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Greek Coalition Outlines Plan to Renegotiate Loan Deal
Full Article The New York Times
23 Jun 2012

ATHENS — Two days before Greece’s international creditors return to Athens to begin talks on keeping the nearly bankrupt country solvent, the new coalition government on Saturday highlighted the main points it plans to renegotiate with lenders, aiming to revoke certain taxes, suspend planned layoffs in the bloated public sector and...
Greece's new Prime Minister Antonis Samaras speaks to reporters before a swearing - in ceremony of his new government outside the Presidential Palace in Athens, Thursday, June 21, 2012.
photo: AP / Kostas Tsironis

Turkey vows action against Syria for downing jet
Full Article Atlanta Journal
23 Jun 2012

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey will take retaliatory steps against Syria for the downing of a Turkish military jet, President Abdullah Gul said Saturday, even as he suggested that the aircraft may have unintentionally violated Syrian airspace. Map locates Latakia, Syria, near where a Turkish plane was shot down by Syria. FILE - In this April 29,...
File - In this April 29, 2010 file photo, a Turkish pilot salutes before take-off at an air base in Konya, Turkey.
photo: AP

Rio+20, the unhappy environmental summit
Full Article Denver Post
23 Jun 2012

Click photo to enlargeEnvironmental activists, one portraying Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff holding a banner symbolizing "dirty money" made from fossil fuel subsidies, protest on the final day of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, June 22, 2012. «1»RIO...
The UN Conference on Sustainable Development, dubbed Rio+20, holds its plenary session in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 20 to 22 June. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also attended the event.
photo: UN / Eskinder Debebe

Israel continues strikes on Gaza Strip
Full Article Al Jazeera
23 Jun 2012

Israel has launched more air strikes on the Gaza Strip overnight, after killing two people in earlier raids, according to Palestinian health ministry sources. The latest strikes targetted two camps of the armed wing of Hamas, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, in central and northern Gaza; and a former Hamas security post in Gaza City. The...
Palestinian mourners carry the body of militant Basil Ahmad during his funeral in Bureij refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, Friday, June 22, 2012.
photo: AP / Ashraf Amra

Syria admits shooting down Turkish warplane
Full Article Newstrack India
23 Jun 2012

Tweet Damascus, June 23 (IANS) Syria Saturday confirmed having shot down a Turkish fighter jet which had entered the Syrian airspace earlier Friday. A Turkish fighter jet had penetrated the Syrian airspace and it was shot down by Syrian army with anti-aviation artillery, Xinhua quoted a Syrian military spokesperson as...
 TAI-built F-16 fighter jets belonging to various Turkish Air Force squadrons (ss2)
photo: public domain

Anti-military crowds mass in Cairo's Tahrir
Full Article Al Jazeera
23 Jun 2012

Tens of thousands of Egyptians have returned to Cairo’s Tahrir Square to demand the rollback of what they see as politically biased court decisions and military power grabs designed to throttle last year's revolution and steal the presidential election. The mass protest and sit-in, initiated by the Muslim Brotherhood on Wednesday night,...
Egyptian supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate for president, Mohammed Morsi gather in Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, Friday, June 22, 2012.
photo: AP / Bernat Armangue

Violence follows removal of Paraguay's president
Full Article Sacramento Bee
23 Jun 2012

ASUNCION, Paraguay -- Paraguay was plunged into a deepening political crisis late Friday after the Senate voted 39-4 to remove President Fernando Lugo from office in a rapid-fire impeachment procedure. The Senate ruled that Lugo had failed to carry out his duties. Vice President Federico Franco was to succeed Lugo. Lugo, 61, a left-wing populist,...
Paraguay's former President Fernando Lugo addresses the nation after the Senate voted to remove him from office in an impeachment trial at the presidential palace in Asuncion, Paraguay, Friday, June 22, 2012.
photo: AP / Jorge Saenz

Israel bombs Hamas security targets in Gaza: officials
Full Article Reuters
23 Jun 2012

GAZA (Reuters) - Israel launched air raids early on Saturday against three Hamas security targets in the Gaza Strip, wounding at least 17 people, Hamas medical officials said. Israel had no immediate comment on the strikes, which occurred as Gaza militants fired...
Palestinian mourners carry the body of Hamas militant Thair al-Bik, and Mohammed al-Khaldi , during their funeral in Jabaliya Refugee Camp, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, June 21, 2012.
photo: AP / Hatem Moussa

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


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The UN sustainable development summit in Brazil has ended with world leaders adopting a political declaration hammered out a few days previously. Environment and development...
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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...

Pedestrians make their way past the Reserve Bank of Australia building in central Sydney, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2008. Australia's central bank slashed interest rates by 1 percentage point Tuesday in the latest bold move by the country's top finance officials to stave off a recession.
Tweet Many rich countries have struggled for three years to emerge fully from the Great Recession of 2008-09 . Alas, the world is slipping into a new recession. No global authority has dared say so, but the writing is on the wall. A classic lead...
photo: AP / Mark Baker
 ** FILE **In this October 11, 2005 file photo, North Koreans perform with scarves showing the colors of the North Korean flag near an image of the flag formed by tens of thousands of children holding up colored cards during the annual massive propaganda
In North Korea, the systematic indoctrination of anti-Americanism starts as early as kindergarten and is as much a part of the curriculum as learning to count. The sentiment of the U.S. - known as American b******* - is reflected in a framed wall...
photo: AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File
President Barack Obama meets with Rob Nabors, Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, and Office of Management and Budget Director Jack Lew, right, in the Oval Office to discuss the ongoing budget negotiations on a funding bill, April 8, 2011.
The varieties of knowledge we gain from poetry usually go unremarked, yet from poems we learn about human behavior, politics, family life, education, the occult, cosmology, the physical sciences, technology, gardening, animals, geography, each of the...
photo: Public Domain / Official White House Photo by Pete Souza
Assunção (Paraguai) - O presidente eleito do Paraguai, Fernando Lugo, dá entrevista coletiva logo depois da divulgação do resultado
Latin American countries have expressed concern at the ouster of Paraguay's President Fernando Lugo, with leaders of three countries saying they will not recognise its new government. Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez, Ecuador President Rafael...
photo: Creative Commons / Yone Fernandes
Egyptian protesters peer out of their tent in Tahrir Square, the focal point of the Egyptian uprising, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, July 22, 2011
n">(Reuters) - Egyptians packed Tahrir Square in Cairo through the night on Saturday, waving flags and chanting for the end of military rule as they waited to know the name of the first president they have been free to choose. After a week of drama,...
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb
Acting Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, Monday, April 12, 2010.
Goodluck Jonathan, the Nigerian president, has sacked his defence minister and national security adviser after several months of violence in Africa’s most populous nation. The decision was announced after Jonathan met with his security team on...
photo: AP / Jose Luis Magana
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
Engdahl: Greek bailout terms remind of Hitler; updated 26 May 2012; published 27 Feb 2012
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Engdahl: Greek bailout terms remind of Hitler
The New York Times 23 Jun 2012, ATHENS — Two days before Greece’s international creditors return to Athens to begin talks on keeping the nearly bankrupt country solvent, the new coalition government on Saturday highlighted the main points it plans to renegotiate with lenders, aiming to revoke certain taxes, suspend planned layoffs in the bloated public sector and...

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Turkish fighter jet shot down over Syria, 2 pilots' status unknown; updated 23 Jun 2012; published 22 Jun 2012
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Turkish fighter jet shot down over Syria, 2 pilots' status unknown
Atlanta Journal 23 Jun 2012, ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey will take retaliatory steps against Syria for the downing of a Turkish military jet, President Abdullah Gul said Saturday, even as he suggested that the aircraft may have unintentionally violated Syrian airspace. Map locates Latakia, Syria, near where a Turkish plane was shot down by Syria. FILE - In this April 29,...

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Key leaders skip Rio environment summit; updated 21 Jun 2012; published 20 Jun 2012
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Key leaders skip Rio environment summit
Denver Post 23 Jun 2012, Click photo to enlargeEnvironmental activists, one portraying Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff holding a banner symbolizing "dirty money" made from fossil fuel subsidies, protest on the final day of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, June 22, 2012. «1»RIO...

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Jane Ferguson reports from Gaza; updated 20 Jun 2012; published 20 Jun 2012
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Jane Ferguson reports from Gaza
Al Jazeera 23 Jun 2012, Israel has launched more air strikes on the Gaza Strip overnight, after killing two people in earlier raids, according to Palestinian health ministry sources. The latest strikes targetted two camps of the armed wing of Hamas, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, in central and northern Gaza; and a former Hamas security post in Gaza City. The...

Turkish fighter jet shot down over Syria, 2 pilots' status unknown; updated 23 Jun 2012; published 22 Jun 2012
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Turkish fighter jet shot down over Syria, 2 pilots' status unknown
Newstrack India 23 Jun 2012, Tweet Damascus, June 23 (IANS) Syria Saturday confirmed having shot down a Turkish fighter jet which had entered the Syrian airspace earlier Friday. A Turkish fighter jet had penetrated the Syrian airspace and it was shot down by Syrian army with anti-aviation artillery, Xinhua quoted a Syrian military spokesperson as...

Huge protest in Tahrir Square over presidential election results; updated 04 Jun 2012; published 29 May 2012
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Huge protest in Tahrir Square over presidential election results
Al Jazeera 23 Jun 2012, Tens of thousands of Egyptians have returned to Cairo’s Tahrir Square to demand the rollback of what they see as politically biased court decisions and military power grabs designed to throttle last year's revolution and steal the presidential election. The mass protest and sit-in, initiated by the Muslim Brotherhood on Wednesday night,...

Fernando Lugo: Paraguay's democracy has been wounded; updated 23 Jun 2012; published 23 Jun 2012
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Fernando Lugo: Paraguay's democracy has been wounded
Sacramento Bee 23 Jun 2012, ASUNCION, Paraguay -- Paraguay was plunged into a deepening political crisis late Friday after the Senate voted 39-4 to remove President Fernando Lugo from office in a rapid-fire impeachment procedure. The Senate ruled that Lugo had failed to carry out his duties. Vice President Federico Franco was to succeed Lugo. Lugo, 61, a left-wing populist,...

Aftermath of Israeli air strikes on Gaza; updated 11 Apr 2012; published 12 Mar 2012
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Aftermath of Israeli air strikes on Gaza
Reuters 23 Jun 2012, GAZA (Reuters) - Israel launched air raids early on Saturday against three Hamas security targets in the Gaza Strip, wounding at least 17 people, Hamas medical officials said. Israel had no immediate comment on the strikes, which occurred as Gaza militants fired...

Aung San Suu Kyi's speech in Norway on June 16, 2012; updated 23 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...

Afghan Taliban attack Lake Qargha hotel near Kabul; updated 23 Jun 2012; published 22 Jun 2012
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Afghan 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...

Afghan Taliban attack Lake Qargha hotel near Kabul; updated 22 Jun 2012; published 22 Jun 2012
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Afghan Taliban attack Lake Qargha hotel near Kabul
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CIA Confidential: Pakistan Undercover [1/3]; updated 22 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...

Wildfire Destroys Most Homes in Colo. History; updated 18 Jun 2012; published 17 Jun 2012
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Wildfire Destroys Most Homes in Colo. History
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...





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