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Aung San Suu Kyi Calls for Reconciliation in Burma
Full Article Voa News
23 Sep 2012

Burmese democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi is in the United States on a 17-day visit. She spoke Saturday at a college in New York on the fifth day of her tour. Burmese Americans waited in line for more than six hours to see their heroine - the woman they call Mommy Suu, greeting her with chants of “be healthy.” Aung...
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Aung San Suu Kyi Calls for Reconciliation in Burma
photo: UN / Rick Bajornas

updated 01 Aug 2011; published 31 Dec 2010
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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on Dialogue & National Reconciliation in Burma
updated 11 Jun 2012; published 28 Jan 2011
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Davos 2011 - Aung San Suu Kyi
updated 17 Jun 2012; published 17 Nov 2010
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Aung San Suu Kyi speaks to John Simpson
updated 22 Sep 2012; published 16 Jun 2012
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Aung San Suu Kyi's speech in Norway on June 16, 2012
updated 22 Apr 2012; published 31 Jan 2011
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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's Special Message to World Economic Forum (28 January 2011)
updated 20 May 2011; published 20 May 2011
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Aung San Suu Kyi on Military, UNSC & National Reconciliation
Sudan, South Sudan Leaders to Meet for Talks in Ethiopia
Full Article Novosti
23 Sep 2012

The presidents of Sudan and South Sudan, Omar al-Bashir and Salva Kiir, are expected to meet in the capital of Ethiopia on Sunday to sign a final agreement on all disputable issues that have remained since South Sudan gained independence last year. Kiir has already arrived in Addis Ababa. His Sudanese counterpart...
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File - Omar Hassan Ahmad Al-Bashir, President of Sudan, and Salva Kiir Mayardit, President of the Republic of South Sudan, greet each other at the Independence Ceremony of the new nation.
photo: UN / Isaac Billy

updated 26 Jul 2012; published 24 Apr 2012
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Honoring the Pledge of Never Again: Sudan, South Sudan and the LRA: What More Can Be Done?
updated 14 Jun 2012; published 14 Jun 2012
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Sudan and Southern Sudan to resume peace talks
updated 22 Mar 2011; published 23 Dec 2010
28:29
Sudan Decides
updated 05 Aug 2012; published 03 Aug 2012
1:39
Clinton meets museveni
updated 03 Sep 2012; published 18 Jan 2012
5:30
The Nile Project by Meklit Hadero - Mina and Meklit
updated 12 May 2012; published 24 Feb 2010
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Sudanese athlete overcomes diversity to run for Australia
Panetta's Asia visit shows balancing role U.S. hopes to play
Full Article The Star
23 Sep 2012

ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT (Reuters) - Defence Secretary Leon Panetta's week-long visit to the Asia-Pacific region helped deepen the U.S. military's strategic shift to the area, even as it illustrated the balancing role that Washington may have to play to maintain peace and stability. The trip, which concluded on Saturday, took Panetta to...
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Panetta's Asia visit shows balancing role U.S. hopes to play
photo: US DoD / Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo

updated 18 Sep 2012; published 18 Sep 2012
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Panetta weighs in on China, Japan island dispute
updated 16 Sep 2012; published 16 Sep 2012
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Territorial disputes on agenda of Panetta's visit to Japan. CSF Rieti
updated 14 Sep 2012; published 14 Sep 2012
0:49
Pentagon chief visits Japan, China amid island tensions
updated 20 Sep 2012; published 18 Sep 2012
1:45
US Defense Chief Urges Calm in China-Japan Conflict
updated 22 Sep 2012; published 21 Sep 2012
15:02
GGN: China Says Prepare for Combat, Russia Follows US Asian Pivot, US/Japan Axis to Limit China
updated 19 Sep 2012; published 18 Sep 2012
1:48
US Defense Chief Urges China to Expand Military Relations
Joe Biden misstates number of troops in Afghanistan by over 580,000
Full Article The Examiner
22 Sep 2012

Related topics Joe BidenAfghanistanMilitaryGaffeConcordcheerleaders Advertisement On Friday, Vice President Joe Biden told supporters at the New Hampshire State House in Concord that there are 650,000 troops still in Afghanistan, misstating the number by over 580,000. Biden made the gaffe while attacking Romney's "47 percent" comment, Fox News...
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Joe Biden misstates number of troops in Afghanistan by over 580,000
photo: DOD / Public Domain

updated 26 Jun 2012; published 25 Jun 2012
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biden told obama that more troops into Afghan war was a bad idea
updated 22 Sep 2012; published 22 Sep 2012
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Biden Dramatically Misstates Number of Troops in Afghanistan
updated 05 Jul 2012; published 05 Oct 2008
6:44
Afghanistan debate: Sarah Palin's stupid attacks on Obama/Biden
updated 18 Dec 2011; published 16 Oct 2009
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vice president joe biden debate - troop surge wont work in Afghanistan?
updated 22 Sep 2012; published 26 May 2012
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Vice President Biden Discusses Grief at TAPS
updated 14 Feb 2011; published 14 Feb 2011
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Visiting Troops
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 22 Sep 2012; published 21 Apr 2012
14:02
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
5:45
Iran opposition group: US terror listing unjust
updated 05 Jul 2012; published 21 Apr 2012
14:24
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
2:06
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 23 Sep 2012; published 07 Oct 2008
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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 23 Sep 2012; published 22 Sep 2012
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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 22 Sep 2012; published 22 Sep 2012
2:21
Libya - Islamist militia bases stormed in Benghazi - Protesters Clash
updated 14 Sep 2012; published 13 Sep 2012
3:44
LIBYA Witness: Islamist Militants Of The Group Ansar Al-Sharia Attacked The Embassy
updated 22 Sep 2012; published 22 Sep 2012
1:25
Libyans storm Islamist militia base in Benghazi
updated 22 Sep 2012; published 22 Sep 2012
2:21
Raw Video Libya- Islamist militia bases stormed in Benghazi
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 23 Sep 2012; published 21 Sep 2012
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INCREDIBLE!! - NASA Space Shuttle Endeavour Fly Over in Los Angeles, California
updated 23 Sep 2012; published 22 Sep 2012
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Space Shuttle Endeavour Flyover & Landing at LAX 9/21/12
updated 23 Sep 2012; published 21 Sep 2012
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Awesome Shuttle Endeavour Flyover LAX
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 21 Sep 2012
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Space Shuttle Endeavor flyover Los Angeles (Malibu) (Great Video)
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 20 Sep 2012; published 20 Sep 2012
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Panetta in New Zealand to boost defense relations
updated 17 Sep 2012; published 17 Sep 2012
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US DEFENCE CHIEF VISITS CHINA
updated 21 Sep 2012; published 21 Sep 2012
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US lifts ban on on visits by New Zealand warships
updated 22 Sep 2012; published 22 Sep 2012
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Panetta pushes closer military ties with New Zealand
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
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Protests over prison abuse rocks Georgia
updated 21 Sep 2012; published 21 Sep 2012
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Tbilisi - Georgians rally against prisoner abuse
updated 21 Sep 2012; published 21 Sep 2012
1:32
Protesters in Tbilisi, Georgian government faces public unrest over prison scandal
updated 19 Sep 2012; published 19 Sep 2012
0:22
Protest about abuse in prisons in Georgia
updated 22 Sep 2012; published 19 Sep 2012
1:20
Georgian jail torture video sparks protests

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Sudan-South Sudan summit: Pressure mounts to end long-running disputes more
Sudan-South Sudan summit: Pressure mounts to end long-running disputes
Middle East Online
Sudan and South Sudan's leaders negotiated positions Sunday as international pressure mounts to end long-running disputes that have brought the former civil war foes to the brink of renewed conflict. The rival delegations have held drawn-out talks...
photo: UNMISS / Staton Winter
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UN summit: US denies visa to 20 Iranian officials, says report more
UN summit: US denies visa to 20 Iranian officials, says report
DNA India
The United States has denied visas to about 20 Iranian government officials hoping to attend next week's United Nations General Assembly, including two ministers, Iran's Fars news agency reported on Saturday. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a...
photo: UN / Evan Schneider
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Celebrating Peace Month more
Celebrating Peace Month
Sun Star
WHENEVER I attend mass on Sundays, there is a part I always look forward to - it is when the priest says, “My peace I give you; look not on our sins, but on the faith of your people and graciously grant us peace and unity in accordance to Your will....
photo: UN / Evan Schneider
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Morsi: Iran 'vital' to ending Syrian crisis more
Morsi: Iran 'vital' to ending Syrian crisis
Al Jazeera
Iran's support is crucial for finding a resolution to the civil war in Syria, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi said in his first interview with state television since taking office. Morsi, who spoke bluntly in support of the Syrian revolution in...
photo: EC / EC
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Tough talk on Cuba from Paul Ryan more
Tough talk on Cuba from Paul Ryan
CNN
Posted by CNN Political Producer Shawna Shepherd Miami (CNN) - During a visit to Little Havana with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan criticized President Barack Obama for engaging in a "policy of appeasement"...
photo: WN / Marzena J.
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Nehru, Gandhi among greatest sources of influence: Aung San Suu Kyi more
Nehru, Gandhi among greatest sources of influence: Aung San Suu Kyi
IBN Live
New York: Myanmar's pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has described Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru among her "greatest sources" of influence, as she encouraged American students to read the works of India's Father of the Nation. Suu Kyi, said...
photo: UN / Rick Bajornas
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Israel FM says no changes to Egypt peace deal more
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman addresses the media after he attended the EU Israel Council at the European Council building in Brussels
The Guardian
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's foreign minister says his country will not agree to reevaluate its peace deal with Egypt amid growing insecurity along the states' shared border....
photo: AP / Yves Logghe
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updated 04 Aug 2012; published 18 Dec 2006
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Aung San Suu Kyi Calls for Reconciliation in Burma
Voa News 23 Sep 2012, Burmese democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi is in the United States on a 17-day visit. She spoke Saturday at a college in New York on the fifth day of her tour. Burmese Americans waited in line for more than six hours to see their heroine - the woman they call Mommy Suu, greeting her with chants of “be healthy.” Aung...

updated 30 Jul 2012; published 15 Feb 2012
3:36
Sudan Talks
Sudan, South Sudan Leaders to Meet for Talks in Ethiopia
Novosti 23 Sep 2012, The presidents of Sudan and South Sudan, Omar al-Bashir and Salva Kiir, are expected to meet in the capital of Ethiopia on Sunday to sign a final agreement on all disputable issues that have remained since South Sudan gained independence last year. Kiir has already arrived in Addis Ababa. His Sudanese counterpart...

updated 22 Sep 2012; published 19 Sep 2012
2:36
Panetta holds talks with China's Xi
Panetta's Asia visit shows balancing role U.S. hopes to play
The Star 23 Sep 2012, ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT (Reuters) - Defence Secretary Leon Panetta's week-long visit to the Asia-Pacific region helped deepen the U.S. military's strategic shift to the area, even as it illustrated the balancing role that Washington may have to play to maintain peace and stability. The trip, which concluded on Saturday, took Panetta to...

updated 23 Sep 2012; published 19 Sep 2012
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'Insurgency winning war in Afghanistan, troops die for nothing'
Joe Biden misstates number of troops in Afghanistan by over 580,000
The Examiner 22 Sep 2012, Related topics Joe BidenAfghanistanMilitaryGaffeConcordcheerleaders Advertisement On Friday, Vice President Joe Biden told supporters at the New Hampshire State House in Concord that there are 650,000 troops still in Afghanistan, misstating the number by over 580,000. Biden made the gaffe while attacking Romney's "47 percent" comment, Fox News...

updated 22 Sep 2012; published 04 Jul 2012
6:27
MEK: Iranian Militant Group To Be Taken Off Terrorist Watch List By Obama Admin
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
7:20
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
2:27
Benghazi attack planned and coordinated.
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 23 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 23 Sep 2012; published 20 Sep 2012
3:57
Torture Tape Rage: Thousands protest Georgian prison horror
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 23 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...