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India's Muslims and Hindu's Moksha
Full Article WorldNews.com
14 Jul 2012

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling When Muslim civil rights activists rallied in India against the unfair targeting and treatment in the name of fighting terrorism, it evoked moksha, the fourth and final objective of life in Hinduism. For Hindu's, moksha (the Ultimate) means the state of liberation; the final release from entrapment...
Relatives of disappeared Kashmiri Muslim youths hold placards as they take part in a sit-in protest in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 10 May 2012. The Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) headed by Parveena Ahanger organized the protest against the state government seeking the whereabouts of thousands of people who have allegedly disappeared in custody since a separatist rebellion broke out in 1989 in Kashmir. According to APDP around 8,000 persons went missing after being arrested allegedly by Indian forces.
photo: WN / Imran Nissar

Romney fights back on 'false' Bain attacks
Full Article France24
14 Jul 2012

AFP - Republican Mitt Romney has angrily blasted what he called "false" attacks on his time at Bain Capital, but did not cede to demands to release more tax returns that have dogged his White House bid. On Friday, President Barack Obama called on Romney to answer questions about his tenure at Bain after a Boston Globe report cited government...
Mitt Romney  Former Governor Mitt Romney speaking at the 2012 CPAC in Washington, D.C.
photo: Creative Commons / Gage Skidmore

Panel calls for annual PTSD screenings on returning soldiers
Full Article Tulsa World
14 Jul 2012

WASHINGTON - The Institute of Medicine recommended Friday that soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan undergo annual screening for post-traumatic stress disorder and that federal agencies conduct more research to determine how well the various treatments for PTSD are working. Of the 2.6 million service members deployed to Iraq and...
Panel calls for annual PTSD screenings on returning soldiers
photo: US Army / Michael J. MacLeod

Hillary Clinton to meet Egypt's leader Mohammed Mursi
Full Article BBC News
14 Jul 2012

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is set to arrive in Egypt for a key meeting with its new president. Mrs Clinton is expected to seek assurances from Mohammed Mursi on both foreign and domestic policy. Mr Mursi has become embroiled in a constitutional crisis after trying to reinstate a parliament dissolved by the judiciary and...
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks with reporters about Egypt and protests in Iran following her meeting with Speaker of the House John Boehner, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Feb. 14, 2011.
photo: AP / J. Scott Applewhite

Afghan lawmaker among 22 killed as suicide blast hits N. Afghanistan
Full Article Xinhua
14 Jul 2012

AIBAK, Afghanistan, July 14 (Xinhua) -- At least 22 people, including an Afghan parliament member and a head of provincial intelligence agency, were killed and 60 others were injured in a suicide bombing in the northern Afghan province of Samangan on Saturday morning, an...
File - Afghan police special force soldiers walk out side of the Spozhmai Hotel on Lake Qurgha, where security officials say Taliban insurgents killed nearly two dozen people, most of them civilians, in an attack just north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, June, 22, 2012.
photo: AP / Musadeq Sadeq

Annan 'shocked, appalled' by latest Syria massacre report
Full Article The Times of India
13 Jul 2012

SHARE AND DISCUSSTweet About 220 Syrians, mostly civilians, were killed in a village in the rebellious Hama region when it was bombarded by helicopter gunships and tanks then stormed by militiamen who slaughtered some families, opposition sources said.AMMAN/BEIRUT: About 220 Syrians, mostly civilians, were killed in a village in the rebellious Hama...
This image made from amateur video from Hama Revolution 2011 and accessed by AP video Friday, July 13, 2012 purports to show bodies of victims killed by violence that, according to anti-regime activists, was carried out by government forces in Tremseh, Syria, about 15 kilometers (nine miles) northwest of the central city of Hama.
photo: AP / Hama Revolution 2011 via AP video

Islamists' hold over Mali threatens Europe, diplomat warns
Full Article The Guardian
13 Jul 2012

Al-Qaida-linked insurgents using their control over north of country to recruit, arm and train growing numbers of fighters GUERR (02) 2012-07-13 13:46:35,487 Ansar Dine rebels near Timbuktu: an alliance of insurgents broke down with fighting breaking out between different factions. Photograph: Romaric Ollo Hien/AFP/Getty Images...
In this May 16, 2012 photo, Islamist rebels from the Ansar Dine faction prepare to pray in the desert just outside Gao, Mali.
photo: AP / Diakaridia Dembele

Obama seeks to keep once-red Virginia on his side
Full Article Tulsa World
13 Jul 2012

WASHINGTON — Against an increasingly bitter campaign backdrop, President Barack Obama is seeking to shore up support for his re-election in Virginia, a state he won four years ago ending decades of domination by Republican presidential candidates. For challenger Mitt Romney, the state now looms as a battleground crucial to his presidential hopes....
File - President Barack Obama talks on the phone with Solicitor General Donald Verrilli in the Oval Office, after learning of the Supreme Court's ruling on the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” June 28, 2012.
photo: White House / Pete Souza

Congo Voters Set to Endorse Ruling Party in Sunday Polls
Full Article Jakarta Globe
13 Jul 2012

Allies of the Republic of Congo’s longtime president Denis Sassou Nguesso look set to retain an absolute majority when voters head to the polls Sunday for parliamentary elections. More than two million people are eligible to vote in the first round of the poll in the oil-rich west-central African country, which has been open to multiparty politics...
Republic of Congo President Denis Sassou Nguesso, addresses reporters following his meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Wednesday Feb. 8, 2012.
photo: AP / Remy de la Mauviniere

Thai court dismisses case against government
Full Article Al Jazeera
13 Jul 2012

Thailand's Constitutional Court has dismissed an opposition complaint against the government's proposed constitutional changes. "The court dismiss all the petitions," said Nurak Marpraneet, one of eight judges at the Bangkok court, which had been surrounded by security forces in anticipation of the ruling. The court found that complaints...
Thai riot policemen stand guard outside the Constitution Court during a ruling Friday, July 13, 2012 in Bangkok, Thailand.
photo: AP / Xinyan Yu


more Middle East Online
DUBAI - Syria's former ambassador in Baghdad, Nawaf Fares, criticised Iraqi premier in an interview broadcast Saturday, saying Nuri al-Maliki's stance towards Damascus was...
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Article by WN.com Guest Writer Kourosh Ziabari Less than a week ago, the European Union put into effect its comprehensive oil embargo against Iran upon which the member states had...
more The Independent
The Duma passed a law that will force any organisation operating in Russia but funded from abroad to brand itself a "foreign agent" on its website and promotional...

Cyprus police question suspect in security probe
NICOSIA (Reuters) - Cypriot police are questioning a 24-year-old man arrested last week who may have been plotting an attack on Israeli tourists visiting the Mediterranean island, media reported on Saturday. The man, thought to be a Swedish passport...
photo: EC / EC
Syria's bloodiest battle
The general leading the suspended United Nations monitoring mission in Syria has said there had been persistent fighting around the town of Tremseh, where both sides accused the other of massacring...
photo: UN / Jean-Marc Ferré
UN plan to name 'genocide accused' Sudan President to Human Rights Council sparks outrage
Tweet Geneva, July 14 (ANI): The United Nations' decision to make Sudan's president Omar al-Bashir a member of its Human Rights Council after accusing him of genocide has outraged many rights activists, according to a report. Al-Bashir is set to join...
photo: UN / Devra Berkowitz
UN agency concerned over Afghanistan's future
Tweet United Nations, July 13 (Xinhua-ANI): The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is concerned over the future of Afghanistan as ongoing conflict and natural disasters continue to affect the country, a UN...
photo: US Army / Michael J. MacLeod
Syria: Russia Ties The Hands Of The UN
There are many pairs of wringing hands at the United Nations Security Council in New York, but those hands are tied. The UK, France, America and Germany want to pass a tough new resolution which would force President Assad to comply with special...
photo: UN / Jean-Marc Ferré
UN observers inspect areas near site of Syrian massacre
related articles World condemns Syrian regime over massacre By Reuters | Jul.14,2012 | 10:30 AM...
photo: UN / Eskinder Debebe
Feds spend millions on immediate post-fire effects
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Nearly $25 million has already been spent to prepare for the immediate aftermath of this year's wildfires, putting the U.S. Forest Service on track for another possible record year of spending on burned-area recovery efforts. So...
photo: USAF / Jeremy Lock
INDIAN MUSLIMS ON PAKISTAN & INDIA 1/2; updated 13 Jul 2012; published 06 Feb 2012
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INDIAN MUSLIMS ON PAKISTAN & INDIA 1/2
WorldNews.com 14 Jul 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling When Muslim civil rights activists rallied in India against the unfair targeting and treatment in the name of fighting terrorism, it evoked moksha, the fourth and final objective of life in Hinduism. For Hindu's, moksha (the Ultimate) means the state of liberation; the final release from entrapment...

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Mitt Romney's Bain Secret Exposed; updated 14 Jul 2012; published 13 Jul 2012
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Mitt Romney's Bain Secret Exposed
France24 14 Jul 2012, AFP - Republican Mitt Romney has angrily blasted what he called "false" attacks on his time at Bain Capital, but did not cede to demands to release more tax returns that have dogged his White House bid. On Friday, President Barack Obama called on Romney to answer questions about his tenure at Bain after a Boston Globe report cited government...

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Seven US soldiers killed by roadside bombs in Afghanistan; updated 10 Jul 2012; published 09 Jul 2012
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Seven US soldiers killed by roadside bombs in Afghanistan
Tulsa World 14 Jul 2012, WASHINGTON - The Institute of Medicine recommended Friday that soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan undergo annual screening for post-traumatic stress disorder and that federal agencies conduct more research to determine how well the various treatments for PTSD are working. Of the 2.6 million service members deployed to Iraq and...

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Egypt Parliament: President recalls dissolved assembly; updated 09 Jul 2012; published 09 Jul 2012
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Egypt Parliament: President recalls dissolved assembly
BBC News 14 Jul 2012, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is set to arrive in Egypt for a key meeting with its new president. Mrs Clinton is expected to seek assurances from Mohammed Mursi on both foreign and domestic policy. Mr Mursi has become embroiled in a constitutional crisis after trying to reinstate a parliament dissolved by the judiciary and...

Public execution of woman condemned in Afghanistan; updated 11 Jul 2012; published 09 Jul 2012
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Public execution of woman condemned in Afghanistan
Xinhua 14 Jul 2012, AIBAK, Afghanistan, July 14 (Xinhua) -- At least 22 people, including an Afghan parliament member and a head of provincial intelligence agency, were killed and 60 others were injured in a suicide bombing in the northern Afghan province of Samangan on Saturday morning, an...

'Syrian rebels' aim dictatorship, not democracy '; updated 12 Jul 2012; published 10 Jul 2012
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'Syrian rebels' aim dictatorship, not democracy '
The Times of India 13 Jul 2012, SHARE AND DISCUSSTweet About 220 Syrians, mostly civilians, were killed in a village in the rebellious Hama region when it was bombarded by helicopter gunships and tanks then stormed by militiamen who slaughtered some families, opposition sources said.AMMAN/BEIRUT: About 220 Syrians, mostly civilians, were killed in a village in the rebellious Hama...

Mali coup leaders to restore constitution amid rebel gains; updated 12 Jun 2012; published 01 Apr 2012
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Mali coup leaders to restore constitution amid rebel gains
The Guardian 13 Jul 2012, Al-Qaida-linked insurgents using their control over north of country to recruit, arm and train growing numbers of fighters GUERR (02) 2012-07-13 13:46:35,487 Ansar Dine rebels near Timbuktu: an alliance of insurgents broke down with fighting breaking out between different factions. Photograph: Romaric Ollo Hien/AFP/Getty Images...

Obama for America TV Ad:
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Obama for America TV Ad: "Firms"
Tulsa World 13 Jul 2012, WASHINGTON — Against an increasingly bitter campaign backdrop, President Barack Obama is seeking to shore up support for his re-election in Virginia, a state he won four years ago ending decades of domination by Republican presidential candidates. For challenger Mitt Romney, the state now looms as a battleground crucial to his presidential hopes....

People & Power - Oil gotten gains - 9 Sept 09 - Part 2; updated 20 May 2012; published 09 Sep 2009
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People & Power - Oil gotten gains - 9 Sept 09 - Part 2
Jakarta Globe 13 Jul 2012, Allies of the Republic of Congo’s longtime president Denis Sassou Nguesso look set to retain an absolute majority when voters head to the polls Sunday for parliamentary elections. More than two million people are eligible to vote in the first round of the poll in the oil-rich west-central African country, which has been open to multiparty politics...

Court's Verdict to Set Tone to Thai Politics; updated 12 Jul 2012; published 12 Jul 2012
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Court's Verdict to Set Tone to Thai Politics
Al Jazeera 13 Jul 2012, Thailand's Constitutional Court has dismissed an opposition complaint against the government's proposed constitutional changes. "The court dismiss all the petitions," said Nurak Marpraneet, one of eight judges at the Bangkok court, which had been surrounded by security forces in anticipation of the ruling. The court found that complaints...

GRAPHIC Video: Syria Massacre; updated 12 Jul 2012; published 30 May 2012
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GRAPHIC Video: Syria Massacre
The Hindu 13 Jul 2012, More than 200 people, mostly civilians, were massacred when Syrian government forces shelled and stormed a village on Thursday in the restive central area of Hama, opposition activists said. Abu Omar, a military official of the Free Syrian Army in Hama, told DPA that the village of Teraymissha, mainly a Sunni areas, was heavily shelled and stormed...

Raw Video: Deadly Nigeria Tanker Truck Fire; updated 14 Jul 2012; published 13 Jul 2012
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Raw Video: Deadly Nigeria Tanker Truck Fire
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 13 Jul 2012, LAGOS, Nigeria -- A truck carrying fuel veered off the road into a ditch, caught fire and exploded in Nigeria's oil-rich delta Thursday, killing at least 95 people who had rushed to the scene to scoop fuel that had spilled, an official said -- a tragic reminder of how little of the country's oil wealth has trickled down to the poor. At...

Inside Story - Is Pakistan backing the Taliban?; updated 13 Jul 2012; published 02 Feb 2012
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Inside Story - Is Pakistan backing the Taliban?
The Independent 13 Jul 2012, It was the second such attack on security forces in the country’s Punjab province in four days and police have suggested the same fighters may be involved. Yesterday’s dawn attack took place at a housing compound in the city of Lahore where the young police cadets were undergoing training to become prison guards. Around 30 cadets from...

Drugs tunnel from Mexico to Arizona found; updated 11 Jul 2012; published 10 Jul 2012
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Drugs tunnel from Mexico to Arizona found
New Straits/Business Times 13 Jul 2012, LOS ANGELES: US and Mexican authorities have unearthed a 240-yard-long drug smuggling tunnel under their joint border in the state of Arizona, the latest such find in the violence-scarred region, US officials said on Thursday. The “sophisticated” six-feet high by two-feet wide (1.8-metre by 0.6-metre) tunnel, equipped with lighting and...





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