Detroit news By David Klepper and Katie Zezima Associated Press Comments Newtown, Conn. — For a third straight day Wednesday, funeral professions rolled through a grieving Connecticut town trying to make...
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The Star GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations appealed on Wednesday for $1.5 billion (920.1 million pounds) to provide life-saving aid to Syrians suffering from a "dramatically deteriorating"...
Al Jazeera US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said she accepts the findings of an independent panel that faulted the State Department over the deadly September attack on the US mission in...
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- Khaama Press: Personal motives behind many Afghan insider attacks: Report
- Stars and Stripes: 3,800 British troops to leave Afghanistan by 2013
- Al Jazeera: UN launches $1.5bn appeal for Syria crisis
- The Tribune San Luis Obispo: EU seeks move toward tougher smoking laws
- The Times of India: New attacks on polio teams in Pakistan kill 2, UN suspends polio drive
- Deutsche Welle: Presidential polls open in South Korea
San Francisco Chronicle WASHINGTON _ The Connecticut congressional delegation joined President Obama on Tuesday in endorsing a new federal ban on assault weapons in the wake of the Newtown school massacre where a 20-year-old man used an assault rifle to murder 20 children...
Irish Times RUADHÁN Mac CORMAIC in Paris France and Algeria will take a symbolic step towards mending their long-strained relationship today when President François Hollande visits the north African country 50 years after it won independence from...
Irish Times MICHAEL JANSEN Thousands of Egyptians rallied yesterday at the presidential palace and Cairo’s Tahrir Square against the bitterly contested fundamentalist-drafted constitution and irregularities claimed to be widespread during last...
The Star BANGUI/N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Chad sent troops into neighbouring Central African Republic on Tuesday to help the government there stop a rapid advance by rebels that risks sparking a new spiral of violence in the mineral-rich nation. The rebels killed...
The Examiner It was no minor achievement, capturing the Near-Earth Object Toutatis, a massive asteroid hurtling through space just over 4 million miles from Earth, on video. But imagine the deflation of the scientists that put together the video (actually a...
The Hindu A pair of NASA spacecraft crashed into a mountain near the moon’s north pole on Monday, bringing a deliberate end to a mission that peered into the lunar interior. Engineers commanded the twin spacecraft, Ebb and Flow, to fire their engines and...
The New York Times WASHINGTON — The Pentagon quietly notified Congress this month that it would reimburse Pakistan nearly $700 million for the cost of stationing 140,000 troops on the border with Afghanistan, an effort to normalize support for the Pakistani...
The Inquisitr Posted: December 17, 2012 Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye died on Monday at the age of 88 in Washington D.C. at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Inouye, the most senior member of the Senate, has been fighting a respiratory illness for some...
BBC News The Israeli authorities have approved plans to build 1,500 more homes at a Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem. An interior ministry spokesman said its district planning commission had given preliminary approval for the construction in Ramat Shlomo....
The Daily Telegraph Australia A WAVE of attacks targeting both Iraqi security forces and civilians have killed 48 people, in a second day of deadly violence ahead of the first anniversary of the withdrawal of US forces. Monday was the deadliest day in Iraq since November 29, when...
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