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By Jeremiah Goulka It's the consensus among the pundits: foreign policy doesn't matter in this presidential election. They point to the ways Republican candidate Mitt Romney has...
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling As Iran's Red Crescent Organization readied hundreds of aid workers to fly to New York City, even offering tons of foodstuffs and...
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The use of "secrecy, censorship and bullying" to silence dissenting voices in China must end under the country's...

A man passes a labor union banner calling for 48 hour strike in front of the Greek Parliament in central Athens, Monday, Nov. 5, 2012.
ATHENS, Greece -- The conservative-led Greek coalition government detailed a four-year package of austerity measures late Monday, facing down escalating protests by unions and dissent from its left-wing partners. The bill, to be voted in parliament...
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This file photo made from video provided by the Israeli Defense Force on May 31, 2010 shows what the IDF says is one of several commandos being dropped onto the Mavi Marmara ship by helicopter in the Mediterranean Sea.
A court in Istanbul is to begin the trial in absentia of four retired Israeli military commanders over the storming of a Turkish boat in 2010. Nine Turkish activists died when Israeli commandos boarded the Mavi Marmara as a flotilla tried to break...
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President Barack Obama is flanked on stage by musicians Jay-Z, left, and Bruce Springsteen at a campaign event at Nationwide Arena, Monday, Nov. 5, 2012, in Columbus, Ohio.
President Barack Obama brought along two opening acts on the final day of presidential campaign. Bruce Springsteen. Jay-Z, but theirs wasn't an introduction, it was pop culture moment. The Boss was spending the entire day with Obama, traveling on Air...
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President Barack Obama waives to supporters gathered near the Wisconsin state Capitol, Monday, Nov. 5, 2012, in Madison, Wis.
U.S. President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney are making last-minute appeals to voters in key battleground states on the eve of Tuesday’s presidential election. Both President Obama and Mr. Romney campaigned in states they...
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Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet at Blair House in Washington, D.C., March 5, 2012.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's prime minister ordered the military to go on high alert for a looming attack on Iran's nuclear program two years ago, but backed off following strong objections from senior security officials, a respected Israeli news...
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FILE - In this Aug. 23, 2011 file Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System photo, Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, 1st platoon sergeant, Blackhorse Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division participates in an exercise at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif. A U.S. official on Thursday, March 22, 2012 said Bales will be charged with 17 counts of murder in the massacre of Afghan villagers.
Tweet The US soldier accused of one of the most notorious atrocities of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars has appeared in a military courtroom, where prosecutors were laying out their case against him. Prosecutors allege Staff Sergeant Robert Bales...
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Former FEMA official to head NYC housing recovery effort
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Monday named a former Federal Emergency Management Agency official to lead the city's housing recovery effort after superstorm Sandy left tens of thousands of local residents homeless...
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updated 20 Aug 2012; published 20 Aug 2012
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Bo Xilai's wife Gu Kailai sentenced for Neil Heywood murder in China
BBC News 06 Nov 2012, A British businessman killed in China had been providing information to the British secret service, the Wall Street Journal newspaper claims. Neil Heywood had been communicating with an MI6 officer about top politician Bo Xilai for at least a year before he died, the paper said. British Foreign Secretary William Hague said in April that Mr Heywood...

updated 03 Nov 2012; published 28 Mar 2012
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Inside The Kandahar Massacre; Grieving Survivors Describe Afghan Mass Murder
France24 06 Nov 2012, US soldier Robert Bales (pictured right), accused of slaughtering 16 Afghan villagers, appeared before a military court on Monday. Prosecutors said they would seek the death penalty against Bales for what they described as a "premeditated" attack. By Katerina VITTOZZI (video) News Wires (text) Military prosecutors said on Monday...

updated 05 Nov 2012; published 04 Nov 2012
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US Headed For The Closest Ever Presidential Elections : Polls Obama VS Romney
Newstrack India 06 Nov 2012, Tweet Washington, Nov 6 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Americans are preparing to head to the polls Tuesday to elect the next US president, while Democratic incumbent Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney hit the campaign trail for a furious final day of courting votes in a handful of states. Obama and Romney are making one final push through...

updated 03 Nov 2012; published 30 Oct 2012
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'Sandy could spark Obama-Romney vote count row'
WorldNews.com 05 Nov 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling "Of the best rulers, the people do not know they exist." -Lao Tzu Unlike pseudo messianic governments and their virtual political pretenders, super storms do not suspend reality. In truth, they are reality as opposed to imaginary, idealized, or false and artificial environments and their unnatural...

updated 06 Nov 2012; published 30 Oct 2012
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Hurricane Sandy: Super Storm Slams East Coast States
Yahoo Daily News 05 Nov 2012, POINT PLEASANT BEACH, N.J. (AP) — A week after Superstorm Sandy pummeled the East Coast, wiping out entire communities, residents were bracing for yet another potentially damaging storm. A nor'easter taking shape Monday in the Gulf of Mexico was expected to begin its march up the coast, eventually passing within 50 to 100 miles of the wounded New...

updated 23 Apr 2011; published 23 Apr 2011
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Humanist Community Sunday Forum November 11, 2007
Joy Online 05 Nov 2012, The Humanist Association of Ghana will be hosting its first international conference on “West African Humanism in Action” from November 23rd to 25th November 2012 in Accra. Humanism is an ethical stance based on reason, freethinking and rationalism and not on the belief...

updated 05 Nov 2012; published 03 Jul 2012
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Polonium poisoning suspected in Arafat's death
Star Tribune 05 Nov 2012, RAMALLAH, West Bank - A Western diplomat says the exhumation of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's remains will take place Nov. 26....

updated 18 Oct 2012; published 17 Oct 2012
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The election in Ukraine will be held fairly
Novosti 05 Nov 2012, KIEV, November 5 (RIA Novosti) – Up to a thousand opposition protesters took to the streets in Kiev on Monday to protest against last week’s allegedly rigged parliamentary elections, while opposition leaders have hinted at the possibility of pushing for an early presidential and parliamentary vote. Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych’s ruling...

updated 05 Nov 2012; published 02 Nov 2012
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UN warns of possible 'war crimes' by Syria rebels
Al Jazeera 05 Nov 2012, Lakhdar Brahimi, the joint UN-Arab League envoy to Syria, has called for world powers to issue a UN security council resolution based on a deal reached in June, in a bid to set up a transitional government and end the bloodshed in that country. Brahimi's initiative came after talks with Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, in the Egyptian...

updated 14 Oct 2012; published 07 Feb 2009
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Palestine Right of Return - A Nation Forced Into Exile - Part 1/3
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 05 Nov 2012, JERUSALEM -- The question seemed simple enough: Would President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority like to go to Safed, the city in northern Israel where he was born in 1935? But there are no easy questions in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Mr. Abbas' answer, in an interview broadcast on Israeli television Friday night -- yes, he...

updated 06 Nov 2012; published 23 Oct 2012
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Complete Third Presidential Debate on Foreign Policy 2012: Barack Obama vs. Mitt Romney Oct 22, 2012
BBC News 05 Nov 2012, US presidential rivals Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are approaching the final day of their election battle in a frantic fight for swing state votes. The pair spent Sunday addressing crowds across the country, with Mr Romney speaking in Pennsylvania, a state his aides insist he can now win on Tuesday. Mr Obama held rallies in New Hampshire and...

updated 09 Oct 2012; published 13 Sep 2012
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Senior officials approve ASEM Summit agenda
Jakarta Post 05 Nov 2012, Paper Edition | Page: 7 The 9th Summit of the Asia-Europe Meeting, ASEM, which will open today in Vientiane, Laos, brings together 51 leaders from Europe and Asia. Sixteen years after the launch in 1996 of this successful forum of dialogue and cooperation, Europe, Asia and the world have changed significantly. Asian nations have become strong...

updated 31 Oct 2012; published 16 Feb 2011
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Manmohan Singh meets the press
Al Jazeera 04 Nov 2012, Sonia Gandhi, India's ruling Congress party chief, and Manmohan Singh, prime minister, are set to speak at a major rally in New Delhi to rally support for contentious economic measures in the run-up to the 2014 parliamentary elections. Gandhi, the head of the Congress, will be seeking to drum up support for the party in a bid to win elections for...

updated 05 Nov 2012; published 04 Nov 2012
25:31
Inside Syria - The changing face of Syria's opposition
Denver Post 04 Nov 2012, DOHA, qatar — Over the coming days, Syria's anti-regime camp will wrangle over reorganizing its ranks, as the United States pushes a proposal to create a new leadership body with fewer Syrian exiles and more military commanders fighting on the ground to bring down President Bashar Assad. But there are doubts whether the divided and...