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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...
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 15 Oct 2012; published 15 Oct 2012
2:50
Iran seeks solution to Syria conflict
updated 16 Oct 2012; published 15 Oct 2012
2:53
UN-AL envoy, Iran call for negotiated end to Syrian crisis
updated 06 Oct 2012; published 20 Sep 2012
21:31
Syria envoy Lakhdar Brahimi speaks to Al Jazeera
updated 09 Jul 2012; published 19 Feb 2012
2:01
Chinese envoy meets Assad to discuss crisis
updated 29 Jul 2012; published 10 Jul 2012
2:05
UN-Arab envoy seeks Iran help in Syria crisis
updated 20 Sep 2012; published 18 Sep 2012
2:32
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...
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
6:07
Libya: Bloody Vengeance in Sirte
updated 12 Sep 2012; published 08 Dec 2011
113:38
House Session 2011-11-04 (13:49:23-15:43:01)
updated 16 Oct 2012; published 16 Dec 2011
273:04
Q&A; session, A Conversation with Vladimir Putin: Continued 2011 (English Subtitles)
updated 21 Nov 2011; published 22 Oct 2011
1:27
NATO LIES GADDAFI FAKE DEATH MORE EVIDENCE
updated 02 Jun 2012; published 20 Oct 2011
1:47
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
0:58
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...
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
92:52
First Presidential Debate: Obama vs. Romney (Complete HD - Quality Audio)
updated 06 Oct 2012; published 04 Oct 2012
13:06
Barack Obama Vs. Mitt Romney 2012 Presidential Debate Part 1
updated 17 Oct 2012; published 04 Oct 2012
88:12
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
13:59
Video 2 Mitt Romney and Barack Obama Presidential Debate for President
updated 17 Oct 2012; published 17 Oct 2012
14:34
Presidential Debate - Barack Obama Vs Mitt Romney Highlights
Syrian planes pound rebels in north
Full Article The Washington Times
17 Oct 2012

BEIRUTSyrian 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...
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
1:03
Syrian regime airstrikes pummel rebels in north
updated 09 Sep 2012; published 09 Sep 2012
1:58
SYRIAN CIVIL WAR: 30 DEAD 200 INJURED in Syrian AIR STRIKE on village [WW3?]
updated 12 Oct 2012; published 14 Aug 2012
2:52
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
1:58
BREAKING NEWS: 30 DEAD 200 INJURED in Syrian AIR STRIKE on village [SYRIAN CIVIL WAR]
updated 10 Sep 2012; published 16 Aug 2012
1:25
18+ Syria - Assad Planes Bomb Azaz Civilian Neighborhoods 8-15-12 Dictator Kills 40, Injures 150
updated 14 Sep 2012; published 09 Mar 2012
8:29
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...
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
114:17
Genocide: Worse Than War | Full-length documentary | PBS
updated 13 Oct 2012; published 31 Jul 2012
108:55
A Conversation on Obama Administration sub-Saharan Africa Policy
updated 16 Oct 2012; published 22 Apr 2011
5:19
Rule of Man
updated 16 Oct 2012; published 12 Oct 2012
44:43
This is your moment, and the kind of thinking you can do makes the difference beginning right now
updated 16 Oct 2012; published 14 Oct 2012
240:03
"I give them the method to change... by thinking" but they continue to repeat behaviors
updated 02 Oct 2012; published 31 Jul 2012
16:11
James Kabarebe - Rwandan Minister of Defense - Speaks of the days he was DRC Army Chief of Staff
Five million Afghan children still not in school warns British head of charity
Full Article 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,...
Five million Afghan children still not in school warns British head of charity
photo: US DoD / Lance Cpl. Cesar Contreras

updated 14 Oct 2012; published 16 May 2009
11:09
High School Girls in Yearbook - One Naked, One Fat
updated 16 Oct 2012; published 10 Nov 2011
161:30
Ajan Henki (English subtitles)
updated 16 Oct 2012; published 29 Sep 2012
266:00
A Conversation with Vladimir Putin, Continued 2010 (English Subtitles)
updated 16 Oct 2012; published 16 Dec 2011
273:04
Q&A; session, A Conversation with Vladimir Putin: Continued 2011 (English Subtitles)
updated 16 Oct 2012; published 22 Apr 2011
5:19
Rule of Man
updated 22 Mar 2012; published 19 Mar 2012
12:41
World at 8 Monday 19 March 2012
Somalia needs urgent assistance to tackle post-transition challenges, UN envoy tells Security Council
Full Article 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...
photo: UN / Rick Bajornas

updated 06 Aug 2012; published 17 Jan 2009
2:04
US Envoy-Designee to UN Skeptical on Somalia Force
updated 11 Sep 2012; published 11 Sep 2012
2:31
Somalia faces food security challenge
updated 13 Aug 2012; published 13 Feb 2010
34:13
John Brennan Speaks on National Security at NYU
updated 26 Jul 2012; published 24 Apr 2012
43:10
Honoring the Pledge of Never Again: Sudan, South Sudan and the LRA: What More Can Be Done?
updated 04 Jun 2012; published 20 Jun 2007
6:11
President Issais Afewerki's Speech Amharic Narration Part 1
updated 25 Apr 2012; published 20 Jun 2007
5:51
President Issais Afewerki's Speech Amharic Narration Part 2
Israel needs to stop settlement activity: India
Full Article 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...
Israel needs to stop settlement activity: India
photo: UN / Paulo Filgueiras

updated 16 Oct 2012; published 16 Sep 2012
87:06
The Great Gildersleeve: Gildy's Diet / Arrested as a Car Thief / A New Bed for Marjorie
updated 15 Oct 2012; published 23 Sep 2012
89:29
The Great Gildersleeve: A Job Contact / The New Water Commissioner / Election Day Bet
updated 08 Oct 2012; published 28 Nov 2011
67:46
Part 3 - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Audiobook by Mark Twain (Chs 12-16)
updated 14 Oct 2012; published 06 Oct 2011
136:47
Part 4 - Tess of the d'Urbervilles Audiobook by Thomas Hardy (Chs 24-31)
updated 14 Oct 2012; published 06 Oct 2011
133:57
Part 3 - Tess of the d'Urbervilles Audiobook by Thomas Hardy (Chs 15-23)
updated 13 Oct 2012; published 28 Sep 2010
1:32
UN "disappointed" at Israeli settlement activity
Algeria awaits change after 50 years under ruling party
Full Article 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,...
File - Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika leaves a voting booth before voting in the Parliamentary elections in Algiers, Thursday, May, 10, 2012.
photo: AP / Sidali Djarboub

updated 25 Sep 2012; published 21 Nov 2008
38:20
21. Vietnam and Algeria
updated 16 Oct 2012; published 16 Aug 2012
105:34
The Apocalypse Unraveled Triology - The Seven Mystery Years
updated 16 Oct 2012; published 14 Oct 2012
240:03
"I give them the method to change... by thinking" but they continue to repeat behaviors
updated 26 Aug 2012; published 14 Dec 2011
59:26
@Google Presents: John Merrow, "The Influence of Teachers"
updated 05 Sep 2012; published 24 Feb 2011
5:54
AC360: Thomas Friedman "Mother Of All Wake-up Calls" For America Unfolding In Arab World (Part 1)
updated 16 Aug 2012; published 15 Jul 2012
58:55
Economic Recovery, Financial Crisis, Medicare, Investments in Education, Scientific Research (2012)
Obama must fight back against blowback and bluster
Full Article Al Jazeera
16 Oct 2012

Even as Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan continue to blast President Obama and Secretary Clinton's foreign policy successes, al-Qaeda leader Zawahiri issued another statement urging Muslims to protest the anti-Islamic film and to "continue their opposition to American crusader Zionist aggression against Islam and Muslims", according to Reuters. On the eve...
President Barack Obama watches the Vice Presidential debate aboard Air Force One with staff, en route to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, from Florida, Oct. 11, 2012.
photo: White House / Pete Souza

updated 18 Aug 2012; published 11 May 2011
7:29
Cynthia McKinney: Attack on Gaddafi Family Shows Obama as "War Criminal"
updated 12 Oct 2012; published 28 Jul 2012
9:03
Dennis Kucinich "The Iraq War Was Based On Lies! It Had Nothing To Do With Al Qaeda Or 911!"
updated 22 Aug 2012; published 05 Oct 2011
4:11
Ron Paul: Obama Impeachment Possible Over al-Awlaki Drone Attack
updated 16 Oct 2012; published 22 Jan 2008
7:36
Tensions Flare Between Obama and Clinton at SC Debate
updated 28 Sep 2012; published 01 Aug 2012
4:46
BREAKING NEWS build up to WW3: US wants CHAOS in SYRIA they ALLY with al-Qaeda (TERROR) Al-Assad OUT
updated 02 Oct 2012; published 07 Jun 2012
8:31
Panetta declaring war on Pakistan?

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...
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...
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...

Mother and his baby in the roadside of Malate Philippines. Beggar - Poverty - Poor - Hunger
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
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
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
A boy with a cart rides down the street at the Kanyaruchinya internally displaced persons camp in Goma. Behind him, peacekeepers from the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) provide security for the camp, 8 August, 2012.
Rwanda's defence minister is commanding a rebellion in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo that is being armed by Rwanda and Uganda, both of which sent troops to aid the insurgency in a deadly attack on UN peacekeepers, according to a UN report. The...
photo: UN / Sylvain Liechti
President Barack Obama, foreground, and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney participate in the second presidential debate at Hofstra University, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012, in Hempstead, N.Y.
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (AP) -- An aggressive President Barack Obama accused challenger Mitt Romney of peddling a "sketchy deal" to fix the U.S. economy and playing politics with the deadly terrorist attack in Libya in a Tuesday night debate crackling with...
photo: AP / Mary Altaffer
File - Children play in the newly established Sosmaqala Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp comprised of Afghans which have recently returned to their country following 25 years as refugees in neighboring Iran.
October 17, 2012 -- Updated 0045 GMT (0845 HKT) Rahman Mina Camp, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A 30-minute drive from the heart of the Afghan capital along dusty pot-holed roads lie the slums of the city. In the distance are plains with some patches of...
photo: UN / Eric Kanalstein
Gary McKinnon The Pentagon internet hacker is seen at a press conference in London, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009.
THERESA May, the British Home Secretary, risked diplomatic tensions with the US yesterday when she invoked human rights to halt the extradition of the computer hacker Gary McKinnon. Mrs May delighted Tory backbenchers with Britain's first refusal to...
photo: AP / Kirsty Wigglesworth
An M23 rebel stands guard in Rutshuru, which is under their control, some 75kms (48 miles) north of Goma, eastern Congo, Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012.
Rwanda’s defense minister is commanding a rebellion in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo that is being armed by Rwanda and Uganda, who also sent troops to aid the insurgents in a deadly attack on United Nations peacekeepers, according to a...
photo: AP / Jerome Delay
updated 20 Sep 2012; published 18 Sep 2012
2:32
UN envoy Brahimi says Syria conflict 'likely to spread'
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
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
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 16 Oct 2012; published 16 Oct 2012
3:21
Islamists in Syria Get Arms from Saudi Arabia and Qatar
The Washington Times 17 Oct 2012, BEIRUTSyrian 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
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
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
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
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
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,...

updated 17 Oct 2012; published 17 Oct 2012
97:41
Complete Second Presidential Town Hall Debate 2012: Barack Obama vs. Mitt Romney - Oct 16, 2012
Al Jazeera 16 Oct 2012, Even as Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan continue to blast President Obama and Secretary Clinton's foreign policy successes, al-Qaeda leader Zawahiri issued another statement urging Muslims to protest the anti-Islamic film and to "continue their opposition to American crusader Zionist aggression against Islam and Muslims", according to Reuters. On the eve...

updated 16 Oct 2012; published 16 Oct 2012
4:00
Karadzic trial begins at Hague
The Guardian 16 Oct 2012, Former Bosnian Serb leader has been on trial since 2009 for orchestrating genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity Radovan Karadzic is to open his defence at the international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Photograph: Jeremy Lampen/AFP/WorldPhotos.com...

updated 16 Oct 2012; published 16 Oct 2012
0:58
Protests flare over Portugal's 2013 budget
BBC News 16 Oct 2012, Demonstrators started a fire outside the Portuguese parliament on Monday night as anti-austerity protests continued in Lisbon. The draft budget for 2013 is one of the...

updated 25 May 2012; published 02 Jun 2010
6:25
Breakdown in Israeli Parliament - MK Zoabi attacked in Knesset (commentary below)
Al Jazeera 16 Oct 2012, Israel's Parliament has set a January 22 date for a national election and opinion polls predict an easy win for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in balloting expected to focus on his tough policies on Iran's nuclear programme and economics. Members of the Knesset approved the measure by a vote of 100 to nil late on Tuesday after a more than...

updated 17 Oct 2012; published 16 Oct 2012
11:40
'Don't expect Kosovo to become UN member' - UNGA President (RT Exclusive)
Khaleej Times 15 Oct 2012, UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi called Monday for a ceasefire in Syria during the upcoming four-day Muslim holiday of Eid Al Adha, as the revolt entered its 20th month with a death toll of more than 33,000. Brahimi made his call as he shuttled between Syria’s neighbours, which have been bitterly divided by the conflict along the confessional lines that...