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Gu Kailai murder trial begins in China
Full Article The Guardian
09 Aug 2012

Gu Kailai, wife of politician Bo Xilai, facing charges of murdering Neil Heywood, a British businessman with close ties to the family Police officers stand guard at the Hefei City Intermediate People's Court where the murder trial of Gu Kailai, wife of ousted Chinese politician Bo Xilai, takes place Photograph: Eugene Hoshiko/AP...
A police officer stands guard at the Hefei City Intermediate People's Court where the murder trial of Gu Kailai, wife of ousted Chinese politician Bo Xilai, takes place Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012 in Hefei, Anhui Province, China.
photo: AP / Eugene Hoshiko

Libya's NTC hands power to new assembly
Full Article CNTV
09 Aug 2012

TRIPOLI, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- Libya's National Transitional Council on Wednesday handed over power to the newly elected national assembly in a ceremony and the assembly is due to begin its work a week from now, according to the official LANA news agency. "The National Transitional Council hands over the constitutional duties for leading the state to...
Mustafa Abdel Jalil, leader of the National Transitional Council (NTC) waits for the final results of the Libyan elections in Tripoli , Libya, Tuesday, July 17, 2012.
photo: AP / Manu Brabo

Sinai problem resurfaces for Egypt
Full Article BBC News
08 Aug 2012

This month's violence in the far north of the Sinai Peninsula is an uncomfortable reminder of the security concerns that persist there, decades after Egypt and Israel signed the Camp David peace treaty. This barren, partly mountainous triangle wedged between Africa and Asia has always been harder to police than the heavily populated Nile...
An Egyptian mourns outside the mosque at the funeral of 16 soldiers killed in an attack over the weekend by suspected militants in Sinai in Cairo, Egypt Tuesday Aug. 7, 2012.
photo: AP / Thomas Hartwell

New Heart or Pot Calling the Kettle Black?
Full Article WorldNews.com
08 Aug 2012

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling His heart told him to evade the Vietnam War draft and then, while serving in the Nixon Administration, it encouraged him to send more U.S. troops to their deaths. At the same time, he supported massive aerial bombardment campaigns that killed tens of thousands of innocent civilians. Having voted...
File - Vice President Dick Cheney is saluted by the sideboys as he boards the USS Constitution for a Fourth of July celebration at Boston, Mass., July 4, 2008.
photo: US Navy / MC2 Clay Weis

'Mass graves' for Myanmar's Rohingya
Full Article Al Jazeera
08 Aug 2012

A recent journey to western Myanmar has revealed a provincial capital divided by hatred and thousands of its Muslim residents terrorised by what they say is a state-sponsored campaign to segregate the population along ethno-sectarian lines. Decades-old tension between ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims in coastal Rakhine state exploded...
Indonesian Muslim student protester holds a poster in front of the Myanmar Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, Aug. 3, 2012, calling for an end to the violence against ethnic Rohingya in Rakhine State of Myanmar.
photo: AP / Achmad Ibrahim

While it sits out the war, US struggles to shape how Syria looks the day after Assad
Full Article The Washington Post
08 Aug 2012

But the U.S. faces a hard sell with Syria’s fighters after refusing to back them militarily and watching them squabble for months over how to reshape their country the day after President Bashar Assad’s regime crumbles, as expected. Loading... Comments Weigh In Corrections? Recommend...
In this citizen journalism image provided by Shaam News Network SNN, taken on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012, Syrians attend the funeral procession of a man killed in Idlib province, Syria. Arabic, left, reads, "God is great."
photo: AP / Shaam News Network, SNN

EU-Israel: One hand whitewashes the other
Full Article Al Jazeera
08 Aug 2012

- How Israel can breach international law, commit systematic human rights abuses and colonise Palestine with impunity is typically blamed on the role of the US, for which there is plenty of supporting evidence: from the UN Security Council veto to significant financial and military support. But the strength and high-profile of the US-Israel...
Palestinian men try to pass through an Israeli checkpoint on their way to pray at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, on the third Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan near Bethlehem, West Bank, Friday, Aug. 03, 2012.
photo: AP / Nasser Shiyoukhi

Manila’s poor trapped in neck-deep water
Full Article Independent online (SA)
08 Aug 2012

Manila - More than 800 000 people in and around the Philippine capital battled deadly floods on Wednesday as more rain fell, with neck-deep waters trapping slum dwellers and the wealthy elite on rooftops. Monsoon rains that have pounded Manila for more than a week eased slightly overnight, but the government said between 60 and 80 percent of the...
A resident carries a monitor along a flooded road in Marikina City, east of Manila, Philippines, Wednesday Aug. 8, 2012.
photo: AP / Aaron Favila

Pakistan court: PM must appear in corruption case
Full Article The Boston Globe
08 Aug 2012

ISLAMABAD—Pakistan's supreme court ordered the country's prime minister on Wednesday to appear before it to explain why he has not followed their instructions to look into corruption allegations against the president, escalating tensions between the high court and the government. The ongoing conflict between the government and the court has...
Pakistani Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf speaks during a joint press conference with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, unseen, at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, July 19, 2012.
photo: AP / Musadeq Sadeq

Sudan reaches agreement on aid access to rebel-controlled areas
Full Article The Guardian
08 Aug 2012

Deal between Sudan and South Sudan paves way for relief supplies into two border states for first time in more than a year Water is distributed at South Sudan's Batil refugee camp, one of three Upper Nile camps sheltering at least 113,000 people. Photograph: Nichole Sobecki/AFP/Getty...
Refugees from South Kordofan, in the Republic of Sudan, await distribution of basic goods in the Yida refugee camp in Unity State, South Sudan on Saturday May 12, 2012. More than 30,000 refugees currently reside in Yida having fled war between the government of the Republic of Sudan and rebel forces in South Kordofan.
photo: AP / Pete Muller


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Somebody should tell Mitt Rommey that he is mishandling the Democrats’ trumped-up attacks on his personal income-tax returns (“Romney to Reid on tax accusations:...
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Article by WN.com Guest Writer Gilad Atzmon I respect former Knesset speaker Avraham Burg. Over the years, Burg has managed to extend the scope of the Zionist self-criticism; he...
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It is arguable whether Africa's problems have become more or less severe over the past four years. It is also arguable whether the increasing militarization of U.S. policy in...

Wind tower plant in Tulsa shutting down
Wind tower manufacturer DMI Industries Inc. will close its Tulsa plant in November as the parent company exits the wind energy business. The closure will cost 167 people their jobs. Another company plant in West Fargo, N.D., that has 217 employees...
photo: WN / Marzena J.
In this July 2008 file photo, Erik Prince, founder and CEO of then Blackwater Worldwide, now called Xe Services, speaks at the company's offices in Moyock, N.C. An investment group with ties to the founder of the company formerly known as Blackwater has bought the security firm, which was heavily criticized for its contractors' actions in Iraq.
The international security contractor formerly known as Blackwater has agreed to pay a $7.5 million fine to settle federal criminal charges related to arms smuggling and other crimes. Documents unsealed Tuesday in a U.S. District Court in North...
photo: AP / Gerry Broome
People react as a rare snow fall hits Johannesburg, South Africa, Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012.
Posted: August 7, 2012 Snow in South Africa is rare, in fact it has only snowed in Johannesburg 22 times in the last 103 years, including a rare event on Tuesday morning that sent snowflakes to the ground and residence running into an unseasonably...
photo: AP / Jon Gambrell
More attacks on security posts in Sinai
Five security checkpoints have been attacked in higher Sinai, along the Egypt-Israel border, days after 16 border guards were shot dead in an attack in the peninsula. One person was injured in the attacks late on Tuesday night, sources told Al...
photo: UN / Mark Garten
Man charged for throwing bottle
LONDON: A man has been charged with a public order offence after a bottle was thrown on the track just before the beginning of the men’s 100m Olympic final, Scotland Yard says. Ashley Gill-Webb, 34, from South...
photo: WN / M. Jazowska
In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Saeed Jalili, meets with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012.
Damascus: Syrian President Bashar Al Assad held unannounced talks with a top envoy from closest ally Iran on Tuesday as his troops engaged rebels in fierce fighting in key battleground city Aleppo. Saeed Jalili, a top aide to Iran’s supreme...
photo: AP / SANA
Bolivia's President Evo Morales, right, and Quechua Indigenous leaders participate in a signing agreement ceremony in La Paz, Bolivia, Tuesday, July 10, 2012.
Bolivian President Evo Morales has called for the complete eradication of extreme poverty in his country by 2025, in an address marking his country's Independence Day. Morales delivered his annual message, which also serves as a kind...
photo: AP / Juan Karita
Wife of Bo Xilai on trial for murder of Brit Neil Heywood; updated 08 Aug 2012; published 08 Aug 2012
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Wife of Bo Xilai on trial for murder of Brit Neil Heywood
The Guardian 09 Aug 2012, Gu Kailai, wife of politician Bo Xilai, facing charges of murdering Neil Heywood, a British businessman with close ties to the family Police officers stand guard at the Hefei City Intermediate People's Court where the murder trial of Gu Kailai, wife of ousted Chinese politician Bo Xilai, takes place Photograph: Eugene Hoshiko/AP...

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Libya's NTC investigates rebel 'corruption'; updated 12 Jun 2012; published 14 Apr 2012
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Libya's NTC investigates rebel 'corruption'
CNTV 09 Aug 2012, TRIPOLI, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- Libya's National Transitional Council on Wednesday handed over power to the newly elected national assembly in a ceremony and the assembly is due to begin its work a week from now, according to the official LANA news agency. "The National Transitional Council hands over the constitutional duties for leading the state to...

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'Mossad's hand in terror attacks, Gaza ghetto the goal'; updated 08 Aug 2012; published 07 Aug 2012
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'Mossad's hand in terror attacks, Gaza ghetto the goal'
BBC News 08 Aug 2012, This month's violence in the far north of the Sinai Peninsula is an uncomfortable reminder of the security concerns that persist there, decades after Egypt and Israel signed the Camp David peace treaty. This barren, partly mountainous triangle wedged between Africa and Asia has always been harder to police than the heavily populated Nile...

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Osama bin Laden Killed: Dick Cheney Reacts in ABC's Interview, Exclusive 2011; updated 31 Jul 2012; published 03 May 2011
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Osama bin Laden Killed: Dick Cheney Reacts in ABC's Interview, Exclusive 2011
WorldNews.com 08 Aug 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling His heart told him to evade the Vietnam War draft and then, while serving in the Nixon Administration, it encouraged him to send more U.S. troops to their deaths. At the same time, he supported massive aerial bombardment campaigns that killed tens of thousands of innocent civilians. Having voted...

Human Rights Watch slams Burmese govt over Rohingya violence - NewsX; updated 08 Aug 2012; published 06 Aug 2012
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Human Rights Watch slams Burmese govt over Rohingya violence - NewsX
Al Jazeera 08 Aug 2012, A recent journey to western Myanmar has revealed a provincial capital divided by hatred and thousands of its Muslim residents terrorised by what they say is a state-sponsored campaign to segregate the population along ethno-sectarian lines. Decades-old tension between ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims in coastal Rakhine state exploded...

Inside Syria's War; updated 08 Aug 2012; published 06 Aug 2012
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Inside Syria's War
The Washington Post 08 Aug 2012, But the U.S. faces a hard sell with Syria’s fighters after refusing to back them militarily and watching them squabble for months over how to reshape their country the day after President Bashar Assad’s regime crumbles, as expected. Loading... Comments Weigh In Corrections? Recommend...

Israel demolishes Palestinian homes - 28 Oct 09; updated 09 Jun 2012; published 28 Oct 2009
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Israel demolishes Palestinian homes - 28 Oct 09
Al Jazeera 08 Aug 2012, - How Israel can breach international law, commit systematic human rights abuses and colonise Palestine with impunity is typically blamed on the role of the US, for which there is plenty of supporting evidence: from the UN Security Council veto to significant financial and military support. But the strength and high-profile of the US-Israel...

Aerial View of Manila Flood - Aug 7th, 2012 (PLEASE HELP); updated 09 Aug 2012; published 07 Aug 2012
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Aerial View of Manila Flood - Aug 7th, 2012 (PLEASE HELP)
Independent online (SA) 08 Aug 2012, Manila - More than 800 000 people in and around the Philippine capital battled deadly floods on Wednesday as more rain fell, with neck-deep waters trapping slum dwellers and the wealthy elite on rooftops. Monsoon rains that have pounded Manila for more than a week eased slightly overnight, but the government said between 60 and 80 percent of the...

Imran Khan blasts the West and Pakistan's
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Imran Khan blasts the West and Pakistan's "corrupt" elite
The Boston Globe 08 Aug 2012, ISLAMABAD—Pakistan's supreme court ordered the country's prime minister on Wednesday to appear before it to explain why he has not followed their instructions to look into corruption allegations against the president, escalating tensions between the high court and the government. The ongoing conflict between the government and the court has...

Attack leaves South Sudan aid camp struggling; updated 12 Jun 2012; published 17 Nov 2011
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Attack leaves South Sudan aid camp struggling
The Guardian 08 Aug 2012, Deal between Sudan and South Sudan paves way for relief supplies into two border states for first time in more than a year Water is distributed at South Sudan's Batil refugee camp, one of three Upper Nile camps sheltering at least 113,000 people. Photograph: Nichole Sobecki/AFP/Getty...

Sinai Shockwave: Violence on Israeli doorstep after Egypt airstrike; updated 09 Aug 2012; published 08 Aug 2012
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Sinai Shockwave: Violence on Israeli doorstep after Egypt airstrike
BBC News 08 Aug 2012, Egyptian security officials say military helicopters have fired missiles on suspected Islamist militants near the town of al-Arish in the Sinai peninsula. Up to 20 people are reported to have been killed. The strikes came after security checkpoints were...

Aerial View of Manila Flood - Aug 7th, 2012 (PLEASE HELP); updated 09 Aug 2012; published 07 Aug 2012
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Aerial View of Manila Flood - Aug 7th, 2012 (PLEASE HELP)
Yahoo Daily News 08 Aug 2012, More than 800,000 people in and around the Philippine capital battled deadly floods Wednesday as more rain fell, with some slum dwellers stuck on shanty roofs and others wading through waist-deep water. Monsoon rains that have pounded Manila for more than a week eased slightly overnight, but meteorologists reported that 80 percent of the megacity...

Inside Syria's War; updated 08 Aug 2012; published 06 Aug 2012
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Inside Syria's War
Daily Press 08 Aug 2012, ALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) - Abu Bakr, a Syrian rebel commander on the outskirts of Aleppo, is a devoted Islamist determined to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad. But the radical allies that have joined the rebels in recent months alarm even him. "Let me be clear. I am an Islamist, my fighters are Islamists. But there is more than one type of...

Pt.3 Who Supports Assad in Syria?; updated 08 Aug 2012; published 06 Aug 2012
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Pt.3 Who Supports Assad in Syria?
The Independent 08 Aug 2012, A stalwart supporter of the Syrian regime throughout the 17 months of violence, Iran's Foreign Minister, Ali Akbar Salehi, travelled to the Turkish capital, Ankara, yesterday where he called for the two nations to end the conflict. This, despite Tehran's fierce criticism of Turkish support for the rebels in the past, shows the country's desperation...





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