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Syria denies Houla killings, UN condemns attack
Full Article The Times of India
SHARE AND DISCUSSTweetAP Photo BEIRUT: Syria has strongly denied allegations that its forces killed scores of people - including women and children - in one of the deadliest days of the country's uprising, but the UN Security Council after an emergency session condemned government forces for shelling residential areas. The killing of more than 100...
This citizen journalism image provided by Shaam News Network taken Saturday, May 26, 2012, purports to show shrouded dead bodies following a Syrian government assault on Houla, Syria.
photo: AP

Rwanda 'supporting DR Congo mutineers'
Full Article BBC News
The UN says it has evidence that a rebellion in the Democratic Republic of Congo is being fuelled by recruits and support from neighbouring Rwanda. An internal UN report seen by the BBC cited defecting soldiers, who said they had been trained in Rwanda under the pretext of joining the army, before being sent over the border to fight. The conflict...
Rwandan Defense Forces at Kigali International Airport, Rwanda, head back to their base after returning from Al Fashir, Sudan, May 5, 2007. With assistance from Miami Air, the 786th Air Expeditionary Squadron, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, is aiding with t he movement of Rwandan Defense Force soldiers in and out of Sudan as part of NATO's response to support the African Union's expanded peace keeping mission in the Darfur region of Sudan.
photo: USAF file / A1C Marc I. Lane

Nuclear chief says Iran will not halt uranium enrichment
Full Article my SA
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's nuclear chief, reversing the country's previous statements, said on state television Sunday that the country would not halt its production of higher-grade uranium, suggesting that the Iranian government was veering back to a much harder line after talks in Baghdad with the West last week ended badly. The official, Fereydoon...
A worker rides a bike in front of the reactor building of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, just outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran, Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010.
photo: AP / Mehr News Agency, Majid Asgaripour

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


Somali government troops backed by African Union (AU) forces have captured a strategic town...
JERUSALEM — Israeli medical student Mohammad Hijazi seems the ideal candidate to...
I'm leaning over the edge of the viewing platform on the world's tallest building, the...

File - Libyan National Transitional Council chairman Mustafa Abdel Jalil delivers his speech at Saha Kish Square in Benghazi, Libya, Sunday Oct. 23, 2011 as Libya's transitional government declare liberation of Libya after months of bloodshed that culminated in the death of longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi.
TRIPOLI (Reuters) -The head of Libya's National Transitional Council said on Friday the national assembly election could be delayed. The election, for an assembly that will draw up a new constitution, is a milestone in shaping the country's new...
photo: AP / Francois Mori
Syrian President Bashar Assad, left, shakes hands with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, as Russian Foreign Intelligence chief Mikhail Fradkov smiles second right, in Damascus, Syria on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that Moscow was deeply alarmed by the killing of at least 108 people in the Syrian town of Houla but that it was clear both President Bashar al-Assad's government and rebels...
photo: AP
Nepal's Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai addresses a press conference in Katmandu, Nepal, Sunday, May 27, 2012.
KATMANDU: Nepal braced today for months of political instability and street protests after a midnight deadline passed without agreement on a new constitution, triggering fresh elections. Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai said the country’s...
photo: AP / Niranjan Shrestha
U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan listens to a question during a joint news conference with Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi, unseen, in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, April 11, 2012.
Special envoy Kofi Annan is to visit Damascus on Monday, the day after the UN condemned Syria for its use of heavy weaponry in the town of Houla, where at least 108 people were killed. Forty-nine children and 34 women were among Friday's dead,...
photo: AP / Vahid Salemi
Egyptian demonstrators gather to denounce the electoral success of Ahmed Shafiq, a presidential candidate, in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt on Friday, May 25, 2012
Many of the protesters, who saw preferred candidates such as the left-wing activist Hamdeen Sabahi pushed out of the running, are openly questioning whether the months of gritty street politics which convulsed Egypt last year might have backfired....
photo: AP / Pete Muller
Milky Way
SHARE AND DISCUSSTweet WASHINGTON: Astronomers claim to have found evidence that suggest a planet four times the size of Earth may be skirting the edges of the solar system beyond Pluto. The...
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Egyptian protesters detain a suspected regime collaborator, third right,after he was beaten, at Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011
Many of the protesters, who saw preferred candidates such as the left-wing activist Hamdeen Sabahi pushed out of the running, are openly questioning whether the months of gritty street politics which convulsed Egypt last year might have backfired....
photo: AP / Nasser Nasser

Children killed in 'massacre' in Syria's Houla; updated 28 May 2012; published 26 May 2012
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Children killed in 'massacre' in Syria's Houla
The Times of India 28 May 2012, SHARE AND DISCUSSTweetAP Photo BEIRUT: Syria has strongly denied allegations that its forces killed scores of people - including women and children - in one of the deadliest days of the country's uprising, but the UN Security Council after an emergency session condemned government forces for shelling residential areas. The killing of more than 100...

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DR Congo WAR / North Kivu / N.POSTAL; updated 05 May 2012; published 14 Nov 2007
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DR Congo WAR / North Kivu / N.POSTAL
BBC News 28 May 2012, The UN says it has evidence that a rebellion in the Democratic Republic of Congo is being fuelled by recruits and support from neighbouring Rwanda. An internal UN report seen by the BBC cited defecting soldiers, who said they had been trained in Rwanda under the pretext of joining the army, before being sent over the border to fight. The conflict...

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Inside Story - Iran nuclear talks: A positive first step?; updated 05 May 2012; published 17 Apr 2012
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Inside Story - Iran nuclear talks: A positive first step?
my SA 28 May 2012, TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's nuclear chief, reversing the country's previous statements, said on state television Sunday that the country would not halt its production of higher-grade uranium, suggesting that the Iranian government was veering back to a much harder line after talks in Baghdad with the West last week ended badly. The official, Fereydoon...

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Children killed in 'massacre' in Syria's Houla; updated 28 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...

Memorial Day Video; updated 28 May 2012; published 16 May 2012
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Memorial Day Video
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...

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...

Al-Houla Massacre - Dozens of Children Murdered in Syria; updated 28 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...

Vatican in Chaos After Butler Arrested for Leaks; updated 28 May 2012; published 27 May 2012
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Vatican in Chaos After Butler Arrested for Leaks
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 27 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...

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
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...

Breakingviews: Bankia's bailout is a mixed blessing; updated 28 May 2012; published 28 May 2012
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Breakingviews: Bankia's bailout is a mixed blessing
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 26 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...





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