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Egypt crisis: Tanks deployed after fatal Cairo clashes
Full Article Joy Online
06 Dec 2012

The Egyptian army has deployed tanks and armoured troop carriers outside the presidential palace in Cairo after clashes between supporters and opponents of President Mohammed Morsi left five dead and hundreds injured. But, despite their presence, there are reports of a fresh outbreak of stone-throwing between the two sides. Egypt is seeing growing...
Egyptian Army soldiers install barbed wire near the presidential palace to secure the site of overnight clashes between supporters and opponents of President Mohammed Morsi in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012.
photo: AP / Hassan Ammar

updated 06 Dec 2012; published 06 Dec 2012
5:01
CIVIL WAR CRISIS: TANKS deployed in Cairo to Quell ANTI-Morsi RAGE RIOTS [RAMPAGE & REVOLUTION]
updated 06 Dec 2012; published 06 Dec 2012
5:01
REVOLUTION: Egypt in state of CIVIL WAR! MILITARY TANKS Deployed in Cairo to quell ANTI-Morsi RIOTS
updated 06 Dec 2012; published 06 Dec 2012
14:04
After Deadly Clashes in Cairo, Egypt Faces Largest Political Crises Since Revolution Began
updated 06 Dec 2012; published 06 Dec 2012
5:01
CIVIL WAR in Egypt HIJACKED by West backed govt. MILLITARY deployed in Cairo [REVOLUTION]
updated 06 Dec 2012; published 06 Dec 2012
2:29
Protests in Egypt Turn Deadly: 5 Dead, Hundreds Injured - Tanks Deployed to Restore Order
updated 06 Dec 2012; published 06 Dec 2012
2:39
BREAKING NEWS - Egypt Tanks Move In As Violence Kills Five
Merkel meets Netanyahu amid tense relations
Full Article North Jersey
06 Dec 2012

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are meeting in Berlin for talks amid tension over Berlin's refusal to vote against a Palestinian U.N. statehood bid and widespread frustration across Europe over Israel's plans to expand settlements....
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, left, arrive for a press conference at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012.
photo: AP / Michael Sohn

updated 06 Dec 2012; published 25 Nov 2012
11:57
אם תצביעו לימין המזוייף, תקבלו מדיניות שמאלנית קיצונית
updated 03 May 2011; published 06 Apr 2011
15:00
GGN- News Bulletin :: April 6, 2011 Part 1/4
updated 27 Nov 2012; published 25 Oct 2012
32:50
Elie Wiesel - Wiki Article
updated 05 Dec 2012; published 07 Nov 2012
5:02
Farage: Mrs Merkel, tell Cameron it's time for Britain to leave EU
updated 04 Dec 2012; published 04 Dec 2012
4:30
Iron Frau 3? 'Merkel's TINA to give Germans no choice'
updated 05 Dec 2012; published 04 Dec 2012
1:23
Merkel sweeps to record CDU win
Obama prepared to go over 'fiscal cliff'
Full Article Al Jazeera
06 Dec 2012

The US Treasury Secretary has said the Obama administration is "absolutely" ready for the US economy to go over the "fiscal cliff" rather than accept a budget deal that does not include higher tax rates for top earners. Timothy Geithner said on Wednesday that the administration believes budget deficits are so large that they cannot be closed...
File - President Barack Obama talks on the phone with Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi in the Oval Office, Nov. 14, 2012.
photo: White House / Pete Souza

updated 06 Dec 2012; published 06 Dec 2012
3:40
Obama Boehner End Talks Geithner Prepared To Go Off Cliff Like Little Lemmings
updated 06 Dec 2012; published 04 Dec 2012
4:50
Obama - Finally An Aggressive Progressive?!
updated 06 Dec 2012; published 06 Dec 2012
1:40
Obama resolute in showdown with GOP over 'fiscal cliff'
updated 30 Nov 2012; published 27 Jun 2012
1:13
OBAMA LIES AGAIN!!!!
updated 02 Dec 2012; published 02 Dec 2012
7:43
World News: How to invest Closer to the Cliff
updated 08 Nov 2012; published 25 Jun 2011
55:29
Tim Geithner '83 Speaks at Dartmouth Summer Lecture Series "Leading Voices in Politics & Policy"
About 350 die in Philippine typhoon, 400 missing
Full Article Herald Tribune
06 Dec 2012

NEW BATAAN, Philippines - A powerful typhoon that washed away emergency shelters, a military camp and possibly entire families in the southern Philippines has killed almost 350 people with nearly 400 missing, authorities said Thursday. More bodies were retrieved from hardest-hit Compostela Valley and Davao Oriental provinces and six others impacted...
Residents cross a river in the flash flood-hit village of Andap, New Bataan township, Compostela Valley in southern Philippines Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012.
photo: AP / Bullit Marquez

updated 06 Dec 2012; published 05 Dec 2012
1:28
Typhoon Bopha Kills Over 200 People In Southern Philippines
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 04 Dec 2012
3:19
40 Dead 60000 Missing As Monster Typhoon Bopha Devastates The Philippines
updated 06 Dec 2012; published 06 Dec 2012
12:33
Typhoon Bopha (Bagyong Pablo) Update December 6, 2012
updated 05 Dec 2012; published 04 Dec 2012
2:54
Powerful Typhoon In Philippines Forces More Than 40000 People Into Emergency Shelters
updated 05 Dec 2012; published 05 Dec 2012
1:35
Philippines struck by powerful storm.
Egypt Protesters Clash in Cairo Amid Constitution Dispute
Full Article Bloomberg
06 Dec 2012

Egyptian secular and Islamist protesters battled in Cairo after Vice-President Mahmoud Mekki invited the opposition to talks over a controversial draft constitution that has sparked a week of demonstrations. Mekki’s remarks, aired live yesterday on state television, came as members of the Muslim Brotherhood rallied near the palace in support of...
Egyptian riot police stand guard during clashes between supporters and opponents of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi outside the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012.
photo: AP / Mostafa Elshemy

updated 28 Nov 2012; published 28 Nov 2012
2:01
BREAKING: Violence in Egypt - Mursi Opponents Clash with Police in Cairo
updated 28 Nov 2012; published 27 Nov 2012
1:32
Cairo protestors denounce "autocratic decree" of President Mursi
updated 27 Nov 2012; published 25 Nov 2012
1:55
Protests after Mursi power grab in Egypt
updated 28 Nov 2012; published 25 Nov 2012
1:54
Egypt's Brotherhood calls for protests
updated 01 Dec 2012; published 01 Dec 2012
4:22
Anti-Mursi Protesters Attack Riot Police Vehicle (Raw Video)
updated 29 Nov 2012; published 24 Nov 2012
2:53
World Shocking! - EGYPT ENIGMA - President MORSI Decree Himself DICTATOR 11.22.12 PROTEST 1 Million
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
9:26
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
14:02
Sackcloth&AshesThere; is but ONE GOD&All; thy garments smell of ALOE, MYRRH&CASSIA;
updated 06 Dec 2012; published 05 Dec 2012
5:43
CHAOS IN CAIRO EGYPT / "This is the last warning before we lay siege on the presidential palace"
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
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 06 Dec 2012; published 05 Dec 2012
1:42
NATO Warns Assad Against Chemical Weapons, Sending Missiles to Turkey
updated 06 Dec 2012; published 04 Dec 2012
2:07
BREAKING: NATO Approves Sending Patriot Missiles to Turkey to Defend Against Syrian Strikes
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!
updated 05 Dec 2012; published 04 Dec 2012
1:19
URGENT - NATO To Deploy Patriot Missiles And Troops On Turkey/Syria Border
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
54:00
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
5:07
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 06 Dec 2012; published 05 Dec 2012
1:28
Typhoon Bopha Kills Over 200 People In Southern Philippines
updated 05 Dec 2012; published 05 Dec 2012
1:47
Philippines Typhoon Bopha death toll rises
updated 06 Dec 2012; published 06 Dec 2012
0:24
Philippine Typhoon Bopha death toll passes 300
updated 06 Dec 2012; published 06 Dec 2012
1:30
Typhoon Bopha toll jumps in the Philippines

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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...

FILE - In this Oct. 18, 2010 file photo, Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff greets Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer during a meeting with artists and intellectuals in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Posted: December 6, 2012 Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, who was most well-known for helping to build the capital of Brasilia, passed away on Wednesday at the age of 104. Niemeyer died at the Hospital Samaritano in Rio de Janeiro of a respiratory...
photo: AP / Silvia Izquierdo, File
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 06 Dec 2012; published 06 Dec 2012
0:54
Egyptian constitutional crisis: death toll rising as anti-Morsi protest violence increases
Joy Online 06 Dec 2012, The Egyptian army has deployed tanks and armoured troop carriers outside the presidential palace in Cairo after clashes between supporters and opponents of President Mohammed Morsi left five dead and hundreds injured. But, despite their presence, there are reports of a fresh outbreak of stone-throwing between the two sides. Egypt is seeing growing...

updated 06 Dec 2012; published 06 Dec 2012
6:26
Netanyahu, Merkel agree to disagree on Israeli settlements
North Jersey 06 Dec 2012, BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are meeting in Berlin for talks amid tension over Berlin's refusal to vote against a Palestinian U.N. statehood bid and widespread frustration across Europe over Israel's plans to expand settlements....

updated 05 Dec 2012; published 09 Nov 2012
12:16
President Obama Fiscal Cliff Announcment: 'Committed to Solving Fiscal Challenges' - SPECIAL REPORT
Al Jazeera 06 Dec 2012, The US Treasury Secretary has said the Obama administration is "absolutely" ready for the US economy to go over the "fiscal cliff" rather than accept a budget deal that does not include higher tax rates for top earners. Timothy Geithner said on Wednesday that the administration believes budget deficits are so large that they cannot be closed...

updated 06 Dec 2012; published 06 Dec 2012
0:32
Hundreds dead, homeless swell in Philippine typhoon
Herald Tribune 06 Dec 2012, NEW BATAAN, Philippines - A powerful typhoon that washed away emergency shelters, a military camp and possibly entire families in the southern Philippines has killed almost 350 people with nearly 400 missing, authorities said Thursday. More bodies were retrieved from hardest-hit Compostela Valley and Davao Oriental provinces and six others impacted...

updated 04 Dec 2012; published 24 Nov 2012
10:22
Tens of Thousands of Egyptians Protest Morsi's Power Grab
Bloomberg 06 Dec 2012, Egyptian secular and Islamist protesters battled in Cairo after Vice-President Mahmoud Mekki invited the opposition to talks over a controversial draft constitution that has sparked a week of demonstrations. Mekki’s remarks, aired live yesterday on state television, came as members of the Muslim Brotherhood rallied near the palace in support of...

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 06 Dec 2012; published 06 Dec 2012
0:27
Adviser to Egypt's president resigns
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 04 Dec 2012
8:00
Escobar: Chemical hype behind Patriot games on Syria border
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 05 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 06 Dec 2012; published 06 Dec 2012
1:33
The serious business of climate denial, Starring 'Lord' Monckton
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 22 Aug 2012
2:07
President Obama: Syria's Chemical Weapons are a 'Redline' (VIDEO)
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 07 Dec 2012; published 04 Dec 2012
1:14
Fiscal Cliff | The Simpsons | Animation on FOX
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...