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Divided Greece “risks social explosion”
Full Article Independent online (SA)
18 Jun 2012

Pro-bailout party New Democracy may have come first in Sunday's Greek election but the radical left anti-austerity SYRIZA bloc was celebrating like the real winner well into the warm Athens night. The election exposed a struggling nation deeply divided over whether to implement a harsh austerity package, the price for receiving a total of 240...
A homeless person sleeps on the ground on a sidewalk in central Athens, Monday, June 18, 2012.
photo: AP / Petros Karadjias

Americans and Mental Illness: Sane Reaction to an Insane State?
Full Article WorldNews.com
18 Jun 2012

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling With the recent scientific studies and news revealing that one out of four of all Americans met the criteria for having a mental illness within the past year, including some with a "serious" disorder that significantly disrupted their ability to function on a daily basis, it might help bring some...
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden meet with Combatant Commanders and senior military leadership in the Cabinet Room of the White House, May 15, 2012.
photo: White House / Pete Souza

NGOs urge to back new treaty on oceans protection
Full Article Gulf News
18 Jun 2012

Rio de Janeiro: Non-governmental organisations on Sunday called on RIO+20 summit leaders to back a new treaty to protect the high seas. “A new Treaty for High Seas protection will be a game changer for the future of our ocean and the millions dependent on it for their survival,” said members of the High Seas Alliance and the Deep Sea...
NGOs urge to back new treaty on oceans protection
photo: Abr / Valter Campanato

French Socialists vow reforms after big poll win
Full Article Reuters
18 Jun 2012

PARIS (Reuters) - A resounding Socialist victory in weekend parliamentary elections will allow President Francois Hollande to press ahead with reforms to tame France's deficit and promote economic growth in Europe, a senior minister said on Monday. The Socialists, who won a comfortable majority in Sunday's parliamentary elections, will use a...
French citizens arrive at a polling station during legislative election in Saint Germain-en-Laye, 15 kms (9,5 mls) west of Paris, Sunday, June 17, 2012.
photo: AP / Michel Euler

World powers start nuclear talks with Iran
Full Article The Star
18 Jun 2012

MOSCOW (Reuters) - World powers began two days of talks with Iran on Monday to try to end a decade-long stand-off over Tehran's nuclear programme and avert the threat of a new war in the Middle East. Experts and diplomats say a breakthrough is unlikely, with Iran expected to demand recognition of its right to enrich uranium for what it says is a...
File - Iran's Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Ali Asghar Soltanieh speaks as he waits for the start of the IAEA board of governors meeting at the International Center, in Vienna, Austria, on Wednesday, June 6, 2012.
photo: AP / Ronald Zak

Egypt's rulers hinting at crackdown
Full Article Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
18 Jun 2012

CAIRO -- Even as election officials began counting ballots in Egypt's presidential runoff Sunday night, the military-led government appeared to be bracing for the possibility that the Muslim Brotherhood candidate could win, issuing a unilaterally drafted constitution that would give the army increased ability to curb executive power. The...
Egyptian women line up to vote at a polling station in the Shobra neighborhood of Cairo, Egypt on Sunday, June 17, 2012.
photo: AP / Pete Muller

Pro-bailout party wins Greek election
Full Article Zeenews
18 Jun 2012

Zeenews Bureau Athens: In a sigh of relief for financial markets around the world, Greece's centre-right, pro-bailout New Democracy party won the Sunday's Parliamentary Elections. The anti-bailout Syriza party has conceded defeat in the crucial polls and its leader, Alexis Tsipras, has said his leftist party will not join a...
Leader of the New Democracy conservative party Antonis Samaras, speaks to supporters at an election stand at Syntagma square in Athens, Sunday, June 17, 2012.
photo: AP / Kostas Tsironis

Syria accused of violence rise after UN monitor halt
Full Article IBN Live
18 Jun 2012

Amman: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's army intensified shelling of Sunni Muslim districts in the northwest city of Homas on Sunday, killing at least 11 people and wounding dozens hours after UN monitors suspended their work, opposition activists said. The monitors' decision on Saturday was the clearest sign yet that a peace plan brokered by...
U.N. observers are seen carrying their luggage outside the Dama Rose hotel in Damascus, Syria, on Sunday, June 17, 2012 .
photo: AP / Bassem Tellwai

Greek polls: Pro-bailout parties may have enough to rule
Full Article The Times of India
17 Jun 2012

SHARE AND DISCUSSTweetNew Democracy (ND) party supporters celebrate as they watch the exit polls. ATHENS: Parties committed to Greece's multi-billion-euro bailout are on course to secure a slim parliamentary majority in an election result that could keep the debt-laden country in the eurozone, according to an official vote projection. The...
Greek polls: Pro-bailout parties may have enough to rule
photo: AP / Petros Karadjias

France elections: Socialists secure big victory
Full Article Zeenews
17 Jun 2012

Zeenews Bureau Paris: Exit poll agencies have projected that French President Francois Hollande's Socialist Party has won a big majority in the Lower House of Parliament. The Socialists' bloc obtained between 312 and 326 seats -- an absolute majority in the 577-seat National Assembly -- and so will not need to rely on the Greens or the far left,...
France elections: Socialists secure big victory
photo: AP / Michel Euler


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President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin need one another, an uncomfortable truth for the superpower leader facing a tough re-election and the newly elected...
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With voters set to choose between the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi and Ahmed Shafik, the former fighter pilot and Prime Minister under President Hosni Mubarak, reverberations...
more Al Jazeera
Ministers from members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) – deeply divided over how much oil to pump following a sharp decline in global prices...

Brazilian pitch for summit deal faces objections from Europe
Rio de Janeiro: Brazil on Sunday pushed a deal for a looming global summit on poverty and the environment, but its draft ran into objections from Europe and criticism from activists, who said it fell dismally short. The blueprint for Earth’s...
photo: UN / Guilherme Costa
In this Monday, April 23, 2012 photo, Syrian protestors gather around U.N. observers during their visit in Douma near the capital of Damascus, Syria.
AFP - Those responsible for attacks on UN observers in Syria must be brought to justice, UN rights chief Navi Pillay said Monday. "We must make our utmost possible efforts to ensure accountability for all perpetrators, including those who have...
photo: AP
World leaders ponder euro options
Right-wing New Democracy's victory was too narrow for it to form a government without support but the eurozone hailed the result as the basis for a new administration backing reforms leading to growth. With 97% of ballots counted, anti-austerity...
photo: EC / EC
IMF to firm up $430bn crisis fund
After searching for months for cash, the IMF looks able to firm up a huge emergency “firewall” fund for crisis prevention after China said Sunday that big emerging economies would chip in. A day before the Group of 20 powers open crucial...
photo: EC / EU
A veiled female supporter of presidential candidate Mohammed Morsi carries a poster with his picture and Arabic that reads "Morsi, for the sake of Egypt, our strength is in our unity," during celebrations claiming victory over rival candidate, Ahmed Shafiq, in Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, Monday, June 18, 2012.
CAIRO - Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Morsi claimed a narrow victory early Monday in Egypt's first free presidential election, hours after the ruling military council further expanded its control over the country by granting itself war...
photo: AP / Nasser Nasser
Android smartphones vulnerable to malware attack: Symantec
SHARE AND DISCUSSTweetAlthough the risks to computers have not totally subsided, malicious software authors are now creating mobile- specific malware. NEW DELHI: With their numbers increasing rapidly, smartphones are becoming more vulnerable to...
photo: WN / Geeta
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, right, and Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi, third from right, arrive for a meeting of the Congress Working Committee in New Delhi, India, Monday, June 4, 2012.
Los Cabos, June 18: If the current global economic instability precipitates, India has far less ammunition now, than in 2008, to contain its fallout, Indian interlocutors said ahead of the G20 Summit here. “The world is in deep trouble,” Indian Prime...
photo: AP / Mustafa Quraishi
Greece's election today is too close to call....; updated 17 Jun 2012; published 17 Jun 2012
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Greece's election today is too close to call....
Independent online (SA) 18 Jun 2012, Pro-bailout party New Democracy may have come first in Sunday's Greek election but the radical left anti-austerity SYRIZA bloc was celebrating like the real winner well into the warm Athens night. The election exposed a struggling nation deeply divided over whether to implement a harsh austerity package, the price for receiving a total of 240...

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Fault Lines - Mental Illness in America's Prisons; updated 14 Jun 2012; published 07 Dec 2009
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Fault Lines - Mental Illness in America's Prisons
WorldNews.com 18 Jun 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling With the recent scientific studies and news revealing that one out of four of all Americans met the criteria for having a mental illness within the past year, including some with a "serious" disorder that significantly disrupted their ability to function on a daily basis, it might help bring some...

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PM Netanyahu's Remarks on the Rio+20 Conference; updated 17 Jun 2012; published 11 Jun 2012
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PM Netanyahu's Remarks on the Rio+20 Conference
Gulf News 18 Jun 2012, Rio de Janeiro: Non-governmental organisations on Sunday called on RIO+20 summit leaders to back a new treaty to protect the high seas. “A new Treaty for High Seas protection will be a game changer for the future of our ocean and the millions dependent on it for their survival,” said members of the High Seas Alliance and the Deep Sea...

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Greece back from brink with pro-bailout victories; updated 18 Jun 2012; published 18 Jun 2012
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Greece back from brink with pro-bailout victories
Reuters 18 Jun 2012, PARIS (Reuters) - A resounding Socialist victory in weekend parliamentary elections will allow President Francois Hollande to press ahead with reforms to tame France's deficit and promote economic growth in Europe, a senior minister said on Monday. The Socialists, who won a comfortable majority in Sunday's parliamentary elections, will use a...

'Nuclear Iran won't confront Israel, will inspire Middle East'; updated 17 Jun 2012; published 14 Jun 2012
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'Nuclear Iran won't confront Israel, will inspire Middle East'
The Star 18 Jun 2012, MOSCOW (Reuters) - World powers began two days of talks with Iran on Monday to try to end a decade-long stand-off over Tehran's nuclear programme and avert the threat of a new war in the Middle East. Experts and diplomats say a breakthrough is unlikely, with Iran expected to demand recognition of its right to enrich uranium for what it says is a...

Egypt Decides - Marching On Tahrir - #EgyptDecides Presidential Coverage; updated 16 Jun 2012; published 15 Jun 2012
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Egypt Decides - Marching On Tahrir - #EgyptDecides Presidential Coverage
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 18 Jun 2012, CAIRO -- Even as election officials began counting ballots in Egypt's presidential runoff Sunday night, the military-led government appeared to be bracing for the possibility that the Muslim Brotherhood candidate could win, issuing a unilaterally drafted constitution that would give the army increased ability to curb executive power. The...

Raw Video: Pro-Bailout Parties Win in Greece; updated 18 Jun 2012; published 17 Jun 2012
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Raw Video: Pro-Bailout Parties Win in Greece
Zeenews 18 Jun 2012, Zeenews Bureau Athens: In a sigh of relief for financial markets around the world, Greece's centre-right, pro-bailout New Democracy party won the Sunday's Parliamentary Elections. The anti-bailout Syriza party has conceded defeat in the crucial polls and its leader, Alexis Tsipras, has said his leftist party will not join a...

Assad meets with Kofi Annan 10-03-2012; updated 17 May 2012; published 11 Mar 2012
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Assad meets with Kofi Annan 10-03-2012
IBN Live 18 Jun 2012, Amman: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's army intensified shelling of Sunni Muslim districts in the northwest city of Homas on Sunday, killing at least 11 people and wounding dozens hours after UN monitors suspended their work, opposition activists said. The monitors' decision on Saturday was the clearest sign yet that a peace plan brokered by...

Greece's election today is too close to call....; updated 17 Jun 2012; published 17 Jun 2012
1:02
Greece's election today is too close to call....
The Times of India 17 Jun 2012, SHARE AND DISCUSSTweetNew Democracy (ND) party supporters celebrate as they watch the exit polls. ATHENS: Parties committed to Greece's multi-billion-euro bailout are on course to secure a slim parliamentary majority in an election result that could keep the debt-laden country in the eurozone, according to an official vote projection. The...

Greece back from brink with pro-bailout victories; updated 18 Jun 2012; published 18 Jun 2012
1:09
Greece back from brink with pro-bailout victories
Zeenews 17 Jun 2012, Zeenews Bureau Paris: Exit poll agencies have projected that French President Francois Hollande's Socialist Party has won a big majority in the Lower House of Parliament. The Socialists' bloc obtained between 312 and 326 seats -- an absolute majority in the 577-seat National Assembly -- and so will not need to rely on the Greens or the far left,...

Afghanistan War + More Troops = Catastrophe (Trailer); updated 31 May 2012; published 26 Feb 2009
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Afghanistan War + More Troops = Catastrophe (Trailer)
Stars and Stripes 17 Jun 2012, SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii (AP) — Soldiers are getting to spend more time at home between combat deployments as the U.S. military draws down in Iraq and the Army grows in size, the service's chief of staff said Friday. Gen. George Casey told reporters during a visit to Hawaii's largest Army post that soldiers are able to recover...

【BBC】Japan PM Noda orders nuclear reactors back online; updated 17 Jun 2012; published 16 Jun 2012
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【BBC】Japan PM Noda orders nuclear reactors back online
Daily Yomiuri 17 Jun 2012, Now that the government has decided to reactivate the Nos. 3 and 4 reactors at the Oi nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture, attention has turned to which will be next among the nation's other 48 idle reactors. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and three Cabinet ministers in charge of nuclear energy policies gave the green light Saturday to resume...

The role of religion in Egypt's election; updated 15 Jun 2012; published 23 May 2012
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The role of religion in Egypt's election
Wall Street Journal 17 Jun 2012, By TAMER EL-GHOBASHY CAIRO—Turnout on Egypt's final day of a presidential run-off appeared low Sunday as the military leadership seemed poised to cement its hold on the nations legislative authority and clarified the incoming president's powers. Citing official sources in the Supreme Council of Armed Forces, Egypt's state news agencies...

Rio+20 - United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development - Video by Government of Brazil; updated 14 Jun 2012; published 19 Oct 2011
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Rio+20 - United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development - Video by Government of Brazil
Denver Post 17 Jun 2012, Inaction at the United Nations' Rio+20 summit this week would be disastrous to global crisis. Much is riding on the United Nations Rio+20 summit this week. Many are billing it as Plan A for Planet Earth and want leaders bound to a single international agreement to protect our life-support system and prevent a global humanitarian crisis. Inaction in...





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