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Top EU health official resigns over tobacco probe
Full Article Deutsche Welle
17 Oct 2012

In an unprecedented move, EU Health Commissioner John Dalli has resigned after an investigation connected him to an attempt to influence EU tobacco legislation. Anti-fraud campaigners have welcomed the move. Transparency International has welcomed the "swift action" taken by the European Commission in regard to the allegations concerning European...
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Top EU health official resigns over tobacco probe
photo: EC / EC

updated 17 Oct 2012; published 17 Oct 2012
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Exclusive: John Dalli on OLAF, resignation, and Tobacco Directive
updated 11 Oct 2011; published 10 Oct 2011
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Interview Commissioner Dalli
updated 29 Apr 2012; published 17 Nov 2011
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MEDICA-Tradefair.com: EU Commissioner John Dalli visits the MEDICA
updated 11 Oct 2011; published 07 Oct 2011
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interview-with-commissioner-dalli.mov
updated 17 Oct 2012; published 16 Oct 2012
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EU Commissioner quits after anti-fraud probe
updated 27 Sep 2012; published 12 Jul 2012
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Padron cigars online
Elections and the Lesser, OR Greater, of Three Evils
Full Article WorldNews.com
17 Oct 2012

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling On the very last day of the 1980 election, twelve percent of voters finally decided to vote for the Republican's presidential candidate Ronald Reagan. Thirty-seven percent of Reagan voters decide to vote for him in the last week. Sadly, Reagan's share of the total potential vote (26.6%) is the third...
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President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, pause as they participate in the second presidential debate, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012, at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y.
photo: AP / Carolyn Kaster

updated 06 Sep 2012; published 23 Oct 2008
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Lesser of two evils (RE: Chomsky: In swing states vote Obama without illusions)
updated 11 Oct 2012; published 06 Jun 2012
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THE LESSER EVIL: Why Christians should vote for Obama not Mormon Romney Pt. 1
updated 17 Oct 2012; published 02 Mar 2010
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'The Lesser of Two Evils in Voting' Persuasive
updated 05 Oct 2012; published 03 Oct 2012
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10 3 2012 DEBATE day & sky of course
updated 13 Mar 2012; published 27 Jan 2012
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Vote for who you want! Not the lesser of two evils!
updated 04 Aug 2012; published 25 Jan 2011
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Ron Paul 2012 Instead of the lesser of two evils, choose "Good"
Colombia, FARC rebels begin peace talks in Oslo
Full Article The Star
17 Oct 2012

BOGOTA/OSLO (Reuters) - Historic closed-door talks between Colombia and Marxist rebels began on Wednesday in Norway after FARC rebel and government negotiators arrived in Oslo in a bid to end almost half a century of armed conflict, Norwegian officials said. Colombia's government head of negotiators Humberto de la Calle (C) speaks next to...
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CORRECTS POSITIONS AND TITLES - Peace Commission Delegation Chief Humberto de la Calle Rangel, center, speaks as he is flanked by Sergio Jaramillo, left, and Frank Pearl, members of Colombia's government negotiating team, at military airport before embarking to Oslo, Norway for peace talks with Colombia's Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC), in Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012.
photo: AP / William Fernando Martinez

updated 29 Aug 2012; published 29 Aug 2012
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FARC peace talks stir mixed reactions in Colombia
updated 16 Oct 2012; published 16 Oct 2012
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FARC rebel leaders due to arrive in Oslo
updated 05 Sep 2012; published 05 Sep 2012
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Colombian gov't, rebels to begin peace talks next month
updated 16 Sep 2012; published 16 Sep 2012
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Colombia's Farc looks ahead to peace talks with government
updated 10 Sep 2012; published 30 Aug 2012
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Inside Story Americas - Is Colombia's conflict coming to an end?
updated 07 Sep 2012; published 07 Sep 2012
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COLOMBIA REBELS
Suicide truck bomb hits Nato base in Afghanistan
Full Article Gulf News
17 Oct 2012

Kabul: A huge blast from a Taliban suicide truck bomb attack on a joint Nato-Afghan army base in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday injured several international and Afghan troops, officials said. Nato’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) confirmed that some of its troops were wounded along with Afghan soldiers, but would not...
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Suicide truck bomb hits Nato base in Afghanistan
photo: US DoD / Lance Cpl. Cesar Contreras

updated 29 Sep 2012; published 02 Sep 2012
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Attack On NATO-US Base In Wardak Afghanistan Kills 12
updated 04 May 2012; published 27 Feb 2012
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Nine killed in Afghan airport bomb, NATO base attacked
updated 17 Nov 2011; published 30 Oct 2011
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17 Killed in Suicide Bomb attack on NATO Troops in Kabul
updated 30 Oct 2011; published 29 Oct 2011
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At Least 13 Americans 'killed in Afghanistan Suicide Bombing News Story
updated 30 Jul 2012; published 15 Apr 2012
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Taliban launch coordinated Afghanistan assaults on diplomats & NATO HQ
updated 22 Jul 2012; published 11 Jul 2011
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NATO in Afghanistan - General Petraeus's Final ISAF Interview
What Should Our New Foreign Policy Be?
Full Article Huffington Post
17 Oct 2012

Let us stop this interference in the internal affairs of other countries. Let us stop overthrowing the heads of other governments and attempting to dictate who their leaders should be: or what form of government they should adopt. We have no moral or legal right to inflict our views on them. It seems senseless to do so when the result is their...
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President Barack Obama walks with Chief of Staff Jack Lew during a break from debate preparations in Williamsburg, Va., Oct. 14, 2012.
photo: White House / Pete Souza

updated 17 Oct 2012; published 06 Oct 2011
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Armed Chinese Troops in Texas!
updated 11 Oct 2012; published 07 Oct 2011
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Ron Paul "IMAGINE" FOREIGN POLICY RON PAUL 2012
updated 15 Oct 2012; published 22 Jun 2011
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All The President's Wars: How Foreign Policy Became One Man's Prerogative
updated 17 Sep 2012; published 06 Oct 2011
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Ron Paul - Imagine - STOP POLICING THE WORLD!
updated 05 Oct 2012; published 13 Jan 2012
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Ron Paul - Foreign Policy - If you listen to media, you will never get it!
updated 14 Oct 2012; published 17 Jun 2009
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Rethink Afghanistan War (Part 4): Civilian Casualties
UN envoy warns spillover of Syrian crisis
Full Article Al Jazeera
17 Oct 2012

Syria's 19-month conflict can set the entire region ablaze, international peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi tells reporters in Lebanon. "This crisis cannot remain confined within Syrian territory," Brahimi said on Wednesday. "Either it is solved, or it gets worse... and sets (the region) ablaze. A truce for (the Muslim holiday of) Eid al-Adha would be a...
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A Syrian gunman shoots in the air during the funeral of 29 year-old Free Syrian Army fighter, Husain Al-Ali, who was killed during clashes in Aleppo, in the town of Marea on the outskirts of Aleppo city, Syria, Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012.
photo: AP / Khalil Hamra

updated 16 Oct 2012; published 15 Oct 2012
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Iran seeks solution to Syria conflict
updated 16 Oct 2012; published 15 Oct 2012
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UN-AL envoy, Iran call for negotiated end to Syrian crisis
updated 06 Oct 2012; published 20 Sep 2012
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Syria envoy Lakhdar Brahimi speaks to Al Jazeera
updated 09 Jul 2012; published 19 Feb 2012
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Chinese envoy meets Assad to discuss crisis
updated 29 Jul 2012; published 10 Jul 2012
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UN-Arab envoy seeks Iran help in Syria crisis
updated 20 Sep 2012; published 18 Sep 2012
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UN envoy Brahimi says Syria conflict 'likely to spread'
Evidence of mass murder after Gaddafi's death
Full Article Al Jazeera
17 Oct 2012

New evidence implicates Libyan militias in an apparent execution of dozens of detainees in rebel custody following the capture and death of Muammar Gaddafi last year, a watchdog has said. In a report released on Wednesday detailing Gaddafi's final hours on October 20, 2011, Human Rights Watch said it had gathered evidence that Misrata-based...
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Members of the Rafallah Sahati Islamic Militia Brigades, stand on alert in front their base in Benghazi, Libya, Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012.
photo: AP / Mohammad Hannon

updated 17 Oct 2012; published 17 Oct 2012
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Libya: Bloody Vengeance in Sirte
updated 12 Sep 2012; published 08 Dec 2011
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House Session 2011-11-04 (13:49:23-15:43:01)
updated 16 Oct 2012; published 16 Dec 2011
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Q&A; session, A Conversation with Vladimir Putin: Continued 2011 (English Subtitles)
updated 21 Nov 2011; published 22 Oct 2011
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NATO LIES GADDAFI FAKE DEATH MORE EVIDENCE
updated 02 Jun 2012; published 20 Oct 2011
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Proof of Faked Gaddafi Death Photo Snuff Photo-More Libya TNC Lies Exposed On Gaddafi Snuff Photos
updated 20 Oct 2011; published 20 Oct 2011
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Gaddafi dead - Jim Swire reaction
 Obama, Romney meet in heated debate rematch
Full Article The Dallas Morning News
17 Oct 2012

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — Unchained from lecterns, they circled, interrupted and shouted over each other. They encroached on each other’s space and looked at times as if they might even poke each other in the chest. As lopsided as the first confrontation had been, the second debate between President Barack Obama and GOP nominee Mitt Romney on Tuesday night...
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President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney participate in the second presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012.
photo: AP / Charles Dharapak

updated 17 Oct 2012; published 04 Oct 2012
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First Presidential Debate: Obama vs. Romney (Complete HD - Quality Audio)
updated 06 Oct 2012; published 04 Oct 2012
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Barack Obama Vs. Mitt Romney 2012 Presidential Debate Part 1
updated 17 Oct 2012; published 04 Oct 2012
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Full Presidential Debate: Battle Over Economic Policies
updated 04 Oct 2012; published 04 Oct 2012
13:40
Barack Obama Vs Mitt Romney 2012 Presidential Debate Part 2
updated 04 Oct 2012; published 04 Oct 2012
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Video 2 Mitt Romney and Barack Obama Presidential Debate for President
updated 12 Oct 2012; published 04 Oct 2012
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Video 3 Mitt Romney and Barack Obama Presidential Debate for President
Syrian planes pound rebels in north
Full Article The Washington Times
17 Oct 2012

BEIRUT — Syrian government warplanes unleashed deadly airstrikes on rebel strongholds in the country’s north on Tuesday, activists reported. The barrage came as the U.N. food agency warned that more and more Syrians depend on assistance provided by the World Food Program to stay alive amid the worsening civil war. The airstrikes hit...
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In this picture taken on Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012, citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, ENN, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, rubble of damaged houses from the shelling of loyal forces to Syria's President Bashar Assad, in Maarat al-Numan town, in Idlib province, northern Syria.
photo: AP / Idlib News Network ENN

updated 16 Oct 2012; published 16 Oct 2012
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Syrian regime airstrikes pummel rebels in north
updated 09 Sep 2012; published 09 Sep 2012
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SYRIAN CIVIL WAR: 30 DEAD 200 INJURED in Syrian AIR STRIKE on village [WW3?]
updated 12 Oct 2012; published 14 Aug 2012
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Syria - Life and Death in Aleppo CNN's Ben Wedeman Reports from inside Aleppo 8-13-12
updated 21 Sep 2012; published 16 Aug 2012
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BREAKING NEWS: 30 DEAD 200 INJURED in Syrian AIR STRIKE on village [SYRIAN CIVIL WAR]
updated 17 Oct 2012; published 16 Aug 2012
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18+ Syria - Assad Planes Bomb Azaz Civilian Neighborhoods 8-15-12 Dictator Kills 40, Injures 150
updated 14 Sep 2012; published 09 Mar 2012
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Activist: Amid Executions and Torture, Syrians OK With Risks of No-Fly Zone
Rwanda defence chief leads DR Congo rebels, UN report says
Full Article BBC News
17 Oct 2012

A new UN report has alleged that Rwanda's defence minister is effectively commanding a rebellion in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The confidential report, leaked to Reuters agency, says Uganda is also backing the M23 rebels, who have been fighting the DRC's army since April. The document builds on a UN report published in June which...
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Congolese FARDC (Forces Armees de la Republique Democratique du Congo) sit with their weapons on a pickup truck outside Goma, eastern Congo, Monday Aug. 13, 2012.
photo: AP / Jerome Delay

updated 16 Oct 2012; published 04 Jun 2010
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Genocide: Worse Than War | Full-length documentary | PBS
updated 13 Oct 2012; published 31 Jul 2012
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A Conversation on Obama Administration sub-Saharan Africa Policy
updated 16 Oct 2012; published 22 Apr 2011
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Rule of Man
updated 17 Oct 2012; published 12 Oct 2012
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This is your moment, and the kind of thinking you can do makes the difference beginning right now
updated 17 Oct 2012; published 14 Oct 2012
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"I give them the method to change... by thinking" but they continue to repeat behaviors
updated 02 Oct 2012; published 31 Jul 2012
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James Kabarebe - Rwandan Minister of Defense - Speaks of the days he was DRC Army Chief of Staff

Open Minds Worldwide
Viewpoint: Can Kenya avoid election bloodshed?
more BBC News
Four years after the worst political crisis since it gained independence in 1963, pre-election tensions are mounting in Kenya. Writer Gray Phombeah believes the country is set for...
Losing Their Grip in Afghanistan
more CounterPunch
Now in its eleventh year, the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan is reeling from crisis to crisis. The U.S. government has spent nearly $600 billion on the war, yet the Taliban...
Syria stands between Egypt and Iran
more Asia Times
By Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani CAIRO - The election of the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammed Morsi to the presidency this summer was followed by a flurry of conjecture that...

Top Stories Worldwide
IBM, Intel, eBay: Tech Winners & Losers more
In this Thursday, July 12, 2012, file photo, Intel Core i7 processors are stacked at a store in Cambridge, Mass. Intel Corp., the world's largest chipmaker, said Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012, net income fell 14 percent from last year in the latest quarter, and it's looking at tough conditions in the new quarter.
The Street
For the fourth-quarter, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based firm expects revenue of $13.6 billion, plus or minus $500 million. Non-GAAP gross margins are expected to be between 57% and 58%, plus or minus a couple of percentage points. That's slightly below...
photo: AP / Charles Krupa
Ebay   Intel   Photos   Stock   Technology   Wikipedia: IBM
U.S. negotiating with Afghanistan to extend troop presence beyond 2014 deadline in country more
U.S. negotiating with Afghanistan to extend troop presence beyond 2014 deadline in country
Newstrack India
Tweet Washington, Oct. 17 (ANI): The United States troops, who were scheduled to leave Afghanistan by 2014, would now be extending their stay in the war-torn country, and negotiations over the extension would be beginning soon, a top State Department...
photo: USMC / Lance Cpl. Cesar Contreras
Afghanistan   Photos   Troops   Washington   Wikipedia: Afghanistan
UN warns of increasing risks of foreign jihadists radicalizing Syrian conflict more
Newstrack India
Tweet London, Oct. 17 (ANI): A UN commission on human rights abuses in Syria has warned of the increasing risk of foreign Islamist militants radicalizing the conflict....
photo: UN / JC McIlwaine
Human Rights   Photos   Syria   UN
IMF urges aid for Italy, Spain more
IMF urges aid for Italy, Spain
Gulf News
Milan/Madrid: The International Monetary Fund called on the eve of a European Union summit for both Spain and Italy to seek Eurozone assistance to draw a line under the bloc’s debt crisis, but Rome has rebuffed the idea and Madrid seems likely...
photo: EC / EC
Italy   Madrid   Photos   Spain
Hunger soars in the Philippines more
Mother and his baby in the roadside of Malate Philippines. Beggar - Poverty - Poor - Hunger
Al Jazeera
There has been a staggering increase in the number of undernourished Filipinos over the past two years, according to a new study. "The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2012," a global assessment of nutrition levels released on Tuesday, revealed...
photo: WN / Sweet Radoc
Hunger   Philippines   Photos   Poverty   Wikipedia: Southeast Asia
Kenyan police kill three suspects in al Shabaab raid more
Kenyan police kill three suspects in al Shabaab raid
The Star
MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - Crack Kenyan police shot dead three suspected supporters of the Somali militant group al Shabaab on Wednesday during a raid in Kenya's turbulent coastal region in which a police officer also died. Police arrested a number...
photo: UN / TOBIN JONES
Kenya   Photos   Police   Somalia   Wikipedia: Somalia
Exoplanet around Alpha Centauri is nearest-ever more
Icy exoplanet. Artist's impression. The search for planets outside our Solar System constitutes a key element of what is possibly the most profound question for humanity: is there life elsewhere in the Universe
BBC News
Astronomers have found the nearest planet outside our Solar System, circling one of the stars of Alpha Centauri just four light-years away. The planet has at minimum the same mass as Earth, but circles its star far closer than Mercury orbits our Sun....
photo: Creative Commons
Photos   Planet   Science   Solar system   Wikipedia: Extrasolar planet
updated 18 Jul 2012; published 28 Jun 2007
9:43
The European Anti-Fraud Office
Top EU health official resigns over tobacco probe
Deutsche Welle 17 Oct 2012, In an unprecedented move, EU Health Commissioner John Dalli has resigned after an investigation connected him to an attempt to influence EU tobacco legislation. Anti-fraud campaigners have welcomed the move. Transparency International has welcomed the "swift action" taken by the European Commission in regard to the allegations concerning European...

updated 17 Oct 2012; published 04 Oct 2012
89:42
Presidential Debate 2012 (Complete) Romney vs.Obama - 10/3/2012 - Elections 2012
Elections and the Lesser, OR Greater, of Three Evils
WorldNews.com 17 Oct 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling On the very last day of the 1980 election, twelve percent of voters finally decided to vote for the Republican's presidential candidate Ronald Reagan. Thirty-seven percent of Reagan voters decide to vote for him in the last week. Sadly, Reagan's share of the total potential vote (26.6%) is the third...

updated 16 Oct 2012; published 16 Oct 2012
4:22
FARC rebel leaders due to arrive in Oslo
Colombia, FARC rebels begin peace talks in Oslo
The Star 17 Oct 2012, BOGOTA/OSLO (Reuters) - Historic closed-door talks between Colombia and Marxist rebels began on Wednesday in Norway after FARC rebel and government negotiators arrived in Oslo in a bid to end almost half a century of armed conflict, Norwegian officials said. Colombia's government head of negotiators Humberto de la Calle (C) speaks next to...

updated 13 Oct 2012; published 20 Aug 2012
9:59
On the frontline with British troops in Afghanistan
Suicide truck bomb hits Nato base in Afghanistan
Gulf News 17 Oct 2012, Kabul: A huge blast from a Taliban suicide truck bomb attack on a joint Nato-Afghan army base in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday injured several international and Afghan troops, officials said. Nato’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) confirmed that some of its troops were wounded along with Afghan soldiers, but would not...

updated 17 Oct 2012; published 17 Oct 2012
4:05
Mitt Romney slips up on foreign policy during presidential debate with Barack Obama
What Should Our New Foreign Policy Be?
Huffington Post 17 Oct 2012, Let us stop this interference in the internal affairs of other countries. Let us stop overthrowing the heads of other governments and attempting to dictate who their leaders should be: or what form of government they should adopt. We have no moral or legal right to inflict our views on them. It seems senseless to do so when the result is their...

updated 20 Sep 2012; published 18 Sep 2012
2:32
UN envoy Brahimi says Syria conflict 'likely to spread'
UN envoy warns spillover of Syrian crisis
Al Jazeera 17 Oct 2012, Syria's 19-month conflict can set the entire region ablaze, international peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi tells reporters in Lebanon. "This crisis cannot remain confined within Syrian territory," Brahimi said on Wednesday. "Either it is solved, or it gets worse... and sets (the region) ablaze. A truce for (the Muslim holiday of) Eid al-Adha would be a...

updated 27 Jul 2012; published 21 Oct 2011
3:28
Muammar Gaddafi Death in Ambulance (ON VIDEO) AL-Jazeera Newsreport
Evidence of mass murder after Gaddafi's death
Al Jazeera 17 Oct 2012, New evidence implicates Libyan militias in an apparent execution of dozens of detainees in rebel custody following the capture and death of Muammar Gaddafi last year, a watchdog has said. In a report released on Wednesday detailing Gaddafi's final hours on October 20, 2011, Human Rights Watch said it had gathered evidence that Misrata-based...

updated 17 Oct 2012; published 04 Oct 2012
89:42
Presidential Debate 2012 (Complete) Romney vs.Obama - 10/3/2012 - Elections 2012
 Obama, Romney meet in heated debate rematch
The Dallas Morning News 17 Oct 2012, HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — Unchained from lecterns, they circled, interrupted and shouted over each other. They encroached on each other’s space and looked at times as if they might even poke each other in the chest. As lopsided as the first confrontation had been, the second debate between President Barack Obama and GOP nominee Mitt Romney on Tuesday night...

updated 17 Aug 2012; published 08 Jun 2012
1:04
Airstrikes Hit Syrian Town of Talbiseh
Syrian planes pound rebels in north
The Washington Times 17 Oct 2012, BEIRUT — Syrian government warplanes unleashed deadly airstrikes on rebel strongholds in the country’s north on Tuesday, activists reported. The barrage came as the U.N. food agency warned that more and more Syrians depend on assistance provided by the World Food Program to stay alive amid the worsening civil war. The airstrikes hit...

updated 08 Aug 2012; published 08 Aug 2012
2:37
DR Congo rebels work on image makeover
Rwanda defence chief leads DR Congo rebels, UN report says
BBC News 17 Oct 2012, A new UN report has alleged that Rwanda's defence minister is effectively commanding a rebellion in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The confidential report, leaked to Reuters agency, says Uganda is also backing the M23 rebels, who have been fighting the DRC's army since April. The document builds on a UN report published in June which...

updated 13 Jul 2012; published 25 Sep 2007
5:08
UNICEF: Right to an education
Five million Afghan children still not in school warns British head of charity
The Independent 16 Oct 2012, The British head of a charity working on the front line in Afghanistan has warned that despite progress 5 million children are still not in school, amid fears that the withdrawal of troops will leave them stranded. Dr Sarah Fane, whose charity Afghan Connection has helped 40,000 children into schools, has voiced concerns over Afghanistan’s future,...

updated 04 May 2012; published 23 Feb 2012
9:20
London Conference on Somalia: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon
Somalia needs urgent assistance to tackle post-transition challenges, UN envoy tells Security Council
United Nations 16 Oct 2012, Print 16 October 2012 – With the nine-year-old transitional period in Somalia having ended peacefully, the authorities need urgent assistance to meet the challenges associated with peacebuilding as well as stabilizing areas liberated from insurgents, the top United Nations envoy to the country said today. “The change met the expectations...

updated 17 Oct 2012; published 27 Sep 2012
32:36
Israel PM Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu's Address to the United Nations on Iran and Radical Islam
Israel needs to stop settlement activity: India
Zeenews 16 Oct 2012, United Nations: Regretting the lack of progress in resolving the Palestinian stalemate, India has said the issue faces a "real danger" of being relegated to the sidelines even as it asked Israel to stop its settlement activity in West Bank and east Jerusalem. While democratic aspirations of people in several countries in the Arab world are being...

updated 23 Dec 2011; published 03 Dec 2011
11:59
Algeria, Democracy and the Left
Algeria awaits change after 50 years under ruling party
Reuters 16 Oct 2012, ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria is a young country ruled by old men. A generation of leaders who won their spurs during Algeria's 1954-62 independence war against France remains in power, having defeated a violent challenge by armed Islamists in the 1990s and, at least for now, seen off the rebellious spirit that toppled Arab autocrats in Tunisia,...