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Catholic nuns: Taking on Rome and Republicans
Full Article 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...
Sister Simone Campbell, executive director of Network, speaks during a stop on the first day of a 9-state Nuns on the Bus tour, Monday, June 18, 2012, in Ames, Iowa.
photo: AP / Charlie Neibergall

Government urged to rescind decision on mining in Atewa Forest
Full Article 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...
Government urged to rescind decision on mining in Atewa Forest
photo: UN / Guilherme Costa

Military rule: Egypt's chance of democracy is in retreat
Full Article 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...
A female Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood supporter chants slogans during an anti-ruling military council demonstration in Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt Wednesday, June 20, 2012.
photo: AP / Nasser Nasser

Bali bomb suspect Umar Patek verdict due
Full Article BBC News
21 Jun 2012

An Indonesian court is to deliver its verdict in the case of one of the alleged key figures in the 2002 Bali bombings. Umar Patek, 45, is facing six charges, several of which are terrorism-related. Prosecutors have asked for life...
Umar Patek, an Indonesian militant charged in the 2002 Bali terrorist attacks, walks outside the courtroom after his trial in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Feb. 13, 2012.
photo: AP / Tatan Syuflana

Samaras sworn in as 185th Greek PM
Full Article Irish Times
21 Jun 2012

DAMIAN Mac CON ULADH in Athens GREECE'S NEW conservative prime minister will announce today the line-up of his cabinet, which is not expected to contain any MPs from the two parties that are supporting his government. Antonis Samaras, who leads the New Democracy party, was sworn in yesterday as the country's 185th prime minister by the Orthodox...
The new Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras waves to the outgoing caretaker Prime Minister Panayiotis Pikramenos, unseen, who leaves the the Maximos Mansion after meeting, in Athens, Wednesday, June 20, 2012.
photo: AP / Petros Karadjias

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


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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...
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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...

Richland Co. deputy killed in Afghanistan
A Richland County Sheriff's deputy serving in Afghanistan was killed there Wednesday, the department has reported. Few other details were immediately available. The department...
photo: US Army / Michael J. MacLeod
3 Companies Bid for Gas Drilling in Bulgaria
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria's government says three energy companies have submitted bids for exploration and exploitation of natural gas in the country's Black Sea waters. Energy Minister Delyan Dobrev said Thursday that U.S. Exxon Mobil,...
photo: EC / EC
Awaiting the court ruling, a consumer guide to health reform law
The Supreme Court is expected to rule within a week on some key constitutional challenges brought by states against the 2010 health care overhaul law. The decision will have sweeping ramifications for consumers, state officials, employers...
photo: EC / EC
Palestinians maintain UNESCO bid for Church of Nativity
The Palestinians' quest to get Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity named a UNESCO World Heritage site is set to dominate a meeting next week in Russia to decide who is accepted on the prestigious list. The World Heritage Committee is meeting in Saint...
photo: UN / JC McIlwaine
US probe recommends punishment of troops in Quran burning
A US military investigation has recommended disciplinary actions against culprits involved in the Quran burning incident in Afghanistan early this year, the Pentagon has said. "The results from the investigation concerning allegations that US service...
photo: US DoD / Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo
Sahel hunger crisis risks being another example of too little, too late
The politics of aid can delay early intervention, despite last year's famine in Somalia showing early aid can achieve more Somali girls fill their jerry cans at the Dadaab refugee camp. Early warning systems failed to prevent famine being declared in...
photo: EC / EC
Protesters chant slogans against the Syrian regime and Russia's support of President Bashar Assad as they hold a burned banner depicting Assad, right, and his brother, Maher Assad, left, in the southern port city of Sidon, in Lebanon, Sunday, June 17, 2012.
Bashar al-Assad would be offered safe passage to Switzerland to take part in peace talks, under plans being drawn up by Britain and America to end the crisis in Syria. Syria's President Bashar al-Assad ...
photo: AP / Mohammed Zaatari
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...

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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...

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Fears of a coup fray the nerves of the Egyptian people; updated 21 Jun 2012; published 21 Jun 2012
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Fears of a coup fray the nerves of the Egyptian people
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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Bali bomb suspect Umar Patek verdict due; updated 21 Jun 2012; published 21 Jun 2012
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Bali bomb suspect Umar Patek verdict due
BBC News 21 Jun 2012, An Indonesian court is to deliver its verdict in the case of one of the alleged key figures in the 2002 Bali bombings. Umar Patek, 45, is facing six charges, several of which are terrorism-related. Prosecutors have asked for life...

New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras sworn in as Greek PM; updated 20 Jun 2012; published 20 Jun 2012
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New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras sworn in as Greek PM
Irish Times 21 Jun 2012, DAMIAN Mac CON ULADH in Athens GREECE'S NEW conservative prime minister will announce today the line-up of his cabinet, which is not expected to contain any MPs from the two parties that are supporting his government. Antonis Samaras, who leads the New Democracy party, was sworn in yesterday as the country's 185th prime minister by the Orthodox...

Inside Mexico's Drug War part 1; updated 20 Jun 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...

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...

LA Riots of 1992: Rodney King speaks; Late troop arrival; updated 20 Jun 2012; published 29 Sep 2007
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LA Riots of 1992: Rodney King speaks; Late troop arrival
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...

Fears of a coup fray the nerves of the Egyptian people; updated 21 Jun 2012; published 21 Jun 2012
1:38
Fears of a coup fray the nerves of the Egyptian people
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 20 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...

Fears of a coup fray the nerves of the Egyptian people; updated 21 Jun 2012; published 21 Jun 2012
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Fears of a coup fray the nerves of the Egyptian people
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...

Rio Summit: Concern for environment; updated 21 Jun 2012; published 21 Jun 2012
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Rio Summit: Concern for environment
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...

Syria: the horror of Homs, a city at war; updated 19 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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