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Flinching in the face of economic weakness, President Barack Obama's top aides refused to say Sunday in the run-up to the Democratic National Convention if Americans are better off...
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Article by WN.com Guest Writer Ali Abbas Hasanie, Political analyst and scholar, Montreal, Canada ON March 18, 2013 the current parliament will complete its five years term,...
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Article by WN.com Guest Writer Gilad Atzmon In the last few hours we have learned that the US had made massive reductions to a joint military exercise with Israel. Originally...

People walk past an advertisement poster of Samsung Electronics' product at a subway station in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Aug. 31, 2012.
After winning a landmark $1-billion patent infringement case, Apple Inc. is once again targetting Samsung Electronics Co. by taking aim at its rival's bestselling Galaxy S III phone. Apple on Friday amended a complaint, filed originally in Feburary,...
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A Syrian boy chants slogans during a rally demanding UNICEF to protect Syrian children in front of the UNICEF Compound in Amman, Jordan, Monday, Feb. 20, 2012.
The U.N. children's fund UNICEF says Syria's civil war killed 1,600 people last week, making it the deadliest seven-day period of the 18-month conflict. UNICEF spokesman Patrick McCormick said Sunday the death toll included some...
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A freed Syrian prisoner, left, hugs his brother, right, after being released from Adra Prison on the northeast outskirts of Damascus, Syria, on Monday Jan. 16, 2012. Syria's state news agency SANA said on Sunday President Bashar Assad has granted a general amnesty for crimes committed during the unrest of the past 10-months. SANA said the amnesty issued Sunday covers those who have peacefully demonstrated, those who have carried unlicensed weapons and those who hand over their weapons to authorities before the end of January.
For the first time, a Western journalist has been granted access to Assad's military prisoners By Robert Fisk September 02, 2012 "The Independent" – - They came into the room one by one, heads bowed, wrists crossed in front of...
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File - President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden meet with Gen. Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta in the Oval Office, Feb. 28, 2012.
YORK, Pa. - Vice President Joe Biden said Sunday that Republican rival Mitt Romney is "ready to go to war in Syria and Iran" while hurting the middle class. The warning came during a campaign stop in York, Pa., designed to promote President Barack...
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This image made from amateur video from Hama Revolution 2011 and accessed by AP video Friday, July 13, 2012 purports to show bodies of victims killed by violence that, according to anti-regime activists, was carried out by government forces in Tremseh, Syria, about 15 kilometers (nine miles) northwest of the central city of Hama.
BEIRUT — Two activist groups said Sunday that about 5,000 people were killed in Syria's escalating civil war in August while the U.N. children's fund UNICEF put the death toll for last week alone at 1,600. They were the highest figures...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, speaks to Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev during their meeting in Moscow, Russia, on Monday, May 21, 2012.
BORODINO, Russia (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin made a rousing call for unity among Russia's diverse ethnic and religious groups on Sunday as he led commemorations of a battle 200 years ago that led to the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte. Standing...
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Rushed Afghan exit 'bad for image': Australia
AFP - Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr on Sunday acknowledged the nation's weariness with the Afghan conflict after five more troop deaths but warned of "enormous" damage to its image if it pulled out now. Carr said an accelerated Australian...
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Causes of WW1 - Militarism; updated 02 Aug 2012; published 11 Oct 2009
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Causes of WW1 - Militarism
WorldNews.com 03 Sep 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling It has become common to argue that appeasing Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Third Reich was a major cause for the massive slaughter that occurred during World War II. Absent from this argument, however, is that Adolf Hitler's and the Nazi Third Reich's "security through superiority" doctrine was their...

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Striking South African Miners Charged with Murder After Police Kill 34; updated 03 Sep 2012; published 31 Aug 2012
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Striking South African Miners Charged with Murder After Police Kill 34
France24 03 Sep 2012, AFP - South African courts are due Monday to start releasing 270 miners arrested over the deaths of fellow workers shot by police, after the murder charges against them were provisionally dropped. Following a public furore, acting national director of prosecutions Nomgcobo Jiba said she had taken the decision to review the charge. "The murder...

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Inside Syria: Can Lakhdar Brahimi end the Syrian conflict?; updated 01 Sep 2012; published 19 Aug 2012
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Inside Syria: Can Lakhdar Brahimi end the Syrian conflict?
BBC News 03 Sep 2012, The new UN-Arab League envoy on Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, has given a deeply pessimistic view of the task ahead of him, as he takes up his new post. Speaking to the BBC, the Algerian described his mission as "nearly impossible". Mr Brahimi, a seasoned UN diplomat, was appointed after his predecessor, Koff Annan, resigned, saying he no...

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Assam violence claims 32 lives, 1500 more troops sent - NewsX; updated 24 Aug 2012; published 25 Jul 2012
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Assam violence claims 32 lives, 1500 more troops sent - NewsX
BBC News 03 Sep 2012, The tragedy unfolding in the Indian state of Assam over the past month - the killing of nearly 100 people, mostly Bangladeshi Muslim settlers in lower Assam, and the displacement of others in hundreds of thousands - is not without precedent. In February 1983, more than 2,000 men, women and children - all Bengali-speaking Muslims and allegedly...

Demonstrators back Rohingya resettlement proposal; updated 08 Aug 2012; published 08 Aug 2012
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Demonstrators back Rohingya resettlement proposal
The Star 03 Sep 2012, YANGON: Hundreds of Buddhist monks marched in Myanmar Sunday to support President Thein Sein's suggestion that Muslim Rohingya be deported or held in camps, in the biggest rally since the end of junta rule. Lines of clerics wearing their traditional deep red robes passed through the streets of Mandalay flanked by crowds of supporters in scenes not...

Syria proxy war: 'Back to good old colonial games'; updated 30 Aug 2012; published 28 Aug 2012
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Syria proxy war: 'Back to good old colonial games'
Al Jazeera 02 Sep 2012, Turkey has appealed to the UN Security Council to create a safe zone inside Syria, but they hold out little hope for an endorsement from the council that has failed so far to take action to stop the violence. Ankara believes that 100,000 refugees would be a tipping point and with that threshold fast approaching, the government is proposing a...

Five Australian soldiers killed in Afghanistan; updated 31 Aug 2012; published 30 Aug 2012
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Five Australian soldiers killed in Afghanistan
The New York Times 02 Sep 2012, KABUL, Afghanistan — The training of Afghan Local Police and Afghan special operations forces, which account for about 7 percent of all Afghan security forces, has been put on hold for at least a month while their American trainers conduct stricter vetting to try to root out any infiltrators or new recruits who could pose risks to the...

8/29/2012 -- Severe weather overview -- Tropical storm ISAAC heading to Midwest; updated 02 Sep 2012; published 30 Aug 2012
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8/29/2012 -- Severe weather overview -- Tropical storm ISAAC heading to Midwest
CBC 02 Sep 2012, As the remnants of Hurricane Isaac pushed their way up the Mississippi valley on Saturday, spinning off severe thunderstorms and at least four tornadoes, some on the Gulf Coast were impatient with the pace of restoring power days after the storm dragged through the region. While New Orleans streets were bustling again and workers were returning to...

Bush-Blair: To the Peoples of Iraq; updated 03 Aug 2012; published 14 Mar 2009
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Bush-Blair: To the Peoples of Iraq
BBC News 02 Sep 2012, Tony Blair and George W Bush should be taken to the International Criminal Court in The Hague over the Iraq war, Archbishop Desmond Tutu has said. Writing in the newspaper, he accused the former UK and US leaders of lying about weapons of mass destruction. The Iraq military campaign had made the world more unstable "than any other conflict in...

Mexico President Felipe Calderon on Monterrey Casino Massacre.flv; updated 30 Jul 2012; published 27 Aug 2011
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Mexico President Felipe Calderon on Monterrey Casino Massacre.flv
The Guardian 02 Sep 2012, OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press= MEXICO CITY (AP) — President Felipe Calderon delivered the last state-of-the-nation report of his administration Saturday, saying he is leaving Mexico with the foundation for "true and lasting security."...

Conflict in Syria ravages its economy; updated 31 Aug 2012; published 21 Aug 2012
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Conflict in Syria ravages its economy
Novosti 02 Sep 2012, MOSCOW, September 2 (RIA Novosti) - Foreign military interference into the ongoing conflict in Syria is not an option and the government of the country should be the first to end the violence, Al Arabiya...

Somalia set to birth new government; updated 01 Aug 2012; published 26 Jul 2012
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Somalia set to birth new government
Gareowe Online 01 Sep 2012, MOGADISHU, Somalia Sep 1 2012 (Garowe Online) – The electoral commission announced the criteria for candidates running for president of Somalia, Garowe Online reports. Spokesman for the electoral commission Osman Libah Ibrahim held a press conference in Mogadishu on Saturday explaining the criteria for candidates running for president. The ten...

South Africa's Lonmin Marikana mine clashes killed 34 and at least 78 people were injured!; updated 02 Sep 2012; published 17 Aug 2012
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South Africa's Lonmin Marikana mine clashes killed 34 and at least 78 people were injured!
Al Jazeera 01 Sep 2012, Lawyers in South Africa are threatening court action against President Jacob Zuma unless he orders the release of 270 miners facing murder charges after police shot dead 34 of their colleagues at a protest. Unless Zuma takes action by midday Sunday, the firm of Maluleke, Msimang and Associates wrote in an open letter on Thursday, they will file...

NATO in Afghanistan - An interview with Ambassador Simon Gass; updated 28 Aug 2012; published 27 Aug 2012
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NATO in Afghanistan - An interview with Ambassador Simon Gass
Stars and Stripes 01 Sep 2012, Twin suicide bombings outside an American military base rocked Wardak Province early Saturday, causing mass casualties close to a U.S. base hit by a similar attack one year ago, according to a provincial government official. A suicide bomber blew himself up just after 6 a.m. oustide the district governor’s office in Sayad Abad, followed by a...