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Egypt's open presidential race polarizes nation
Full Article The Boston Globe
CAIRO-Egypt's wide-open presidential election, which was in its second day of voting Thursday, is showing how deeply polarized the nation has become, with backers of rival Islamists and former regime figures each vowing they cannot let the other rule. The impact of their rivalry goes beyond the key question of who gets to rule Egypt for the next...
An Egyptian man holds up his inked finger after voting in the presidential election Wednesday, May 23, 2012, outside a polling station in Old Cairo, Egypt.
photo: AP / Fredrik Persson

Eurozone tunnel darkens, grim signals from business
Full Article The Times of India
Eurozone tunnel darkens, grim signals from business Print this articleShare on RedittGoogle BookmarksNewsvineLive BookmarksTechnoratiYahoo BookmarksBlogmarksDel.icio.usApnaCircleTweetThe author has posted comments on this articleAFP | May 24, 2012, 04.25PM ISTBRUSSELS: Eurozone tensions rose again on Thursday with grim signals from business, and a...
A woman and children walk past closed market kiosks, in Rome, Monday, April 2, 2012. The number of people looking for work in the 17 countries that use the euro hit its highest level since the currency was introduced back in 1999
photo: AP / Gregorio Borgia

The battle for the soul of the Islamic world
Full Article Al Jazeera
From Egypt's post-Mubarak elections to Tunisian debates about media freedom: a battle is raging for the political soul of the Islamic world. Contrary to what was predicted during the heyday of the Global War on Terror (GWOT), the clashing visions are not those of jihadi terrorism and Western-minded secularism. The new realities emerging from the...
A young girl flies an Egyptian national flag as she listens to Mohammed Mursi, the Muslim Brotherhood's presidential candidate, at a rally Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, May 20, 2012.
photo: AP / Fredrik Persson

NATO-led force to leave Afghanistan but Taliban risk remains
Full Article Xinhua
by Abdul Haleem and Yangtze Yan KABUL, May 24 (Xinhua) -- After a decade of a costly and deadly war, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has decided to leave Afghanistan amid increasing Taliban-led terrorist activities. In a two-day NATO summit concluded in Chicago on Monday, the 28- member military alliance and...
NATO-led force to leave Afghanistan but Taliban risk remains
photo: US Army / Michael J. MacLeod

Divided Syrian opposition to choose new leader
Full Article Yahoo Daily News
AMMAN (Reuters) - The main Syrian National Council opposition group said it had accepted the resignation of its president, setting the stage for a showdown between the powerful Muslim Brotherhood and its political rivals over who will be the new leader. The internal conflicts have come to a head over the position held by Burhan Ghalioun, a secular...
Leader of the opposition Syrian National Council, Burhan Ghalioun, leaves a meeting with Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr, not pictured, in Cairo, Egypt, Monday April 23, 2012.
photo: AP / Amr Nabil

Troubled Iran nuclear talks spill over into 2nd day
Full Article France24
AFP - Tough talks aimed at helping resolve the decade-old crisis over Iran's nuclear programme enter an unscheduled second day on Thursday with world powers and Tehran seemingly wildly at odds. On Wednesday at the meeting in Baghdad the P5+1 powers -- Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States plus Germany -- put a new package of...
Iran's Chief Nuclear Negotiator Saeed Jalili, right, chats with EU Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, May 23, 2012.
photo: AP / Hadi Mizban

Amnesty: Several Asian nations 'repressing dissent'
Full Article BBC News
Several governments in the Asia-Pacific region responded to the Arab Spring protests with a clampdown on dissent, Amnesty International said. Leaders from China to Thailand employed a range of methods to silence critics, the group said in its annual report. But activists were increasingly able to use new technologies to voice their opinions, it...
A North Korean soldier looks at the southern side through binoculars at the border village of the Panmunjom (DMZ) that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, April 25, 2012.
photo: AP / Lee Jin-man

33 Years in Prison For Helping the CIA Find Bin Laden
Full Article American Spectator
By John Tabin on 5.23.12 @ 11:07PM From the Wall Street Journal: LAHORE—A Pakistani doctor who helped the Central Intelligence Agency track down Osama bin Laden was sentenced to 33 years in prison, officials said, a decision that will further strain relations with the U.S. The doctor, Shakil Afridi, established a vaccination program at the CIA's...
A man holds a poster showing Osama bin Laden, prime suspect behind the terror attacks in the U.S., next to one of the exploding Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, during a rally in the center of Peshawar, Pakistan, Monday, Oct. 15, 2001.
photo: AP / Peter Dejong

Egyptians go back to polls to elect president
Full Article Al Jazeera
Egypt is set to resume its first free presidential election after voting passed off calmly on the first day apart from a stone-throwing attack on candidate Ahmed Shafiq, who was premier for a few days before Hosni Mubarak fell. The race broadly pits religious conservative candidates against secular ones like Shafiq and Amr Moussa,...
An young Egyptian women cast hes vote inside a polling station, in Old Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, May 23, 2012.
photo: AP / Fredrik Persson

We want Greece to stay in eurozone, say European leaders after summit
Full Article The Australian
EUROPEAN Union leaders have pledged support for Greece, vowing to keep the debt-wracked country in the eurozone as officials prepared behind the scenes for a possible doomsday scenario of exit. After an EU summit dominated by fears of a "Grexit" that went into the early hours of the morning, EU president Herman Van Rompuy told...
European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, right, and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, address the media at the end of an EU summit, at the European Council building in Brussels, Thursday, May 24, 2012.
photo: AP / Yves Logghe


Zimmerman's public comments could be important because the Martin family and supporters say he...
Forces unable to destabilize Syria turn to Lebanon - ministry MOSCOW: Forces which have failed...
The head of the UN nuclear watchdog has said he expects to sign a deal with Iran soon on...

A reading list: The best books on PTSD
By Lt. Col. Robert Bateman, USA Best Defense department of strategical and historical affairs Now, obviously (given my own book which dealt heavily with the topic of veterans who falsely claim PTSD), I agree that there is room in the system for...
photo: US Army / Michael J. MacLeod
U.S. drone strike kills 10 in Pakistan: Officials
MIRANSHAH, PAKISTAN - A U.S. drone strike on suspected Islamist militants in northwest Pakistan killed 10 people on Thursday, Pakistani intelligence officials said, an attack likely to raise tensions in a standoff with Washington over NATO...
photo: AP / Arshad Butt
EU summit fails to provide answers for eurozone crisis
European Union leaders concluded their latest summit early on Thursday with few concrete steps to fix the continent's festering financial crisis even as the potential for a messy Greek exit from the euro appears to be rising. Some leaders stressed...
photo: EC / EUROPEAN UNION
War in Afghan will end by 2014: Obama
Washington, May 24: Days after the NATO Summit in Chicago endorsed his exit plan from Afghanistan, US President Barack Obama on Wednesday said that he would end the Afghan war by 2014. "Osama bin Laden is no longer a threat to this country and al...
photo: EC / EC
UN Security Council ‘Tired, Out of Step’ – Amnesty International
The United Nations Security Council is suffering a failure of leadership and looks "tired, out of step and increasingly unfit for purpose," the human rights organization Amnesty International said in a report issued on Thursday. Analyzing the...
photo: UN / Paulo Filgueiras
Egyptian presidential elections , voters line up to cast ballots in Nasr City, Cario, Egypt on Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Egyptians are due to vote for the second day in the country's first free presidential elections - 15 months after Hosni Mubarak was ousted. The election pits Islamists against secularists, and revolutionaries against Mubarak-era ministers. In...
photo: WN / tamer
Secretary of Iran`s National Security Council Saeed Jalili(L) and EU Catharine Ashton PHOTO/BULEN KILIC
Talks in Baghdad concerning Iran's controversial nuclear programme will go into an unscheduled second day after diplomats failed to reach agreement. Six world powers made Iran an offer if it stopped processing medium-enriched uranium, which can...
photo: EC / EU

The role of religion in Egypt's election; updated 23 May 2012; published 23 May 2012
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The role of religion in Egypt's election
The Boston Globe 24 May 2012, CAIRO-Egypt's wide-open presidential election, which was in its second day of voting Thursday, is showing how deeply polarized the nation has become, with backers of rival Islamists and former regime figures each vowing they cannot let the other rule. The impact of their rivalry goes beyond the key question of who gets to rule Egypt for the next...

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G-8 Leaders Hope Greece Remains in Eurozone; updated 23 May 2012; published 19 May 2012
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G-8 Leaders Hope Greece Remains in Eurozone
The Times of India 24 May 2012, Eurozone tunnel darkens, grim signals from business Print this articleShare on RedittGoogle BookmarksNewsvineLive BookmarksTechnoratiYahoo BookmarksBlogmarksDel.icio.usApnaCircleTweetThe author has posted comments on this articleAFP | May 24, 2012, 04.25PM ISTBRUSSELS: Eurozone tensions rose again on Thursday with grim signals from business, and a...

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The role of religion in Egypt's election; updated 23 May 2012; published 23 May 2012
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The role of religion in Egypt's election
Al Jazeera 24 May 2012, From Egypt's post-Mubarak elections to Tunisian debates about media freedom: a battle is raging for the political soul of the Islamic world. Contrary to what was predicted during the heyday of the Global War on Terror (GWOT), the clashing visions are not those of jihadi terrorism and Western-minded secularism. The new realities emerging from the...

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The Taliban Spring - Afghanistan; updated 23 May 2012; published 16 Apr 2012
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The Taliban Spring - Afghanistan
Xinhua 24 May 2012, by Abdul Haleem and Yangtze Yan KABUL, May 24 (Xinhua) -- After a decade of a costly and deadly war, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has decided to leave Afghanistan amid increasing Taliban-led terrorist activities. In a two-day NATO summit concluded in Chicago on Monday, the 28- member military alliance and...

Syria: Haitham al-Maleh and Burhan Ghalioun address European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs; updated 14 Jul 2011; published 14 Jul 2011
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Syria: Haitham al-Maleh and Burhan Ghalioun address European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs
Yahoo Daily News 24 May 2012, AMMAN (Reuters) - The main Syrian National Council opposition group said it had accepted the resignation of its president, setting the stage for a showdown between the powerful Muslim Brotherhood and its political rivals over who will be the new leader. The internal conflicts have come to a head over the position held by Burhan Ghalioun, a secular...

Second round of Iran-P5+1 talks in Baghdad-News Analysis-05-21-2012; updated 23 May 2012; published 22 May 2012
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Second round of Iran-P5+1 talks in Baghdad-News Analysis-05-21-2012
France24 24 May 2012, AFP - Tough talks aimed at helping resolve the decade-old crisis over Iran's nuclear programme enter an unscheduled second day on Thursday with world powers and Tehran seemingly wildly at odds. On Wednesday at the meeting in Baghdad the P5+1 powers -- Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States plus Germany -- put a new package of...

Housing is a human right; updated 22 May 2012; published 14 May 2012
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Housing is a human right
BBC News 24 May 2012, Several governments in the Asia-Pacific region responded to the Arab Spring protests with a clampdown on dissent, Amnesty International said. Leaders from China to Thailand employed a range of methods to silence critics, the group said in its annual report. But activists were increasingly able to use new technologies to voice their opinions, it...

Pakistani doctor jailed for helping CIA find bin Laden; updated 24 May 2012; published 23 May 2012
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Pakistani doctor jailed for helping CIA find bin Laden
American Spectator 24 May 2012, By John Tabin on 5.23.12 @ 11:07PM From the Wall Street Journal: LAHORE—A Pakistani doctor who helped the Central Intelligence Agency track down Osama bin Laden was sentenced to 33 years in prison, officials said, a decision that will further strain relations with the U.S. The doctor, Shakil Afridi, established a vaccination program at the CIA's...

The role of religion in Egypt's election; updated 23 May 2012; published 23 May 2012
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The role of religion in Egypt's election
Al Jazeera 24 May 2012, Egypt is set to resume its first free presidential election after voting passed off calmly on the first day apart from a stone-throwing attack on candidate Ahmed Shafiq, who was premier for a few days before Hosni Mubarak fell. The race broadly pits religious conservative candidates against secular ones like Shafiq and Amr Moussa,...

Breakthrough Deal on Greek Debt at EU Summit; updated 28 Oct 2011; published 28 Oct 2011
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Breakthrough Deal on Greek Debt at EU Summit
The Australian 24 May 2012, EUROPEAN Union leaders have pledged support for Greece, vowing to keep the debt-wracked country in the eurozone as officials prepared behind the scenes for a possible doomsday scenario of exit. After an EU summit dominated by fears of a "Grexit" that went into the early hours of the morning, EU president Herman Van Rompuy told...

Khader Adnan - Palestinian Hunger Striker; updated 15 May 2012; published 16 Feb 2012
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Khader Adnan - Palestinian Hunger Striker
WorldNews.com 23 May 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling When hundreds of Palestinian civilians went on a mass hunger strike to try and notify the universal community of their plight and to protest their imprisoned conditions, which includes solitary confinement, interrogation in depth and torture, and administrative detentions-where Palestinians are held...

Kucinich: US 'sanction warfare' makes real Iran war inevitable; updated 24 May 2012; published 23 May 2012
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Kucinich: US 'sanction warfare' makes real Iran war inevitable
San Francisco Chronicle 23 May 2012, Baghdad -- Iran made the first move Tuesday in attempts to gain an edge in nuclear talks with the United States and other world powers: It agreed in principle to allow U.N. inspectors to restart probes into a military site suspected of harboring tests related to atomic weapons. The tentative accord - announced as envoys headed to the Iraqi capital...

The role of religion in Egypt's election; updated 23 May 2012; published 23 May 2012
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The role of religion in Egypt's election
Zeenews 23 May 2012, Cairo: Over 52 million Egyptians will vote to choose their president in the first-ever competitive elections to be held on Wednesday. The voters will to choose from 12 candidates, Islamists and secularists, in the two-day elections. If no candidate gets an absolute majority, the top two vote-getters would compete in a runoff on June 16 and 17. The...

Video del enfrentamiento de Alvaro Uribe y Juan Manuel Santos por Twitter; updated 24 May 2012; published 19 May 2012
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Video del enfrentamiento de Alvaro Uribe y Juan Manuel Santos por Twitter
The New York Times 23 May 2012, Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. Twitter List: Reporters and Editors A bomb discovered in a Buenos Aires theater on Tuesday was programmed to explode when the former president of Colombia, Álvaro Uribe, was scheduled to speak there on Wednesday, authorities said. A janitor found...





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