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Yemen: Suicide bomber kills 96 at military parade
Full Article Zeenews
Zeenews Bureau Sana'a: A suicide bomber killed at least 96 soldiers during a rehearsal for a military parade in Yemen's capital city of Sana'a, a report said on Monday. The bomber was dressed in a military uniform. He blew himself up in the middle of the battalion that was rehearsing for an Army parade marking the 22nd anniversary of the...
A policeman collects evidence at the site of a suicide bomb attack at a parade square in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, May 21, 2012.
photo: AP / Hani Mohammed

A 'Not So' Smiling Buddha
Full Article WorldNews.com
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. Rejecting the horrific specter of stunned, terrified, blackened and bleeding and suffering survivors, hands and arms aloft with patches of roasted skin flapping in the wind, and that swarmed towards the estuaries of the Ota River which had already filled with bloated corpses,(1) this week in 1974...
A 23 kiloton tower shot called BADGER, fired on April 18, 1953 at the Nevada Test Site, as part of the Operation Upshot-Knothole nuclear test series.
photo: Federal Government of the United States

Putin announces new Russian government
Full Article The Star
MOSCOW, May 21 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin named loyal allies to top posts in Russia's new government on Monday,...
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, speaks to Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev during their meeting in Moscow, Russia, on Monday, May 21, 2012.
photo: AP / RIA Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Government Press Service

Eurozone crisis live: EU heading for showdown over growth
Full Article The Guardian
David Cameron has warned that the Greek election is a referendum on the country's euro membership, after last weekend's G8 summit made little progress towards solving the eurozone crisis UK prime minister David Cameron: Greek election is a choice between meeting commitments to the eurozone... or choosing to leave. Photograph: Nigel Roddis/REUTERS...
Eurozone crisis live: EU heading for showdown over growth
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UK rules out further Lockerbie inquiries after Al-Megrahi's death
Full Article Mail Guardian South Africa
The prime minister said the court case, which convicted Megrahi, was properly conducted and news of his death on Sunday should “be a time to remember the 270 people who lost their lives in what was an appalling terrorist act”. Scotland’s first minister Alex Salmond, whose government took the decision to release the former Libyan...
In this Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009 file photo Libyan Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who was found guilty of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing but recently released from his Scottish prison on compassionate grounds, is seen below a portrait of Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi, as he is visited by a group of African parliamentarians, not pictured, at Tripoli Medical Center in Tripoli, Libya.
photo: AP / Abdel Magid Al Fergany

Hard days ahead in Afghanistan: Obama
Full Article The Siasat Daily
Washington, May 21: US President Barack Obama claims that NATO remains united on Afghanistan but warns that there will be “hard days” ahead for the Western alliance. “Just as we've sacrificed together for our common security, we will stand united in our determination to complete this mission,” Obama said in Chicago on Sunday, The Associated Press...
President Barack Obama, right, shakes hands with with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, left, during their meeting at the NATO Summit in Chicago, Sunday, May 20, 2012.
photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais

Serb rightist wins presidency, backs EU path
Full Article Daily Press
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Opposition leader Tomislav Nikolic, last in power when Slobodan Milosevic's Serbia was bombed by NATO in 1999, was elected president on Sunday and pledged to keep the former Yugoslav republic moving towards the European Union. In a major upset, rightist Nikolic narrowly defeated liberal leader Boris Tadic, ending his eight...
Tomislav Nikolic, center, the nationalist Serbian Progressive Party leader and presidential candidate, talks to members of the media after claiming victory at the presidential runoff elections in Belgrade, Serbia, Sunday, May 20, 2012, with his wife, Dragica at left.
photo: AP / Marko Drobnjakovic

Taliban: NATO nations should leave Afghanistan now
Full Article Atlanta Journal
KABUL, AfghanistanThe Taliban is urging all NATO nations in Afghanistan to follow France's lead and pull their international forces from the war this year. Election 2012: Across the nation Political vulnerabilities in Sen. Rubio's past? Gay marriage could be big voting issue in Colorado Is GOP trying to sabotage economy to hurt Obama?...
U.S. Army Pfc. Jeffery Penning, Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Task Force Red Warrior, along with an Afghan Security Guard member pull security during a roving patrol on Observation Post Mustang, Kunar province, Afghanistan, May 3, 2012.
photo: US Army / Spc. Jenny Lui

Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, Convicted in 1988 Lockerbie Bombing, Dies at 60
Full Article The New York Times
Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the only person convicted in the 1988 bombing of an American jetliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, has died in Libya, family members told news agencies on Sunday, three years after Scotland released him on humanitarian grounds, citing evidence that he was near death with metastatic prostate cancer. He was 60. . Enlarge...
Libyan Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, top left, is hugged by Seif al-Islam el- Gadhafi, son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, upon his arrival at airport in Tripoli, Libya, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009.
photo: AP / Amr Nabil

G8 expresses concerns over North Korea, Iran
Full Article Newstrack India
Washington, May 20 (IANS) The leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) major industrialised nations have expressed "deep" and "grave" concern over the actions of North Korea and Iran, and urged both countries to come out clean on all outstanding issues related to their controversial nuclear programmes. "We continue to have deep concerns about...
	G8 expresses concerns over North Korea, Iran
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CHICAGO (AP) — As President Barack Obama and fellow NATO leaders herald the coming end of the...
There are much tougher tests to come but the G8 summit at Camp David was a quiet success for...
If Greece were a man, he would have aged decades in the past two weeks. The grey hairs would be...

Families of Lockerbie victims still seek answers
NEW YORK — The death of the only man convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing has left some victims' relatives relieved and others raising questions about his guilt and whether others went unpunished. Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, a former Libyan...
photo: EC / EC
Demonstrators make their way towards Michigan Ave. during a protest march as a part of this weekend's NATO summit in Chicago Sunday, May 20, 2012 in Chicago.
Protesters have clashed with riot police as they tried to march towards the venue of the NATO summit in the US city of Chicago. The two sides were locked in a standoff for nearly two hours, with the police blocking the protesters' path and the crowd...
photo: AP / Kim Johnson Flodin
Taliban destroys opium crops in Afghanistan
Kabul: The Taliban has destroyed opium fields in eastern Afghanistan in a surprise clamp down on the drug cultivation that provides a major part of its funding. The Afghan Government and clerics have welcomed the action by the Taliban, but insurgents...
photo: US Army / Michael J. MacLeod
Press conference by International Criminal Court Prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo
THE name Muammar al-Jarud, for many across the globe, means little, if anything. In Libya, al-Jarud represents a victim of misuse of global power by Nato, a loose association of countries established in 1949 but remembered more recently for the...
photo: UN / Evan Schneider
Tributes paid to Mirwaiz Farooq, Gani Lone
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and other ruling National Conference leaders today paid tributes to separatist leaders Mirwaiz Mohammad...
photo: WN / Imran Nissar
ARCHIV: Der Musiker Robin Gibb singt als Stargast in Frankfurt am Main beim Deutschen Opernball in der Alten Oper (Foto vom 26.02.11).
London, May 21 (ANI): Fellow musicians and fans have been remembering Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb, who died on Sunday after his long battle with colon and liver cancer. The singer was 62 when he died and had provided decades of chart hits with the...
photo: AP / Mario Vedder/dapd
Conflicts case study: Kenya, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Burundi, Ethiopia…
The 20th century saw many conflicts in Africa, breaking out along ethnic divisions. For instance, according to an African researcher Abdalla Bujra, it took only the Ibos to start a major civil war in Nigeria – a highly fractionised society. The Ibos...
photo: UN / Eskinder Debebe

Live Update: US 'foils underwear bomb plot' by al-Qaeda in Yemen; updated 11 May 2012; published 07 May 2012
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Live Update: US 'foils underwear bomb plot' by al-Qaeda in Yemen
Zeenews 21 May 2012, Zeenews Bureau Sana'a: A suicide bomber killed at least 96 soldiers during a rehearsal for a military parade in Yemen's capital city of Sana'a, a report said on Monday. The bomber was dressed in a military uniform. He blew himself up in the middle of the battalion that was rehearsing for an Army parade marking the 22nd anniversary of the...

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Possible Nuclear Weapons Research at Iran's Parchin Military Complex: Explosives Chamber Image; updated 20 May 2012; published 14 May 2012
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Possible Nuclear Weapons Research at Iran's Parchin Military Complex: Explosives Chamber Image
WorldNews.com 21 May 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. Rejecting the horrific specter of stunned, terrified, blackened and bleeding and suffering survivors, hands and arms aloft with patches of roasted skin flapping in the wind, and that swarmed towards the estuaries of the Ota River which had already filled with bloated corpses,(1) this week in 1974...

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Luxury Cars government of Russia Mocsow. Putin and Medvedev cars. Here is our money.; updated 11 May 2012; published 19 Nov 2009
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Luxury Cars government of Russia Mocsow. Putin and Medvedev cars. Here is our money.
The Star 21 May 2012, MOSCOW, May 21 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin named loyal allies to top posts in Russia's new government on Monday,...

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G8 leaders Cameron, Obama and Merkel relax by watching Chelsea victory; updated 21 May 2012; published 20 May 2012
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G8 leaders Cameron, Obama and Merkel relax by watching Chelsea victory
The Guardian 21 May 2012, David Cameron has warned that the Greek election is a referendum on the country's euro membership, after last weekend's G8 summit made little progress towards solving the eurozone crisis UK prime minister David Cameron: Greek election is a choice between meeting commitments to the eurozone... or choosing to leave. Photograph: Nigel Roddis/REUTERS...

Libyan Convicted in Lockerbie Bombing Is Dead; updated 21 May 2012; published 20 May 2012
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Libyan Convicted in Lockerbie Bombing Is Dead
Mail Guardian South Africa 21 May 2012, The prime minister said the court case, which convicted Megrahi, was properly conducted and news of his death on Sunday should “be a time to remember the 270 people who lost their lives in what was an appalling terrorist act”. Scotland’s first minister Alex Salmond, whose government took the decision to release the former Libyan...

President Obama's Bilateral Meeting with NATO Secretary General Rasmussen; updated 21 May 2012; published 20 May 2012
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President Obama's Bilateral Meeting with NATO Secretary General Rasmussen
The Siasat Daily 21 May 2012, Washington, May 21: US President Barack Obama claims that NATO remains united on Afghanistan but warns that there will be “hard days” ahead for the Western alliance. “Just as we've sacrificed together for our common security, we will stand united in our determination to complete this mission,” Obama said in Chicago on Sunday, The Associated Press...

Runoff expected in Serbian presidential race; updated 15 May 2012; published 06 May 2012
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Runoff expected in Serbian presidential race
Daily Press 21 May 2012, BELGRADE (Reuters) - Opposition leader Tomislav Nikolic, last in power when Slobodan Milosevic's Serbia was bombed by NATO in 1999, was elected president on Sunday and pledged to keep the former Yugoslav republic moving towards the European Union. In a major upset, rightist Nikolic narrowly defeated liberal leader Boris Tadic, ending his eight...

Hollande faces NATO wrath over Afghan troop pullout; updated 21 May 2012; published 21 May 2012
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Hollande faces NATO wrath over Afghan troop pullout
Atlanta Journal 20 May 2012, KABUL, AfghanistanThe Taliban is urging all NATO nations in Afghanistan to follow France's lead and pull their international forces from the war this year. Election 2012: Across the nation Political vulnerabilities in Sen. Rubio's past? Gay marriage could be big voting issue in Colorado Is GOP trying to sabotage economy to hurt Obama?...

Libyan Convicted in Lockerbie Bombing Is Dead; updated 21 May 2012; published 20 May 2012
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Libyan Convicted in Lockerbie Bombing Is Dead
The New York Times 20 May 2012, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the only person convicted in the 1988 bombing of an American jetliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, has died in Libya, family members told news agencies on Sunday, three years after Scotland released him on humanitarian grounds, citing evidence that he was near death with metastatic prostate cancer. He was 60. . Enlarge...

G8 foreign ministers urge N.Korea restraint. CSF Rieti; updated 12 Apr 2012; published 12 Apr 2012
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G8 foreign ministers urge N.Korea restraint. CSF Rieti
Newstrack India 20 May 2012, Washington, May 20 (IANS) The leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) major industrialised nations have expressed "deep" and "grave" concern over the actions of North Korea and Iran, and urged both countries to come out clean on all outstanding issues related to their controversial nuclear programmes. "We continue to have deep concerns about...

Obama hosts world leaders for G8 summit; updated 21 May 2012; published 19 May 2012
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Obama hosts world leaders for G8 summit
Denver Post 20 May 2012, President Barack Obama leads a Group of Eight summit session Saturday at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland. The European debt crisis dominated the talks, with the U.S. promoting a balance between austerity and growth. (Mandel Ngan, AFP/Getty Images) CAMP DAVID, md. — Confronting an economic crisis that threatens them...

101st Airborne Division in Afghanistan; updated 30 Dec 2011; published 29 May 2010
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101st Airborne Division in Afghanistan
Stars and Stripes 20 May 2012, U.S. troops are invading the blogosphere in increasing numbers to speak their minds about everything from the most mundane topics to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Web site www.milblogging.com links to blogs originating in 43 countries. The majority are created by Americans and 1,550 links come from the U.S. Iraq is a distant second with...

Chen Guangchen Arrives In New York - May 19, 2012; updated 20 May 2012; published 20 May 2012
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Chen Guangchen Arrives In New York - May 19, 2012
The Times of India 20 May 2012, SHARE AND DISCUSSTweet NEW YORK: Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng arrived in the United States on Saturday and declared "equality and justice have no boundaries" after China let him leave a Beijing hospital to quell a sensitive diplomatic rift between the two countries. Chen escaped from house arrest in northeastern China last month and...

President Obama Speaks on Food Security at G8 Meeting; updated 20 May 2012; published 19 May 2012
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President Obama Speaks on Food Security at G8 Meeting
BBC News 20 May 2012, US President Barack Obama has said there is an "emerging consensus" that European countries must now focus on jobs and growth. Speaking after the G8 summit of some of the world's leading economies, he said the US is confident that Europe can meet its challenges. President Obama said leaders had made good progress on a range of...





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