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Syrian clashes 'kill 23 soldiers' in Rastan
Full Article BBC News
At least 23 soldiers have died in clashes in the central Syrian city of Rastan, according to activists. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said dozens were wounded in the attack in...
A Syrian rebel walks past destroyed shops at al-Bayada neighborhood in Homs, Syria, Thursday, May 10, 2012. A Syrian opposition leader said Friday the regime is trying to destroy a U.N.-brokered peace plan for the country.
photo: AP

Greece crisis: Far left Syriza pulls out of talks
Full Article BBC News
The leader of far-left party Syriza will not attend coalition talks on Monday, reports say, plunging Greece into further political disarray. The move by Alexis Tsipras takes the country a step closer to elections - which polls now suggest the anti-bailout party could win. President Karolos Papoulias had invited four parties, including Syriza, to...
Greek leftist leader Alexis Tsipras leaves the Presidential Palace after meeting with President Karolos Papoulias in Athens, Sunday May 13 2012.
photo: AP / Kostas Tsironis

NATO a step closer to getting out of Afghanistan
Full Article The Himalayan
NATO a step closer to getting out of Afghanistan Added At: 2012-05-13 11:58 PM Last Updated At: 2012-05-13 11:58 PM The Himalayan Times - Saved Articles(s)...
NATO a step closer to getting out of Afghanistan
photo: US Army / Michael J. MacLeod

UN mission in Afghanistan condemns assassination of peace council member
Full Article United Nations
13 May 2012 – The United Nations mission in Afghanistan has condemned today's assassination of Maulawi Arsala Rahmani, a senior member of the country's High Peace Council, and stated its continued commitment to supporting the...
UN mission in Afghanistan condemns assassination of peace council member
photo: UN / Eskinder Debebe

Spaniards keep up anniversary rally against crisis
Full Article The Star
MADRID (Reuters) - Spaniards kept up protests against politicians' handling of the economic crisis in Madrid's Puerta del Sol on Sunday after police evicted people from the central square in the pre-dawn hours and made 18 arrests. As civic activists lamented Spain's worsening economy, authorities sought on the first anniversary of the grassroots...
Spaniards keep up anniversary rally against crisis
photo: AP / Emilio Morenatti

Greece parties in emergency talks with president over new government
Full Article The Guardian
Last-ditch discussions hope to produce some form of coalition as country remains leaderless after deadlocked elections Greek President Carolos Papoulias (c), Pasok leader Evangelos Venizelos (l), New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras (second l) and Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras (right) meet at the presidential palace in Athens. Photograph: Kostas...
Greek President Karolos Papoulias (center), Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos (first left) Conservative leader Antonis Samaras (second left) and Leftist leader Alexis Tsipras (right) , meet at the presidential palace in Athens, Sunday May 13 2012.
photo: AP / Kostas Tsironis

Top Afghan peace negotiator shot dead in Kabul
Full Article France24
AFP - A senior Afghan peace negotiator and close ally of President Hamid Karzai was shot dead Sunday, dealing a major blow to Kabul's efforts to broker peace with Taliban insurgents. Arsala Rahmani, a former minister in the Taliban regime, was a "key negotiator" in the High Peace Council (HPC) established by Karzai to hold talks with the...
Afghan National Army soldiers secure the gate of the military hospital after Arsala Rahmani, a former Taliban official turned Afghan peace negotiator, was killed by an unknown attacker in western Kabul, Sunday, May 13, 2012.
photo: AP / Rahmat Gul

Syria militants claim responsibility for blasts
Full Article San Francisco Chronicle
Beirut -- A video posted online in the name of a shadowy militant group claimed responsibility for twin suicide bombings in the Syrian capital of Damascus last week that killed 55 people. In the video posted late Friday, a group calling itself the Al-Nusra Front says the bombing was...
Syria militants claim responsibility for blasts
photo: AP / Fadi Zaidan

Indonesia airline boom raises new safety questions
Full Article Herald Tribune
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Dozens of fledgling airlines that have sprung up to serve Indonesia's island-hopping new middle class could jeopardize the archipelago's recently improved safety reputation, aviation experts say. Enlarge In this May 12, 2012 photo, a Lion Air passenger jet takes off from Juanda International Airport in Surabaya, Indonesia....
Indonesia airline boom raises new safety questions
photo: AP / Kusumadireza

Spaniards rage against austerity, grim economy
Full Article Chicago Sun-Times
MADRID — Spaniards angered by increasingly grim economic prospects and unemployment hitting one out of every four citizens protested in droves Saturday in the nation’s largest cities, marking the one-year anniversary of a spontaneous movement that inspired similar anti-authority demonstrations across the planet. The country’s Interior Ministry said...
	Spaniards rage against austerity, grim economy
photo: UN / Alberto Di Lolli


I weary a bit of this stuff. If the CIA and the Brits and the Saudis have really penetrated...
It started with lesbian couples in Vermont in the mid-90s, freaked out they’d lose their...
By Charles Riley @CNNMoneyInvest May 11, 2012: 1:05 PM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- What, exactly,...

Daniela Santanche
Silvio Berlusconi, the scandal-hit former Italian Prime Minister, is said to be lining up one of his "babes" to...
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NASA to put man on asteroid by 2020s
SHARE AND DISCUSSTweet Astronauts Being Trained For Mission To Look For Minerals, Get Info On How To Destroy It WASHINGTON: Nasa is reportedly training a team of astronauts for a mission to land on an asteroid by the end of the next decade. The US...
photo: WN / Arturo Ubaub
 The leader of the Lord´s Resistance Army, Joseph Kony , left, and his deputy Vincent Otti (dn1)
Uganda has captured one of the top five members of the Lord's Resistance Army, bringing it a step closer to catching Joseph Kony, the notorious rebel leader accused of war crimes, the military said...
photo: AP -Stuart Price, Pool
Karat: nobody expecting mid-term polls
Days after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee urged her supporters “to be prepared to face elections any day,” Communist Party of India...
photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick
Eurozone: the austerity allergy
Slowly but surely, the unthinkable is coming to be thought. Europe's monetary marriage was supposed to admit no divorce, but the idea of Greece being put asunder is now being canvassed openly in Brussels and Berlin. The immediate reason for talking...
photo: EC / EC
Photo essay: Patrolling for hearts and minds
The role of soldiers in Afghanistan has evolved since U.S. troops arrived in 2001 to strip the Taliban from power. Then, the emphasis was on combat. Today, much of what they do involves a daily regimen of patrols, like police officers walking the...
photo: US Army / Michael J. MacLeod
Another murder in Kabul
Another targeted killing in Kabul has exposed the obvious. There are elements at work that do not want to see political stability restored, and moreover, a just order come into being after the withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan. That is...
photo: US Army / Michael J. MacLeod

Raw Video: Syrian Clashes Mar Peace Efforts; updated 11 Apr 2012; published 02 Apr 2012
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Raw Video: Syrian Clashes Mar Peace Efforts
BBC News 14 May 2012, At least 23 soldiers have died in clashes in the central Syrian city of Rastan, according to activists. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said dozens were wounded in the attack in...

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Greece sinks in deeper crisis amid rescue deal doubts; updated 12 May 2012; published 09 May 2012
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Greece sinks in deeper crisis amid rescue deal doubts
BBC News 14 May 2012, The leader of far-left party Syriza will not attend coalition talks on Monday, reports say, plunging Greece into further political disarray. The move by Alexis Tsipras takes the country a step closer to elections - which polls now suggest the anti-bailout party could win. President Karolos Papoulias had invited four parties, including Syriza, to...

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US may use 'military means' to defend Afghanistan until 2024; updated 13 May 2012; published 23 Apr 2012
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US may use 'military means' to defend Afghanistan until 2024
The Himalayan 13 May 2012, NATO a step closer to getting out of Afghanistan Added At: 2012-05-13 11:58 PM Last Updated At: 2012-05-13 11:58 PM The Himalayan Times - Saved Articles(s)...

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US may use 'military means' to defend Afghanistan until 2024; updated 13 May 2012; published 23 Apr 2012
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US may use 'military means' to defend Afghanistan until 2024
United Nations 13 May 2012, 13 May 2012 – The United Nations mission in Afghanistan has condemned today's assassination of Maulawi Arsala Rahmani, a senior member of the country's High Peace Council, and stated its continued commitment to supporting the...

Spain home evictions draw protests; updated 29 Apr 2012; published 15 Mar 2012
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Spain home evictions draw protests
The Star 13 May 2012, MADRID (Reuters) - Spaniards kept up protests against politicians' handling of the economic crisis in Madrid's Puerta del Sol on Sunday after police evicted people from the central square in the pre-dawn hours and made 18 arrests. As civic activists lamented Spain's worsening economy, authorities sought on the first anniversary of the grassroots...

Greek neonazi leader gives Hitler-style speech after the elections; updated 14 May 2012; published 06 May 2012
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Greek neonazi leader gives Hitler-style speech after the elections
The Guardian 13 May 2012, Last-ditch discussions hope to produce some form of coalition as country remains leaderless after deadlocked elections Greek President Carolos Papoulias (c), Pasok leader Evangelos Venizelos (l), New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras (second l) and Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras (right) meet at the presidential palace in Athens. Photograph: Kostas...

Peace negotiator killed in Kabul; updated 13 May 2012; published 13 May 2012
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Peace negotiator killed in Kabul
France24 13 May 2012, AFP - A senior Afghan peace negotiator and close ally of President Hamid Karzai was shot dead Sunday, dealing a major blow to Kabul's efforts to broker peace with Taliban insurgents. Arsala Rahmani, a former minister in the Taliban regime, was a "key negotiator" in the High Peace Council (HPC) established by Karzai to hold talks with the...

Syria Walks Out In Protest Of UN HRC Preparations For Another NATO Aggression; updated 18 Mar 2012; published 01 Mar 2012
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Syria Walks Out In Protest Of UN HRC Preparations For Another NATO Aggression
San Francisco Chronicle 13 May 2012, Beirut -- A video posted online in the name of a shadowy militant group claimed responsibility for twin suicide bombings in the Syrian capital of Damascus last week that killed 55 people. In the video posted late Friday, a group calling itself the Al-Nusra Front says the bombing was...

Wreckage of Russian jet found after Indonesia crash; updated 13 May 2012; published 10 May 2012
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Wreckage of Russian jet found after Indonesia crash
Herald Tribune 13 May 2012, JAKARTA, Indonesia - Dozens of fledgling airlines that have sprung up to serve Indonesia's island-hopping new middle class could jeopardize the archipelago's recently improved safety reputation, aviation experts say. Enlarge In this May 12, 2012 photo, a Lion Air passenger jet takes off from Juanda International Airport in Surabaya, Indonesia....

Spain home evictions draw protests; updated 29 Apr 2012; published 15 Mar 2012
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Spain home evictions draw protests
Chicago Sun-Times 13 May 2012, MADRID — Spaniards angered by increasingly grim economic prospects and unemployment hitting one out of every four citizens protested in droves Saturday in the nation’s largest cities, marking the one-year anniversary of a spontaneous movement that inspired similar anti-authority demonstrations across the planet. The country’s Interior Ministry said...

Protests in Madrid, Spain; updated 02 Feb 2012; published 17 May 2011
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Protests in Madrid, Spain
Zeenews 13 May 2012, Madrid: Thousands of Spaniards angered by their grim economic prospects and political handling of the international financial crisis turned out for street demonstrations in the country's cities on Saturday, marking the one-year anniversary of a movement that inspired similar pressure groups in other countries. Protesters in Madrid converged on the...

Hollande to fight austerity after beating Sarkozy; updated 10 May 2012; published 07 May 2012
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Hollande to fight austerity after beating Sarkozy
The Australian 13 May 2012, CHANCELLOR Angela Merkel's party faces a drubbing in Germany's most populous state tonight in a snap election that could provide impetus to her main rivals in the countdown to 2013 national polls. A week after voters in Greece and France clearly plumped for anti-austerity policies, the citizens of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) could also...

'US military, CIA out of control in Afghanistan'; updated 13 May 2012; published 08 May 2012
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'US military, CIA out of control in Afghanistan'
The Siasat Daily 12 May 2012, May 12: Four NATO soldiers lost their lives during separate incidents in restive southern Afghanistan, the military alliance said. "Two International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) service members died following an insurgent attack in southern Afghanistan today," the NATO-led ISAF said in a press release issued here Saturday evening, reported...

Greek neonazi leader gives Hitler-style speech after the elections; updated 14 May 2012; published 06 May 2012
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Greek neonazi leader gives Hitler-style speech after the elections
BBC News 12 May 2012, Europe central bankers have been openly expressing views on the possibility of Greece leaving the eurozone as its leaders struggles to form a government. Germany's top banker said it was up to the Greeks to decide, but if they did not keep to their bailout commitments, they would receive no new aid. His counterpart in the Irish Republic said a...





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