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UN monitors quit, saying Syrians choose "path of war"
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17 Aug 2012

BEIRUT/ALEPPO (Reuters) - Syria's government and rebels have "chosen the path of war", a U.N. peacekeeping chief said as the world body ended its doomed monitoring mission to Damascus and deadlock persists among world powers over how to contain the spreading conflict. Two weeks after former U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan quit as mediator in...
In this Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012 photo, a Syrian elderly man walks past a destroyed building in the town of Azaz on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria.
photo: AP / Khalil Hamra

No peace in Sudan's Darfur despite costly peacekeeping force
Full Article Middle East Online
17 Aug 2012

More than four years after an African Union-UN peacekeeping force costing billions of dollars arrived in Sudan's restive western region of Darfur, peace remains elusive and some question the mission's value. Critics say the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), the world's largest peacekeeping operation, is too close to the...
File - A Rwandan officer with the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) participates in a road trip exercise across North and West Darfur dubbed "Haboob Chase", 27 June, 2010.
photo: UN / Albert Gonzalez Farran

Assange has chance of freedom ... but how?
Full Article Independent online (SA)
17 Aug 2012

Julian Assange will never be allowed free passage out of Britain, the British government said on Thursday night, raising the prospect of the fugitive WikiLeaks founder's effective imprisonment inside the Ecuadorean embassy in Knightsbridge for months or even years to come. Ecuador threw down the gauntlet to the UK, Sweden and the United States on...
British police officers stand guard outside the Ecuadorian Embassy, where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is believed to be taking refuge, in London, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012.
photo: AP / Alastair Grant

Deadly clashes erupt in Ivory Coast
Full Article Al Jazeera
17 Aug 2012

Gunmen have attacked security posts and freed more than 100 prisoners in a town west of Ivory Coast's commercial capital Abidjan during an overnight raid that ended, officials and local residents said. At least five people were killed in the clashes that ended on Thursday morning, including two of the gunmen and three civilians,...
Ivory Coast troops patrol around the Cocody area in the city of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Monday, Aug 6, 2012. An Ivory Coast military official says seven soldiers have been killed in another attack by gunmen on a military camp in the commercial capital, Abidjan.
photo: AP / Emanuel Ekra

UN to keep presence in Syria as observers mission ends
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17 Aug 2012

DAMASCUS, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- The mandate of the UN Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS) was not extended by the UN Security Council's meeting on Thursday, however, the council agreed to establish a new civilian office in Damascus to back the mediating efforts of the United Nations and the Arab League (AL). UN Secretary-general Ban Ki-moon said...
In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a UN observers vehicle passes under a huge Syrian flag held by Syrian President Bashar Assad supporters during their visit to the pro-Syrian regime neighborhoods, in Homs province, central Syria, on Monday April 23, 2012.
photo: AP / SANA

Japan 'preparing to deport activists' in island row
Full Article BBC News
17 Aug 2012

Japan is preparing to deport a group of 14 Chinese, including activists, boat crew and journalists, who sailed to disputed islands, reports say. Police have questioned the group and they are being handed to immigration authorities, Japanese media said. The group sailed from Hong Kong, reaching islands known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China...
A boat, center, is surrounded by Japan Cost Guard's patrol boats after some activists descended from the boat on Uotsuri Island, one of the islands of Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chinese, in East China Sea Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012.
photo: AP / Yomiuri Shimbun, Masataka Morita

South African police open fire on striking miners
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17 Aug 2012

South African police opened fire Thursday on a crowd of striking workers at a platinum mine, leaving an unknown number of people injured and possibly dead. Motionless bodies lay on the ground in pools of blood. Police moved in on striking workers who gathered near the Lonmin PLC mine, located 70 kilometres...
Police surround the bodies of striking miners after opening fire on a crowd at the Lonmin Platinum Mine near Rustenburg, South Africa, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012.
photo: AP

Ecuador grants asylum to WikiLeaks' Assange
Full Article Atlanta Journal
16 Aug 2012

LONDONEcuador said Thursday that it was granting asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, a decision that thrilled supporters but will do little to defuse the standoff at the Latin American nation's London embassy, where the Australian ex-hacker has been holed up for almost two months. British police officers arrest a protesters in...
A banner with a message board in support of Julian Assange is seen hangs on a barrier across the street as police officers stand guard at the Ecuadorian Embassy in central London, London, Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012.
photo: AP / Sang Tan

Jihadist group warns Egyptian army
Full Article Independent online (SA)
16 Aug 2012

Cairo - An Islamist militant group operating in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula bordering with Israel warned the Egyptian army on Wednesday that an ongoing military crackdown on jihadists in the area will force it to fight back. The Egyptian army has been hunting militants in the Sinai desert since an attack last week on Egyptian border guards that killed...
Army honor guards carry the body of one of 16 soldiers killed in an attack over the weekend by suspected militants in Sinai at a funeral in Cairo, Egypt Tuesday Aug. 7, 2012.
photo: AP / Thomas Hartwell

Militants kill 1 in brazen attack on Pakistan air base with suspected links to nuclear program
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16 Aug 2012

KAMRA, Pakistan - A team of eight gunmen attacked a Pakistani air force base with suspected links to the country's nuclear program before dawn Thursday, killing a security official in a heavy battle that ended with the militants dead and parts of the base in flames, officials said. The attack on the base in Kamra, located only about 40 kilometres...
Pakistani security personnel guard the main entrance of Pakistan air force base in Kamra, about 85 kilometers (50 miles) northwest of Islamabad, Pakistan on Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012.
photo: AP / B.K. Bangash


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Turkey itself is a major target for destabilization, upheaval, and finally balkanization through its participation in the US-led siege against Syria. Ankara has burned its bridges...
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SHARE AND DISCUSS Tweet The southwestern US state of Texas is battling an outbreak of the West Nile virus, with 17 deaths blamed on the mosquito-borne disease, authorities said on Wednesday. Throughout the state 465 people have...
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British Prime Minister David Cameron's former chief communications adviser and former editor of the News of the World Andy Coulson, left, after appearing in Westminster Magistrates Court on phone hacking charges, in London Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012.
The veteran editors and reporters will have watched dozens of court cases in their long careers, but always from the press benches. Yesterday the six journalists, together with the private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, were in the dock, being stared...
photo: AP / Kirsty Wigglesworth
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, attends the weekly cabinet meeting in his Jerusalem office
The report was not discussed at a meeting of the Ministerial Committee on Settlement Affairs on Tuesday, raising suggestions in the Haaretz daily that the Prime Minister "has decided to bury the Levy report". A committee chaired by Edmond...
photo: AP / Abir Sultan, Pool
The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh and the Union Finance Minister, Shri Pranab Mukherjee- India- Politics
Indian PM Manmohan Singh has said urgent steps must be taken to boost the country's ailing economy. In a speech marking Independence Day, Mr Singh said the time had come to view growth as a matter of national security, and urged politicians to...
photo: PIB of India / Photo Division, Ministry of I & B, Govt. of India
The shell of a burnt out car is seen in a neighborhood of Amiens, France, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012. Dozens of young men rioted in a troubled district in northern France after weeks of tension.
PARIS -- French President Francois Hollande said Tuesday that his Socialist government would do everything necessary to ensure that law and order prevailed after rioting in the northern city of Amiens. The rioting, which followed several days of...
photo: AP / Georges Charrieres
A Syrian refugee carries her son after a medical check at the French mobile hospital set up to treat refugees fleeing the ongoing violence in Syria, at the Zaatari refugee camp in Mafraq, Jordan Monday, Aug. 13, 2012.
Valerie Amos, the UN humanitarian chief, has arrived in Syria to address the "deteriorating humanitarian situation" in the conflict-ravaged country and discuss ways of scaling-up relief efforts. She will meet government officials and humanitarian...
photo: AP / Mohammad Hannon
Union Minister for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences, Shri Vilasrao Deshmukh .
August 14: Union minister and former Maharashtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh died here Tuesday after a prolonged illness. He was 67. Deshmukh passed away around 2 p.m., sources at the Global Hospital said. Deshmukh was awaiting liver and kidney...
photo: PIB of India
Syria rebels 'shoot down warplane'; updated 16 Aug 2012; published 13 Aug 2012
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Syria rebels 'shoot down warplane'
Yahoo Daily News 17 Aug 2012, BEIRUT/ALEPPO (Reuters) - Syria's government and rebels have "chosen the path of war", a U.N. peacekeeping chief said as the world body ended its doomed monitoring mission to Damascus and deadlock persists among world powers over how to contain the spreading conflict. Two weeks after former U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan quit as mediator in...

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Darfur refugees in crisis; updated 31 Jul 2012; published 17 Jan 2012
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Darfur refugees in crisis
Middle East Online 17 Aug 2012, More than four years after an African Union-UN peacekeeping force costing billions of dollars arrived in Sudan's restive western region of Darfur, peace remains elusive and some question the mission's value. Critics say the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), the world's largest peacekeeping operation, is too close to the...

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Video: Ecuador grants asylum to Julian Assange; updated 17 Aug 2012; published 16 Aug 2012
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Video: Ecuador grants asylum to Julian Assange
Independent online (SA) 17 Aug 2012, Julian Assange will never be allowed free passage out of Britain, the British government said on Thursday night, raising the prospect of the fugitive WikiLeaks founder's effective imprisonment inside the Ecuadorean embassy in Knightsbridge for months or even years to come. Ecuador threw down the gauntlet to the UK, Sweden and the United States on...

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Six killed in fresh attack on Abidjan army base; updated 06 Aug 2012; published 06 Aug 2012
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Six killed in fresh attack on Abidjan army base
Al Jazeera 17 Aug 2012, Gunmen have attacked security posts and freed more than 100 prisoners in a town west of Ivory Coast's commercial capital Abidjan during an overnight raid that ended, officials and local residents said. At least five people were killed in the clashes that ended on Thursday morning, including two of the gunmen and three civilians,...

RT crew & UN observers on Syrian 'civil war' frontline; updated 09 Aug 2012; published 11 May 2012
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RT crew & UN observers on Syrian 'civil war' frontline
CNTV 17 Aug 2012, DAMASCUS, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- The mandate of the UN Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS) was not extended by the UN Security Council's meeting on Thursday, however, the council agreed to establish a new civilian office in Damascus to back the mediating efforts of the United Nations and the Arab League (AL). UN Secretary-general Ban Ki-moon said...

Police Stop Hong Kong Activists Sailing to Disputed Islands; updated 06 Aug 2012; published 24 Sep 2010
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Police Stop Hong Kong Activists Sailing to Disputed Islands
BBC News 17 Aug 2012, Japan is preparing to deport a group of 14 Chinese, including activists, boat crew and journalists, who sailed to disputed islands, reports say. Police have questioned the group and they are being handed to immigration authorities, Japanese media said. The group sailed from Hong Kong, reaching islands known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China...

Gold found in South Africa mine's waste; updated 06 Aug 2012; published 05 Nov 2011
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Gold found in South Africa mine's waste
CBC 17 Aug 2012, South African police opened fire Thursday on a crowd of striking workers at a platinum mine, leaving an unknown number of people injured and possibly dead. Motionless bodies lay on the ground in pools of blood. Police moved in on striking workers who gathered near the Lonmin PLC mine, located 70 kilometres...

Video: Ecuador grants asylum to Julian Assange; updated 17 Aug 2012; published 16 Aug 2012
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Video: Ecuador grants asylum to Julian Assange
Atlanta Journal 16 Aug 2012, LONDONEcuador said Thursday that it was granting asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, a decision that thrilled supporters but will do little to defuse the standoff at the Latin American nation's London embassy, where the Australian ex-hacker has been holed up for almost two months. British police officers arrest a protesters in...

Mystery of Egypt Sinai border attacks with George Galloway (I); updated 15 Aug 2012; published 10 Aug 2012
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Mystery of Egypt Sinai border attacks with George Galloway (I)
Independent online (SA) 16 Aug 2012, Cairo - An Islamist militant group operating in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula bordering with Israel warned the Egyptian army on Wednesday that an ongoing military crackdown on jihadists in the area will force it to fight back. The Egyptian army has been hunting militants in the Sinai desert since an attack last week on Egyptian border guards that killed...

Pakistan airbase attacked; 7 terrorists, 1 soldier killed‎; updated 17 Aug 2012; published 16 Aug 2012
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Pakistan airbase attacked; 7 terrorists, 1 soldier killed‎
Yahoo Daily News 16 Aug 2012, KAMRA, Pakistan - A team of eight gunmen attacked a Pakistani air force base with suspected links to the country's nuclear program before dawn Thursday, killing a security official in a heavy battle that ended with the militants dead and parts of the base in flames, officials said. The attack on the base in Kamra, located only about 40 kilometres...

Syrian rebels kidnap 13 Lebanese, say officals; updated 05 Aug 2012; published 23 May 2012
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Syrian rebels kidnap 13 Lebanese, say officals
Belfast Telegraph 16 Aug 2012, Masked men armed with assault rifles gathered in Beirut's southern suburbs yesterday to announce that they had taken dozens of Syrians hostage and threatened to kidnap Gulf nationals, as the sectarian spill over from the conflict took a sinister new twist in Syria's smaller neighbour. Members of a powerful Shia clan warned of further "escalation"...

UK vows to block Assange route as Ecuador grants him asylum; updated 17 Aug 2012; published 16 Aug 2012
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UK vows to block Assange route as Ecuador grants him asylum
Sydney Morning Herald 16 Aug 2012, AAP Britain's threat to storm Ecuador's embassy to arrest Julian Assange is hostile and extreme, WikiLeaks says. Mr Assange...

Militants Attacked Kamra Airbase in Attock Pakistan Full Video Report Part 3; updated 16 Aug 2012; published 16 Aug 2012
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Militants Attacked Kamra Airbase in Attock Pakistan Full Video Report Part 3
The Siasat Daily 16 Aug 2012, Islamabad , August 15: Militants wearing military uniforms attacked a key Pakistan Air Force base early Thursday, destroying at least one aircraft, a media report said. The attack took place around 2.00 a.m. at Kamra air base in Attock district, some 70 km from Islamabad, Xinhua quoted the local ARY TV channel as saying. The militants opened fire...

India celebrates its 66th Independence Day amid tight security‎; updated 16 Aug 2012; published 15 Aug 2012
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India celebrates its 66th Independence Day amid tight security‎
Irna 16 Aug 2012, New Delhi, Aug 16, IRNAIndia on Wednesday celebrated its 66th Independence Day across the country with great fervor....