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Alawite fortress and Sunni wasteland in Syria's Homs
Full Article The Star
19 Jun 2012

BEIRUT (Reuters) - The view from the rooftops makes the balance of power clear. In some neighbourhoods, cars and people scurry about. In others, only the scarred shells of empty homes remain. After months of fierce military assaults and rebel ambushes in Homs, the centre of Syria's 15-month-old revolt against President Bashar al-Assad has...
This image made from amateur video released by Shaam News Network and accessed Thursday, June 14, 2012, purports to show a burning car after shelling in Joret el-Shayah, Homs, Syria.
photo: AP / Shaam News Network via AP video

Suu Kyi makes bittersweet return to Britain
Full Article Al Jazeera
19 Jun 2012

Aung San Suu Kyi has started a an emotional return to Britain, during which she will be showered with honours and have a long-awaited family reunion after nearly a quarter of a century in Myanmar. The democracy icon arrived in Britain on Tuesday overnight from Ireland, where she took to the stage at a gala concert with U2 singer...
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, centre on stage during a ceremony to award her the freedom of Dublin, in Dublin, Ireland, Monday, June 18, 2012.
photo: AP / Alastair Grant

Obama, Putin Call for Halt to Syria Onslaught
Full Article Jakarta Globe
19 Jun 2012

Damascus. US President Barack Obama and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin called on Monday for an “immediate” end to the Syria conflict as another 70 deaths were reported in a worsening artillery pounding of cities. The call by the rival powers was made as Russia reportedly prepared to send two warships with marines to its naval base in Syria where...
President Barack Obama shakes hands with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in a bilateral meeting during the G20 Summit, Monday, June 18, 2012, in Los Cabos, Mexico.
photo: AP / Carolyn Kaster

Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood claims presidency as army tightens grip
Full Article IBN Live
19 Jun 2012

Cairo: Egypt's agonised passage from revolution to democracy was in limbo on Monday, as the Muslim Brotherhood claimed victory in a presidential election while the generals who took over from Hosni Mubarak decreed it was they who would keep power for now. That drew a sharp rebuke from Washington, long the Egyptian military's financial sponsor. The...
Egyptian supporters of Muslim brotherhood candidate Mohammed Morsi hold a poster with Arabic that reads, "'Mohammed Morsi, president for Egypt" in Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, June 18, 2012.
photo: AP / Amr Nabil

G20 summit: Leaders alarmed over eurozone crisis
Full Article BBC News
19 Jun 2012

World leaders meeting at a G20 summit in Mexico have urged Europe to take all necessary measures to overcome the eurozone debt crisis. They voiced unease over what one top official described as "the single biggest risk for the world economy". But European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said "the challenges are not only...
President Barack Obama takes his place with other leaders for the family photo during the G20 Summit, Monday, June 18, 2012, in Los Cabos, Mexico.
photo: AP / Carolyn Kaster

Greek leaders close to coalition, aim to ease bailout
Full Article Yahoo Daily News
19 Jun 2012

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's conservatives are close to forming a new coalition government following a narrow election victory, a party official said on Monday, after their leader promised to soften the country's punishing austerity program despite German opposition. A relief rally on financial markets after Sunday's vote quickly fizzled out as it...
The winner of the Greek elections, conservative Antonis Samaras, center, answers journalists questions in the Greek parliament in Athens Monday, June 18, 2012.
photo: AP / Petros Giannakouris

Recycling Co-operatives In Sao Paulo, Brazil Light the Path for Sustainable Development
Full Article Inhabitat
18 Jun 2012

In the shadows of the United Nation's Rio+20 Sustainable Development Conference, where nation-states concern themselves with devising sustainable international policies, various non-governmental organizations and communities are taking action to spur their own development sustainably. Such is the case in São Paulo, Brazil, where...
Recycling Co-operatives In Sao Paulo, Brazil Light the Path for Sustainable Development
photo: UN / Guilherme Costa

EU boosts Sahel food crisis aid by 40 million euros
Full Article France24
18 Jun 2012

AFP - The European Commission said Monday it is increasing humanitarian funding to the Sahel by 40 million euros in a bid to jumpstart a donors' gathering in Brussels. The...
EU boosts Sahel food crisis aid by 40 million euros
photo: European Community / EC

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


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Aung San Suu Kyi returns to Britain 24 years since she left for Burma and joined the pro-democracy movement there. BBC world affairs correspondent Mike Woolridge looks at her years...
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Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, center, waves upon his arrival at the Supreme Court for a hearing in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, April 26, 2012.
AFP - Pakistan's top court on Tuesday disqualified Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in a stunning move likely to throw the country into fresh turmoil two months after the premier was convicted of...
photo: AP / B.K. Bangash
The United Nations and Arab League Joint Special Envoy for Syria, Mr. Kofi Annan meeting Major-General Robert Mood of Norway.  Major-General Mood will head the planning team that is expected to arrive in Damascus very soon, to discuss the modalities of the eventual deployment of a UN supervision and monitoring mission.
General Robert Mood and UN peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous will meet the 15 council ambassadors behind closed doors to give their assessment of the upsurge in violence by government forces and the opposition in recent days, which led to Gen Mood's...
photo: UN / Fabrice Arlot
Protesters wave Egyptian national flags and chant slogans as they gather in Tahrir Square, the focal point of the Egyptian uprising, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, July 8, 2011
Members of the Muslim Brotherhood will take part in protests across Egypt to demonstrate against sweeping new powers taken by the ruling military council. Over the weekend, the generals issued two decrees dissolving the Islamist-dominated parliament...
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb
In this photo taken by a UN observer, a shell lays in the middle of the street in Homs, Syria, a remnant of the heavy attack levelled on the city this weekend, 11 June, 2012.
Nicosia (Cyprus): The international community should deploy a peacekeeping force, instead of the UN's existing, beleaguered observer mission, to help end the killing in Syria, the secretary general of the Arab League said on Tuesday. The appeal could...
photo: UN / David Manyua
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer unveils "Surface", a new tablet computer to compete with Apple's iPad, at Hollywood's Milk Studios in Los Angeles Monday, June 18, 2012.
Microsoft unveiled a new tablet computer, Surface, that attempts to take advantage of one of the few criticisms of Apple's iPad — that it is better for consuming content than creating it. The software maker said Monday that its device will...
photo: AP / Damian Dovarganes
UN and partners unveil new initiative to achieve sustainable cities
UNEP Launches Global Initiative for Resource Efficient Cities. Photo: UNEP18 June 2012 – The United Nations and its partners today unveiled a new initiative to achieve sustainable urban development by promoting the efficient use of energy, water and...
photo: UN / Guilherme Costa
Workers block road to Euro 2012 stadium in Poland
Czarek Sokolowski - AP Photo Workers block the road leading to the Arena stadium in Gdansk, Poland, Monday, June 18, 2012. The workers are protesting as they were not paid for building the stadium, which hosts the Euro 2012 soccer championships...
photo: WN / Marzena J.
Syria: the horror of Homs, a city at war; updated 18 Jun 2012; published 22 Feb 2012
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Syria: the horror of Homs, a city at war
The Star 19 Jun 2012, BEIRUT (Reuters) - The view from the rooftops makes the balance of power clear. In some neighbourhoods, cars and people scurry about. In others, only the scarred shells of empty homes remain. After months of fierce military assaults and rebel ambushes in Homs, the centre of Syria's 15-month-old revolt against President Bashar al-Assad has...

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Aung San Suu Kyi speech in Norway on June 16, 2012; updated 19 Jun 2012; published 16 Jun 2012
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Aung San Suu Kyi speech in Norway on June 16, 2012
Al Jazeera 19 Jun 2012, Aung San Suu Kyi has started a an emotional return to Britain, during which she will be showered with honours and have a long-awaited family reunion after nearly a quarter of a century in Myanmar. The democracy icon arrived in Britain on Tuesday overnight from Ireland, where she took to the stage at a gala concert with U2 singer...

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PEACE, China, Libya, Syria's Friend: Putin, the 2012 Inauguration (FULL) with English substitles; updated 08 Jun 2012; published 17 May 2012
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PEACE, China, Libya, Syria's Friend: Putin, the 2012 Inauguration (FULL) with English substitles
Jakarta Globe 19 Jun 2012, Damascus. US President Barack Obama and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin called on Monday for an “immediate” end to the Syria conflict as another 70 deaths were reported in a worsening artillery pounding of cities. The call by the rival powers was made as Russia reportedly prepared to send two warships with marines to its naval base in Syria where...

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GOT INK - Egyptian Presidential Elections 2012; updated 18 Jun 2012; published 21 May 2012
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GOT INK - Egyptian Presidential Elections 2012
IBN Live 19 Jun 2012, Cairo: Egypt's agonised passage from revolution to democracy was in limbo on Monday, as the Muslim Brotherhood claimed victory in a presidential election while the generals who took over from Hosni Mubarak decreed it was they who would keep power for now. That drew a sharp rebuke from Washington, long the Egyptian military's financial sponsor. The...

Obama-Putin Poker Face: No sore points pushed at G20; updated 19 Jun 2012; published 19 Jun 2012
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Obama-Putin Poker Face: No sore points pushed at G20
BBC News 19 Jun 2012, World leaders meeting at a G20 summit in Mexico have urged Europe to take all necessary measures to overcome the eurozone debt crisis. They voiced unease over what one top official described as "the single biggest risk for the world economy". But European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said "the challenges are not only...

Greece election: pro-bailout party to attempt coalition; updated 18 Jun 2012; published 18 Jun 2012
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Greece election: pro-bailout party to attempt coalition
Yahoo Daily News 19 Jun 2012, ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's conservatives are close to forming a new coalition government following a narrow election victory, a party official said on Monday, after their leader promised to soften the country's punishing austerity program despite German opposition. A relief rally on financial markets after Sunday's vote quickly fizzled out as it...

Dr. RK Pachauri speaks about Delhi Sustainable Development Summit - 2012; updated 04 May 2012; published 24 Jan 2012
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Dr. RK Pachauri speaks about Delhi Sustainable Development Summit - 2012
Inhabitat 18 Jun 2012, In the shadows of the United Nation's Rio+20 Sustainable Development Conference, where nation-states concern themselves with devising sustainable international policies, various non-governmental organizations and communities are taking action to spur their own development sustainably. Such is the case in São Paulo, Brazil, where...

South Sudan facing food crisis; updated 12 Jun 2012; published 30 Apr 2012
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South Sudan facing food crisis
France24 18 Jun 2012, AFP - The European Commission said Monday it is increasing humanitarian funding to the Sahel by 40 million euros in a bid to jumpstart a donors' gathering in Brussels. The...

Greece elections: party leaders vote as polls open; updated 17 Jun 2012; published 17 Jun 2012
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Greece elections: party leaders vote as polls open
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...

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...

Girl makes speech at United Nations; updated 08 Jun 2012; published 14 Jun 2008
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Girl makes speech at United Nations
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...

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...

Iran's nuclear negotiator to RT: We're strongly against WMD; updated 18 Jun 2012; published 15 Jun 2012
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Iran's nuclear negotiator to RT: We're strongly against WMD
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...

Muslim Brotherhood declares victory in Egypt elections; updated 18 Jun 2012; published 18 Jun 2012
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Muslim Brotherhood declares victory in Egypt elections
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...





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