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Syria army claims Damascus retaken, Aleppo pounded
Full Article Yahoo Daily News
05 Aug 2012

The Syrian army said it has seized the last rebel-held district of the capital as insurgents in the strategic northern city of Aleppo came under heavy bombardment by regime forces. The army on Saturday said it had retaken the hold-out rebel district of Tadamun in Damascus, a day after the United Nations deplored the failure of diplomacy to end a...
This citizen journalism image taken on Friday, Aug. 3, 2012 purports to show Syrian rebels celebrating after taking over the Ansari police station in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria on August 3, 2012.
photo: AP

Iranian pilgrims kidnapped on trip to Syria
Full Article Sacramento Bee
05 Aug 2012

BEIRUT -- Gunmen kidnapped dozens of Iranian pilgrims on a trip to strife-torn Syria on Saturday, the latest in a series of abductions that have targeted citizens of Iran, a major international ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad. The pilgrims - their numbers were variously reported as 47 and 48 - were kidnapped by "armed opposition groups" as...
In this picture taken on Sunday March 25, 2012, a Syrian rebel stands guard in front of a damaged building, at Khaldiyeh neighborhoods in Homs province, central Syria.
photo: AP

UN vote undermines peace efforts in Syria: Russia
Full Article Zeenews
04 Aug 2012

Zeenews Bureau New York: Russia's Ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, on Friday condemned a UN General Assembly resolution on Syria. The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly denounced Syria's crackdown in a symbolic effort meant to push the deadlocked Security Council and the world at large into action on stopping the civil war. Talking...
Syrian security officers gather in front the damaged building of the aviation intelligence department, which was attacked by one of two explosions, in Damascus, Syria, on Saturday, March 17, 2012.
photo: AP / Bassem Tellawi

Sudan, South Sudan reach deal to end oil dispute: African Union
Full Article The Times of India
04 Aug 2012

SHARE AND DISCUSS Tweet ADDIS ABABA: Sudan and South Sudan have agreed to end a dispute on oil payments and will discuss when to resume southern...
In this Tuesday, April 24, 2012 photo, Sudanese workers inspect burnt out oil pipes at the oil-rich border town of Heglig, Sudan.
photo: AP / Abd Raouf

Four Reasons OWSM Has Fizzled
Full Article 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...
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


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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...

Many areas remain flooded during the heavy rains brought by monsoon. West Bengal is on the eastern bottleneck of India, stretching from the Himalayas in the north to the Bay of Bengal in the south.
Zeenews Bureau Dehradun: Over 30 people were killed and 40 others went missing after flash floods battered Uttarakhand. The floods flattened several of homes. With scores of...
photo: Creative Commons / Ppntori
United States' Michael Phelps reacts after swimming in the men's 4 X 100-meter medley relay at the Aquatics Centre in the Olympic Park during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012.
Michael Phelps' storied career came to an end Saturday - and he went out in style. The swimming star and most decorated Olympian of all time took his final victory lap, winning the 4x100-meter medley relay in London with teammates Matt Grevers,...
photo: AP / Matt Slocum
Curtis Irwin holds a .50 caliber rifle to show at a gun shop in Fort Worth, Texas, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008.
Related topics gun lawsGunsgun rightsGun control Rating for Book: "Gun Laws by State -- Reciprocity and Gun Laws Quick Reference Guide" 5 Advertisement “Shall not be infringed” notwithstanding, engaged gun owners know there is a multitude...
photo: AP / LM Otero
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with South Sudan President Salva Kiir, Friday, Aug. 3, 2012, at the Presidential Office Building in Juba, South Sudan.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called on the two Sudans to settle the disputes that have brought them close to war, as she briefly visited the South Sudanese capital, Juba. Mrs Clinton is the highest-ranking US official to visit South...
photo: AP / Jacquelyn Martin
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
Syrian Aleppo Army Blow Up 2 Syrian Army Tanks & Take the other As War Bounty 30- 07- 2012; updated 03 Aug 2012; published 30 Jul 2012
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Syrian Aleppo Army Blow Up 2 Syrian Army Tanks & Take the other As War Bounty 30- 07- 2012
Yahoo Daily News 05 Aug 2012, The Syrian army said it has seized the last rebel-held district of the capital as insurgents in the strategic northern city of Aleppo came under heavy bombardment by regime forces. The army on Saturday said it had retaken the hold-out rebel district of Tadamun in Damascus, a day after the United Nations deplored the failure of diplomacy to end a...

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Freed Iranian pilgrims abducted in Syria speak out; updated 13 May 2012; published 06 Apr 2012
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Freed Iranian pilgrims abducted in Syria speak out
Sacramento Bee 05 Aug 2012, BEIRUT -- Gunmen kidnapped dozens of Iranian pilgrims on a trip to strife-torn Syria on Saturday, the latest in a series of abductions that have targeted citizens of Iran, a major international ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad. The pilgrims - their numbers were variously reported as 47 and 48 - were kidnapped by "armed opposition groups" as...

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Syria Peace Plan, Assad in Homs, More Shelling; updated 02 Jun 2012; published 27 Mar 2012
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Syria Peace Plan, Assad in Homs, More Shelling
Zeenews 04 Aug 2012, Zeenews Bureau New York: Russia's Ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, on Friday condemned a UN General Assembly resolution on Syria. The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly denounced Syria's crackdown in a symbolic effort meant to push the deadlocked Security Council and the world at large into action on stopping the civil war. Talking...

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Historic deal signed over Sudan oil; updated 14 Mar 2012; published 08 Dec 2010
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Historic deal signed over Sudan oil
The Times of India 04 Aug 2012, SHARE AND DISCUSS Tweet ADDIS ABABA: Sudan and South Sudan have agreed to end a dispute on oil payments and will discuss when to resume southern...

Occupy Wall Street protesters attacked and arrested at Times Square; updated 03 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...

Ebola Virus In Uganda; updated 03 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...

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...

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
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...

Market Pulse: Germany and ECB, remember Weber and Stark?; updated 01 Aug 2012; published 01 Aug 2012
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Market Pulse: Germany and ECB, remember Weber and Stark?
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 04 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...





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