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Syria: Why Houla massacre may not lead to intervention
Full Article BBC News
The road to war is paved with massacres. Traditionally, the symbolism of mass killings - whether imminent, as in the Libyan city of Benghazi last year, or complete, as in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica in 1995 - has bridged the gap between diplomacy and military action. Will the Houla massacre in Syria this week, apparently involving the killing of...
Anti-Syrian regime mourners chant slogans as they carry the body of soldier Khaled Shurbajy, who was shot by Syrian security forces in Dir el Zour last week after disobeying orders to fire on anti-Assad protesters, during his funeral procession, in the Kfar Suseh area of Damascus, Syria, on Saturday , May 26, 2012.
photo: AP

Liberating Memorial Day
Full Article WorldNews.com
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Immediately after the American Civil War, thousands of schoolchildren and teachers, black Freedmen and Union troops, and black and white ministers and members of mutual aid societies, all of which had a variety of differing views and experiences and heritages, gathered to commemorate and sanctify the...
File - Policemen are leading a group of black school children into jail, following their arrest for protesting against racial discrimination near the city hall of Birmingham, Ala., on May 4, 1963.
photo: AP / Bill Hudson

Tuareg, Islamists join forces to run north Mali
Full Article France24
AFP - Tuareg rebels and the Islamist rebel group Ansar Dine announced they are joining forces and creating a body to rule northern Mali as an independent Islamic state. "The Ansar Dine movement and the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (Tuareg MNLA) proclaim their dissolution in Azawad (northern Mali)," the two groups said in an...
Fighters from Islamist group Ansar Dine stand guard during the handover of a Swiss female hostage for transport by helicopter to neighboring Burkina Faso, at a designated rendezvous point in the desert outside Timbuktu, Mali Tuesday, April 24, 2012.
photo: AP

Over 92 killed in Syria attack, 32 of them children - U.N.
Full Article The Star
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Saturday that more than 92 people were killed in what activists described as an artillery barrage by government forces in the worst violence since the start of a U.N. peace plan to slow the flow of blood in Syria's uprising. A child with a Syrian opposition flag painted on the face, reacts as Syrian...
In this Sunday, March 11, 2012 photo, a man carries a boy who was severely wounded during heavy fighting between Syrian rebels and government forces in Idlib, north Syria.
photo: AP / Rodrigo Abd

Vatican in chaos after butler arrested for leaks
Full Article STL Today
An already sordid scandal over leaked Vatican documents took a Hollywood-like turn Saturday with confirmation that the pope's own butler had been arrested after documents he had no business having were found in his Vatican City apartment. The detention of butler Paolo Gabriele, one of the few members of the papal household, capped one of the most...
In this photo taken Wednesday, May, 23, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI, flanked by his private secretary Georg Gaenswein, top left, and his butler Paolo Gabiele arrives at St.Peter's square at the Vatican for a general audience. The Vatican has confirmed Saturday, May 26, 2012, Gabriele was arrested in an embarrassing leaks scandal. Spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi said Paolo Gabriele was arrested in his home inside Vatican City with secret documents in his possession.
photo: AP / Andrew Medichini

Egypt candidate to seek election suspension
Full Article Al Jazeera
Leftist candidate Hamdeen Sabahy will appeal for Egypt's presidential election to be suspended over alleged voting irregularities and a pending case over one of the frontrunner's right to stand, Sabahy's lawyer has said. Sabahy's pledge to pursue a suspension came on Saturday as the two apparent winners of the first round of reached out to rival...
Egyptian presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahi, gestures to supporters during his campaign ahead of the historic presidential elections in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, May 20, 2012.
photo: AP / Hasan Jamali

Syria: ‘Massacre' in Homs, at least 50 killed
Full Article Zeenews
Zeenews Bureau Beirut: At least 50 civilians, including 13 children, were killed on Friday in central Syria in what opposition activists say was a "massacre". The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees activist groups said Syrian troops using tanks, mortars and heavy machine...
In this citizen journalism image provided by the Local Coordination Committees in Syria and released Friday, Feb. 3, 2012, anti-Syrian regime protesters march in Bensh, Idlib Province, northern Syria.
photo: AP / Local Coordination Committees in Syria

IMF Boss Lagarde Slams Greeks Over Poverty
Full Article Skynews
The IMF's Christine Lagarde said bailout terms would not be eased for Greece The head of the International Monetary Fund has said she has more sympathy for deprived children in Africa than she does for the people of Greece facing poverty. Managing director Christine Lagarde complained of tax-dodging and announced the IMF has no plan on easing...
A homeless man sleeps on a sidewalk in Athens, Sunday, May 20 2012. Homelessness, the most visible sign of Greece's financial despair, has risen by around 25 percent.
photo: AP / Kostas Tsironis

Spain’s Bankia asks for $24B in state aid
Full Article The Washington Post
MADRID — The troubled lender Bankia asked the Spanish government for $24 billion in financial support on Friday, the same day that a leading credit-rating agency downgraded the bank to junk status. Jose Ignacio Goirigolzarri, the bank’s president, said late Friday that the bailout would “reinforce the solvency, liquidity and...
FILE - In this Friday, May 18, 2012 file photo a man uses an ATM cash point machine at a branch of the Bankia bank in Madrid. Logo says ' Welcome to Bankia'.
photo: AP / Daniel Ochoa de Olza, file

Why Wasn't Iran's Revolution Considered Democratic Too?
Full Article WorldNews.com
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling The United States has not always supported popular and democratic uprisings around the world. As in Vietnam, Guatemala, Chile, Haiti, and dozens of other nations, it has resisted and sabotaged, even militarily intervened in the name of national and corporate security, to prevent democracies from...
Iranian troops display anti-riot tactics during an exercise at military grounds near the Royal Palace, Jan. 23, 1979 in Tehran.
photo: AP / Aristotle Saris


Richard Leakey, who is a Kenyan-born, politician, paleoanthropologist, conservationist,...
May 27: The Iranian envoy to the UN has lashed out at the warmongering remarks by Israeli...

Karuna to lead demo against petrol hike on May 30
Chennai: Stepping up pressure for rollback of petrol price hike, UPA ally DMK chief M Karunanidhi will lead a demonstration here on May 30 against the unprecedented fuel price increase even as the Centre said states could reduce VAT on petroleum...
photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick
This photo released by the Iranian President's Office, claims to show Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, second left being escorted by technicians during a tour of Tehran's research reactor centre in northern Tehran, Iran, Wednesday Feb. 15, 2012.
Iran is to build a new nuclear power plant, alongside its sole existing one in the southern city of Bushehr, by early 2014, according to the head of the country's Atomic Energy Organisation. The reactor building at the Bushehr nuclear power plant in...
photo: AP / Iranian President's Office
Agartala: The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M)-led ruling Left Front in Tripura has called for a 12-hour shutdown in the state on Thursday to protest the petrol price hike. CPI-M state secretary Bijan Dhar told reporters here Sunday that the...
photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick
A video view of treatment
To tap the potential of medical tourism in India, a group of doctors associated with some of the major private hospitals in Gurgaon have joined hands and launched a web portal to bridge the gap between them and their overseas patients planning to...
photo: WN / Imran Nissar
Obama, Romney try to play it safe in 2012 gamble
In the risky business of running for president, Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney are largely playing it safe. For all the small daily dramas of the 2012 campaign, there’s a risk-averse dynamic playing out- Neither candidate...
photo: EC / EC
Four NATO soldiers killed in Afghanistan bombings
AP - Four NATO service members were killed in separate roadside bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan, the alliance said Sunday. NATO said in a statement that all four deaths occurred...
photo: US Army / Michael J. MacLeod
It's payback time for tax-shy Greeks: IMF
The head of the International Monetary Fund has urged Greeks to pay their taxes, saying she is more concerned about sub-Saharan Africans in poverty than Greeks hit by the economic crisis. Christine Lagarde told the Guardian newspaper in an interview...
photo: EC / EUROPEAN UNION

Children killed in 'massacre' in Syria's Houla; updated 27 May 2012; published 26 May 2012
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Children killed in 'massacre' in Syria's Houla
BBC News 27 May 2012, The road to war is paved with massacres. Traditionally, the symbolism of mass killings - whether imminent, as in the Libyan city of Benghazi last year, or complete, as in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica in 1995 - has bridged the gap between diplomacy and military action. Will the Houla massacre in Syria this week, apparently involving the killing of...

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Memorial Day - Official Trailer; updated 27 May 2012; published 01 Nov 2011
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Memorial Day - Official Trailer
WorldNews.com 27 May 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Immediately after the American Civil War, thousands of schoolchildren and teachers, black Freedmen and Union troops, and black and white ministers and members of mutual aid societies, all of which had a variety of differing views and experiences and heritages, gathered to commemorate and sanctify the...

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Mali rebel groups unite to create new Islamist state; updated 27 May 2012; published 27 May 2012
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Mali rebel groups unite to create new Islamist state
France24 27 May 2012, AFP - Tuareg rebels and the Islamist rebel group Ansar Dine announced they are joining forces and creating a body to rule northern Mali as an independent Islamic state. "The Ansar Dine movement and the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (Tuareg MNLA) proclaim their dissolution in Azawad (northern Mali)," the two groups said in an...

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Al-Houla Massacre - Dozens of Children Murdered in Syria; updated 27 May 2012; published 25 May 2012
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Al-Houla Massacre - Dozens of Children Murdered in Syria
The Star 27 May 2012, BEIRUT (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Saturday that more than 92 people were killed in what activists described as an artillery barrage by government forces in the worst violence since the start of a U.N. peace plan to slow the flow of blood in Syria's uprising. A child with a Syrian opposition flag painted on the face, reacts as Syrian...

The Corrupt Vatican - Leaked Emails Proof (27th Jan 2012); updated 27 May 2012; published 27 Jan 2012
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The Corrupt Vatican - Leaked Emails Proof (27th Jan 2012)
STL Today 27 May 2012, An already sordid scandal over leaked Vatican documents took a Hollywood-like turn Saturday with confirmation that the pope's own butler had been arrested after documents he had no business having were found in his Vatican City apartment. The detention of butler Paolo Gabriele, one of the few members of the papal household, capped one of the most...

The role of religion in Egypt's election; updated 26 May 2012; published 23 May 2012
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The role of religion in Egypt's election
Al Jazeera 26 May 2012, Leftist candidate Hamdeen Sabahy will appeal for Egypt's presidential election to be suspended over alleged voting irregularities and a pending case over one of the frontrunner's right to stand, Sabahy's lawyer has said. Sabahy's pledge to pursue a suspension came on Saturday as the two apparent winners of the first round of reached out to rival...

Homs Hula 25-5 massacre committed by the Syrian regime; updated 27 May 2012; published 25 May 2012
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Homs Hula 25-5 massacre committed by the Syrian regime
Zeenews 26 May 2012, Zeenews Bureau Beirut: At least 50 civilians, including 13 children, were killed on Friday in central Syria in what opposition activists say was a "massacre". The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees activist groups said Syrian troops using tanks, mortars and heavy machine...

Massive Poverty Fuels Greek Anger; updated 25 Apr 2012; published 14 Feb 2012
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Massive Poverty Fuels Greek Anger
Skynews 26 May 2012, The IMF's Christine Lagarde said bailout terms would not be eased for Greece The head of the International Monetary Fund has said she has more sympathy for deprived children in Africa than she does for the people of Greece facing poverty. Managing director Christine Lagarde complained of tax-dodging and announced the IMF has no plan on easing...

Bankia Suspends Shares; Multibillion Euro Bailout in Future?; updated 26 May 2012; published 25 May 2012
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Bankia Suspends Shares; Multibillion Euro Bailout in Future?
The Washington Post 26 May 2012, MADRID — The troubled lender Bankia asked the Spanish government for $24 billion in financial support on Friday, the same day that a leading credit-rating agency downgraded the bank to junk status. Jose Ignacio Goirigolzarri, the bank’s president, said late Friday that the bailout would “reinforce the solvency, liquidity and...

Iranian Revolution (Feb 1979); updated 25 May 2012; published 19 Sep 2006
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Iranian Revolution (Feb 1979)
WorldNews.com 25 May 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling The United States has not always supported popular and democratic uprisings around the world. As in Vietnam, Guatemala, Chile, Haiti, and dozens of other nations, it has resisted and sabotaged, even militarily intervened in the name of national and corporate security, to prevent democracies from...

NATO Summit Chicago - Chicago prepares to host the NATO Summit 2012.; updated 22 May 2012; published 04 May 2012
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NATO Summit Chicago - Chicago prepares to host the NATO Summit 2012.
Gulf News 25 May 2012, The 28-member North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) during its recent Chicago summit confirmed plans to withdraw combat troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2014 and to leave behind a training mission. Plans for handing over command of all combat missions to Afghan security forces by the middle of 2013 were also ratified as Nato leaders...

The role of religion in Egypt's election; updated 26 May 2012; published 23 May 2012
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The role of religion in Egypt's election
BBC News 25 May 2012, Egyptians are beginning to get used to democracy. Since the fall of Hosni Mubarak, they have had a constitutional referendum, four rounds of voting in the parliamentary elections, and now the first round of the first free presidential election in the country's history. That may explain the relatively modest turnout in the presidential vote -...

Hollande veut partir d'Afghanistan en 2012 et Sarkozy en 2013; updated 18 May 2012; published 02 May 2012
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Hollande veut partir d'Afghanistan en 2012 et Sarkozy en 2013
The Star 25 May 2012, PARIS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande made an unannounced trip to Afghanistan on Friday to visit some of the French troops he wants to pull out later this year and meet Afghan President Hamid Karzai, whom he saw briefly last week in Chicago. Hollande, making a whirl of...

Congress: 'Pakistan the Enemy' US to bomb Pakistan?; updated 26 May 2012; published 24 May 2012
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Congress: 'Pakistan the Enemy' US to bomb Pakistan?
The Star 25 May 2012, WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. senators scandalized by Pakistan's jailing of a doctor for helping the CIA track down Osama bin Laden voted on Thursday to cut aid to Islamabad by $33 million (21 million pounds) -- one million for each year in the doctor's sentence. "It's arbitrary, but the hope is that Pakistan will realize we are serious," said...





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