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Queen's Diamond Jubilee kicks off with a day at the races
Full Article Detroit Free Press
LONDON — Long known as the sport of kings, today horse racing is the Sport of the Queen, as the Diamond Jubilee got underway with a familiar annual ritual, the running of the Epsom Derby. Horse-loving Queen Elizabeth II did not have a horse in the "dah-bee," as it's known here; instead it was the appropriately named Camelot, the favorite, that won...
People gather by the River Thames in central London, to watch a 1,000-boat flotilla part of the four-day Diamond Jubilee celebration to mark the 60th anniversary of the Queen Elizabeth's accession to the throne, on Sunday, June 3, 2012.
photo: AP / Lefteris Pitarakis

Assad blames terrorists, outside forces for Syrian conflict
Full Article Deutsche Welle
Syria's president has used a televised speech to tell the nation just who was responsible for the bloodshed in the country. Bashar al-Assad said 'terrorists' and 'outside forces' were to blame. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday blamed "terrorists" and "outside forces" for the ongoing bloodshed in the country. "The masks have fallen and the...
File - A Syrian government solider stands guard as a U.N. observers car is seen in the Damascus suburb of Douma, Syira, Sunday, May 20, 2012.
photo: AP / Muzaffar Salman

Iran, U.S., and Complexities of God and Science
Full Article WorldNews.com
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling When Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said that atomic and nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction were incompatible with the teachings of Prophet Mohammad and the Islamic faith, it brought back apprehensive memories of the failed American rescue mission back in 1980, and the death of...
In this Feb. 18, 1979 file picture, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, left, smiles with Yasser Arafat in Tehran.
photo: AP

The Battle for Afghanistan: U.S. mapping new strategy in response to dire assessments of war
Full Article Stars and Stripes
(First in a two-part series) BAGRAM, Afghanistan — Every week, it seems, brings a dire new assessment of the war in Afghanistan. The most recent, a draft National Intelligence Estimate leaked to the press this month, warns of rapidly deteriorating conditions, with widespread corruption in the Afghan government undermining efforts to beat back...
The Battle for Afghanistan: U.S. mapping new strategy in response to dire assessments of war
photo: DOD / Public Domain

Spain dreads return of the 'years of hunger'
Full Article The Independent
"Photos for weddings? Down 50 per cent. Christenings? Down 30 per cent," Karlis Mendrano, a long-standing professional photographer in his fifties from San Sebastian, told me. "Ever since the bank cut off the credit, people marry far less, and they want less when they do. I can't put up my prices, so I give them cheaper quality. It's...
Demonstrators encourages drivers to blow their horns in front of a Bankia bank branch during a protest in Barcelona, Spain, Saturday June 2, 2012.
photo: AP / Emilio Morenatti

Violence breaks out in Lebanon amid fears that Syria conflict is spreading
Full Article The Guardian
At least 10 people are killed in gun battle between residents of Sunni and Alawite districts in northern Lebanon A Lebanese Sunni gunman fires his weapon during clashes in Tripoli, 20 miles from the border with Syria. Photograph: Nabil Mounzer/EPA...
A Sunni gunman is seen near a burning building during clashes that erupted in the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Saturday, June 2, 2012.
photo: AP / Bilal Hussein

Mubarak sentenced to life in prison
Full Article The Guardian
Mubarak is the first Arab leader to be tried by his own people in the country. The sentence was handed down in a Cairo court. Thousands of riot police cordoned off the building to prevent protesters and relatives of those killed during the uprising from getting too close. Hundreds stood outside, waving Egyptian flags and chanting slogans demanding...
An Egyptian protester shouts slogans in front of a poster showing ousted President Hosni Mubarak on a noose during a protest at Tahrir Square, the focal point of the Egyptian uprising, in Cairo, Egypt Friday, Sept.9, 2011.
photo: AP / Amr Nabil

UN chief warns of 'power vacuum' in Somalia
Full Article Al Jazeera
The UN Secretary-General has called for urgent international aid for Somalia to head off the risk of warlords exploiting a power vacuum after the scheduled change of power in August. "We urgently need assistance to avoid a power vacuum that warlords might exploit," Ban Ki-moon said on Friday. "I urge donors to contribute to this critical effort. In...
Ugandan soldiers serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) walk through a thicket ahead of heavy rain in an area northwest of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, 23 May, 2012.
photo: UN / Stuat Price

Egypt awaits verdict in trial of former president Mubarak
Full Article France24
AFP - Ailing former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak will learn on Saturday whether he is guilty of the murder of demonstrators during the uprising that overthrew him last year. Mubarak, the only autocrat...
This video image taken from Egyptian State Television showing 83-year-old former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak speaks to the court, using a microphone while laying on a hospital bed inside a cage of mesh and iron bars in a Cairo courtroom Wednesday Aug. 3, 2011, as his historic trial began on charges of corruption and ordering the killing of protesters during the uprising that ousted him from office. The scene, shown live on Egypt's state TV, was Egyptians' first look at their former president since Feb. 10, the day before his fall when he gave a defiant speech refusing to resign.
photo: AP / Egyptian State TV

US to shift most of naval fleet to Pacific by 2020
Full Article The Times of India
Tweet SINGAPORE: The United States will shift the majority of its naval fleet to the Pacific by 2020 as part of a new strategic focus on Asia, Pentagon chief Leon Panetta told a summit in Singapore on Saturday. The decision to deploy more ships to the Pacific Ocean, along with expanding a network of military partnerships, was part of a "steady,...
In this Feb. 25, 2009 file photo, CIA Director Leon Panetta speaks with reporters, at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Va.,
photo: AP / J. Scott Applewhite, File


An Egyptian official says the top prosecutor will appeal the verdict in Hosni Mubarak's trial,...
Soldiers torch a cocaine processing laboratory near the city of Cucuta, in northern Colombia,...
I spent the last week in Damascus and the atmosphere reminds me of Beirut in 1975 at the start...

Afghanistan: Aid workers saved after death threat
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An intelligence official says NATO and Afghan forces launched an operation to rescue two female foreign aid workers and their two Afghan colleagues after learning the Taliban planned to kill one of the hostages. Afghan...
photo: Army of the Czech Republic / Frantisek Stein
In this photo released by an official website of the Iranian supreme leader's office on Tuesday, March 20, 2012, Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers a message for the Iranian New Year in Tehran, Iran.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's Supreme Leader says Western sanctions will not stop Tehran's progress but will only deepen hatred of the West in the hearts of the Iranian people. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivered his remarks Sunday at the mausoleum of the...
photo: AP / Office of the Supreme Leader
Syrian President Bashar Assad, left, and his wife Asma Assad, listen to explanations as they visit a technology plant Tuesday July, 13, 2010 in Tunis. President Assad is on a two-day visit to Tunisia.
BEIRUT (AP) — State-run Syrian television says President Bashar Assad is expected to give a speech in front of the country's parliament, a rare public appearance as Damascus confronts rising international condemnation over its crackdown on the...
photo: AP / Hassene Dridi
Off-road MRAPs a hot topic in Congress
WASHINGTON — By the end of the year, troops should be driving a new vehicle while on patrols in Afghanistan. But whether they’re still driving it two years from now remains to be seen. Defense contractors last week submitted their first...
photo: US Army / Michael J. MacLeod)
In this Friday, Dec. 23, 2011 file photo, Iraq's Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi speaks during an interview with The Associated Press near Sulaimaniyah, 160 miles (260 kilometers) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq.
The trial of Iraq's fugitive Vice-President, Tariq al-Hashemi, in absentia has heard gripping testimony from a man said to have arranged a revenge bomb attack on his behalf. Wearing sandals and a brown jumpsuit, Hameed Mashhadani approached the...
photo: AP / Karim Kadim
NATO Summit - Chicago
CHICAGO — All President Barack Obama wanted to do was go home. No, not to the fancy government house in Washington. He wanted the familiar bed at his Kenwood/Hyde Park house in Chicago. The comfy chair. Maybe watch some ESPN. Chill. "I am...
photo: EC / EC
In this Friday, April 6, 2012 photo, Free Syrian Army fighters try to spot a sniper during fighting with Syrian troops in a suburb of Damascus, Syria.
DAMASCUS - Clashes broke out between Syrian troops and rebels outside Damascus on Saturday as world powers warned of the country descending into civil war. And Arab League Secretary General Nabil al-Arabi said he had asked the UN Security Council to...
photo: AP

The Queen's Diamond Jubilee: 60 years in video; updated 03 May 2012; published 05 Feb 2012
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The Queen's Diamond Jubilee: 60 years in video
Detroit Free Press 03 Jun 2012, LONDON — Long known as the sport of kings, today horse racing is the Sport of the Queen, as the Diamond Jubilee got underway with a familiar annual ritual, the running of the Epsom Derby. Horse-loving Queen Elizabeth II did not have a horse in the "dah-bee," as it's known here; instead it was the appropriately named Camelot, the favorite, that won...

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Annan warns of 'all-out' war in Syria; updated 03 Jun 2012; published 02 Jun 2012
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Annan warns of 'all-out' war in Syria
Deutsche Welle 03 Jun 2012, Syria's president has used a televised speech to tell the nation just who was responsible for the bloodshed in the country. Bashar al-Assad said 'terrorists' and 'outside forces' were to blame. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday blamed "terrorists" and "outside forces" for the ongoing bloodshed in the country. "The masks have fallen and the...

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Iranian Revolution (Feb 1979); updated 01 Jun 2012; published 19 Sep 2006
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Iranian Revolution (Feb 1979)
WorldNews.com 03 Jun 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling When Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said that atomic and nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction were incompatible with the teachings of Prophet Mohammad and the Islamic faith, it brought back apprehensive memories of the failed American rescue mission back in 1980, and the death of...

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US millitary Base in bagram & detention centre for Terrorist in Afghanistan (Jail inside view); updated 07 Jan 2012; published 11 Dec 2011
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US millitary Base in bagram & detention centre for Terrorist in Afghanistan (Jail inside view)
Stars and Stripes 03 Jun 2012, (First in a two-part series) BAGRAM, Afghanistan — Every week, it seems, brings a dire new assessment of the war in Afghanistan. The most recent, a draft National Intelligence Estimate leaked to the press this month, warns of rapidly deteriorating conditions, with widespread corruption in the Afghan government undermining efforts to beat back...

Spain home evictions draw protests; updated 01 Jun 2012; published 15 Mar 2012
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Spain home evictions draw protests
The Independent 03 Jun 2012, "Photos for weddings? Down 50 per cent. Christenings? Down 30 per cent," Karlis Mendrano, a long-standing professional photographer in his fifties from San Sebastian, told me. "Ever since the bank cut off the credit, people marry far less, and they want less when they do. I can't put up my prices, so I give them cheaper quality. It's...

Guns & Prayers: Syrian rebels 'major clients' of Lebanese arms dealers; updated 02 Jun 2012; published 28 May 2012
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Guns & Prayers: Syrian rebels 'major clients' of Lebanese arms dealers
The Guardian 02 Jun 2012, At least 10 people are killed in gun battle between residents of Sunni and Alawite districts in northern Lebanon A Lebanese Sunni gunman fires his weapon during clashes in Tripoli, 20 miles from the border with Syria. Photograph: Nabil Mounzer/EPA...

Life Imprisonment to Hosni Mubarak Trial Verdict - 2 June 2012 Part 1; updated 02 Jun 2012; published 02 Jun 2012
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Life Imprisonment to Hosni Mubarak Trial Verdict - 2 June 2012 Part 1
The Guardian 02 Jun 2012, Mubarak is the first Arab leader to be tried by his own people in the country. The sentence was handed down in a Cairo court. Thousands of riot police cordoned off the building to prevent protesters and relatives of those killed during the uprising from getting too close. Hundreds stood outside, waving Egyptian flags and chanting slogans demanding...

Turkey's growing interest in Somalia; updated 31 May 2012; published 27 Feb 2012
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Turkey's growing interest in Somalia
Al Jazeera 02 Jun 2012, The UN Secretary-General has called for urgent international aid for Somalia to head off the risk of warlords exploiting a power vacuum after the scheduled change of power in August. "We urgently need assistance to avoid a power vacuum that warlords might exploit," Ban Ki-moon said on Friday. "I urge donors to contribute to this critical effort. In...

Egypt's Hosni Mubarak trial: verdicts and sentences; updated 02 Jun 2012; published 02 Jun 2012
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Egypt's Hosni Mubarak trial: verdicts and sentences
France24 02 Jun 2012, AFP - Ailing former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak will learn on Saturday whether he is guilty of the murder of demonstrators during the uprising that overthrew him last year. Mubarak, the only autocrat...

Panetta: Asia the 'Project' for New Navy Grads; updated 02 Jun 2012; published 29 May 2012
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Panetta: Asia the 'Project' for New Navy Grads
The Times of India 02 Jun 2012, Tweet SINGAPORE: The United States will shift the majority of its naval fleet to the Pacific by 2020 as part of a new strategic focus on Asia, Pentagon chief Leon Panetta told a summit in Singapore on Saturday. The decision to deploy more ships to the Pacific Ocean, along with expanding a network of military partnerships, was part of a "steady,...

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...

Annan warns of 'all-out' war in Syria; updated 03 Jun 2012; published 02 Jun 2012
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Annan warns of 'all-out' war in Syria
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...

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...

Syria-Houla Killing.mov; updated 03 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...





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