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In April of this year, Israel's Defence Minister Ehud Barak staged a visit to Bogota, where his activities included marketing Israeli drones to the Colombian state. According to a...
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On the plane, something odd but also vaguely magical-seeming happened: namely, nobody knew what time it was. Right before we landed, the flight attendant made an announcement, in...

This image provided by the Drug Enforcement Administration shows Russian arms trafficking suspect Viktor Bout, center, in U.S. custody after being flown from Bangkok to New York on Tuesday Nov. 16, 2010 in a chartered U.S. plane
(Reuters) - The United States has refused a request from Russia that convicted arms dealer Viktor Bout be returned to his home country to spend the remainder of his 25-year prison term, a Russian Foreign Ministry official said on Saturday. Bout, 54,...
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Opposition protesters with their flags gathered in center of Moscow during a rally, Saturday, March 10, 2012. The demonstrators gathered in central Moscow to protest electoral fraud. Saturday's rally is widely seen as evidence of whether the opposition is able to maintain its strength after Vladimir Putin on Sunday won a return to the Kremlin.
Harsh penalty for activist MOSCOW -- A participant in a May 6 anti-Putin demonstration was sentenced Friday to four and a half years in a prison colony for fighting with riot police officers in the first adjudication of 18 similar cases that have...
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CIA Director David Petraeus announced his resignation today after just under a year and a half on the job. Petraeus, also a highly-decorated Army general who came to the public spotlight during the Iraq War in 2003, cited an extramarital affair as...
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Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta meets with Austrian Minister of Defense Norbert Darabos at the Pentagon, Oct. 29, 2012.
Pentagon leaders knew of the Sept. 11 attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi an hour after it began, but were unable to mobilise reinforcements based in Europe in time to prevent the death of the US ambassador, according to a timeline released on...
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Sri Lankan prisoners watch a meeting before the release of other prisoners from Colombo's main prison, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, May 4, 2004.
By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI, Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A shootout between rioting prisoners and security forces at a prison in Sri Lanka's capital killed at least 16 inmates, while police said Saturday that they arrested five...
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Artists concept of Lockheed Martin Corp., Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) design.
BETHESDA, Md. — Lockheed Martin Corp. has ousted its president and future CEO over a relationship with a subordinate. The defense company said Friday that its board of directors asked for and received the resignation of Christopher Kubasik from...
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A Syrian refugee carries her son after a medical check at the French mobile hospital set up to treat refugees fleeing the ongoing violence in Syria, at the Zaatari refugee camp in Mafraq, Jordan Monday, Aug. 13, 2012.
As many as 11,000 people fled Syria in 24 hours, some of them desperately clambering through a razor-wire fence into Turkey on Friday to escape fierce fighting between rebels and government forces for control of a border town....
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updated 10 Nov 2012; published 09 Nov 2012
1:21
Barack Obama : First US President to Visit Myanmar
Jakarta Globe 10 Nov 2012, Yangon. Myanmar’s government has said it “warmly welcomes” the historic visit of President Barack Obama later this month, expressing hope his trip will bolster the nation’s political reform drive. Obama, who was re-elected this week, will meet democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi and President Thein Sein on the first...

updated 10 Nov 2012; published 10 Nov 2012
0:55
Sri Lanka Prison Clash Leaves 27 Dead
Chicago Tribune 10 Nov 2012, COLOMBO (Reuters) - At least 27 people were killed and a senior police officer seriously wounded in a gunfight in Sri Lanka's biggest prison that began when police came under fire from inmates, officials and police said on Saturday. The army brought the violence under control before dawn and freed staff held hostage at the Welikada prison in the...

updated 06 Nov 2012; published 28 Mar 2012
15:14
Inside The Kandahar Massacre; Grieving Survivors Describe Afghan Mass Murder
Lexington Herald-Leader 10 Nov 2012, JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. — An Afghan National Army guard who reported seeing a U.S. soldier outside a remote base the night 16 civilians were massacred in March has taken the witness stand in the case against Staff Sgt. Robert Bales. Bales is accused of carrying out the attacks and could face the death penalty if he is convicted in the...

updated 10 Nov 2012; published 10 Nov 2012
1:53
Syria's opposition bloc picks new leader
The Miami Herald 10 Nov 2012, DOHA, Qatar -- Syria’s biggest political opposition bloc Friday elected a Christian, George Sabra, as president, a move Sabra said showed that the Muslim-majority nation will not allow its national uprising to descend into sectarian war. Sabra, a geography teacher who once wrote for the Arabic version of “Sesame Street,” immediately demanded...

updated 10 Nov 2012; published 09 Nov 2012
6:39
David Petraeus Resigns from CIA Over Affair
Yahoo Daily News 09 Nov 2012, CIA Director David Petraeus has resigned his position, citing personal reasons and an extramarital affair. "Yesterday afternoon, I went to the White House and asked the president to be allowed, for personal reasons, to resign from my position as D/CIA," he said in a statement. "After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment...

updated 10 Nov 2012; published 23 Oct 2012
96:17
Complete Third Presidential Debate on Foreign Policy 2012: Barack Obama vs. Mitt Romney Oct 22, 2012
Gulf News 09 Nov 2012, President Barack Obama’s victory over Mitt Romney is a landmark moment in US politics. He is only the second Democratic president to win re-election since Franklin Roosevelt in 1936, doing so despite a very challenging economic headwind of sluggish growth and comparatively high unemployment in the US. While many Democrats are elated by Obama’s...

updated 07 Nov 2012; published 22 Jul 2012
2:36
Rohingya: the world's most forgotten people
BBC News 09 Nov 2012, In recent months, communal violence in Burma's Rakhine state has left about 140 people dead and forced more than 100,000 from their homes. With Buddhist and Muslim communities effectively segregated, divisions seem deeper than ever, the BBC's Jonathan Head reports from Rakhine. A British colonial official returning to Sittwe, or Aykab as...

updated 10 Nov 2012; published 10 Nov 2012
25:17
Inside Story Americas - What is driving Argentina's protest movement?
France24 09 Nov 2012, Tens of thousands of Argentinians vented their anger towards President Cristina Kirchner and her government on Thursday, taking to the streets to protest in city's across the country. Protesters called for Kirchner to step down. By News Wires (text) Angry over inflation, crime and corruption, people of all ages jammed the...

updated 08 Nov 2012; published 08 Nov 2012
1:23
Guatemala Earthquake At Least 48 Dead.
Detroit news 08 Nov 2012, By Sonia Perez-Diaz and Romina Ruiz-Goiriena Associated Press Comments People chat with a police officer while standing in the rubble caused after a magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck Wednesday in San Marcos, Guatemala. The mountain village, some 80 miles from the epicenter, suffered much of the damage with some 30 homes collapsing. (Moises Castillo /...

updated 08 Nov 2012; published 08 Nov 2012
3:16
China's Congress: Continuity the watchword
Philadelphia Daily News 08 Nov 2012, CHARLES HUTZLER , The Associated Press Posted: Wednesday, November 7, 2012, 8:11 PM BEIJING - China's ruling Communist Party has opened a congress to usher in a new group of leaders faced with the challenging tasks of righting a flagging economy and meeting public calls for better government....

updated 10 Nov 2012; published 07 Nov 2012
20:40
Barack Obama's Victory Speech Full - Election 2012
Yahoo Daily News 07 Nov 2012, CHICAGO (Reuters) - The crowd was smaller than it was four years ago, and the venue was indoors, but President Barack Obama's victory party early on Wednesday shared a theme with his 2008 election night: hope. Despite a rough economy that dulled the glow of being America's first black president, Obama defeated Republican Mitt Romney in a...

updated 10 Nov 2012; published 10 Nov 2012
8:30
Syria Exit Strategy: None?
The Star 07 Nov 2012, AMMAN (Reuters) - Multiple bomb explosions on Wednesday hit a hilltop area in Damascus populated by members of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's Alawite sect, marking escalation of sectarian attacks in a conflict that has deepened religious Middle East divides. A crowd gathers at the site of an explosion in Hai al-Wuroud, near Damascus November 6,...

updated 10 Nov 2012; published 07 Nov 2012
10:23
Barack Obama Re-Elected President
The Daily Telegraph 07 Nov 2012, Barack Obama claimed a second presidential term last night as a progressive coalition of women, minorities and young people came together to return America’s first black president to the White House. A man holds a sign supporting US President Barack Obama as people watch large screens in Times Square Photo: EPA...

updated 10 Nov 2012; published 07 Nov 2012
21:02
President Barack Obama Acceptance Speech 2012: Election Remarks From Chicago Illinois
The Leaf Chronicle 06 Nov 2012, WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney left Americans to vote Tuesday with a stark choice between their fundamentally different visions for the country’s future after an aggressive and closely fought battle for the White House. The winner might not be known until the next...