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Article by WN.com Guest Writer Gilad Atzmon Last week, an interesting article by Daniel Gordis appeared on Tablemag.com. Gordis, a committed Zionist intellectual, is concerned...
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Artile by WN.com Guest Writer Sherwood Ross The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is undertaking a dangerous and provocative global expansion that threatens the peace of...
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Prof Juan Méndez, UN special rapporteur on torture, expresses concern at government's plan for secret courts...

Top EU Official: Greater Political Union Is Needed
STRASBOURG, France (AP) — European Union officials are asking national governments to give up control of their banks as they try to pull the region closer together to solve its crippling financial crisis. In a proposal that represents one the most...
photo: EC / © European Union 2012
Afghan Taliban 2011 income was $400 million: UN Security Council report
Related topics TalibanAfghanistanUnited NationsSecurity CouncilIncomereport Advertisement A new report from the United Nations shows that the Taliban in Afghanistan generated an income of approximately $400 million last year. The sources of revenue...
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American Red Cross introduces hurricane app for preparedness awareness
Related topics Nonprofit and Community Advertisement The American Red Cross is on the road to rebuild the Golf Coast after Hurricane Isaac entrenched the coast with powerful winds, heavy rain, flooding and displacing thousands to shelters. Power has...
photo: US DoD / Bill Colclough
Panetta welcomes new National Guard chief
Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta hosted a change of responsibility ceremony at the Pentagon Friday, swearing in Army Gen. Frank Grass as the new National Guard Bureau chief and paying tribute to outgoing chief Air Force Gen. Craig R. McKinley's...
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Congo rebels commit widespread rights abuses: Human Rights Watch
SHARE AND DISCUSS Tweet KINSHASA: Rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo who are reported to be receiving support from neighbouring Rwanda have committed widespread war crimes including dozens of rapes and killings, Human Rights Watch (HRW)...
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Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte arrives for an EU Summit in Brussels on Friday, March 2, 2012. The leaders of 25 European states have signed a new treaty designed to prevent the 17 euro countries from running up huge debts in order to prevent a repeat of the current crisis afflicting the single currency zone. Of the 27 European Union states, only Britain and the Czech Republic decided not to sign the treaty.
Associated Press= THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A glance at the leaders of the main parties taking part in Wednesday's Dutch elections....
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File - President Barack Obama arrives to speak at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) convention in Washington, Sunday, May 22, 2011, after a contentious couple of days this week when he clashed publicly with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over ideas for a permanent Palestinian state.
AFP - US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke by phone late Tuesday, and are "united" in efforts to keep Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, the White House said. After saying earlier that Obama and Netanyahu...
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ECB unlimited bond-buying plan to 'save the euro'; updated 11 Sep 2012; published 06 Sep 2012
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ECB unlimited bond-buying plan to 'save the euro'
Taipei Times 12 Sep 2012, Europe moved a step closer to a banking union yesterday with a plan for the European Central Bank (ECB) to police banks, a cornerstone of the closer fiscal integration designed to end years of financial and economic turmoil in the region. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso outlined the proposal in his annual “state of the union”...

'Innocence of Muslims' Trailer [HD] - Egypt Protest Film; updated 12 Sep 2012; published 12 Sep 2012
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'Innocence of Muslims' Trailer [HD] - Egypt Protest Film
Stars and Stripes 12 Sep 2012, U.S. Ambassador to Libya John Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed Tuesday in an assault on the American consulate in the eastern city of Benghazi, the White House said. The Defense Department has dispatched two Marine Corps anti-terrorism security teams to Libya to reinforce security there, a senior Marine official said. In a...

12-hour Pakistan factory fire kills hundreds; updated 12 Sep 2012; published 12 Sep 2012
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12-hour Pakistan factory fire kills hundreds
Huffington Post 12 Sep 2012, KARACHI, Pakistan — The death toll from a pair of devastating factory fires that broke out in Pakistan's two biggest cities rose on Wednesday to 314 people, many of whom perished because they were unable to escape buildings that lacked emergency exits and basic safety equipment such as alarms and sprinklers....

September 11, 2001 - As It Happened - The South Tower Attack; updated 12 Sep 2012; published 31 Aug 2007
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September 11, 2001 - As It Happened - The South Tower Attack
WorldNews.com 12 Sep 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Five years before 9-11 and after shopping at several technology and communication stores in and around New York's Long Island, one of Osama bin Laden's lieutenants, Khalid al-Fawwaz, purchased a $7,500 American-made and highly sophisticated satellite phone. Thereafter, bin Laden purchased thousands of...

'Innocence of Muslims' Trailer [HD] - Egypt Protest Film; updated 12 Sep 2012; published 12 Sep 2012
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'Innocence of Muslims' Trailer [HD] - Egypt Protest Film
CNN 12 Sep 2012, September 12, 2012 -- Updated 0415 GMT (1215 HKT) An armed man waves his rifle as buildings and cars are engulfed in flames after being set on fire inside the U.S. Consulate compound in Benghazi, Libya, late on Tuesday, September 11. An armed mob protesting a film they said offended Islam attacked the consulate in Benghazi and set fire to the...

Karachi Factory Fire: Deadly Fire in Karachi Factory in Pakistan : HD Video; updated 12 Sep 2012; published 12 Sep 2012
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Karachi Factory Fire: Deadly Fire in Karachi Factory in Pakistan : HD Video
Yahoo Daily News 12 Sep 2012, KARACHI, Pakistan - A Pakistani hospital official says at least 60 people have been killed in a fire that raged in a garment factory in the southern city of Karachi, bringing the death toll in two deadly fires in the country to 85. The head of the emergency department at the Civil Hospital in Karachi, Tariq Kamal Ayubi, said this morning that 60...

Raw Video: Yemen Car Bomb Hits Motorcade; updated 11 Sep 2012; published 11 Sep 2012
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Raw Video: Yemen Car Bomb Hits Motorcade
The Guardian 12 Sep 2012, SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press= SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemen's defense minister narrowly escaped assassination Tuesday when a powerful car bomb ripped through his motorcade as it traveled in the nation's capital, killing at least 13 people in an attack that bore the hallmarks of al-Qaida....

New UN envoy Brahimi says change in Syria
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New UN envoy Brahimi says change in Syria "unavoidable"
Khaleej Times 11 Sep 2012, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday that the new UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi will meet Syrian President Bashar al-Assad when he travels to the conflict-ravaged country. “Special representative Brahimi is soon going to have a meeting with Syrian authorities...

France shooting: 'Murder victims shot twice in the head'; updated 09 Sep 2012; published 08 Sep 2012
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France shooting: 'Murder victims shot twice in the head'
The Independent 11 Sep 2012, The man, named only as Philippe D, 41, recalled he was unable to rouse seven-year-old Zainab al-Hilli who survived the ordeal, believing she was dead as she lay on the ground close to the family car. He said the carnage in front of him resembled a scene from a film and he described an eerie silence in the secluded car park where four people were...

Not-so-fancy Footwork: Palestinians throw shoes to protest cost of living; updated 12 Sep 2012; published 11 Sep 2012
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Not-so-fancy Footwork: Palestinians throw shoes to protest cost of living
BBC News 11 Sep 2012, The Palestinian Authority is to cut fuel prices and the salaries of top officials after days of protests across the West Bank over rising living costs. As Prime Minister Salam Fayyad made the announcement, hundreds of protesters gathered outside his Ramallah offices. Strikes and violent protests have paralysed parts of the West Bank for the past...

Dutch elections to test EU popularity amid euro crisis; updated 12 Sep 2012; published 11 Sep 2012
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Dutch elections to test EU popularity amid euro crisis
Al Jazeera 11 Sep 2012, The Social Democrats and the Liberal Party in the Netherlands are in dead heat for Wednesday's general elections that have been dominated by the financial crisis in Europe and the role of the European Union. A poll released late Saturday shows that the Labour Party (PvdA) and the Liberal Party (VVD) will each win 35 seats in the 150-seat...

Al Qaeda leader confirms Abu Yahya al-Libi death; updated 11 Sep 2012; published 11 Sep 2012
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Al Qaeda leader confirms Abu Yahya al-Libi death
WorldNews.com 11 Sep 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. When Osama bin Laden, former leader of al Qaeda and master mind behind the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, wrote in 2004, "Our actions are but a reaction to yours-your destruction and murder of our people, whether in Afghanistan, Iraq, or Palestine,"(1) and later, "...stop spilling our blood in order to save...

September 11, 2001 - As It Happened - The South Tower Attack; updated 12 Sep 2012; published 31 Aug 2007
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September 11, 2001 - As It Happened - The South Tower Attack
Daily Press 11 Sep 2012, (Reuters) - Thousands will gather on Tuesday in New York, suburban Washington and rural Pennsylvania to mark the 11th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, but at the somber day's biggest venue, Ground Zero in lower Manhattan, this year's observance will be missing a key feature from years past: politicians' voices. In previous years,...

Jordan: Angelina Jolie on the Syrian Border; updated 12 Sep 2012; published 12 Sep 2012
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Jordan: Angelina Jolie on the Syrian Border
Al Jazeera 11 Sep 2012, UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has begun what he called a "very difficult" mission to bring peace to Syria with talks in Egypt, as he made his first official trip to the region. Brahimi, replacing former UN chief Kofi Annan who quit over divisions in the UN Security Council on the deadly violence that has gripped Syria for nearly 18 months,...