Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai addresses a press conference days after Nepal decided to bring former Maoist combatants under the direct control of the army, in Katmandu, Nepal, Thursday, April 12, 2012.
photo: AP / Binod Joshi

Sarkozy, Hollande spar over markets
Full Article Gulf News
Paris: Socialist presidential frontrunner Francois Hollande has accused Nicolas Sarkozy of encouraging market volatility for political ends after the conservative said victory for Hollande could spur a crisis of confidence in France. With tensions between the two rivals mounting ten days from the first presidential election round on April 22,...
French President and conservative candidate for the 2012 presidential election Nicolas Sarkozy arrives at a campaign meeting Saint-Brice-sous-Foret, north of Paris, Thursday, April 12, 2012
photo: AP / Philippe Wojazer, Poo

Ann Romney criticism sparks political row over women
Full Article BBC News
A Democratic strategist is defending her comment that Ann Romney, the wife of Republican candidate Mitt Romney, "never worked a day in her life". Hilary Rosen made the remark during an interview on CNN, and says Republicans are trying to use it to draw attention away from Mr Romney's record. But Obama campaign manager Jim Messina has...
Ann Romney, front left, wife of Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, right, addresses an audience during a victory rally in Schaumburg, Ill., after Romney won the Illinois Republican presidential primary, Tuesday, March 20, 2012.
photo: AP / Steven Senne

Syrian ceasefire brings uneasy calm
Full Article The Guardian
Residents tell of first nervous steps outdoors, but fear and distrust of government forces continue The Syrian capital, Damascus, at sunrise on the first day of the ceasefire. Photograph: Khaled Al-Hariri/Reuters...
In this Friday, April 6, 2012 photo, a Free Syrian Army fighter checks a street corner after hearing gun shots during fighting with Syrian troops in a suburb of Damascus, Syria.
photo: AP / Mohammad Hannon


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UN plans mission to enforce Syria ceasefire
The United Nations was drawing up plans for a 200-strong monitoring mission to Syria on Thursday after its envoy, Kofi Annan, declared that the Assad regime had failed to implement his peace plan by withdrawing troops from the streets. Residents of...
photo: UN / Devra Berkowitz
NATO says handover to Afghan troops on schedule
Kabul -- NATO said Thursday it is on track to fully hand over responsibility for securing Afghanistan to local forces by the end of 2014 as scheduled. NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen also said Afghan troops would be ready to take...
photo: DOD / Public Domain
Kubica Bahrain Grand Prix 2010
Shanghai: The Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix will go ahead as scheduled next week, the governing FIA said on Friday, despite continuing anti-government protests like those which forced the cancellation of the race last year. The International...
photo: Creative Commons / Chubbennaitor
File - Ben Emmerson, UN Special Rapporteur on Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights, briefs correspondents at UN Headquarters, 21 October, 2011.
The UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism, Ben Emmerson, said that the controversial ruling had been reached "on dubious legal grounds" and warned it would hamper efforts to establish the truth of what British...
photo: UN / Eskinder Debebe
Louis Gallois, Chief Executive Officer of the European Aeronautic Defence & Space Co. EADS, ponders a question during the 2007 full-year results in Paris Tuesday, March 11, 2008.
PARIS — In his six years at the helm of Europe’s largest aerospace and military contractor, Louis Gallois has made it a large part of his mission to push his company deeper into emerging markets to offset flagging demand and high...
photo: AP / Francois Mori
In this photo taken on a government-organized tour for the media, a Syrian woman passes by Syrian government army soldiers, at one of several suburbs of Damascus that saw heavy fighting between troops and defectors before Assad's forces retook the areas in late January, in Harasta suburb, Damascus, Syria, on Wednesday Feb. 15, 2012.
The United Nations was drawing up plans for a 200-strong monitoring mission to Syria after its envoy, Kofi Annan, declared that the Assad regime had failed to implement his peace plan by withdrawing troops from the streets. ...
photo: AP / Muzaffar Salman
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, waves before addressing an audience during a campaign event, in Warwick, R.I., Wednesday, April 11, 2012.
With the effective election of Mitt Romney as the Republican candidate, the US presidential election has started in earnest. The Republican primaries were an ideological war of attrition within the party between its right-wing — who were trying...
photo: AP / Steven Senne

Fresh protests hit Cairo's Tahrir; updated 13 Apr 2012; published 13 Apr 2012
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Fresh protests hit Cairo's Tahrir
Al Jazeera 13 Apr 2012, Thousands of Egyptians have taken to the streets in support of parliamentary legislation that bans former top officials from the regime of Hosni Mubarak from running for president. The legislation, passed on Thursday, is subject to approval by the country's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), the military council which has been running the...

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Clinton Announces Easing of Burma Sanctions; updated 05 Apr 2012; published 05 Apr 2012
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Clinton Announces Easing of Burma Sanctions
The Independent 13 Apr 2012, Making a historic visit to the former British colony, the Prime Minitser insisted that moves towards democratic reform should be rewarded. He was standing alongside the Nobel Peace Prize laureate in the garden of the lakeside villa where she spent 15 years under house arrest. "I think it is right to suspend sanctions that there are against...

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Norooz, The Persian New Year; updated 09 Apr 2012; published 19 Mar 2009
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Norooz, The Persian New Year
WorldNews.com 13 Apr 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling It is too bad that in the midst of just celebrating Now Ruz (Iran's New Year), that U.S. leaders continue making quarrelsome, even aggressive, remarks against Iran. This new and hope-filled year for Iranians was met with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's comments that "they (Iran) have given little...

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Q&A following Joint Press Conference in Kabul by NATO's Secgen and President Karzai; updated 12 Apr 2012; published 12 Apr 2012
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Q&A; following Joint Press Conference in Kabul by NATO's Secgen and President Karzai
Yahoo Daily News 13 Apr 2012, KABUL - Afghanistan's president raised the prospect Thursday of holding presidential elections a year early to avoid a potentially deadly concurrence of a transition of power and a major drawdown of international forces in 2014. The suggestion could mean that President Hamid Karzai is looking for a graceful exit ahead of what many Afghans predict...

North Korea Rocket Launch Fails (Reuters); updated 13 Apr 2012; published 13 Apr 2012
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North Korea Rocket Launch Fails (Reuters)
Yahoo Daily News 13 Apr 2012, North Korea on Friday launched a long-range rocket that appears to have disintegrated soon after blastoff and fallen into the ocean, South Korean and Japanese authorities said. South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-Hwan said Friday that North Korea's rocket launch had failed. "North Korea fired a de-facto long-range missile this morning, but it...

Russia and China join UN call for Syria peace; updated 23 Mar 2012; published 21 Mar 2012
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Russia and China join UN call for Syria peace
Palm Beach Post 13 Apr 2012, UNITED NATIONS — A draft resolution being considered by the U.N. Security Council would authorize a first group of up to 30 unarmed military observers to deploy to Syria to monitor a cease-fire between government forces and opposition fighters. The draft, obtained Thursday by The Associated Press, demands that the government ensure freedom of...

No need to form state restructuring commission : Dr. Bhattarai; updated 25 Aug 2010; published 03 Feb 2010
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No need to form state restructuring commission : Dr. Bhattarai
The Hindu 12 Apr 2012, Two days after the Nepal government took control of Maoist army cantonments, combatants and weapons, Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai declared that the situation of “one state, two armies” had ended. While certain “technical” issues remain, the Dr. Bhattarai asserted that the task of army integration was complete. In a...

Marine le Pen accuse Nicolas Sarkozy de brader la souveraineté à l'Allemagne MLP Sarkozy Hollande; updated 10 Feb 2012; published 02 Dec 2011
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Marine le Pen accuse Nicolas Sarkozy de brader la souveraineté à l'Allemagne MLP Sarkozy Hollande
Gulf News 12 Apr 2012, Paris: Socialist presidential frontrunner Francois Hollande has accused Nicolas Sarkozy of encouraging market volatility for political ends after the conservative said victory for Hollande could spur a crisis of confidence in France. With tensions between the two rivals mounting ten days from the first presidential election round on April 22,...

Obama and DNC advisor Hilary Rosen Attacks Ann Romney; updated 13 Apr 2012; published 12 Apr 2012
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Obama and DNC advisor Hilary Rosen Attacks Ann Romney
BBC News 12 Apr 2012, A Democratic strategist is defending her comment that Ann Romney, the wife of Republican candidate Mitt Romney, "never worked a day in her life". Hilary Rosen made the remark during an interview on CNN, and says Republicans are trying to use it to draw attention away from Mr Romney's record. But Obama campaign manager Jim Messina has...

Ceasefire in Syria: Assad, rebels hold fire as deadline arrives; updated 13 Apr 2012; published 12 Apr 2012
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Ceasefire in Syria: Assad, rebels hold fire as deadline arrives
The Guardian 12 Apr 2012, Residents tell of first nervous steps outdoors, but fear and distrust of government forces continue The Syrian capital, Damascus, at sunrise on the first day of the ceasefire. Photograph: Khaled Al-Hariri/Reuters...

Turkish Villagers Watch Syrian Crisis Unfold; updated 09 Dec 2011; published 12 Jun 2011
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Turkish Villagers Watch Syrian Crisis Unfold
Gulf News 12 Apr 2012, Turkish-Syrian relations have further deteriorated in recent weeks. Each country blames the other for adopting hostile policies. There is even speculation that the two countries might be on the brink of a full-fledged military confrontation. The shooting of Syrian refugees inside Turkish territories by the Syrian army last week triggered a wave of...

Cell Phone Hacking Via Wireless Carrier Repeater; updated 26 Mar 2012; published 27 Dec 2011
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Cell Phone Hacking Via Wireless Carrier Repeater
CNN 12 Apr 2012, April 12, 2012 -- Updated 1405 GMT (2205 HKT) British lawyer Mark Lewis said he would meet with U.S. lawyers in New York next week to discuss the cases. London (CNN) -- British lawyer Mark Lewis said Thursday he is preparing to take legal action on behalf of three clients who believe their phones were hacked while they were in the United States....

Mali junta announces new constitution; updated 28 Mar 2012; published 28 Mar 2012
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Mali junta announces new constitution
BBC News 12 Apr 2012, An interim president in Mali is to be sworn in later, marking a return to civilian rule following last month's coup in the West African state. Parliamentary speaker Dioncounda Traore's government will have 40 days to organise elections. But the BBC's Thomas Fessy says this...

Trayvon Martin 911 Call; updated 13 Apr 2012; published 20 Mar 2012
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Trayvon Martin 911 Call
Chicago Sun-Times 12 Apr 2012, Updated: April 12, 2012 1:11AM Despite the divisive nature of the Trayvon Martin shooting controversy, the teen’s death has forced the nation to take notice of how the criminal justice system fails black people. It should not have taken national protests to force those who are charged with protecting citizens to conclude it was criminal for a...





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