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Secret Osama bin Laden documents released
Full Article The Independent
A selection of documents seized in last year's raid on Bin Laden's Pakistan house was posted online by the US Army's Combating Terrorism Center. The documents show dark days for al-Qa'ida and its hunkered-down leader after years of attacks by the United States and what bin Laden saw as bumbling within his own organization and its terrorist allies....
In this undated image from video seized from the walled compound of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, and released Saturday, May 7, 2011 by the U.S. Department of Defense a man, who the American government identified as Osama bin Laden, watches television, showing an image of U.S. President Barack Obama.
photo: AP / Department of Defense

Trial for Iraq's fugitive Sunni VP on terrorism charges postponed in Baghdad
Full Article Star Tribune
BAGHDAD - The terror trial of Iraq's fugitive Sunni vice president was postponed Thursday as his lawyers appealed to have parliament create a special court to hear the case that has touched off a political crisis and could deepen the nation's sectarian divide. Tariq al-Hashemi, one of the nation's highest-ranking Sunni politicians, was not in court...
Iraq's vice president Tariq al-Hashemi speaks during a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009.
photo: AP / Karim Kadim

Clinton urges China to protect human rights
Full Article Yahoo Daily News
BEIJING (AP) — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton cautioned China to protect human rights Thursday, in remarks that rejected Beijing's criticism of the U.S. for getting involved in the case of a blind dissident whose fate overshadowed the opening of annual talks between the powerful countries. Clinton said at the opening of the talks on...
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during the opening of the U.S.- China Strategic and Economic Dialogue at The Diaoyutai state guesthouse in Beijing Thursday, May 3, 2012.
photo: AP / Vincent Thian

Sarkozy And Hollande Clash In Live TV Debate
Full Article Skynews
Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande locked horns in a live TV debate Robert Nisbet, Europe correspondent The two candidates in the French Presidential election have squared off in a bad-tempered live TV debate. The Socialist front-runner Francois Hollande and the incumbent, the conservative Nicolas Sarkozy, traded barbs on the economy,...
Socialist Party candidate for the presidential election Francois Hollande, left, and current President and conservative candidate for re-election Nicolas Sarkozy , right, pose before a televised debate in Paris, Wednesday, May, 2, 2012.
photo: AP / Patrick Kovarik, Pool

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


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

File - In this file photo taken Wednesday, March 24, 2010, a person rides a bicycle past the Shanghai's No. 1 People's Intermediate Court, where the final day of a trial of four Rio Tinto employees on politically sensitive charges of stealing commercial secrets is taking place, in Shanghai, China.
Chen Guangcheng-a Chinese lawyer and human-rights activist-is at the center of a diplomatic crisis that threatens to rupture the delicate relationship between the United States and China. "If you look back historically at the way China handles these...
photo: AP / Eugene Hoshiko, File
As a new analysis shows the Recovery Act responsible for up to 2.8 million jobs, the President visits an innovative solar plant that has spread some of those benefits nationwide.
The JOBS Act appears to give a generous gift to Wall Street. But Wall Street is now seeking clarification — and further exemptions. The broad new law enacted last month rolled back significant securities rules — and parts of a landmark...
photo: White House / Lawrence Jackson
Chief Prosecutor Brenda J. Hollis, left, answers questions of a journalist outside the Special Court for Sierra Leone, rear, where judges delivered their verdict in the trial against former Liberian President Charles Taylor in Leidschendam, near The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday April 26, 2012.
AFP - The chief prosecutor in the trial of Charles Taylor has suggested an 80-year sentence after the Liberian former president's conviction for war crimes, according to a document made public Thursday. The prosecutor said the term would be fair...
photo: AP / Peter Dejong
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Togo riot police face off supporters of opposition leader Jean-Pierre Fabre protested in Lome, Togo. Tuesday March 9, 2010.
The persistent denial by the Ho Municipal Chief Executive, Isaac Kodobisah, of his involvement in the release of four policemen who were detained in Zukpe Police Post in Togo last Saturday has astounded many observers. The MCE, despite many...
photo: AP / Sunday Alamba
In this Tuesday, April 24, 2012 file photo, fighters from Islamist group Ansar Dine stand guard during a hostage handover, in the desert outside Timbuktu, Mali.
West African leaders are set to discuss the turmoil in crisis-hit Mali at a summit after soldiers who overthrew an elected government in March repelled a counter-coup earlier this week. Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States...
photo: AP
In this photo released by the US Embassy Beijing Press Office, blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng, center, holds hands with U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke, right, as U.S. State Department Legal Advisor Harold Koh, left, applauds, before leaving the U.S. embassy for a hospital in Beijing Wednesday May 2, 2012.
Dissident Chen Guangcheng was not put under pressure to leave the US embassy, its ambassador says, as the activist said he wanted to leave China because he feared for his life. Mr Chen said he left his refuge in the US embassy after Chinese officials...
photo: AP / US Embassy Beijing Press Office

The Last Word: A year after Osama's death, is the world a safer place?; updated 02 May 2012; published 02 May 2012
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The Last Word: A year after Osama's death, is the world a safer place?
The Independent 03 May 2012, A selection of documents seized in last year's raid on Bin Laden's Pakistan house was posted online by the US Army's Combating Terrorism Center. The documents show dark days for al-Qa'ida and its hunkered-down leader after years of attacks by the United States and what bin Laden saw as bumbling within his own organization and its terrorist allies....

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Iraqi Vice-President Tariq al-Hashemi speaks to Al Jazeera; updated 28 Apr 2012; published 24 Dec 2011
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Iraqi Vice-President Tariq al-Hashemi speaks to Al Jazeera
Star Tribune 03 May 2012, BAGHDAD - The terror trial of Iraq's fugitive Sunni vice president was postponed Thursday as his lawyers appealed to have parliament create a special court to hear the case that has touched off a political crisis and could deepen the nation's sectarian divide. Tariq al-Hashemi, one of the nation's highest-ranking Sunni politicians, was not in court...

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Chinese dissident Chen seeks US exile deal; updated 03 May 2012; published 03 May 2012
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Chinese dissident Chen seeks US exile deal
Yahoo Daily News 03 May 2012, BEIJING (AP) — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton cautioned China to protect human rights Thursday, in remarks that rejected Beijing's criticism of the U.S. for getting involved in the case of a blind dissident whose fate overshadowed the opening of annual talks between the powerful countries. Clinton said at the opening of the talks on...

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Nicolas Sarkozy accuses Francois Hollande of slander in French presidential TV debate; updated 03 May 2012; published 03 May 2012
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Nicolas Sarkozy accuses Francois Hollande of slander in French presidential TV debate
Skynews 03 May 2012, Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande locked horns in a live TV debate Robert Nisbet, Europe correspondent The two candidates in the French Presidential election have squared off in a bad-tempered live TV debate. The Socialist front-runner Francois Hollande and the incumbent, the conservative Nicolas Sarkozy, traded barbs on the economy,...

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...

One Year After bin Laden's Death, Threat Remains; updated 03 May 2012; published 01 May 2012
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One Year After bin Laden's Death, Threat Remains
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...

President Obama Speaks on Ending the War in Afghanistan; updated 03 May 2012; published 01 May 2012
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President Obama Speaks on Ending the War in Afghanistan
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...

Suu Kyi agrees to take legislative oath; updated 02 May 2012; published 30 Apr 2012
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Suu Kyi agrees to take legislative oath
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...

President Obama Speaks on Ending the War in Afghanistan; updated 03 May 2012; published 01 May 2012
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President Obama Speaks on Ending the War in Afghanistan
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 03 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...

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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