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U.S. and China's Mandate In, and Long March To, Heaven
Full Article WorldNews.com
01 Jul 2012

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling "Heaven hears as the people hear; Heaven sees as the people see." -Mengtzu, Chinese Philosopher (372-289 BCE) Even though it is referred to as the Long March series of rockets, revolutions never completely discard relics from the past. The Shenzhou9 spacecraft, launched by a Long March rocket, blasted...
File - China's astronauts from left Liu Yang, Jing Haipeng and Liu Wang salute before they depart for the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft rocket launch pad at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, China, Saturday, June 16, 2012.
photo: AP / Ng Han Guan

Morsi takes Egypt helm, military pledges support
Full Article France24
01 Jul 2012

AFP - Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi began his first full day in office on Sunday, but with his powers sharply circumscribed by the military that has ruled since Hosni Mubarak was ousted from power last year. After being sworn in as the country's first freely elected civilian president on Saturday, Morsi formally received a transfer of power and...
In this image released by the Egyptian President, Egyptian Field Marshal Gen. Hussein Tantawi, left, presents the "shield of the Armed Forces" — the Egyptian military's highest honor, to President Mohammed Morsi, right, at a handover following his inauguration, at a military base east of Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, June 30, 2012.
photo: AP / Egyptian Presidency

Eastern US storms kill 13, cut power to millions
Full Article The Miami Herald
01 Jul 2012

WASHINGTON -- Millions across the mid-Atlantic region sweltered Saturday in the aftermath of violent storms that pummeled the eastern U.S. with high winds and downed trees, killing at least 13 people and leaving 3 million without power during a heat wave. Power officials said the outages wouldn't be repaired for several days to a week, likening the...
A woman makes a photograph of Mike Wolfe's pick-up truck as it lies under a fallen tree in front of his house after a severe storm in Falls Church, Va., Saturday, June 30, 2012.
photo: AP / Cliff Owen

Protests as Hong Kong marks 15 years under China
Full Article France24
01 Jul 2012

AFP - Defiant protestors targeted China's President Hu Jintao in Hong Kong on Sunday as the former British colony swore in a new leader and marked the 15th anniversary of its return to Chinese rule. "I vow to defend the Hong Kong... Basic Law," new Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, a millionaire property consultant seen as close to China's communist...
Pro-democracy protesters are removed by police outside the exhibition center where China's President Hu Jintao was presiding over a flag raising ceremony on the 15th anniversary of the Hong Kong handover to China in Hong Kong, Sunday, July 1, 2012.
photo: AP / Wally Santana

Australia introduces controversial carbon tax
Full Article BBC News
01 Jul 2012

Australia has introduced its highly controversial carbon tax, after years of bitter political wrangling. The law forces the country's 500 worst-polluting firms to pay a AU$23 (£15; $24) levy for every tonne of greenhouse gases they produce. The government says the tax is needed to meet climate-change obligations of...
Australia introduces controversial carbon tax
photo: AP / Francois Mori, File

Assad's fate unclear in world powers' Syria plan
Full Article The Star
01 Jul 2012

GENEVA (Reuters) - World powers struck an agreement that a transitional government should be set up in Syria to end the conflict there but they remained at odds over what part President Bashar al-Assad might play in the process. Joint Special Envoy of the United Nations (UN) and the Arab League for Syria Kofi Annan (R) speaks with Swiss Foreign...
Kofi Annan, Joint Special Envoy of the United Nations and the Arab League for Syria, emerges from the Action Group on Syria meeting in the Palace of Nations, Saturday, June 30, 2012, at the United Nations' Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
photo: AP / Haraz N. Ghanbari, Pool

Morsi Is Sworn In, Marking a New Stage in Egypt Struggle
Full Article Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
30 Jun 2012

CAIRO -- Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood was formally sworn in on Saturday as the first democratically elected president of Egypt, signaling a new stage in an ever murkier struggle to define the future of the nation after six decades of military-backed autocracy. Proclaiming "a new Egypt, the second republic," Mr. Morsi declared, "Today the...
In this image released by the Egyptian President, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, third from left, stands with ruling military generals including Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, second left, and Prime Minister Kamal Ganzouri, left, during a ceremony following his inauguration, at a military base east of Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, June 30, 2012.
photo: AP / Egyptian Presidency

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


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The former prime minister, after five years away from the British political front line, is back to give us his wisdom on the economy, Europe, the Middle East and the Labour Party....
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Fireworks, music, cake and beer gardens top the list of Canada Day celebrations. In Regina the celebration takes place in Wascana Park where there will...
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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...

An Egyptian Copts chant slogans as one man holds a cross made of flowers, after stones were thrown during clashes between Muslims and Copts in the Shubra neighborhood of Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011.
One of the toughest challenges that will face Egypt's new President, Mohammed Mursi, will be relations with the country's Coptic Christian community. In the presidential run-off election, Copts, who make up about 10% of the population,...
photo: AP / Khalil Hamra
Trader Albert Young works from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Tuesday, April 27, 2010, in New York
By GREGORY ZUCKERMAN At the year's halfway mark, investors are enjoying some surprising, and hard-fought, gains. The market has overcome—or at least managed to deal with—an array of obstacles, from European debt and slow growth in the...
photo: AP / Richard Drew
Hong Kong's Chief Executive-elect Leung Chun-ying, right, and his wife Regina shake hands with supporters during a flag raising ceremony to mark the 15th anniversary of Hong Kong's handover to China, Sunday, July 1, 2012, in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong has begun marking the 15th anniversary since its handover from UK to Chinese control. Chinese President Hu Jintao is due to lead the main ceremony. He earlier swore in businessman CY Leung as the city's new leader. Thousands of...
photo: AP / Kin Cheung
A melting pot for locals and foreigners, Greenbelt 3 is buzzing each night with gatherings and the like, as seen in this March 7, 2009 photo.
*/ Many minorities in the United States grow up with the idea that the 'melting pot', mentioned in many textbooks and historical references, was a good thing- the romantic and exotic idea that America was made up of so many cultures that came...
photo: WN / RTayco
This is a Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2007, file photo of Iceland's President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson as testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Britain warned Iceland
Icelanders have voted to elect a new president, with a 37-year-old mother with a newborn no political experience challenging Olafur Ragnar Grimsson as he seeks a fifth straight term. Polling booths closed at 2200GMT on Saturday, and the first results...
photo: AP / Evan Vucci
Kofi Annan (right), Joint Special Envoy of the United Nations and the League of Arab States on the Syrian Crisis, meets with Bashar Ja’afari, Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the UN, 1 March, 2012.
GENEVA: World powers agreed Saturday on a power transition plan for strife-hit Syria, with the unity government to include members of the present government as well as opposition, international envoy Kofi Annan said. A crunch meeting in Geneva agreed...
photo: UN / Luiz Rampelotto
In this photograph taken July 6, 2010, a street sign is shown near the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street, New York
Wall Street Week Ahead: Can EU deal lift stocks for more than a day? Bristol-Myers to buy Amylin for about $5.3 billion EU deal for Spain, Italy buoys markets but details sketchy Consumer spending stalls, morale at 6-month low Trustee objects to...
photo: AP / Frank Franklin II
Leroy Chiao on Shenzhou 9; updated 30 Jun 2012; published 28 Jun 2012
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Leroy Chiao on Shenzhou 9
WorldNews.com 01 Jul 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling "Heaven hears as the people hear; Heaven sees as the people see." -Mengtzu, Chinese Philosopher (372-289 BCE) Even though it is referred to as the Long March series of rockets, revolutions never completely discard relics from the past. The Shenzhou9 spacecraft, launched by a Long March rocket, blasted...

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Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi takes a symbolic oath in Tahrir Square; updated 01 Jul 2012; published 29 Jun 2012
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Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi takes a symbolic oath in Tahrir Square
France24 01 Jul 2012, AFP - Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi began his first full day in office on Sunday, but with his powers sharply circumscribed by the military that has ruled since Hosni Mubarak was ousted from power last year. After being sworn in as the country's first freely elected civilian president on Saturday, Morsi formally received a transfer of power and...

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Storm Leaves 800000 Without Power In Washington DC Area; updated 01 Jul 2012; published 30 Jun 2012
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Storm Leaves 800000 Without Power In Washington DC Area
The Miami Herald 01 Jul 2012, WASHINGTON -- Millions across the mid-Atlantic region sweltered Saturday in the aftermath of violent storms that pummeled the eastern U.S. with high winds and downed trees, killing at least 13 people and leaving 3 million without power during a heat wave. Power officials said the outages wouldn't be repaired for several days to a week, likening the...

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Hong Kong marks handover's 15th anniversary; updated 27 Jun 2012; published 27 Jun 2012
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Hong Kong marks handover's 15th anniversary
France24 01 Jul 2012, AFP - Defiant protestors targeted China's President Hu Jintao in Hong Kong on Sunday as the former British colony swore in a new leader and marked the 15th anniversary of its return to Chinese rule. "I vow to defend the Hong Kong... Basic Law," new Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, a millionaire property consultant seen as close to China's communist...

Orwellian Carbon Tax Fines Hit Australians; updated 30 Jun 2012; published 26 May 2012
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Orwellian Carbon Tax Fines Hit Australians
BBC News 01 Jul 2012, Australia has introduced its highly controversial carbon tax, after years of bitter political wrangling. The law forces the country's 500 worst-polluting firms to pay a AU$23 (£15; $24) levy for every tonne of greenhouse gases they produce. The government says the tax is needed to meet climate-change obligations of...

Syrious Face-off: Annan's hopes for peace rest on Russia-US policy clash talks; updated 30 Jun 2012; published 29 Jun 2012
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Syrious Face-off: Annan's hopes for peace rest on Russia-US policy clash talks
The Star 01 Jul 2012, GENEVA (Reuters) - World powers struck an agreement that a transitional government should be set up in Syria to end the conflict there but they remained at odds over what part President Bashar al-Assad might play in the process. Joint Special Envoy of the United Nations (UN) and the Arab League for Syria Kofi Annan (R) speaks with Swiss Foreign...

Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi takes a symbolic oath in Tahrir Square; updated 01 Jul 2012; published 29 Jun 2012
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Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi takes a symbolic oath in Tahrir Square
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 30 Jun 2012, CAIRO -- Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood was formally sworn in on Saturday as the first democratically elected president of Egypt, signaling a new stage in an ever murkier struggle to define the future of the nation after six decades of military-backed autocracy. Proclaiming "a new Egypt, the second republic," Mr. Morsi declared, "Today the...

Assad's Forces Torture, Castrate Syrian Protesters in Douma [Extremely Graphic]; updated 28 Jun 2012; published 25 Jun 2012
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Assad's Forces Torture, Castrate Syrian Protesters in Douma [Extremely Graphic]
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...

Bethlehem wins UNESCO heritage status; updated 01 Jul 2012; published 01 Jul 2012
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Bethlehem wins UNESCO heritage status
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...

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...

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...

Egypt presidential election results. Mohammed Mursi wins!; updated 28 Jun 2012; published 24 Jun 2012
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Egypt presidential election results. Mohammed Mursi wins!
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...





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