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The 'Other' D-Day
Full Article WorldNews.com
29 Jun 2012

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Unlike Lt. Horace Henderson who wrote, "I noticed that nothing moved on the beach except one bulldozer. The beach was covered with debris, sunken craft and wrecked vehicles. We saw many bodies in the water...We jumped into chest high water and waded ashore. Then we saw that the beach was literally...
USS Maine entering Havana Harbor on 25 January 1898, where the ship would explode three weeks later. On the right is the old Morro Castle fortress.
photo: US DoD

How DR Congo rebels make their money
Full Article BBC News
29 Jun 2012

A controversial UN report on the Democratic Republic of Congo has focussed attention on Rwanda's alleged role in the current army mutiny, but the document also reveals intriguing details about how rebels in the area make their money. It lists bank robberies and extortion rackets taxing charcoal and cows as some of the activities of the...
A Congolese government army soldier displays a mortar round after his unit returned from the frontline of fighting against rebel forces, in Kinyamahura, Congo, on Thursday, May 17, 2012. A
photo: AP / Marc Hofer

European leaders strike deal to direct aid for struggling banks
Full Article Fox News
29 Jun 2012

June 27, 2012: French President Francois Hollande, left, welcomes German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Elysee Palace.AP BRUSSELS – After tough all-night bargaining, European leaders appeared to salvage what had seemed to be a summit teetering toward failure by agreeing early Friday to use the continent's bailout fund to funnel money...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center rear, speaks with Cypriot President Demetris Christofias, front left, and Greek President Karolos Papoulias, center right, during a group photo at an EU Summit in Brussels on Thursday, June 28, 2012.
photo: AP / Michel Euler

Floods displace 900 000 in India
Full Article Independent online (SA)
29 Jun 2012

Guwahati, India - At least 27 people have died and 900 000 others have been forced to leave their homes as monsoon rains swamp wide areas of the northeastern Indian state of Assam, officials said on Thursday. A state government spokesman said 21 of Assam's 27 districts...
A flood affected Indian man puts his daughter in a raft as they leave for safer place, in Gauhati, India, Tuesday, June 26, 2012.
photo: AP / Anupam Nath

US healthcare verdict gives Obama huge win
Full Article Newstrack India
29 Jun 2012

Tweet Washington, June 29 (IANS) President Barack Obama scored a major victory in the run-up to the November presidential poll with the US Supreme Court in a historic verdict largely upholding his signature health care law. Obama's stunning victory in a 5-4 split verdict Thursday was all the more sweet as the majority decision upholding the core of...
Ida Campbell, of Lakewood, Wash., joins others in celebrating the U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, Thursday, June 28, 2012, in Tacoma, Wash.
photo: AP / Ted S. Warren

US Attorney General Holder Held In Contempt
Full Article Orange News
29 Jun 2012

Tweet US Attorney General Eric Holder has been held in criminal contempt of Congress in a historic and unprecedented move by lawmakers on Capitol Hill. The censure is highly embarrassing for the most senior legal adviser to the Obama administration and head of the US Justice Department, but many Americans will see it as politically...
Attorney General Eric Holder speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington Friday, Nov. 13, 2009.
photo: AP / Alex Brandon

Congo unrest challenges UN
Full Article Deutsche Welle
28 Jun 2012

Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo teeters on the brink of chaos as civilians flee the fighting. Analysts warn only a radically new UN strategy can help. The Democratic Republic of Congo seethes with unrest. Numerous rebel groups are fighting in the east of the country over territory, natural resources and political influence. Particularly badly...
File - Congolese government army soldiers carry weapons and mortar equipment on the road to the border town of Bunagana, after their unit returned from the frontline of fighting against rebel forces, in Kinyamahura, Congo Thursday, May 17, 2012.
photo: AP / Marc Hofer

High court ruling vindicates Obama on health care
Full Article Detroit news
28 Jun 2012

By Steve Peoples and Julie Pace Associated Press Comments Washington - Marking a pivotal point in the presidential campaign, the Supreme Court's decision to uphold President Barack Obama's sweeping federal health care law handed the Democratic incumbent crucial election-year vindication for his signature legislative accomplishment. Republican rival...
President Barack Obama meets with evangelical leaders on religious liberty in the Oval Office, May 18, 2012.
photo: White House / Pete Souza

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


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India floods: Many thousands flee Assam homes
Almost one million people have been forced to leave their homes by floods in India as torrential rains lash the north-eastern state of Assam, officials say. At least 27...
photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick
European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, center, arrives for a media conference at an EU summit in Brussels, Friday March 26, 2010
By ANGELA CHARLTON and DON MELVIN, Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — After tough all-night bargaining, European leaders appeared to salvage what had seemed to be a summit teetering toward failure by agreeing early Friday to use the continent's...
photo: AP / Virginia Mayo
File - U.S. Air Force Maj. Jeff Bright, a predator pilot from the 432nd Wing out of Creech Air Force Base, Nev., goes over a pre-flight check list for an RQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle at Aeropuerto Rafael Hernandez outside Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, Jan. 28, 2010.
Moscow: The first domestically-developed strike unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) will be put in service with the Russian Armed Forces by the end of 2014, a defence industry official said. In April, the Defence Ministry issued a...
photo: USAF / Tech. Sgt. James Harper
Shenzhou 9 spacecraft rocket launches from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, China, Saturday, June 16, 2012.
BEIJING - China's Shenzhou 9 spacecraft returned to Earth on Friday, ending a mission that put the country's first woman in space and completed a manned docking test critical to its goal of building a space station by 2020. The...
photo: AP / Ng Han Guan
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., center, walks with Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., left, and Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Calif., after walking off the House floor in protest of a contempt of Congress vote for Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday, June 28, 2012, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
The House of Representatives voted Thursday to make Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. the first sitting attorney general to be held in contempt of Congress, for withholding documents requested as part of a congressional investigation into a botched...
photo: AP / Evan Vucci
A supporter cheers Republican presidential hopeful and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney during an Illinois campaign rally at the College of DuPage Sunday, Feb. 3, 2008, in Glen Ellyn, Ill. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
Mitt Romney says he would repeal Obama's health bill on first day as president as Republican allies join in chorus of criticism Mitt Romney said: 'As you might imagine, I disagree with the supreme court's decision, and I agree with the dissent.'...
photo: AP / Nam Y. Huh
The founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange, center, gives a statement to the media after his extradition hearing at the High Court in London, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011. Assange on Wednesday lost his appeal against extradition to Sweden to answer sex crime allegations, but may now take his protracted fight to Britain's highest court. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was served with a "surrender notice" by Scotland Yard on Thursday, just days after he dramatically took refuge at the Ecuadorean embassy here seeking political asylum to block his extradition to Sweden to face...
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Crucible of Empire, The Spanish-American War 1/8; updated 10 Jun 2012; published 29 Oct 2010
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Crucible of Empire, The Spanish-American War 1/8
WorldNews.com 29 Jun 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Unlike Lt. Horace Henderson who wrote, "I noticed that nothing moved on the beach except one bulldozer. The beach was covered with debris, sunken craft and wrecked vehicles. We saw many bodies in the water...We jumped into chest high water and waded ashore. Then we saw that the beach was literally...

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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 29 Jun 2012, A controversial UN report on the Democratic Republic of Congo has focussed attention on Rwanda's alleged role in the current army mutiny, but the document also reveals intriguing details about how rebels in the area make their money. It lists bank robberies and extortion rackets taxing charcoal and cows as some of the activities of the...

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Hollande to push for eurbonds at EU Summit; updated 28 Jun 2012; published 23 May 2012
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Hollande to push for eurbonds at EU Summit
Fox News 29 Jun 2012, June 27, 2012: French President Francois Hollande, left, welcomes German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Elysee Palace.AP BRUSSELS – After tough all-night bargaining, European leaders appeared to salvage what had seemed to be a summit teetering toward failure by agreeing early Friday to use the continent's bailout fund to funnel money...

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Rangia over flood 1; updated 29 Jun 2012; published 29 Jun 2012
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Rangia over flood 1
Independent online (SA) 29 Jun 2012, Guwahati, India - At least 27 people have died and 900 000 others have been forced to leave their homes as monsoon rains swamp wide areas of the northeastern Indian state of Assam, officials said on Thursday. A state government spokesman said 21 of Assam's 27 districts...

Obama Health Care Law Heads to Supreme Court Today; updated 09 Jun 2012; published 26 Mar 2012
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Obama Health Care Law Heads to Supreme Court Today
Newstrack India 29 Jun 2012, Tweet Washington, June 29 (IANS) President Barack Obama scored a major victory in the run-up to the November presidential poll with the US Supreme Court in a historic verdict largely upholding his signature health care law. Obama's stunning victory in a 5-4 split verdict Thursday was all the more sweet as the majority decision upholding the core of...

Jay Sekulow on Fox News: AG Holder Faces Contempt Vote; updated 28 Jun 2012; published 28 Jun 2012
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Jay Sekulow on Fox News: AG Holder Faces Contempt Vote
Orange News 29 Jun 2012, Tweet US Attorney General Eric Holder has been held in criminal contempt of Congress in a historic and unprecedented move by lawmakers on Capitol Hill. The censure is highly embarrassing for the most senior legal adviser to the Obama administration and head of the US Justice Department, but many Americans will see it as politically...

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
Deutsche Welle 28 Jun 2012, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo teeters on the brink of chaos as civilians flee the fighting. Analysts warn only a radically new UN strategy can help. The Democratic Republic of Congo seethes with unrest. Numerous rebel groups are fighting in the east of the country over territory, natural resources and political influence. Particularly badly...

Can Romney Repeal Obamacare?; updated 29 Jun 2012; published 29 Jun 2012
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Can Romney Repeal Obamacare?
Detroit news 28 Jun 2012, By Steve Peoples and Julie Pace Associated Press Comments Washington - Marking a pivotal point in the presidential campaign, the Supreme Court's decision to uphold President Barack Obama's sweeping federal health care law handed the Democratic incumbent crucial election-year vindication for his signature legislative accomplishment. Republican rival...

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...

NATO in meeting after Syria shot down Turkish war plane; updated 26 Jun 2012; published 26 Jun 2012
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NATO in meeting after Syria shot down Turkish war plane
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...

101 East - Myanmar's Turn; updated 27 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...

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...

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
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...





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