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Two earthquakes in Iran kill 250 and injure 1,800
Full Article The Star
12 Aug 2012

DUBAI (Reuters) - Two powerful earthquakes killed 250 people and injured around 1,800 in northwest Iran, where rescue workers frantically combed the rubble of dozens of villages throughout the night and into Sunday as medical staff desperately tried to save lives. An injured person is taken to hospital in Ahar August 11, 2012. Two strong...
Ruins of a houses are seen after an earthquake in the city of Varzaqan in northwestern Iran, on Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012. A 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit the towns of Ahar, Haris and Varzaqan in East Azerbaijan province in northwestern Iran on Saturday, state TV said.
photo: AP / Mehr News Agency, Hamed Nazari

The 'Other' Deadly Super Weapons
Full Article WorldNews.com
12 Aug 2012

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling In 1950 when President Harry S. Truman declared, "We had got to do it-make the bomb-though no one wants to use it. But...we have got to have it if only for bargaining purposes with the Russians;"(1) his statement came on the heels of American airborne planes that had detected radioactive fallout near...
File - Ivy Mike (yield 10.4 mt) - An atmospheric nuclear test conducted by the U.S. at Enewetak Atoll on 1 November 1952. It was the world's first successful hydrogen bomb.
photo: Creative Commons / CTBTO Photostream

‘Green-on-blue’ attacks spike in Afghanistan
Full Article Khaleej Times
11 Aug 2012

KABUL - Seven international soldiers have been killed by their local colleagues in a bloody week of violence in Afghanistan, further eroding trust between foreign troops and the Afghans they work with. Six died on Friday alone — three American soldiers were shot by an Afghan policeman who invited them to a meal and three other troops were killed...
File - U.S. Army Sgt. Johnny Hoyos, left, assigned to the Zabul Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) security force, provides security as an engineer with the Zabul PRT inspects a canal project site in Zabul province, Afghanistan, June 14, 2011.
photo: USAF / Staff Sgt. Brian Ferguson

Murder, cover-ups and a political conspiracy?
Full Article Al Jazeera
11 Aug 2012

A British businessman poisoned in a Chinese city. The alleged killer: the wife of a man who was eyeing one of the nine seats at the highest level of political power, the Communist Party politburo. Was this killing connected in any way to political events, and could it, indeed, impact the election of a new generation of Chinese leaders? The murder...
In this Jan. 17, 2007 file photo, Gu Kailai, left, wife of then Chinese Commerce Minister Bo Xilai, right, attends a memorial ceremony for Bo's father Bo Yibo, a late revolutionary leader considered one of communist China's founding fathers, at a military hospital in Beijing.
photo: AP / Alexander F. Yuan

Mitt Romney to announce Paul Ryan as his pick for VP
Full Article The Examiner
11 Aug 2012

Related topics Elections 2012Mitt RomneyPaul RyanVP Advertisement Friday night Team Romney made the announcement that Mitt Romney will be selecting his running mate tomorrow at a campaign stop in Norfolk, Va. According to Politico, a source in the Romney campaign says he will choose Wis. Rep. Paul Ryan. When pressed by Politico, Romney sources said...
FILE - In this April 3, 2012 file photo, House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. introduces Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney before Romney spoke at the Grain Exchange in Milwaukee.
photo: AP / M. Spencer Green

Clinton arrives in Turkey for key Syria talks
Full Article Khaleej Times
11 Aug 2012

ISTANBUL ' US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived Saturday in Istanbul for talks on the conflict in Syria with Turkish leaders after Washington slapped fresh sanctions on Bashar al-AssadÂ’s regime and its allies. Clinton flew in after wrapping up a nine-nation Africa tour. The visit comes after Washington on Friday announced sanctions on...
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton stands with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, not pictured, as they address the media at the State Department in Washington
photo: AP / Carolyn Kaster

U.S. officials: al-Qaida gaining foothold in Syria
Full Article Richmond Times Dispatch
11 Aug 2012

WASHINGTON -- Al-Qaida has advanced beyond isolated pockets of activity in Syria and now is building a network of well-organized cells, according to U.S. intelligence officials, who fear the terrorists could be on the verge of establishing an Iraq-like foothold that would be hard to defeat if rebels eventually oust President Bashar Assad. At least...
A Syrian gunman shoots in the air during the funeral of 29 year-old Free Syrian Army fighter, Husain Al-Ali, who was killed during clashes in Aleppo, in the town of Marea on the outskirts of Aleppo city, Syria, Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012.
photo: AP / Khalil Hamra

Tale of Two Sikh Massacres
Full Article WorldNews.com
11 Aug 2012

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling When Guru Nanak, founder of Sikhism, emerged from three days of solitude and announced: "There is no Hindu; there is no Muslim; only God,"(1) little did he realize that this new enlightened belief would be met with violence. Having taught his followers the loving transcendence of God and "brotherhood...
Mourners attend the funeral and memorial service for the six victims of the Sikh temple of Wisconsin mass shooting in Oak Creek, Wis., Friday, Aug 10, 2012.
photo: AP / Jeffrey Phelps

Brahimi tipped to be envoy as tension spreads
Full Article The Independent
11 Aug 2012

Diplomatic sources said Lakhdar Brahimi is being considered to replace Kofi Annan as the United Nations-Arab League envoy for Syria, after the former UN Secretary-General quit last week saying the militarisation of the conflict and deadlock at the Security Council had made his job impossible. Like Mr Annan, the 78-year-old Algerian diplomat who has...
File - Lakhdar Brahimi, Chairman of the Independent Panel on the Safety and Security of the United Nations Personnel and Premises Worldwide, addresses a press conference on the report of the panel.
photo: UN / Mark Garten

Syrian forces clash with Jordanian soldiers on the border
Full Article The Daily Telegraph
11 Aug 2012

Fighting broke out between Jordanian and Syrian forces in a border region between the two countries on Thursday night. A Free Syrian Army fighter fires an anti-aircraft gun as a Syrian Air Force fighter bomber fires rockets during an air strike in the village of Tel Rafat, some 37 km (23 miles) north of Aleppo Photo: REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic...
In this photo taken during a government-organised visit for media, Syrian army soldiers standing on their military trucks shout slogans in support of Syrian President Bashar Assad, as they enter a village near the town of Jisr al-Shughour, north of Damascus, Syria, on Friday June 10, 2011.
photo: AP / Bassem Tellawi


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Article by WN.com Guest Writer Kourosh Ziabari Economic sanctions, psychological warfare, media propaganda, threats and assassinations; what other sort of evidence may one need to...
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling In 2005 when the preemptive wars and military occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq were obviously becoming disastrous, it was...
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Syria – the country – was a welcome place when Syria the refugee arrived there with her young husband as a refugee from the Lebanese civil war. The early Hafez el-Assad years – how...

Coping with climate change
In drought-scorched parts of the country these days, some farmland bears a resemblance to NASA's photos of Mars' barren plains. Here on Earth, crops are suffering. On Friday, the federal Department of Agriculture cut by 17 percent its estimate for...
photo: WN / Marzena J.
Victims of an earthquake sit over the bodies of their loved ones who were killed in the city of Varzaqan in northwestern Iran, on Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012.
* Two quakes hit northwest Iran near city of Tabriz * Quakes were 6.4 and 6.3 in magnitude * Casualties may rise as rescuers reach new areas on Sunday * Some 16,000 people given emergency shelter By Zahra Hosseinian DUBAI, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Two...
photo: AP / Hamed Nazari
	NATO-led troops worried by Afghan attacks
Kabul -- Six of the eight U.S., British and coalition service members killed since Thursday in southern Afghanistan were shot in the company of their Afghan allies, officials of the NATO-led coalition said Saturday. The killings...
photo: US Army / Michael J. MacLeod
Iranian villagers walk through ruins after an earthquake at the Zeynabi village in the Iranian Qeshm Island in the Persian Gulf, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008. A strong earthquake rocked southern Iran on Wednesday, sending tremors across the Persian Gulf and shaking the skyscrapers of Dubai. Iranian state television reported that five people were killed and 26 others were injured.
Two strong earthquakes struck the north-western Iranian region on Saturday, leaving more than 87 dead and at least 400 injured, a medical official told the ISNA news agency....
photo: AP / Abdolhosein Rezvani
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, right, and vice presidential candidate Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan
"Mitt's choice for VP is Paul Ryan. Spread the word about America's comeback team," a Romney campaign mobile phone application said, confirming widespread reports he had selected the 42-year-old Wisconsin lawmaker who chairs the US House of...
photo: AP / Mary Altaffer
Palestinian Prime Minister adviser, Ahmed Yousef meets with former US attorney general Ramsey Clark at Rafah crossing border between Egypt and Gaza while Clark leaves the Gaza Strip After his visit to the enclave strip on January 6, 2011.(Photo by Ahmed Deeb/wn)
“The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.” (Former US Attorney General, Ramsey Clark.) On the 4th of May 2012, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Chaired a Security Council meeting: “Highlighting Changing Nature,...
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb
Corporal Daniel Thompson from Dallastown, Pa., fire team leader, 1st Squad, 2nd Platoon, Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, posts security while members of the Afghan Narcotics Interdiction Unit search a compound during Operation Speargun in Urmuz, Afghanistan, March 26, 2012.
Troops were shot dead by locals including a police chief and his men as attacks on Nato troops by 'allies' increase Afghan police inspect vehicles at a checkpoint in Qirshke. Photograph: Sher Khan/EPA...
photo: DOD / Public Domain
At least 50 feared dead in Iran earthquakes; updated 12 Aug 2012; published 11 Aug 2012
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At least 50 feared dead in Iran earthquakes
The Star 12 Aug 2012, DUBAI (Reuters) - Two powerful earthquakes killed 250 people and injured around 1,800 in northwest Iran, where rescue workers frantically combed the rubble of dozens of villages throughout the night and into Sunday as medical staff desperately tried to save lives. An injured person is taken to hospital in Ahar August 11, 2012. Two strong...

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Ivy Mike 10 Megatons; updated 08 Aug 2012; published 04 Nov 2008
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Ivy Mike 10 Megatons
WorldNews.com 12 Aug 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling In 1950 when President Harry S. Truman declared, "We had got to do it-make the bomb-though no one wants to use it. But...we have got to have it if only for bargaining purposes with the Russians;"(1) his statement came on the heels of American airborne planes that had detected radioactive fallout near...

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NATO in Afghanistan - Afghanistan's first National Rugby Team; updated 10 Aug 2012; published 07 Aug 2012
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NATO in Afghanistan - Afghanistan's first National Rugby Team
Khaleej Times 11 Aug 2012, KABUL - Seven international soldiers have been killed by their local colleagues in a bloody week of violence in Afghanistan, further eroding trust between foreign troops and the Afghans they work with. Six died on Friday alone — three American soldiers were shot by an Afghan policeman who invited them to a meal and three other troops were killed...

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Trying to gain access to Gu Kailai trial; updated 10 Aug 2012; published 08 Aug 2012
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Trying to gain access to Gu Kailai trial
Al Jazeera 11 Aug 2012, A British businessman poisoned in a Chinese city. The alleged killer: the wife of a man who was eyeing one of the nine seats at the highest level of political power, the Communist Party politburo. Was this killing connected in any way to political events, and could it, indeed, impact the election of a new generation of Chinese leaders? The murder...

Mitt Romney Selects Paul Ryan as Running Mate; updated 12 Aug 2012; published 11 Aug 2012
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Mitt Romney Selects Paul Ryan as Running Mate
The Examiner 11 Aug 2012, Related topics Elections 2012Mitt RomneyPaul RyanVP Advertisement Friday night Team Romney made the announcement that Mitt Romney will be selecting his running mate tomorrow at a campaign stop in Norfolk, Va. According to Politico, a source in the Romney campaign says he will choose Wis. Rep. Paul Ryan. When pressed by Politico, Romney sources said...

Clinton Criticizes Syrian President; updated 10 Aug 2012; published 17 Jul 2011
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Clinton Criticizes Syrian President
Khaleej Times 11 Aug 2012, ISTANBUL ' US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived Saturday in Istanbul for talks on the conflict in Syria with Turkish leaders after Washington slapped fresh sanctions on Bashar al-AssadÂ’s regime and its allies. Clinton flew in after wrapping up a nine-nation Africa tour. The visit comes after Washington on Friday announced sanctions on...

Syria: Al Qaida Terrorists Attacking Syrian Security Forces and Torture; updated 28 Feb 2012; published 28 Feb 2012
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Syria: Al Qaida Terrorists Attacking Syrian Security Forces and Torture
Richmond Times Dispatch 11 Aug 2012, WASHINGTON -- Al-Qaida has advanced beyond isolated pockets of activity in Syria and now is building a network of well-organized cells, according to U.S. intelligence officials, who fear the terrorists could be on the verge of establishing an Iraq-like foothold that would be hard to defeat if rebels eventually oust President Bashar Assad. At least...

Sikh Temple Shooting In Wisconsin & Anti-Muslim Propaganda; updated 11 Aug 2012; published 07 Aug 2012
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Sikh Temple Shooting In Wisconsin & Anti-Muslim Propaganda
WorldNews.com 11 Aug 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling When Guru Nanak, founder of Sikhism, emerged from three days of solitude and announced: "There is no Hindu; there is no Muslim; only God,"(1) little did he realize that this new enlightened belief would be met with violence. Having taught his followers the loving transcendence of God and "brotherhood...

Syria: UN ceasefire monitors visit Deraa; updated 03 Jun 2012; published 17 Apr 2012
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Syria: UN ceasefire monitors visit Deraa
The Independent 11 Aug 2012, Diplomatic sources said Lakhdar Brahimi is being considered to replace Kofi Annan as the United Nations-Arab League envoy for Syria, after the former UN Secretary-General quit last week saying the militarisation of the conflict and deadlock at the Security Council had made his job impossible. Like Mr Annan, the 78-year-old Algerian diplomat who has...

Ex Syrian PM Deciding Future in Jordan; updated 11 Aug 2012; published 10 Aug 2012
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Ex Syrian PM Deciding Future in Jordan
The Daily Telegraph 11 Aug 2012, Fighting broke out between Jordanian and Syrian forces in a border region between the two countries on Thursday night. A Free Syrian Army fighter fires an anti-aircraft gun as a Syrian Air Force fighter bomber fires rockets during an air strike in the village of Tel Rafat, some 37 km (23 miles) north of Aleppo Photo: REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic...

Massive flood: Philippine capital Manila inundated after 11 days of torrential rain; updated 11 Aug 2012; published 08 Aug 2012
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Massive flood: Philippine capital Manila inundated after 11 days of torrential rain
Al Jazeera 10 Aug 2012, Thousands more Philippine flood survivors have crammed into evacuation centres as waist-high water covered vast farming regions and the death toll from a week of misery rose to 60. The flooding that submerged 80 per cent of Manila early in the week had largely subsided, allowing people to return to their homes on Friday, but vital rice-growing...

Mystery of Egypt Sinai border attacks with George Galloway (I); updated 12 Aug 2012; published 10 Aug 2012
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Mystery of Egypt Sinai border attacks with George Galloway (I)
BBC News 10 Aug 2012, Bedouin tribal leaders in Egypt's Sinai peninsula have agreed to help restore security in the lawless border area with the Gaza Strip and Israel. In talks with Interior Minister Ahmed Gamal al-Din, they also backed plans to destroy smuggling tunnels into Gaza. The move comes as Egyptian troops mass in the area in an operation to contain...

S Korea-Japan tensions simmer over island dispute; updated 11 Aug 2012; published 15 Aug 2011
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S Korea-Japan tensions simmer over island dispute
BBC News 10 Aug 2012, South Korea's president is expected to visit islands also claimed by Japan, in a move set to raise diplomatic tensions between the two nations. Lee Myung-bak's spokeswoman said the president...

'Intervention into Syria already underway'; updated 12 Aug 2012; published 12 Aug 2012
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'Intervention into Syria already underway'
Yahoo Daily News 10 Aug 2012, Rebels retreated from the key Aleppo district of Salaheddin under a deadly rain of shellfire Thursday, as a veteran Algerian diplomat was set to be named the new international envoy to Syria. "We have staged a tactical withdrawal from Salaheddin. The district is completely empty of rebel fighters. Regime forces are now advancing into Salaheddin,"...





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