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Myanmar: The slow road to democracy
Full Article Al Jazeera
22 Jun 2012

It is not often that you get the chance to be part of a moment that is genuinely historic. But, after more than 20 years of working on human rights in Myanmar, I truly never believed I would get to sit in Oslo and personally witness Aung San Suu Kyi receiving her Nobel Peace Prize. The moment was a true embodiment of the changes happening in...
Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi speaks during a news conference after attending a meeting of the Oslo Forum at the Losby Gods resort, about 13 kilometers (8 miles) east of Oslo, Monday, June 18, 2012.
photo: AP / Markus Schreiber

Afghan forces end Taliban siege of hotel, 13 dead| Reuters
Full Article Newsvine
22 Jun 2012

NEW FACE OF INSURGENCY? Soldiers and police fanned out around the hotel at dawn, arriving in cars and armored Humvee vehicles and taking cover behind trees flanking the lake and a nearby golf course. Police said they wanted to stage a rescue without resorting to a frontal attack...
A soldier from NATO-led forces, center, is seen outside the Spozhmai hotel on Lake Qargha where security officials say Taliban insurgents have killed almost two dozen people, most of them civilians, in an attack that began before midnight on Thursday, just north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, June, 22, 2012.
photo: AP / Ahmad Jamshid

Taliban storm hotel at Kabul beauty spot
Full Article The Himalayan
22 Jun 2012

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File - An Afghan National Army soldier patrols the gate of the military hospital next to an ambulance in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, May 13, 2012. 2012.
photo: AP / Rahmat Gul

Pentagon chief all but rules out apology for Pakistan
Full Article The Star
22 Jun 2012

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta all but ruled out an apology over an air strike last year that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers and badly set back efforts to improve U.S.-Pakistani ties, saying it was "time to move on." Pakistan banned trucks from carrying NATO supplies into neighbouring Afghanistan after the air strike, a move...
Vietnamese Minister of Defense Phung Quang Thanh, left, escorts Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta as they inspect the troops June 4, 2012, in Hanoi, Vietnam.
photo: US DoD / Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo

Tahrir Square fills up as Egypt awaits result
Full Article Al Jazeera
22 Jun 2012

Thousands of protesters have filled Cairo's Tahrir Square overnight as Egypt's rival presidential candidates accused each of trying to steal an election whose result is still not known five days after polling ended. Another two days of uncertainty and name calling seem likely over the weekend which begins on Friday, though there was no immediate...
Egyptian men chant anti-Supreme Council for the Armed Forces (SCAF) slogans in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, 21 June, 2012.
photo: AP / Manu Brabo

Debate over fire retardant toxicity rages in West
Full Article The Guardian
22 Jun 2012

MEAD GRUVER Associated Press= CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Add another concern for the tanker plane pilots who bomb fire retardant around the wildfires raging in the West this summer — endangered species. New rules adopted by the U.S. Forest Service dictate where fire retardant can and can't be used in dozens of national forests. The goal is to prevent...
Debate over fire retardant toxicity rages in West
photo: US Army / Skye Robinson

Moody's downgrades 15 banks, Morgan Stanley down two notches
Full Article Reuters
22 Jun 2012

CHARLOTTE, N.C./LONDON (Reuters) - Ratings agency Moody's downgraded 15 of the world's biggest banks on Thursday, lowering credit ratings by one to three notches to reflect the risk of losses they face from volatile capital markets activities, but banks criticized the move as backward looking. Morgan Stanley, one of the most closely watched firms...
In a file photo a businesman walks past Citigroup Center in New York, Tuesday, June 7, 2005
photo: AP / Adam Rountree

Mexico arrests son of most-wanted drug lord 'El Chapo'
Full Article Fox News
22 Jun 2012

June 21, 2012: A Mexican marine escorts Jesus Alfredo Guzman Salazar, left, during his presentation to the media in Mexico City.AP Mexican marines on Thursday detained a young man they believe is one of the sons of Mexico's most-wanted drug kingpin, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, leader of the powerful Sinaloa cartel. The presumed son, identified by...
Mexican marines escort aJesus Alfredo Guzman Salazar, 26, in the back with red T-shirt, and Kevin Beltran Rios, during their presentation to the media in Mexico City, Thursday, June 21, 2012.
photo: AP / Eduardo Verdugo

Top Rwandan officials backing Congo rebels - leaked U.N. findings
Full Article The Star
22 Jun 2012

DAKAR (Reuters) - U.N. experts have evidence Rwanda's defence minister and two top military officials have been backing an army mutiny in the east of neighbouring Congo, according to notes of their briefing to a closed-door U.N. committee seen by Reuters on Thursday. The evidence is the strongest yet to indicate high-level support within President...
Top Rwandan officials backing Congo rebels - leaked U.N. findings
photo: UN / JC McIlwaine

European Finance Ministers Meet on Eurozone Crisis
Full Article Chosunilbo
22 Jun 2012

European finance ministers are discussing how to tackle Europe's sovereign debt and banking crisis during a two-day meeting in Luxembourg. The talks begin a series of critical economic meetings. The eurozone finance ministers have plenty on their plate in talks that stretch through Friday, and that will be complemented by a summit in Rome among...
European Finance Ministers Meet on Eurozone Crisis
photo: EC / EC


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Christine Lagarde urged leaders of the 17 countries that use the euro to consider jointly issuing debt, aiding troubled banks directly and perhaps relaxing strict austerity...
more The Guardian
US policy of using drone strikes to carry out targeted killings 'may encourage other states to flout international law' In his strongest critique of drone strikes yet, Christof...
more Al Jazeera
For four years, Mohammad Najibullah Ahmadzai, the man whose build and notorious temper earned him the moniker gow - "the bull" - was contained in a small room in the Afghan...

Alternative voices from Rio+20
"The development - the drilling, mining and damming - is affecting everyone, our communities and the Earth, our home and the only planet we have." The piercing voice of 11-year-old T'Kaiya is enough to grab the attention of...
photo: UN / Mark Garten
Rio+20: Biggest ever UN summit ends with faint glimmer of hope
The biggest ever United Nations conference on the environment has been condemned as a ‘hoax’ by UK charities for spending millions of taxpayers’ money to do little more than come up with a list of aspirations on saving the planet...
photo: UN / Mark Garten
War crimes tribunal schedules first witness testimony in Mladic trial for July 9
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal says the first prosecution witness will testify July 9 in the genocide trial of former Bosnian Serb military commander Gen. Ratko Mladic. Witness...
photo: UN / Frank van Beek
Tesla's new sedan will make or break the company
DETROIT - It's a make or break moment for electric car maker Tesla Motors. Tesla has lost nearly $1 billion selling high-end electric sports cars to the likes of George Clooney. Now it's going to attempt to sell them to the rest of us — and try to...
photo: EC / EC
Colorado wildfire: High Park Fire expects full containment on or about July 8
The High Park fire burns on Stove Prairie Road and Highway 14 in Poudre Canyon, as seen from Glacier View Meadows, west of Fort Collins on Tuesday, June 12, 2012. (AAron Ontiveroz, The Denver Post)RelatedJun 22:High fire danger new worry for Colorado...
photo: US Army / Ryan Kohlman
Ban Ki-moon launches Zero Hunger Challenge at Rio+20 summit
UN secretary general unveils five-point food security campaign aimed at a future where all enjoy 'a fundamental right to food' UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon at Rio+20, where he praised Brazil's government for its record on poverty and hunger....
photo: UN / Mark Garten
£475,000 and 300 tonnes of CO2 to send five Eurocrats to Earth Summit in Rio... ...
The shameful cost to both the taxpayer and the environment of sending just five Eurocrats to the Earth Summit in Rio, has been revealed. The European Commission today said it cost £475,000 to send the delegates, including Commission President José...
photo: EC / EC
Aung San Suu Kyi's speech in Norway on June 16, 2012; updated 22 Jun 2012; published 16 Jun 2012
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Aung San Suu Kyi's speech in Norway on June 16, 2012
Al Jazeera 22 Jun 2012, It is not often that you get the chance to be part of a moment that is genuinely historic. But, after more than 20 years of working on human rights in Myanmar, I truly never believed I would get to sit in Oslo and personally witness Aung San Suu Kyi receiving her Nobel Peace Prize. The moment was a true embodiment of the changes happening in...

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Taliban attack Lake Qargha hotel near Kabul; updated 22 Jun 2012; published 22 Jun 2012
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Taliban attack Lake Qargha hotel near Kabul
Newsvine 22 Jun 2012, NEW FACE OF INSURGENCY? Soldiers and police fanned out around the hotel at dawn, arriving in cars and armored Humvee vehicles and taking cover behind trees flanking the lake and a nearby golf course. Police said they wanted to stage a rescue without resorting to a frontal attack...

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Afghan Taliban gunmen take hostages in Kabul hotel attack; updated 22 Jun 2012; published 22 Jun 2012
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Afghan Taliban gunmen take hostages in Kabul hotel attack
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CIA Confidential: Pakistan Undercover [1/3]; updated 18 Jun 2012; published 31 Aug 2011
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CIA Confidential: Pakistan Undercover [1/3]
The Star 22 Jun 2012, WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta all but ruled out an apology over an air strike last year that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers and badly set back efforts to improve U.S.-Pakistani ties, saying it was "time to move on." Pakistan banned trucks from carrying NATO supplies into neighbouring Afghanistan after the air strike, a move...

GOT INK - Egyptian Presidential Elections 2012; updated 18 Jun 2012; published 21 May 2012
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GOT INK - Egyptian Presidential Elections 2012
Al Jazeera 22 Jun 2012, Thousands of protesters have filled Cairo's Tahrir Square overnight as Egypt's rival presidential candidates accused each of trying to steal an election whose result is still not known five days after polling ended. Another two days of uncertainty and name calling seem likely over the weekend which begins on Friday, though there was no immediate...

More Crews Arrive at Large Colorado Wildfire; updated 18 Jun 2012; published 16 Jun 2012
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More Crews Arrive at Large Colorado Wildfire
The Guardian 22 Jun 2012, MEAD GRUVER Associated Press= CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Add another concern for the tanker plane pilots who bomb fire retardant around the wildfires raging in the West this summer — endangered species. New rules adopted by the U.S. Forest Service dictate where fire retardant can and can't be used in dozens of national forests. The goal is to prevent...

Gerald Celente on Old-Man Europe, Romney & Sons, and a Golden Summer; updated 22 Jun 2012; published 22 Jun 2012
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Gerald Celente on Old-Man Europe, Romney & Sons, and a Golden Summer
Reuters 22 Jun 2012, CHARLOTTE, N.C./LONDON (Reuters) - Ratings agency Moody's downgraded 15 of the world's biggest banks on Thursday, lowering credit ratings by one to three notches to reflect the risk of losses they face from volatile capital markets activities, but banks criticized the move as backward looking. Morgan Stanley, one of the most closely watched firms...

MS-13 Recruited by the Sinaloa Cartel; updated 13 Jun 2012; published 25 Feb 2012
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MS-13 Recruited by the Sinaloa Cartel
Fox News 22 Jun 2012, June 21, 2012: A Mexican marine escorts Jesus Alfredo Guzman Salazar, left, during his presentation to the media in Mexico City.AP Mexican marines on Thursday detained a young man they believe is one of the sons of Mexico's most-wanted drug kingpin, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, leader of the powerful Sinaloa cartel. The presumed son, identified by...

Congo Rebels - DRC; updated 08 Jun 2012; published 16 Jan 2008
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Congo Rebels - DRC
The Star 22 Jun 2012, DAKAR (Reuters) - U.N. experts have evidence Rwanda's defence minister and two top military officials have been backing an army mutiny in the east of neighbouring Congo, according to notes of their briefing to a closed-door U.N. committee seen by Reuters on Thursday. The evidence is the strongest yet to indicate high-level support within President...

Trading Muted As European Debt Crisis Festers; updated 19 Jun 2012; published 18 Jun 2012
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Trading Muted As European Debt Crisis Festers
Chosunilbo 22 Jun 2012, European finance ministers are discussing how to tackle Europe's sovereign debt and banking crisis during a two-day meeting in Luxembourg. The talks begin a series of critical economic meetings. The eurozone finance ministers have plenty on their plate in talks that stretch through Friday, and that will be complemented by a summit in Rome among...

Rwanda 'training rebels to fight Congo army'; updated 18 Jun 2012; published 31 May 2012
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Rwanda 'training rebels to fight Congo army'
BBC News 21 Jun 2012, The US is covering up information about rebels led by a man wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court, Human Rights Watch has said. The global watchdog says Washington is blocking publication of a UN inquiry into rebels led by Bosco Ntaganda in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The UN has reportedly uncovered detailed information...

Nuns Start Bus Tour Protesting GOP Budget Plan; updated 20 Jun 2012; published 19 Jun 2012
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Nuns Start Bus Tour Protesting GOP Budget Plan
Al Jazeera 21 Jun 2012, A group of nuns has embarked on a bus journey through nine states in the American heartland, making stops at homeless shelters, schools and healthcare facilities where their sisters help the poor and marginalised. Their goal is to draw attention to the Republican budget plan, which they say will harm millions of those they work to help, making the...

EARTH DAY 2012 SONG FOR EARTH DAY EVENTS RIO+2012 EARTH SUMMIT; updated 20 Jun 2012; published 20 Jan 2011
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EARTH DAY 2012 SONG FOR EARTH DAY EVENTS RIO+2012 EARTH SUMMIT
Ghana Business News 21 Jun 2012, The Coalition of NGOs Against Mining in the Atewa Forest, has appealed to government, to rescind its decision to allow mining in the Forest. “We urge government to endeavour to ensure, that ecosystem functions of Atewa forest are conserved now and for the future.” The appeal was contained in...

Waiting for Egypt Election Results; updated 22 Jun 2012; published 21 Jun 2012
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Waiting for Egypt Election Results
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 21 Jun 2012, The Egyptian armed forces' demolition of the Arab Spring democratization process in that critical country is reaching an alarming stage. The United States' continuing support of the Egyptian military, to the tune of more than a billion dollars a year, is as a result putting America squarely in the crosshairs of the Egyptian people in...





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