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Dirty money thrives despite Mexico drug war
Full Article Al Jazeera
20 Jun 2012

- Sitting in the smart office of a London-based financial security firm, Martin Woods seems far removed from the drug violence tearing at Mexico's soul. A former compliance officer with the US bank Wachovia, Woods - despite his unassuming demeanor and upper-crust British manners - has seen the drug war and its illicit loot in a light unavailable to...
Federal police on a vehicle guard one of the three forensic trucks where several bodies were placed after dozens of bodies, some of them mutilated, were found on a highway connecting the northern Mexican metropolis of Monterrey to the U.S. border found in the Km 47 of the Reynosa-Cadereyta road in the town of San Juan near the city of Monterrey, Mexico, Sunday, May 13, 2012.
photo: AP / Christian Palma

Greek Coalition Aims To Renegotiate Bailout's Tough Austerity Terms
Full Article Huffington Post
20 Jun 2012

* Coalition deal agreed, Socialists say * PASOK, Democratic Left to provide backing but no ministers * New government to seek revision to austerity package By Lefteris Papadimas and George Georgiopoulos ATHENS, June 20 (Reuters) - Greek parties sealed a deal to form a conservative-led coalition on Wednesday and said they would start immediately to...
Leader of the New Democracy conservative party Antonis Samaras, right, welcomes Democratic Left party leader Fotis Kouvelis prior their meeting at the Greek parliament, in Athens, on Monday, June 18, 2012.
photo: AP / Petros Giannakouris

People...Can We All 'Learn' to Get Along?
Full Article WorldNews.com
20 Jun 2012

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. Sitting with friends and acquaintances in Panama, whom I was helping to rebuild their homes due to the U.S. invasion of Panama, they were unmoved, not even shocked or surprised, of the ruthless beating by four police against an unarmed black motorist in Los Angeles. Like Rodney King, for decades they...
Los Angeles police officers set up a line outside a building in Los Angeles, Thursday, April 30, 1992. Fires and looting have been going on since on Wednesday following the verdicts in the Rodney King beating trial.
photo: AP / Nick Ut

Mubarak in coma but not clinically dead
Full Article The Siasat Daily
20 Jun 2012

Cairo, June 20: Former Egypt president Hosni Mubarak, who was sentenced to life in prison for killing protesters, has gone into coma and put on life support, but was not “clinically dead”, hospital officials said. The 84-year-old Mubarak was put on a respirator in an intensive care unit at a military hospital in Cairo since being transferred from...
This video image taken from Egyptian State Television shows 83-year-old former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak laying on a hospital bed inside a cage of mesh and iron bars in a Cairo courtroom Wednesday Aug. 3, 2011, as his historic trial began on charges of corruption and ordering the killing of protesters during the uprising that ousted him from office. The scene, shown live on Egypt's state TV, was Egyptians' first look at their former president since Feb. 10, the day before his fall when he gave a defiant speech refusing to resign.
photo: AP / Egyptian State TV

When Will We Attack Syria?
Full Article Antiwar
20 Jun 2012

Plans, rumors, and war propaganda for attacking Syria and deposing Assad have been around for many months. This past week, however, it was reported that the Pentagon indeed has finalized plans to do just that. In my opinion, all the evidence to justify this attack is bogus. It is no more credible than the pretext given for the 2003 invasion of Iraq...
An observer with the UN Supervision in Syria (UNSMIS) interviews a local man while conducting a fact-finding mission in the Syrian village of Mazraat al-Qubeir, where a massacre of civilians reportedly took place on Wednesday, 8 June, 2012.
photo: UN / David Manyua

Gilani sacked, PPP's Shahabuddin next Pak PM?
Full Article Zeenews
20 Jun 2012

Islamabad: Pakistan People's Party leader Makhdoom Shahabuddin on Wednesday emerged as a strong contender for the post of premier after the Supreme Court disqualified Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani following his conviction for contempt. Shahabuddin, who belongs to the Seraiki belt in the southern part of Punjab province, has held several...
In this Monday, Dec. 5, 2011 photo, Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani pauses during an interview with the Associated Press at his residence in Lahore, Pakistan.
photo: AP / Muhammed Muheisen

Both sides claim victory in Egypt elections
Full Article Al Jazeera
19 Jun 2012

A campaign spokesman for the former Egyptian prime minister says Ahmed Shafik has won the Egyptian presidential election, countering the Muslim Brotherhood's claims that its candidate was the winner. Ahmed Sarhan has told a televised news conference that Shafik won 51.5 per cent of the vote. He said the claim of victory by...
Egyptian activists shout slogans against military rule in front of the parliament compound in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, June 19, 2012.
photo: AP / Amr Nabil

Author: Focus on clean water, not global warming
Full Article CNN
19 Jun 2012

This week, hundreds of world leaders and tens of thousands of environmentalists are convening in Rio de Janeiro for the U.N.'s Conference on Sustainable Development. Bjorn Lomborg, author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist,” says the Rio+20 summit will be a wasted opportunity and that the U.N. is focused on the wrong things. He says that for...
Author: Focus on clean water, not global warming
photo: UN / Nicole Algranti

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

Palestinians seek full representation at Rio+20
Full Article The Times of India
19 Jun 2012

Tweet RIO DE JANEIRO: Palestinians are pushing for full representation as a state at the UN Rio+20 summit on sustainable development, but the issue will have to be decided by world leaders, according to officials. "We expect full-status participation because we already have it in UNESCO and we...
Palestinians seek full representation at Rio+20
photo: UN / JC McIlwaine


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Whatever happened to the green movement? It’s been 50 years since the publication of Rachel Carson’s classic Silent Spring, a powerful book about the environmental devastation...
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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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Listen to Rep. Paul deliver this address. Last week I joined several of my colleagues in sending a letter to President Obama requesting clarification of his criteria for the lethal...

Mourners carry a body during a funeral for a ten-year-old boy and rebel fighters killed during fighting in Idlib, Syria, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012
Twenty-eight soldiers and a Shiite Muslim cleric were among 39 people killed in violence across Syria today, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. At least 20 troops were killed in fierce clashes with rebel fighters in the...
photo: AP
Thousands of Islamists chant slogans as they rally in Tahrir Square to denounce the presidential candidacies of Hosni Mubarak-era officials, including that of his former spy chief in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, April 13, 2012. Supporters of the country's most influential political group, the Muslim Brotherhood, along with ultraconservative Salafis and other Islamists packed the capital's Tahrir Square, which was the epicenter of the uprising that ousted Mubarak a year ago.
The 84-year-old was rushed to a Cairo military hospital, and Egypt's state news agency had initially declared him "clinically dead", although those reports were later denied. At one point Mubarak's heart stopped beating and doctors were...
photo: AP / Khalil Hamra
Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani is ready to resign over the issue of corruptin charges against President Zardari.- Pakistan- Politics
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan's president and his political allies are trying to come up with a new candidate to replace the dismissed prime minister. The Supreme Court ousted Yousuf Raza Gilani on Tuesday because he failed to authorize a graft...
photo: Press Information Dept. of Pakistan /
Britain's political Director Sir Geoffrey Adams, left, looks on as EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, center, arrives with Saeed Jalili, Iran's chief negotiator to the conference center near the Swiss mission to the United Nations in Geneva, Monday, Dec. 6, 2010.
After Moscow, there is no discernible life left in this diplomatic process but it has to be kept going in the hope of a miracle and because the alternative is so grim EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and chief Iranian negotiator Saeed Jalili...
photo: AP / Anja Niedringhaus
	Wind energy subsidies may be cut
George Osborne wants to cut subsidies for wind energy in a move which could halt the expansion of the turbines throughout Britain. The planned changes are bound to lead to protests from the green lobby and electricity firms Photo: Getty tag -->...
photo: EC / EC
File - Julian Assange WikiLeaks founder arrives at the Supreme Court in London, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012.
Mr Assange, who is wanted by authorities in Stockholm to answer to allegations of sex crimes, walked into the embassy in Knightsbridge yesterday afternoon and requested asylum under the United Nations Human Rights Declaration. A statement issued on...
photo: AP / Lefteris Pitarakis
UN Official Urges Further Israeli-Palestinian Dialogue
Wednesday, 20 June 2012, 11:54 am Press Release: UN News Warning of Renewed Deadlock, UN Official Urges Further Israeli-Palestinian Dialogue New York, Jun 19 2012 - A top United Nations official today stressed the need for Israelis and Palestinians...
photo: UN / JC McIlwaine
Inside Mexico's Drug War part 1; updated 29 May 2012; published 04 Jun 2011
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Inside Mexico's Drug War part 1
Al Jazeera 20 Jun 2012, - Sitting in the smart office of a London-based financial security firm, Martin Woods seems far removed from the drug violence tearing at Mexico's soul. A former compliance officer with the US bank Wachovia, Woods - despite his unassuming demeanor and upper-crust British manners - has seen the drug war and its illicit loot in a light unavailable to...

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Greek Election Boosts Worldwide Markets; updated 19 Jun 2012; published 18 Jun 2012
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Greek Election Boosts Worldwide Markets
Huffington Post 20 Jun 2012, * Coalition deal agreed, Socialists say * PASOK, Democratic Left to provide backing but no ministers * New government to seek revision to austerity package By Lefteris Papadimas and George Georgiopoulos ATHENS, June 20 (Reuters) - Greek parties sealed a deal to form a conservative-led coalition on Wednesday and said they would start immediately to...

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Rodney King, Whose Beating Led to LA Riots, Dies; updated 19 Jun 2012; published 18 Jun 2012
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Rodney King, Whose Beating Led to LA Riots, Dies
WorldNews.com 20 Jun 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. Sitting with friends and acquaintances in Panama, whom I was helping to rebuild their homes due to the U.S. invasion of Panama, they were unmoved, not even shocked or surprised, of the ruthless beating by four police against an unarmed black motorist in Los Angeles. Like Rodney King, for decades they...

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Mubarak Said to Be in a Coma, Off Life Support; updated 20 Jun 2012; published 20 Jun 2012
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Mubarak Said to Be in a Coma, Off Life Support
The Siasat Daily 20 Jun 2012, Cairo, June 20: Former Egypt president Hosni Mubarak, who was sentenced to life in prison for killing protesters, has gone into coma and put on life support, but was not “clinically dead”, hospital officials said. The 84-year-old Mubarak was put on a respirator in an intensive care unit at a military hospital in Cairo since being transferred from...

Shades of Blood: One-sided Syria war media biggest barrier to peace; updated 19 Jun 2012; published 18 Jun 2012
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Shades of Blood: One-sided Syria war media biggest barrier to peace
Antiwar 20 Jun 2012, Plans, rumors, and war propaganda for attacking Syria and deposing Assad have been around for many months. This past week, however, it was reported that the Pentagon indeed has finalized plans to do just that. In my opinion, all the evidence to justify this attack is bogus. It is no more credible than the pretext given for the 2003 invasion of Iraq...

Pakistan Supreme Court disqualifies PM Gilani - NewsX; updated 19 Jun 2012; published 19 Jun 2012
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Pakistan Supreme Court disqualifies PM Gilani - NewsX
Zeenews 20 Jun 2012, Islamabad: Pakistan People's Party leader Makhdoom Shahabuddin on Wednesday emerged as a strong contender for the post of premier after the Supreme Court disqualified Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani following his conviction for contempt. Shahabuddin, who belongs to the Seraiki belt in the southern part of Punjab province, has held several...

Muslim Brotherhood declares victory in Egypt elections; updated 19 Jun 2012; published 18 Jun 2012
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Muslim Brotherhood declares victory in Egypt elections
Al Jazeera 19 Jun 2012, A campaign spokesman for the former Egyptian prime minister says Ahmed Shafik has won the Egyptian presidential election, countering the Muslim Brotherhood's claims that its candidate was the winner. Ahmed Sarhan has told a televised news conference that Shafik won 51.5 per cent of the vote. He said the claim of victory by...

Kenya's hopes for the Rio summit; updated 19 Jun 2012; published 19 Jun 2012
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Kenya's hopes for the Rio summit
CNN 19 Jun 2012, This week, hundreds of world leaders and tens of thousands of environmentalists are convening in Rio de Janeiro for the U.N.'s Conference on Sustainable Development. Bjorn Lomborg, author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist,” says the Rio+20 summit will be a wasted opportunity and that the U.N. is focused on the wrong things. He says that for...

Raw Video: Shelling Rocks Syria's Homs; updated 18 Jun 2012; published 17 Jun 2012
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Raw Video: Shelling Rocks Syria's Homs
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...

Will the UN recognize Palestinian State?; updated 20 May 2012; published 14 Sep 2011
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Will the UN recognize Palestinian State?
The Times of India 19 Jun 2012, Tweet RIO DE JANEIRO: Palestinians are pushing for full representation as a state at the UN Rio+20 summit on sustainable development, but the issue will have to be decided by world leaders, according to officials. "We expect full-status participation because we already have it in UNESCO and we...

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...

BBC News - Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin seek Syria peace; updated 19 Jun 2012; published 19 Jun 2012
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BBC News - Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin seek Syria peace
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...

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...

G20 backs efforts to solve eurozone crisis; updated 20 Jun 2012; published 20 Jun 2012
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G20 backs efforts to solve eurozone crisis
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...





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