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North Korean rocket's failure fuels ceremonial fireworks
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, with Kim Yong Nam, right, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, attends the unveiling ceremony for massive statues of late leaders Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung in Pyongyang on Friday. (Ng Han Guan, The Associated Press) SEOUL, south korea — For the new North Korean leader,...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left waves as North Korean military officers clap in a stadium in Pyongyang during a mass meeting called by the Central Committee of North Korea's ruling party on Saturday April 14, 2012.
photo: AP / Ng Han Guan

Afghan woman MP sets sights on presidency
Full Article Yahoo Daily News
KABUL (Reuters) - Condemned to die shortly after birth for being a girl, outspoken Afghan member of parliament Fawzia Koofi lived to become a champion of women's rights and is now eyeing the presidency in 2014. The 36-year-old expects harsh opposition, threats of violence and pressure against her family as her campaign gets underway to replace...
File - Afghan Parliament Member Fawzia Koofi gestures while speaking during a panel 'Can We Still Win In Afghanistan' during the Brussels Forum in Brussels, Saturday April 28, 2007.
photo: AP / Virginia Mayo

Iran and world powers set for nuclear talks
Full Article Al Jazeera
Iran and world powers are due to meet in Turkey on Saturday in a bid to reach a breakthrough on the Islamic Republic's disputed nuclear programme. The negotiations in Istanbul, the first between Iran and the six powers (the United States, France, Russia, China, Germany and Britain) in 15 months, are unlikely to yield any major breakthroughs, but...
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, bottom second left, visits Iran's Fuel Manufacturing Plant (FMP), a new facility producing uranium fuel for a planned heavy-water nuclear reactor, just outside the city of Isfahan 255 mile (410 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Thursday, April 9, 2009. The West fears the reactor could eventually be used for producing a nuclear weapon. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has announced the plant's opening during a ceremony in the central city of Isfahan. The plant will produce pellets of uranium oxide to fuel the heavy-water research reactor, which is scheduled to be completed in 2009 or 2010.
photo: AP / Vahid Salemi

Syria ceasefire: UN expected to vote on monitor team
Full Article BBC News
The UN Security Council is set to hold a vote on a resolution authorising the deployment of monitors to Syria to oversee the ceasefire there. A draft text was...
Supporters of the Free Syrian Army ride a motorcycle with a rocket-propelled grenade in Kafar Taharim, Syria, Friday, Feb. 24., 2012.
photo: AP / Rodrigo Abd

Sudan's armed forces advancing on Heglig town
Full Article Al Jazeera
Sudan's armed forces are on the outskirts of Heglig town and are advancing toward the settlement, which was occupied by South Sudan this week, a Sudanese military spokesman said. "We are now on the outskirts of Heglig town," Al-Sawarmi Khalid Saad told reporters in Khartoum. "The armed forces are advancing toward...
Secretary general of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement, and Chief Negotiator of southern Sudan Pagan Amum speaks during a press conference in Nairobi Kenya, Friday April 13, 2012.
photo: AP / Khalil Senosi

Three civilians killed as Syrians demonstrate to test ceasefire
Full Article Gulf News
Damascus: Thousands of Syrians marched on Friday to test the regime's commitment to a UN-backed peace plan, and the fragile two-day old ceasefire was again shaken when security forces killed three protesters. The hard-won truce to end a 13-month crackdown on dissent that has cost an estimated more than 10,000 lives appeared to be holding, but...
A Free Syrian Army fighter stands guard during the funeral for four people killed in a raid by government forces in a neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, Thursday, April 5, 2012.
photo: AP / Mohammad Hannon

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
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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
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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


Tehran signals willingness to trade uranium enrichment limits on eve of first negotiations on...
OTSU, Japan (Reuters) - Japan's nuclear power industry had never spent much time or money...

Emperor Penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri), Ross Ice Shelf, Cape Washington, Antarctica
The first census of penguins at the South Pole has found nearly 600,000 - twice the number thought to be there. Using state-of-the-art satellite imagery, scientists found 44...
photo: GFDL / Dbush
Soldiers carry a table displaying stacks of seized U.S. dollars, at a media presentation in Mexico City, Tuesday Nov. 22, 2011. The cache of $15.3 million found inside a car in a downtown Tijuanna neighborhood is believed by authorities to belong to members of the Sinaloa drug cartel.
- Back in the 1990s, when many Latin American governments were aligned with Washington's wider political and economic goals in the hemisphere, the so-called "Summits of the Americas" rarely displayed any contentious fireworks. Yet times have changed...
photo: AP / Eduardo Verdugo
Pentagon: U.S. must keep a close eye on North Korea
Related StoriesAround the Web North Korea’s three-stage rocket launch, though a failure, is still a violation of international law, the Pentagon said Friday. Pentagon spokesman George Little said Friday’s launch of the Unha-3 rocket...
photo: US DoD / Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrives for the unveiling ceremony for statues of late leaders Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung on Mansudae in Pyongyang, North Korea, Friday, April 13, 2012.
For a regime which stage-manages everything and almost never admits to failure, what has happened could not be more disastrous for North Korea. The rocket was meant as the piece de resistance in celebrating the centenary of Kim Il-sung, the founding...
photo: AP / Ng Han Guan
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...
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North Korean Rocket Launch Fails; updated 14 Apr 2012; published 13 Apr 2012
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North Korean Rocket Launch Fails
Denver Post 14 Apr 2012, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, with Kim Yong Nam, right, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, attends the unveiling ceremony for massive statues of late leaders Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung in Pyongyang on Friday. (Ng Han Guan, The Associated Press) SEOUL, south korea — For the new North Korean leader,...

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Fawzia Koofi on Studio 4 with Fanny Kiefer Part 1 of 2; updated 21 Feb 2012; published 09 Jun 2011
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Fawzia Koofi on Studio 4 with Fanny Kiefer Part 1 of 2
Yahoo Daily News 14 Apr 2012, KABUL (Reuters) - Condemned to die shortly after birth for being a girl, outspoken Afghan member of parliament Fawzia Koofi lived to become a champion of women's rights and is now eyeing the presidency in 2014. The 36-year-old expects harsh opposition, threats of violence and pressure against her family as her campaign gets underway to replace...

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Iran welcomes Turkey's Erdogan, playing down Syria split; updated 29 Mar 2012; published 29 Mar 2012
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Iran welcomes Turkey's Erdogan, playing down Syria split
Al Jazeera 14 Apr 2012, Iran and world powers are due to meet in Turkey on Saturday in a bid to reach a breakthrough on the Islamic Republic's disputed nuclear programme. The negotiations in Istanbul, the first between Iran and the six powers (the United States, France, Russia, China, Germany and Britain) in 15 months, are unlikely to yield any major breakthroughs, but...

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UN: 'world is watching Syria with sceptical eyes'; updated 13 Apr 2012; published 12 Apr 2012
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UN: 'world is watching Syria with sceptical eyes'
BBC News 14 Apr 2012, The UN Security Council is set to hold a vote on a resolution authorising the deployment of monitors to Syria to oversee the ceasefire there. A draft text was...

George Clooney Witnesses War Crimes in Sudan's Nuba Mountains; updated 12 Apr 2012; published 13 Mar 2012
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George Clooney Witnesses War Crimes in Sudan's Nuba Mountains
Al Jazeera 13 Apr 2012, Sudan's armed forces are on the outskirts of Heglig town and are advancing toward the settlement, which was occupied by South Sudan this week, a Sudanese military spokesman said. "We are now on the outskirts of Heglig town," Al-Sawarmi Khalid Saad told reporters in Khartoum. "The armed forces are advancing toward...

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
Gulf News 13 Apr 2012, Damascus: Thousands of Syrians marched on Friday to test the regime's commitment to a UN-backed peace plan, and the fragile two-day old ceasefire was again shaken when security forces killed three protesters. The hard-won truce to end a 13-month crackdown on dissent that has cost an estimated more than 10,000 lives appeared to be holding, but...

Cairo protests against Mubarak-era candidates; updated 14 Apr 2012; published 13 Apr 2012
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Cairo protests against Mubarak-era candidates
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...

Suu Kyi welcomes suspension of Burma sanctions; updated 13 Apr 2012; published 13 Apr 2012
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Suu Kyi welcomes suspension 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...

Norooz, The Persian New Year; updated 12 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...

Afghanistan's Karzai to US Troops: Leave Our Villages; updated 25 Mar 2012; published 16 Mar 2012
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Afghanistan's Karzai to US Troops: Leave Our Villages
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 Korean Rocket Launch Fails; updated 14 Apr 2012; published 13 Apr 2012
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North Korean Rocket Launch Fails
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...

Inside Syria - Will Annan's Syria peace plan succeed?; updated 14 Apr 2012; published 08 Apr 2012
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Inside Syria - Will Annan's Syria peace plan succeed?
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,...





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