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US 'set to remove' Iran group MEK's from terror list
Full Article BBC News
22 Sep 2012

The US is set to remove dissident Iranian group Mujahideen-e Khalq from its terror blacklist, officials say. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has sent a classified opinion to Congress and a decision is expected to be announced in the following days. A state department spokeswoman has not confirmed what the opinion contains, but US congressmen...
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Members of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK) organization chant slogans and hold banners during a tour organized by the Iraqi government for foreign diplomats in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012.
photo: AP / Hadi Mizban

updated 19 Apr 2012; published 15 Jan 2012
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Mitt Romney on advisors ties to the terrorist group MEK
updated 02 Sep 2012; published 21 Apr 2012
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IRAN Background On MEK: The Origins, A Cult, Saddam Years, Labeled Terrorist, PR Re-Branding 1/2
updated 28 Jul 2010; published 01 Jul 2008
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Iran opposition group: US terror listing unjust
updated 05 Jul 2012; published 21 Apr 2012
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IRAN Background On MEK: The Origins, A Cult, Saddam Years, Labeled Terrorist, PR Re-Branding 2/2
updated 28 Aug 2012; published 06 Jul 2012
10:57
US State Department lobbies for terrorist group?
updated 22 May 2012; published 23 Apr 2012
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IRAN Hersh: MEK (Listed Terrorist) Got Training In US Starting In 2005, Cult Given US Intel
Suu Kyi a global symbol of human rights: UN chief
Full Article The Siasat Daily
22 Sep 2012

New York, September 21: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has praised Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi for her work towards establishing peace and democracy in her country. Ban Friday lauded Suu Kyi's "commitment to peace, security and human rights" and called the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner a "global symbol of human rights", Xinhua...
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Suu Kyi a global symbol of human rights: UN chief
photo: UN / UN

updated 06 Aug 2012; published 25 Oct 2011
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Aung San Suu Kyi Film "The Lady" Reportedly Banned in China
updated 22 Sep 2012; published 22 Sep 2012
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Aung San Suu Kyi Meets UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
updated 22 Sep 2012; published 22 Sep 2012
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Aung San Suu Kyi Meets With Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon At UN
updated 08 Aug 2012; published 03 Oct 2007
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Jim Carrey - Message for Ban Ki Moon(with Chinese subtitle)
updated 20 Sep 2012; published 31 Oct 2011
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21st Annual Raoul Wallenberg Lecture: Aung San Suu Kyi
updated 21 Sep 2012; published 07 Oct 2008
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Libyan Islamist militia swept out of Benghazi bases
Full Article The Star
22 Sep 2012

BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - A Libyan Islamist militia was swept out of the eastern city of Benghazi in a popular protest against the armed groups that ran into the early hours of Saturday morning, Reuters witnesses said. Demonstrators celebrate after burning a car they say was full of ammunition as they stormed the headquarters of the Islamist...
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Libyan civilians celebrate the raiding of Ansar al-Shariah Brigades compound, after hundreds of Libyans, Libyan Military, and Police raided the Brigades base, in Benghazi, Libya, Friday, Sept. 21, 2012.
photo: AP / Mohammad Hannon

updated 22 Sep 2012; published 22 Sep 2012
2:21
BBC News - Libya- Islamist militia bases stormed in Benghazi
updated 13 Sep 2012; published 13 Sep 2012
9:02
LIBYA Election Damage Control: Al-Qaeda Blamed For Attack, Not Blowback For Arming Militias
updated 14 Sep 2012; published 13 Sep 2012
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LIBYA Witness: Islamist Militants Of The Group Ansar Al-Sharia Attacked The Embassy
updated 22 Sep 2012; published 22 Sep 2012
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Libya - Islamist militia bases stormed in Benghazi - Protesters Clash
updated 19 Sep 2012; published 12 Sep 2012
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'Anti-Islam' film provokes attacks in Libya, US ambassador, 3 staff killed in Benghazi
updated 20 Sep 2012; published 17 Sep 2012
1:52
LIBYA Susan Rice: Embassy Attack By Extremists Is Spontaneous, Heavy Weapons Accessible
Space shuttle Endeavour takes to California skies
Full Article Tampa Bay Online
21 Sep 2012

LOS ANGELES -- Space shuttle Endeavour took off Friday morning on a sightseeing tour of California, the last aerial hurrah before retiring to a Los Angeles museum. Hitching a ride on top of a jumbo jet, the pair departed Edwards Air Force Base, 100 miles north of Los Angeles, circling the high desert that gave birth to the shuttle fleet and headed...
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Space Shuttle Endeavour mounted on NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, passes over the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Friday, Sept. 21, 2012
photo: AP / Marcio Jose Sanchez

updated 22 Sep 2012; published 21 Sep 2012
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INCREDIBLE!! - NASA Space Shuttle Endeavour Fly Over in Los Angeles, California
updated 22 Sep 2012; published 21 Sep 2012
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Space Shuttle Endeavor flyover Los Angeles (Malibu) (Great Video)
updated 22 Sep 2012; published 21 Sep 2012
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HD Space Shuttle Endeavor flyover at Jet Propulsion Laboratory Los Angeles California
updated 22 Sep 2012; published 21 Sep 2012
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Space Shuttle Endeavour Piggyback Fly Over Burbank, Glendale, Los Angeles Ca
updated 22 Sep 2012; published 19 Sep 2012
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Space Shuttle Endeavour Flies Over Michoud Assembly Facility En Route to California
updated 21 Sep 2012; published 20 Sep 2012
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Shuttle Endeavour Flyover Las Cruces, NM
Panetta visit reinforces US-New Zealand defence ties
Full Article BBC News
21 Sep 2012

The first visit of a US Defence Secretary to New Zealand for three decades has opened a new chapter in defence co-operation between both countries. Leon Panetta's presence in Auckland is intended to make clear the hopes of the US administration to find a "new normal" between the two countries, as one US official phrased it. Speaking...
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Panetta visit reinforces US-New Zealand defence ties
photo: US DoD / Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo

updated 21 Sep 2012; published 20 Sep 2012
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Leon Panetta gets a lukewarm welcome in New Zealand Simon Tisdall
updated 21 Sep 2012; published 21 Jul 2011
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TYT - Extended Clip July 20, 2011
updated 21 Sep 2012; published 21 Sep 2012
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US lifts ban on on visits by New Zealand warships
updated 17 Sep 2012; published 17 Sep 2012
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US DEFENCE CHIEF VISITS CHINA
updated 20 Sep 2012; published 20 Sep 2012
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Panetta in New Zealand to boost defense relations
updated 14 Sep 2012; published 14 Sep 2012
0:49
Pentagon chief visits Japan, China amid island tensions
Protests over prison abuse rocks Georgia
Full Article Al Jazeera
21 Sep 2012

Thousands have rallied in Georgia to demand the prosecution of high-level officials fired in a prison-abuse scandal that threatens to unseat the governing pro-Western party in next month's parliamentary election. The protests, sparked by graphic videos showing guards in the former Soviet republic brutally beating prisoners and raping them with...
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People look through a prison gate to see their family members during a protest rally against prison abuse in Tbilisi, Georgia, Friday, Sept. 21, 2012.
photo: AP / Shakh Aivazov

updated 22 Sep 2012; published 19 Sep 2012
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Georgia prisons minister resigns after revelations of inmate torture and rape
updated 22 Sep 2012; published 22 Sep 2012
2:55
Protests over prison abuse rocks Georgia
updated 22 Sep 2012; published 19 Sep 2012
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Georgian jail torture video sparks protests
updated 19 Sep 2012; published 19 Sep 2012
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Protest about abuse in prisons in Georgia
updated 20 Sep 2012; published 20 Sep 2012
1:25
Georgia: Outcry over prison torture video
updated 21 Sep 2012; published 21 Sep 2012
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Tbilisi - Georgians rally against prisoner abuse
North Lebanon city braces for next round of fighting
Full Article Yahoo Daily News
21 Sep 2012

TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) - The guns are silent and fighters have disappeared from the streets of the north Lebanese city of Tripoli but the battle that flared last month, killing 16 people, is far from over. Unrest in neighboring Syria, where 27,000 people have been killed in a conflict that is becoming increasingly sectarian, is deepening...
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A Sunni gunman, left, fires by his AK-47 machine gun during clashes that erupted between pro and anti-Syrian regime gunmen in the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Friday, Aug. 24, 2012.
photo: AP / Hussein Malla

updated 30 Aug 2012; published 24 Aug 2012
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Syria Dictator Spreads Terror to Lebanon - Pro Assad Sniper Kill Sunni Sheikh in Tripoli 8-24-12
updated 24 Aug 2012; published 24 Aug 2012
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NHK - Fighting In Lebanon Due To Syrian Civil War
updated 26 Jun 2012; published 19 May 2012
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Lebanon - Deadly fighting grips Tripoli
updated 18 Jun 2012; published 22 May 2012
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UN Observers Present Despite Shelling in Joubar, Homs: Syrian Conflict Spreads to Lebanon
updated 21 Aug 2012; published 01 Jun 2012
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Syrian Atrocities and the Fog of War
updated 21 Sep 2012; published 21 Sep 2012
4:53
North Lebanon city braces for next round of fighting
SAfrica to look into roles of Lonmin, unions, police in Marikana violence; Gold strikes spread
Full Article Star Tribune
21 Sep 2012

JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's commission of inquiry into the killings at the Marikana mines will have the power to summon witnesses, search and seize and demand documentation from other investigations, the justice minister announced Friday. The details of the investigation came as South Africa's wave of mining strikes spread to another gold mine....
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Miners return to work at the Lonmin Platinum mine after Lonmin resolved a five-week strike by agreeing to pay raises of up to 22 percent, in Marikana, Rustenburg, South Africa, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012.
photo: AP / Denis Farrell

updated 12 Sep 2012; published 12 Sep 2012
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Dead Man's Body Found At Mine In South Africa | Miners Want More Pay at Marikana mine !!
updated 11 Sep 2012; published 06 Sep 2012
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Man's Body Found At Mine In South Africa
updated 11 Sep 2012; published 11 Sep 2012
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Man's Body Found At Mine In South Africa
updated 18 Sep 2012; published 16 Sep 2012
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South African Miners Strike a Challenge to ANC
updated 21 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!
updated 20 Aug 2012; published 17 Aug 2012
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Lonmin Marikana mine massacre
Pakistani leaders play religious card as protests boil
Full Article Sun Sentinel
21 Sep 2012

Pakistan's government, wary of widespread frustration over its failure to provide basic services, declared Friday a day of protest over the film in an apparent bid to exploit anger which has inspired violent protests in several Muslim countries. Critics say this approach is typical of a government that many describe as ineffective in the face of...
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Pakistani protesters shout anti-U.S. slogans at a rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan on Friday, Sept. 21, 2012.
photo: AP / B.K. Bangash

updated 21 Sep 2012; published 18 Feb 2011
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Yemen's religious leaders speak out
updated 14 Sep 2012; published 14 Apr 2011
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Libyan Rebel Leader With CIA Ties Feels Abandoned
updated 17 Sep 2012; published 20 Oct 2010
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Bad Religion - You Are (The Government)
updated 05 Sep 2012; published 10 Feb 2011
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US GOVERNMENT is USING HAARP as a WEAPON AGAINST US!
updated 15 Sep 2012; published 14 May 2011
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Former CIA NSA Expert Discusses Upcoming Alien UFO Disclosure by US Government(360p_H.264-AAC).flv
updated 20 Aug 2012; published 12 Jan 2012
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Fuel Subsidy - Nigerians shun recent religious crisis,unite in struggle over fuel subsidy removal.
Syria's Assad says rebels will be defeated
Full Article Herald Tribune
21 Sep 2012

BEIRUT - Syria's President Bashar Assad is adamant his regime will not fall and predicts the defeat of the armed opposition that has been fighting his troops. Assad says the rebels "will not succeed" and that a foreign military intervention such as the one that helped topple Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi will "not be repeated" in Syria. The...
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Syrian President Bashar Assad delivering a speech in Damascus on Saturday Jan.19 2008 at the official opening of the year-long Festivity for declaring Damascus the Capital of the Arab Culture for 2008, at the Dar al-Assad for Culture and Arts.
photo: AP / Bassem Tellawi

updated 29 Aug 2012; published 20 Aug 2012
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Syria Rebels 'Aided By British Intelligence'
updated 11 Sep 2012; published 23 Aug 2012
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18+ Syria Freedom Fighters Defend Daraya as Dictator Assad Invades Neighborhood 8-23-12 Damascus
updated 29 Jul 2012; published 29 Jul 2012
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Syria rebels fend off Aleppo assault
updated 14 Sep 2012; published 26 Aug 2012
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Hated Cowardly Dictator Assad Uses Warplanes to Bomb Aleppo Civilian Population 8-25-12 Syria
updated 17 Jul 2012; published 17 Jul 2012
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Syrian Rebels push war into Capital of Damascus
updated 21 Sep 2012; published 19 Aug 2012
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Syrian Christians Fearful Of Future

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Viewpoint: When will we send humans to Mars?
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Continue reading the main story Related Stories Curiosity rover picks up the pace Gale Crater: Geological 'sweet shop' awaits Mars rover Mars mission makes Earth...
Censored: MI5 links to murdered Litvinenko
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Scotland Yard investigated claims that Mr Litvinenko, who was poisoned with radioactive Polonium 210 in 2006, was in regular contact with MI6 or MI5 prior to his death as part of...
Syria conflict: No military solution, says Ban Ki-moon
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The UN secretary general has said a military solution is not the answer to the Syrian conflict, though both government and rebels seem determined to defeat each other by force. Ban...

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What are the implications of Jesus being married, if any? more
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Related topics Christianitywas jesus married Advertisement The tiny fragment of papyrus that has come forward, upon which there is writing that refers to Jesus speaking of his wife, is being commented upon everywhere in the media. It is not only the...
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Cooperation is key to genuine democracy: Suu Kyi more
Cooperation is key to genuine democracy: Suu Kyi
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United Nations: Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has said the key to achieving genuine democracy in the former military-ruled country is for longtime adversaries to work together and ignore her international fame. During her first visit to...
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Officers guilty in coup plot ISTANBUL -- A Turkish court convicted 330 military officers, including three former top generals, and sentenced them to prison terms as long as 20 years Friday in a trial of suspects from the armed forces accused of a...
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ASEAN should adopt ‘a common approach’ more
ASEAN should adopt ‘a common approach’
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Paper Edition | Page: 11 Peace and stability: Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro (at podium) delivers the opening remarks at a seminar on the South China Sea at Hotel Borobudur in Jakarta on Thursday, as other speakers look on.(JP/Veeramalla...
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Economic crisis endangers millennium goals more
Economic crisis endangers millennium goals
Deutsche Welle
The UN warns that the economic crisis could hamper implementation of the Millennium Development Goals. Global development aid has decreased by three percent, although there have been advances in fighting poverty. Is the glass half-full or half-empty?...
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Panetta says surge troops withdrawn from Afghanistan more
Panetta says surge troops withdrawn from Afghanistan
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Nearly two years after President Barack Obama ordered 33,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan to tamp down the escalating Taliban violence, the last of those surge troops have left the country, U.S. Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said on Friday. Mr....
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Ban Meets with Secretary-General of League of Arab States more
Ban Meets with Secretary-General of League of Arab States
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Saturday, 22 September 2012, 1:27 pm Press Release: United Nations Ban Meets with Secretary-General of League of Arab States, Discusses Regional Issues New York, Sep 21 2012 8:10PM Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met today with his counterpart at the...
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updated 22 Sep 2012; published 21 Sep 2012
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Clinton to take MEK off terror list
US 'set to remove' Iran group MEK's from terror list
BBC News 22 Sep 2012, The US is set to remove dissident Iranian group Mujahideen-e Khalq from its terror blacklist, officials say. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has sent a classified opinion to Congress and a decision is expected to be announced in the following days. A state department spokeswoman has not confirmed what the opinion contains, but US congressmen...

updated 17 May 2012; published 10 Jan 2012
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Democracy Dialogue - Video address from Aung San Suu Kyi on 'Making Democracy Real'
Suu Kyi a global symbol of human rights: UN chief
The Siasat Daily 22 Sep 2012, New York, September 21: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has praised Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi for her work towards establishing peace and democracy in her country. Ban Friday lauded Suu Kyi's "commitment to peace, security and human rights" and called the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner a "global symbol of human rights", Xinhua...

updated 14 Sep 2012; published 12 Sep 2012
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Libyan Islamist militia swept out of Benghazi bases
The Star 22 Sep 2012, BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - A Libyan Islamist militia was swept out of the eastern city of Benghazi in a popular protest against the armed groups that ran into the early hours of Saturday morning, Reuters witnesses said. Demonstrators celebrate after burning a car they say was full of ammunition as they stormed the headquarters of the Islamist...

updated 22 Sep 2012; published 21 Sep 2012
1:56
Space Shuttle Endeavour Makes Final Landing
Space shuttle Endeavour takes to California skies
Tampa Bay Online 21 Sep 2012, LOS ANGELES -- Space shuttle Endeavour took off Friday morning on a sightseeing tour of California, the last aerial hurrah before retiring to a Los Angeles museum. Hitching a ride on top of a jumbo jet, the pair departed Edwards Air Force Base, 100 miles north of Los Angeles, circling the high desert that gave birth to the shuttle fleet and headed...

updated 21 Sep 2012; published 21 Sep 2012
0:56
TPC News: Panetta Announces Easing of Restrictions on New Zealand Ships
Panetta visit reinforces US-New Zealand defence ties
BBC News 21 Sep 2012, The first visit of a US Defence Secretary to New Zealand for three decades has opened a new chapter in defence co-operation between both countries. Leon Panetta's presence in Auckland is intended to make clear the hopes of the US administration to find a "new normal" between the two countries, as one US official phrased it. Speaking...

updated 21 Sep 2012; published 19 Sep 2012
0:44
Protests in Georgia over prison abuse video
Protests over prison abuse rocks Georgia
Al Jazeera 21 Sep 2012, Thousands have rallied in Georgia to demand the prosecution of high-level officials fired in a prison-abuse scandal that threatens to unseat the governing pro-Western party in next month's parliamentary election. The protests, sparked by graphic videos showing guards in the former Soviet republic brutally beating prisoners and raping them with...

updated 28 Aug 2012; published 03 Jun 2012
1:42
Syria violence spills into Lebanon
North Lebanon city braces for next round of fighting
Yahoo Daily News 21 Sep 2012, TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) - The guns are silent and fighters have disappeared from the streets of the north Lebanese city of Tripoli but the battle that flared last month, killing 16 people, is far from over. Unrest in neighboring Syria, where 27,000 people have been killed in a conflict that is becoming increasingly sectarian, is deepening...

updated 16 Sep 2012; published 22 Aug 2012
4:11
South African mining unrest spreads
SAfrica to look into roles of Lonmin, unions, police in Marikana violence; Gold strikes spread
Star Tribune 21 Sep 2012, JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's commission of inquiry into the killings at the Marikana mines will have the power to summon witnesses, search and seize and demand documentation from other investigations, the justice minister announced Friday. The details of the investigation came as South Africa's wave of mining strikes spread to another gold mine....

updated 22 Sep 2012; published 15 Sep 2012
1:22
Raw Video: Pakistanis Protest Anti-Islam Film
Pakistani leaders play religious card as protests boil
Sun Sentinel 21 Sep 2012, Pakistan's government, wary of widespread frustration over its failure to provide basic services, declared Friday a day of protest over the film in an apparent bid to exploit anger which has inspired violent protests in several Muslim countries. Critics say this approach is typical of a government that many describe as ineffective in the face of...

updated 21 Sep 2012; published 21 Sep 2012
2:55
Bashar al-Assad predicts defeat for rebels
Syria's Assad says rebels will be defeated
Herald Tribune 21 Sep 2012, BEIRUT - Syria's President Bashar Assad is adamant his regime will not fall and predicts the defeat of the armed opposition that has been fighting his troops. Assad says the rebels "will not succeed" and that a foreign military intervention such as the one that helped topple Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi will "not be repeated" in Syria. The...

updated 22 Sep 2012; published 22 Sep 2012
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News Wrap: US Surge Troops Withdrawn from Afghanistan
Panetta says 33,000 American surge troops now out of Afghanistan
Yahoo Daily News 21 Sep 2012, AUCKLAND, New Zealand - Nearly two years after President Barack Obama ordered 33,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan to tamp down the escalating Taliban violence, the last of those surge troops have left the country, U.S. Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said Friday. Panetta said the "surge did accomplish it objectives of reversing the Taliban...

updated 16 Sep 2012; published 15 Sep 2012
4:27
US Film Protest In Arab World
Tensions high for day of anti-Islam film protests
BBC News 21 Sep 2012, Security forces in several Muslim countries are gearing up for a day of fresh protests against an anti-Islam film made in the US. In Pakistan, the government has declared a national holiday to enable people to demonstrate peacefully. Washington has paid for adverts on Pakistani TV that show President Barack Obama condemning the film. Widespread...

updated 27 Jul 2012; published 07 Oct 2010
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China's Wen Jiabao: 'Dont pressure us to raise RMB rates'
Europe, China Leaders Vow Closer Ties
Wall Street Journal 20 Sep 2012, By LAURENCE NORMAN And FRANCES ROBINSON BRUSSELS—European and Chinese leaders pledged deeper economic ties and largely glossed over their trade differences Thursday in what is expected to be Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's final Brussels visit as premier. Mr. Wen, who European diplomats say has been a linchpin of bilateral ties over the past...

updated 13 Aug 2012; published 29 Oct 2008
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UN investigating reports of attacks targeted at children in Syria
Gulf News 20 Sep 2012, United Nations: The United Nations is investigating Syrian opposition groups as well as government forces for attacks targeting children, the new UN envoy on children in conflict said Wednesday. But Russia, China, Pakistan and Azerbaijan sought to restrict the scope of the envoy’s inquiries and refused to back an annual UN Security Council...