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China's Chen Guangcheng 'set to fly to US'
Full Article BBC News
Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng - who was at the centre of a diplomatic crisis with the US - says he is at Beijing's airport, where he expects to leave to go to the US. The blind activist told reporters he did not have a passport, but believed he was going to New York. Mr Chen recently spent six days in the US embassy in Beijing after...
FILE - In this file photo taken Wednesday, May 2, 2012. and released by the U.S. Embassy Beijing Press Office, blind activist Chen Guangcheng, center, holds hands with U.S. Ambassador to China, Gary Locke, at a hospital in Beijing.
photo: AP / U.S. Embassy Beijing Press Office, File

Myanmar's Suu Kyi to address British parliament in June
Full Article The Star
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will be given the rare honour of addressing both houses of Britain's parliament when she makes her first trip outside Myanmar in 24 years next month, British officials said on Saturday. The Nobel peace laureate has accepted Prime Minister David Cameron's invitation to visit Britain and...
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi looks at a photo during the opening ceremony of a photo exhibition entitled "Aung San Suu Kyi, The Burmese Way to Democracy" at Institute of French in Yangon, Myanmar, Thursday, May 17, 2012.
photo: AP / Khin Maung Win

Sri Lanka to probe civil war abuses on its own
Full Article Jakarta Post
Sri Lanka says it will conduct its own investigation into rights abuses during the final months of the island nation's civil war when thousands of civilians reportedly died, dismissing the need for an international tribunal. Sri Lankan Foreign Minister G.M. Peiris spoke Friday after meeting Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and presenting...
Former Sri Lankan soldier amputees participate in a parade to invoke blessings against the UN resolution against war crimes and human rights abuses during Sri Lanka's civil war, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, March 22, 2012.
photo: AP / Eranga Jayawardena

Greece tops G8 agenda as eurozone crisis snares Spain
Full Article France24
AFP - Fears that debt-stricken Greece may be headed for a chaotic eurozone exit loomed large as President Barack Obama met other G8 leaders for crisis talks in the United States. The Group of Eight top economies came together on Friday as Greece faces its second election in just six weeks, putting its eurozone future in doubt and dragging down...
US President Barack Obama (R) meets with French President Francois Hollande following their bilateral meeting in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, on May 18, 2012 in advance of the G8 and NATO Summits.
photo: AP / AFP PHOTO/POOL/ERIC FEFERBERG

Thousands flee DR Congo violence
Full Article Al Jazeera
Fighting between government troops and rebels has displaced hundreds of thousands people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The fighting has been most intense in the hills of the North Kivu region. Many of the refugees have headed to neighbouring Rwanda and Uganda, and more are on their way. The UN's refugee agency has described...
 Violence erupted again in the north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as Lendu militia, who were driven out of Bunia yesterday by rival Hema fighters, have regrouped and launched a counter-offensive to regain control of the town, the United
photo: UN

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


If Greece were a man, he would have aged decades in the past two weeks. The grey hairs would be...
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...

New French President Francois Hollande and British Prime Minister David Cameron shake hands in Washington, Friday, May, 18. 2012
David Cameron held his first meeting with Francois Hollande and threatened to veto the new French president’s plan for a European tax on financial transactions. Downing Street said Mr Cameron delivered a strong message to Francois Hollande over...
photo: AP / Christophe Ena
A man holds up a child during a demonstration against Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad's regime in the outskirts of Idlib, northern Syria, Sunday Feb. 26, 2012.
ZEINA KARAM Associated Press= BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian forces on Friday fired on protesters holding the largest opposition marches yet in Aleppo, a sign of rising anti-regime sentiment in the country's biggest city, which has largely remained supportive...
photo: AP / Rodrigo Abd
Yemeni policemen sit in a pickup truck in front of Sanaa's International airport in Yemen, Sunday, April 8, 2012.
Since 12 May fierce fighting has been raging in southern Yemen between government forces, backed by US advisers, and Islamist militants allied to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). More than 130 people have reportedly been killed. Largely...
photo: AP / Hani Mohammed
Egyptian protesters clap and wave flags in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011. Egypt's military is taking down the makeshift tents of protesters who camped out on Tahrir Square in an effort to allow traffic and normal life to return to central Cairo. There were a few verbal altercations between soldiers and protesters Sunday morning as the tents were removed, but the process was generally peaceful.
When Egyptians joined a popular revolt last year, many were demanding economic change. They were suffering from high unemployment and prices, low wages, widespread poverty and crippling corruption. Over the last 15 months little has changed and many...
photo: AP / Hussein Malla
A man stops to photograph Nasdaq in Times Square as Facebook has its IPO, Friday, May 18, 2012, in New York.
It was barely a "like" and definitely not a "love" from Facebook investors as the online social network's stock failed to live up to the hype in its trading debut Friday. One of the most anticipated IPOs in Wall Street history ended on a flat note,...
photo: AP / Richard Drew
This Dec. 13, 2011 file photo, shows workers inside Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.Facebook, the social network that changed "friend" from a noun to a verb, is expected to file as early as Wednesday to sell stock on the open market.
After the IPO, users may see changes to the site Facebook began trading on the Nasdaq today, priced at $38 a share. This puts the total value of the company at $104 billion, the third largest initial public offering ever after Visa and General...
photo: AP / Paul Sakuma
Gay African refugees face abduction, violence and rape in Uganda and Kenya
LGBTI people fleeing persecution in home country among most vulnerable and isolated of all refugees, finds study In Uganda, 'public rhetoric demonising homosexuality has been particularly vicious' since an anti-gay bill was introduced, says the...
photo: UN / JC McIlwaine

Chen Guangcheng:
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Chen Guangcheng: "Dear Premier Wen, I Finally Escaped"
BBC News 19 May 2012, Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng - who was at the centre of a diplomatic crisis with the US - says he is at Beijing's airport, where he expects to leave to go to the US. The blind activist told reporters he did not have a passport, but believed he was going to New York. Mr Chen recently spent six days in the US embassy in Beijing after...

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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's Victory Speech (English); updated 17 May 2012; published 02 Apr 2012
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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's Victory Speech (English)
The Star 19 May 2012, WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will be given the rare honour of addressing both houses of Britain's parliament when she makes her first trip outside Myanmar in 24 years next month, British officials said on Saturday. The Nobel peace laureate has accepted Prime Minister David Cameron's invitation to visit Britain and...

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UNHRC warns Sri Lanka over war crimes; updated 16 Apr 2012; published 24 Mar 2012
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UNHRC warns Sri Lanka over war crimes
Jakarta Post 19 May 2012, Sri Lanka says it will conduct its own investigation into rights abuses during the final months of the island nation's civil war when thousands of civilians reportedly died, dismissing the need for an international tribunal. Sri Lankan Foreign Minister G.M. Peiris spoke Friday after meeting Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and presenting...

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Obama hosts world leaders for G8 summit; updated 19 May 2012; published 19 May 2012
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Obama hosts world leaders for G8 summit
France24 19 May 2012, AFP - Fears that debt-stricken Greece may be headed for a chaotic eurozone exit loomed large as President Barack Obama met other G8 leaders for crisis talks in the United States. The Group of Eight top economies came together on Friday as Greece faces its second election in just six weeks, putting its eurozone future in doubt and dragging down...

Refugees flee DR Congo fighting; updated 17 May 2012; published 16 May 2012
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Refugees flee DR Congo fighting
Al Jazeera 19 May 2012, Fighting between government troops and rebels has displaced hundreds of thousands people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The fighting has been most intense in the hills of the North Kivu region. Many of the refugees have headed to neighbouring Rwanda and Uganda, and more are on their way. The UN's refugee agency has described...

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...

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...

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 18 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 18 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...





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