WorldNews.com Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling "It is not what is there but what used to be there that matters. Depth is about that." -Tor Norretranders With the announcement that a United Nations...
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Sunday, 15 April 2012
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Chicago Sun-Times DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Taliban militants battled their way into a prison in northwest Pakistan on Sunday, freeing close to 400 prisoners, including at least 20 described by police as “very...
The Independent Feisty as ever, Nicolas Sarkozy will urge voters to ignore the most recent batch of guillotine-shaped opinion polls. The President of the Republic plans to lead "the people" to the...
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The Independent Activists said security forces killed at least six people Friday, a lower-than-usual toll. The rallies, described as some of the largest in months, stretched from the suburbs of Damascus to the central province of Hama, Idlib in the north and the...
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The Washington Times Related StoriesAround the Web North Korea’s three-stage rocket launch, though a failure, is still a violation of international law, the Pentagon said Friday. Pentagon spokesman George Little said Friday’s launch of the Unha-3 rocket...
BBC News For a regime which stage-manages everything and almost never admits to failure, what has happened could not be more disastrous for North Korea. The rocket was meant as the piece de resistance in celebrating the centenary of Kim Il-sung, the founding...
DNA India The United Nations was drawing up plans for a 200-strong monitoring mission to Syria on Thursday after its envoy, Kofi Annan, declared that the Assad regime had failed to implement his peace plan by withdrawing troops from the streets. Residents of...
San Francisco Chronicle Kabul -- NATO said Thursday it is on track to fully hand over responsibility for securing Afghanistan to local forces by the end of 2014 as scheduled. NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen also said Afghan troops would be ready to take...
Zeenews Shanghai: The Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix will go ahead as scheduled next week, the governing FIA said on Friday, despite continuing anti-government protests like those which forced the cancellation of the race last year. The International...
The Independent The UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism, Ben Emmerson, said that the controversial ruling had been reached "on dubious legal grounds" and warned it would hamper efforts to establish the truth of what British...
The New York Times PARIS — In his six years at the helm of Europe’s largest aerospace and military contractor, Louis Gallois has made it a large part of his mission to push his company deeper into emerging markets to offset flagging demand and high...
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