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What OWS can Learn from Occupy Tiananmen Square
Full Article WorldNews.com
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Most governments fear popular sovereignty, something that was observed by the world when hundreds of thousands of Chinese workers and student hunger strikers packed Tiananmen Square demanding a more democratic and open society. On that day, June 5 1989, some even dared to think and imagine that...
File - A Chinese man stands alone to block a line of tanks heading east on Beijing's Cangan Blvd. in Tiananmen Square on June 5, 1989.
photo: AP / Jeff Widener

US drone attack 'targeted al-Qaeda deputy'
Full Article BBC News
A US drone strike on Monday in Pakistan targeted al-Qaeda's second-in-command Abu Yahya al-Libi, US officials say. They say it is still unclear whether he was among those killed in the strike on a suspected militant compound in North Waziristan, near the Afghan border. Two missiles by the unmanned aircraft killed 15 people, Pakistani officials...
File - An armed MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aircraft sits in a shelter Oct. 15 at Joint Base Balad, Iraq, before a mission.
photo: USAF / Tech. Sgt. Erik Gudmundson

Rival troops clash in battle for control of airport
Full Article The Independent
Flights to and from the airport were cancelled or diverted after members of al-Awfea Brigade occupied the airport for several hours, surrounding planes on the runway with armed pick-up trucks. They demanded the release of their leader, Colonel Abu Oegeila al-Hebshi, who they said was being held at the airport by Tripoli's security forces after...
File - Rebel fighters seen at the checkpoint near the Tripoli International Airport outside Tripoli, Libya, Friday, Aug. 26, 2011.
photo: AP / Sergey Ponomarev

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


Could President Barack Obama benefit politically by attempting to refocus the general election...
Telegraph View: If Lady Warsi warrants investigation for breaking the ministerial, surely so...
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - As Washington fumed over the jailing of a Pakistani doctor who helped the...

An Interpol image shows an undated photo of Luka Rocco Magnotta, a Canadian fugitive recently captured in Berlin.
The Canadian porn actor wanted for the murder and dismemberment of his lover is to appear in court in Berlin a day after his arrest in the German capital. Germany's justice ministry said it was awaiting a request from the Canadian authorities...
photo: Interpol
Refugees from South Kordofan, Sudan, in the Yida refugee camp in Unity State, South Sudan on Saturday May 12, 2012. More than 30,000 refugees currently reside in Yida.
Khartoum - A gunfight outside a police station one year ago on Tuesday marked the start of a war that has forced increasing numbers of hungry people to flee Sudan's South Kordofan and Blue Nile states. Despite months of international concern over...
photo: AP / Pete Muller
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin gesture while speaking as he attends a massive rally in his support at Luzhniki stadium in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is due to begin a three-day visit to China, with energy and foreign policy expected to dominate the agenda. Mr Putin said ahead of the trip that he wanted to further boost booming bilateral trade, which reached $84bn...
photo: AP / Alexander Zemlianichenko
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

1989 Tiananmen Square Protests; updated 05 Jun 2012; published 17 Sep 2005
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1989 Tiananmen Square Protests
WorldNews.com 05 Jun 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Most governments fear popular sovereignty, something that was observed by the world when hundreds of thousands of Chinese workers and student hunger strikers packed Tiananmen Square demanding a more democratic and open society. On that day, June 5 1989, some even dared to think and imagine that...

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Deaths in latest drone strike in Pakistan; updated 05 Jun 2012; published 04 Jun 2012
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Deaths in latest drone strike in Pakistan
BBC News 05 Jun 2012, A US drone strike on Monday in Pakistan targeted al-Qaeda's second-in-command Abu Yahya al-Libi, US officials say. They say it is still unclear whether he was among those killed in the strike on a suspected militant compound in North Waziristan, near the Afghan border. Two missiles by the unmanned aircraft killed 15 people, Pakistani officials...

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Lawless Land - Libya; updated 04 Jun 2012; published 23 Apr 2012
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Lawless Land - Libya
The Independent 05 Jun 2012, Flights to and from the airport were cancelled or diverted after members of al-Awfea Brigade occupied the airport for several hours, surrounding planes on the runway with armed pick-up trucks. They demanded the release of their leader, Colonel Abu Oegeila al-Hebshi, who they said was being held at the airport by Tripoli's security forces after...

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UN Observers in El-Houleh, Syria; updated 31 May 2012; published 29 May 2012
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UN Observers in El-Houleh, 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...

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,...

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...

1989 Tiananmen Square Protests; updated 05 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...

Syrians welcome Putin as the NEW Russian Leader 04-03-2012; updated 17 May 2012; published 05 Mar 2012
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Syrians welcome Putin as the NEW Russian Leader 04-03-2012
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 05 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...

Germany's Eurozone Dilemma (Portfolio); updated 02 Jun 2012; published 17 May 2012
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Germany's Eurozone Dilemma (Portfolio)
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...

UN Observers in El-Houleh, Syria; updated 31 May 2012; published 29 May 2012
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UN Observers in El-Houleh, 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...





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