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Desperate bid to end Syria bloodshed
Full Article Independent online (SA)
30 Jun 2012

Geneva - World powers meet Saturday in a desperate bid to salvage international envoy Kofi Annan's peace plan for Syria to end 16 months of bloodshed and agree on a transition plan for the strife-hit country. Ahead of the multi-nation talks in Geneva, a meeting in Russia between US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Russian Foreign Minister...
Syrians inspect burned cars at the site of a blast in the Syrian capital Damascus Thursday June 28, 2012.
photo: AP / Muzaffar Salman

Palestinians anger Israel over Unesco role in Bethlehem
Full Article The Independent
30 Jun 2012

Palestinian spokeswoman Hanan Ashrawi said the vote was an affirmation of Palestinian sovereignty over the site that marks the place where Christians believe Jesus was born. Israel angrily denounced the vote, with foreign ministry spokeswoman Ilana Stein saying the decision "has turned Unesco into a theatre of the absurd". The 21-member...
View of the Church of the Nativity, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Friday , June 29, 2012.
photo: AP / Nasser Shiyoukhi

Obama Visits Colorado as Firefighting Progresses
Full Article The New York Times
30 Jun 2012

COLORADO SPRINGS — As President Obama arrived here on Friday to tour the aftermath of the most destructive wildfire in Colorado history, fire crews said they were slowly hemming in the blaze and beginning to reopen a few neighborhoods where residents had fled gales of ash and smoke. Related Conditions Improve Slightly in Fighting Colorado...
President Barack Obama tours the Mountain Shadow neighborhood devastated by raging wildfires, Friday, June 29, 2012, near Colorado Springs, Colo.
photo: AP / Carolyn Kaster

US, Russia fail to bridge gaps on Syria
Full Article Philadelphia Daily News
30 Jun 2012

GENEVA - The United States and Russia failed on Friday to bridge differences over a plan to ease Syrian President Bashar Assad out of power, end violence and create a new government, setting the stage for the potential collapse of a key multinational conference that was to have endorsed the proposal. On the eve of Saturday's conference, U.S....
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Friday, June 29, 2012, in St. Petersburg, Russia.
photo: AP / Haraz N. Ghanbari, Pool

Thousands protest outside Japanese PM’s office before 1st nuclear reactor is turned on Sunday
Full Article The Washington Post
30 Jun 2012

TOKYO — Thousands of people have protested outside the Japanese prime minister’s office before a nuclear reactor is restarted this weekend. At least 10,000 protesters filled the street outside Prime Minister Yoshihiko...
Protesters stage an anti-nuclear protest rally outside Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's office in Tokyo, Friday, June 29, 2012.
photo: AP / Koji Sasahara

Egypt's Mursi takes symbolic oath to people
Full Article The Star
29 Jun 2012

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Islamist President-elect Mohamed Mursi took an informal oath of office on Friday before tens of thousands of supporters in Cairo's Tahrir Square, in a slap at the generals trying to limit his power. Egypt's President-elect Mohamed Mursi speaks during a meeting with the heads of Egyptian newspapers at the presidential...
Egypt's President-elect Mohammed Morsi waves to supporters at Tahrir Square, the focal point of Egyptian uprising, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, June 29, 2012.
photo: AP / Amr Nabil

A Euro deal from Brussels
Full Article BBC News
29 Jun 2012

In their agreement last night, European leaders in Brussels managed to exceed expectations, which had been set extremely low. But their terse statement leaves a lot of unanswered questions - especially when it comes to how and whether the eurozone's rescue funds will be used to bring down the cost of borrowing for countries like Spain and...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during a media conference at an EU Summit in Brussels on Friday, June 29, 2012.
photo: AP / Michel Euler

Somali militants ambush aid workers, killing 1 and kidnapping 4 at Kenya refugee camp
Full Article Star Tribune
29 Jun 2012

NAIROBI, Kenya - Somali militants ambushed an aid convoy Friday, killed a Kenyan aid worker and kidnapped four international workers at a Kenyan refugee camp near the border with Somalia, officials said. Kenyan police said they were pursuing the attackers. Four international workers from the Norwegian Refugee Council were kidnapped after gunmen...
File - People at a refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011. Dadaab, a camp designed for 90,000 people now houses around 440,000 refugees.
photo: AP / Schalk van Zuydam

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


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Markets are soaring after European leaders decided to use European bailout funds to directly recapitalize troubled banks. They also enacted two smaller measures—an important...
more The People's Voice
On June 27, the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) discussed conflict conditions in Syria. Truth took a back seat. Some present denounced its absence. Pre-scripted, its conclusions were...
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Article by WN.com Guest Writer Gilad Atzmon Last week the Canadian Jewish Independent decided to look into the notion of "choseness" only to find that Jewish supremacy is actually...

Google's top mobile executive Andy Rubin, left, and J.K. Shin, president and head of mobile communications business from Samsung, hold the new Galaxy Nexus smartphone during the news conference in Hong Kong Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011.
A judge in California has blocked US sales of Samsung's Galaxy Nexus smartphones while the court decides on the firm's patent dispute with Apple. US District Judge Lucy Koh said Apple "has shown a likelihood of establishing both...
photo: AP / Kin Cheung
Tom Cruise, right, and Katie Holmes arrive at the premiere of "Tropic Thunder" in Los Angeles on Monday, Aug. 11, 2008.
June 29, 2012 -- Updated 2235 GMT (0635 HKT) Cruise and Holmes arrive at the 2012 Vanity Fair Oscar Party at Sunset Tower in West Hollywood, California, in February. Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are getting a divorce after five years of marriage,...
photo: AP / Matt Sayles
Der Vorstandsvorsitzende des Automobilherstellers BMW, Norbert Reithofer (r.), und der Praesident des japanischen Automobilkonzerns Toyota, Akio Toyoda, stehen am Freitag (29.06.12) im Doppelkegel der BMW-Welt in Muenchen bei einem Pressegespraech zum Besuch Toyodas bei BMW auf dem Podium.
NEW YORK (CNBC) -- BMW, the world's largest luxury automaker, is teaming up with Toyota, Japan's largest automaker, to focus on the next generation of cars. More specifically they will be developing electric drivetrains, fuel cell technology and...
photo: AP / Joerg Koch
President-elect Francois Hollande waves from the balcony of the Socialist Party headquarters in Paris Monday May 7, 2012.
PARIS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande's role in goading Germany towards more flexibility in aiding debt-laden euro zone states positions him well to win parliamentary support for stiffer budget discipline rules he once swore to...
photo: AP / Michel Spingler
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
Syria on Air: One-sided media spin behind insurgency trench warfare; updated 25 Jun 2012; published 24 Jun 2012
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Syria on Air: One-sided media spin behind insurgency trench warfare
Independent online (SA) 30 Jun 2012, Geneva - World powers meet Saturday in a desperate bid to salvage international envoy Kofi Annan's peace plan for Syria to end 16 months of bloodshed and agree on a transition plan for the strife-hit country. Ahead of the multi-nation talks in Geneva, a meeting in Russia between US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Russian Foreign Minister...

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Palestinian reaction to UNESCO membership; updated 18 Jun 2012; published 02 Nov 2011
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Palestinian reaction to UNESCO membership
The Independent 30 Jun 2012, Palestinian spokeswoman Hanan Ashrawi said the vote was an affirmation of Palestinian sovereignty over the site that marks the place where Christians believe Jesus was born. Israel angrily denounced the vote, with foreign ministry spokeswoman Ilana Stein saying the decision "has turned Unesco into a theatre of the absurd". The 21-member...

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Weekly Address: An All-Hands-On-Deck Approach to Fighting the Colorado Wildfires; updated 30 Jun 2012; published 30 Jun 2012
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Weekly Address: An All-Hands-On-Deck Approach to Fighting the Colorado Wildfires
The New York Times 30 Jun 2012, COLORADO SPRINGS — As President Obama arrived here on Friday to tour the aftermath of the most destructive wildfire in Colorado history, fire crews said they were slowly hemming in the blaze and beginning to reopen a few neighborhoods where residents had fled gales of ash and smoke. Related Conditions Improve Slightly in Fighting Colorado...

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Syrian president agrees to Russian-led peace talks; updated 14 Jun 2012; published 07 Feb 2012
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Syrian president agrees to Russian-led peace talks
Philadelphia Daily News 30 Jun 2012, GENEVA - The United States and Russia failed on Friday to bridge differences over a plan to ease Syrian President Bashar Assad out of power, end violence and create a new government, setting the stage for the potential collapse of a key multinational conference that was to have endorsed the proposal. On the eve of Saturday's conference, U.S....

Japan starts up two nuclear reactors; updated 11 Jun 2012; published 08 Jun 2012
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Japan starts up two nuclear reactors
The Washington Post 30 Jun 2012, TOKYO — Thousands of people have protested outside the Japanese prime minister’s office before a nuclear reactor is restarted this weekend. At least 10,000 protesters filled the street outside Prime Minister Yoshihiko...

Egyptians await election results; updated 24 Jun 2012; published 24 Jun 2012
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Egyptians await election results
The Star 29 Jun 2012, CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Islamist President-elect Mohamed Mursi took an informal oath of office on Friday before tens of thousands of supporters in Cairo's Tahrir Square, in a slap at the generals trying to limit his power. Egypt's President-elect Mohamed Mursi speaks during a meeting with the heads of Egyptian newspapers at the presidential...

Merkel: Growth and employment pact is first on agenda, then fiscal pact; updated 28 Jun 2012; published 28 Jun 2012
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Merkel: Growth and employment pact is first on agenda, then fiscal pact
BBC News 29 Jun 2012, In their agreement last night, European leaders in Brussels managed to exceed expectations, which had been set extremely low. But their terse statement leaves a lot of unanswered questions - especially when it comes to how and whether the eurozone's rescue funds will be used to bring down the cost of borrowing for countries like Spain and...

Displaced Somalis pour into Dadaab refugee camps; updated 14 Mar 2012; published 10 Jul 2011
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Displaced Somalis pour into Dadaab refugee camps
Star Tribune 29 Jun 2012, NAIROBI, Kenya - Somali militants ambushed an aid convoy Friday, killed a Kenyan aid worker and kidnapped four international workers at a Kenyan refugee camp near the border with Somalia, officials said. Kenyan police said they were pursuing the attackers. Four international workers from the Norwegian Refugee Council were kidnapped after gunmen...

Crucible of Empire, The Spanish-American War 1/8; updated 26 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...

Conflict Minerals, Rebels and Child Soldiers in Congo; updated 29 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...

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...

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 28 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...

ERIC HOLDER HELD IN CONTEMPT BY HOUSE PANEL - JUNE 20, 2012; updated 24 Jun 2012; published 20 Jun 2012
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ERIC HOLDER HELD IN CONTEMPT BY HOUSE PANEL - JUNE 20, 2012
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...





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