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Europe unveils banking union plan to tackle crisis
Full Article 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”...
Europe unveils banking union plan to tackle crisis
photo: EC / © European Union 2012

EU Commission pushes banking union plan; updated 06 Sep 2012; published 04 Sep 2012
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EU Commission pushes banking union plan
EC presents plan for crisis banks; updated 17 Jun 2012; published 06 Jun 2012
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EC presents plan for crisis banks
EU to unveil banking union plan on Sept 12th; updated 07 Sep 2012; published 31 Aug 2012
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EU to unveil banking union plan on Sept 12th
MEPs disclose Draghi's bond-buying plan; updated 04 Sep 2012; published 04 Sep 2012
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MEPs disclose Draghi's bond-buying plan
Ireland's Brian Lenihan Discusses Bank Rescue Plan: Video; updated 14 Jul 2012; published 23 Mar 2012
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Ireland's Brian Lenihan Discusses Bank Rescue Plan: Video
The New World Order Currency Crisis; updated 07 Sep 2012; published 14 May 2010
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The New World Order Currency Crisis
US ambassador to Libya, staffers killed in consulate attack
Full Article 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...
A burnt car is seen after an attack on the U.S. Consulate by protesters angry over a film that ridiculed Islam's Prophet Muhammad in Benghazi, Libya, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012.
photo: AP / Ibrahim Alaguri

US Ambassador Libya 3 Embassy staffers Killed | Chris Stevens; updated 12 Sep 2012; published 12 Sep 2012
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US Ambassador Libya 3 Embassy staffers Killed | Chris Stevens
American consulate in the city of BENGHAZI has been ATTACKED, US ambassador to Libya were killed; updated 12 Sep 2012; published 12 Sep 2012
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American consulate in the city of BENGHAZI has been ATTACKED, US ambassador to Libya were killed
US Ambassador to Libya
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US Ambassador to Libya "KILLED" in mob ATTACK on BENGHAZI compound
US Ambassador to Libya, J Christopher Stevens & 3 American Staff Members killed in Benghazi 'RIP'; updated 12 Sep 2012; published 12 Sep 2012
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US Ambassador to Libya, J Christopher Stevens & 3 American Staff Members killed in Benghazi 'RIP'
American Killed In Attack on US Consulate in Benghazi Libya 9/11; updated 12 Sep 2012; published 12 Sep 2012
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American Killed In Attack on US Consulate in Benghazi Libya 9/11
US ambassador to Libya killed in attack - News Briefing; updated 12 Sep 2012; published 12 Sep 2012
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US ambassador to Libya killed in attack - News Briefing
Pakistan Factory Fires Kills More Than 300 In Karachi
Full Article 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....
Pakistani rescue workers pull out a dead body from a burnt garment factory in Karachi, Pakistan on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012.
photo: AP / Fareed Khan

Almost 200 dead in two horrific Pakistani factory fires; updated 12 Sep 2012; published 12 Sep 2012
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Almost 200 dead in two horrific Pakistani factory fires
Pakistan factory fires kill 314 workers; updated 12 Sep 2012; published 12 Sep 2012
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Pakistan factory fires kill 314 workers
Fire in Karachi Garment factory Kills 314 Workers In Pakistan; updated 12 Sep 2012; published 12 Sep 2012
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Fire in Karachi Garment factory Kills 314 Workers In Pakistan
250 killed in Karachi garment factory blaze, Fires engulf 2 Pakistan factories; updated 12 Sep 2012; published 12 Sep 2012
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250 killed in Karachi garment factory blaze, Fires engulf 2 Pakistan factories
125 Killed in Fire in Garment Factory in Pakistan; updated 12 Sep 2012; published 12 Sep 2012
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125 Killed in Fire in Garment Factory in Pakistan
Pakistan: Fire in Karachi garment factory kills 314; updated 12 Sep 2012; published 12 Sep 2012
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Pakistan: Fire in Karachi garment factory kills 314
9-11 and America's Techno-Dystopia
Full Article 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...
File - This frame grab provided by the U.S. Department of Justice shows Osama bin Laden in a CNN interview in 1997.
photo: AP / U.S. Dept of Justice

RE: TSA Nabs Suspected Al-Qaeda Terrorist at Chicago Airport; updated 04 Sep 2012; published 20 Mar 2012
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RE: TSA Nabs Suspected Al-Qaeda Terrorist at Chicago Airport
TSA Thinks This Toddler In A WHEELCHAIR Is an Al Qaeda TERRORIST (Chicago Airport) CRAZY!; updated 09 Sep 2012; published 20 Mar 2012
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TSA Thinks This Toddler In A WHEELCHAIR Is an Al Qaeda TERRORIST (Chicago Airport) CRAZY!
Christian Al-Qaeda Leader threatens to storm the US Capital with 20000 armed civilians?; updated 23 Jun 2012; published 04 Feb 2010
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Christian Al-Qaeda Leader threatens to storm the US Capital with 20000 armed civilians?
TSA Nabs Suspected Al Qaeda Terrorist At Chicago Airport, A Toddler In A Wheelchair. WTF!; updated 26 Mar 2012; published 21 Mar 2012
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TSA Nabs Suspected Al Qaeda Terrorist At Chicago Airport, A Toddler In A Wheelchair. WTF!
CIA thwarts Al Qaeda Underwear Airline Bomb Plot; updated 09 May 2012; published 08 May 2012
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CIA thwarts Al Qaeda Underwear Airline Bomb Plot
Al-Qaida is Western Intelligence; updated 22 Aug 2012; published 10 Feb 2010
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Al-Qaida is Western Intelligence
Protesters attack U.S. diplomatic compounds in Egypt, Libya
Full Article 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...
Protesters destroy an American flag pulled down from the U.S. embassy in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012.
photo: AP / Mohammed Abu Zaid

Egyptian Protestors Storm Israeli Embassy; updated 10 Sep 2011; published 10 Sep 2011
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Egyptian Protestors Storm Israeli Embassy
Egyptian Protesters Storm US Embassy And Consulate In Libya & Cairo To Denounce Anti Islamic Film; updated 12 Sep 2012; published 12 Sep 2012
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Egyptian Protesters Storm US Embassy And Consulate In Libya & Cairo To Denounce Anti Islamic Film
Egyptian Protesters Storm US Embassy And Consulate In Libya & Cairo To Denounce Anti Islamic Film; updated 12 Sep 2012; published 12 Sep 2012
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Egyptian Protesters Storm US Embassy And Consulate In Libya & Cairo To Denounce Anti Islamic Film
US Embassy Cairo & Libya Attacked, American Flags Burned over 'anti-Islam' film- 4 killed 'RIP'; updated 12 Sep 2012; published 12 Sep 2012
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US Embassy Cairo & Libya Attacked, American Flags Burned over 'anti-Islam' film- 4 killed 'RIP'
Libya - Gunmen Attack US Consulate In Benghazi, Killing 1 Staff - US Under Attack?; updated 12 Sep 2012; published 12 Sep 2012
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Libya - Gunmen Attack US Consulate In Benghazi, Killing 1 Staff - US Under Attack?
American Embassy is UNDER ATTACK In Egypt?; updated 12 Sep 2012; published 11 Sep 2012
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American Embassy is UNDER ATTACK In Egypt?
60 bodies pulled from Karachi blaze, taking death toll from fires to 85
Full Article 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...
A fireman tries to extinguish a fire which broke out in a factory on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012 in Karachi, Pakistan. Factory fires in two of Pakistan's major cities killed 39 people and injured dozens more on Tuesday, including some who had to break through barred windows and leap to the ground to escape the flames.
photo: AP / Shakil Adil

The Internet's Most Viewed Independent Religious Music Video‬ - (free download at our website); updated 11 Sep 2012; published 22 Apr 2011
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The Internet's Most Viewed Independent Religious Music Video‬ - (free download at our website)
Gandhi full movie (1982) 480p; updated 12 Sep 2012; published 31 Jan 2012
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Gandhi full movie (1982) 480p
The Great Gambler - Amitabh Bachchan, Zeenat Aman & Neetu Singh - Bollywood Full Length Movies HQ; updated 10 Sep 2012; published 08 Apr 2011
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The Great Gambler - Amitabh Bachchan, Zeenat Aman & Neetu Singh - Bollywood Full Length Movies HQ
VICE Guide to Karachi: Pakistan's Most Violent City (Part 1/5); updated 11 Sep 2012; published 04 Jun 2012
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VICE Guide to Karachi: Pakistan's Most Violent City (Part 1/5)
Geo News Summary Drone Strike,Q,Rangers In Karachi,Eid Moon; updated 18 Aug 2012; published 18 Aug 2012
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Geo News Summary Drone Strike,Q,Rangers In Karachi,Eid Moon
Jirga under banner of Insaf Aman Committee end in death of 4 members of Mehsud tribe of Waziristan; updated 29 Jun 2012; published 09 Jun 2012
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Jirga under banner of Insaf Aman Committee end in death of 4 members of Mehsud tribe of Waziristan
Suspected al-Qaida bombing misses Yemen minister
Full Article 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....
Forensic policemen collect evidence at the site of a car bomb attack targeting the motorcade of the country's defense minister in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012.
photo: AP / Hani Mohammed

Bomb Almost Kills Yemeni Minister; updated 07 Sep 2012; published 28 Sep 2011
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Bomb Almost Kills Yemeni Minister
Al Qaeda Insurgents Blows Yemen's Pipeline; updated 07 Sep 2012; published 16 Oct 2011
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Al Qaeda Insurgents Blows Yemen's Pipeline
GGN: Syrian Rebels Behind Suicide Bombs, UN/NATO Confirm Arming Rebels, US Funds Yemeni Al Qaeda; updated 05 Jun 2012; published 11 May 2012
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GGN: Syrian Rebels Behind Suicide Bombs, UN/NATO Confirm Arming Rebels, US Funds Yemeni Al Qaeda
US, UK close Yemen embassies over al-Qaida threats; updated 09 May 2012; published 04 Jan 2010
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US, UK close Yemen embassies over al-Qaida threats
Al-Qaeda
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Al-Qaeda "Anniversary" Plot Foiled
Yemeni warplanes and artillery strikes killed 20 al-Qaida linked militants; updated 01 Jul 2012; published 31 May 2012
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Yemeni warplanes and artillery strikes killed 20 al-Qaida linked militants
Brahimi to meet Assad in Syria
Full Article 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...
Brahimi to meet Assad in Syria
photo: UN / Jean-Marc Ferré

Brahimi tells Al Arabiya Syrian govt has to meet people's demand for change; updated 07 Sep 2012; published 01 Sep 2012
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Brahimi tells Al Arabiya Syrian govt has to meet people's demand for change
New UN envoy Brahimi says change in Syria
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New UN envoy Brahimi says change in Syria "unavoidable"
Lakhdar Brahimi to meet President Assad in Syria; updated 11 Sep 2012; published 07 Sep 2012
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Lakhdar Brahimi to meet President Assad in Syria
Syria Tribune Editor on the Situation in Aleppo and current topics; updated 10 Sep 2012; published 10 Sep 2012
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Syria Tribune Editor on the Situation in Aleppo and current topics
Syrian Opposition Boosting From Britain Aid; updated 13 Aug 2012; published 10 Aug 2012
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Syrian Opposition Boosting From Britain Aid
War In Syria Getting Deadly Update 8/11/12; updated 11 Aug 2012; published 11 Aug 2012
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War In Syria Getting Deadly Update 8/11/12
French walker recounts horror at Annecy massacre scene
Full Article 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...
Gendarmes and investigators work at the camp site where the slain British family were holidaying in a camp site of Saint Jorioz, near Annecy, France Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012.
photo: AP / Lionel Cironneau

Walker texas ranger duel FRENCH; updated 20 Aug 2012; published 23 May 2008
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Walker texas ranger duel FRENCH
French and Saunders - I should be so lucky; updated 02 Sep 2012; published 21 Aug 2007
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French and Saunders - I should be so lucky
Frantic (1988) - Harrison Ford funny scene; updated 10 Sep 2012; published 13 Dec 2010
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Frantic (1988) - Harrison Ford funny scene
Perdu: Behind the Scenes; updated 10 Aug 2010; published 06 Dec 2009
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Perdu: Behind the Scenes
Chuck & Sarah - every kiss from the 3rd season in 10 minutes !; updated 10 Sep 2012; published 30 Aug 2010
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Chuck & Sarah - every kiss from the 3rd season in 10 minutes !
Rani MV ( Jolanne & Walker ) - It's Not Goodbye; updated 11 Sep 2012; published 05 Jan 2012
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Rani MV ( Jolanne & Walker ) - It's Not Goodbye
Palestinian PM unveils measures to calm protests
Full Article 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...
Palestinians demonstrate against the high cost of living in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012. The prime minister pledged on Tuesday that the Palestinian Authority will decrease fuel prices and cut salaries of top officials, after days of protests in the West Bank.
photo: AP / Majdi Mohammed

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
Inside Story - Waiting for a 'Palestinian Spring'?; updated 12 Sep 2012; published 10 Sep 2012
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Inside Story - Waiting for a 'Palestinian Spring'?
Throwing SHOES PROTEST: Palestinians protest on COST of living; updated 11 Sep 2012; published 11 Sep 2012
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Throwing SHOES PROTEST: Palestinians protest on COST of living
RAGE RIOTS: Palestinian COST of living PROTEST turn VIOLENT in HEBRON [WEST-BANK]; updated 11 Sep 2012; published 11 Sep 2012
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RAGE RIOTS: Palestinian COST of living PROTEST turn VIOLENT in HEBRON [WEST-BANK]
Protests against PM Fayyad in Ramallah at Manara Sq. 05.09.2012; updated 06 Sep 2012; published 06 Sep 2012
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Protests against PM Fayyad in Ramallah at Manara Sq. 05.09.2012
Palestinians protesting economic stagnation clash with police; updated 11 Sep 2012; published 11 Sep 2012
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Palestinians protesting economic stagnation clash with police

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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...
photo: UN Photo / JC McIlwaine
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...
photo: US DoD / Chad J. McNeeley
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)...
photo: UN / Jean-Marc Ferré
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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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...
photo: AP / J. Scott Applewhite
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
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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
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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
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