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Turkey curtails military's clout in politics
Full Article Palm Beach Post
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey's Islamic-rooted government has scored two victories in its quest to end the military's decades-long influence over politics. This week, it sent one of the country's most powerful generals to jail for leading efforts to force the resignation of the country's first Islamist prime minister. Earlier in the month, it put...
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses the lawmakers of his Islamic-rooted party at the parliament in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012.
photo: AP

Federalism in Libya: Tried and failed
Full Article Al Jazeera
- In today's Libya, local is king. Yet, if Libya is to become a functioning state that derives its legitimacy and stability from resource extraction, wealth distribution, and empowering its citizens, the interim government of the National Transitional Council (NTC) must become king. In the run-up to the June elections many militias and civil...
File - A Libyan protester shouts slogans against Libyan Leader Moammar Ghadafi during a demonstration before Friday prayers, in Benghazi, Libya, on Friday Feb. 25, 2011.
photo: AP / Hussein Malla

George Zimmerman's attorney to ask for bond
Full Article CNN
April 20, 2012 -- Updated 0516 GMT (1316 HKT) George Zimmerman's bond request will be heard Friday in Florida. (CNN) -- An attorney will ask a Florida judge Friday to allow George Zimmerman to post bond despite ongoing concerns about his safety amid a national uproar over his role in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman went...
FILE - In this Thursday, April 12, 2012 file photo, George Zimmerman, right, stands next to a Seminole County Deputy during a court hearing in Sanford, Fla.
photo: AP / Gary W. Green, Orlando Sentinel, Pool

Judge ruling indicates Abu Qatada could be granted bail once again
Full Article The Daily Telegraph
A senior immigration judge has given the clearest indication yet that Abu Qatada could once again be released on bail because of the chaos over his appeal. A senior immigration judge has given the clearest indication yet that Abu Qatada could once again be released on bail because of the chaos over his appeal. Photo: AP By Tom Whitehead,...
Abu Qatada is driven away after being refused bail at a hearing at London's Special Immigration Appeals Commission, which handles deportation and security cases, in London, Tuesday, April 17, 2012.
photo: AP / Matt Dunham

Clinton urges arms embargo to stem violence in Syria
Full Article Detroit news
By Anne Gearan and Jamey Keaten Associated Press Comments Syrian mourners carry the body Wednesday of a 9-year-old who was shot by Syrian forces in Damascus. Troops and army defectors clashed Thursday. (Associated Press) Paris - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called Thursday for the U.N. Security Council to adopt an arms embargo and other...
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton talks with France's Foreign Minister Alain Juppe during a meeting on Syria, Thursday, April 19, 2012, in Paris.
photo: AP / Jacquelyn Martin

'Huge' water resource exists under Africa
Full Article BBC News
Scientists say the notoriously dry continent of Africa is sitting on a vast reservoir of groundwater. They argue that...
File - Sudanese Red Crescent volunteers hand out chlorine tablets supplied by UNICEF at water gathering points along the river Nile
photo: UN / Tim McKulka

Protests rage as Bahrain Grand Prix event to start
Full Article Zeenews
Manama: Formula One cars take to the track in Bahrain on Friday with the government hoping a successful Grand Prix will draw a line under more than a year of Arab Spring protests and activists promising to mark the motor race with "days of rage". On the eve of the first practice session, police fired tear gas and stun grenades to disperse...
Bahrain policemen check bags at a gate of the Formula One Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir, Bahrain, Friday, April 20, 2012.
photo: AP / Luca Bruno

Bombs kill 30 in Iraq's worst violence in a month
Full Article Atlanta Journal
BAGHDAD — Bombs ripped through 10 Iraqi cities Thursday, killing at least 30 people and shattering a month of relative calm. Minority lawmakers decried the violence as a tragic but inevitable result of the Shiite-led government's attempts to dominate Iraqi politics. People gather at the scene of a car bomb attack in the Amil neighborhood of...
People gather at the scene of a car bomb attack in the Amil neighborhood of Baghdad Iraq, Thursday, April 19, 2012.
photo: AP / Karim Kadim

Beware of the Little Breivik and Big Hitler in Each of Us
Full Article WorldNews.com
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. When Adolf Hitler, leader of the Third Reich, declared, "The entire struggle for survival is a conquest of the means of existence, which in turn results in the elimination of others from these same sources of subsistence," he was speaking to millions of people who collectively shared his vision and...
Accused Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik arrives at the courtroom, in Oslo, Norway, Tuesday April 17, 2012.
photo: AP / Frank Augstein

The significance of indigenous mobilisations
Full Article Al Jazeera
- Indigenous politics tend to be understood as local anecdotes, rather than political events of international significance. So it is of little surprise that the funeral of Bernardo Vásquez in San José del Progreso, Oaxaca, Mexico, generated little international attention. Vásquez was the second anti-mining activist shot dead in...
A man holds a sign that reads in Spanish: "Libertad's Laguna Sur, non-viable", referring to a mining project in Peru's northern state of La Libertad, during a protest against the Conga gold and silver mining project in Lima, Peru, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012.
photo: AP / Martin Mejia


When Palestinian hunger striker Khader Adnan called his mother at 11:30pm on Tuesday...
LORAIN, Ohio — Eager to show conservative Republicans that he's ready to take the fight...

Policemen patrol at a checkpoint outside the Formula One Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir, Bahrain, Friday, April 20, 2012.
Opposition activists in Bahrain are looking to exploit the global audience of Formula One to get their message out, explains the Telegraph's Colin Freeman. 560 315 TelegraphPlayer_9216154...
photo: AP / Luca Bruno
The grille of a Ford 2011 Explorer is seen at Formula Ford on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011 in Montpelier, Vt. Ford  earned its biggest profit in more than a decade in 2010 as robust car and truck sales and years of cost cuts paid off for the company.
By Jaclyn Trop The Detroit News Comments Marin Burela, president of Changan Ford Mazda Automobile Corp., left, and Chen Chen, right, of the Hangzhou Economic Technological Development Area, shake hands at Thursday's signing ceremony in Hangzhou....
photo: AP / Toby Talbot
A shouting protester holds a slogan against Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou outside the Taipei Flora Expo where Chen Yunlin, chairman of China's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait, is visiting, Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010, in Taipei, Taiwan. Senior envoys from China and Taiwan signed an agreement on Tuesday to cooperate in the development of new drugs, as the two economies continue to move closer.
Koo Kwang-ming, a leading advocate of Taiwanese independence, has called on Ma Ying-jeou, the President of the Republic of China in-exile, to resign because lack of public support for his Kuomintang government. Ma Ying-jeou was recently narrowly...
photo: AP / Chiang Ying-ying
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin waits to speak during a news conference at the Republican Governors Association Annual Conference in Miami, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008.
ALICIA A. CALDWELL Associated Press= WASHINGTON (AP) — One of the Secret Service supervisors ousted in the agency's ongoing prostitution scandal joked on Facebook that he was checking out former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin as...
photo: AP / Lynne Sladky
Rescued castaway Adrian Vasquez, second from right, is surrounded by family members upon his arrival to Tocumen international airport in Panama City, Tuesday, March 27, 2012.
An American cruise company says it deeply regrets that one of its ships failed to stop to help a fishing boat adrift in the Pacific Ocean. Two of the three Panamanians on board the disabled vessel later died. Princess Cruises said that although...
photo: AP / Arnulfo Franco
North Korea threatens to 'blow up' Seoul
Moscow, April 20 (IANS/RIA Novosti) North Korea has reportedly threatened military action against South Korea unless Seoul apologises for "insulting" the centenary celebrations of Pyongyang's late founding leader...
photo: AP / Ahn Young-joon
Nigeria President,Goodluck Jonathan, visits the site of the police headquarters bombed by a suicide bomber in Kano, Nigeria, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012.
Berlin: Nigeria's president is vowing that his government will rein in the threat from a radical Islamic sect that has waged an increasingly bloody sectarian fight in the...
photo: AP / Sunday Alamba

Inside Story - Will the 1980 coup trial heal Turkey's wounds?; updated 09 Apr 2012; published 05 Apr 2012
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Inside Story - Will the 1980 coup trial heal Turkey's wounds?
Palm Beach Post 20 Apr 2012, ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey's Islamic-rooted government has scored two victories in its quest to end the military's decades-long influence over politics. This week, it sent one of the country's most powerful generals to jail for leading efforts to force the resignation of the country's first Islamist prime minister. Earlier in the month, it put...

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Polygamy in Libya: Freedom won or rights infringed?; updated 16 Apr 2012; published 11 Mar 2012
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Polygamy in Libya: Freedom won or rights infringed?
Al Jazeera 20 Apr 2012, - In today's Libya, local is king. Yet, if Libya is to become a functioning state that derives its legitimacy and stability from resource extraction, wealth distribution, and empowering its citizens, the interim government of the National Transitional Council (NTC) must become king. In the run-up to the June elections many militias and civil...

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George Zimmerman appears in court; updated 16 Apr 2012; published 12 Apr 2012
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George Zimmerman appears in court
CNN 20 Apr 2012, April 20, 2012 -- Updated 0516 GMT (1316 HKT) George Zimmerman's bond request will be heard Friday in Florida. (CNN) -- An attorney will ask a Florida judge Friday to allow George Zimmerman to post bond despite ongoing concerns about his safety amid a national uproar over his role in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman went...

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Robin Simcox, Henry Jackson Society, on Abu Qatada's bail; updated 17 Feb 2012; published 07 Feb 2012
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Robin Simcox, Henry Jackson Society, on Abu Qatada's bail
The Daily Telegraph 20 Apr 2012, A senior immigration judge has given the clearest indication yet that Abu Qatada could once again be released on bail because of the chaos over his appeal. A senior immigration judge has given the clearest indication yet that Abu Qatada could once again be released on bail because of the chaos over his appeal. Photo: AP By Tom Whitehead,...

Clinton: Vetoed UN Syria Resolution 'travesty'; updated 18 Apr 2012; published 05 Feb 2012
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Clinton: Vetoed UN Syria Resolution 'travesty'
Detroit news 20 Apr 2012, By Anne Gearan and Jamey Keaten Associated Press Comments Syrian mourners carry the body Wednesday of a 9-year-old who was shot by Syrian forces in Damascus. Troops and army defectors clashed Thursday. (Associated Press) Paris - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called Thursday for the U.N. Security Council to adopt an arms embargo and other...

South Africa's Water Untapped with Anthony Turton; updated 18 Apr 2012; published 18 Apr 2012
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South Africa's Water Untapped with Anthony Turton
BBC News 20 Apr 2012, Scientists say the notoriously dry continent of Africa is sitting on a vast reservoir of groundwater. They argue that...

Bahrain protesters hurl firebombs at police ahead of Formula One Grand Prix; updated 19 Apr 2012; published 19 Apr 2012
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Bahrain protesters hurl firebombs at police ahead of Formula One Grand Prix
Zeenews 20 Apr 2012, Manama: Formula One cars take to the track in Bahrain on Friday with the government hoping a successful Grand Prix will draw a line under more than a year of Arab Spring protests and activists promising to mark the motor race with "days of rage". On the eve of the first practice session, police fired tear gas and stun grenades to disperse...

Deadly Explosions in Iraqi Cities 3/20/2012; updated 20 Mar 2012; published 20 Mar 2012
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Deadly Explosions in Iraqi Cities 3/20/2012
Atlanta Journal 19 Apr 2012, BAGHDAD — Bombs ripped through 10 Iraqi cities Thursday, killing at least 30 people and shattering a month of relative calm. Minority lawmakers decried the violence as a tragic but inevitable result of the Shiite-led government's attempts to dominate Iraqi politics. People gather at the scene of a car bomb attack in the Amil neighborhood of...

Horror Show: 'Breivik plans propaganda campaign from court'; updated 19 Apr 2012; published 16 Apr 2012
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Horror Show: 'Breivik plans propaganda campaign from court'
WorldNews.com 19 Apr 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. When Adolf Hitler, leader of the Third Reich, declared, "The entire struggle for survival is a conquest of the means of existence, which in turn results in the elimination of others from these same sources of subsistence," he was speaking to millions of people who collectively shared his vision and...

Native Ecuadorans protest mining projects; updated 13 Apr 2012; published 23 Mar 2012
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Native Ecuadorans protest mining projects
Al Jazeera 19 Apr 2012, - Indigenous politics tend to be understood as local anecdotes, rather than political events of international significance. So it is of little surprise that the funeral of Bernardo Vásquez in San José del Progreso, Oaxaca, Mexico, generated little international attention. Vásquez was the second anti-mining activist shot dead in...

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
National Public Radio 19 Apr 2012, UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said late Wednesday he isn't underestimating the gravity of the situation in Syria but believes there is an opportunity for progress and recommended the Security Council approve a 300-strong U.N. observer mission. Ban said in a letter to the council obtained by The Associated Press that he will...

Ban Ki-moon Says Syrian President Lacks Credibility; updated 09 Mar 2012; published 23 Jun 2011
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Ban Ki-moon Says Syrian President Lacks Credibility
Jakarta Globe 19 Apr 2012, United Nations. UN chief Ban Ki-moon has called for an expanded UN ceasefire observation mission in Syria even though he says Damascus has failed to adhere to an agreed peace plan. The UN leader said on Wednesday he wants 300 unarmed observers to be sent on a three-month mission, in a report to the UN Security Council that also said it was...

International community weighs options about Syria; updated 20 Apr 2012; published 19 Apr 2012
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International community weighs options about Syria
Chicago Tribune 19 Apr 2012, UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Syria has not fully complied with its obligations to withdraw troops and heavy weapons from towns and has yet to send a "clear signal" about its commitment to peace, the U.N. chief told the Security Council in a letter obtained by Reuters on Wednesday. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said an expanded U.N. monitoring mission...

Agni-V test-fired successfully,expands India's missile reach from China to Eastern Europe-TV9; updated 19 Apr 2012; published 19 Apr 2012
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Agni-V test-fired successfully,expands India's missile reach from China to Eastern Europe-TV9
The Siasat Daily 19 Apr 2012, New Delhi, April 19: India Thursday created history with the successful testing of the much awaited Agni-V long-range nuclear-capable ballistic missile that can accurately hit targets more than 5,000 km away. With this launch, India entered an exclusive club of nations that have this capability, becoming only the fourth nation in the world after...





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