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Going green globally from the grassroots
Full Article Denver Post
17 Jun 2012

Inaction at the United Nations' Rio+20 summit this week would be disastrous to global crisis. Much is riding on the United Nations Rio+20 summit this week. Many are billing it as Plan A for Planet Earth and want leaders bound to a single international agreement to protect our life-support system and prevent a global humanitarian crisis. Inaction in...
Going green globally from the grassroots
photo: UN / Maria Elisa Franco

42 insurgents killed, 37 arrested in operations in Afghanistan
Full Article Xinhua
17 Jun 2012

KABUL, June 17 (Xinhua) -- Up to 42 insurgents have been killed and 37 other detained in military operations in different provinces within the past 24 hours, the Afghan...
42 insurgents killed, 37 arrested in operations in Afghanistan
photo: US Army / Michael J. MacLeod

Greeks to vote in crucial elections
Full Article Zeenews
17 Jun 2012

Zeenews Bureau Athens: Greeks will go to the polls on Sunday again in key elections which could determine the country's future in the eurozone. Elections in Greece are supposed to determine the will of the people, to set a nation on a new course with a government that enjoys the mandate of the majority. In splintered Greece, the vote on Sunday is...
Maria, 61, a street vendor of corn-on-the-cob (surname not given) pushes her cart in front of election posters of radical left party (SYRIZA) one day before general elections in Athens, Saturday, June 16, 2012.
photo: AP / Kostas Tsironis

UN mission suspends activities in Syria
Full Article Stars and Stripes
16 Jun 2012

The UN observer mission to Syria has suspended its activities, saying escalating violence is impeding the monitors' ability to carry out its mandate. "UN observers will not be conducting patrols and will stay in their locations until further notice," the mission's chief General Major Robert Mood said in a statement on Saturday....
Norwegian Maj. Gen. Robert Mood, head of the U.N. observer team in Syria, speaks to reporters in Zabadani neighborhood in Damascus, Syira, Sunday, May 20, 2012.
photo: AP / Muzaffar Salman

Greek, Spanish savings flee eurozone crisis
Full Article The Daily Telegraph Australia
16 Jun 2012

SAVERS across Europe are fleeing the continent's debt crisis. In Europe's most economically stricken countries, people are taking their money out of their banks as a way to protect their savings from the continent's growing financial storm. Worried that their savings could be devalued, or that banks are on the verge of collapse and that...
Greek, Spanish savings flee eurozone crisis
photo: EC / EC

Nobel peace prize 'showed the world had not forgotten Burma'
Full Article The Guardian
16 Jun 2012

Aung San Suu Kyi calls on humanity to never stop in the pursuit of peace during moving acceptance speech in Oslo Aung San Suu Kyi receives a standing ovation after her Nobel peace prize acceptance speech. Photograph: Markus Schreiber/AP...
Nobel peace prize 'showed the world had not forgotten Burma'
photo: UN / Violaine Martin

Japan gives unpopular go-ahead to restart two reactors
Full Article Deutsche Welle
16 Jun 2012

The first of Japan's nuclear reactors could come back online in as little as three weeks' time after all of the country's nuclear plants were shut down pending safety checks following last year's Fukushima disaster. The Japanese government has given its approval to a plan that would...
In this undated but recent photo released by Tokyo Electric Power Co., the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant reactors stand in line intact in Okumamachi in Fukushima Prefecture (state), northeastern Japan. Reactors encased in square boxes, from left, are: Unit 4, Unit 3, Unit 2, Unit 1, Unit 5 and Unit 6.
photo: AP / Tokyo Electric Power Co.

South Side prosecutor lawyers for his country — in Afghanistan
Full Article Chicago Sun-Times
16 Jun 2012

Updated: June 16, 2012 1:49AM In the middle of a dusty nowhere, amid farmers and mud houses, 7,000 miles up in Afghanistan’s eastern mountains, America takes one of its last offensive stands after more than a decade of war. Here in green camouflage, a South Side prosecutor is lawyering for his country. Dan Griffin, an assistant state’s attorney...
South Side prosecutor lawyers for his country — in Afghanistan
photo: US Army / Ken Scar

 Obama immigration policy shift likely to play role at the polls
Full Article The Dallas Morning News
16 Jun 2012

Why don’t we vote? It’s a question many Latinos have been asking themselves for decades. Well, they may have just been given a huge shot in the arm and reason to vote this year. President Barack Obama’s policy decision to stop deporting some undocumented young people and allow them to obtain work permits has re-energized Latino leaders across the...
President Barack Obama holds a meeting in the Situation Room of the White House, May 31, 2012.
photo: White House / Pete Souza

Poland braces for more soccer hooligan violence
Full Article Jakarta Post
16 Jun 2012

Poland is braced for more soccer hooligan violence this weekend between Polish and Russian fans at the European Championship, with the justice minister warning that there's no shortage of "cretins" willing to do battle on both sides. Prime Minister Donald Tusk warned that police were prepared to respond harshly to any violence. "I hope we will not...
Poland braces for more soccer hooligan violence
photo: WN / Marzena J.


more The Independent
With voters set to choose between the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi and Ahmed Shafik, the former fighter pilot and Prime Minister under President Hosni Mubarak, reverberations...
more Al Jazeera
Ministers from members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) – deeply divided over how much oil to pump following a sharp decline in global prices...
more Ha'aretz
As part of the events this week to mark the 30th anniversary of the first Lebanon War, the film "Shtei Etzba'ot Metzidon" (titled "Ricochets" in English ) was...

A Father's Day dilemma
For most people, Father's Day - like Mother's Day - is a joyous time to celebrate the loving relationship of a parent. Some people who haven't had lots of positive experiences with their parents as children and/or adults face these occasions with...
photo: WN / Marzena J.
French Socialist Party candidate for the 2012 presidential elections Francois Hollande waves as he arrives to deliver his speech during a meeting in Paris, Sunday, April 29, 2012 as part of his campaign for the second round of the French presidential elections on May 6, 2012.
June 17, 2012 -- Updated 0646 GMT (1446 HKT) (CNN) -- French President Francois Hollande looked to solidify his Socialist Party's majority in runoff parliamentary elections Sunday, which would allow him to push through an anti-austerity agenda. His...
photo: AP / Christophe Ena
Extraordinary tales from the dreaded frontier
It is hard for most of us to imagine the borders of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran without thinking of turbaned Taliban, wielding missile-launchers. Therefore, Jamil Ahmad's debut, The Wandering Falcon, strikes us harder. This collection of...
photo: US Army / Ken Scar
Where the jobs are, Austin metro area, 2011
Job growth and loss in Austin Occupation Total employment 2011 Change from 2006 Annual median pay 1. Retail salespeople 28,490 +13% $20,910 2. Office clerks, general 23,760 +50% $30,360 3. Cashiers 18,880 +19% $18,910 4. Food preparation and serving,...
photo: UN / Guilherme Costa
Weapons of shadow wars
WASHINGTON - After a decade of costly conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, the American way of war is evolving toward less brawn, more guile. Drone aircraft spy on and attack terrorists with no pilot in harm's way. Small teams of special operations...
photo: US Army / Ken Scar
Here comes the depression
Evidence mounts that economic growth is slowing around the world, including in the United States and in the European Union. Even fast-evolving economies like Brazil, China and India are slowing. Two questions emerge: • Is the looming recession in...
photo: EC / EU
A tug boat pulls a barge with giant Olympic rings that are 11 meters (36 feet) tall and 25 meters (82 feet) wide as they are unveiled on the River Thames in London, as preparations for the upcoming London 2012 Olympic games gather pace in London Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
MOSCOW, June 17 (RIA Novosti) – The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has started a probe into claims that Olympic Games officials violated regulations regarding the sale of London 2012 tickets, the BBC reported...
photo: AP / Alastair Grant
Rio+20 - United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development - Video by Government of Brazil; updated 14 Jun 2012; published 19 Oct 2011
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Rio+20 - United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development - Video by Government of Brazil
Denver Post 17 Jun 2012, Inaction at the United Nations' Rio+20 summit this week would be disastrous to global crisis. Much is riding on the United Nations Rio+20 summit this week. Many are billing it as Plan A for Planet Earth and want leaders bound to a single international agreement to protect our life-support system and prevent a global humanitarian crisis. Inaction in...

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Afghan officials allege civilian deaths in NATO strike; updated 08 Jun 2012; published 06 Jun 2012
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Afghan officials allege civilian deaths in NATO strike
Xinhua 17 Jun 2012, KABUL, June 17 (Xinhua) -- Up to 42 insurgents have been killed and 37 other detained in military operations in different provinces within the past 24 hours, the Afghan...

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Athens' Must-Win Voter District in Greek Elections; updated 15 Jun 2012; published 15 Jun 2012
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Athens' Must-Win Voter District in Greek Elections
Zeenews 17 Jun 2012, Zeenews Bureau Athens: Greeks will go to the polls on Sunday again in key elections which could determine the country's future in the eurozone. Elections in Greece are supposed to determine the will of the people, to set a nation on a new course with a government that enjoys the mandate of the majority. In splintered Greece, the vote on Sunday is...

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Syria: UN observers suspend mission over escalating violence; updated 16 Jun 2012; published 16 Jun 2012
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Syria: UN observers suspend mission over escalating violence
Stars and Stripes 16 Jun 2012, The UN observer mission to Syria has suspended its activities, saying escalating violence is impeding the monitors' ability to carry out its mandate. "UN observers will not be conducting patrols and will stay in their locations until further notice," the mission's chief General Major Robert Mood said in a statement on Saturday....

'EU caught up in vicious loan circle'; updated 13 Jun 2012; published 12 Jun 2012
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'EU caught up in vicious loan circle'
The Daily Telegraph Australia 16 Jun 2012, SAVERS across Europe are fleeing the continent's debt crisis. In Europe's most economically stricken countries, people are taking their money out of their banks as a way to protect their savings from the continent's growing financial storm. Worried that their savings could be devalued, or that banks are on the verge of collapse and that...

Myanmar needs democracy-friendly development growth, says Aung San Suu Kyi; updated 16 Jun 2012; published 14 Jun 2012
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Myanmar needs democracy-friendly development growth, says Aung San Suu Kyi
The Guardian 16 Jun 2012, Aung San Suu Kyi calls on humanity to never stop in the pursuit of peace during moving acceptance speech in Oslo Aung San Suu Kyi receives a standing ovation after her Nobel peace prize acceptance speech. Photograph: Markus Schreiber/AP...

Japan restarts two nuclear reactors; updated 15 Jun 2012; published 08 Jun 2012
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Japan restarts two nuclear reactors
Deutsche Welle 16 Jun 2012, The first of Japan's nuclear reactors could come back online in as little as three weeks' time after all of the country's nuclear plants were shut down pending safety checks following last year's Fukushima disaster. The Japanese government has given its approval to a plan that would...

Ross Kemp and British Troops in Afghanistan; updated 10 Jun 2012; published 21 Jul 2011
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Ross Kemp and British Troops in Afghanistan
Chicago Sun-Times 16 Jun 2012, Updated: June 16, 2012 1:49AM In the middle of a dusty nowhere, amid farmers and mud houses, 7,000 miles up in Afghanistan’s eastern mountains, America takes one of its last offensive stands after more than a decade of war. Here in green camouflage, a South Side prosecutor is lawyering for his country. Dan Griffin, an assistant state’s attorney...

President Obama Speaks on Department of Homeland Security Immigration Announcement; updated 15 Jun 2012; published 15 Jun 2012
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President Obama Speaks on Department of Homeland Security Immigration Announcement
The Dallas Morning News 16 Jun 2012, Why don’t we vote? It’s a question many Latinos have been asking themselves for decades. Well, they may have just been given a huge shot in the arm and reason to vote this year. President Barack Obama’s policy decision to stop deporting some undocumented young people and allow them to obtain work permits has re-energized Latino leaders across the...

Welcome to Warsaw EURO 2012; updated 27 May 2012; published 26 Mar 2012
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Welcome to Warsaw EURO 2012
Jakarta Post 16 Jun 2012, Poland is braced for more soccer hooligan violence this weekend between Polish and Russian fans at the European Championship, with the justice minister warning that there's no shortage of "cretins" willing to do battle on both sides. Prime Minister Donald Tusk warned that police were prepared to respond harshly to any violence. "I hope we will not...

GOT INK - Egyptian Presidential Elections 2012; updated 24 May 2012; published 21 May 2012
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GOT INK - Egyptian Presidential Elections 2012
The Star 16 Jun 2012, CAIRO: Egyptians vote for a president on Saturday in a runoff election that for many offers only a choice of the lesser of two evils - a military man who served deposed autocrat Hosni Mubarak or a conservative Islamist who says he is running for God. Reeling from a court order two days ago to dissolve a new parliament dominated by the Muslim...

US Drones in Syria,Pakistan,Libya,Iraq,Afghanistan,Somalia,Yemen; updated 22 Mar 2012; published 27 Feb 2012
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US Drones in Syria,Pakistan,Libya,Iraq,Afghanistan,Somalia,Yemen
Yahoo Daily News 16 Jun 2012, The White House has formally acknowledged for the first time that it is conducting lethal attacks against al-Qaeda in Yemen and Somalia, after it had partially lifted the lid of secrecy on its counterterrorism campaign. The White House's semi-annual report to Congress on the state of US combat operations abroad, delivered Friday, mentions what...

Hillary Clinton on the Crisis in Egypt 1/30/2011; updated 27 May 2012; published 30 Jan 2011
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Hillary Clinton on the Crisis in Egypt 1/30/2011
Xinhua 16 Jun 2012, WASHINGTON, June 14 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday called for a full transfer of power in Egypt to an elected civilian government, saying "there can be no going back on the democratic transition." The top U.S....

Debate over effects of immigration policy change; updated 17 Jun 2012; published 17 Jun 2012
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Debate over effects of immigration policy change
France24 15 Jun 2012, AFP - The United States will stop deporting young law-abiding illegal immigrants who satisfy broad criteria, in a move that will be seen as a concession to Hispanic voters ahead of November's election. The scheme applies to minors brought to the United States before the age of 16, who are currently under 30, are in school or have graduated from...





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