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The End of American Independence
Full Article Antiwar
02 Jul 2012

We celebrate the fourth of July with fireworks, memorializing the American colonists’ struggle against the British empire by reenacting, in symbolic fashion, what was a war for independence – that is, an assertion of American sovereignty. As we’ve built an empire of our own, however, the celebration has naturally degenerated into an orgy of...
Sailors aboard the USS Samuel B. Roberts hoist the American flag.
photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Damian Berg

Enrique Pena Nieto 'wins' Mexican presidency
Full Article Al Jazeera
02 Jul 2012

Mexican opposition candidate Enrique Pena Nieto's campaign team has claimed victory in the country's presidential election after exit polls showed him winning by a comfortable margin. Pena Nieto, 45, of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), led by between 8 and 11 percentage points in exit polls published by three of Mexico's main...
Enrique Pena Nieto, presidential candidate for the Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI), flashes his election ink-stained thumbs after he cast his vote in the general election
photo: AP / Dario Lopez-Mills

Tension rises along Turkey-Syria border
Full Article Sacramento Bee
02 Jul 2012

BEIRUT -- Turkey said Sunday that it had scrambled fighter jets along its increasingly tense border with Syria after Syrian helicopters were detected close to the two nations' long frontier. Turkish authorities reported no armed confrontation and no violation of Turkish territory took place, according to reports in the Turkish media. But the...
A group of Syrian, fleeing violence in their country, walk towards the Turkish border near Reyhanli, Turkey, Thursday, March 15, 2012.
photo: AP / Burhan Ozbilici

Red Cross: Kenya church attacks kill 17 near Somali border
Full Article CNN
01 Jul 2012

July 1, 2012 -- Updated 1657 GMT (0057 HKT) Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) -- Explosions targeting two churches in Kenya near the Somali border killed at least 17 people, the Red Cross said, in the latest spate of attacks on the East African nation. The blasts wounded at least 40 others, the Red Cross said. Regional deputy police chief Philip Ndolo also...
Members of the Kenyan security forces inspect the scene, as a body lies covered by a sheet, outside the African Inland Church in Garissa, Kenya Sunday, July 1, 2012.
photo: AP / Chris Mann

Lives in danger as many seek refuge from extreme heat
Full Article CNN
01 Jul 2012

July 1, 2012 -- Updated 1640 GMT (0040 HKT) Linda Gordon, right, finds relief from the extreme heat with an ice pack in Memphis, Tennessee, on Saturday, June 30. Children play in the water at Six Flags Over Georgia in Atlanta, where temperatures topped 100 degrees on Friday. Residents crowd onto the beach at Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York, in...
Swimmers try and keep cool in near 100 degree temperatures at Red Oaks Waterpark in Madison Heights, Mich., Thursday, June 28, 2012.
photo: AP / Paul Sancya

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


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Yitzhak Shamir, who has died aged 96, was a former terrorist who, a little to his own surprise, found himself Prime Minister of Israel in 1983. He only entered the Knesset in 1973,...
more The Independent
Since 2010, these cartridges have flooded into west and central Africa. Some are bought on the black market, peddled by soldiers looking to make some cash on the side. Others have...
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Article by WN.com Guest Writer Gilad Atzmon The Huffington Post reported recently that "Hava Hershkovitz, 79, was crowned 'Miss Holocaust Survivor' at a pageant held in Israel on...

Former U.N. chief Kofi Annan waves as he arrives for his meeting with Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby at the Arab league headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, March 8, 2012. Anan says his top priority as special envoy to Syria is to end the violence, deliver humanitarian relief and finally start a "political process" to resolve the one-year conflict there.
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia says it will hold talks with two Syrian opposition groups, officials from President Bashar Assad's government, and with UN envoy Kofi Annan later in July. Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov was quoted by the RIA Novosti...
photo: AP / Amr Nabil
Ein Kunde bedient in Muenchen in einem Apple-Laden sein neues iPad von Apple (Foto vom 16.03.12).
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Apple Inc has paid $60 million to Proview Technology (Shenzhen) to end a dispute over the iPad trademark in China that saw the world's most valuable technology company engaged in a protracted legal tussle with a near-bankrupt...
photo: AP / Sebastian Widmann
Chinese President Hu Jintao, right, administers the oath to Hong Kong's new Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, left, for a five-year term in office at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center Sunday, July 1, 2012.
Hong Kong - Tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters took to the streets of Hong Kong hours after Chinese President Hu Jintao swore in the city's new leader and urged him to resolve what he called “deep disagreements” among the...
photo: AP / Vincent Yu
In this photo released by The Spanish Football Federation on Sunday, July 1, 2012, Spain's Crown Prince Felipe, top center, and Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, top 3rd from left, join Spain's victorious soccer team in Kiev, Ukraine.
Spain thrashed Italy 4-0 in the final of Euro 2012 in Kiev on Sunday to win their third major tournament in a row. Vicente del Bosque led his side to an emphatic victory in Ukraine to become the first coach to win a World Cup, a European Championship...
photo: AP / Carmelo Rubio
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
Imperial America: The Nasty Truth; updated 04 Mar 2012; published 11 Jun 2011
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Imperial America: The Nasty Truth
Antiwar 02 Jul 2012, We celebrate the fourth of July with fireworks, memorializing the American colonists’ struggle against the British empire by reenacting, in symbolic fashion, what was a war for independence – that is, an assertion of American sovereignty. As we’ve built an empire of our own, however, the celebration has naturally degenerated into an orgy of...

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PRI's Enrique Pena Nieto declares victory in Mexico presidential election; updated 02 Jul 2012; published 02 Jul 2012
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PRI's Enrique Pena Nieto declares victory in Mexico presidential election
Al Jazeera 02 Jul 2012, Mexican opposition candidate Enrique Pena Nieto's campaign team has claimed victory in the country's presidential election after exit polls showed him winning by a comfortable margin. Pena Nieto, 45, of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), led by between 8 and 11 percentage points in exit polls published by three of Mexico's main...

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Turkish fighter jet shot down over Syria, 2 pilots' status unknown; updated 02 Jul 2012; published 22 Jun 2012
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Turkish fighter jet shot down over Syria, 2 pilots' status unknown
Sacramento Bee 02 Jul 2012, BEIRUT -- Turkey said Sunday that it had scrambled fighter jets along its increasingly tense border with Syria after Syrian helicopters were detected close to the two nations' long frontier. Turkish authorities reported no armed confrontation and no violation of Turkish territory took place, according to reports in the Turkish media. But the...

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Attacks on Kenyan churches kill 17; updated 02 Jul 2012; published 02 Jul 2012
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Attacks on Kenyan churches kill 17
CNN 01 Jul 2012, July 1, 2012 -- Updated 1657 GMT (0057 HKT) Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) -- Explosions targeting two churches in Kenya near the Somali border killed at least 17 people, the Red Cross said, in the latest spate of attacks on the East African nation. The blasts wounded at least 40 others, the Red Cross said. Regional deputy police chief Philip Ndolo also...

Heat wave blankets the US (June 2012); updated 30 Jun 2012; published 22 Jun 2012
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Heat wave blankets the US (June 2012)
CNN 01 Jul 2012, July 1, 2012 -- Updated 1640 GMT (0040 HKT) Linda Gordon, right, finds relief from the extreme heat with an ice pack in Memphis, Tennessee, on Saturday, June 30. Children play in the water at Six Flags Over Georgia in Atlanta, where temperatures topped 100 degrees on Friday. Residents crowd onto the beach at Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York, in...

Shenzhou-9 astronauts return to Earth; updated 01 Jul 2012; published 29 Jun 2012
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Shenzhou-9 astronauts return to Earth
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...

Egypt's new president Mohammed Morsi sworn in; updated 01 Jul 2012; published 30 Jun 2012
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Egypt's new president Mohammed Morsi sworn in
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...

June 2012 Washington DC Derecho; updated 01 Jul 2012; published 01 Jul 2012
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June 2012 Washington DC Derecho
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...

Fireworks Extravaganza Video: Hong Kong marks 15 years of Chinese rule; updated 02 Jul 2012; published 01 Jul 2012
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Fireworks Extravaganza Video: Hong Kong marks 15 years of Chinese rule
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 01 Jul 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 01 Jul 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 new president Mohammed Morsi sworn in; updated 01 Jul 2012; published 30 Jun 2012
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Egypt's new president Mohammed Morsi sworn in
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...

Path for Peace: Russia & West agree on transition government for Syria; updated 01 Jul 2012; published 30 Jun 2012
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Path for Peace: Russia & West agree on transition government for Syria
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...





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