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Syria-wide protests urged as Qaeda fears grows
Full Article France24
AFP - Anti-regime activists have called for Syria-wide protests on Friday in support of students in Aleppo, a day after thousands of them rallied, emboldened by the presence of UN truce observers. Growing suspicions of an Al-Qaeda presence in Syria, meanwhile, further complicated matters for the fragmented opposition, which has repeatedly refuted...
In this Monday, May 14, 2012 photo, a girl walks past Syrian rebels at Khaldiyeh neighborhood in Homs province, central Syria.
photo: AP / Fadi Zaidan

China sentences fugitive smuggler Lai to life term
Full Article Denver Post
BEIJING—The man once considered China's most-wanted fugitive was sentenced to life in prison for smuggling and bribery in a lurid corruption case that reached into the highest echelons of the Communist Party and involved a decade-long extradition fight. The official Xinhua News Agency reported that Lai Changxing was convicted and sentenced...
File - Chinese soldiers look at cars confiscated from a company owned by fugitive smuggling suspect Lai Changxing, including a bullet-proofed Mercedes Benz, at an anti-smuggling exhibition in Beijing Thursday, Nov. 11, 2004.
photo: AP / Greg Baker

Afghanistan takes center stage at NATO event in Chicago
Full Article Detroit Free Press
WASHINGTON -- Mapping the way out of an unpopular war, the U.S. and NATO are trying to build an Afghan army that can defend the country after 130,000 international troops pull out. The alliance's plans for arm's-length support for Afghanistan will be a central focus of the NATO summit President Barack Obama is hosting Sunday and Monday in Chicago....
Afghanistan takes center stage at NATO event in Chicago
photo: US Army / DOD

President Obama: Silence Is Still Betrayal
Full Article WorldNews.com
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling When the White House refused to offer an explanation as to why U.S. air strikes in Afghanistan killed six innocent civilians, not to mention dozens of other air bombardment campaigns that have also caused the deaths of many other innocent people, it evoked Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s profound words...
U.S. Sen. Barack Obama addresses the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Scholarship Award Breakfast in Chicago, Monday, Jan. 15, 2007.
photo: AP / Charles Rex Arbogast

Moody's lowers rating of 16 Spanish banks
Full Article Xinhua
MADRID, May 17 (Xinhua) -- Risk Qualification agency Moody's lowered its rating of 16 Spanish banks late on Thursday evening. The move came after a difficult day on the stock markets following rumors of a run on the recently...
A woman uses an ATM cash point machine at a branch of the Bankia bank in Madrid Thursday May 17, 2012.
photo: AP / Paul White

Fitch downgrades Greece on euro exit fears
Full Article Al Jazeera
Fitch, a leading credit ratings agency, has downgraded Greece a notch to CCC "vulnerable to default" rating, citing the heightened risk that the country might have to leave the Eurozone. The failure by Greek politicians to form a government underscores a lack of public and political support for an austerity programme, Fitch said in a statement on...
The marble statue of ancient Greek philosopher Socrates stands in front of the headquarters of Bank of Greece, in central Athens, on Friday, July 23, 2010.
photo: AP / Petros Giannakouris

Niger malnutrition crisis spreading - Save the Children
Full Article BBC News
Months of warnings have failed to prevent a serious malnutrition crisis in Niger, Save the Children has said. The charity says more than six million people are affected there, and about 18 million...
File - Niger Families Face Drought and Rising Food Prices: Mothers wait to have their children assessed and weighed at the a therapeutic feeding centre in Bargadja, Maradai Region, Niger.
photo: UN / WFP/Phil Behan

G8 summit: The hunger game
Full Article The Independent
One of the worst hit is the African country of Niger where the lives of six million children are in the balance, the British charity Save the Children has warned. Serious malnutrition is sweeping the sub-Saharan nation. Yesterday, the charity announced that it was shifting its work in the country to "crisis response" level after world...
Young children at the World Food Programme (WFP) school feeding centre in Agarsamat, Tahoua Region, Niger, 17 November, 2011.  Prices at Niger's food markets are spiking in the aftermath of a patchy harvest, causing concern among food security experts that many could soon go hungry.
photo: UN / WFP/Phil Behan

US Is Ready for Attack on Iran If Need Be, Says Ambassador to Israel
Full Article ABC News
The United States is militarily ready to carry out a strike on Iran to stop it from obtaining a nuclear weapon if international pressure fails, American ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro said to an Israeli audience this week. The Obama administration has repeatedly insisted that "all options are on the table" to deal with an Iranian nuclear...
The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), left, and the guided-missile cruiser USS Cape St. George (CG 71) transit the Strait of Hormuz, 1 May, 2012.
photo: US Navy / MCS3 Alex R. Forster

Mladic trial: Prosecution to focus on Srebrenica massacre
Full Article BBC News
A war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic is to resume, with the prosecution focusing on the Srebrenica massacre in 1995. Gen Mladic is accused of orchestrating the killings of more than 7,000 Bosnian Muslim boys and men in the town. In all, the 70-year-old faces 11 charges, including genocide, during the brutal 1992-95...
Former Bosnian Serb military commander Gen. Ratko Mladic is seen at the start of his trial at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday May 16, 2012.
photo: AP / Toussaint Kluiters, Pool


Everything has been moving forward, step by step. At the beginning of May, after months of...
The battleships are coming. And we’re not talking about the movie. The White House race...
Amid growing alarm within the Treasury over the impact of the crisis on Britain, a close ally...

UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon waves during a visit to the construction site of a housing project in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on February 2, 2012. Protesters threw shoes, sand and small stones at the convoy of UN chief Ban Ki-moon as he entered the Gaza Strip for a visit.Phoot by Ahmed Deeb/WN
UN leader Ban Ki-moon has said he believes al-Qaeda committed a major bomb attack in Damascus that left dozens dead, and that up to 10,000 people have now been killed in Syria. United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon Photo: EPA...
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb
In this Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011 photo, police officers armed with AK-47 rifles stand guard at sandbagged bunkers along a major road in Maiduguri, Nigeria. The radical sect Boko Haram, which in August 2011 bombed the United Nations headquarters in Nigeria, is the gravest security threat to Africa's most populous nation and is gaining prominence
Zeenews Bureau Washington: The US State Department may designate Nigeria’s militant Islamist sect Boko Haram, as a "foreign terrorist organisation”, a news agency said on Friday. Citing a document, the agency said Assistant Attorney General for...
photo: AP / Sunday Alamba
Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou declares victory in the presidential election, Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012 in Taipei, Taiwan.
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan's Ma Ying-jeou is set to begin his second presidential term caught between China's desire to exert greater influence over his democratic island and Taiwanese determination to maintain their de facto independence. Ma is to...
photo: AP / Wally Santana
The burqa reminder
Since a 2009 trip to Kabul, I have kept a sky-blue burqa in my office as a reminder of the responsibility we have to the women of Afghanistan. As world leaders gather in Chicago this weekend to discuss Afghanistan's future, women must not just be a...
photo: US Army / Michael J. MacLeod
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II arrives at Government Buildings in Dublin, Wednesday, May 18, 2011.
The King of Bahrain and Swaziland's King Mswati III are among controversial monarchs expected at a Windsor Castle lunch being hosted by the Queen later. Critics accuse Bahrain of human rights abuses and say King Mswati lives in luxury while his...
photo: AP / Peter Morrison
Solution to world economic crisis must have "global dimension": EU's Barroso
UNITED NATIONS, May 17 (Xinhua) -- President of the European Union (EU) Commission Jose Manuel Barroso said here Thursday that a solution to the global economic crisis must have a global dimension. "Economic crisis has global nature, its impact has...
photo: EC / EC
Donna Summer, queen of disco, dies of cancer at 63
Donna Summer, the multimillion-selling singer and songwriter whose hits captured both the giddy hedonism of the 1970s disco era and the feisty female solidarity of the early 1980s, died of lung cancer Thursday at her home in Naples, Fla. She was 63....
photo: WN / Aruna Gilbert

Aleppo University - 17th may 2012 / beating students / from UN VEHICLE / Syria; updated 18 May 2012; published 18 May 2012
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Aleppo University - 17th may 2012 / beating students / from UN VEHICLE / Syria
France24 18 May 2012, AFP - Anti-regime activists have called for Syria-wide protests on Friday in support of students in Aleppo, a day after thousands of them rallied, emboldened by the presence of UN truce observers. Growing suspicions of an Al-Qaeda presence in Syria, meanwhile, further complicated matters for the fragmented opposition, which has repeatedly refuted...

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Chinese Fugitive Lai Changxing Faces Trial in Xiamen; updated 16 Feb 2012; published 15 Feb 2012
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Chinese Fugitive Lai Changxing Faces Trial in Xiamen
Denver Post 18 May 2012, BEIJING—The man once considered China's most-wanted fugitive was sentenced to life in prison for smuggling and bribery in a lurid corruption case that reached into the highest echelons of the Communist Party and involved a decade-long extradition fight. The official Xinhua News Agency reported that Lai Changxing was convicted and sentenced...

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Afghanistan War + More Troops = Catastrophe (Trailer); updated 15 May 2012; published 26 Feb 2009
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Afghanistan War + More Troops = Catastrophe (Trailer)
Detroit Free Press 18 May 2012, WASHINGTON -- Mapping the way out of an unpopular war, the U.S. and NATO are trying to build an Afghan army that can defend the country after 130,000 international troops pull out. The alliance's plans for arm's-length support for Afghanistan will be a central focus of the NATO summit President Barack Obama is hosting Sunday and Monday in Chicago....

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Catholic "Discovery" of America: Knights of Columbus and its Mass Murder of Natives Exposed!
WorldNews.com 18 May 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling When the White House refused to offer an explanation as to why U.S. air strikes in Afghanistan killed six innocent civilians, not to mention dozens of other air bombardment campaigns that have also caused the deaths of many other innocent people, it evoked Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s profound words...

Greece euro exit to hit Spain and Italy hardest -- experts; updated 16 May 2012; published 15 May 2012
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Greece euro exit to hit Spain and Italy hardest -- experts
Xinhua 18 May 2012, MADRID, May 17 (Xinhua) -- Risk Qualification agency Moody's lowered its rating of 16 Spanish banks late on Thursday evening. The move came after a difficult day on the stock markets following rumors of a run on the recently...

Fitch Downgrades Greece: 'Default is Highly Likely in the Near Term'; updated 18 Mar 2012; published 22 Feb 2012
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Fitch Downgrades Greece: 'Default is Highly Likely in the Near Term'
Al Jazeera 18 May 2012, Fitch, a leading credit ratings agency, has downgraded Greece a notch to CCC "vulnerable to default" rating, citing the heightened risk that the country might have to leave the Eurozone. The failure by Greek politicians to form a government underscores a lack of public and political support for an austerity programme, Fitch said in a statement on...

Sahel Drought; updated 07 May 2012; published 15 Feb 2012
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Sahel Drought
BBC News 18 May 2012, Months of warnings have failed to prevent a serious malnutrition crisis in Niger, Save the Children has said. The charity says more than six million people are affected there, and about 18 million...

Sahel Drought; updated 07 May 2012; published 15 Feb 2012
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Sahel Drought
The Independent 18 May 2012, One of the worst hit is the African country of Niger where the lives of six million children are in the balance, the British charity Save the Children has warned. Serious malnutrition is sweeping the sub-Saharan nation. Yesterday, the charity announced that it was shifting its work in the country to "crisis response" level after world...

Possible Nuclear Weapons Research at Iran's Parchin Military Complex: Explosives Chamber Image; updated 17 May 2012; published 14 May 2012
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Possible Nuclear Weapons Research at Iran's Parchin Military Complex: Explosives Chamber Image
ABC News 17 May 2012, The United States is militarily ready to carry out a strike on Iran to stop it from obtaining a nuclear weapon if international pressure fails, American ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro said to an Israeli audience this week. The Obama administration has repeatedly insisted that "all options are on the table" to deal with an Iranian nuclear...

Bosnia war crimes trial of Mladic opens; updated 17 May 2012; published 16 May 2012
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Bosnia war crimes trial of Mladic opens
BBC News 17 May 2012, A war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic is to resume, with the prosecution focusing on the Srebrenica massacre in 1995. Gen Mladic is accused of orchestrating the killings of more than 7,000 Bosnian Muslim boys and men in the town. In all, the 70-year-old faces 11 charges, including genocide, during the brutal 1992-95...

Leaked UN report blames Iran for supplying Syrian army with weapons; updated 17 May 2012; published 17 May 2012
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Leaked UN report blames Iran for supplying Syrian army with weapons
The Star 17 May 2012, UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Syria remains the top destination for Iranian arms shipments in violation of a U.N. Security Council ban on weapons exports by the Islamic Republic, according to a confidential report on Iran sanctions-busting seen by Reuters on Wednesday. Members of the United Nations observers mission in Syria wait at a hotel lobby in...

Zhou Yongkang And Bo Xilai Cannot Escape; updated 28 Apr 2012; published 22 Mar 2012
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Zhou Yongkang And Bo Xilai Cannot Escape
Al Jazeera 17 May 2012, A group of Communist Party veterans has written a daring open letter calling for the removal of China's top security official, in the latest sign of disunity ahead of Beijing's leadership transition. Security chief Zhou Yongkang, one of China's top nine rulers, is viewed as a hardliner and is linked to Bo Xilai, the charismatic party leader whose...

Fedde Le Grand live @ Sensation Serbia Innerspace Belgrade 2012 Generation 303; updated 15 May 2012; published 13 May 2012
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Fedde Le Grand live @ Sensation Serbia Innerspace Belgrade 2012 Generation 303
The Australian 16 May 2012, HE is no longer the swaggering general who held Sarajevo "in the palm of his hand" during Bosnia's 1992-95 war. Yet as his long-awaited genocide trial began yesterday, Ratko Mladic still managed to reopen old wounds with the flick of his hand. Hobbled by strokes and wearing a business suit instead of combat fatigues, the frail,...

Karzai Exclusive: 'No Blackwater mercs in Afghanistan in 10 years'; updated 17 May 2012; published 14 May 2012
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Karzai Exclusive: 'No Blackwater mercs in Afghanistan in 10 years'
The Siasat Daily 16 May 2012, Berlin, May 16: Germany will give 150 million euros ($190 million) worth of cash aid to Afghanistan a year after international peacekeeping forces pull out on schedule in 2014 as part of an agreement signed by both countries Wednesday. Chancellor Angela Merkel said the aid to Afghanistan was a reflection of Germany's long-term commitment to the...





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