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Obama seeks to avoid Katrina comparison with Sandy response
Full Article The Independent
16 Nov 2012

President Barack Obama on Thursday promised residents of New York and New Jersey hit by superstorm Sandy that they will get a coordinated federal, state and local effort to rebuild their devastated neighborhoods. After touring damaged areas of the New York City boroughs of Queens and Staten Island, Obama announced he's appointing Housing Secretary...
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President Barack Obama meets privately with Damien and Glenda Moore at a local FEMA Disaster Recovery Center tent in Staten Island, New York, N.Y. Nov. 15, 2012.
photo: White House / Pete Souza

updated 12 Nov 2012; published 31 Oct 2012
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Mitt Romney Refuses to Answer Questions About Eliminating FEMA 14 times during Hurricane Sandy Event
updated 16 Nov 2012; published 29 Oct 2012
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President Obama Makes a Statement on Hurricane Sandy
updated 14 Nov 2012; published 09 Nov 2012
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11/9/12: White House Press Briefing
updated 15 Nov 2012; published 22 Apr 2011
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updated 11 Nov 2012; published 30 Oct 2012
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Chris Christie Can't Stop Praising Obama for Hurricane Sandy Efforts
updated 12 Nov 2012; published 06 Nov 2012
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FEMA Response to Sandy as bad as in Katrina
Panetta in Cambodia for talks on US-Asia security
Full Article Dayton Daily News
16 Nov 2012

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Friday that the U.S. would participate in three Southeast Asian military exercises next year. Panetta was in Cambodia for talks with his counterparts from 10 Southeast Asian...
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Panetta in Cambodia for talks on US-Asia security
photo: US DoD / Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo

updated 26 May 2012; published 31 Mar 2011
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CIA Director Leon E. Panetta Speaks on the Importance of Diversity to the CIA's Mission
updated 31 Oct 2012; published 15 Mar 2012
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"No First Strike Against Iran" Says NYT Ad
updated 11 Nov 2012; published 11 Nov 2012
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Defense Intelligence Agency - Wiki Article
updated 07 Nov 2012; published 07 Nov 2012
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Waterboarding - Wiki Article
updated 02 Aug 2012; published 02 Aug 2012
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Panetta talks security, American sacrifice in Tunisia visit
updated 06 Oct 2012; published 16 Mar 2012
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Panetta Talks Afghanistan Mission, Base Attack
Gaza strikes expose new global divide on Middle East
Full Article Mail Guardian South Africa
16 Nov 2012

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators protest near the Israeli embassy in central London on November 15 2012, which took place amid escalating tensions between Israel and militants in the Gaza Strip. (AFP) More Coverage Iran and Egypt – whose new Islamist leaders are under pressure to build closer ties with the Palestinians at the cost of a 30-year...
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Palestinians pray over the body of Walid Abadla, 2, during her funeral in the Khan Yunis town in the southern Gaza Strip on November 15, 2012.
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb

updated 18 Oct 2012; published 21 Jun 2012
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Mosaic News 6/20/2012: Renewed Israeli Air Strikes on Gaza Raise Death Toll to Nine
updated 22 Jun 2012; published 19 Jun 2012
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BREAKING NEWS - Israeli Air Force In Action After 10 Missiles From Gaza
updated 15 Nov 2012; published 20 Aug 2011
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'Israel grabbing any chance to sabotage Palestinian UN vote'
updated 16 Nov 2012; published 31 Oct 2008
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1967 Arab-Israeli War - part 1/6
updated 29 Oct 2012; published 27 Oct 2012
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Mosaic News - 10/25/12: Syria Declares Conditional Truce as Islamist Group Rejects Eid Ceasefire
updated 26 Jun 2012; published 10 Mar 2012
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Israel kills four more Gaza gunmen, rockets hit Israel
Sierra Leone faces huge election test
Full Article BBC News
16 Nov 2012

Sierra Leone may be about to prove it has grown up. Most of its 51 years since independence have been a disaster. They were characterised by dictatorship, corruption and - during the 1990s - a terrible, blood diamond-soaked war. But on Saturday the country goes to the polls in what will be the first free elections that Sierra Leone has organised...
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File - Orphaned and homeless children who live at the Ferry Port in Lungi begging for money and food from the departing United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) Nigerian contingent.
photo: UN / Eric Kanalstein

updated 16 Oct 2012; published 20 Jul 2007
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Sierra Leone election Debate - chapter 2
updated 28 Apr 2012; published 20 Jul 2007
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Sierra Leone Election Dabate - Chapter 4
updated 18 Jul 2012; published 12 Aug 2007
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election in Sierra Leone - CNN (www.sierraeye.net)
updated 01 May 2012; published 19 Jul 2007
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Sierra Leone Election Debate - Chapter 1
updated 27 Aug 2010; published 20 Mar 2008
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Freetown Sierra Leone Presidential election results
updated 26 Oct 2012; published 25 Oct 2012
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SIERRA LEONE INDEPENDENCE
Gaza violence: dejection and defiance as Palestinians bury their dead
Full Article The Guardian
15 Nov 2012

By sunset the deathtoll from this mini-war was at least 18, including four children and a woman pregnant with twins Palestinian mourners carry the body of four-year-old girl Ranan Arafah killed during an Israeli airstrike. Photograph: LEVINE/SIPA / Rex Features...
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Palestinians inspect the damage to their home following an Israeli military air strike in Rafah town in the southern Gaza Strip on November 11, 2012.
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb

updated 16 Nov 2012; published 15 Nov 2012
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Hamas remain defiant as Israeli strikes hit Gaza
updated 11 Aug 2012; published 27 Dec 2008
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Gaza pounded by Israeli warplanes; 200 killed
updated 11 Nov 2012; published 20 Oct 2012
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Israeli navy takes control of Gaza boat Ship to Gaza in Sweden Estelle Gaza Strip israel Palestine
updated 17 Sep 2012; published 08 May 2007
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Hamas Mickey Mouse Teaches Terror to Kids
updated 19 Aug 2012; published 23 Jun 2010
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Nuns are onboard Lebanese Gaza aid flotilla
updated 16 Oct 2012; published 13 Jan 2009
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Israelis vs gaza game war on terror children terrorism !
Redrawing the Middle East map: Iran, Syria and the new Cold War
Full Article Al Jazeera
15 Nov 2012

As President Barak Obama resettles in the Oval Office and casts his gaze again beyond US politics, he may well be reminded that few eyes were on the ball when the Arab uprisings appeared to erupt suddenly in the spring of 2011, catching pundits and politicians by surprise, and re-positioning Washington's Middle East policies. Today, we may be at...
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks at a meeting with Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang at the Presidential Palace Friday, Nov. 9, 2012 in Hanoi, Vietnam.
photo: AP / Na Son Nguyen

updated 03 Nov 2012; published 15 Jun 2012
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PROOF! IRANIAN SOLDIERS IN THE SYRIAN WAR FIGHTING FOR BASHAR ALASSAD
updated 12 Nov 2012; published 04 Feb 2012
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Syria, Iran, Russia, the USA & Israel - Moving into Position for Armageddon
updated 14 Sep 2012; published 28 Nov 2011
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RED ALERT : THE BOMBING OF IRAN BEGINS ! Explosion rocks Iran city of Isfahan
updated 23 Oct 2012; published 23 Oct 2012
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President Debate: Obama & Romney's FOREIGN POLICY Dominated By The US MILITARY, SYRIA & IRAN
updated 24 Oct 2012; published 23 Oct 2012
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OBAMA VS ROMNEY - Foreign Policy Debate SYRIA, IRAN, and US Military Dominance
updated 16 Aug 2012; published 01 Jan 2012
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World War 3 Scenario Report: Jan. 1/2012
Burma to free hundreds of prisoners before Obama visit
Full Article 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...
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Myanmar prisoners walk outside Insein prison in Yangon, Myanmar after they were released Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012. Myanmar reformist government ordered more than 450 prisoners freed Thursday in an amnesty.
photo: AP / Khin Maung Win

updated 15 Nov 2012; published 15 Nov 2012
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Myanmar frees prisoners ahead of Obama visit
updated 16 Nov 2012; published 13 Mar 2009
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The Obama Deception HQ Full length version
updated 08 Oct 2012; published 15 Mar 2012
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Why is President Obama Keeping Yemeni Journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye in Prison? 1 of 2
updated 07 Nov 2012; published 02 May 2009
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Obama and the War Criminals
updated 05 Nov 2012; published 19 Jan 2012
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Legal-Easy
updated 16 Nov 2012; published 10 Sep 2009
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Charlie Sheen's Video Message to President Obama
Xi Jinping: China's 'princeling' new leader
Full Article 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...
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New Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping waves in Beijing's Great Hall of the People Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012.
photo: AP / Vincent Yu

updated 04 Nov 2012; published 02 Nov 2012
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Chinese Speculate on Upcoming Leader, Xi Jinping
updated 15 Nov 2012; published 15 Nov 2012
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Road to the leadership
updated 23 Oct 2012; published 23 Oct 2012
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Analysts Discuss Xi Jinping's Future As Media Reveals Aides
updated 28 Jul 2012; published 15 Feb 2012
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Bo Xilai Under Pressure, What Will Xi Jinping Do?
updated 06 Sep 2012; published 13 Sep 2010
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Dispatch: China's Leadership Transition
updated 24 Sep 2012; published 24 Sep 2012
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Xi Forced Alliance with Hu to Stand Against Jiang
Call for Cameron to boycott Sri Lanka summit over human rights
Full Article BBC News
15 Nov 2012

David Cameron is being urged by MPs to consider boycotting next year's Commonwealth summit in Sri Lanka in protest at its human rights record. The Commons Foreign Affairs Committee said it was wrong for Colombo to host the heads of government meeting amid reports of continuing "serious abuses". The PM should not attend unless he had clear evidence...
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Army soldiers and police officers stand guard at the entrance of a prison in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012. A shootout between rioting prisoners and security forces at the prison killed 27 inmates.
photo: AP / Gemunu Amarasinghe

updated 15 Nov 2012; published 22 Apr 2011
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updated 28 Oct 2012; published 11 Mar 2012
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Channel 4 to broadcast Sri Lanka's Killing Fields Unpunished Part 2 March 14 , 2012 at 10.55 pm
updated 14 Mar 2012; published 16 Jun 2011
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UK Prime Minister calls for Sri Lanka war crimes pressure
updated 25 May 2011; published 28 Jun 2010
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Sri Lanka unfairly penalised in the name of human rights - William Dartmouth MEP
updated 19 Aug 2011; published 15 Jun 2011
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Sri Lanka Killing Field - British Prime Minister.flv
updated 05 Aug 2012; published 23 Jun 2011
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UN Security Council, Hijacked By NATO, Silent On War Crimes Committed By West In Iraq And Libya
Israel launches Gaza offensive, kills Hamas commander
Full Article 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...
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People gather around a wreckage of the car in which was killed Ahmed Jabari, head of the Hamas military wing in Gaza City, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012.
photo: AP / Adel Hana

updated 15 Nov 2012; published 15 Nov 2012
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Israel: new major offensive in Gaza Strip
updated 16 Nov 2012; published 14 Nov 2012
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Israeli Airforce Kills Top Hamas Commander Ahmed Al-Jabari
updated 15 Nov 2012; published 14 Nov 2012
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Israel's 'Iron Dome' intercepts 13 rockets from Gaza in wake of airstrike on Hamas commander
updated 16 Nov 2012; published 15 Nov 2012
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IDF kills top Hamas commander; prepares for ground offensive
updated 14 Nov 2012; published 14 Nov 2012
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Hamas Military Chief Jabari Killed Israeli Air Strike Streets of Gaza City
updated 16 Nov 2012; published 15 Nov 2012
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Israel : Israeli Airstrike kills top Hamas Leader saying this is just the beginning (Nov 14, 2012)

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Obama and checkmate on Myanmar
more Asia Times
By Roland Watson President Barack Obama is going to Rangoon. This is a hugely significant visit. The question is, for who? The US has a controversial past with Myanmar. Following...
Pillar of Biblical Cloud
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Article by WN.com Guest Writer Gilad Atzmon Once again we've learned today that in the Jewish State, Goyim's blood translates into political power. In order to win the Israeli...
Profile: Xi Jinping
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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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Power outage time after Sandy not extraordinary more
Power outage time after Sandy not extraordinary
STL Today
As the number of nights without power stretched on for thousands left in the dark after Superstorm Sandy, patience understandably turned to anger and outrage. But an Associated Press analysis of outage times from other big hurricanes and tropical...
photo: US DoD / Chad J. McNeeley
Energy   Hurricanes   Photos   Power   Wikipedia: Hurricane Sandy
Bomb Iran? No. Bomb Gaza? Yes! more
Palestinian relatives mourn over the body of Hisham Ghalban, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on November 15, 2012. The violence sparked a furious response from Egypt's Islamist administration, which has close ties with Gaza's ruling Hamas movement.
Asia Times
By Pepe Escobar So many wars to launch, so little time. When you're the political leader of the most militarized nation on the - as is the case with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu - you gotta find ways to play with your toys....
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb
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Panetta orders ethics training review more
Panetta orders ethics training review
Tulsa World
BANGKOK - Citing a string of ethical lapses by senior military officers, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has asked the Joint Chiefs of Staff to review ethics training and to brainstorm on ways to steer officers away from trouble. The move is a...
photo: US DoD / Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo
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CIA to investigate Petraeus' conduct leading to demise more
Gen. David H. Petraeus visits USS Nimitz on Thanksgiving Day, 2009.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
WASHINGTON -- The CIA said Thursday that it had opened an "exploratory" investigation into the conduct of former director David Petraeus, who resigned after admitting to adultery, and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta ordered the military services to...
photo: US Navy / U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Eduardo Zaragoza
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Obama tours storm-battered New York more
New York Air National Guard Master Sgt. Thomas Moade from the 174th Attack Wing out of Syracuse New York carries food and water accross a plank to assist a local man on Staten Island on 2 November 2012.
CNN
November 16, 2012 -- Updated 0238 GMT (1038 HKT) President Barack Obama embraces a local resident on Cedar Grove Avenue during a visit to Staten Island on Thursday, November 15. See photos of the immediate aftermath of Sandy. People receive free...
photo: New York Air National Guard / Tech. Sgt. Jeremy M. Call
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Australia, U.S. to hold discussion on energy, security in 2013 more
Australia, U.S. to hold discussion on energy, security in 2013
CNTV
CANBERRA, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- Australia and the United States will have a bilateral discussion on energy supply and security in 2013, Australian Minister for Resources and Energy Martin Ferguson said in a statement on Friday. This bilateral...
photo: US DoD / Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo
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  BP To Pay $4.5 Billion For Deepwater Horizon Disaster more
The BP (British Petroleum) logo is seen at a gas station in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2007.
The Inquisitr
Posted: November 15, 2012 BP plead guilty to felony misconduct today for the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010. The oil company will pay $4.5 billion in penalties for the explosion that killed 11 workers and sent millions of barrels of oil into the...
photo: AP / Charles Dharapak
British Petroleum   Gulf of Mexico   Oil Spill   Photos   United States   Wikipedia: Deepwater Horizon oil spill
updated 16 Nov 2012; published 15 Nov 2012
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President Obama Tours Storm Damage in New York City
Obama seeks to avoid Katrina comparison with Sandy response
The Independent 16 Nov 2012, President Barack Obama on Thursday promised residents of New York and New Jersey hit by superstorm Sandy that they will get a coordinated federal, state and local effort to rebuild their devastated neighborhoods. After touring damaged areas of the New York City boroughs of Queens and Staten Island, Obama announced he's appointing Housing Secretary...

updated 05 Jun 2012; published 05 Jun 2012
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Defense Secretary Panetta's visit to Cam Rahn Bay and US military's Asia strategy
Panetta in Cambodia for talks on US-Asia security
Dayton Daily News 16 Nov 2012, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Friday that the U.S. would participate in three Southeast Asian military exercises next year. Panetta was in Cambodia for talks with his counterparts from 10 Southeast Asian...

updated 16 Nov 2012; published 14 Nov 2012
1:46
Air strikes continue to target Gaza Strip causing carnage
Gaza strikes expose new global divide on Middle East
Mail Guardian South Africa 16 Nov 2012, Pro-Palestinian demonstrators protest near the Israeli embassy in central London on November 15 2012, which took place amid escalating tensions between Israel and militants in the Gaza Strip. (AFP) More Coverage Iran and Egypt – whose new Islamist leaders are under pressure to build closer ties with the Palestinians at the cost of a 30-year...

updated 11 Oct 2012; published 23 Jun 2012
10:49
MAADA BIO INTERVIEWED AT OHTV FOR PRESIDENCIAL ELECTION
Sierra Leone faces huge election test
BBC News 16 Nov 2012, Sierra Leone may be about to prove it has grown up. Most of its 51 years since independence have been a disaster. They were characterised by dictatorship, corruption and - during the 1990s - a terrible, blood diamond-soaked war. But on Saturday the country goes to the polls in what will be the first free elections that Sierra Leone has organised...

updated 16 Nov 2012; published 14 Nov 2012
1:46
Air strikes continue to target Gaza Strip causing carnage
Gaza violence: dejection and defiance as Palestinians bury their dead
The Guardian 15 Nov 2012, By sunset the deathtoll from this mini-war was at least 18, including four children and a woman pregnant with twins Palestinian mourners carry the body of four-year-old girl Ranan Arafah killed during an Israeli airstrike. Photograph: LEVINE/SIPA / Rex Features...

updated 10 Nov 2012; published 20 Sep 2012
3:37
Obama, Romney Middle East peace stance
Redrawing the Middle East map: Iran, Syria and the new Cold War
Al Jazeera 15 Nov 2012, As President Barak Obama resettles in the Oval Office and casts his gaze again beyond US politics, he may well be reminded that few eyes were on the ball when the Arab uprisings appeared to erupt suddenly in the spring of 2011, catching pundits and politicians by surprise, and re-positioning Washington's Middle East policies. Today, we may be at...

updated 17 Jan 2011; published 17 Jan 2011
1:45
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Burma to free hundreds of prisoners before Obama visit
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 16 Nov 2012; published 16 Nov 2012
3:37
Xi Jinping Confirmed as Next Leader for China's Party
Xi Jinping: China's 'princeling' new leader
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 19 Aug 2012; published 15 Aug 2012
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Sri Lanka- could the West do more about human rights and press freedom? Part One
Call for Cameron to boycott Sri Lanka summit over human rights
BBC News 15 Nov 2012, David Cameron is being urged by MPs to consider boycotting next year's Commonwealth summit in Sri Lanka in protest at its human rights record. The Commons Foreign Affairs Committee said it was wrong for Colombo to host the heads of government meeting amid reports of continuing "serious abuses". The PM should not attend unless he had clear evidence...

updated 16 Nov 2012; published 14 Nov 2012
1:00
Hamas military chief killed in Israeli attack
Israel launches Gaza offensive, kills Hamas commander
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 15 Nov 2012; published 10 Nov 2012
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'CIA chief Petraeus' resignation not just about affair'
Petraeus sex scandal widens, lawmakers expand investigation
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 14 Nov 2012; published 11 Nov 2012
4:45
ECOWAS mulls troop deployment to Mali
African Union backs Mali troops plan
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 15 Nov 2012; published 14 Nov 2012
1:44
Spanish anti-austerity protesters clash with police
Anti-Austerity Strikes Sweep Southern Europe
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
China party congress wraps up ahead of leadership unveiling
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...