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Tale of an Israeli Soldier and Palestinian Hunger Strikers
Full Article WorldNews.com
28 Jun 2012

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling When Israeli poet and author Naomi Shihab Nye wrote: "A man crosses the street in rain, stepping gently/looking two times north and south, because his son is asleep on his shoulder;" right now, in this "moment of madness," it could be used as a metaphor, a "pocket of resistance," in describing an...
Palestinian protesters hold up pictures of incarcerated relatives in Israeli jails during a protest in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. -- The Israeli Prisons Authority said in a written statement that 2,300 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails have said they would reject their daily meal in support of Palestinian Prisoners Day, and 1,200 would launch hunger strikes, 17 April 2012.
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb

Blast hits Damascus as Turkey sends troops to border
Full Article The Star
28 Jun 2012

BEIRUT/ISKENDERUN, Turkey: Rebel forces attacked Syria's main court in central Damascus on Thursday, state television said, while Turkey deployed troops and anti-aircraft rocket launchers to the Syrian border, building pressure on President Bashar al-Assad. There was a loud explosion and a column of black smoke rose over Damascus, an Assad...
In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency, SANA, a damaged building of Ikhbariya TV is seen after it was attacked by gunmen, in the town of Drousha, about 20 kilometers (14 miles) south of Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, June 27, 2012.
photo: AP / SANA

Myanmar pays price for 'lost generation'
Full Article Houston Chronicle
28 Jun 2012

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — The dormitories are empty, the once charming bungalows of professors overgrown with vines and weeds. Only grass grows where the Student Union building stood before soldiers obliterated it with dynamite. This is Yangon University, once one of Asia's finest and a poignant symbol of an education system crippled by Myanmar's half...
A woman rides a bicycle through the entrance gate of Yangon University in Yangon, Myanmar Thursday, June 28, 2012. The university was once one of Asia's finest and a poignant symbol of an education system crippled by Myanmar’s half a century of military rule.
photo: AP / Khin Maung Win

EU leaders to discuss growth pact
Full Article Al Jazeera
28 Jun 2012

European Union leaders are set to examine a "compact for growth and jobs" aimed at countering record unemployment and an economic downturn - a deal pushed by French President Francois Hollande to offset German-led austerity. The summit begins on Thursday with the EU parliament president taking part in a debate on the next budget for the...
French President Francois Hollande, left, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel attend a joint press conference with Italian Premier Mario Monti and Spanish Premier Mariano Rajoy at the end of a meeting in Rome, Friday, June 22, 2012.
photo: AP / Andrew Medichini

Kofi Annan proposes Syria 'unity government'
Full Article Al Jazeera
28 Jun 2012

International envoy Kofi Annan has proposed setting up a Syrian transitional government that could include followers of President Bashar al-Assad and opposition members in a bid to end the country's war, diplomats said. The major powers - the US, Britain, France, China and Russia, a key Assad ally - generally back the plan that will be discussed at...
Kofi Annan former Secretary-General of the United Nations and Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2009 speaks during a press conference during the opening day of the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday, Jan. 28
photo: AP / Keystone, Laurent Gillieron

Russia 'supports Annan unity government plan for Syria'
Full Article BBC News
28 Jun 2012

Russia and other big powers have agreed to back a proposal by UN envoy Kofi Annan for a national unity government to lead political change in Syria. Western diplomats said the proposed cabinet could include members of the opposition and government, but no-one who would undermine its credibility. The proposal will be discussed at a meeting of the UN...
In this picture taken on Sunday, June 24, 2012, a Syrian rebel, holds his automatic rifle at a street of Saraqeb town, in the northern province of Idlib, Syria.
photo: AP / Fadi Zaidan

Merkel heads to Brussels for crucial euro summit
Full Article BBC News
28 Jun 2012

European Union leaders are preparing to meet for a closely-watched Brussels summit on the fate of the euro. On the summit's eve, German Chancellor Angela Merkel held two hours of talks with the French President Francois Hollande in Paris. The two remain at odds on how to move forward, with Germany opposed to pooling debt while France insists...
French President Francois Hollande, left, welcomes German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Elysee Palace, Wednesday, June 27, 2012.
photo: AP / Michel Euler

Mexico's Pena Nieto wraps up campaign with victory near
Full Article Reuters
28 Jun 2012

TOLUCA, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexico's presidential front-runner Enrique Pena Nieto scented victory as he wrapped up his campaign on Wednesday with polls showing he should easily win the weekend election and put the country's old rulers back in power. Voters elect a new president on Sunday and many are eager for the next government to fire up an...
Presidential candidate Enrique Pena Nieto, center, of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), greets supporters during his closing campaign rally in Toluca, Mexico, Wednesday, June 27, 2012.
photo: AP / Alexandre Meneghini

Colorado wildfire expands viciously, Barack Obama plans visit
Full Article The Times of India
28 Jun 2012

SHARE AND DISCUSSTweetCOLORADO SPRINGS: Firefighters struggled on Wednesday to beat back a wildfire raging at the edge of Colorado Springs that doubled in size overnight, forced more than 32,000 people from their homes and was nipping at the edges of the US Air Force Academy. The blaze, fanned by hot winds, has charred a number of homes on the...
Flames of the Waldo Canyon Fire races down into western portions of Colorado Springs, Colo. on Tuesday, June 26, 2012.
photo: AP / Bryan Oller

Unions stage one-day general strike in Argentina
Full Article my SA
28 Jun 2012

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Thousands of striking truckers and other union members gathered in front of Argentina's presidential palace on Wednesday to demand tax cuts in a one-day work stoppage seen as a challenge to President Cristina Fernandez. The strike was called by Hugo Moyano, the head of the powerful General Labor...
Union leader Hugo Moyano, right, gestures to protesters gathered at Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, June 27, 2012.
photo: AP / Natacha Pisarenko


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On Tuesday the United Nations Security Council held consultations on sanctions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, after the interim report of the Group of Experts on the DRC...
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June 28, 2012 -- Updated 0412 GMT (1212 HKT) On March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Health Care for America Act during a ceremony with fellow Democrats in...
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Authorities have responded with a violent crackdown, which has drawn international condemnation but failed to quell public defiance. Police have fired on demonstrators with rubber...

French Socialist Party candidate for the presidential election Francois Hollande delivers his speech during a campaign meeting in Toulouse, southwestern France, Thursday, May 3, 2012.
PARIS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande said on Thursday that Paris and Berlin were in broad agreement on measures to stimulate growth but had not yet hammered out a deal on short-term steps to stabilize the euro zone's most fragile...
photo: AP / Bob Edme
A protester shows a "No nukes" sign as they march during an anti-nuclear power demonstration in Tokyo Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011. The protesters called on Japan's government to abandon atomic energy in the wake of the nuclear accident of the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
The Japanese government has ordered that a reactor at the Oi nuclear power plant be reactivated on Sunday, defying widespread public opposition and warnings from seismologists about active fault lines close to the facility. Tokyo Electric Power Co....
photo: AP / Koji Sasahara
In this Monday, June 18, 2012 photo, Lebanese army soldiers and civilians look on as a fire burns at a Lebanese army checkpoint at the main entrance of the Ein el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in Sidon, Lebanon. Residents of the camp are protesting after clashes broke out Monday in the Nahr el-Bared camp in the north of Lebanon.
By Ramzy Baroud When it was reported that Lebanese security had killed 18-year-old Ahmad al-Qasim in the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp on June 15 - over a dispute concerning a motorbike rider without proper identification - the camp's Palestinian...
photo: AP / Mohammed Zaatari
A Kashmiri Muslim woman grieves as unseen fire services personnel and volunteers clear debris from the charred remains of the 200-year old shrine of Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jeelani, also known as Dastigheer Sahib, in downtown Srinagar on June 27, 2012. A major fire gutted a 200-year-old, revered Sufi Muslim shrine in Indian Kashmir June 25, sparking clashes between police and residents in the region's summer capital Srinagar, police said. Nearly two dozen people were injured in the violence, triggered by anger at the perceived delayed response of firefighters in battling the blaze.
Srinagar: Normal life across Kashmir remained disrupted for the fourth day today due to a strike called by the Grand Mufti of the state over the gutting of the 200-year-old Dastageer Sahib shrine in Khanyar area of the city. Schools, colleges,...
photo: WN / Imran Nissar
In this photo taken on a government-organized tour for the media, Syrian government army soldiers patrol a street, in one of several suburbs of Damascus that saw heavy fighting between troops and defectors before Assad's forces retook the areas in late January, in Harasta suburb, Damascus, Syria, on Wednesday Feb. 15, 2012.
Beirut - Gunmen stormed a pro-government Syrian TV channel headquarters on Wednesday, bombing buildings and shooting dead three employees, state media said, in one of the boldest attacks yet on a symbol of the authoritarian state. President Bashar...
photo: AP / Muzaffar Salman
Army testing new camouflage
GRAFENWÖHR, GermanySoldiers heading to Afghanistan could soon be issued new combat uniforms that would offer better camouflage based on their operating environments. Two 4th Infantry Division battalions are wear-testing new uniforms in...
photo: US Army / Michael J. MacLeod
An F-4 Phantom flies in formation with an F/A-22 Raptor and F-15C Eagle during the U.S. Air Force Heritage Flight at the 2005 Air Power over Hampton Roads air show.
What was that Turkish F-4 Phantom II up to when the Syrians shot it down? Ankara said the plane strayed into Syrian airspace but quickly left and was over international waters when it was attacked, a simple case of carelessness on the part of the...
photo: US Navy / Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Daniel J. McLain
Palestinian Hunger Strike Ends; updated 25 Jun 2012; published 15 May 2012
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Palestinian Hunger Strike Ends
WorldNews.com 28 Jun 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling When Israeli poet and author Naomi Shihab Nye wrote: "A man crosses the street in rain, stepping gently/looking two times north and south, because his son is asleep on his shoulder;" right now, in this "moment of madness," it could be used as a metaphor, a "pocket of resistance," in describing an...

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NATO Secretary General - NAC statement on the shooting down of a Turkish aircraft by Syria; updated 26 Jun 2012; published 26 Jun 2012
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NATO Secretary General - NAC statement on the shooting down of a Turkish aircraft by Syria
The Star 28 Jun 2012, BEIRUT/ISKENDERUN, Turkey: Rebel forces attacked Syria's main court in central Damascus on Thursday, state television said, while Turkey deployed troops and anti-aircraft rocket launchers to the Syrian border, building pressure on President Bashar al-Assad. There was a loud explosion and a column of black smoke rose over Damascus, an Assad...

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101 East - Myanmar's Turn; updated 23 Jun 2012; published 21 Apr 2012
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101 East - Myanmar's Turn
Houston Chronicle 28 Jun 2012, YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — The dormitories are empty, the once charming bungalows of professors overgrown with vines and weeds. Only grass grows where the Student Union building stood before soldiers obliterated it with dynamite. This is Yangon University, once one of Asia's finest and a poignant symbol of an education system crippled by Myanmar's half...

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Analysing Europe's economic crisis; updated 12 Jun 2012; published 16 Jan 2012
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Analysing Europe's economic crisis
Al Jazeera 28 Jun 2012, European Union leaders are set to examine a "compact for growth and jobs" aimed at countering record unemployment and an economic downturn - a deal pushed by French President Francois Hollande to offset German-led austerity. The summit begins on Thursday with the EU parliament president taking part in a debate on the next budget for the...

Kofi Annan: the longer we wait, the darker Syria's future becomes; updated 25 Jun 2012; published 22 Jun 2012
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Kofi Annan: the longer we wait, the darker Syria's future becomes
Al Jazeera 28 Jun 2012, International envoy Kofi Annan has proposed setting up a Syrian transitional government that could include followers of President Bashar al-Assad and opposition members in a bid to end the country's war, diplomats said. The major powers - the US, Britain, France, China and Russia, a key Assad ally - generally back the plan that will be discussed at...

'US should be excluded from talks over Syria just like Iran'; updated 27 Jun 2012; published 27 Jun 2012
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'US should be excluded from talks over Syria just like Iran'
BBC News 28 Jun 2012, Russia and other big powers have agreed to back a proposal by UN envoy Kofi Annan for a national unity government to lead political change in Syria. Western diplomats said the proposed cabinet could include members of the opposition and government, but no-one who would undermine its credibility. The proposal will be discussed at a meeting of the UN...

Hollande to push for eurbonds at EU Summit; updated 28 May 2012; published 23 May 2012
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Hollande to push for eurbonds at EU Summit
BBC News 28 Jun 2012, European Union leaders are preparing to meet for a closely-watched Brussels summit on the fate of the euro. On the summit's eve, German Chancellor Angela Merkel held two hours of talks with the French President Francois Hollande in Paris. The two remain at odds on how to move forward, with Germany opposed to pooling debt while France insists...

Twittergate: Is Mexico's PRI paying for tweets?; updated 26 Jun 2012; published 09 May 2012
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Twittergate: Is Mexico's PRI paying for tweets?
Reuters 28 Jun 2012, TOLUCA, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexico's presidential front-runner Enrique Pena Nieto scented victory as he wrapped up his campaign on Wednesday with polls showing he should easily win the weekend election and put the country's old rulers back in power. Voters elect a new president on Sunday and many are eager for the next government to fire up an...

WEBCAST: Colorado Wildfires; updated 28 Jun 2012; published 28 Jun 2012
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WEBCAST: Colorado Wildfires
The Times of India 28 Jun 2012, SHARE AND DISCUSSTweetCOLORADO SPRINGS: Firefighters struggled on Wednesday to beat back a wildfire raging at the edge of Colorado Springs that doubled in size overnight, forced more than 32,000 people from their homes and was nipping at the edges of the US Air Force Academy. The blaze, fanned by hot winds, has charred a number of homes on the...

Argentine union calls nationwide strike; updated 27 Jun 2012; published 27 Jun 2012
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Argentine union calls nationwide strike
my SA 28 Jun 2012, BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Thousands of striking truckers and other union members gathered in front of Argentina's presidential palace on Wednesday to demand tax cuts in a one-day work stoppage seen as a challenge to President Cristina Fernandez. The strike was called by Hugo Moyano, the head of the powerful General Labor...

Syrian army defector talks to Al Jazeera; updated 26 Jun 2012; published 23 Jun 2012
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Syrian army defector talks to Al Jazeera
NZ Herald 27 Jun 2012, Gunmen raided the headquarters of a pro-government Syrian TV station killing seven employees, kidnapping others and demolishing buildings, officials said. The government blamed terrorists and described the killings as a "massacre." An Associated Press photographer who visited the Al-Ikhbariya station's compound said five portable buildings used for...

Conflict Minerals, Rebels and Child Soldiers in Congo; updated 27 Jun 2012; published 22 May 2012
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Conflict Minerals, Rebels and Child Soldiers in Congo
BBC News 27 Jun 2012, Rwanda has played a key role in creating a rebel group and sustaining a mutiny in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo, UN experts have said in a leaked document. Senior Rwandan military officials are said to have given "direct assistance" in setting it up, as well as support in the form of weapons, ammunition, logistics and...

Silent Revolution: 'N.Korea gets intimate with China'; updated 28 Jun 2012; published 26 Jun 2012
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Silent Revolution: 'N.Korea gets intimate with China'
Jakarta Globe 27 Jun 2012, Beijing. As Kim Jong Un, the young leader of North Korea, consolidates his grip on power, China is showing signs of increasing frustration at the bellicose behavior of its longtime ally. Since succeeding his father, Kim Jong Il, six months ago, Kim Jong Un has quickly alienated the Obama administration and put North Korea on track to develop a...

EU-Moldova Cooperation Council -- Press conference, 15 June 2010; updated 27 Aug 2010; published 16 Jul 2010
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EU-Moldova Cooperation Council -- Press conference, 15 June 2010
TravelDailyNews 27 Jun 2012, In the framework of the EU-Moldova Cooperation Council, the Republic of Moldova and the European Union have signed a comprehensive air services agreement which will make Moldova a full partner of the EU in aviation by gradually integrating into the European common market. Siim Kallas, European Commission Vice-President responsible for mobility and...





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