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Afghan and coalition forces kill insurgent leader in Kunar province
Full Article The Examiner
05 Dec 2012

ISAF today issued an operational update on combat operations in Afghanistan. It noted, among other things, that Afghan and coalition security forces conducted an operation in Watahpur district yesterday that resulted in the “death of insurgent leader Mohammad Yar...
Afghan and coalition forces kill insurgent leader in Kunar province
photo: US Navy / Matthew Stroup

updated 16 Nov 2012; published 27 Sep 2010
6:14
Afghanistan War: News from the Front Lines 09272010 (HiDef!)
updated 19 Jun 2012; published 31 May 2012
1:42
United States Nurturing Talibans In Afghanistan
updated 03 May 2011; published 01 Oct 2010
1:00
News Update: NATO: 15 Afghan Insurgents Killed
updated 04 Oct 2011; published 08 Nov 2009
2:14
International Security Assistance Force Update
updated 31 Oct 2012; published 31 Oct 2012
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Kunar Province - Wiki Article
updated 16 Aug 2012; published 06 Aug 2011
2:39
Helicopter with 31 Navy SEALs go down in Afghanistan 8 6 11
Clashes outside Egypt presidential palace in Cairo
Full Article Joy Online
05 Dec 2012

Police in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, have clashed with protesters angry at what they say is the rushed drafting of a new constitution and by President Morsi's recent extension of his powers. Tens of thousands of people had gathered outside the presidential palace. The police fired tear gas to disperse the crowd, some of whom managed to cut...
Egyptian protesters chant anti Muslim Brotherhood slogans during a demonstration in front of the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012.
photo: AP / Nasser Nasser

updated 05 Dec 2012; published 04 Dec 2012
5:43
BREAKING NEWS: President MORSI fled his CAIRO palace during VIOLENT PROTESTS demanding BACKING DOWN
updated 05 Dec 2012; published 04 Dec 2012
4:10
MORSI FLEES; Angry Crowds Storm Palace In Cairo, [RIOT POLICE] THOUSANDS DEMONSTRATE
updated 06 Dec 2012; published 01 Dec 2012
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Sackcloth&AshesThere; is but ONE GOD&All; thy garments smell of ALOE, MYRRH&CASSIA;
updated 05 Dec 2012; published 04 Dec 2012
5:43
MORSI FLEE's as ANGRY crowd STORM palace in Cairo VIOLENT BATTLES [RAGE RIOTS]
updated 05 Dec 2012; published 04 Dec 2012
5:43
MORSI FLEE'S in TERROR as VIOLENT MOB STORM palace in Cairo, battles RAGE ON
updated 05 Dec 2012; published 04 Dec 2012
3:08
Egyptian Protesters Clash With Riot Police Over President Morsi's Decree
NATO approves Patriot missiles for Turkey
Full Article The Times of India
05 Dec 2012

BRUSSELS: NATO on Tuesday approved member state Turkey's request for Patriot missiles to defend its border against Syria following a series of blunt warnings to Damascus not to use chemical weapons. As the conflict approached the 21-month mark with more than 41,000 people killed, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights,...
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen holds a press conference, 4 December, 2012.
photo: NATO

updated 05 Dec 2012; published 04 Dec 2012
8:00
Escobar: Chemical hype behind Patriot games on Syria border
updated 05 Dec 2012; published 05 Dec 2012
1:42
NATO Warns Assad Against Chemical Weapons, Sending Missiles to Turkey
updated 04 Dec 2012; published 04 Dec 2012
2:07
BREAKING: NATO Approves Sending Patriot Missiles to Turkey to Defend Against Syrian Strikes
updated 05 Dec 2012; published 05 Dec 2012
2:02
NATO To Send Patriot Missiles To Turkey
updated 04 Dec 2012; published 04 Dec 2012
8:00
PATRIOT MISSILES DEPLOYED; CHEMICAL WEAPONS hype aim to intimidate SYRIA [REBEL MORTER ATTACK]
updated 04 Dec 2012; published 04 Dec 2012
1:18
Patriot Missile Systems Being Sent To Turkey - to stop chemical weapons!
Panel seeks accountability after Benghazi attacks
Full Article Yahoo Daily News
05 Dec 2012

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After a car bomb struck the U.S. ambassador's residence in Lima in 1992, the State Department convened a special panel to answer the same questions now hovering over a review of the September attacks in Benghazi, Libya: How much security is enough? What is the right role for U.S. diplomats? The Lima panel, known as an...
In this Sept. 14, 2012 file photo, Libyan military guards check one of the burnt out buildings at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, during a visit by Libyan President Mohammed el-Megarif to express sympathy for the death of American ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and his colleagues in the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the consulate.
photo: AP / Mohammad Hannon

updated 26 Nov 2012; published 04 Oct 2012
4:32
Obama Admin Denied US Diplomats Help in Libya Who Pleaded For Added Security
updated 15 Oct 2012; published 12 Oct 2012
29:53
Daily Press Briefing: October 12, 2012
updated 09 Nov 2012; published 02 Nov 2012
46:18
Daily Press Briefing: November 2, 2012
updated 24 Oct 2012; published 17 Oct 2012
44:50
Daily Press Briefing: October 17, 2012
updated 30 Nov 2012; published 27 Nov 2012
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11/27/12: White House Press Briefing
updated 05 Oct 2012; published 05 Oct 2012
26:52
KCPT: Ruckus - October 4, 2012
Philippine death toll from Typhoon Bopha rises
Full Article BBC News
05 Dec 2012

The death toll from a powerful storm that hit the southern Philippines is continuing to rise, as rescue teams headed for affected areas. Typhoon Bopha struck Mindanao island on Tuesday, bringing rain and high winds. Tens of thousands were evacuated ahead of the storm, which is now passing over the western island of Palawan. Its victims included at...
Residents look at bodies recovered from flashflood in New Bataan, Compostela Valley province, southern Philippines on Wednesday Dec. 5, 2012.
photo: AP / Karlos Manlupig

updated 05 Dec 2012; published 04 Dec 2012
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Philippines : Super Typhoon Bopha slams Mindanao with Catastrophic Winds and Flooding (Dec 04, 2012)
updated 05 Dec 2012; published 05 Dec 2012
1:22
Typhoon Bopha: Philippines Storm Kills more than 230 people - Video
updated 05 Dec 2012; published 05 Dec 2012
1:00
Raw Video of Typhoon Bopha Phillipines - Death Toll over 100 Dead
updated 05 Dec 2012; published 05 Dec 2012
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Philippine death toll from Typhoon Bopha rises
updated 05 Dec 2012; published 05 Dec 2012
1:28
Typhoon Bopha Kills Over 200 People In Southern Philippines
updated 04 Dec 2012; published 04 Dec 2012
1:07
EXTREME WEATHER; DEADLY TYPHOON [BOPHA] rips rooftops in Philippines as thousands flee
Ban calls for compromise at UN climate talks
Full Article Al Jazeera
04 Dec 2012

Ban Ki-moon, the secretary-general of the United Nations, has called on world leaders to confront a global warming "crisis" and show "strong political commitment" and compromise in dealing with it. Speaking at the annual UN climate talks in Doha, Ban noted that there were "mixed feelings" among delegates who were negotiating deals, but that the...
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) and Vuk Jeremić (right), President of the sixty-sixth session of the General Assembly, arrive in Doha, Qatar, for United Nations climate talks. They are met at the airport by Sheikh Meshal Hamad M.J. Al-Thani, Permanent Representative of Qatar to the UN, 3 December, 2012.
photo: UN / Mark Garten

updated 17 Jul 2012; published 30 Jan 2010
59:54
Davos Annual Meeting 2010 - The US Legislative Agenda: A Global Perspective
updated 29 Oct 2012; published 29 Oct 2012
68:04
Common Agricultural Policy - Wiki Article
updated 11 Jun 2012; published 16 Mar 2011
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Davos 2011 - Global Leadership: A New Era?
updated 16 Jul 2012; published 30 Jan 2011
58:16
Davos Annual Meeting 2011 - The Global Agenda in 2011
updated 07 Mar 2011; published 18 Dec 2009
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Ban entreats leaders to seal climate deal on final day of Copenhagen talks
updated 19 Oct 2011; published 13 Aug 2010
2:51
Brendan Reimer, CCEDNet, on the Canada-EU trade talks and procurement
Obama warns Syria against using chemical weapons
Full Article The Guardian
04 Dec 2012

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama warned Syria on Monday that the use of chemical weapons would be "totally unacceptable" and that the country's leaders would be held accountable....
A Syrian man reads a newspaper covering Barack Obama's victory in the U.S. Presidential election as he stands in front of a picture of Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2008. In Syria, a nation isolated by the Bush administration in the last few years, the people and political analysts were hopeful Obama would work for peace in the Mideast and improve America's image and his win proved the failure of Bush's policies. Relations with Washington have started to improve recently but plummeted after a U.S. commando raid across the Iraq border into Syria killed eight people last m
photo: AP / Bassem Tellawi

updated 04 Dec 2012; published 03 Dec 2012
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Obama Warns Syria Against Using Chemical Weapons
updated 05 Dec 2012; published 04 Dec 2012
1:55
Obama warns Assad over chemical weapons
updated 04 Dec 2012; published 20 Aug 2012
2:34
Obama: Concern Over Chemical Weapons in Syria
updated 04 Dec 2012; published 21 Aug 2012
2:38
Obama Warns Syria's Assad Chemical Weapons A 'RED Line'
updated 03 Dec 2012; published 24 Jul 2012
1:32
Syria: US Warns Assad Over Chemical Weapons
updated 19 Oct 2012; published 20 Aug 2012
2:34
Obama Concerned over Chemical Weapons of Mass Destruction in Syria
GOP issues a new 'fiscal cliff' offer to Obama
Full Article The Guardian
04 Dec 2012

ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press= WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans put forth a $2.2 trillion "fiscal cliff" counteroffer to President Barack Obama on Monday, calling for raising the eligibility age for Medicare, lowering cost-of-living hikes for Social Security benefits and bringing in $800 billion in higher tax revenue — but not raising rates...
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden meet with business leaders to discuss the actions needed to keep the economy growing and find a balanced approach to reduce the deficit, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Nov. 28, 2012.
photo: White House / Pete Souza

updated 27 Nov 2012; published 10 Nov 2012
3:06
World News - OBAMA Facing Fiscal Cliff and Compromise on Taxes GOP Fight Over ROMNEY Loss
updated 14 Nov 2012; published 09 Nov 2012
8:25
President Obama Speech On Fiscal Cliff, Economy, Tax Cuts
updated 04 Dec 2012; published 30 Nov 2012
1:32
Barack Obama attacks Republicans over 'fiscal cliff'
updated 09 Nov 2012; published 08 Nov 2012
3:06
Obama BACK TO WORK Facing Fiscal Cliff - GOP Fight Over Romney Loss
updated 03 Dec 2012; published 09 Nov 2012
9:09
President Obama Addresses Fiscal Cliff and Tax Rates: "So let's get to work" - Nov. 9, 2012
updated 29 Nov 2012; published 29 Nov 2012
9:14
The Pro-Obama Wing Of The House GOP
Congo rebels' withdrawal from Goma 'purely tactical', say analysts
Full Article The Guardian
03 Dec 2012

Despite retreat by the M23, there's no sign that any of the major players are willing to act to stop the violence flaring up again A Congolese M23 rebels sleeps in the back of a truck as the rebels withdraw from Goma. Photograph: Phil Moore/AFP/Getty Images...
A Congolese policeman in riot gear keeps an eye on Goma residents including street children who gathered for an anti Kabila demonstration supported by the M23 rebel movement in Goma, eastern Congo, Wednesday Nov. 28, 2012.
photo: AP / Jerome Delay

updated 28 Nov 2012; published 27 Nov 2012
4:12
DR Congo rebels deny confusion over Goma withdrawal
updated 28 Nov 2012; published 28 Nov 2012
1:29
News : Congo Rebels agree to withdraw from Goma
updated 01 Dec 2012; published 01 Dec 2012
2:14
Goma- M23 rebels begin withdrawal to Sake
updated 01 Dec 2012; published 01 Dec 2012
2:14
M23 rebels begin withdrawal to Sake
updated 02 Dec 2012; published 02 Dec 2012
1:47
DR Congo rebels begin Goma withdrawal
updated 27 Nov 2012; published 27 Nov 2012
0:38
Congo rebels set demands for Goma withdrawal
Risk is at heart of debate on troop withdrawal
Full Article US News
03 Dec 2012

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and ROBERT BURNS, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The debate over how many U.S. troops will remain in Afghanistan after 2014 comes down to risk. Leaving too few troops in place could stall progress for Afghan security forces. But keeping too many troops there might prolong Afghanistan's dependence on the U.S. military...
Risk is at heart of debate on troop withdrawal
photo: US Navy / Josh Ives

updated 29 May 2012; published 22 Oct 2011
3:35
War in Iraq is over - US media
updated 28 Nov 2012; published 12 Oct 2012
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Watch the Full 2012 Vice Presidential Debate
updated 02 Dec 2012; published 12 Oct 2012
92:08
Joe Biden vs. Paul Ryan - The Complete Vice Presidential Debate
updated 03 Dec 2012; published 08 Dec 2011
49:54
Cleverest Man in the Army: The Life of FM Sir William Robertson
updated 16 Nov 2012; published 19 Oct 2012
92:08
Vice Presidential Debate 10/11/12 OFFICIAL VIDEO with complete TRANSCRIPT
updated 09 Aug 2012; published 25 Sep 2009
3:35
Stryker Inferno: AFGHANISTAN wheeled trucks getting Blasted on Roads/Trails with LINIES Inside

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Beijing - Chinese astronauts are preparing to grow fresh vegetables on Mars and the moon after researchers successfully completed a preliminary test in Beijing, state media...
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Tweet Sydney, Dec. 4 (ANI): Austria's capital Vienna gives its residents the best quality of life of any city in the world and Baghdad is the worst, according to the latest global...
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As far as villains go, Pfc. Bradley Manning is hardly quintessential. At 5 foot 2 inches tall, his slender frame and bespectacled image has invoked snickers, sarcasm and according...

View of Typhoon Bopha from the ISS on December 2, 2012 as a category 4 super typhoon, nearing Palau. When Bopha was forming, the National Weather Service (NWS) in Guam issued a tropical storm watch for the FSM islands of Nukuoro and Lukunor.
NEW BATAAN, PHILIPPINES: Stunned parents searching for missing children examined a row of mud-stained bodies covered with banana leaves while survivors dried their soaked belongings on roadsides as the death toll from the southern Philippines'...
photo: NASA
UN makes urgent call for Yemen dialogue
NEW YORK ' The United Nations made an urgent call Tuesday for Yemen’s political parties to initiate a national dialogue, warning that its transition was under threat. The UN-brokered power transition deal that eased president Ali Abdullah Saleh out...
photo: UN / Evan Schneider
Does the UN's observer state status change Palestine's position?
TIMES VIEW Palestine's on stronger ground With over two-thirds of the United Nations voting to give Palestine non-member observer state status, the latter's on stronger ground than ever before. Crucially, coming on the 65th anniversary of the same...
photo: UN / Devra Berkowitz
NATO pledges continued support for Afghanistan
NATO combat troops are set to pull out of Afghanistan by the end of 2014. Member states have promised continued commitment, but key questions still need to be resolved. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen is full of praise for the transfer...
photo: US Army / Jenny Lui
Differing Afghan, US priorities could hurt proposed security agreement
KABUL — When Afghan and American negotiators sat down here last month to begin talks on a bilateral security agreement that would define and govern a long-term U.S. military presence in Afghanistan, their meeting was cordial, vague and brief....
photo: UN / Evan Schneider
CLIMATE CHANGE: In the Arab world, building fridges to live in an oven
DOHA, 5 December 2012 (IRIN) - In the last three decades, 50 million people in the Arab world have been affected by natural disasters, many of them extreme climate events, according to a new report by the World Bank. The report projects the horrific...
photo: UN / Paulo Filgueiras
USAID in Afghanistan
Whatever beneficence USAID has doled out over the years has come with a heavy price for Afghans and a heavy price tag for Americans. In fact, USAID is not an aid organization by any common understanding of the term, if by aid we mean helping people...
photo: US Navy / Matthew Stroup
updated 04 Dec 2012; published 20 Aug 2012
9:59
On the frontline with British troops in Afghanistan
The Examiner 05 Dec 2012, ISAF today issued an operational update on combat operations in Afghanistan. It noted, among other things, that Afghan and coalition security forces conducted an operation in Watahpur district yesterday that resulted in the “death of insurgent leader Mohammad Yar...

updated 02 Dec 2012; published 29 Nov 2012
1:25
Riot police break up Myanmar copper protest
Joy Online 05 Dec 2012, Police in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, have clashed with protesters angry at what they say is the rushed drafting of a new constitution and by President Morsi's recent extension of his powers. Tens of thousands of people had gathered outside the presidential palace. The police fired tear gas to disperse the crowd, some of whom managed to cut...

updated 05 Dec 2012; published 05 Dec 2012
5:21
'NATO weakens Arab world to wage war on Iran'
The Times of India 05 Dec 2012, BRUSSELS: NATO on Tuesday approved member state Turkey's request for Patriot missiles to defend its border against Syria following a series of blunt warnings to Damascus not to use chemical weapons. As the conflict approached the 21-month mark with more than 41,000 people killed, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights,...

updated 04 Dec 2012; published 26 Oct 2012
12:21
Rush military caller says that Obama ordered no response to Benghazi attack
Yahoo Daily News 05 Dec 2012, WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After a car bomb struck the U.S. ambassador's residence in Lima in 1992, the State Department convened a special panel to answer the same questions now hovering over a review of the September attacks in Benghazi, Libya: How much security is enough? What is the right role for U.S. diplomats? The Lima panel, known as an...

updated 05 Dec 2012; published 01 Dec 2012
8:38
Strong Typhoon Bopha / Pablo Video Update
BBC News 05 Dec 2012, The death toll from a powerful storm that hit the southern Philippines is continuing to rise, as rescue teams headed for affected areas. Typhoon Bopha struck Mindanao island on Tuesday, bringing rain and high winds. Tens of thousands were evacuated ahead of the storm, which is now passing over the western island of Palawan. Its victims included at...

updated 05 Dec 2012; published 05 Dec 2012
6:22
Amy Goodman Questions Top US Negotiator on Alleged Obstruction of UN Climate Talks in Doha
Al Jazeera 04 Dec 2012, Ban Ki-moon, the secretary-general of the United Nations, has called on world leaders to confront a global warming "crisis" and show "strong political commitment" and compromise in dealing with it. Speaking at the annual UN climate talks in Doha, Ban noted that there were "mixed feelings" among delegates who were negotiating deals, but that the...

updated 04 Dec 2012; published 04 Dec 2012
0:31
Barack Obama lays down red line to Syria over chemical weapons
The Guardian 04 Dec 2012, WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama warned Syria on Monday that the use of chemical weapons would be "totally unacceptable" and that the country's leaders would be held accountable....

updated 03 Dec 2012; published 29 Nov 2012
13:26
Fiscal Cliff Debate: Austerity One Way or Austerity Another Way
The Guardian 04 Dec 2012, ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press= WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans put forth a $2.2 trillion "fiscal cliff" counteroffer to President Barack Obama on Monday, calling for raising the eligibility age for Medicare, lowering cost-of-living hikes for Social Security benefits and bringing in $800 billion in higher tax revenue — but not raising rates...

updated 25 Nov 2012; published 20 Nov 2012
1:15
DR Congo M23 rebels enter Goma city.
The Guardian 03 Dec 2012, Despite retreat by the M23, there's no sign that any of the major players are willing to act to stop the violence flaring up again A Congolese M23 rebels sleeps in the back of a truck as the rebels withdraw from Goma. Photograph: Phil Moore/AFP/Getty Images...

updated 04 Dec 2012; published 06 Jul 2012
4:38
Can Afghan Army Fight Taliban Alone?
US News 03 Dec 2012, By LOLITA C. BALDOR and ROBERT BURNS, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The debate over how many U.S. troops will remain in Afghanistan after 2014 comes down to risk. Leaving too few troops in place could stall progress for Afghan security forces. But keeping too many troops there might prolong Afghanistan's dependence on the U.S. military...

updated 18 Sep 2012; published 19 Dec 2010
7:45
UN & FCC Mulls Internet Regulation! Ireland Downgraded!
The News Tribune 03 Dec 2012, DUBAI, United Arab EmiratesA major U.S. delegation is in Dubai to lead opposition to possible new Internet regulations at a...

updated 04 Dec 2012; published 04 Dec 2012
2:39
Israel's 'denied' nuke sites: UN demands atomic arsenal access
New Straits/Business Times 03 Dec 2012, UNITED NATIONS: UN leader Ban Ki-moon warned Sunday that if Israel implemented its latest plan for new settlements it would deal an “almost fatal blow” to any prospects for peace with the Palestinians. Israel’s announcement about the 3,000 Jewish settler homes, whose planned location was not revealed, came in the wake of a historic...

updated 04 Dec 2012; published 20 Aug 2012
9:59
On the frontline with British troops in Afghanistan
Orange News 02 Dec 2012, Tweet British Army staff have been granted an extra five days holiday this Christmas in recognition of their hard work during 2012. Defence officials have ordered staff to take leave for 25 days between December 14 and January 7 following their service during the London Olympics...

updated 05 Dec 2012; published 29 Nov 2012
4:48
UN recognises Palestine as non-member state
Deccan Herald 02 Dec 2012, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas returned to the West Bank on Sunday after winning upgraded UN status for the Palestinians, telling cheering crowds: “Yes, now we have a state. “Palestine has accomplished a historic achievement at the UN,” Abbas added, three days after the United Nations General Assembly granted the Palestinians...