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Syria Rebels No Longer Committed To Annan Peace Plan
Full Article Huffington Post
BEIRUT, June 4 (Reuters) - Syrian rebels are no longer committed to a U.N.-backed peace plan that has failed to end violence in the country and have launched attacks on government forces to "defend our people", a spokesman said on Monday. "We have decided to end our commitment to this (plan) and starting from that date (Friday) we began defending...
This citizen journalism image provided by Shaam News Network SNN, taken on Thursday May 31, 2012 purports to show a Syrian rebel shouting slogans after they found the bodies of eleven workers killed by gunmen on their way to work Thursday at a state-owned fertilizer factory in the central province of Homs, Syria.
photo: AP / Shaam News Network, SNN

Bomb hits Shi'ite site in Baghdad, 26 killed
Full Article The Star
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber detonated an explosive-packed car outside a Shi'ite Muslim office in central Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 26 people and wounding more than 190 in an attack bearing the hallmarks of Iraq's al Qaeda affiliate. Residents bleed as they wait for treatment at a hospital after a bomb attack in Baghdad, June 4,...
Firefighters and rescuers search for victims at the site of a bomb attack in the central Bab al-Muadham area in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, June 4, 2012.
photo: AP / Hadi Mizban

Soldier in Afghanistan was killed in rescue mission
Full Article The Independent
The soldier, who has not yet been named but was from 3rd Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment, was with a task force fighting to save policeman Abdul Walid. Officials said armed insurgents kidnapped Mr Walid at a police checkpoint in Payan village, in the Nar-e-Seraj district of Helmand...
Soldier in Afghanistan was killed in rescue mission
photo: US Army / Michael J. MacLeod

US pushes China on Tiananmen anniversary
Full Article France24
AFP - The United States urged China to free all those still jailed over the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations, ahead of the 23rd anniversary of the brutal crackdown on the protests. State Department deputy spokesman Mark Toner said Sunday the United States called on Beijing to do more to protect the human rights of its citizens -- a comment that...
Chinese paramilitary police march past Mao Zedong's portrait on Tiananmen Gate in Beijing, China, Monday, June 4, 2012.
photo: AP / Ng Han Guan

EU to press Putin on Syria at summit
Full Article BBC News
EU officials are expected to press Russian President Vladimir Putin to take a stronger line on Syria during a summit in St Petersburg. EU nations want Russia to put pressure on its ally to withdraw heavy weapons from cities and comply fully with envoy Kofi Annan's peace plan. Russia and China are also resisting US and EU calls to condemn...
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, left, and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy , center, speak during the Russia EU Summit outside St. Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, June 3, 2012.
photo: AP / RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Government Press Service

Nigerian airplane crash: All 153 on board dead
Full Article IBN Live
Lagos: A commercial airliner crashed into a densely populated neighbourhood in Nigeria's largest city on Sunday, killing all 153 people on board and others on the ground in the worst air disaster in nearly two decades for the troubled nation. The cause of the Dana Air crash remained unknown Sunday night, as firefighters and police struggled to put...
People gather at the site of a plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria, Sunday, June 3, 2012.
photo: AP / Sunday Alamba

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

Democracy versus the eurozone
Full Article Al Jazeera
The European Union is a voluntary quasi-federation of sovereign and democratic states in which elections matter and each country seeks to determine its own destiny, regardless of the wishes of its partners. But it should now be apparent to everyone that the eurozone was designed with a very different institutional arrangement in mind. Indeed, that...
A protester shouts slogans during a May Day protest in Athens, Tuesday, May 1, 2012.
photo: AP

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


ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - As Washington fumed over the jailing of a Pakistani doctor who helped the...
An Egyptian official says the top prosecutor will appeal the verdict in Hosni Mubarak's trial,...

G7 to hold emergency euro zone talks, Spain top concern
TORONTO/BERLIN (Reuters) - Finance chiefs of the Group of Seven leading industrialized powers will hold emergency talks on the euro zone debt crisis on Tuesday in a sign of heightened global alarm about strains in the 17-nation European currency...
photo: EC / EC
NATO plans new Afghan mission after 2014
Moscow: Afghanistan and NATO have agreed to develop a plan for a new international peacekeeping mission in the country after 2014 when Afghan forces take full control of the...
photo: US Army / Michael J. MacLeod
Russian Prime Minister and President-elect Vladimir Putin gestures while speaking at the State Duma, Russian Parliament's lower house, in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, April 11, 2012.
Russian premier urges Europe to shed 'stereotypes' at summit but resists western demands to get Assad to abide by ceasefire Vladimir Putin (centre) with European commission president Jose Manuel Barroso (left) and European council president Herman...
photo: AP / Ivan Sekretarev
Rescue workers collect bodies from the scene of a plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria, Monday, June 4, 2012
LAGOS, Nigeria — Authorities say they fear a large number of people may have been killed on the ground from a commercial airplane crash in Nigeria that killed all 153 people onboard. Jon Gambrell, AP Onlookers stand on the tail wing of a...
photo: AP / Sunday Alamba
Egyptian workers chant slogans during a rally marking international workers' day in Tahrir square in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, May 1, 2011.
After many weeks in which the appetite for street politics appeared to have been snuffed out, tens of thousands of people flocked to town and city centres to voice their fury at the ruling Egyptian establishment. The protests were triggered by...
photo: AP / Khalil Hamra
One NATO soldier killed in S. Afghanistan
KABUL, June 4 (Xinhua) -- One NATO soldier was killed on Sunday following an insurgent attack in southern Afghanistan, the military alliance...
photo: USAF / Nestor Cruz
Little changes with Afghanistan War
The Afghanistan War has been stuck in a holding pattern for 10 years now. Despite commanders on the ground, rank and file and a handful of journalists reporting the REAL battle conditions in the war-torn tribal nation- American blood continues to...
photo: US Army / Michael J. MacLeod

Annan warns of 'all-out' war in Syria; updated 04 Jun 2012; published 02 Jun 2012
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Annan warns of 'all-out' war in Syria
Huffington Post 04 Jun 2012, BEIRUT, June 4 (Reuters) - Syrian rebels are no longer committed to a U.N.-backed peace plan that has failed to end violence in the country and have launched attacks on government forces to "defend our people", a spokesman said on Monday. "We have decided to end our commitment to this (plan) and starting from that date (Friday) we began defending...

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Iraq PM: Baghdad bomb meant to kill me; updated 23 Apr 2012; published 03 Dec 2011
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Iraq PM: Baghdad bomb meant to kill me
The Star 04 Jun 2012, BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber detonated an explosive-packed car outside a Shi'ite Muslim office in central Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 26 people and wounding more than 190 in an attack bearing the hallmarks of Iraq's al Qaeda affiliate. Residents bleed as they wait for treatment at a hospital after a bomb attack in Baghdad, June 4,...

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Fighting Alongside Stoned Afghan Soldiers - VICE; updated 04 Jun 2012; published 14 Oct 2008
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Fighting Alongside Stoned Afghan Soldiers - VICE
The Independent 04 Jun 2012, The soldier, who has not yet been named but was from 3rd Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment, was with a task force fighting to save policeman Abdul Walid. Officials said armed insurgents kidnapped Mr Walid at a police checkpoint in Payan village, in the Nar-e-Seraj district of Helmand...

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1989 Tiananmen Square Protests; updated 04 Jun 2012; published 17 Sep 2005
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1989 Tiananmen Square Protests
France24 04 Jun 2012, AFP - The United States urged China to free all those still jailed over the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations, ahead of the 23rd anniversary of the brutal crackdown on the protests. State Department deputy spokesman Mark Toner said Sunday the United States called on Beijing to do more to protect the human rights of its citizens -- a comment that...

Putin+Merkel: No to Syrian invasion & Euro collapse; updated 04 Jun 2012; published 01 Jun 2012
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Putin+Merkel: No to Syrian invasion & Euro collapse
BBC News 04 Jun 2012, EU officials are expected to press Russian President Vladimir Putin to take a stronger line on Syria during a summit in St Petersburg. EU nations want Russia to put pressure on its ally to withdraw heavy weapons from cities and comply fully with envoy Kofi Annan's peace plan. Russia and China are also resisting US and EU calls to condemn...

Nigeria plane crash: Video of wreckage, ruins in Lagos; updated 04 Jun 2012; published 04 Jun 2012
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Nigeria plane crash: Video of wreckage, ruins in Lagos
IBN Live 04 Jun 2012, Lagos: A commercial airliner crashed into a densely populated neighbourhood in Nigeria's largest city on Sunday, killing all 153 people on board and others on the ground in the worst air disaster in nearly two decades for the troubled nation. The cause of the Dana Air crash remained unknown Sunday night, as firefighters and police struggled to put...

The Queen's Diamond Jubilee: 60 years in video; updated 04 Jun 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...

Economists Paul Krugman vs Ken Rogoff on collapsing Eurozone (30May12); updated 03 Jun 2012; published 01 Jun 2012
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Economists Paul Krugman vs Ken Rogoff on collapsing Eurozone (30May12)
Al Jazeera 03 Jun 2012, The European Union is a voluntary quasi-federation of sovereign and democratic states in which elections matter and each country seeks to determine its own destiny, regardless of the wishes of its partners. But it should now be apparent to everyone that the eurozone was designed with a very different institutional arrangement in mind. Indeed, that...

Annan warns of 'all-out' war in Syria; updated 04 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...

Iranian Revolution (Feb 1979); updated 03 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...

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 in the Spotlight of Europe's Economic Crisis; updated 01 Jun 2012; published 01 Jun 2012
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Spain in the Spotlight of Europe's Economic Crisis
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...

Tripoli Trouble: Syrian refugees brew unrest in Lebanon; updated 04 Jun 2012; published 03 Jun 2012
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Tripoli Trouble: Syrian refugees brew unrest in Lebanon
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 04 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...





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