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Four Reasons OWSM Has Fizzled
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03 Aug 2012

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. Like an old bottle of soda pop that has been opened and reopened, and then sits on a shelf and looses its fizzle, the Occupy Wall Street Movement (OWSM) has lost its fizzle too. Its lack of taste and sparkle is mainly due to the inability to imagine bottom up thinking, a lack of revolutionary action...
Police make an arrest after entering an enclosed site near Canal Street where Occupy Wall Street protesters gathered on Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011. Protesters vowed to regroup after an early morning police raid removed their encampment from Zuccotti Park.
photo: AP / Seth Wenig

Toll in Uganda's Ebola outbreak rises to 16: WHO
Full Article France24
03 Aug 2012

AFP - The latest outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus has killed 16 people in Uganda, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday, increasing the previous toll by one. "Today we have...
REPEATED FOR IMPROVED TONAL QUALITY- A medical worker from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, researchers who are working on the Ebola outbreak in Uganda, works at their laboratory in Entebbe 42kms (29 miles) from the capital Kampala Thursday Aug. 2, 2012.
photo: AP / Stephen Wandera

Syria resolution heads to vote at UN General Assembly
Full Article CBC
03 Aug 2012

The UN General Assembly is set to vote on a resolution that denounces the violent actions of the Syrian regime and criticizes the UN Security Council for failing to deal with the situation in Syria, where regime forces and rebels are engaged in an a violent conflict that has forced thousands to flee. The draft resolution expresses concern about the...
In this Thursday Feb. 23, 2012 photo, Syrian rebels stand in front of the remains of a burnt military vehicle belonging to Syrian government forces destroyed by Syrian rebels during clashes at Khaldiyeh neighborhood in Homs province, Syria.
photo: AP

Kofi Annan resigns as UN-Arab League Envoy for Syria
Full Article Scoop
03 Aug 2012

Friday, 3 August 2012, 3:18 pm Press Release: United Nations Kofi Annan resigns as UN-Arab League Joint Special Envoy for Syrian crisis 2 August 2012 – Ban Ki-moon today announced the resignation of the United Nations-League of Arab States Joint Special Envoy for the Syrian crisis, Kofi Annan. “Mr. Annan has informed me, and the...
File - Kofi Annan, Joint Special Envoy of the United Nations and the Arab League on the Syrian Crisis, briefs the press after reporting to the Security Council on his recent visits to Syria and Ankara, Turkey, where the Syrian National Council is based, 16 March, 2012.
photo: UN / Jean-Marc Ferré

Markets fall after inaction on euro
Full Article The Independent
02 Aug 2012

Markets fell sharply as ECB president Mario Draghi dashed hopes that he would signal an imminent move into bond markets to ease Spain's borrowing costs. Uncertainty over the future of the euro has already deepened the UK's double-dip recession, with output down 0.7 per cent in the second quarter of 2012. The ECB also kept its main interest rate on...
CaixaBank is a leading financial group in retail banking in the Spain,  Barcelona.
photo: WN / Minakumari

Panetta in Jordan for talks on Syria
Full Article France24
02 Aug 2012

AFP - US Secretary of Defence Leon Panetta arrived in Jordan on Thursday for talks with King Abdullah II on the conflict in neighbouring Syria and the influx of refugees to Jordan. "Both of our nations share concerns about what is happening in Syria and the impact that that could have on regional stability," Panetta told reporters...
Panetta in Jordan for talks on Syria
photo: US DoD / Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo

Armed 'al-Qaeda' trio arrested in southern Spain
Full Article BBC News
02 Aug 2012

Police in southern Spain have arrested three suspected al-Qaeda members in possession of explosives and poison,...
File - A man believed to be a suspected member of al-Qaida is led out of a apartment block with a jacket covering his head, by civil guards in Valencia, Spain, Tuesday March 27, 2012, after his arrest.
photo: AP / Alberto Saiz

Obama inks 'secret order' to aid Syria rebels
Full Article Al Jazeera
02 Aug 2012

US President Barack Obama has signed a secret order authorising US support for rebels seeking to depose Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his government, Reuters news agency said quoting sources familiar with the matter. Obama's order, approved earlier this year and known as an intelligence "finding", broadly permits the...
In this photo taken May 18, 2012, President Barack Obama speaks in Washington. Ignoring a veto threat, the House passes a $642 billion defense budget that breaks last year's deficit-cutting deal and restricts President Barack Obama's authority as commander in chief. The election-year salvo from Republicans also calls for an East Coast missile defense installation opposed by the military. The Democratic-controlled Senate is likely to scrap many of the measures.
photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais

Troops kill dozens near Damascus as battle rages in Aleppo
Full Article The Hindu
02 Aug 2012

Syrian opposition activists say regime forces have swept through neighbourhoods south of the capital Damascus in a deadly military operation that has inflicted casualties. By some activist estimates, dozens of people have been killed. The figure could not be independently confirmed. The...
In this citizen journalism image provided by Shaam News Network SNN, taken on Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2012, smoke leaps the air from purported shelling in Damascus, Syria.
photo: AP / Shaam News Network, SNN

Egypt's partial cabinet named
Full Article Al Jazeera
02 Aug 2012

Egypt's state media has released a partial list of the country's incoming cabinet members, just a day before the first government under its new president is sworn in. The partial list includes names of ministers from the military-backed transition cabinet as well as a few Islamist leaders. The cabinet is the first under newly elected President...
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi meets with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Tuesday, July 31, 2012, at the Presidential Palace in Cairo, Egypt
photo: AP / Mark Wilson, Pool


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Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi took a crucial step toward building his government last week with the appointment of Hesham Kandil as prime minister. One month into his term,...
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Despite recent tough talk coming from the White House regarding Iran, the Obama administration and the mullahs agree on one thing: Jerusalem is not the capital of Israel. On...

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at the State Department in Washington. Clinton's charge that Russia is sending attack helicopters to Syria has escalated the war of words between the former Cold War foes, precisely when Washington had hoped to court Moscow's support for a transition plan to end the Assad regime. If nothing else, Clinton's statement and Moscow's tart rebuttal underline the Obama administration's difficulty finding a strategy to halt Syria's violence.
MATTHEW LEE Associated Press= JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is visiting the world's newest country, South Sudan, to press its leaders and their counterparts in the north to resolve festering differences that...
photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais
In this July 30, 2012 photo, a bridge supporting railway lines is destroyed after heavy rain in Onchon County, North Korea.
North Korea requested emergency supplies, including food, as it tries to recover from last month’s torrential rains and flooding, the United Nations said. The North Korean government “requested that the UN release its pre-positioned emergency stocks,...
photo: AP / Jon Chol Jin
United States players from left, Chris Paul, Labron James, Kevin Durant, Carmelo Anthony, and Russell Westbrook sit on the bench during a men's basketball game against Nigeria at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012, in London.
Posted: August 3, 2012 Team USA decided to let their opponents know they had come to London to win on Thursday night, when they defeated Nigeria 156-73 in their men’ s Group A meeting.. The awesome performance broke several several all-time...
photo: AP / Charlie Riedel
Kofi Annan, left, the United Nations and Arab League envoy to Syria, arrives at the Great Hall of the People for talks with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, unseen, in Beijing, China, Tuesday, March 27, 2012.
Posted: August 2, 2012 Kofi Annan has resigned as the U.N. Envoy to Syria after peace efforts in the region have failed. Annan stated that he has resigned as the U.N. and Arab League joint special envoy, after “increasing militarization on the...
photo: AP / Ng Han Guan
Grammy Award Winning Hip Hop Icon Lil Wayne and Professional Skateboarder Stevie Williams celebrate the launch of their contemporary clothing lines TRUKFIT and DGK at Macy’s stores on Friday June 1, 2012 in Los Angeles.
Lil Wayne is issuing new music this month -- another entry in his "Dedication" mixtape series -- but after that, fans shouldn’t hold their breath for more from the Young Money leader. In an interview with DJ Drama on on Wednesday, Weezy...
photo: AP / Katy Winn
Power Grid Corp names RP Sasmal as Director of Operations
NEW DELHI: State-run Power Grid Corporation has appointed R P Sasmal as Director of Operations amid the company facing one of the worst failures of transmission grids earlier this week. He took charge on Wednesday. The utility, which manages...
photo: AP / Manish Swarup
Philippine flood death toll climbs to 23
Rescuers deployed rubber boats while doctors fanned across cramped evacuation centers in the Philippines as the death toll from five days of flooding reached 23 yesterday, officials said. Large farming towns north of the capital, Manila, as well as...
photo: AP / Pat Roque
Occupy Wall Street protesters attacked and arrested at Times Square; updated 01 Aug 2012; published 16 Oct 2011
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Occupy Wall Street protesters attacked and arrested at Times Square
WorldNews.com 03 Aug 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. Like an old bottle of soda pop that has been opened and reopened, and then sits on a shelf and looses its fizzle, the Occupy Wall Street Movement (OWSM) has lost its fizzle too. Its lack of taste and sparkle is mainly due to the inability to imagine bottom up thinking, a lack of revolutionary action...

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Ebola Virus In Uganda; updated 02 Aug 2012; published 30 Jul 2012
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Ebola Virus In Uganda
France24 03 Aug 2012, AFP - The latest outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus has killed 16 people in Uganda, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday, increasing the previous toll by one. "Today we have...

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Kofi Annan resigns as Syria's UN envoy; updated 03 Aug 2012; published 02 Aug 2012
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Kofi Annan resigns as Syria's UN envoy
CBC 03 Aug 2012, The UN General Assembly is set to vote on a resolution that denounces the violent actions of the Syrian regime and criticizes the UN Security Council for failing to deal with the situation in Syria, where regime forces and rebels are engaged in an a violent conflict that has forced thousands to flee. The draft resolution expresses concern about the...

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Kofi Annan Resigns as Special Envoy; updated 03 Aug 2012; published 03 Aug 2012
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Kofi Annan Resigns as Special Envoy
Scoop 03 Aug 2012, Friday, 3 August 2012, 3:18 pm Press Release: United Nations Kofi Annan resigns as UN-Arab League Joint Special Envoy for Syrian crisis 2 August 2012 – Ban Ki-moon today announced the resignation of the United Nations-League of Arab States Joint Special Envoy for the Syrian crisis, Kofi Annan. “Mr. Annan has informed me, and the...

Resilient Market Despite Lack of ECB Or Fed Action; updated 02 Aug 2012; published 02 Aug 2012
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Resilient Market Despite Lack of ECB Or Fed Action
The Independent 02 Aug 2012, Markets fell sharply as ECB president Mario Draghi dashed hopes that he would signal an imminent move into bond markets to ease Spain's borrowing costs. Uncertainty over the future of the euro has already deepened the UK's double-dip recession, with output down 0.7 per cent in the second quarter of 2012. The ECB also kept its main interest rate on...

Defence Secretary Panetta's blunt statements; updated 25 Feb 2012; published 03 Feb 2012
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Defence Secretary Panetta's blunt statements
France24 02 Aug 2012, AFP - US Secretary of Defence Leon Panetta arrived in Jordan on Thursday for talks with King Abdullah II on the conflict in neighbouring Syria and the influx of refugees to Jordan. "Both of our nations share concerns about what is happening in Syria and the impact that that could have on regional stability," Panetta told reporters...

Four Indians held in Spain for Qaida links - Video The Times of India; updated 27 May 2012; published 22 May 2012
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Four Indians held in Spain for Qaida links - Video The Times of India
BBC News 02 Aug 2012, Police in southern Spain have arrested three suspected al-Qaeda members in possession of explosives and poison,...

Leaked: Obama approved covert CIA support for Syria rebels; updated 03 Aug 2012; published 02 Aug 2012
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Leaked: Obama approved covert CIA support for Syria rebels
Al Jazeera 02 Aug 2012, US President Barack Obama has signed a secret order authorising US support for rebels seeking to depose Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his government, Reuters news agency said quoting sources familiar with the matter. Obama's order, approved earlier this year and known as an intelligence "finding", broadly permits the...

Inside Story - Has the Damascus attack broken al-Assad?; updated 01 Aug 2012; published 19 Jul 2012
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Inside Story - Has the Damascus attack broken al-Assad?
The Hindu 02 Aug 2012, Syrian opposition activists say regime forces have swept through neighbourhoods south of the capital Damascus in a deadly military operation that has inflicted casualties. By some activist estimates, dozens of people have been killed. The figure could not be independently confirmed. The...

New Egyptian Cabinet sworn in under President Mohamed Morsi; updated 02 Aug 2012; published 02 Aug 2012
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New Egyptian Cabinet sworn in under President Mohamed Morsi
Al Jazeera 02 Aug 2012, Egypt's state media has released a partial list of the country's incoming cabinet members, just a day before the first government under its new president is sworn in. The partial list includes names of ministers from the military-backed transition cabinet as well as a few Islamist leaders. The cabinet is the first under newly elected President...

67 Minutes for Mandela Day- Eusebius Mckaiser; updated 19 Jul 2012; published 18 Jul 2012
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67 Minutes for Mandela Day- Eusebius Mckaiser
WorldNews.com 02 Aug 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. In 1990, Nelson Mandela abandoned the motorcade and walked the final quarter mile to the prison gate. For the last twenty feet, photographers and cameras from all over the world clicked and flashed to capture this moment. Meanwhile, Mandela was thinking about and reflecting how he had spent the last...

Panetta said to expect Israel attack on Iran in spring; updated 14 Jul 2012; published 03 Feb 2012
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Panetta said to expect Israel attack on Iran in spring
Voa News 02 Aug 2012, JERUSALEM — U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Israeli leaders on Wednesday warned Iran that time is running out to resolve disputes over its controversial nuclear program. Speaking at a press conference in Jerusalem with the visiting Pentagon chief, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said international sanctions aren't...

Watch Chen Guangcheng's Phone Call to Congress, Asking to Come to US; updated 07 Jul 2012; published 03 May 2012
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Watch Chen Guangcheng's Phone Call to Congress, Asking to Come to US
BBC News 01 Aug 2012, Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, who arrived in the US in May, has urged Washington to investigate his case and protect his family at home. Speaking after meetings in the US Congress, Mr Chen said Beijing had not fulfilled guarantees made to him when he left China. Mr Chen sparked diplomatic tensions when he escaped house arrest and fled to the US...

UN General Assembly urges Assad to step down; updated 30 Mar 2012; published 17 Feb 2012
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UN General Assembly urges Assad to step down
The Times of India 01 Aug 2012, SHARE AND DISCUSS Tweet UNITED NATIONS: Arab countries pushed ahead Wednesday with a symbolic UN General Assembly resolution that tells Syrian President Bashar Assad to resign and turn over power to a transitional government. It also demands that the Syrian army stop its shelling and helicopter attacks and withdraw to its barracks. A vote is set...





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