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Article By WN.com Guest Writer Gilad Atzmon Gilad Sharon, son of Ariel Sharon, wrote in the Jerusalem Post that Israel should "Flatten all of Gaza." "There should be no electricity...
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling "How sad it is to be a woman! Nothing on earth is held so cheap,"(1) wrote Fu Xuan in the Third Century CE. But instead of describing...
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With now reported killed by Israeli airstrikes, and a further 700 injured, the attack on Gaza is already starting to resemble the 2008-9 ‘Operation Cast Lead’ massacre. A ground...

Supreme Court Judge Joaquim Barbosa attends deliberations in a case involving a cash-for-votes scheme that could tarnish the legacy of hugely popular former President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva and the ruling party, in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012.
BRASILIA, Brazil — Brazil’s Supreme Court is now headed by a black justice for the first time. Joaquim Barbosa was sworn in on Thursday. He’d already become the only black to have served on the court when he joined it in 2003, even...
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1st Lt. Joan Hollein, a fire control platoon leader from the 43rd Air Defense Artillery Battalion, 35th Air Defense Artillery, 8th U.S. Army, commands a Patriot Missile team during Exercise Joint Red Flag, at the Nevada Test and Training Range, Nellis Air
Russia has warned against NATO's possible deployment of Patriot missiles near Turkey's border with Syria. Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said Thursday that Turkey's request for deployment to the Western military alliance...
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File - Women use their mobilephones to take pictures outside the Imam Turki bin Abdullah mosque as residents perform Eid al-Fitr morning prayers to mark the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
DENIED the right to travel without consent from their male guardians and banned from driving, women in Saudi Arabia are now monitored by an electronic system that tracks any cross-border movements. Since last week, Saudi women's male guardians began...
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Cypriot President Dimitris Christofias makes his statement to the media at the presidential palace in divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Friday, June 1, 2012. Christofias said he has tasked officials to draw up plans on how the country would deal with Greece's possible exit from the eurozone. Christofias told a news conference that conditions would be 'chaotic' if debt-drowned Greece quits the euro and that the impact of such a move would be felt not only by all other countries using the currency, but all of Europe.
NICOSIA (Reuters) - Cash-strapped Cyprus is close to agreeing a bailout package with the European Union and International Monetary Fund, President Demetris Christofias said on Thursday as officials from the lenders left the country after the latest...
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File - This frame grab provided by the U.S. Department of Justice shows Osama bin Laden in a CNN interview in 1997.
Body referred to as 'Fedex package' in cryptic military dispatches arranging disposal of al-Qaida leader's remains Osama bin Laden's burial at sea was carried out amid high secrecy, US military emails reveal. Photograph: AP...
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Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, waves hallo as he arrives to a League One soccer match Paris Saint Germain against Sochaux at Parc des Princes stadium in Paris, Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012.
Former president Nicolas Sarkozy is due to be questioned about claims that France's richest woman illegally helped finance his 2007 electoral campaign. Mr Sarkozy faces allegations of accepting thousands of euros from L'Oreal heiress Liliane...
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Smoke billows from a chimney of a heating plant as the sun sets in Beijing Monday, Feb. 13, 2012.
China, India, South Africa and Brazil say a climate agreement expected to take effect in 2020 won't be a "new regime," potentially setting up a confrontation with the United States, which is seeking to eliminate a firewall in negotiations between...
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updated 03 Aug 2012; published 20 Jan 2012
25:44
Inside Story - Who is Pakistan's supreme court really after?
Al Jazeera 22 Nov 2012, A new battle is underway in Pakistan with its powerful military front-and-centre, but the fight is not against armed insurgents or ideological extremists - this opponent is a muscle-flexing Supreme Court. For the first time in decades, the military's iron grip over the South Asian country has been challenged, and it remains to be seen if it will...

updated 22 Nov 2012; published 20 Nov 2012
8:05
'Peace is in best interest of both Israelis & Palestinians' - IDF spokesman to RT
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 22 Nov 2012, CAIRO -- Under intense Egyptian and American pressure, Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas halted eight days of bloody conflict Wednesday, averting a full-scale Israeli ground invasion of the Gaza Strip without resolving the underlying disputes. With Israeli forces still massed on the Gaza border, a tentative calm descended after...

updated 22 Nov 2012; published 22 Nov 2012
2:38
Hollande seeks EU budget compromise, not ultimatum - November EU Summit 2012
CNBC 22 Nov 2012, Hopes were rising in Brussels that an unlikely deal with the U.K. over the EU’s long-term budget was taking shape, although the chief negotiator was trying to resolve a deluge of last-minute complaints from other countries on the eve of what could be a gruelling summit. The cautious optimism about the UK represents a significant shift: David...

updated 21 Nov 2012; published 06 Aug 2012
20:38
Inside Syria's War
The Los Angeles Times 21 Nov 2012, Syrian dissidents trying to shake off President Bashar Assad told reporters Wednesday that $60 billion would be needed to rebuild the country after fighting stops, comparing it to “an economic ‘Marshall Plan for Syria.’” At a Dubai meeting, Syrian National Council leader George Sabra said the money would be needed within six...

updated 22 Nov 2012; published 22 Nov 2012
5:25
Truce Hurts: Gaza gutted after Israeli attacks, Iran next?
Khaleej Times 21 Nov 2012, CAIRO/GAZA - Israel and the Islamist Hamas movement agreed on Wednesday to an Egyptian-sponsored ceasefire to halt an eight-day conflict around the Gaza Strip that has killed more than 140 Palestinians and five Israelis. Announcing the ceasefire in Cairo, Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr said it would come into force at 9 p.m. (1900 GMT)...

updated 19 Nov 2012; published 19 Nov 2012
3:28
Loving Hut: Official co-sponsored of COP18 (UN Climate Change Conference 2012)
BBC News 21 Nov 2012, A report by the UN says global attempts to curb emissions of CO2 are falling well short of what is needed to stem dangerous climate change. The UN's Environment Programme says greenhouse gases are 14% above where they need to be in 2020 for temperature rises this century to remain below 2C. The authors say this target is still technically...

updated 20 Nov 2012; published 19 Nov 2012
1:34
Congo rebels on outskirts of Goma
Al Jazeera 21 Nov 2012, Hundreds of government soldiers and police in the Democratic Republic of Congo have surrendered to rebels at a stadium in Goma, Al Jazeera's Nazanine Moshiri has reported from the scene. The M23 rebel group, believed to be backed by Rwanda seized the strategic, provincial capital of Goma in eastern Congo on Tuesday, home to more than 1 million...

updated 22 Nov 2012; published 21 Nov 2012
1:19
Israel-Hamas Ceasefire: Hillary Clinton's Statement
Ohio 21 Nov 2012, JERUSALEM: Israel and the Hamas militant group edged closer to a cease-fire Tuesday to end a weeklong Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip, but after a day of furious diplomatic efforts involving the U.S. secretary of state, U.N. chief and Egypt’s president, a deal remained elusive and fighting raged on both sides of the border. Israeli tanks...

updated 22 Nov 2012; published 21 Nov 2012
4:14
Ajmal Kasab hanged at Pune's Yerawada Jail this morning
Herald Tribune 21 Nov 2012, MUMBAI, India - India executed the lone surviving gunman from the 2008 terror attack on Mumbai early Wednesday, India's home ministry said. Ajmal Kasab, a Pakistani citizen, was one of 10 gunmen who rampaged through the streets of India's financial capital in November 2008, killing 166 people. Kasab was hung at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday at a jail in...

updated 19 Nov 2012; published 03 Oct 2012
6:05
US Ambassador Carson talks about the M23
The Guardian 21 Nov 2012, Vote calls for rebels to pull back and disarm, while France criticises United Nations force for surrendering city A boy, 12, lies in a Goma hospital after losing his arm to amputation because of a bullet wound from the M23 invasion of the Congolese city. Photograph: Phil Moore/AFP/Getty...

updated 21 Nov 2012; published 20 Nov 2012
29:59
President Obama Speaks at the University of Yangon
WorldNews.com 20 Nov 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling President Barack Obama's whirlwind tour of southeast Asia and meetings with dignitaries will have to walk a tightrope between either appearing to endorse military juntas or truly being committed to ongoing pro-democracy movements. Specifically at issue is Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi, a democratic advocate...

updated 22 Nov 2012; published 26 Sep 2012
42:04
Egypt's Morsi debuts at UN General Assembly (Full speech)
France24 20 Nov 2012, Israeli leaders were considering an Egyptian truce plan with Hamas on Tuesday as the Gaza conflict entered its seventh day. UN chief Ban Ki-moon also headed to Jerusalem to advance peace efforts with the death toll from the violence topping 100. By FRANCE 24 (text) Summary of the latest events: Israeli leaders considering Egyptian...

updated 22 Nov 2012; published 22 Nov 2012
4:27
IN THE FRENCH PAPERS - UMP leadership battle: soap opera-turned-vaudeville
The Independent 20 Nov 2012, The hardliner Jean-François Copé was declared the new leader of the French centre-right by a handful of votes late last night after a second surreal day of civil war within France's largest political party. After a day of claims and counter-claims, counts and re-counts, insults and accusations, Mr Copé, 48, finally emerged as successor to Nicolas...

updated 21 Nov 2012; published 17 Nov 2012
4:41
'Israel assault on Gaza planned with US support, threatens wider war'
Independent online (SA) 19 Nov 2012, Gaza/Jerusalem - Israel bombed dozens of targets in the Gaza Strip on Monday and said that while it was prepared to step up its offensive by sending in troops, it preferred a diplomatic solution that would end Palestinian rocket fire. Mediator Egypt said a deal for a truce to end the fighting could be close. The leader of Hamas said it was up to...