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Related topics CatholicpopeNuns and VaticanReligionjesus Advertisement The question is becoming who is the Pope trying to channel? Is it jesus or is it the high priest who led the...
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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...

Police personnel move outside the Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wis., where a shooting took place Sunday, Aug 5, 2012.
Not long after the story broke that a gunman (who may or may not have had accomplices) had reportedly killed six people and wounded three others in a shooting at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, Don Lemon, CNN's weekend anchor, stated that the...
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People watch police personnel outside the Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wis., where a shooting took place Sunday, Aug 5, 2012.
OAK CREEK, Wisconsin (Reuters) - A gunman killed six people and critically wounded three at a Sikh temple during Sunday services before police shot him dead in an attack that authorities are treating as an act of domestic terrorism. A distraught...
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Our deadliest day in 40 years
The attack which killed two New Zealand soldiers in Afghanistan was the country's deadliest day in combat for more than forty years. Six other New Zealanders were wounded - three seriously - when they went to the aid of Afghan police who were...
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Cholera hits DR Congo refugee camp
Health workers in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo say an outbreak of cholera has claimed at least nine lives in a refugee camp. The first case of cholera - a contagious disease caused by filth and lack of hygiene - emerged three days ago...
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Syrian Rebels Hold 48 Iranians
By MARGARET COKER BEIRUTIran has requested help from Turkey and Qatar to secure the release of 48 Iranians captured over the weekend in the Syrian capital by rebels who insist the group are undercover spies and not innocent pilgrims caught up...
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File - Afghan President Hamid Karzai addresses Afghan nationals during a conference held outside Provincial Governor Abdul Karim Barahawi's compound in Zaranj, Nimroz province, Afghanistan, April 13, 2011.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has accepted parliament's dismissal of two of his most senior ministers following a vote of no confidence in them. The interior and defence...
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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...
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Aleppo: Rebel Execution of Prisoners (Viewpoint 2); updated 04 Aug 2012; published 01 Aug 2012
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Aleppo: Rebel Execution of Prisoners (Viewpoint 2)
The Daily Telegraph 05 Aug 2012, The battle lines were drawn in Aleppo as more than 20,000 government troops amassed around Syria's second city, as the government warned the "main course" was yet to come. An image grab taken from AFP TV on August 5, 2012 shows smoke billowing from the Salaheddin district of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on August 3 Photo: AFP/GETTY...

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Trouble brewing in the South China Sea - Decoder; updated 04 Aug 2012; published 17 Jul 2012
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Trouble brewing in the South China Sea - Decoder
Deutsche Welle 05 Aug 2012, China has summoned a senior US diplomat to protest against America's criticism of Beijing's establishment of a military garrison in the South China Sea. The move had intensified a bitter row over the disputed waters. China's Assistant Foreign Minister Zhang Kunsheng summoned the US Embassy's Deputy Chief of Mission Robert Wang on Saturday after...

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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
Al Jazeera 05 Aug 2012, The UN General Assembly has recently passed a resolution condemning the ongoing bloodshed in Syria, criticising its Security Council for remaining divided on the issue. The resolution was strongly opposed by a number of countries, including Russia and China - the two major powers that have repeatedly used their vetoes in the Security Council to...

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Villagers flee homes in South Kordofan; updated 12 Jun 2012; published 18 Mar 2012
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Villagers flee homes in South Kordofan
BBC News 05 Aug 2012, An agreement has been reached to allow aid to be flown into the South Kordofan and Blue Nile regions of Sudan, where hundreds of thousands of people are critically short of food. The UN, African Union and Arab League signed the deal with SPLM North rebels. But one senior rebel leader, Yassir Arman, told the BBC that the flights required Sudanese...

Syrian Aleppo Army Blow Up 2 Syrian Army Tanks & Take the other As War Bounty 30- 07- 2012; updated 04 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...

48 Iranian Pilgrims abducted by Insurgents near Damascus; updated 05 Aug 2012; published 05 Aug 2012
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48 Iranian Pilgrims abducted by Insurgents near Damascus
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...

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...

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...

UN Spokeswoman Expresses Concern Over Syria; updated 02 Aug 2012; published 01 Aug 2012
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UN Spokeswoman Expresses Concern Over Syria
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...

Annan resigns as Syria envoy: 'Finger-pointing, name-calling in UNSC' to blame; updated 04 Aug 2012; published 02 Aug 2012
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Annan resigns as Syria envoy: 'Finger-pointing, name-calling in UNSC' to blame
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 04 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...





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