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Eurozone crisis: EU moves to loosen grip of austerity
Full Article The Guardian
European executive calls for shift towards growth as leftist leader Alexis Tsipras steps up Greece's eurozone rebellion Alexis Tsipras, the leader of a group of radical leftists, warned that Greece could walk away from its rescue deal with the eurozone. Photograph: Kostas Tsironis/AP...
Eurozone crisis: EU moves to loosen grip of austerity
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UN envoy warns of civil war in Syria
Full Article Atlanta Journal
DAMASCUS, SyriaInternational envoy Kofi Annan gave a bleak assessment of the crisis in Syria on Thursday, saying violence remains at "unacceptable levels" and warning that his peace plan is the country's last chance to avert a disastrous civil war. The Joint Special Envoy for Syria Kofi Annan smiles next to President of the United Nations...
UN envoy warns of civil war in Syria
photo: UN / Violaine Martin

'Race against time' to stop all-out war in Syria: UN
Full Article Khaleej Times
World powers are racing against time to prevent all-out civil war in Syria, UN leader Ban Ki-moon warned, as a watchdog on Tuesday reported more killings of civilians by Syrian security forces. Speaking ahead of a key UN Security Council meeting on Syria on Tuesday, Ban again condemned the 'brutality' of President Bashar Al Assad's forces but said...
A view of the convoy as Major General Robert Mood, Head of the newly-established UN Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS), leads an UNSMIS delegation to the Khalidiyyeh neighbourhood of Homs to meet opposition members, 3 May.2012.
photo: UN / Nadine Kaddoura

Leadership deficit on both sides prolongs the unfinished uprisings
Full Article Al Jazeera
As the Arab uprisings unfold it is increasingly clear that they are taking different forms in different countries. In three cases - Tunisia, Egypt and Libya - dictators were deposed definitively and relatively quickly. But in three others - Bahrain, Syria, and Yemen - the struggle continues between an incumbent regime and popular opposition. (In...
Anti-Mubarak protesters hold up shoes during a protest outside the police academy in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug.3, 2011.
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb

US, China commit to healthy, reliable relationship
Full Article Zeenews
Washington: Noting that the US and China are both Pacific powers and their relationship is one of the most critical in the world, the Defence Ministers of two countries - meeting for the first time in Washington in nine years - have committed themselves to a healthy, stable, reliable and continuous military to military relationship. US Defence...
US, China commit to healthy, reliable relationship
photo: US Navy / Chad J. McNeeley

Greece faces prospect of fresh elections
Full Article The Daily Telegraph
Greece was facing the prospect of fresh elections after the party that finished first in Sunday's vote failed to form a coalition to steer the heavily indebted country through the next round of negotiations with its international creditors. By Alex Spillius, Athens 6:25AM BST 08 May 2012 Antonis Samaras, leader of the conservative New Democracy...
An extreme far-right Golden Dawn party's supporter holds a flare during the elections results in the northern Greek port city of Thessaloniki, Sunday, May 6, 2012.
photo: AP / Nikolas Giakoumidis

Work Remains To Realize Rights Of Indigenous Peoples
Full Article Scoop
Tuesday, 8 May 2012, 2:31 pm Press Release: UN News Work Remains To Realize Rights Of Indigenous Peoples, Says Deputy UN Chief New York, May 7 2012 3:10PM Five years after the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was adopted, a great deal remains to be done to realize the objectives contained in that landmark document,...
Work Remains To Realize Rights Of Indigenous Peoples
photo: UN / Devra Berkowitz

Terror plot to bomb US-bound plane foiled
Full Article Newstrack India
Washington, May 8 (IANS) The US and other intelligence agencies broke up a terrorist plot to bomb a US-bound airliner and seized an explosive device, similar to the ones earlier used by Al-Qaeda, officials said here Monday. Some US officials suggested it could be linked to Yemen-based Al Qaeda in Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), CNN reported. ...
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday March 7, 2012, before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the crisis in Syria and the risks for U.S. involvement.
photo: AP / J. Scott Applewhite

Israel's Netanyahu forms surprise coalition with Kadima
Full Article Yahoo Daily News
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu struck a surprise deal with the opposition Kadima party early Tuesday, drawing them into his government just days after he called for an early...
Israel's Prime Minister designate Benjamin Netanyahu, addresses the Knesset, Israel's Parliament, ahead of the swearing-in ceremony of his new government in Jerusalem, Tuesday, March 31, 2009. Netanyahu struck a conciliatory tone as he took office Tuesday, promising to seek a "permanent arrangement" with the Palestinians and "full peace" with the entire Arab and Muslim world
photo: AP / David Silverman, Pool

Markets, Germany wary as Hollande wins in France
Full Article The Star
PARIS (Reuters) - Francois Hollande's election as French president was greeted by jitters on European markets and a dour front in Berlin where ruling conservatives warned the Socialist on Monday that Germans were not ready to pay for his promises of an end to austerity. France's newly-elected President Francois Hollande (R) and his companion...
President-elect Francois Hollande waves from the balcony of the Socialist Party headquarters in Paris Monday May 7, 2012.
photo: AP / Michel Spingler


JIM KUHNHENN Associated Press= WASHINGTON (AP) — The elections that drove Nicholas Sarkozy out...
The partisan squabbling over the killing of Osama bin Laden is a typical election-year...

Eurozone at risk from anti-austerity revolt
European Union leaders are to hold an emergency summit as a popular anti-austerity backlash threatens to break the eurozone apart and cause a deep rift between France and Germany. Mrs Merkel has warned Mr Hollande that popular French rejection of...
photo: EC / EC
US military deaths in Afghanistan at 1,834
As of Tuesday, May 8, 2012, at least 1,834 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count. The AP count is eight less than the Defense Department's tally,...
photo: US Army / Michael J. MacLeod
United Nations envoy Kofi Annan speaks during a press conference in Damascus, Syria, Sunday, March 11, 2012
Torture by Syrian forces, arrests of activists and other human rights violations may be getting worse in despite the month-long ceasefire, the architect of the UN peace plan admitted on Tuesday. The UN monitoring mission is supposed to last three...
photo: AP / Muzaffar Salman
Interpol's world headquarters in Lyon
Get Technology Alerts Sign Up Submit this story digg reddit stumble TEL AVIV, IsraelInterpol said Tuesday it is making the war against cyber crime a main priority this year as online fraud crosses borders and increases in scope....
photo: Creative Commons
Brussels, Berlin tell Europe to stick to austerity
Germany and the European Commission on Tuesday called on EU nations to stick to their agreed budget cuts despite mounting voter discontent, but promised some new efforts to boost growth to alleviate economic hardship. In elections on Sunday, voters...
photo: EC / EC
A supporter of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is seen at a tent camp in central Kiev, Tuesday, May 8, 2012.
KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich on Tuesday called off a regional summit rather than host a partly-boycotted meeting and face a lecture over his treatment of imprisoned opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko. A supporter of jailed...
photo: AP / Sergei Chuzavkov
Iraq's Sunni Arab vice president Tariq al-Hashemi speaks during a Press conference about the upcoming elections in Baghdad, Iraq, on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009.
Interpol has put Iraq's fugitive Sunni vice president on its most-wanted list after issuing Tuesday a so-called 'red notice' for Tariq al-Hashemi, who is currently in Turkey. The Lyon, France-based organization said on its website the move came at...
photo: AP / Karim Kadim

Time to invest in Energy Efficiency: EU Video News Release; updated 08 Mar 2012; published 11 Apr 2011
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Time to invest in Energy Efficiency: EU Video News Release
The Guardian 08 May 2012, European executive calls for shift towards growth as leftist leader Alexis Tsipras steps up Greece's eurozone rebellion Alexis Tsipras, the leader of a group of radical leftists, warned that Greece could walk away from its rescue deal with the eurozone. Photograph: Kostas Tsironis/AP...

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LBCI_Syria-11/03/2012; updated 02 May 2012; published 11 Mar 2012
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LBCI_Syria-11/03/2012
Atlanta Journal 08 May 2012, DAMASCUS, SyriaInternational envoy Kofi Annan gave a bleak assessment of the crisis in Syria on Thursday, saying violence remains at "unacceptable levels" and warning that his peace plan is the country's last chance to avert a disastrous civil war. The Joint Special Envoy for Syria Kofi Annan smiles next to President of the United Nations...

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Syria War Crimes; updated 08 May 2012; published 01 May 2012
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Syria War Crimes
Khaleej Times 08 May 2012, World powers are racing against time to prevent all-out civil war in Syria, UN leader Ban Ki-moon warned, as a watchdog on Tuesday reported more killings of civilians by Syrian security forces. Speaking ahead of a key UN Security Council meeting on Syria on Tuesday, Ban again condemned the 'brutality' of President Bashar Al Assad's forces but said...

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Arab Spring - Bahrain Defiance Continues: BBC News 2012 - BBC F1 2012; updated 11 Apr 2012; published 10 Apr 2012
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Arab Spring - Bahrain Defiance Continues: BBC News 2012 - BBC F1 2012
Al Jazeera 08 May 2012, As the Arab uprisings unfold it is increasingly clear that they are taking different forms in different countries. In three cases - Tunisia, Egypt and Libya - dictators were deposed definitively and relatively quickly. But in three others - Bahrain, Syria, and Yemen - the struggle continues between an incumbent regime and popular opposition. (In...

China helping North Korea with missile says Leon Panetta; updated 23 Apr 2012; published 20 Apr 2012
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China helping North Korea with missile says Leon Panetta
Zeenews 08 May 2012, Washington: Noting that the US and China are both Pacific powers and their relationship is one of the most critical in the world, the Defence Ministers of two countries - meeting for the first time in Washington in nine years - have committed themselves to a healthy, stable, reliable and continuous military to military relationship. US Defence...

#OpGreece - Elections 6 of May 2012 (Greek subs); updated 07 May 2012; published 03 May 2012
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#OpGreece - Elections 6 of May 2012 (Greek subs)
The Daily Telegraph 08 May 2012, Greece was facing the prospect of fresh elections after the party that finished first in Sunday's vote failed to form a coalition to steer the heavily indebted country through the next round of negotiations with its international creditors. By Alex Spillius, Athens 6:25AM BST 08 May 2012 Antonis Samaras, leader of the conservative New Democracy...

Elder Ima Johnson talks about Indigenous Health Issues at Six Nations Polytech on Feb 11, 2011; updated 08 May 2012; published 10 May 2011
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Elder Ima Johnson talks about Indigenous Health Issues at Six Nations Polytech on Feb 11, 2011
Scoop 08 May 2012, Tuesday, 8 May 2012, 2:31 pm Press Release: UN News Work Remains To Realize Rights Of Indigenous Peoples, Says Deputy UN Chief New York, May 7 2012 3:10PM Five years after the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was adopted, a great deal remains to be done to realize the objectives contained in that landmark document,...

Breaking News: CIA thwarts Al Qaeda US bound airline Bomb plot; updated 08 May 2012; published 07 May 2012
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Breaking News: CIA thwarts Al Qaeda US bound airline Bomb plot
Newstrack India 08 May 2012, Washington, May 8 (IANS) The US and other intelligence agencies broke up a terrorist plot to bomb a US-bound airliner and seized an explosive device, similar to the ones earlier used by Al-Qaeda, officials said here Monday. Some US officials suggested it could be linked to Yemen-based Al Qaeda in Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), CNN reported. ...

Israelis on Peace Talks with Hamas: Fatah and Hamas sign Doha Declaration for Unity Government; updated 02 May 2012; published 16 Feb 2012
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Israelis on Peace Talks with Hamas: Fatah and Hamas sign Doha Declaration for Unity Government
Yahoo Daily News 08 May 2012, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu struck a surprise deal with the opposition Kadima party early Tuesday, drawing them into his government just days after he called for an early...

Francois Hollande is France's new president; updated 07 May 2012; published 06 May 2012
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Francois Hollande is France's new president
The Star 08 May 2012, PARIS (Reuters) - Francois Hollande's election as French president was greeted by jitters on European markets and a dour front in Berlin where ruling conservatives warned the Socialist on Monday that Germans were not ready to pay for his promises of an end to austerity. France's newly-elected President Francois Hollande (R) and his companion...

Full Video: Vladimir Putin's presidential inauguration ceremony in Kremlin; updated 08 May 2012; published 07 May 2012
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Full Video: Vladimir Putin's presidential inauguration ceremony in Kremlin
Chosunilbo 08 May 2012, Vladimir Putin was sworn in Monday as Russia's president. But the highly choreographed ceremony in the Kremlin's St. Andrew Hall was clouded by events in the Russian capital a day earlier, when police and protesters, during a large opposition demonstration, left dozens injured on both sides. With his right hand on the Russian constitution, Vladimir...

#OpGreece - Elections 6 of May 2012 (Greek subs); updated 07 May 2012; published 03 May 2012
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#OpGreece - Elections 6 of May 2012 (Greek subs)
NZ Herald 07 May 2012, The leader of the Greek conservative party that gained the most votes in parliamentary elections says his efforts to form a coalition government with other parties have failed. Now, the leftist party that came in second will get a chance to cobble together a ruling alliance. Conservative leader Antonis Samaras said his attempts to convince the...

New Military Photo Scandal: Panetta Apologizes; updated 04 May 2012; published 18 Apr 2012
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New Military Photo Scandal: Panetta Apologizes
WorldNews.com 07 May 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Harkening back to former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and then back further to Heinrich Himmler-the ruthless practitioner of the Nazi's Schutzstaffel (SS) that terrorized much of Europe during World War II, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told thousands of sometimes cheering, sometimes...

'US military, CIA out of control in Afghanistan'; updated 08 May 2012; published 08 May 2012
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'US military, CIA out of control in Afghanistan'
The Australian 07 May 2012, IN another sign of deteriorating security, the US is considering abandoning plans for a consulate in Afghanistan's north because the building chosen is deemed too dangerous to occupy. The US spent $US80 million ($A79.02 million) on the project despite glaring security deficiencies in the former hotel, according to a copy of a document drafted...





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