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Fighters on Syrian-Turkish border may be Qaeda allies: Russia
Full Article Daily Press
25 Jul 2012

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Wednesday that militants who have seized control of posts on Syria's border with Turkey may be allies of al Qaeda. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov expressed doubt over claims that border gates captured from government forces on the Syrian side of the frontier had been seized by the rebel Free Syrian Army....
In this Tuesday, July 24, 2012 photo, a damaged vehicle from clashes between Free Syrian Army soldiers and Syrian government troops is seen at the border town of Azaz, some 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of Aleppo, Syria.
photo: AP / Turkpix

Rwanda's Paul Kagame warned he may be charged with aiding war crimes
Full Article The Guardian
25 Jul 2012

UN tells president he could face prosecution for arming groups that carried out atrocities in Democratic Republic of Congo Paul Kagame can count on Tony Blair as one of his strongest supporters. Photograph: Wpa Pool/Getty Images...
Rwanda President Paul Kagame speaks during the London Summit on Family Planning organized by the UK Government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with the United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, in central London Wednesday July 11, 2012.
photo: AP / Carl Court

Shock 0.7% fall in UK GDP deepens double-dip recession
Full Article The Guardian
25 Jul 2012

GDP figures for second quarter from Office for National Statistics surprise City analysts who had expected a 0.2% drop...
British Shadow Chancellor, George Osborne speaks to the media as he leaves the HM Treasury after a meeting with the Chancellor, Alistair Darling, on the financial crisis, London, Tuesday, Sept 30, 2008.
photo: AP / Sang Tan

Suu Kyi calls for laws to protect minority rights
Full Article New Straits/Business Times
25 Jul 2012

YANGON: Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi today made her first speech in the ongoing session of Myanmar's House of Representatives (Lower House) in support of a proposal on enacting a law protecting the rights...
Myanmar's Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi speaks as she asks a question during a regular session of the parliament at Myanmar Lower House on Wednesday, July 25, 2012, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar.
photo: AP / Khin Maung Win

Greenland sees unprecedented ice melt
Full Article Al Jazeera
25 Jul 2012

Greenland's surface ice cover melted this month over a larger area than ever detected in more than 30 years of satellite observations, NASA has said. According to measurements from three separate satellites analysed by NASA and university scientists, an estimated 97 per cent of the ice sheet surface thawed at some point in mid-July, the agency said...
Jakobshavn Glacier, West Greenland, 6 July, 2012. Greenland's surface ice cover melted this month over a larger area than ever detected in more than 30 years, according to NASA satellite.
photo: dapd / Axel Schmidt

Rupert Murdoch's finest brought to trial
Full Article The Independent
25 Jul 2012

Prosecutors announced that seven executives at the News of the World and the paper's private investigator, Glenn Mulcaire, would face a total of 19 charges of conspiracy to hack mobile-phone voicemails. Between 2000 and 2006, the journalists – who all held senior positions in Mr Murdoch's UK newspaper group – were alleged to have targeted 600...
File - Andy Coulson, the former editor of the News of the World newspaper and former director of communications for Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, arrives to appear at the Leveson Inquiry at the High Court in London, Thursday, May 10, 2012.
photo: AP / Matt Dunham

Syria sends armored column to Aleppo, strikes from air
Full Article Yahoo Daily News
25 Jul 2012

AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria sent thousands of troops surging towards Aleppo in the early hours of Wednesday, where its forces have been pounding rebel fighters from the air, engulfing the country's largest city in total warfare to put down a revolt. Recent days have seen Syria's 16-month-old uprising transformed from an insurgency in remote...
This citizen journalism image provided by Ugarit News, taken on Monday, July 23, 2012, purports to show damage from heavy shelling of the al-Qadam district of Damascus, Syria.
photo: AP / Ugarit News)

Ghanaian President John Atta Mills dies at 68
Full Article The Washington Post
25 Jul 2012

Ghanaian President John Atta Mills vowed to help spread the wealth from Ghana’s newly discovered offshore oil fields, but his death July 24 came before the 68-year-old could finish his first term in this West African nation long held up as a model of democracy. Ghanaian state-run television stations broke into their regular programming to...
Ghana's new President John Atta Mills gestures as he speaks after being sworn in as the country's new president during a ceremony in Accra, Ghana Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009. Ghana's new president took office Wednesday following a peaceful but tense election that secured the country's status as one of the continent's few stable democracies. Tens of thousands of people crowded Independence Square for the inauguration of John Atta Mills, the opposition candidate who won the runoff election with 50.23 percent of the vote. It was the closest election in the West African country's history. This marked the second time power in Ghana has been transferred from one legitimately elected leader to another.
photo: AP / Olivier Asselin

James Holmes copycat panic grips US Batman movie theatres - three people arrested
Full Article Belfast Telegraph
24 Jul 2012

At least three people have been arrested at US showings of the new Batman film amid audience fears following the Colorado cinema massacre. All were accused of making threats during or after watching the film in separate incidents. Moviegoers in Sierra Visa, Arizona, panicked when a man who appeared drunk was confronted during a showing of the...
Law enforcement officials keep an eye on the crowd from a rooftop, Sunday, July 22, 2012, in Aurora, Colo., at a prayer vigil for the victims of Friday's mass shooting at a movie theater.
photo: AP / Ted S. Warren

Afghan policemen defect to Taliban in Farah province
Full Article BBC News
24 Jul 2012

An Afghan police commander and 13 junior officers have joined the Taliban in the western Afghan province of Farah, in what correspondents say could be the biggest defection by police. They say the commander, named as Mirwais, was in charge of a 20-man checkpoint when he defected on Sunday. The men are said to have taken heavy weaponry, radios and...
File - Local Afghan children come out of their houses, to see an Afghan National Police patrol go through their neighborhood, at Mongow Khel Village, in Logar province, Afghanistan, Feb. 2, 2010.
photo: US Army / Sgt. Russell Gilchrest


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More than a year after the uprising began in Syria, the opposition remains fractious and deeply divided. The wide variety of political groups, exiled dissidents, grassroots...
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"I beg the Senate to maintain its funding," Sir Elton told guests, including senators and representatives from both political parties, at a private breakfast where he and...
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July 24, 2012 -- Updated 1035 GMT (1835 HKT) Former News of the World editor and Downing Street communications chief, Andy Coulson, is among eight journalists facing charges....

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Kofi Annan, Joint Special Envoy of the United Nations and the League of Arab States on the Syrian Crisis, and Sergey Lavrov, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation discuss before the opening of the session of the Action Group for Syria, Palais des Nations, Saturday 30 June 2012.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia accused the United States on Wednesday of trying to justify terrorism against the Syrian government and berated Western nations it said had failed to condemn a bomb attack that killed senior security officials. Foreign...
photo: UN / Violaine Martin
This photo released by the Iranian President's Office, claims to show Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, second left being escorted by technicians during a tour of Tehran's research reactor centre in northern Tehran, Iran, Wednesday Feb. 15, 2012.
AFP - Iran is defiantly forging on with its controversial nuclear activities by activating hundreds more uranium enrichment centrifuges, according to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. "There are currently 11,000 centrifuges active in enrichment...
photo: AP / Iranian President's Office
A diver trains at the Aquatics Center at the Olympic Park ahead of the 2012 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, July 24, 2012, in London. Opening ceremonies for the 2012 London Olympics will be held Friday, July 27.
A public sector strike involving immigration and passport workers planned for the eve of the Olympics has been called off by union officials. Government lawyers...
photo: AP / Matt Slocum
A cache of seized weapons is displayed Tuesday, Jan 25, 2011 in Phoenix. A grand jury has indicted 20 people on firearms charges for allegedly participating in a ring that bought more than 700 guns that were to be smuggled into Mexico for use by a drug cartel.
The number of people seeking to buy guns in Colorado has soared since last week's mass shooting in the US state's town of Aurora, say law officials. In the three days after the shooting, applications for the background checks needed to buy...
photo: AP / Matt York
Emomali Rahmon, President of Tajikistan, on the left, was received by José Manuel Barroso, President of the EC
Dushanbe: The Tajik government forces on Tuesday unleashed a massive operation against a rebel group in apparent retaliation for the fatal stabbing of a top security official, triggering clashes that killed dozens. The government said 12 government...
photo: EC / © European Communities 2009
Extent of surface melt over Greenland’s ice sheet on July 8 (left) and July 12 (right). Measurements from three satellites showed that on July 8, about 40 percent of the ice sheet had undergone thawing at or near the surface.
Greenland's massive ice sheet has melted this month over an usually large area, Nasa has said. Scientists said the "unprecedented" melting took place over a larger area that ever detected in three decades of satellite observation....
photo: NASA / Nicolo E. DiGirolamo, SSAI/NASA GSFC, and Jesse Allen, NASA Earth Observatory
Kids - Beach - Ocean - Sea - Sky - Clouds - Global Warming - Climate Change
The continental U.S. has just experienced the hottest 12 month period in recorded history. The West is on fire. The Maldives are going underwater and California can expect a sea level rise of six inches in less than 20 years....
photo: WN / Yolanda Leyba
The Fighting Faithful: Jihad ravages Syria as Ramadan begins; updated 24 Jul 2012; published 21 Jul 2012
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The Fighting Faithful: Jihad ravages Syria as Ramadan begins
Daily Press 25 Jul 2012, MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Wednesday that militants who have seized control of posts on Syria's border with Turkey may be allies of al Qaeda. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov expressed doubt over claims that border gates captured from government forces on the Syrian side of the frontier had been seized by the rebel Free Syrian Army....

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Rwandan War Crimes Suspect Makes First Appearance in French Court; updated 16 Jul 2012; published 21 Oct 2010
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Rwandan War Crimes Suspect Makes First Appearance in French Court
The Guardian 25 Jul 2012, UN tells president he could face prosecution for arming groups that carried out atrocities in Democratic Republic of Congo Paul Kagame can count on Tony Blair as one of his strongest supporters. Photograph: Wpa Pool/Getty Images...

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UK data shows double-dip recession; updated 12 Jun 2012; published 26 Apr 2012
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UK data shows double-dip recession
The Guardian 25 Jul 2012, GDP figures for second quarter from Office for National Statistics surprise City analysts who had expected a 0.2% drop...

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Get on the bus 2010 Myanmar (Burma) Action: Free Aung San Suu Kyi and All Political Prisoners Now!; updated 29 May 2011; published 18 Apr 2010
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Get on the bus 2010 Myanmar (Burma) Action: Free Aung San Suu Kyi and All Political Prisoners Now!
New Straits/Business Times 25 Jul 2012, YANGON: Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi today made her first speech in the ongoing session of Myanmar's House of Representatives (Lower House) in support of a proposal on enacting a law protecting the rights...

Dramatic Greenland Ice Melt; updated 23 Jul 2012; published 19 Jan 2012
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Dramatic Greenland Ice Melt
Al Jazeera 25 Jul 2012, Greenland's surface ice cover melted this month over a larger area than ever detected in more than 30 years of satellite observations, NASA has said. According to measurements from three separate satellites analysed by NASA and university scientists, an estimated 97 per cent of the ice sheet surface thawed at some point in mid-July, the agency said...

Rupert Murdoch on Phone Hacking Scandal; updated 13 Jun 2012; published 01 May 2012
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Rupert Murdoch on Phone Hacking Scandal
The Independent 25 Jul 2012, Prosecutors announced that seven executives at the News of the World and the paper's private investigator, Glenn Mulcaire, would face a total of 19 charges of conspiracy to hack mobile-phone voicemails. Between 2000 and 2006, the journalists – who all held senior positions in Mr Murdoch's UK newspaper group – were alleged to have targeted 600...

Syria: Fighting rages in Damascus and Aleppo; updated 24 Jul 2012; published 23 Jul 2012
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Syria: Fighting rages in Damascus and Aleppo
Yahoo Daily News 25 Jul 2012, AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria sent thousands of troops surging towards Aleppo in the early hours of Wednesday, where its forces have been pounding rebel fighters from the air, engulfing the country's largest city in total warfare to put down a revolt. Recent days have seen Syria's 16-month-old uprising transformed from an insurgency in remote...

Ghana's President John Atta Mills Dead at 68; updated 25 Jul 2012; published 25 Jul 2012
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Ghana's President John Atta Mills Dead at 68
The Washington Post 25 Jul 2012, Ghanaian President John Atta Mills vowed to help spread the wealth from Ghana’s newly discovered offshore oil fields, but his death July 24 came before the 68-year-old could finish his first term in this West African nation long held up as a model of democracy. Ghanaian state-run television stations broke into their regular programming to...

GUN SHOOTING at Batman premiere in Denver FOOTAGE; updated 24 Jul 2012; published 20 Jul 2012
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GUN SHOOTING at Batman premiere in Denver FOOTAGE
Belfast Telegraph 24 Jul 2012, At least three people have been arrested at US showings of the new Batman film amid audience fears following the Colorado cinema massacre. All were accused of making threats during or after watching the film in separate incidents. Moviegoers in Sierra Visa, Arizona, panicked when a man who appeared drunk was confronted during a showing of the...

Afghan locals take up arms against Taliban; updated 24 Jul 2012; published 26 Jun 2012
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Afghan locals take up arms against Taliban
BBC News 24 Jul 2012, An Afghan police commander and 13 junior officers have joined the Taliban in the western Afghan province of Farah, in what correspondents say could be the biggest defection by police. They say the commander, named as Mirwais, was in charge of a 20-man checkpoint when he defected on Sunday. The men are said to have taken heavy weaponry, radios and...

Wildfires in Spain Burn On; updated 16 Jul 2012; published 27 Jul 2009
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Wildfires in Spain Burn On
The Star 24 Jul 2012, FIGUERES, Spain: Hundreds of firefighters backed by water-bombing planes are battling wind-fuelled wildfire in northeast Spain that killed four people including a teenage girl on Monday. Another 23 people were injured, including eight who remained in hospital, the Catalan regional government said. About 1,300 people have been battling the blaze,...

Day of woe on all fronts for Spanish economy; updated 23 Jul 2012; published 23 Jul 2012
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Day of woe on all fronts for Spanish economy
Newstrack India 24 Jul 2012, Tweet Madrid, July 24 (IANS/EFE) The yield on Spanish 10-year bonds rose Monday to a prohibitive 7.49 percent amid fears that nothing short of massive intervention by the European Central Bank can relieve the pressure on Madrid's sovereign debt. Spain's risk premium, the extra return investors demand on Spanish bonds compared with equivalent,...

London 2012: Black cab Olympic protest brings London to a halt; updated 22 Jul 2012; published 17 Jul 2012
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London 2012: Black cab Olympic protest brings London to a halt
CNBC 24 Jul 2012, LONDON (Reuters) - A man dived off London's historic Tower Bridge into the River Thames on Monday during a protest by taxi drivers over their exclusion from part of a special Olympic Games road network in the capital. Police pulled the man from the water under the landmark bridge, from which Olympic rings were suspended to celebrate the 2012 London...

Video: Hong Kong hammered by violent typhoon Vincente; updated 25 Jul 2012; published 24 Jul 2012
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Video: Hong Kong hammered by violent typhoon Vincente
CBC 24 Jul 2012, A powerful typhoon slammed the Chinese territory of Hong Kong on Tuesday, injuring dozens, disrupting communications and bringing business to a standstill in one of the world's leading financial centres. Typhoon Vincente made landfall at 4 a.m. local time after the Hong...





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