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Northern Kosovo tense after clashes
Full Article Al Jazeera
NATO-led peacekeepers have clashed with angry protesters in the north of Kosovo over a dispute regarding roadblocks that had been erected in the tense region. At least three rioters and two alliance soldiers were injured in the clashes with Serb protesters on Friday. The confrontation has raised tensions in the ethnic Serb-dominated area, where...
German army soldiers serving in the NATO peacekeeping mission in Kosovo guard a bridge near the town of Zvecan, Kosovo, Friday, June 1, 2012.
photo: AP / Zveki

UNSC: Tired, Out of Step, AND Undemocratic?
Full Article WorldNews.com
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling When Amnesty International (AI) announced that the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) was suffering a failure of leadership which makes it seem "tired, out of step and increasingly unfit for purpose," they were expressing decades of serious reservations by other human rights groups and activists...
A Syrian rebel walks past destroyed shops at al-Bayada neighborhood in Homs, Syria, Thursday, May 10, 2012.
photo: AP

UN report predicts increase in world's displaced
Full Article The Boston Globe
UNITED NATIONS-The number of people fleeing their homes and becoming refugees or displaced in their own countries will increase in the next 10 years as a result of a host of intertwined causes ranging from conflict and climate change to population growth and food shortages, according to a report Thursday by the U.N. refugee agency. "The State of...
File - A Somali refugee, inside his tent, in Malkadiida, Ethiopia, 25 August, 2011. With drought and famine ravaging their home country, thousands of Somalis have taken up residence in refugee camps across the border.
photo: UN / Eskinder Debebe

Syria blames 800 rebels for Houla massacre
Full Article Zeenews
Beirut: Syria on Thursday blamed up to 800 rebel fighters for the massacre in central Syria last week that killed more than 100 people, nearly half of them children, in its most comprehensive explanation to date of the bloodshed. The narrative starkly contradicted accounts of witnesses who blamed "shabiha" or the shadowy gunmen who operate on...
This frame grab made from an amateur video provided by Syrian activists on Monday, May 28, 2012, purports to show the massacre in Houla on May 25 that killed more than 100 people, many of them children. The amateur footage shows people running along a street, purportedly just after the attack on Houla started.
photo: AP / Amateur Video via AP video

Suu Kyi demands 'urgent' legal reform in Myanmar
Full Article New Straits/Business Times
BANGKOK: Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Friday urged Myanmar’s government to carry out urgent judicial reform to cement recent political progress and foster clean investment in the country. Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi addresses the World Economic Forum on East Asia in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, June 1, 2012. AP/ Sakchai Lalit 1...
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrives at a national verification center for Myanmar migrant workers in Samut Sakhon Province, Thailand on Thursday, May 31, 2012.
photo: AP / Wason Wanichakorn

Rwanda 'training rebels to fight Congo army'
Full Article Al Jazeera
A group of defectors fighting for the M23 rebel movement against the Congolese army say that they were recruited and trained in neighbouring Rwanda against their will. The revelations come after weeks of fighting in the east of the country and would be the first direct evidence that Rwandan troops are...
 Congolese army soldiers patrol the streets of Goma near the Rwanda border in Congo Thursday, June 30, 2005, to prevent demonstrations against the Government and to celebrate Independence day. Heavy gunfire broke out Thursday in the eastern city of Goma,
photo: AP Photo/Riccardo Gangale

Russia contributing to potential Syria civil war - US
Full Article BBC News
The US Secretary of State says Russian policy will contribute to a potential civil war in Syria. Hillary Clinton's comments came after Russia and China renewed opposition to tougher UN Security Council action. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has repeated a warning that Syria could be moving towards "catastrophic" civil war, in the...
This frame grab made from an amateur video provided by Syrian activists on Monday, May 28, 2012, purports to show the massacre in Houla on May 25 that killed more than 100 people, many of them children.
photo: AP / Amateur Video via AP video

'China detains hundreds in Tibet over self-immolation protests'
Full Article The Daily Telegraph
Hundreds of people have been detained in Lhasa after two men set themselves on fire in the Tibetan regional capital on Sunday in protest against Chinese rule, a US-based broadcaster reported. A Tibetan exile sets himself on fire during a protest against the forthcoming visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao to India Photo: AP Photo/Manish...
File - A candlelit vigil being held at the main square of Mcleod Ganj town, Dharamshala, India on Thursday evening, April 19, 2012, to pay respect and prayers to the two young Tibetans who died on April 19th in their self-immolations in Tibet to China's rule and repressions.
photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang

Freed FARC hostage heads to France
Full Article Al Jazeera
Romeo Langlois, a French reporter released on Wednesday by Colombian rebels, is on his way to France. Fighters from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) held Langlois hostage for a month after seizing him following a firefight. Langlois, a reporter for France 24, was taken hostage in the southern Caqueta region on April...
French journalist Romeo Langlois, center, is escorted by rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, upon their arrival to San Isidro, southern Colombia, Wednesday, May 30, 2012.
photo: AP / Fernando Vergara

U.S. military trainers trickle back into Pakistan
Full Article The Star
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has sent a handful of military trainers back into Pakistan in a sign the two nations may be able to achieve some low-level cooperation against militants despite a string of confrontations that have left Washington's relations with Islamabad in crisis. Fewer than 10 U.S. special operations soldiers have been...
U.S. military trainers trickle back into Pakistan
photo: US Army / Michael J. MacLeod


Egypt's state of emergency, that gave security forces sweeping powers to detain suspects...
Ed Davey has manipulated quotes to support the bill and a clause has been inserted to allow any...
US President Barack Obama personally approves every single drone strike against suspected...

Kofi Annan, Joint Special Envoy of the United Nations and the League of Arab States on the Syrian Crisis, meets with Nabil El Araby, Secretary General, League of Arab States, at UN Geneva.
Kofi Annan gave warning that his peace plan for Syria would not be available "forever" after the massacre of another 12 people was disclosed. Yet Mr Annan candidly admitted that the UN Security Council might choose to call off his efforts, adding...
photo: UN / Fabrice Arlo
President Barack Obama speaks to supporters at a campaign rally in Miami Monday, June 13, 2011 where he launched his bid for reelection in Florida. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)
President Barack Obama's reelection campaign has been hit by a poor new economic report that said American employers created just 69,000 jobs in May, the fewest in a year, and the unemployment rate rose for the first time in 11 months. While...
photo: AP / J Pat Carter
Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta meets with Afghanistan's Minister of National Defense Abdul Rahim Wardak and Minister of Interior Gen. Bismillah Khan Mohammadi at the Pentagon on April 10, 2012 in Washington D.C. Secretary Panetta with Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey hosted the two Afghan ministers for a third round of Afghanistan Security Consultations Forums.(DoD photo by Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo)(Released)
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is traveling through Asia this week, determined to show the U.S. is serious about shifting its focus to the region, amid growing worries about China's increasingly aggressive posture and North Korea's nuclear...
photo: US DoD / Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi delivers a speech at the World Economic Forum on East Asia in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, June 1, 2012.
BANGKOK: Myanmar’s opposition leader and former political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi urged the international community Friday to exercise “healthy skepticism” about her country’s reforms as it sheds a half-century of military rule. Myanmar opposition...
photo: AP / Sakchai Lalit
John Edwards leaves a federal courthouse after the seventh day of jury deliberations in his trial on charges of campaign corruption in Greensboro, N.C., Tuesday, May 29, 2012.
For now, at least, Mr Edwards, 58, who has in any event fallen from public grace at a velocity rarely seen in American politics, has eluded both heavy fines and prison time that could have extended to 30 years. The outcome represents a sharp setback...
photo: AP / Chuck Burton
Egyptian riot police move in to disperse about 200 Coptic Christians, mostly youths, who were staging a noisy protest at night near the bombed church in Alexandria, Egypt Sunday, Jan. 2, 2011.
CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's notorious emergency law expired Thursday, ending more than 30 years of broad powers to arrest and detain for a police force accused of widespread human rights abuses. The military rulers who took charge from ousted President...
photo: AP / Ben Curtis
Letters: Keep honoring those who served
I read the article about the foot float in the Ferndale Memorial Day Parade ("How you can help honor Michigan's fallen," May 13). Volunteers were needed to carry pictures of the young people from Michigan who have lost their lives in the war in Iraq...
photo: Army of the Czech Republic / Warrant Officer Frantisek Stein

Kosovo: Violent Clashes Between NATO's KFOR and Serbian Minority; updated 04 May 2012; published 27 Nov 2011
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Kosovo: Violent Clashes Between NATO's KFOR and Serbian Minority
Al Jazeera 01 Jun 2012, NATO-led peacekeepers have clashed with angry protesters in the north of Kosovo over a dispute regarding roadblocks that had been erected in the tense region. At least three rioters and two alliance soldiers were injured in the clashes with Serb protesters on Friday. The confrontation has raised tensions in the ethnic Serb-dominated area, where...

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UN Ambassador Susan Rice Slams Assad for Houla Massacre - Syria Regime at
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UN Ambassador Susan Rice Slams Assad for Houla Massacre - Syria Regime at "Tipping Point" 5-30-12
WorldNews.com 01 Jun 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling When Amnesty International (AI) announced that the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) was suffering a failure of leadership which makes it seem "tired, out of step and increasingly unfit for purpose," they were expressing decades of serious reservations by other human rights groups and activists...

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Courage: 60 Years of the UN Refugee Convention; updated 28 Oct 2011; published 19 Jun 2011
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Courage: 60 Years of the UN Refugee Convention
The Boston Globe 01 Jun 2012, UNITED NATIONS-The number of people fleeing their homes and becoming refugees or displaced in their own countries will increase in the next 10 years as a result of a host of intertwined causes ranging from conflict and climate change to population growth and food shortages, according to a report Thursday by the U.N. refugee agency. "The State of...

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Syria-Houla Killing.mov; updated 01 Jun 2012; published 27 May 2012
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Syria-Houla Killing.mov
Zeenews 01 Jun 2012, Beirut: Syria on Thursday blamed up to 800 rebel fighters for the massacre in central Syria last week that killed more than 100 people, nearly half of them children, in its most comprehensive explanation to date of the bloodshed. The narrative starkly contradicted accounts of witnesses who blamed "shabiha" or the shadowy gunmen who operate on...

East Asia 2012 - A Conversation with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi; updated 01 Jun 2012; published 01 Jun 2012
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East Asia 2012 - A Conversation with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
New Straits/Business Times 01 Jun 2012, BANGKOK: Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Friday urged Myanmar’s government to carry out urgent judicial reform to cement recent political progress and foster clean investment in the country. Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi addresses the World Economic Forum on East Asia in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, June 1, 2012. AP/ Sakchai Lalit 1...

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
Al Jazeera 31 May 2012, A group of defectors fighting for the M23 rebel movement against the Congolese army say that they were recruited and trained in neighbouring Rwanda against their will. The revelations come after weeks of fighting in the east of the country and would be the first direct evidence that Rwandan troops are...

'Syria messy civil war distorted by Annan plan'; updated 17 May 2012; published 10 May 2012
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'Syria messy civil war distorted by Annan plan'
BBC News 31 May 2012, The US Secretary of State says Russian policy will contribute to a potential civil war in Syria. Hillary Clinton's comments came after Russia and China renewed opposition to tougher UN Security Council action. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has repeated a warning that Syria could be moving towards "catastrophic" civil war, in the...

Teenage Tibetan, Latest Self-Immolation Protest Victim; updated 16 Apr 2012; published 07 Mar 2012
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Teenage Tibetan, Latest Self-Immolation Protest Victim
The Daily Telegraph 31 May 2012, Hundreds of people have been detained in Lhasa after two men set themselves on fire in the Tibetan regional capital on Sunday in protest against Chinese rule, a US-based broadcaster reported. A Tibetan exile sets himself on fire during a protest against the forthcoming visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao to India Photo: AP Photo/Manish...

Colombians prepare for final FARC hostage releases; updated 13 Apr 2012; published 31 Mar 2012
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Colombians prepare for final FARC hostage releases
Al Jazeera 31 May 2012, Romeo Langlois, a French reporter released on Wednesday by Colombian rebels, is on his way to France. Fighters from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) held Langlois hostage for a month after seizing him following a firefight. Langlois, a reporter for France 24, was taken hostage in the southern Caqueta region on April...

'Military & elite benefit from war in Afghanistan'; updated 26 May 2012; published 20 Apr 2012
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'Military & elite benefit from war in Afghanistan'
The Star 31 May 2012, WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has sent a handful of military trainers back into Pakistan in a sign the two nations may be able to achieve some low-level cooperation against militants despite a string of confrontations that have left Washington's relations with Islamabad in crisis. Fewer than 10 U.S. special operations soldiers have been...

Soldier Song - Military Family - Steve Azar; updated 28 May 2012; published 23 May 2011
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Soldier Song - Military Family - Steve Azar
The Leaf Chronicle 31 May 2012, CLARKSVILLE, TENN. - In honor of Memorial Day, AT&T; donated 1,000 $5 calling cards and 250 100-minute calling cards to Operation Stand Down Nashville, Inc. which assists military veterans and their families. Deputy Executive Director of Operation Stand...

President Obama 65th Anniversary Liberation of Auschwitz Holocaust; updated 30 May 2012; published 27 Jan 2010
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President Obama 65th Anniversary Liberation of Auschwitz Holocaust
NZ Herald 31 May 2012, The White House on Wednesday shrugged off Polish demands to express more than mere 'regret' after President Barack Obama mistakenly referred to a Nazi Holocaust site as a "Polish death camp." "We regret the misstatement, but that is what it was," said Obama spokesman Jay Carney, reiterating that the president "misspoke" during a ceremony awarding...

Kofi Annan in Iran for Syria talks; updated 25 Apr 2012; published 12 Apr 2012
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Kofi Annan in Iran for Syria talks
BBC News 31 May 2012, The rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) has given the government of President Bashar al-Assad a 48-hour deadline to observe a UN ceasefire plan. The FSA's Colonel Qassim Saadeddine said if there was no response by Friday lunchtime the FSA would consider itself "no longer bound by the.. peace plan". The plan calls on government forces to...

Bin Laden Fallout Continues; Pashtun Dr. Shakil Afridi Could Die By Punjabi ISI 4 Helping US; updated 30 May 2012; published 08 Oct 2011
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Bin Laden Fallout Continues; Pashtun Dr. Shakil Afridi Could Die By Punjabi ISI 4 Helping US
WorldNews.com 30 May 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling When Shakil Afridi, a Pakistani surgeon, was sentenced to 33 years in prison for treason by Pakistan's government-a doctor, that is, who was recruited by the clandestine Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to help find Osama bin Laden so that U.S. Special forces could assassinate him-it evoked the name...





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