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Timely and decisive response vital to uphold ‘responsibility to protect’ – UN officials
Full Article United Nations
05 Sep 2012

5 September 2012 – A timely and decisive response is vital in the face of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity, top United Nations officials stressed today, highlighting the need to act when a State fails to protect its own people. “This is the ultimate test of the responsibility to protect,” Secretary-General Ban...
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Timely and decisive response vital to uphold ‘responsibility to protect’ – UN officials
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Mauritania extradites Gaddafi spy chief Senussi to Libya
Full Article The Guardian
05 Sep 2012

Extradition of Libyan dictator's former head of military intelligence could shed fresh light on 1988 Lockerbie bombing Abdullah al-Senussi, pictured in Tripoli in 2011, is said to have recruited Abdel-Basset al-Megrahi, the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing. Photograph: Paul Hackett / Reuters/Reuters...
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In this Sunday, Aug. 21, 2011 file photo taken on a government-organized tour, Abdullah al-Senoussi, head of Libyan intelligence, speaks to the press as gunfire erupts all around the Rixos hotel in Tripoli, Libya.
photo: AP / Dario Lopez-Mills

Morsi in Tehran: Crossing the boundaries
Full Article Al Jazeera
05 Sep 2012

When during his speech at the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Tehran the Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi declared it an "ethical duty" to support the Syrian people against the "oppressive regime" of Bashar al-Assad in Damascus suddenly, for a clear moment, he became the messenger of the Egyptian Revolution for the Syrian people, and by...
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In this photo released by Iranian Students News Agency, ISNA, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left, speaks to Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi during the summit of the Nonaligned Movement in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012.
photo: AP / Amir Kholousi, ISNA

Angola: Promises temper election victory
Full Article BBC News
05 Sep 2012

Angola's long-serving President Jose Eduardo dos Santos and his party, the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), have enjoyed another thumping victory at the polls. Although not quite the 82% landslide of 2008, with 97% of ballots counted so far, they have scored more than 70% and will retain an absolute parliamentary majority...
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Angolans queue at a voting station in Kicolo, Luanda, Angola to cast their ballots Friday, Aug. 31, 2012.
photo: AP

China backs "transition" in Syria, opposes intervention
Full Article Reuters
05 Sep 2012

BEIJING, Sept 5 (Reuters) - China backs a "political transition" in Syria to end worsening bloodshed after 18 months of unrest, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said on Wednesday while repeating Beijing's opposition to forceful foreign intervention in the crisis. Yang gave no details of what he meant by a transition in Syria, where the...
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A Syrian child stands next to rebel fighters checking a house that was damaged in bombing by government forces in Marea, on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012.
photo: AP / Muhammed Muheisen

Yasser Arafat: French investigators seek Ramallah visit
Full Article BBC News
05 Sep 2012

French judges investigating the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat are seeking to travel to Ramallah to probe allegations he was poisoned. His family believes he had been poisoned with polonium-210, a radioactive element, when he died at a military hospital near Paris in 2004. French judges opened a murder enquiry into his death last month....
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A mural depicting the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (R) in Gaza City as French prosecutors in Paris opened up an official inquiry into Yasser Arafat's death in Gaza City on August 28, 2012. Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas welcomed a decision by French prosecutors to open a murder inquiry into claims the Arafat may have been poisoned.Photo by Ahmed Deeb / WN
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb

Dems drop language on Jerusalem from platform
Full Article North Jersey
04 Sep 2012

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats have dropped from their platform recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, a move that has opened President Barack Obama to criticism from Republican rival Mitt Romney....
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Dems drop language on Jerusalem from platform
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Obama DNC Message On Afghanistan May Be Hard To Craft
Full Article Huffington Post
04 Sep 2012

When President Barack Obama addresses the nation on Thursday night at the end of this week's Democratic National Convention, he will have no trouble saying more about the war in Afghanistan than his opponent, Mitt Romney, did last week....
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President Barack Obama waves to supporter from the stage after speaking at a campaign event at Norfolk State University, Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012, in Norfolk, Va.
photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais

More than 103,400 refugees flee Syria in a month as humanitarian crisis worsens
Full Article CNN
04 Sep 2012

September 4, 2012 -- Updated 1141 GMT (1941 HKT) Za'atari Refugee camp in northern Jordan, about six miles from the Syrian border, currently hosts over 20,000 Syrian refugees. UNICEF predicts 70,000 people will be living there by the end of the year. The camp was opened less than a month ago to accommodate the growing number of refugees arriving in...
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Syrian refugee, Omm Ahmed, from Daraa, Syria, carries her newly-born infant near her tent, at Zaatari Refugee Camp, in Mafraq, Jordan, Sunday, Sept. 2, 2012.
photo: AP / Mohammad Hannon

South Africa's New Martyrs and Labor Consciousness Movement
Full Article WorldNews.com
04 Sep 2012

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling "This is no way to live or grow children. Fifty people share one toilet. We don't have water." -Wife of a miner who works for Lonmin Platinum in Marikana "...everyone must begin to look upon each other as a human being." -Stephen Biko For resisting South Africa's apartheid system, Stephen Biko was...
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Police keep an eye on arrested mineworkers as they arrive at a court in Ga-Rankuwa, north of Pretoria, South Africa, Monday Aug 20, 2012. T
photo: AP

September 11, 2001 - As It Happened - The South Tower Attack; updated 05 Sep 2012; published 31 Aug 2007
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September 11, 2001 - As It Happened - The South Tower Attack
Teen gang members on surging Chicago violence; updated 04 Sep 2012; published 26 Jun 2012
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Teen gang members on surging Chicago violence
First Lady warms up the crowd at the Democratic National Convention; updated 05 Sep 2012; published 05 Sep 2012
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First Lady warms up the crowd at the Democratic National Convention
Evolution v. Creationism: the Politics, the Science, the Debate (1 of 3); updated 17 Aug 2012; published 06 Nov 2009
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Evolution v. Creationism: the Politics, the Science, the Debate (1 of 3)
Jennifer Love Hewitt & Bachelorette Runner-Up Dating!; updated 09 Aug 2012; published 11 Apr 2012
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Jennifer Love Hewitt & Bachelorette Runner-Up Dating!
Rachel Corrie - Interview; updated 05 Sep 2012; published 06 Jul 2006
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Rachel Corrie - Interview


Open Minds Worldwide
Fear, Anger and Politics
more Al Jazeera
More than 10 years ago, the 9/11 terrorist attacks left a gaping hole in New York - and across the US as a whole. This open wound continues to divide communities to this day. In...
Chicago gets federal help fighting crime
more The Los Angeles Times
CHICAGO — Mayor Rahm Emanuel has asked federal law enforcement for help in combating violence and drugs in two areas of Chicago that the city says have seen the highest...
Michelle Obama: the person and the persona
more Richmond Times Dispatch
She is 5-foot-11 and world famous. Sometimes she inspires awe in her admirers. She has been accused of being the angry type. So when Michelle Obama meets people, she likes to bring...

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2010 BP Oil Spill more
Das Firmenschild und Logo von des britischen Energiekonzerns British Petroleum (BP) haengt in London an der Firmenzentrale (Foto vom 10.06.10).
The Examiner
Corexit-dispersed oily Gulf shore deaths continue Deborah Dupre| Top News BP discloses potential security breach; laptop with data for 13,000 missing Keith Morris| Environment Holloway in Biloxi says the local casino industry is making a tedious...
photo: AP / Alastair Grant
British Petroleum   Justice   Oil Spill   Photos   United States   Wikipedia: Deepwater Horizon oil spill
EU leaders take reassuring tone ahead of crucial ECB meet more
EU leaders take reassuring tone ahead of crucial ECB meet
France24
AFP - European leaders piled up reassuring declarations on the eurozone on Wednesday, the eve of a keenly-awaited meeting of the European Central Bank's governing council. European President Herman Van Rompuy slapped away speculation that the debt...
photo: EC / (C)2012-EUROPEAN COMMISSION
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Hundreds of Afghan soldiers detained, sacked for insurgent links more
Hundreds of Afghan soldiers detained, sacked for insurgent links
Gulf News
Kabul: The Afghan army has detained or sacked hundreds of soldiers for having links to insurgents, the Defence Ministry said on Wednesday, as it tries to stem an alarming number of so-called insider attacks eroding trust between Afghans and their...
photo: US Army / Alexandra Campo
Afghanistan   Insurgents   Photos   Soldiers   Wikipedia: Afghanistan
What to watch at the Democratic convention Wednesday more
What to watch at the Democratic convention Wednesday
The Washington Post
Some things to watch for at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday: 1. THE CLINTON SHOW: The former president, no stranger to talking at length at Democratic conventions, takes the podium. How much of it will be about Barack Obama — and...
photo: US Navy / Chad J. McNeeley
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Will US personnel ever face torture charges? more
File - JTF-Guantanamo guards escort a detainee to the detainee hospital located adjacent to Camp Four, Dec. 27.
Al Jazeera
The administration of Barack Obama, the US president, has dropped any attempts to prosecute those responsible for the torture of prisoners during the presidency of George Bush, the former US president. So, will any US personnel ever face criminal...
photo: US Navy / Petty Officer 1st Class Michael Billings
Photos   Politics   Torture   US   Wikipedia: Torture and the United States
Mali requests military help for occupied north more
Mali requests military help for occupied north
Deutsche Welle
Mali's interim president has formally requested regional military assistance in the north of the country, according to a French diplomat. The move could pave the way for a UN Security Council resolution. Interim President Dioncounda Traore formally...
photo: UN / Mark Garten
Mali   Military   Photos   Security   Wikipedia: Mali
Somalia: Let's keep the optimism on hold more
Somalia: Let's keep the optimism on hold
Asia Times
Foreign correspondents delight in reporting Mogadishu's remarkable renaissance. The restaurants and cafes, the dry cleaner and the beautiful beaches all make for encouraging, optimistic vignettes of a city and a country on the road to recovery. But,...
photo: UN / STUART PRICE
E. Africa   Mogadishu   Photos   Somalia   Wikipedia: Mogadishu
Big Kahuna Character Dialogue; updated 04 Sep 2012; published 17 Nov 2007
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Big Kahuna Character Dialogue
Timely and decisive response vital to uphold ‘responsibility to protect’ – UN officials
United Nations 05 Sep 2012, 5 September 2012 – A timely and decisive response is vital in the face of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity, top United Nations officials stressed today, highlighting the need to act when a State fails to protect its own people. “This is the ultimate test of the responsibility to protect,” Secretary-General Ban...

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The Plan for a New World Order Stumbles on Geopolitical Realities
The Plan for a New World Order Stumbles on Geopolitical Realities
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon attended event with the Future We Want Champions.
Finian Cunningham: Ban in Disgraceful Show of US Puppetry
The Other Site
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visit UN City. He toured Campuses 1 and 2 and met with the UN Staff. He visited the construction grounds guided by the Managing Director of the developer, City and Port, Mr. Jens Kramer Mikkelsen.
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, center, arrives with his lawyer Jennifer Robinson, left, at Belmarsh Magistrates' Court in London, Monday, Feb. 7, 2011. Assange is accused of sexual misconduct by two women he met during a visit to Stockholm last year and Swedish authorities want him extradited to face the allegations. A two-day hearing that begins Monday will decide Assange's legal fate.
Assange case fuels war of words between West, Ecuador
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrives to meet Myanmar Lower House Speaker Thura Shwe Mann at parliament
United Nations Secretary General speaks truth to Tehran at international conference
New York Daily News

Gaddafi's spy chief in Libyan hands; updated 05 Sep 2012; published 05 Sep 2012
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Gaddafi's spy chief in Libyan hands
Mauritania extradites Gaddafi spy chief Senussi to Libya
The Guardian 05 Sep 2012, Extradition of Libyan dictator's former head of military intelligence could shed fresh light on 1988 Lockerbie bombing Abdullah al-Senussi, pictured in Tripoli in 2011, is said to have recruited Abdel-Basset al-Megrahi, the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing. Photograph: Paul Hackett / Reuters/Reuters...

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FILE - In this Sunday, Aug. 21, 2011 file photo taken on a government-organized tour, Abdullah al-Senoussi, head of Libyan intelligence, speaks to the press as gunfire erupts all around the Rixos hotel in Tripoli, Libya. The Libyan information minister says Moammar Gadhafi's intelligence chief has been captured by revolutionary fighters in the south of the country. Mahmoud Shammam says that Abdullah al-Senoussi was captured alive on Sunday by a brigade from a southern region called Fazan.
Official: Gadhafi's spy chief flown to Libya
The News & Observer
The War in Mali
The War in Mali
CounterPunch
An armed soldier on the streets of the Libyan capital Tripoli, 4 June, 2012.
Libya capital wakes up to twin car bombs on Eid al-Fitr
Middle East Online
In this image provided by the Libyan Youth Group that was taken Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011, revolutionary fighters flank Seif al-Islam Gadhafi in Zintan, Libya, following his capture near the Niger border.
Libya to try Gadhafi's son, despite worries over a fair trial
Stars and Stripes
Spain goalkeeper Iker Casillas gestures during the Euro 2012 soccer championship final between Spain and Italy in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, July 1, 2012.
Casillas and Xavi score top Spanish prize
Al Jazeera

'Morsi slams Assad at NAM summit at US bidding'; updated 05 Sep 2012; published 30 Aug 2012
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'Morsi slams Assad at NAM summit at US bidding'
Morsi in Tehran: Crossing the boundaries
Al Jazeera 05 Sep 2012, When during his speech at the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Tehran the Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi declared it an "ethical duty" to support the Syrian people against the "oppressive regime" of Bashar al-Assad in Damascus suddenly, for a clear moment, he became the messenger of the Egyptian Revolution for the Syrian people, and by...

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In this image released by the Egyptian President, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, third from left, stands with ruling military generals including Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, second left, and Prime Minister Kamal Ganzouri, left, during a ceremony following his inauguration, at a military base east of Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, June 30, 2012.
Egypt leader slams Syrian regime during Iran visit
The Guardian
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya: The NAM Summit, Iran, and Syria: A Coup against the West?
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya: The NAM Summit, Iran, and Syria: A Coup against the West?
The Other Site
Egypt’s newly elected President Mohammed Morsi smiles as he meets with Bulgarian foreign minister, not pictured, in Cairo, Egypt
Morsi slams ‘oppressive’ Syria
Independent online (SA)
A large picture of Ayatollah Khomeini hangs from a tank gun barrel in front of Niavaran Palace, Feb. 13, 1979 in Tehran.
Iran's Islamic Revolution and Arab Spring
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A Syrian man walks by a building destroyed in an airstrike in Aleppo city, Syria, Friday, Aug. 17, 2012.
Iran, Saudi Arabia fight proxy conflict in Syria
Deutsche Welle

Angola's ruling party wins general election; updated 03 Sep 2012; published 01 Sep 2012
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Angola's ruling party wins general election
Angola: Promises temper election victory
BBC News 05 Sep 2012, Angola's long-serving President Jose Eduardo dos Santos and his party, the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), have enjoyed another thumping victory at the polls. Although not quite the 82% landslide of 2008, with 97% of ballots counted so far, they have scored more than 70% and will retain an absolute parliamentary majority...

'Nightmare if West invades Syria'; updated 05 Sep 2012; published 02 Sep 2012
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'Nightmare if West invades Syria'
China backs "transition" in Syria, opposes intervention
Reuters 05 Sep 2012, BEIJING, Sept 5 (Reuters) - China backs a "political transition" in Syria to end worsening bloodshed after 18 months of unrest, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said on Wednesday while repeating Beijing's opposition to forceful foreign intervention in the crisis. Yang gave no details of what he meant by a transition in Syria, where the...

Arafat's death: Palestinian negotiator calls for international investigation; updated 02 Sep 2012; published 04 Jul 2012
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Arafat's death: Palestinian negotiator calls for international investigation
Yasser Arafat: French investigators seek Ramallah visit
BBC News 05 Sep 2012, French judges investigating the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat are seeking to travel to Ramallah to probe allegations he was poisoned. His family believes he had been poisoned with polonium-210, a radioactive element, when he died at a military hospital near Paris in 2004. French judges opened a murder enquiry into his death last month....

President Obama Speaks to Troops at Fort Bliss; updated 05 Sep 2012; published 01 Sep 2012
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President Obama Speaks to Troops at Fort Bliss
Dems drop language on Jerusalem from platform
North Jersey 04 Sep 2012, WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats have dropped from their platform recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, a move that has opened President Barack Obama to criticism from Republican rival Mitt Romney....

Obama: Romney Has No Plan for Afghanistan; updated 05 Sep 2012; published 02 Sep 2012
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Obama: Romney Has No Plan for Afghanistan
Obama DNC Message On Afghanistan May Be Hard To Craft
Huffington Post 04 Sep 2012, When President Barack Obama addresses the nation on Thursday night at the end of this week's Democratic National Convention, he will have no trouble saying more about the war in Afghanistan than his opponent, Mitt Romney, did last week....

Saved to Struggle: 'Slow death' for Syria refugees in Jordan camp; updated 05 Sep 2012; published 30 Aug 2012
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Saved to Struggle: 'Slow death' for Syria refugees in Jordan camp
More than 103,400 refugees flee Syria in a month as humanitarian crisis worsens
CNN 04 Sep 2012, September 4, 2012 -- Updated 1141 GMT (1941 HKT) Za'atari Refugee camp in northern Jordan, about six miles from the Syrian border, currently hosts over 20,000 Syrian refugees. UNICEF predicts 70,000 people will be living there by the end of the year. The camp was opened less than a month ago to accommodate the growing number of refugees arriving in...

eNCA | SA Seeks to Understand Marikana Massacre; updated 05 Sep 2012; published 17 Aug 2012
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eNCA | SA Seeks to Understand Marikana Massacre
South Africa's New Martyrs and Labor Consciousness Movement
WorldNews.com 04 Sep 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling "This is no way to live or grow children. Fifty people share one toilet. We don't have water." -Wife of a miner who works for Lonmin Platinum in Marikana "...everyone must begin to look upon each other as a human being." -Stephen Biko For resisting South Africa's apartheid system, Stephen Biko was...

NewsX Video: Corruption in the coal sector; updated 14 Apr 2012; published 07 Oct 2009
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NewsX Video: Corruption in the coal sector
'Coalgate controversy': India police raid coal firms
BBC News 04 Sep 2012, Police in India are carrying out raids across 10 cities as as part of an investigation into alleged corruption in the allocation of coalfields. Police say they are searching the premises of five companies, which allegedly misrepresented facts prior to being allocated the coalfields. Government officials and company employees are also under...

Hurricane Isaac: 2 Feet of Rain in Louisiana; updated 03 Sep 2012; published 30 Aug 2012
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Hurricane Isaac: 2 Feet of Rain in Louisiana
After Isaac, Louisiana and Mississippi residents face dangerous heat conditions
CNN 04 Sep 2012, September 4, 2012 -- Updated 0713 GMT (1513 HKT) Workers repair the roof of a home as downed power lines caused by Hurricane Isaac lean onto a tree in lower Plaquemines Parish on Sunday, September 2. Isaac is blamed for at least four deaths in Louisiana and Mississippi after making landfall last week as a Category 1 hurricane. Hundreds of thousands...

Dozens killed in South Africa mine clashes; updated 21 Aug 2012; published 17 Aug 2012
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Dozens killed in South Africa mine clashes
South Africa police fire teargas as mine unrest spreads
Yahoo Daily News 04 Sep 2012, JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African police fired teargas and rubber bullets to disperse striking miners at a gold mine near Johannesburg on Monday, the latest outbreak in a wave of labor militancy spreading from platinum mining into other parts of the sector. The unrest occurred less than three weeks after police shot dead 34 striking miners at...

Wild fires destroy homes in Algarve, Portugal; updated 23 Jul 2012; published 23 Jul 2012
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Wild fires destroy homes in Algarve, Portugal
Portugal asks for EU help on forest fires
BBC News 03 Sep 2012, Portugal has said it is seeking European Union help to to tackle raging forest fires, in one of the worst summers for such blazes in years. Dozens of fires are raging in the centre and north of the country and 1,700 firefighters have been deployed. Officials say one man died while...