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Syria: War from the inside out
Full Article Al Jazeera
03 Jul 2012

From above, from the commanding positions occupied by leaders, war appears as an instrument. It is a tool that states and political groups use to achieve their aims. War is a broadsword, or even a light, handy rapier, with which enemies are dispatched, interests protected and values served. For the Syrian opposition, war is the means by which to...
This image made from amateur video released by Shaam News Network and accessed Friday, June 29, 2012, purports to show shelling in Homs, Syria.
photo: AP / Shaam News Network via AP video

This US summer is 'what global warming looks like'
Full Article The Boston Globe
03 Jul 2012

WASHINGTON-If you want a glimpse of some of the worst of global warming, scientists suggest taking a look at U.S. weather in recent weeks. Horrendous wildfires. Oppressive heat waves. Devastating droughts. Flooding from giant deluges. And a powerful freak wind storm called a derecho. These are the kinds of extremes climate scientists have predicted...
Bighorn type 2 fire fighters mop up hot spots on the south end of the  Waldo Canyon Fire, Colorado Springs June 29, 2012.
photo: FEMA / Michael Rieger

Bob Diamond quits as Barclays chief
Full Article Citywire
03 Jul 2012

Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond has resigned in the wake of the Libor scandal. Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond has resigned from Barclays in the wake of the Libor scandal. Diamond as resigned with...
UK. BARCLAYS bank. Feb. 2, 2009
photo: WN / marzena

Syrian protesters carry a long syrian flag while shouting anti presidential slogans against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad during a protest march organised by the syrian citizens in Bucharest Sept. 2, 2011.
photo: AP / Octav Ganea

Syria running 27 torture centres: rights group
Full Article The Star
03 Jul 2012

(Note graphic details) NEW YORK (Reuters) - Syrian intelligence agencies are running torture centres across the country where detainees are beaten with batons and cables, burned with acid, sexually assaulted, and their fingernails torn out, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Tuesday. The New York-based rights group identified 27...
A blindfolded activist, opposed to the Syrian government, participates in a sit-in in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009, to protest against Syria's use of torture on prisoners, according to the protest group.
photo: AP / Bilal Hussein

Terror of 'incorruptible' Afghan who turned his gun on British troops
Full Article The Independent
03 Jul 2012

In a matter of seconds three soldiers lay dead while a fourth was wounded. Their attacker, an Afghan man in a police uniform, was also shot but survived and is currently under guard until he can be questioned. The assault is just the latest so-called "green on blue" incident in which Afghan policemen and soldiers have turned on the men...
U.S. Army 1st Lt. Jerry Wolfe of Delta Company, 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division Air Assault, talks with a man from a local village while on patrol with Afghan National Army Soldiers in  Sabari, Khowst Province, Afghanistan, April 13, 2010.
photo: US Army / Sgt. Jeffrey Alexander

GlaxoSmithKline to pay $3B for health fraud
Full Article Dayton Daily News
03 Jul 2012

TRENTON, N.J.British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline will pay $3 billion in fines — the largest heathcare fraud settlement in U.S. history — for criminal and civil violations involving 10 drugs that are taken by millions of people. The Justice Department said Monday that GlaxoSmithKline PLC will plead guilty to promoting popular...
The GlaxoSmithKline headquarters are seen in west London, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009.
photo: AP / Akira Suemori

The decade of war to come
Full Article Al Jazeera
02 Jul 2012

"In operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, a failure to recognise, acknowledge and accurately define the operational environment led to a mismatch between forces, capabilities, missions and goals," reads a new draft report by the Pentagon's Joint Staff. In Decade of War: Enduring Lessons from the Past Decade of Operations, the authors admit...
Soldiers of the 6th Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 203rd Afghan National Army Corp and Soldiers of 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, conducted dismounted patrol to an outpost in Paktika Province, Afghanistan, June 21, 2012.
photo: U.S. Army Courtesy

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


more DNA India
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 BBC News
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...
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...

Building the future we want
Over the past two weeks, Rio has seen the biggest gathering in a decade of world leaders to discuss sustainability issues. Following on from the original Earth Summit in Rio in 1992 and the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in...
photo: UN / Mark Garten
Salehi: Foreign presence hinders Afghanistan development, causes instability
Tehran, July 3, IRNAForeign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi said on Tuesday that continued presence of foreign forces in Afghanistan is the main stumbling block to the country’s stability and development....
photo: US Army / Michael J. MacLeod
UN drug agency head slams anti-Jewish Iran remarks
Vienna: The head of the UN's drug fighting agency has criticised anti-Jewish remarks made by an Iranian vice president last week. A United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime...
photo: UN / Devra Berkowitz
No easy solution to Syrian crisis
UNITED NATIONS — As the carnage against civilians continues across Syria, there's a compelling humanitarian case for international intervention to stop the violence that has killed more than 10,000 civilians. Yet, what started as a political...
photo: UN / Jean-Marc Ferré
Secretary-General Ban calls on states to abolish death penalty
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. UN Photo/JC McIlwaine3 July 2012 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on Member States which use the death penalty to abolish this practice, stressing that the right to life lies at the heart of...
photo: UN / Devra Berkowitz
European Parliament Expected to Kill Intellectual Property Treaty Wednesday
share A "no" for the Hollywood-backed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, vote would kill the controversial copyright protection law in Europe. COLOGNE, Germany - As Hollywood executives take July 4 off to celebrate Independence Day,...
photo: EC / (C)2012-EUROPEAN COMMISSION
News Analysis: Dim prospects clouding Syria transition plan despite diplomatic optimism
DAMASCUS, July 2 (Xinhua) -- Despite the diplomatic ostensible optimism about the political-transition process laid forward by the "action group" meeting in Geneva Saturday, facts on ground refer to dim prospects of such plan due to a number of...
photo: UN / Eskinder Debebe
Syria activist reports horrific massacre in suburbs of Damascus; updated 02 Jul 2012; published 30 Jun 2012
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Syria activist reports horrific massacre in suburbs of Damascus
Al Jazeera 03 Jul 2012, From above, from the commanding positions occupied by leaders, war appears as an instrument. It is a tool that states and political groups use to achieve their aims. War is a broadsword, or even a light, handy rapier, with which enemies are dispatched, interests protected and values served. For the Syrian opposition, war is the means by which to...

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Colorado Wildfire Best Video Footage; updated 02 Jul 2012; published 27 Jun 2012
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Colorado Wildfire Best Video Footage
The Boston Globe 03 Jul 2012, WASHINGTON-If you want a glimpse of some of the worst of global warming, scientists suggest taking a look at U.S. weather in recent weeks. Horrendous wildfires. Oppressive heat waves. Devastating droughts. Flooding from giant deluges. And a powerful freak wind storm called a derecho. These are the kinds of extremes climate scientists have predicted...

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Barclay's Chief Exec Bob Diamond Resigns; updated 03 Jul 2012; published 03 Jul 2012
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Barclay's Chief Exec Bob Diamond Resigns
Citywire 03 Jul 2012, Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond has resigned in the wake of the Libor scandal. Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond has resigned from Barclays in the wake of the Libor scandal. Diamond as resigned with...

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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
BBC News 03 Jul 2012, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has told a Turkish newspaper he regrets "100 per cent" that a Turkish jet...

Syrian police torture protester; updated 15 Jun 2012; published 01 Sep 2011
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Syrian police torture protester
The Star 03 Jul 2012, (Note graphic details) NEW YORK (Reuters) - Syrian intelligence agencies are running torture centres across the country where detainees are beaten with batons and cables, burned with acid, sexually assaulted, and their fingernails torn out, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Tuesday. The New York-based rights group identified 27...

British soldiers killed in Afghanistan 02.07.12; updated 03 Jul 2012; published 03 Jul 2012
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British soldiers killed in Afghanistan 02.07.12
The Independent 03 Jul 2012, In a matter of seconds three soldiers lay dead while a fourth was wounded. Their attacker, an Afghan man in a police uniform, was also shot but survived and is currently under guard until he can be questioned. The assault is just the latest so-called "green on blue" incident in which Afghan policemen and soldiers have turned on the men...

GlaxoSmithKline pleads guilty to £3bn fraud; updated 03 Jul 2012; published 03 Jul 2012
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GlaxoSmithKline pleads guilty to £3bn fraud
Dayton Daily News 03 Jul 2012, TRENTON, N.J.British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline will pay $3 billion in fines — the largest heathcare fraud settlement in U.S. history — for criminal and civil violations involving 10 drugs that are taken by millions of people. The Justice Department said Monday that GlaxoSmithKline PLC will plead guilty to promoting popular...

Voice of Art - Iraq Veterans Against the War, Pt. 1; updated 02 Jul 2012; published 29 Jun 2012
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Voice of Art - Iraq Veterans Against the War, Pt. 1
Al Jazeera 02 Jul 2012, "In operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, a failure to recognise, acknowledge and accurately define the operational environment led to a mismatch between forces, capabilities, missions and goals," reads a new draft report by the Pentagon's Joint Staff. In Decade of War: Enduring Lessons from the Past Decade of Operations, the authors admit...

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...

Enrique Pena Nieto Wins Mexican Election; updated 03 Jul 2012; published 03 Jul 2012
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Enrique Pena Nieto Wins Mexican 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...

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...

17 Killed In Garissa Church Attacks; updated 02 Jul 2012; published 01 Jul 2012
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17 Killed In Garissa Church Attacks
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 02 Jul 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...

Leroy Chiao on Shenzhou 9; updated 01 Jul 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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