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Xi Jinping has been chosen to lead China's Communist Party following its party congress in Beijing, although the 59 year old will not assume the presidency of the country until...
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Is this the greatest goal ever? According to football commentators, fans and Twitter, it may just be. Swede Zlatan Ibrahimovic this morning sent the football world into meltdown...
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Vizagites, who have decided to go eco-friendly on Diwali, are giving new meaning to the Festival of Lights Along with the celebrations, laughter, mithai, fireworks and festivities,...

China's Vice President Xi Jinping speaks to the US-China Business Council in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012.
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Rheem Pledges Support to the American Red Cross for Superstorm Sandy Relief Efforts
Rheem’s support will include a special financing option for homeowners impacted by the storm, a donation program with its distributor partners in the region, and an online fundraising effort. Atlanta (PRWEB) November 14, 2012 Rheem has...
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It is time for the judiciary to step in and avert climate catastrophe
Judicial intervention would depoliticise climate change, restore democracy and and protect citizens from human right violations...
photo: UN / Eskinder Debebe
Police test Afghanistan's fragile ethnic balance
MARJAH, Afghanistan (AP) — Patrolling in all-terrain vehicles that whip up clouds of dust, members of Afghanistan's elite Civil Order Police might be viewed as outsiders here in southern Helmand province, an ethnic Pashtun heartland where residents...
photo: US Navy / Matthew Stroup
Opposition leader Alassane Ouattara addresses the press at a news conference at Golf Hotel in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010.
The Associated Press Posted: Wednesday, November 14, 2012, 7:45 AM ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast - A presidential spokeswoman says Ivory Coast's president has dissolved the Cabinet. No reason was given for the sudden turn of events....
photo: AP / Rebecca Blackwell
People hold a huge Georgian state flag during a campaign rally for President Mikhail Saakashvili's United National Movement in Tbilisi, Georgia, Friday, Sept. 28, 2012.
TBILISI, November 14 (RIA Novosti) - Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili promised on Wednesday to revive the democratic process in his country as part of its drive to integrate with NATO, in an address to NATO General Secretary Anders Fogh...
photo: AP / Shakh Aivazov
The exterior of security software maker McAfee Inc. headquarters is shown in Santa Clara, Calif., Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2007
Computer security industry pioneer John McAfee says he has gone into hiding in Belize because he believes authorities there are trying to frame him for the murder of a neighbor, a crime he says he did not...
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updated 17 Jan 2011; published 17 Jan 2011
1:45
myanmar prison
BBC News 15 Nov 2012, The Burmese authorities say than 452 prisoners will be released in a goodwill gesture, days ahead of a visit by US President Barack Obama. Political dissidents could be among those freed, but it is not clear how many. Human rights groups say there are around 300 political prisoners. Mr Obama's visit, the...

updated 18 Oct 2012; published 13 Feb 2012
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China's Assumed Future Leader Xi Jinping Visits US
The Times of India 15 Nov 2012, BEIJING: With a revolutionary hero for a father and a pop star for a wife, China's new leader Xi Jinping has impeccable political pedigree but has given few clues about how he will govern the country. Xi, 59, walked into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Thursday as general-secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, the most powerful...

updated 15 Nov 2012; published 14 Nov 2012
1:01
Israeli air strike kills Hamas military leader
The Star 14 Nov 2012, GAZA (Reuters) - Israel launched a major offensive against Palestinian militants in Gaza on Wednesday, killing the military commander of Hamas in an air strike and threatening an invasion of the enclave that the Islamist group vowed would "open the gates of hell". Palestinians extinguish a fire after an Israeli air strike on a car in Gaza City...

updated 14 Nov 2012; published 10 Nov 2012
5:06
'CIA chief Petraeus' resignation not just about affair'
LA Daily News 14 Nov 2012, By Kimberly Dozier and Nancy Benac The Associated PressAssociated Press Posted: 11/14/2012 07:12:03 AM PST November 14, 2012 3:23 PM GMTUpdated: 11/14/2012 07:14:50 AM PST Jill Kelley leaves her home Tuesday, Nov 13, 2012 in Tampa, Fla. Kelley is identified as the woman who allegedly received harassing emails from Gen. David Petraeus'...

updated 12 Nov 2012; published 12 Nov 2012
1:09
UN gives ECOWAS green light to move into Mali
Al Jazeera 14 Nov 2012, African leaders have endorsed a plan to send a 3,300-strong force to wrest control of northern Mali from Islamist fighters, as fears grow over risks they pose to the region and beyond. The African Union Peace and Security Council "has decided ... to endorse a harmonised concept of operations for the planned deployment of AFISMA, which is the...

updated 14 Nov 2012; published 14 Nov 2012
3:34
Anti-austerity protesters clash with police
CNBC 14 Nov 2012, Spanish and Portuguese workers will stage the first coordinated general strike across the Iberian Peninsula on Wednesday, shutting transport, grounding flights and closing schools to protest against spending cuts and tax hikes. Unions in Greece and Italy also planned work stoppages and demonstrations on a "European Day of Action and Solidarity"...

updated 12 Nov 2012; published 12 Nov 2012
2:21
China congress prepares for leadership handover
BBC News 14 Nov 2012, China's Communist Party is concluding a week-long congress that will usher in the country's new leaders. More than 2,200 delegates are choosing a new Central Committee in Beijing's Great Hall of the People. That committee will then endorse China's top decision-making body, the Politburo Standing Committee. The new line-up, to be...

updated 14 Nov 2012; published 13 Nov 2012
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'Worst Case Scenario': France recognizes Syrian opposition coalition
The Star 13 Nov 2012, CAIRO/PARIS (Reuters) - France became the first European power to recognise Syria's new opposition coalition as the sole representative of its people and said on Tuesday it would look into arming rebels against President Bashar al-Assad once they form a government. France's President Francois Hollande addresses a news conference at the Elysee...

updated 14 Nov 2012; published 10 Nov 2012
5:06
'CIA chief Petraeus' resignation not just about affair'
Yahoo Daily News 13 Nov 2012, WASHINGTON - David Petraeus's downfall took another victim Tuesday as the current U.S. commander in Afghanistan seemingly saw his hopes to become head of NATO go up in smoke amid allegations he exchanged thousands of "potentially inappropriate" emails with a socialite already embroiled in the sex scandal. U.S. President Barack Obama put the brakes...

updated 13 Nov 2012; published 11 Nov 2012
1:08
Moment Myanmar quake strikes caught on camera
The Star 13 Nov 2012, YANGON: A powerful earthquake that struck Myanmar at the weekend has left 38 people dead or missing, the Red Cross said Tuesday as a new tremor rattled the government's showpiece capital Naypyidaw. Hundreds of buildings were destroyed or damaged in Sunday's tremor, which sent terrified people running from their homes in the country's second-biggest...

updated 12 Nov 2012; published 12 Nov 2012
1:30
Abu Qatada not 'deported to Jordan'
The Daily Telegraph 13 Nov 2012, Abu Qatada, the extremist cleric, will be back on the streets of Britain today and allowed to roam free for eight hours a day after a court ruled he cannot be deported. Abu Qatada Photo: AP By Tom Whitehead, Security Editor 7:02AM GMT 13 Nov 2012 The decision means that the security services and police will now have to watch him around the...

updated 14 Nov 2012; published 30 Sep 2012
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Aung San Suu Kyi - The Choice (2012)
BBC News 13 Nov 2012, The Burmese opposition leader and member of parliament Aung San Suu Kyi is making her first visit to India since she was released from nearly 15 years under house arrest. She will meet Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, tour parliament and deliver a public lecture. She will also visit the...

updated 05 Nov 2012; published 24 Feb 2012
21:28
Syria - The CIA and NATO Exposed
Al Jazeera 12 Nov 2012, NATO is ready to help member state Turkey as the 20-month conflict in Syria is increasingly spilling across the border, the alliance's chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said. "Turkey can rely on NATO solidarity, we have more plans in place to defend and protect Turkey, our ally, if needed," Rasmussen told reporters in Prague on Monday. The NATO...

updated 14 Nov 2012; published 12 Nov 2012
7:04
What's Left To Cut? 'Greece sacrifice on Euro altar'
CNBC 12 Nov 2012, As the Euro group of finance ministers meet in Brussels on Monday to decide whether to grant Greece a further tranche of aid that could prevent imminent financial catastrophe for Greece, one economist has warned it could all be in vain and Greece will probably leave the euro zone in 2013. Costas Lapavitsas, professor of economics at SOAS University...