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Analysis: Obama gambles with gay marriage move
Full Article Herald Tribune
WASHINGTON - Public opinion about gay marriage has changed so rapidly that President Barack Obama's historic embrace of it may pose as many political risks to Republicans as to the president and his fellow Democrats. The president's dramatic shift on the issue - a watershed moment in U.S. politics, even if many people felt it was inevitable - is...
President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 11,2012, during a forum on "Insourcing American Jobs".
photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais

Russian jet wreckage found on side of Indonesian volcano
Full Article The Australian
THE wreckage of a jet which disappeared while on a demonstration flight in Indonesia with 48 people on board has been found. Indonesian search and rescue authorities have confirmed the Russian-made Sukhoi Superjet-100 had been spotted from the air. The wreckage was found today about 3km from the town of Cicurug, on the side of Mount Salak, a...
A relative weeps as she waits for the news on the missing Russian airplane at Halim Perdanakusumah airport in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, May 9, 2012.
photo: AP / Tatan Syuflana

Greek socialist makes last-ditch attempt at government
Full Article The Star
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos will make a last- ditch attempt to form a government on Thursday and avoid a new election after voters rejected a bailout deal and pushed Greece into a political crisis. Greek conservative party leader Antonis Samaras (L) talks with head of Greece's Left Coalition party Alexis Tsipras at...
Greek leader of Coalition of the Radical Left party, SYRIZA, Alexis Tsipras, left, and leader of the Conservative Party of 'New Democracy' Antonis Samaras smile before their meeting at the Greek Parliament in Athens, Wednesday, May 9, 2012.
photo: AP / Evi Fylaktou

Sanctions: Reciprocal and Incentive Versus Retaliatory and Disincentive
Full Article WorldNews.com
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Before explaining how reciprocal and incentive sanctions are much more honorable, fair, and usually lead to peaceful coexistence between nation-states, rather than retaliatory and disincentive sanctions which are often vengeful, uneven, and punitive in nature, not to mention based on coercion and...
Mohammad Javad Ardeshir Larijani, Secretary General of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights, addresses the UN Human Rights Council after a briefing on Iran from Special Rapporteur Ahmed Shaheed, 12 March 2012.
photo: UN / Jean-Marc Ferre

Winter Killed at Least 100 Afghan Refugee Children, Study Estimates
Full Article The New York Times
KABUL, Afghanistan — After a harsh winter killed children in refugee camps around the Afghan capital and brought attention to poor conditions there, a new study by a French aid agency said the disaster was more extensive than originally thought, with at least 100 young children claimed by the cold. Connect With Us on Twitter Follow...
Winter Killed at Least 100 Afghan Refugee Children, Study Estimates
photo: UN / Fardin Waezi

Last chance to avoid civil war: Annan
Full Article Taipei Times
UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan said his peace plan could be the last chance to avoid civil war in Syria, where a truce has failed to end 14 months of bloodshed that monitors say has killed nearly 12,000 people. Annan told the UN Security Council on Tuesday that the priority in Syria was “to stop the killing” and expressed concern that torture,...
Last chance to avoid civil war: Annan
photo: UN / Violaine Martin

Blast hits UN observer's convoy in Syria
Full Article The Times of India
SHARE AND DISCUSSTweet DARAA, SYRIA: A roadside bomb wounded six soldiers as they escorted a convoy of UN peace observers, including the general who heads the mission, in southern Syria on Wednesday, an AFP photographer said. The explosive device, which appeared to have been planted underground, detonated as the convoy of four vehicles was about to...
A Syrian army soldier secures the scene as he stands next to a military truck which was attacked by a roadside bomb, in Daraa city, southern Syria, on Wednesday May 9, 2012.
photo: AP / Muzaffar Salman

AFRICA: AU wants peace, security and bigger global role in 2012
Full Article IRINnews
Photo: Trevor Samson/World BankThe IMF predicts average growth of 5.5 percent for Africa in 2012WASHINGTON, 12 January 2012 (IRIN) - The African Union (AU) has unveiled an ambitious wish-list of priorities for Africa that would give the continent a stronger global voice, boost democracy and encourage peace and security. AU Ambassador to the United...
AFRICA: AU wants peace, security and bigger global role in 2012
photo: UN / Eskinder Debebe

"Bomber" in al-Qaeda plot was CIA informant, officials say
Full Article Denver Post
WASHINGTON — The latest al-Qaeda bomb plot targeting U.S. aircraft was unraveled from inside the terrorist group by operatives — including a double agent — working on behalf of the CIA and its counterparts in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, said U.S. and Middle Eastern officials. The Saudi intelligence service played a particularly...
This April 30, 2012, photo shows a traveler passing through a security check point at Portland International Airport, in Portland, Ore. Airport security procedures, with their intrusive pat downs and body scans, don’t need to be toughened despite the discovery of a new al-Qaida airline bomb plot
photo: AP / Rick Bowmer

Syriza's Tsipras to meet Greece's pro-bailout parties
Full Article BBC News
The leader of Greece's left-wing Syriza bloc is continuing attempts to form a government after elections on Sunday produced an inconclusive result. Alexis Tsipras has said he will try to form a coalition based on tearing up the terms of the EU/IMF bailout deal, which he describes as "barbaric". On Wednesday, he will meet the two...
Alexis Tsipras, head of the Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) exits the Presidential Palace after his meeting with Greek President Karolos Papoulias, to formally take the mandate to form a coalition government in Athens, Tuesday, May 8, 2012.
photo: AP / Kostas Tsironis


President Obama had every right to celebrate the first anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s...
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...

A priestess performs in front of the ancient temple of Hera during the final dress rehearsal for the lighting of the Olympic flame held on Wednesday May 9, 2012, in Ancient Olympia, Greece.
The Olympic flame will be lit in a ceremony in Olympia, Greece, on Thursday ahead of the start of the torch relay and the London 2012 Games. The flame is kindled by a 'high priestess' who captures the morning sun's rays in a parabolic...
photo: AP / Petros Giannakouris
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon briefs the General Assembly on the final report of his High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has condemned a bomb attack in Syria that struck close to U.N. observers, saying it could impact the mission's future. Ban called the attack "unacceptable." "It is a testament to the difficulty and...
photo: UN / Devra Berkowitz
UN: Arms smuggled both ways between Lebanon, Syria
The United Nations has information that arms are being smuggled in both directions between Lebanon and Syria, a UN Middle East envoy said Wednesday. The envoy, Terje Roed-Larsen, said the Middle East is seeing a spiralling ‘‘dance of...
photo: UN / Evan Schneider
Cuts to foreign aid 'could cost 250,000 lives'
BITTER disappointment at the budget decision to strip back promised foreign aid worth almost $3 billion over the next four years has quickly turned to cynicism within development circles, with experts questioning whether the government's...
photo: UN / Eskinder Debebe
New Antarctic ice shelf threatened by warming
LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists are predicting the disappearance of another vast ice shelf in Antarctica by the end of the century that will accelerate rising sea levels. The Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf fringing the Weddell Sea on the eastern side of...
photo: EC / EC
	Poll: Support for Afghan war at new low
WASHINGTON — Support for the war in Afghanistan has reached a new low, with only 27 percent of Americans saying they back the effort and about half of those who oppose the war saying the continued presence of American troops in Afghanistan is...
photo: US Army / Michael J. MacLeod
The Only Way to Fix the World Economy
Europe is a mess, and not because voters there are rejecting the austerity policies that are driving the European Union straight into recession. The USA's economy is picking up in some ways, but is still stalled out in others. And looming over...
photo: EC / EC

CBN News Interviews Obama (5) - On Gay Marriage, Abortion; updated 18 Mar 2012; published 06 Jan 2012
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CBN News Interviews Obama (5) - On Gay Marriage, Abortion
Herald Tribune 10 May 2012, WASHINGTON - Public opinion about gay marriage has changed so rapidly that President Barack Obama's historic embrace of it may pose as many political risks to Republicans as to the president and his fellow Democrats. The president's dramatic shift on the issue - a watershed moment in U.S. politics, even if many people felt it was inevitable - is...

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Russian Sukhoi Superjet-100 Plane disappears from radar during Promotional Flight in Indonesia; updated 09 May 2012; published 09 May 2012
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Russian Sukhoi Superjet-100 Plane disappears from radar during Promotional Flight in Indonesia
The Australian 10 May 2012, THE wreckage of a jet which disappeared while on a demonstration flight in Indonesia with 48 people on board has been found. Indonesian search and rescue authorities have confirmed the Russian-made Sukhoi Superjet-100 had been spotted from the air. The wreckage was found today about 3km from the town of Cicurug, on the side of Mount Salak, a...

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Ultra-nationalists set to enter Greek Parliament; updated 08 May 2012; published 07 May 2012
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Ultra-nationalists set to enter Greek Parliament
The Star 10 May 2012, ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos will make a last- ditch attempt to form a government on Thursday and avoid a new election after voters rejected a bailout deal and pushed Greece into a political crisis. Greek conservative party leader Antonis Samaras (L) talks with head of Greece's Left Coalition party Alexis Tsipras at...

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Inside Story - Can Iran survive US sanctions?; updated 06 May 2012; published 12 Jan 2012
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Inside Story - Can Iran survive US sanctions?
WorldNews.com 09 May 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Before explaining how reciprocal and incentive sanctions are much more honorable, fair, and usually lead to peaceful coexistence between nation-states, rather than retaliatory and disincentive sanctions which are often vengeful, uneven, and punitive in nature, not to mention based on coercion and...

Gen. Amos and Sgt. Maj. Kent Visit Marines in Afghanistan; updated 25 Dec 2011; published 15 May 2011
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Gen. Amos and Sgt. Maj. Kent Visit Marines in Afghanistan
The New York Times 09 May 2012, KABUL, Afghanistan — After a harsh winter killed children in refugee camps around the Afghan capital and brought attention to poor conditions there, a new study by a French aid agency said the disaster was more extensive than originally thought, with at least 100 young children claimed by the cold. Connect With Us on Twitter Follow...

Syrian opposition meets with Kofi Annan; updated 25 Apr 2012; published 11 Mar 2012
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Syrian opposition meets with Kofi Annan
Taipei Times 09 May 2012, UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan said his peace plan could be the last chance to avoid civil war in Syria, where a truce has failed to end 14 months of bloodshed that monitors say has killed nearly 12,000 people. Annan told the UN Security Council on Tuesday that the priority in Syria was “to stop the killing” and expressed concern that torture,...

UN observers in the heart of Syria's rebellion; updated 08 May 2012; published 07 May 2012
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UN observers in the heart of Syria's rebellion
The Times of India 09 May 2012, SHARE AND DISCUSSTweet DARAA, SYRIA: A roadside bomb wounded six soldiers as they escorted a convoy of UN peace observers, including the general who heads the mission, in southern Syria on Wednesday, an AFP photographer said. The explosive device, which appeared to have been planted underground, detonated as the convoy of four vehicles was about to...

sudanese speaking somali; updated 04 May 2012; published 16 Nov 2011
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sudanese speaking somali
IRINnews 09 May 2012, Photo: Trevor Samson/World BankThe IMF predicts average growth of 5.5 percent for Africa in 2012WASHINGTON, 12 January 2012 (IRIN) - The African Union (AU) has unveiled an ambitious wish-list of priorities for Africa that would give the continent a stronger global voice, boost democracy and encourage peace and security. AU Ambassador to the United...

US: CIA Stops New Al-Qaida Underwear Bomb Plot; updated 08 May 2012; published 07 May 2012
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US: CIA Stops New Al-Qaida Underwear Bomb Plot
Denver Post 09 May 2012, WASHINGTON — The latest al-Qaeda bomb plot targeting U.S. aircraft was unraveled from inside the terrorist group by operatives — including a double agent — working on behalf of the CIA and its counterparts in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, said U.S. and Middle Eastern officials. The Saudi intelligence service played a particularly...

Greek leftists in bid to form coalition; updated 09 May 2012; published 08 May 2012
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Greek leftists in bid to form coalition
BBC News 09 May 2012, The leader of Greece's left-wing Syriza bloc is continuing attempts to form a government after elections on Sunday produced an inconclusive result. Alexis Tsipras has said he will try to form a coalition based on tearing up the terms of the EU/IMF bailout deal, which he describes as "barbaric". On Wednesday, he will meet the two...

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...

WorldLeadersTV: SYRIA: ANNAN PEACE PLAN
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WorldLeadersTV: SYRIA: ANNAN PEACE PLAN "MUST NOT FAIL" (UNTV)
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...

Syria: the horror of Homs, a city at war; updated 08 May 2012; published 22 Feb 2012
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Syria: the horror of Homs, a city at war
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...

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...





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