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Syria says it will use chemical weapons if attacked
Full Article The Washington Times
23 Jul 2012

Related Stories BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian regime threatened Monday to use its chemical and biological weapons in case of a foreign attack, in its first ever acknowledgement that it possesses weapons of mass destruction. Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi stressed, however, that Damascus would not use its unconventional arms against its...
This citizen journalist image shows Syrians walking past destroyed vehicles after fighting between rebels and Syrian troops in the Yarmouk camp for Palestinian refugees in south Damascus, Syria, Saturday, July 21, 2012.
photo: AP

How to end AIDS
Full Article CNN
23 Jul 2012

By Michel Sidibé, Special to CNN Michel Sidibé is executive director of the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). He is attending the 19th International AIDS Conference taking place in Washington D.C. this week. The views expressed are his own. Getting to zero – zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths...
File - HIV/AIDS patient lies in bed at the Bairo Pite clinic for comprehensive community health service, Dili, East Timor.
photo: UN file / Martine Perret

93 killed in Iraq's deadliest day this year
Full Article San Francisco Chronicle
23 Jul 2012

BAGHDAD (AP) — An onslaught of bombings and shootings killed 93 people across Iraq on Monday, officials said, in the nation's deadliest day so far this year. The attacks come days after the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq declared a new offensive and warned in a statement that the militant group is reorganizing in areas from which it retreated before...
A man stands in front of the scene of a bomb attack in Madain, about 15 miles (25 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, July 23, 2012.
photo: AP / Karim Kadim

Fracking and Economics of 'Death Traps'
Full Article WorldNews.com
23 Jul 2012

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling With tears streaming down her face, the young girl quietly leaves the room. Her mother sits on a sofa and softly sobs into a jumbled clump of wet tissues. Her father, shaking his head and angrily staring out a window, keeps repeating that all of this could have been avoided and someone should have to...
In this Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012 photo, oil field workers drill into the Gypsum Hills near Medicine Lodge, Kan. An emerging oil boom has been sparked by modern technologies using horizontal drilling and a technique known as hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.”
photo: AP / Orlin Wagner

Japan and TEPCO 'ignored nuclear accident risks'
Full Article The Daily Telegraph
23 Jul 2012

Japanese and Tokyo Electric Power officials ignored the risks of an atomic accident because they believed in the "myth of nuclear safety", a government panel's report on the Fukushima crisis said on Monday. There is concern over radioactive contamination following an earthquake and tsunami in March 2011, which wrecked Japan's Fukushima Daiichi...
Workers stand near the No. 4 reactor building at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s (TEPCO) Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, on Saturday, May 26, 2012.
photo: AP / Tomohiro Ohsumi

Syria's Bashar al-Assad should go, says Arab League
Full Article BBC News
23 Jul 2012

Arab League foreign ministers have called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down, as rebels tell the BBC they are encouraged by last week's assassinations in Damascus. The rebels told the BBC's Paul Wood, undercover near the Syrian capital, that the deaths of four top officials were a severe blow to the government. Our...
This image made from amateur video released by Shaam News Network and accessed by the Associated Press Saturday, July 21, 2012 purports to show shelling of Homs, Syria by government forces on July 21, 2012.
photo: AP / Shaam News Network

EU move to upgrade relations with Israel
Full Article The Guardian
23 Jul 2012

Wide-ranging boost to bilateral relations undermines Brussels over West Bank, say critics Catherine Ashton, the EU representative for foreign and security policy, will not take part in Tuesday’s meeting with Israel. Photograph: Samrang Pring/Reuters...
EU move to upgrade relations with Israel
photo: EC / EC

Afghan exit at midpoint
Full Article Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
23 Jul 2012

KABUL, Afghanistan -- This year's pullout of 23,000 American troops from Afghanistan is at the halfway mark, U.S. Gen. John Allen, the top commander of U.S. and NATO forces, said Sunday in an interview with The Associated Press. It's a kind of milestone toward wrapping up the U.S. and NATO combat role after a decade in the war-torn nation...
Afghan exit at midpoint
photo: US Army / Michael J. MacLeod

New clashes reported in Syria's 2 biggest cities
Full Article Chicago Tribune
23 Jul 2012

BEIRUT — New clashes and military shelling were reported Sunday in Syria's two major cities, as the warring sides in the...
This citizen journalist image shows a destroyed car on a street damaged by tank treads after fighting between rebels and Syrian troops in the Yarmouk camp for Palestinian refugees in south Damascus, Syria, Saturday, July 21, 2012.
photo: AP

Pranab Voted India's 13th President
Full Article Kashmir Observer
23 Jul 2012

New Delhi: Pranab Mukherjee was on Sunday elected as the 13th President, marking a new journey for the veteran Congress leader after over four decades of life in active politics. Mukherjee, UPA nominee, got 5,78,918 vote value, well beyond the half-way mark of 5,25,140 in an electoral college of over 10.5 lakh when counting of votes polled by the...
India's president elect Pranab Mukherjee greets media outside his residence after wining in New Delhi, India, Sunday, July 22, 2012.
photo: AP / Manish Swarup


Journalists work at the Stock Exchange in Madrid Monday July 23, 2012.
* Euro plumbs new 2-year lows on fears of bailout for Spain * Investors turn to safe-haven bonds, sending yields to new lows * Brent crude falls more than 3 percent on demand worries (Adds Brent settlement) By Herbert Lash NEW YORK, July 23 (Reuters)...
photo: AP / Paul White
People inspect the aftermath of a car bomb attack in Baghdad's Shiite enclave of Sadr City, Iraq, Monday, July 23, 2012.
A second day of intensified attacks left at least 145 Iraqis Killed and 379 more wounded. The attacks, mostly bombings, seemed to focus on security personnel in Sunni-dominated areas. Several more bombs were defused, while others exploded without...
photo: AP / Karim Kadim
Fire, police, ambulance... or Marines? Elite fighting force sets up law enforcement operation
The Marine Corps has created its first law enforcement battalions - a lean, specialized force of military police officers that it hopes can quickly deploy worldwide to help investigate crimes from terrorism to drug trafficking and train fledgling...
photo: US Army / Michael J. MacLeod
Arab League backs bid for UN nod to Palestine
Ramallah: Palestinian officials say the Arab League backs their plan to ask the UN General Assembly to recognize a state of Palestine in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem....
photo: UN / Mark Garten
Israeli forces could intervene in Syria over chemical weapons
Israel yesterday issued a thinly veiled warning that military action would be used if necessary to prevent the Damascus regime's chemical weapons from falling into the hands of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. During a third day of fierce...
photo: EC / EC
New report details Afghan war atrocities
MAZAR-E-SHARIF, AFGHANISTAN - The atrocities of the Afghan civil war in the 1990s are still recounted in whispers here -- tales of horror born out of a scorched-earth ethnic and factional conflict in which civilians and captured combatants were...
photo: DOD / Public Domain
U.S. Mounts Quiet Effort to Weaken Assad's Rule
By ADAM ENTOUS, JULIAN E. BARNES and NOUR MALAS The U.S. has been mounting a secret but limited effort to speed the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad without using force, scrambling spies and diplomats to block arms and oil shipments from Iran...
photo: UN / Mark Garten
The Fighting Faithful: Jihad ravages Syria as Ramadan begins; updated 23 Jul 2012; published 21 Jul 2012
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The Fighting Faithful: Jihad ravages Syria as Ramadan begins
The Washington Times 23 Jul 2012, Related Stories BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian regime threatened Monday to use its chemical and biological weapons in case of a foreign attack, in its first ever acknowledgement that it possesses weapons of mass destruction. Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi stressed, however, that Damascus would not use its unconventional arms against its...

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When HIV Becomes AIDS (HIV #2); updated 23 Jul 2012; published 14 Dec 2007
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When HIV Becomes AIDS (HIV #2)
CNN 23 Jul 2012, By Michel Sidibé, Special to CNN Michel Sidibé is executive director of the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). He is attending the 19th International AIDS Conference taking place in Washington D.C. this week. The views expressed are his own. Getting to zero – zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths...

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Over 100 killed in Iraq blast wave as Al-Qaeda 'returns with revenge'; updated 23 Jul 2012; published 23 Jul 2012
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Over 100 killed in Iraq blast wave as Al-Qaeda 'returns with revenge'
San Francisco Chronicle 23 Jul 2012, BAGHDAD (AP) — An onslaught of bombings and shootings killed 93 people across Iraq on Monday, officials said, in the nation's deadliest day so far this year. The attacks come days after the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq declared a new offensive and warned in a statement that the militant group is reorganizing in areas from which it retreated before...

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Fracking Hell: The Untold Story; updated 22 Jul 2012; published 11 Jan 2011
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Fracking Hell: The Untold Story
WorldNews.com 23 Jul 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling With tears streaming down her face, the young girl quietly leaves the room. Her mother sits on a sofa and softly sobs into a jumbled clump of wet tissues. Her father, shaking his head and angrily staring out a window, keeps repeating that all of this could have been avoided and someone should have to...

Japan's Fukushima 'worst in history'; updated 09 Jul 2012; published 18 Sep 2011
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Japan's Fukushima 'worst in history'
The Daily Telegraph 23 Jul 2012, Japanese and Tokyo Electric Power officials ignored the risks of an atomic accident because they believed in the "myth of nuclear safety", a government panel's report on the Fukushima crisis said on Monday. There is concern over radioactive contamination following an earthquake and tsunami in March 2011, which wrecked Japan's Fukushima Daiichi...

The Fighting Faithful: Jihad ravages Syria as Ramadan begins; updated 23 Jul 2012; published 21 Jul 2012
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The Fighting Faithful: Jihad ravages Syria as Ramadan begins
BBC News 23 Jul 2012, Arab League foreign ministers have called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down, as rebels tell the BBC they are encouraged by last week's assassinations in Damascus. The rebels told the BBC's Paul Wood, undercover near the Syrian capital, that the deaths of four top officials were a severe blow to the government. Our...

EU Ambassador: Israel 'Occupying' Hevron; updated 18 Apr 2012; published 17 Apr 2012
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EU Ambassador: Israel 'Occupying' Hevron
The Guardian 23 Jul 2012, Wide-ranging boost to bilateral relations undermines Brussels over West Bank, say critics Catherine Ashton, the EU representative for foreign and security policy, will not take part in Tuesday’s meeting with Israel. Photograph: Samrang Pring/Reuters...

David Cameron visits troops in Bastion 18.07.12; updated 21 Jul 2012; published 19 Jul 2012
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David Cameron visits troops in Bastion 18.07.12
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 23 Jul 2012, KABUL, Afghanistan -- This year's pullout of 23,000 American troops from Afghanistan is at the halfway mark, U.S. Gen. John Allen, the top commander of U.S. and NATO forces, said Sunday in an interview with The Associated Press. It's a kind of milestone toward wrapping up the U.S. and NATO combat role after a decade in the war-torn nation...

The Fighting Faithful: Jihad ravages Syria as Ramadan begins; updated 23 Jul 2012; published 21 Jul 2012
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The Fighting Faithful: Jihad ravages Syria as Ramadan begins
Chicago Tribune 23 Jul 2012, BEIRUT — New clashes and military shelling were reported Sunday in Syria's two major cities, as the warring sides in the...

It's Official. Pranab Mukherjee to be 13th President of India; updated 23 Jul 2012; published 23 Jul 2012
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It's Official. Pranab Mukherjee to be 13th President of India
Kashmir Observer 23 Jul 2012, New Delhi: Pranab Mukherjee was on Sunday elected as the 13th President, marking a new journey for the veteran Congress leader after over four decades of life in active politics. Mukherjee, UPA nominee, got 5,78,918 vote value, well beyond the half-way mark of 5,25,140 in an electoral college of over 10.5 lakh when counting of votes polled by the...

Estonian PM reaffirms Afghanistan goals 19.07.12; updated 21 Jul 2012; published 20 Jul 2012
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Estonian PM reaffirms Afghanistan goals 19.07.12
The Miami Herald 23 Jul 2012, KABUL, Afghanistan -- A person wearing an Afghan national security force uniform turned his weapon Sunday against civilian contractors with the U.S.-led military coalition, killing three. In other incidents, five NATO service members were killed in roadside bombings over the past two days. NATO said the attack on the civilian coalition workers...

Spain wildfires : Four killed in Catalonia; updated 23 Jul 2012; published 23 Jul 2012
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Spain wildfires : Four killed in Catalonia
The Guardian 23 Jul 2012, HAROLD HECKLE Associated Press= MADRID (AP) — Two wildfires fanned by strong winds killed three people, injured 24 others and severely disrupted transportation in Spain's northeast region of Catalonia on Sunday, officials said....

CCTV: Bulgaria suicide-bombing suspect caught on tape in Burgas airport; updated 23 Jul 2012; published 19 Jul 2012
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CCTV: Bulgaria suicide-bombing suspect caught on tape in Burgas airport
CNN 23 Jul 2012, July 22, 2012 -- Updated 2338 GMT (0738 HKT) A truck carries the bus damaged by the suicide bomb blast that targeted a group of Israeli tourists in Bulgaria Thursday. (CNN) -- Bulgarian police have widened their investigation into last week's bombing attack on Israeli tourists to towns near the border with Romania, asking hotels for...

Six-Day Middle-East War, Israel Victorious! 1967/6/13; updated 11 Jun 2012; published 10 Oct 2006
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Six-Day Middle-East War, Israel Victorious! 1967/6/13
France24 23 Jul 2012, AFP - Israel has lodged a complaint with the UN after Syrian soldiers crossed last week into the demilitarised Golan Heights zone that separates the two countries, a foreign ministry spokesman said Sunday. "Israel has formally complained to the UN as...





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