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Syrian army guilty of 'war crimes' - Human Rights Watch
Full Article BBC News
An international human rights group has accused the Syrian army of committing war crimes just before a ceasefire came into effect on 12 April. Human Rights Watch says fighting around Idlib, in the north, may meet the definition of an "armed conflict", as laid down by international law. All forces engaged in armed conflict have to comply...
An anti-Syrian regime mourner shouts slogans during the funeral procession of the activist Nour al-Zahraa, 23, who was shot by Syrian security forces on Sunday, in the Kfar Suseh area, in Damascus, Syria, on Monday, April 30, 2012.
photo: AP

Demythologizing bin Laden's Assassination (Five Insights)
Full Article WorldNews.com
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling "We to whom Zeus has assigned suffering...from youth to old age. Suffering in grievous wars, till we perish to the last man." -The Iliad For the United States, war and violence are still death's feast. Not comprehending that electronic spectators, gorging themselves on brutal behaviors but never taking...
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along with with members of the national security team, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House, May 1, 2011.
photo: White House / Pete Souza

After Obama visit, attackers hit Kabul
Full Article Yahoo Daily News
Taliban rebels attacked foreign targets in Kabul on Wednesday, hours after US President Barack Obama said on a surprise visit on the anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death that a "time of war" was ending. A suicide car bomb attack rocked the "Green Village", a complex of foreign guesthouses used by international organisations near the main airport...
President Barack Obama greets U.S. troops at Bagram Air Field after a surprise visit to Afghanistan, May 1, 2012.
photo: White House / Pete Souza

Aung San Suu Kyi takes oath at Burmese parliament
Full Article The Guardian
National League for Democracy leader and her MPs claim seats after being kept out by military for nearly 25 years Aung San Suu Kyi signs the register at the Burmese parliament as she arrives to take the oath of office and claim her seat. Photograph: Khin Maung Win/AP...
Myanmar pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, center, and elected lawmakers of her National League for Democracy party swear during a regular session of Myanmar Lower House at parliament in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Wednesday, May 2, 2012.
photo: AP / Khin Maung Win

Obama in Kabul: Afghan war near an end
Full Article The Washington Times
Looking to deliver ahead of the November election on his 2008 campaign promise to extricate the U.S. from two wars, President Obama on Tuesday night mapped out an agreement for an American withdrawal from Afghanistan. In a prime-time address from Bagram Air Base, outside Kabul in Afghanistan, Mr. Obama called for an end to an era of war. “My...
President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai sign a strategic partnership agreement at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, May 2, 2012.
photo: AP / Charles Dharapak

Iraq insurgents may have benefitted from US funds
Full Article Middle East Online
Some US commanders believe funds available for relief and reconstruction during the country's war in Iraq may have ended up benefiting insurgents, a report released by a US watchdog said. The US Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) surveyed officers and officials associated with the Commander's Emergency Response Programme...
File - A U.S. Soldier stands watch as U.S. National Security Council member Samantha Power and representatives from the United Nations meet with representatives from the Iraqi Ministry of Displacement and Migration regarding internally displaced persons (IDP) at the Kindi IDP Resettlement Center near Baghdad, Iraq, Nov. 16, 2009.
photo: US Navy / MC2 Edwin L. Wriston

Mali's military leaders 'repel counter coup'
Full Article Al Jazeera
Mali's ruling military leaders have said in a message aired over state television said that they are in control of the state broadcaster building, the airport, and the military base in Kati near the capital Bamako after a counter-coup attempt. "Elements from abroad, supported by some obscure forces within the...
File - In this Wednesday, April 11, 2012 photo, a Tuareg separatist rebel from the NMLA (National Movement for the Liberation of the Azawad) stands guard at a checkpoint near the airport in Timbuktu, Mali.
photo: AP

Dissident Chen Guangcheng's case complicates U.S.-China ties
Full Article The Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — Even before a blind human rights lawyer slipped away from house arrest in rural China last week, Washington and Beijing were each trying to navigate a turbulent time in their internal politics and their relationship. Now they are trying to avoid their worst diplomatic spat in years. Although U.S. officials are mum, Chen...
A pro-democracy protester holds a placard with picture of blind Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng outside China's Liaison Office in Hong Kong Monday, April 30, 2012 as they urge Beijing government stop persecution of Chen.
photo: AP / Kin Cheung

Obama aide: drone strikes are legal, ethical
Full Article Yahoo Daily News
US President Barack Obama has ordered more openness about the secretive drone war pounding Al-Qaeda in Pakistan, a top official said, mounting the firmest defense yet of the program. In a landmark speech on counter-terrorism "ethics," Obama aide John Brennan insisted the program was legal, ethical, proportional and saved US lives. The top...
A technician prepares to launch an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (Surveillance) Predator.
photo: US Navy / Bob Torres

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


Ms Livni, ousted as leader of the opposition over a month ago, formally handed in her...

Anti-Syrian regime protesters wave Syrian revolution flags and chant slogans during a demonstration against Syrian President Bashar Assad in the Deir Baghlaba area in Homs province, central Syria, on Friday, Jan. 27, 2012.
ZEINA KARAM= BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian government forces clashed with army defectors in the country's north on Wednesday, causing casualties and further enflaming an area near the Turkish border where rebel fighters have tried to seize territory,...
photo: AP
An Egyptian protestor, center, gestures to army soldiers, not pictured, blocking the road during an anti-military rally near the Defense Ministry in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Feb. 10, 2012.
HAMZA HENDAWI Associated Press= CAIRO (AP) — Suspected supporters of Egypt's military rulers attacked predominantly Islamist anti-government protesters outside the Defense Ministry in Cairo Wednesday, setting off clashes that left 11 dead as...
photo: AP / Muhammed Muheisen
News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch and his wife Wendi Deng arrive at the High Court in London to give evidence to the Leveson Inquiry into phone hacking, Thursday, April 26, 2012.
The 81-year-old's company faces investigations for corporate negligence after a devastating report by the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee declared the mogul "unfit" to run an international business and described him as...
photo: AP / Sang Tan
US military planes , are seen at Manas US military base in Bishkek airport Kyrgyzstan on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009. Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev last week announced the closure of the base, which is a crucial staging post for coalition operations in Afghanistan. The U.S. began using the Manas base in December 200
US military bases continue to form a strategic envelope around Iran, although the American withdrawal from Iraq at the end of 2011 may have changed the regional balance somewhat towards Iran's favour. While US forces are scaling back in many...
photo: AP / Igor Kovalenko
WhiteHouse.gov spends a week exploring the President's various education initiatives -- from student loan reform, to Race to Top, to the commencement challenge and more. Join us all week for guest posts, live chats, and other engagement.
The recent recession forced many people out of jobs and back to the classroom to learn new skills. As a result, we now have an impending student loan debt crisis. Current reports show that U.S. student loan debt is surging above one trillion dollars,...
photo: White House / Pete Souza
A security man walks past a screen showing the falling Dow Jones industrials at Mirae Asset building in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011.
* Herbalife shares tank on Einhorn remarks * ISM manufacturing growth tops expectations * Chesapeake to replace McClendon as chairman * Dow up 0.8 pct, S&P; up 1.1 pct, Nasdaq up 0.8 pct By Angela Moon NEW YORK, May 1 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks rallied...
photo: AP / Lee Jin-man
Brokers talk at the Stock Exchange in Madrid, Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010. Spanish and Portugal borrowing costs rose sharply Wednesday as investors worried that the governments' debt loads will prove unsustainable, putting them next in line for a European bailout
Marshall Auerback URL Marshall Auerback a market analyst and contributor to NewDeal2.0 Recent Posts The ECB Is Already Engaging In Massive QE The European Monetary Union Is The Titanic SOTU: America's ‘Sputnik' Moment Is A Sick Joke...
photo: AP / Daniel Ochoa de Olza

Syria War Crimes; updated 02 May 2012; published 01 May 2012
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Syria War Crimes
BBC News 02 May 2012, An international human rights group has accused the Syrian army of committing war crimes just before a ceasefire came into effect on 12 April. Human Rights Watch says fighting around Idlib, in the north, may meet the definition of an "armed conflict", as laid down by international law. All forces engaged in armed conflict have to comply...

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Obama cements Afghan stay year after Bin Laden's death; updated 02 May 2012; published 02 May 2012
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Obama cements Afghan stay year after Bin Laden's death
WorldNews.com 02 May 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling "We to whom Zeus has assigned suffering...from youth to old age. Suffering in grievous wars, till we perish to the last man." -The Iliad For the United States, war and violence are still death's feast. Not comprehending that electronic spectators, gorging themselves on brutal behaviors but never taking...

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Pres. Obama on Afghan Responsibilities; updated 02 May 2012; published 02 May 2012
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Pres. Obama on Afghan Responsibilities
Yahoo Daily News 02 May 2012, Taliban rebels attacked foreign targets in Kabul on Wednesday, hours after US President Barack Obama said on a surprise visit on the anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death that a "time of war" was ending. A suicide car bomb attack rocked the "Green Village", a complex of foreign guesthouses used by international organisations near the main airport...

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Myanmar's Suu Kyi takes oath of office; updated 02 May 2012; published 02 May 2012
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Myanmar's Suu Kyi takes oath of office
The Guardian 02 May 2012, National League for Democracy leader and her MPs claim seats after being kept out by military for nearly 25 years Aung San Suu Kyi signs the register at the Burmese parliament as she arrives to take the oath of office and claim her seat. Photograph: Khin Maung Win/AP...

Obama cements Afghan stay year after Bin Laden's death; updated 02 May 2012; published 02 May 2012
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Obama cements Afghan stay year after Bin Laden's death
The Washington Times 02 May 2012, Looking to deliver ahead of the November election on his 2008 campaign promise to extricate the U.S. from two wars, President Obama on Tuesday night mapped out an agreement for an American withdrawal from Afghanistan. In a prime-time address from Bagram Air Base, outside Kabul in Afghanistan, Mr. Obama called for an end to an era of war. “My...

Iraq: Corruption Prompts Food Rations Shortages; updated 06 Jan 2012; published 18 Nov 2011
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Iraq: Corruption Prompts Food Rations Shortages
Middle East Online 01 May 2012, Some US commanders believe funds available for relief and reconstruction during the country's war in Iraq may have ended up benefiting insurgents, a report released by a US watchdog said. The US Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) surveyed officers and officials associated with the Commander's Emergency Response Programme...

Mali Coup d'état; defected forces claim govt. control; updated 25 Apr 2012; published 22 Mar 2012
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Mali Coup d'état; defected forces claim govt. control
Al Jazeera 01 May 2012, Mali's ruling military leaders have said in a message aired over state television said that they are in control of the state broadcaster building, the airport, and the military base in Kati near the capital Bamako after a counter-coup attempt. "Elements from abroad, supported by some obscure forces within the...

Chinese Dissident Chen Guangcheng Releases Video Shortly After Escaping House Arrest; updated 02 May 2012; published 27 Apr 2012
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Chinese Dissident Chen Guangcheng Releases Video Shortly After Escaping House Arrest
The Los Angeles Times 01 May 2012, WASHINGTON — Even before a blind human rights lawyer slipped away from house arrest in rural China last week, Washington and Beijing were each trying to navigate a turbulent time in their internal politics and their relationship. Now they are trying to avoid their worst diplomatic spat in years. Although U.S. officials are mum, Chen...

Iran shows intercepted CIA drone unscathed; updated 23 Mar 2012; published 08 Dec 2011
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Iran shows intercepted CIA drone unscathed
Yahoo Daily News 01 May 2012, US President Barack Obama has ordered more openness about the secretive drone war pounding Al-Qaeda in Pakistan, a top official said, mounting the firmest defense yet of the program. In a landmark speech on counter-terrorism "ethics," Obama aide John Brennan insisted the program was legal, ethical, proportional and saved US lives. The top...

Assam Boat Carrying 300 Capsizes; updated 02 May 2012; published 30 Apr 2012
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Assam Boat Carrying 300 Capsizes
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...

UN toughens N. Korea sanctions over rocket launch; updated 19 Apr 2012; published 17 Apr 2012
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UN toughens N. Korea sanctions over rocket launch
Daily Press 30 Apr 2012, UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States, South Korea, Japan and European nations have submitted to the U.N. Security Council's North Korea sanctions committee lists of individuals and firms they want blacklisted after Pyongyang's recent rocket launch, envoys said on Monday. Earlier this month the 15-nation council strongly condemned North...

Chinese Dissident Reportedly Under US Protection; updated 01 May 2012; published 01 May 2012
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Chinese Dissident Reportedly Under US Protection
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...

BBC World News: Ukraine's Yulia Tymoshenko on hunger strike 26 April 2012 0014; updated 01 May 2012; published 26 Apr 2012
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BBC World News: Ukraine's Yulia Tymoshenko on hunger strike 26 April 2012 0014
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...

Suicide bombing damascus Syria midan 27/04/2012; updated 01 May 2012; published 27 Apr 2012
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Suicide bombing damascus Syria midan 27/04/2012
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...





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