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45 militants killed in Afghanistan
Full Article Newstrack India
10 Jun 2012

Tweet Kabul, June 10 (IANS) At least 45 Taliban militants have been killed in operations carried out by Afghan and NATO-led troops, the interior ministry said Sunday. The forces launched 10 "clean-up" operations in Kabul, Laghman, Parwan, Helmand, Uruzgan and Farah provinces, in which 33 militants were killed, Xinhua reported citing a ministry...
45 militants killed in Afghanistan
photo: US Army / Michael J. MacLeod

Australia seeks access to ICC lawyer held in Libya
Full Article BBC News
10 Jun 2012

The Australian authorities say they are seeking consular access to an Australian lawyer held in Libya after trying to meet Saif al-Islam, son of the late leader Muammar Gaddafi. Defence lawyer Melinda Taylor is one of four members of the International Criminal Court's staff detained in the Libyan town of Zintan since Thursday. Locals are...
File - In this Sunday, Aug. 14, 2011 photo, a man walks near the mosque in Zintan, western Libya.
photo: AP / Giulio Petrocco

Nuechterlein: What's the U.S. stake in Syria's civil war?
Full Article Richmond Times Dispatch
10 Jun 2012

To intervene, or not to intervene — that's the question President Obama and his national security team are considering as the killing of civilians continues in Syria. The key question they must answer is: How important are U.S. interests in Syria? There are four basic national interests that guide all American foreign policy: Defend the U.S....
Nuechterlein: What's the U.S. stake in Syria's civil war?
photo: EC / EC

Racism charges detract from Euro 2012 soccer in Poland, Ukraine
Full Article Chicago Tribune
10 Jun 2012

All was not well in Poland and Ukraine, co-hosts of Euro 2012, when the planet's second-most-important soccer tournament kicked off Friday. And that could prove to be both good and bad thing as the sport moves toward World Cups scheduled in Brazil, Russia and Qatar over the next 10 years. It's a bad thing because, in the run-up to Euro 2012,...
Racism charges detract from Euro 2012 soccer in Poland, Ukraine
photo: WN / Marzena J.

Spain banking system is focus of meeting
Full Article CNN
09 Jun 2012

By Ben Rooney @CNNMoneyInvest June 9, 2012: 1:30 PM ET Spain's banking system is healthy, but some banks are vulnerable, the IMF says. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Spanish and eurozone officials were scheduled to make an announcement Saturday after a meeting concerning Spain's banking crisis, a European Union source told CNN. The meeting came in the wake...
Demonstrators shout slogans against bankers during a demonstration outside a Bankia bank branch in Barcelona, Spain, Friday June 8, 2012.
photo: AP / Emilio Morenatti

Saddam's brutality still haunts Iraqi Kurds
Full Article Al Jazeera
09 Jun 2012

In the framed photo Bahar Mohammad holds, her brother Salam is eternally young smiling against a photo studio backdrop of the Kurdish region's waterfalls, a cartoon bluebird painted in the trees. Like tens of thousands of other young Kurdish men, his fate was to be shot and buried in the sand - to be unearthed 24 years later from a mass grave in...
Mourners gather around the coffins of 107 Kurdish prisoners who died in 1988 during the notorious Operation Anfal at a burial ceremony after being returned to their village of Chamchamal in northern Iraq, Tuesday, April 13, 2010.
photo: AP / Yahya Ahmed

Taliban burqa takes life of four French soldiers in Afghanistan
Full Article Middle East Online
09 Jun 2012

PARIS – A suicide bomber dressed in a burqa blew himself up near a French patrol in Afghanistan on Saturday, killing four soldiers and wounding five, one of the deadliest attacks on the French contingent in months, as the Taliban step up a spring offensive. The French president's office on Saturday confirmed that four French soldiers were killed...
French President Francois Hollande reviews troops at Forward Operating Base (FOB) in Nijrab, Kapisa region, Afghanistan Friday, May 25, 2012, where most of French troops are stationed in Afghanistan.
photo: AP / Joel Saget

Holder appoints 2 US attorneys to lead leaks probe
Full Article The Boston Globe
09 Jun 2012

WASHINGTON-Two U.S. attorneys are taking over separate FBI investigations into leaks of national security information that critics have accused the White House of orchestrating to improve President Barack Obama's re-election chances, a claim Obama calls "offensive" and "wrong." Recent news articles contained details of U.S. involvement in a...
Attorney General Eric Holder arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 7, 2012, to testify before the House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on the Justice Department.
photo: AP / Charles Dharapak

UN team sees traces of Syria massacre
Full Article Al Jazeera
09 Jun 2012

UN observers in Syria who visited the site of a reported massacre in a village in Hama province said they saw blood on the walls and were hit by a "stench of burnt flesh" but could not confirm how many had died. While the government denied responsibility, Martin Nesirky, a UN spokesman, said on Friday the observers saw armoured vehicle...
This citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network ENN, purports to show anti-Syrian regime mourners carrying the dead body of Thaer al-Khatib during his funeral procession, at the northern town of Kfar Nebel, in Idlib province, Syria, Friday, June 8, 2012.
photo: AP / Edlib News Network ENN

Slouching toward the Rio + 20 Earth Summit
Full Article Ha'aretz
09 Jun 2012

When climate change negotiators meet later this month in Rio de Janeiro there will, as ever, be hope. For 20 years, since the first Earth Summit in Rio - hence this year's name Rio +20 - these biannual conferences have convened with the same benediction: This time, somehow, let it be different. Two years ago in Copenhagen, President Barack Obama...
Slouching toward the Rio + 20 Earth Summit
photo: UN / JC McIlwaine


Drones are nothing new. The first of them took to America’s skies before the Wright...
Jamaican drug lord Christopher "Dudus" Coke has been sentenced to 23 years behind bars in a US...
The temples of Angkor have stood for 1,000 years. They have survived wars both ancient and...

Outbound investment may hit $2 trillion
by Fu Jing BEIJING, June 10 (Xinhuanet) -- China's outbound foreign direct investment could hit the $2-trillion mark by 2020, with the private sector playing an important role, according to a report by US-based research firm Rhodium Group. The report...
photo: European Community / EC
Lenin set for burial 88 years after death
London: Eighty-eight years after Vladimir Lenin's death, Russia may bury the embalmed corpse of the founder of the Soviet Union. The revolutionary's body remains on public display in a mausoleum on Moscow's Red Square, more than two decades after the...
photo: WN / Marzena J.
ALTERNATIVE CROP OF XLAT152 - In this photo released by Cubadebate and taken by Estudios Revolucion, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez walks in the hospital in Havana, Cuba, Friday March 2, 2012.
CARACAS, VenezuelaVenezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Saturday that he has undergone tests following his cancer treatment and everything came out well. Chavez said the exams included imaging tests, which are used to check for the...
photo: AP / Estudios Revolucion
Tehran pumped out a report Early Sunday June 10 accusing Syrian rebels of arming themselves with chemical weapons originating in Libya and acquiring training in their use from an unknown source in their use. The report sent shudders of alarm through...
photo: UN / Mark Garten
Economic growth stirs hope in Africa
Africa will have the world's fastest-growing economy during the next five years of any continent, according to the International Monetary Fund. Its forecasts also show that seven of the world's 10 fastest-growing economies will be African, with...
photo: UN / UN
U.S., Pakistan beginning to look more like enemies
ISLAMABAD: You know a friendship has gone sour when you start making mean jokes about your friend in front of his most bitter nemesis. So it was a bad sign this week when the U.S. defense secretary joshed in front of an audience of Indians about how...
photo: US DoD / Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo
UEFA charges Russia over fan violence at Euro 2012
WARSAW, Poland-UEFA charged the Russian soccer association on Saturday after fans were filmed fighting with stadium stewards after a European Championship match. UEFA also is seeking more evidence to investigate reports of "alleged abuse directed at...
photo: WN / marzena

Pakistan Kills Taliban Militants; updated 06 May 2012; published 11 May 2009
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Pakistan Kills Taliban Militants
Newstrack India 10 Jun 2012, Tweet Kabul, June 10 (IANS) At least 45 Taliban militants have been killed in operations carried out by Afghan and NATO-led troops, the interior ministry said Sunday. The forces launched 10 "clean-up" operations in Kabul, Laghman, Parwan, Helmand, Uruzgan and Farah provinces, in which 33 militants were killed, Xinhua reported citing a ministry...

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Lawless Land - Libya; updated 08 Jun 2012; published 23 Apr 2012
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Lawless Land - Libya
BBC News 10 Jun 2012, The Australian authorities say they are seeking consular access to an Australian lawyer held in Libya after trying to meet Saif al-Islam, son of the late leader Muammar Gaddafi. Defence lawyer Melinda Taylor is one of four members of the International Criminal Court's staff detained in the Libyan town of Zintan since Thursday. Locals are...

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War-Talk Games: 'Obama slams Syria intervention, can change mind'; updated 26 May 2012; published 07 Mar 2012
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War-Talk Games: 'Obama slams Syria intervention, can change mind'
Richmond Times Dispatch 10 Jun 2012, To intervene, or not to intervene — that's the question President Obama and his national security team are considering as the killing of civilians continues in Syria. The key question they must answer is: How important are U.S. interests in Syria? There are four basic national interests that guide all American foreign policy: Defend the U.S....

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President Barroso's week 28 May - 3 June 2012 in images; updated 04 Jun 2012; published 04 Jun 2012
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President Barroso's week 28 May - 3 June 2012 in images
Chicago Tribune 10 Jun 2012, All was not well in Poland and Ukraine, co-hosts of Euro 2012, when the planet's second-most-important soccer tournament kicked off Friday. And that could prove to be both good and bad thing as the sport moves toward World Cups scheduled in Brazil, Russia and Qatar over the next 10 years. It's a bad thing because, in the run-up to Euro 2012,...

Santander UK: Is your money safe with Spanish-owned bank?; updated 08 Jun 2012; published 08 Jun 2012
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Santander UK: Is your money safe with Spanish-owned bank?
CNN 09 Jun 2012, By Ben Rooney @CNNMoneyInvest June 9, 2012: 1:30 PM ET Spain's banking system is healthy, but some banks are vulnerable, the IMF says. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Spanish and eurozone officials were scheduled to make an announcement Saturday after a meeting concerning Spain's banking crisis, a European Union source told CNN. The meeting came in the wake...

Kurds After the Gulf War; updated 04 Jun 2012; published 11 Feb 2011
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Kurds After the Gulf War
Al Jazeera 09 Jun 2012, In the framed photo Bahar Mohammad holds, her brother Salam is eternally young smiling against a photo studio backdrop of the Kurdish region's waterfalls, a cartoon bluebird painted in the trees. Like tens of thousands of other young Kurdish men, his fate was to be shot and buried in the sand - to be unearthed 24 years later from a mass grave in...

Taliban Behind Afghan Girls School Poisonings: Seven Poison Attacks on Schoolgirls in Afghanistan; updated 08 Jun 2012; published 08 Jun 2012
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Taliban Behind Afghan Girls School Poisonings: Seven Poison Attacks on Schoolgirls in Afghanistan
Middle East Online 09 Jun 2012, PARIS – A suicide bomber dressed in a burqa blew himself up near a French patrol in Afghanistan on Saturday, killing four soldiers and wounding five, one of the deadliest attacks on the French contingent in months, as the Taliban step up a spring offensive. The French president's office on Saturday confirmed that four French soldiers were killed...

FBI Confirms Leak Probe on Al-Qaida Plot; updated 02 Jun 2012; published 16 May 2012
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FBI Confirms Leak Probe on Al-Qaida Plot
The Boston Globe 09 Jun 2012, WASHINGTON-Two U.S. attorneys are taking over separate FBI investigations into leaks of national security information that critics have accused the White House of orchestrating to improve President Barack Obama's re-election chances, a claim Obama calls "offensive" and "wrong." Recent news articles contained details of U.S. involvement in a...

Syrian activist speaks about al-Qubayr massacre; updated 09 Jun 2012; published 06 Jun 2012
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Syrian activist speaks about al-Qubayr massacre
Al Jazeera 09 Jun 2012, UN observers in Syria who visited the site of a reported massacre in a village in Hama province said they saw blood on the walls and were hit by a "stench of burnt flesh" but could not confirm how many had died. While the government denied responsibility, Martin Nesirky, a UN spokesman, said on Friday the observers saw armoured vehicle...

Hungry Planet 16: RIO+20 Special Report; updated 05 Jun 2012; published 04 Jun 2012
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Hungry Planet 16: RIO+20 Special Report
Ha'aretz 09 Jun 2012, When climate change negotiators meet later this month in Rio de Janeiro there will, as ever, be hope. For 20 years, since the first Earth Summit in Rio - hence this year's name Rio +20 - these biannual conferences have convened with the same benediction: This time, somehow, let it be different. Two years ago in Copenhagen, President Barack Obama...

Spain to help bailout troubled Bankia; updated 29 May 2012; published 26 May 2012
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Spain to help bailout troubled Bankia
France24 09 Jun 2012, AFP - Spain's distressed banks need about 40 billion euros ($50 billion) in new capital, the IMF warned, ramping up the pressure for a huge EU bailout amid fears of widespread contagion. Senior finance ministry officials from the 17 eurozone nations may hold weekend talks to prepare the nuts and bolts of a Spanish bank bailout should Madrid cry for...

Liberia seals Ivorian border after attack; updated 10 Jun 2012; published 10 Jun 2012
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Liberia seals Ivorian border after attack
The Guardian 09 Jun 2012, EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press= UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Armed men ambushed and killed seven U.N. peacekeepers in Ivory Coast trying to protect civilians threatened by attack on Friday and more than 40 of their colleagues remained danger from the roaming group, the United Nations said. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned the attack "in the...

Afghan officials allege civilian deaths in NATO strike; updated 08 Jun 2012; published 06 Jun 2012
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Afghan officials allege civilian deaths in NATO strike
The Miami Herald 08 Jun 2012, PATROL BASE PUL-I-ALAM, Afghanistan -- The commander of US and NATO troops in Afghanistan apologized Friday for civilian deaths in a coalition airstrike earlier this week - the first confirmation by NATO forces that civilians were killed in the operation. Marine Gen. John Allen flew to Logar province to personally deliver his regrets to villagers...

Washington loses patience with Pakistan's Taliban Haven; updated 08 Jun 2012; published 07 Jun 2012
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Washington loses patience with Pakistan's Taliban Haven
The Washington Post 08 Jun 2012, PESHAWAR, Pakistan — At least 18 people were killed and more than 40 wounded Friday when a bomb detonated in a bus filled with government employees and other civilians, authorities said. The bomb was believed to have been detonated by remote control, police said. Loading... Comments Weigh In Corrections? Recommend Tweet...





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