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Gunman kills 12 in Denver shooting at Batman movie
Full Article The Star
20 Jul 2012

DENVER, Colorado (Reuters) - A masked gunman killed 12 people at a midnight showing of the new Batman movie in a suburb of Denver early on Friday, sparking pandemonium when he hurled a gas canister into the auditorium and opened fire on moviegoers. The Century 16 Theatre where a masked gunman killed 14 people at a midnight showing of the new Batman...
A SWAT team officer stands watch near an apartment house where the suspect in a shooting at a movie theatre lived in Aurora, Colo., Friday, July 20, 2012.
photo: AP / Ed Andrieski

Israel threatens a 'heavy price' for Iran after deadly Bulgaria bus bomb
Full Article The Independent
20 Jul 2012

As Bulgarian officials said the suspected bomber in the attack on Wednesday that killed five Israeli holidaymakers was a lanky, long-haired man in a baseball cap and T-shirt, carrying a fake American driving licence, Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said it had been carried out by "Hezbollah, the long arm of Iran." There was...
This image provided by the Bulgarian Interior Ministry Thursday July 19, 2012, shows a damaged bus following Wednesday's deadly suicide attack on a bus full of Israeli vacationers at the Burgas airport parking lot, Burgas, Bulgaria.
photo: AP / Bulgarian Interior Ministry

Russia, China veto UN Security Council resolution on Syria
Full Article Indian Express
20 Jul 2012

Russia and China vetoed a UN Security Council resolution on Thursday that threatened Syrian authorities with sanctions if they did not halt violence against an uprising, again thwarting Western hopes for tough action as the crisis in Syria escalates. It was the third...
Mohammad Khazee, top left, Iran's ambassador to the United Nations addresses members of the Security Council before the Council voted to increase sanctions against Iran at U.N. Headquarters Monday, March 3, 2008
photo: AP / David Karp

UK receives first F-35 stealth fighter jet from US
Full Article BBC News
20 Jul 2012

It has been a long and expensive wait, but Britain has now been handed its first Joint Strike Fighter jet, also known as the F-35. Defence Secretary Phillip Hammond flew out in person to the searing heat of Fort Worth, Texas, for the official handover ceremony from its US manufacturer Lockheed Martin. He says it is "the best warplane money can...
UK receives first F-35 stealth fighter jet from US
photo: US DoD / Glenn Fawcett

Syria Rebels Seize Border Posts As Residents Flee Damascus
Full Article my SA
20 Jul 2012

BEIRUTRebel fighters in Syria, building on the momentum gained by their assassination of three top security officials a day earlier, seized all four border crossings with Iraq and one into Turkey on Thursday. They also claimed for the first time to have captured a pocket of Damascus after intense street fighting. The government fought back hard,...
This image made from amateur video released by Shaam News Network and accessed by the Associated Press Thursday, July 19, 2012 purports to show a Syrian rebel defacing a picture of President Bashar Assad at the Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey. Syrian President Bashar Assad made his first appearance Thursday since a bomb killed some of his top lieutenants, looking calm and composed on state TV even as his forces turned parts of Damascus into combat zones and rebels seized two of the country's border crossings.
photo: AP / Shaam News Network via AP video

Spain police clash with austerity protesters
Full Article Al Jazeera
20 Jul 2012

Spanish police have fired rubber bullets and charged protesters in central Madrid after a huge demonstration against economic crisis measures. Thick smoke hung in the air early on Friday from plastic bins set alight by protestors chased by police, who hit them with batons when some tried to reach the heavily-guarded parliament at the end of a...
Riot police search for the demonstrators during a protest against austerity measures announced by the Spanish government in Madrid, Spain, on Thursday, July 19, 2012.
photo: AP / Andres Kudacki

Iran denies link to attack on Israelis in Bulgaria
Full Article Austin American Statesman
19 Jul 2012

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Thursday denied it was involved in a suicide attack against Israeli tourists in Bulgaria that killed at least seven people. Israel has blamed the blast on Iran and its proxy group Iranian-backed Hezbollah, a Lebanese Shiite Muslim guerrilla group, and threatened retaliation. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin...
Relatives mourn over the coffins of people killed in a bombing in Bulgaria as the remains arrived back at an airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday, July 20, 2012.
photo: AP / Dan Balilty

EU targets aid to gas-rich Mozambique, Tanzania
Full Article Reuters
19 Jul 2012

By Gemma La Guardia BRUSSELS, July 19 (Reuters) - Senior EU officials began a three-day visit to Mozambique and Tanzania on Thursday as the European Union looks to bolster aid and development in a rapidly growing region of Africa that sits on vast reserves of offshore gas. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and Andris Piebalgs, the...
EU targets aid to gas-rich Mozambique, Tanzania
photo: EC / EC

Bulgaria says Israelis killed by suicide attacker
Full Article The Associated Press
19 Jul 2012

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) -- A lanky, long-haired man wearing a baseball cap and plaid shorts with a fake Michigan driver's license carried out a deadly suicide attack on a bus full of Israeli vacationers, Bulgarian officials said Thursday. Israel stuck by its claim that the attack was carried out by Iranian-backed Hezbollah, a Lebanese guerrilla group,...
An unidentified injured Israeli tourist is helped as she leaves a hospital in the city of Burgas, Bulgaria, Thursday, July 19, 2012.
photo: AP / Impact Press Group

South Africans mark Nelson Mandela's birthday with 67 minutes of good deeds
Full Article IMC
19 Jul 2012

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 2012-07-19 04:53 Nelson Mandela’s 94th birthday was celebrated by South Africans with giant cakes, mass rendition of “Happy Birthday” and 67 minutes of good deeds today. However, the former South African president spent his day in a quite manner at his home in the village of Qunu in the Eastern Cape with his family....
South Africans mark Nelson Mandela's birthday with 67 minutes of good deeds
photo: UN / Devra Berkowitz


more Austin American Statesman
UNITED NATIONS — Russia says it will veto a British resolution that would extend the 300-strong U.N. observer force in Syria for a final 30 days. Russia supports a rival...
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Article by WN.com Guest Writer Gilad Atzmon Earlier this week we learned that Israeli Knesset Member Michael Ben-Ari (National Union) tore the New Testament to pieces and then...

UN votes to extend 'final' Syria mission by 30 days
AFP - The UN Security Council on Friday unanimously voted to give the UN observer mission in Syria a "final" 30-day mandate. Russia had threatened to veto a...
photo: UN / Devra Berkowitz
UN says 30,000 Syrian refugees cross into Lebanon
Geneva: Up to 30,000 Syrian refugees may have fled the conflict in their country and crossed into Lebanon, the UN agency for refugees said on Friday. Melissa Fleming, the chief spokeswoman of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), said the...
photo: UN / JC McIlwaine
Moma expansion costs rise, project to be completed by year-end
JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – London-listed Kenmare announced on Friday that capital costs associated with its Moma titanium minerals mine expansion, in Mozambique, had been revised upwards to...
photo: EC / EC
Germany rules out use of force but ready to help in Syria
Just hours after Russia and China voted down a UN Security Council on Syria, Germany's defense minister again ruled out the use of outside force. The Council now has to decide what to do with the UN observers in Syria. German Defense Minister Thomas...
photo: UN / Devra Berkowitz
At celebration for Britain's first F-35, Pentagon official warns of budget cuts
Pentagon officials will not be able to protect the F-35 program if Congress doesn't roll back huge automatic budget cuts mandated to take effect in January, the Defense Department's chief weapons buyer said Thursday in Fort Worth. Production and...
photo: US DoD / Glenn Fawcett
EU visit to Tanzania, Mozambique ‘is about aid’
SENIOR European Union (EU) officials began a three-day visit to Mozambique and Tanzania yesterday as the EU looks to bolster aid and development in a rapidly growing region of Africa that sits on vast reserves of offshore gas. European Commission...
photo: EC / EC
China able to achieve stable growth, structural adjustment: UN economist
by Niu Hairong NEW YORK, July 19 (Xinhua) -- The global economic downturn exerted heavy pressure on emerging countries, but China still has the ability to achieve a stable economic growth along with structural adjustment, a UN economist said...
photo: UN/UN
GUN SHOOTING at Batman premiere in Denver FOOTAGE; updated 20 Jul 2012; published 20 Jul 2012
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GUN SHOOTING at Batman premiere in Denver FOOTAGE
The Star 20 Jul 2012, DENVER, Colorado (Reuters) - A masked gunman killed 12 people at a midnight showing of the new Batman movie in a suburb of Denver early on Friday, sparking pandemonium when he hurled a gas canister into the auditorium and opened fire on moviegoers. The Century 16 Theatre where a masked gunman killed 14 people at a midnight showing of the new Batman...

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Israel: Bulgaria bus bombing 'an Iranian terrorist attack'; updated 19 Jul 2012; published 18 Jul 2012
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Israel: Bulgaria bus bombing 'an Iranian terrorist attack'
The Independent 20 Jul 2012, As Bulgarian officials said the suspected bomber in the attack on Wednesday that killed five Israeli holidaymakers was a lanky, long-haired man in a baseball cap and T-shirt, carrying a fake American driving licence, Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said it had been carried out by "Hezbollah, the long arm of Iran." There was...

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Russia, China Veto UN Resolution on Syria; updated 19 Jul 2012; published 04 Feb 2012
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Russia, China Veto UN Resolution on Syria
Indian Express 20 Jul 2012, Russia and China vetoed a UN Security Council resolution on Thursday that threatened Syrian authorities with sanctions if they did not halt violence against an uprising, again thwarting Western hopes for tough action as the crisis in Syria escalates. It was the third...

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Brit hacking Pentagon for UFO info stays home - UK govt; updated 06 Jun 2012; published 21 May 2010
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Brit hacking Pentagon for UFO info stays home - UK govt
BBC News 20 Jul 2012, It has been a long and expensive wait, but Britain has now been handed its first Joint Strike Fighter jet, also known as the F-35. Defence Secretary Phillip Hammond flew out in person to the searing heat of Fort Worth, Texas, for the official handover ceremony from its US manufacturer Lockheed Martin. He says it is "the best warplane money can...

Jane Arraf on the Syria border developments; updated 20 Jul 2012; published 20 Jul 2012
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Jane Arraf on the Syria border developments
my SA 20 Jul 2012, BEIRUTRebel fighters in Syria, building on the momentum gained by their assassination of three top security officials a day earlier, seized all four border crossings with Iraq and one into Turkey on Thursday. They also claimed for the first time to have captured a pocket of Damascus after intense street fighting. The government fought back hard,...

Economic Crisis: Is Spain Next?; updated 18 Jul 2012; published 09 Jul 2012
24:04
Economic Crisis: Is Spain Next?
Al Jazeera 20 Jul 2012, Spanish police have fired rubber bullets and charged protesters in central Madrid after a huge demonstration against economic crisis measures. Thick smoke hung in the air early on Friday from plastic bins set alight by protestors chased by police, who hit them with batons when some tried to reach the heavily-guarded parliament at the end of a...

Israel: Bulgaria bus bombing 'an Iranian terrorist attack'; updated 20 Jul 2012; published 18 Jul 2012
1:13
Israel: Bulgaria bus bombing 'an Iranian terrorist attack'
Austin American Statesman 19 Jul 2012, TEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Thursday denied it was involved in a suicide attack against Israeli tourists in Bulgaria that killed at least seven people. Israel has blamed the blast on Iran and its proxy group Iranian-backed Hezbollah, a Lebanese Shiite Muslim guerrilla group, and threatened retaliation. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin...

tanzania vs mozambique 1st a; updated 24 Jun 2012; published 15 Jan 2012
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tanzania vs mozambique 1st a
Reuters 19 Jul 2012, By Gemma La Guardia BRUSSELS, July 19 (Reuters) - Senior EU officials began a three-day visit to Mozambique and Tanzania on Thursday as the European Union looks to bolster aid and development in a rapidly growing region of Africa that sits on vast reserves of offshore gas. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and Andris Piebalgs, the...

Israel: Bulgaria bus bombing 'an Iranian terrorist attack'; updated 20 Jul 2012; published 18 Jul 2012
1:13
Israel: Bulgaria bus bombing 'an Iranian terrorist attack'
The Associated Press 19 Jul 2012, SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) -- A lanky, long-haired man wearing a baseball cap and plaid shorts with a fake Michigan driver's license carried out a deadly suicide attack on a bus full of Israeli vacationers, Bulgarian officials said Thursday. Israel stuck by its claim that the attack was carried out by Iranian-backed Hezbollah, a Lebanese guerrilla group,...

Nelson Mandela - Mini Biography; updated 18 Jul 2012; published 28 Jan 2010
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Nelson Mandela - Mini Biography
IMC 19 Jul 2012, Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 2012-07-19 04:53 Nelson Mandela’s 94th birthday was celebrated by South Africans with giant cakes, mass rendition of “Happy Birthday” and 67 minutes of good deeds today. However, the former South African president spent his day in a quite manner at his home in the village of Qunu in the Eastern Cape with his family....

Inside Story of Presidential Election India - Rajneeti; updated 11 Jul 2012; published 26 Jun 2012
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Inside Story of Presidential Election India - Rajneeti
Al Jazeera 19 Jul 2012, Indian legislators are voting for a new president, with former finance minister Pranab Mukherjee seen as a certainty to take up the mainly ceremonial post. Mukherjee, the candidate of the ruling Congress-led alliance, is a respected conciliator, and as head of state he may play a role in who governs India after the general election due in 2014. The...

'US & Israel masterminds behind Syria proxy war'; updated 14 Jul 2012; published 02 Aug 2011
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'US & Israel masterminds behind Syria proxy war'
Ha'aretz 19 Jul 2012, U.S. security officials have discussed with their Israeli counterparts the possibility that Israel could strike Syria's weapons facilities, the New York Times reported on Thursday, citing administration officials....

Afghanistan War + More Troops = Catastrophe (Trailer); updated 02 Jul 2012; published 26 Feb 2009
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Afghanistan War + More Troops = Catastrophe (Trailer)
San Francisco Chronicle 19 Jul 2012, Kabul -- Insurgents in northern Afghanistan staged a fiery attack Wednesday on a NATO supply line, destroying at least 17 fuel tankers, Afghan officials said. The Taliban...

US Navy Ship Opens Fire, Killing Man On Fishing Boat In Persian Gulf; updated 18 Jul 2012; published 17 Jul 2012
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US Navy Ship Opens Fire, Killing Man On Fishing Boat In Persian Gulf
WorldNews.com 19 Jul 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling About 6,000 years ago, the Mesopotamian civilization transformed the rich agricultural and mineral resources of the Persian Gulf into a thriving copper-grain trade. The Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, more specifically Dilmun (modern-day Bahrain) which Sumerians called the land of "milk and...





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