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At least 103 die as ferry sinks in northeast India
Full Article Irish Times
GUWAHATI - Rescue workers fought heavy wind and rain to search for survivors after at least 103 people drowned on an overloaded ferry carrying about 300 people that sank at night on one of India's largest rivers yesterday, police said. About 100 people were rescued, said Jayanta...
A fisherman's boat crosses the river Brahmaputra, one of Asia's largest rivers, on the eve of World Water Day in Gauhati, India, Wednesday, March 21, 2012.
photo: AP / Anupam Nath

EU urges 'restraint' in Chinese activist case
Full Article Al Jazeera
The European Union has urged China to exercise "utmost restraint" in its handling of the blind dissident Chen Guangcheng, who escaped house arrest last week and is believed to be under US protection in Beijing. Chen escaped 19 months of house arrest on April 21, since when several supporters have been detained by police, but most have since been...
A Chinese paramilitary police officer stands guard at the entrance of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, China, Sunday, April 29, 2012.
photo: AP / Vincent Thian

Ukraine attacks soccer boycott as Cold War tactic
Full Article The Guardian
KIEV, April 30 (Reuters) - Ukraine described threats by European powers to boycott the Euro soccer championship it will host in June as a return to Cold War tactics on Monday, after several leaders called off their visits over the treatment of a leading opposition politician. Relations between Ukraine and the European Union have been strained by...
In this photo provided by Ukrainian Pravda taken Wednesday, April 25, 2012, former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko shows bruises on her body to Ukrainian Commissioner for Human Rights in Kachanovskaya prison in Kharkiv, Ukraine, which she said she sustained when prison guards attacked her on Friday April 20 when trying to transport her to a local hospital against her will.
photo: AP / Ukrainian Pravda

More than 20 killed in blasts in Syria's Idlib
Full Article Middle East Online
BEIRUT - More than 20 people were killed on Monday in blasts targeting security buildings in the city of Idlib, northwest Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The majority of those killed were members of the security forces, the Britain-based group said. Syrian state television put the death toll at eight, among them civilians, and...
In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a Syrian man, left, stands in front of a building that was damaged after two bombs exploded near a military compound, in the city of Idlib, northwestern Syria, Monday, April 30, 2012.
photo: AP / SANA

China's Maritime Navy and Politics of Acknowledgement
Full Article WorldNews.com
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling When a Chinese admiral proposed a permanent naval base in the Gulf of Aden, to support its anti-piracy operations, the United States was quick to condemn such a suggestion. And as armed naval vessels from the Philippines claim they caught Chinese fishermen poaching over a South China Sea shoal, causing...
In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a Russian naval vessel fires a shell during the China-Russia joint naval exercise in the Yellow Sea Thursday, April 26, 2012.
photo: AP / Xinhua, Wu Dengfeng

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in Burma visit
Full Article BBC News
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is meeting senior officials and addressing a joint session of parliament in Burma - the first foreigner to do so. Mr Ban, on a three-day visit to Burma, said he felt "optimistic" but warned of "hard work ahead", especially in the peace process with ethnic minorities. He will be...
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, center, arrives at a hotel Sunday, April 29, 2012 in Yangon, Myanmar. Ban arrived here Sunday on a three-day visit.
photo: AP / Khin Maung Win

Bahrain police 'continue to torture detainees'
Full Article BBC News
Human Rights Watch has accused Bahrain's police of continuing to beat and torture detainees, including minors. The report comes nearly six months after an independent inquiry prompted the government to pledge reforms. The country insists it is committed to putting the recommendations of its own report into the handling of protests in 2011 into...
Bahraini anti-government protesters stand in tear gas fired by riot police Saturday, April 28, 2012, in Abu Saiba, Bahrain, one of several areas where clashes erupted during protests supporting jailed opposition rights activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja.
photo: AP / Hasan Jamali

Sudan arrests foreigners in disputed border region
Full Article Mail Guardian South Africa
Sudan said it had arrested a Briton, a Norwegian and a South African on Saturday, accusing them of illegally entering a disputed oil-producing border area to spy for its enemy South Sudan. South Sudanese officials denied the allegations and said the men were working with the United...
In this Tuesday, April 24, 2012 photo, Sudanese armed forces stand near burnt oil pipes at the oil-rich border town of Heglig, Sudan.
photo: AP / Abd Raouf

Iran skeptical but open to U.S. overture on nuclear program
Full Article The Los Angeles Times
TEHRAN — Iranian officials expressed skepticism Saturday about possible Obama administration support for allowing the country to continue enriching some uranium but said it could be a good start for further negotiations on its disputed nuclear program. Senior U.S. officials have said they might agree to let Iran enrich uranium up to 5% purity...
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, listens to a technician during his visit of the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility some 200 miles (322 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran
photo: AP / Iranian Presidents office

Lebanon holds ship 'carrying weapons for Syria rebels'
Full Article BBC News
The Lebanese navy is holding a Sierra Leone-registered ship and says it has confiscated a large consignment of arms and ammunition it was carrying. The 11 crew members were detained after three shipping containers full of heavy and light weapons were found on the Lutfallah II. The BBC's Jim Muir in Beirut says it is believed the consignment...
The ship "Lutfallah II" believed to be carrying three containers of weapons, is docked at a Lebanese navy base, in Beirut, Lebanon, on Saturday April 28, 2012.
photo: AP / Hussein Malla


The Arab Spring has precipitated the rise of new politicians: formerly excluded or incarcerated...
Analysts warned that the apparent flight of Chen Guangcheng into the arms of US consular...

Seach for survivors after India ferry sinking
Divers and rescue workers are looking for survivors on the Brahmaputra river in India's Assam state, where a ferry capsized during a storm on Monday, killing at least 103 people. Police said about 100 people have been rescued. Some 40 bodies...
photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick
People gather at the site of a suicide bomb attack on the street in Jalingo, Nigeria Monday, April 30, 2012
The attacker rode a motorcycle into the convoy in Jalingo, the capital of Taraba state in north-east Nigeria, before detonating his explosives. The attack targeted police commissioner Mamman Sule, who was being driven toward his offices, near the...
photo: AP / Lynn Adda
Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos smiles as he arrives for a news conference in Athens, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012.
The leader of the Greek Socialist Pasok party, Evangelos Venizelos, has warned of a rise of the far right in elections in the country on 6 May. Mr Venizelos told a rally in Patras that voters should not allow neo-Nazis to "goose-step into...
photo: AP / Thanassis Stavrakis
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, looks at Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali Ahmed Karti during a joint news conference in Moscow, Russia, Monday, April 30, 2012
MOSCOW, April 30 (RIA Novosti) – Sudan has informed Moscow of its readiness to start negotiations with South Sudan to settle their conflict, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday. Lavrov’s statement came after his talks on...
photo: AP / Mikhail Metzel
US pastor Terry Jones burns Quran again
Controversial US pastor Terry Jones has burned more copies of the Quran and a depiction of the prophet Mohammed to protest...
photo: AP / Mary Altaffer
French Socialist Party candidate for the 2012 presidential elections Francois Hollande waves as he arrives to deliver his speech during a meeting in Paris, Sunday, April 29, 2012 as part of his campaign for the second round of the French presidential elections on May 6, 2012.
The two French presidential candidates have headed into the last round of their campaign battles with both of them threatened by the shadow of scandal, a week ahead of the country's runoff. As he struggled to catch up with his Socialist rival and...
photo: AP / Christophe Ena
France's President and candidate for re-election in 2012, Nicolas Sarkozy, shakes hands with supporters as he leaves the meeting in Villepinte, east of Paris, Sunday, March 11, 2012.
PARIS (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy dismissed a report that deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi sought to fund his 2007 campaign as a ploy by opponents to distract from the weakness of their candidate in next weekend's presidential...
photo: AP / Lionel Bonaventure

India Ferry capsizes with 250 aboard, killing at least 40; hundreds missing
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India Ferry capsizes with 250 aboard, killing at least 40; hundreds missing "Video" 4/30/2012
Irish Times 01 May 2012, GUWAHATI - Rescue workers fought heavy wind and rain to search for survivors after at least 103 people drowned on an overloaded ferry carrying about 300 people that sank at night on one of India's largest rivers yesterday, police said. About 100 people were rescued, said Jayanta...

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Chinese Dissident Chen Guangcheng Releases Video Shortly After Escaping House Arrest; updated 29 Apr 2012; published 27 Apr 2012
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Chinese Dissident Chen Guangcheng Releases Video Shortly After Escaping House Arrest
Al Jazeera 30 Apr 2012, The European Union has urged China to exercise "utmost restraint" in its handling of the blind dissident Chen Guangcheng, who escaped house arrest last week and is believed to be under US protection in Beijing. Chen escaped 19 months of house arrest on April 21, since when several supporters have been detained by police, but most have since been...

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Speech of the repressed leader of Ukrainian opposition Yulia Tymoshenko; updated 13 Apr 2012; published 06 Aug 2011
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Speech of the repressed leader of Ukrainian opposition Yulia Tymoshenko
The Guardian 30 Apr 2012, KIEV, April 30 (Reuters) - Ukraine described threats by European powers to boycott the Euro soccer championship it will host in June as a return to Cold War tactics on Monday, after several leaders called off their visits over the treatment of a leading opposition politician. Relations between Ukraine and the European Union have been strained by...

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War Under Table: Ex-Blackwater mercs in Syria 'backed by US'; updated 30 Apr 2012; published 26 Apr 2012
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War Under Table: Ex-Blackwater mercs in Syria 'backed by US'
Middle East Online 30 Apr 2012, BEIRUT - More than 20 people were killed on Monday in blasts targeting security buildings in the city of Idlib, northwest Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The majority of those killed were members of the security forces, the Britain-based group said. Syrian state television put the death toll at eight, among them civilians, and...

Ticonderoga class cruiser vs Chinese Navy Sovremenny class destroyers; updated 24 Mar 2012; published 24 Dec 2008
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Ticonderoga class cruiser vs Chinese Navy Sovremenny class destroyers
WorldNews.com 30 Apr 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling When a Chinese admiral proposed a permanent naval base in the Gulf of Aden, to support its anti-piracy operations, the United States was quick to condemn such a suggestion. And as armed naval vessels from the Philippines claim they caught Chinese fishermen poaching over a South China Sea shoal, causing...

UN Secretary general addresses Myanmar Parliament; updated 30 Apr 2012; published 30 Apr 2012
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UN Secretary general addresses Myanmar Parliament
BBC News 30 Apr 2012, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is meeting senior officials and addressing a joint session of parliament in Burma - the first foreigner to do so. Mr Ban, on a three-day visit to Burma, said he felt "optimistic" but warned of "hard work ahead", especially in the peace process with ethnic minorities. He will be...

Bahrain protests grow ahead of anniversary; updated 25 Apr 2012; published 04 Feb 2012
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Bahrain protests grow ahead of anniversary
BBC News 29 Apr 2012, Human Rights Watch has accused Bahrain's police of continuing to beat and torture detainees, including minors. The report comes nearly six months after an independent inquiry prompted the government to pledge reforms. The country insists it is committed to putting the recommendations of its own report into the handling of protests in 2011 into...

CrossTalk: Sudan vs Sudan; updated 29 Apr 2012; published 27 Apr 2012
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CrossTalk: Sudan vs Sudan
Mail Guardian South Africa 29 Apr 2012, Sudan said it had arrested a Briton, a Norwegian and a South African on Saturday, accusing them of illegally entering a disputed oil-producing border area to spy for its enemy South Sudan. South Sudanese officials denied the allegations and said the men were working with the United...

'Israel - not Iran - a nuclear power out of intl control'; updated 29 Apr 2012; published 10 Apr 2012
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'Israel - not Iran - a nuclear power out of intl control'
The Los Angeles Times 29 Apr 2012, TEHRAN — Iranian officials expressed skepticism Saturday about possible Obama administration support for allowing the country to continue enriching some uranium but said it could be a good start for further negotiations on its disputed nuclear program. Senior U.S. officials have said they might agree to let Iran enrich uranium up to 5% purity...

Lebanon stops ship with Syria-bound weapons; updated 29 Apr 2012; published 28 Apr 2012
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Lebanon stops ship with Syria-bound weapons
BBC News 29 Apr 2012, The Lebanese navy is holding a Sierra Leone-registered ship and says it has confiscated a large consignment of arms and ammunition it was carrying. The 11 crew members were detained after three shipping containers full of heavy and light weapons were found on the Lutfallah II. The BBC's Jim Muir in Beirut says it is believed the consignment...

Egyptians protest outside the Saudi embassy in Cairo.; updated 30 Apr 2012; published 25 Apr 2012
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Egyptians protest outside the Saudi embassy in Cairo.
The Star 29 Apr 2012, CAIRO (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia said on Saturday it had recalled its ambassador in Cairo for security reasons after protests in Egypt against the kingdom's arrest of an Egyptian lawyer, marking a diplomatic rupture between the long-time allies. The withdrawal of the Saudi envoy appeared a sharp message to Egypt's rulers of the need to maintain good...

One killed, 120 injured in tent collapse near Busch Stadium in St. Louis; updated 29 Apr 2012; published 29 Apr 2012
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One killed, 120 injured in tent collapse near Busch Stadium in St. Louis
The Guardian 29 Apr 2012, JIM SALTER Associated Press= ST. LOUIS (AP) — One person died Saturday and more than a dozen were taken to a hospital with injuries after high winds blew over a beer tent near Busch Stadium in St. Louis. At least five others were critically injured and up to 100 people were treated at the scene after straight-line winds whipped through a large tent...

Compelling evidence: Sarkozy got €50m campaign financing from Gaddafi; updated 29 Apr 2012; published 29 Apr 2012
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Compelling evidence: Sarkozy got €50m campaign financing from Gaddafi
NZ Herald 29 Apr 2012, Nicolas Sarkozy's dwindling hopes of being re-elected to the French presidency were last night rocked by new evidence that Colonel Gaddafi donated NZ $83 million to the campaign that brought him to power. French law bans candidates from receiving cash payments above NZ $12,450, but a news website claimed that the massive donation was laundered...

20 Killed In Coordinated Attack On Kandahar Police Headquarters; updated 09 Aug 2011; published 12 Feb 2011
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20 Killed In Coordinated Attack On Kandahar Police Headquarters
The Los Angeles Times 29 Apr 2012, KABUL, Afghanistan — Turban bombs had become too obvious. So the two men who apparently set out Saturday to assassinate Kandahar's governor looked to their footwear instead. The assailants used the unusual tactic of concealing weapons and explosives in their boots to make their way past police checkpoints and into the governor's heavily...





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