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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling The United States needs to go off of a cliff alright, a polarized cliff, that is, while embracing Progressivism. At the turn of the...
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December 9, 2012 -- Updated 0840 GMT (1640 HKT) Flowers are left outside the nurses accommodation near the King Edward VII hospital in central London on December 8, 2012. Editor's...
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Rebel leaders in Syria are thinking what would have been the unthinkable months ago as their grip on Syria's cities grows. Photograph: Narciso Contreras/AP Syrian rebel fighters...

Residents affected by typhoon Bopha crowd as relief goods are distributed at New Bataan township, Compostela Valley in southern Philippines Sunday Dec. 9, 2012.
MANILA, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- The Philippine government on Monday reported that the death toll from typhoon Bopha (local name Pablo) has climbed to 647. The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council ( NDRRMC) also reported that 1,482...
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Jenni Rivera attends a press conference on Friday, Aug. 24, 2012, in Woodland Hills, California.
Mexican American singer Jenni Rivera, 43, has been pronounced dead after a plane carrying her and seven other people crashed early Sunday in Northern Mexico. According to Mexico’s Ministry of Transportation, the plane was found in mountain terrain in...
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Smelling out a Rat;—or—The Atheistical-Revolutionist disturbed in his Midnight "Calculations" (1790) by Gillray, depicting a caricature of Burke with a long nose and spectacles, holding a crown and a cross.
Geneva. Atheists and other religious skeptics suffer persecution or discrimination in many parts of the world and in at least seven nations can be executed if their beliefs become known, according to a report issued on Monday. The study, from the...
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President Barack Obama talks with advisors before the meet with Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in the Oval Office to discuss ongoing negotiations on a funding bill, April 7, 2011.
Posted: December 9, 2012 President Obama and House Speaker Boehner met at the White House to discuss the fiscal cliff on Sunday, according to White House spokesman Joshua Earnest. Earnest added that Obama and Boehner met in the effort “to...
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In this photo provided by Miraflores Presidential Press Office, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez speaks during a cabinet meeting at the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012.
HUGO Chavez has anointed a burly former bus driver as his successor - appearing to accept for the first time that his tumultuous, 14-year rule of Venezuela may be coming to an end. The leftist President, suffering a recurrence of his cancer,...
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Ghana President John Dramani Mahama, center right, speaks with election observers and ruling party members following a press conference at the presidential residence in Accra, Ghana, Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012.
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — President John Dramani Mahama was declared the winner Sunday of Ghana's recent presidential election, according to provisional results, despite widespread technical glitches with the machines used to identify voters, and over the...
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In this Sept. 21, 2012 file photo, an elderly Chinese couple look at a model of a property on sale during the China Property and Investment Show in Beijing.
A pick up in China's factory output and retail sales growth to eight-month highs suggested a revival in the world's second-biggest economy is deepening and boosted the chances for stronger-than-expected exports figures on Monday. Government figures...
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updated 01 Dec 2012; published 06 Jun 2012
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Noam Chomsky Lectures on Modern-Day American Imperialism: Middle East and Beyond
WorldNews.com 10 Dec 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling In the desert of central Australia still resides a primitive tribe known as the Arunta. This non-technological and stateless group, which mainly depends on hunting and gathering, had suffered several inexplicable deaths. The old men leading the band decided through dreams and mystical experiences that...

updated 10 Dec 2012; published 09 Dec 2012
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Inside Syria - How real is Syria's chemical weapons threat?
CNN 10 Dec 2012, December 10, 2012 -- Updated 1327 GMT (2127 HKT) (CNN) -- Syria is raising concern in two letters to the United Nations that the United States may be attempting to frame it for the use of chemical weapons, Syrian state-run media reported Monday. The letters, addressed to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and chairman of the Security Council,...

updated 10 Dec 2012; published 10 Dec 2012
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Italians wary of return of Berlusconi
CNBC 10 Dec 2012, You can't keep Silvio Berlusconi down. A lesser man might be chastened by being turfed out of the Prime Minister's office, an ongoing trial involving a sex scandal, or a conviction for fraud. Yet Italy's longest-serving leader since the Second World War confirmed what had been long-rumored on Saturday –he is planning a comeback just a year after an...

updated 08 Dec 2012; published 09 Nov 2012
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MAHAMA TO WIN GHANA ELECTION 2012: "Mahama leads in close 2012 election" GHANA POLITICS 2012,
The Star 10 Dec 2012, ACCRA: Ghanaian incumbent John Dramani Mahama was on Sunday declared the winner of closely fought presidential polls, but the opposition alleged fraud in a nation that has been seen as a model of African democracy. The electoral commission announced the result after a day of twists and turns linked to the vote on Friday and Saturday, with the...

updated 09 Dec 2012; published 08 Dec 2012
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Far From Pharaoh: Referendum derails in Egypt as turmoil intensifies
DNA India 10 Dec 2012, Egypt's opposition rejected an offer of compromise by President Mohammed Mursi to end the country's crisis over a new constitution on Sunday, and called for mass street protests on Monday. A fresh rally was under way around the presidential palace on Sunday night as leaders of the liberal and secular opposition to Mursi's Muslim...

updated 10 Dec 2012; published 04 Dec 2012
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Deadly Typhoon Bopha rips rooftops in Philippines as thousands flee
Al Jazeera 10 Dec 2012, The number of people in the Philippines who have been killed by Typhoon Bopha has nearly reached 650, the country's disaster chief told Al Jazeera. Benito Ramos, the country's disaster chief in Manila, said that 647 bodies have been found and 780 people are still missing, including hundreds of fishermen. Families and...

updated 10 Dec 2012; published 09 Dec 2012
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Egypt's Morsi rescinds controversial decree
BBC News 10 Dec 2012, Egypt's President Morsi has ordered the military to maintain security and protect state institutions in the run-up to a referendum on the constitution. The BBC's Jon Leyne in Cairo says the move will raise fears that Egypt is moving back towards military rule. Mr Morsi has tried to calm days of protests by annulling a decree giving him...

updated 08 Dec 2012; published 06 Apr 2012
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Mali Islamists strengthen hold on Timbuktu
The Independent 09 Dec 2012, The next war against terrorism is taking shape in this West African country, as African nations backed by the United States and France are readying a force to recapture Mali's north from extremists linked to al-Qaida and prevent another haven for jihadists from taking root on the continent. But whether a military intervention can defuse such a...

updated 09 Dec 2012; published 09 Dec 2012
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Video: Syria rebels unveil cutting-edge homemade tank
Al Jazeera 09 Dec 2012, Syria's rebel leaders have agreed to come under a united command in a bid to integrate diverse fighting groups and streamline the route for arms essential to their struggle against President Bashar al-Assad. The new body, expected to be announced officially on Sunday, hopes to form the basis of a united rebel front. About 500 delegates...

updated 09 Dec 2012; published 07 Dec 2012
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Climate talks in Doha
CNN 09 Dec 2012, December 9, 2012 -- Updated 0518 GMT (1318 HKT) Delegates at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in the Qatari capital Doha, on December 6. Editor's note: Jennifer Morgan is the director of the climate and energy program at the World Resources Institute, a global think tank that works with governments, businesses and...

updated 10 Dec 2012; published 09 Dec 2012
2:28
Egypt's Morsi rescinds controversial decree
IBN Live 09 Dec 2012, Cairo: Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has cancelled a decree that gave him sweeping powers and sparked huge protests, but did not delay a referendum on a constitution as his...

updated 09 Dec 2012; published 09 Dec 2012
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Badriya Darwish on Al Jazeera TV - 8th Dec Kuwait Protest
Al Jazeera 09 Dec 2012, Tens of thousands of Kuwaitis have staged a peaceful protest against the parliament elected last week under voting rules deemed unfair by the opposition. The opposition supporters demonstrated for the second week in a row as police watched the protest without interfering on Saturday. "This parliament is illegitimate, this [electoral law]...

updated 06 Dec 2012; published 06 Dec 2012
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Qatar climate talks are underway - Green News Report - Air Date- 11-27-12
BBC News 08 Dec 2012, There has been a historic shift in the UN climate talks in Qatar, with the prospect of rich nations having to compensate poor nations for losses due to climate change. The US has fiercely opposed the measure - it says the cost could be unlimited. But after angry tussles throughout the night the principle of Loss and Damage is now in the final...

updated 09 Dec 2012; published 09 Dec 2012
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Despite protests, Morsi pushes on with referendum - NewsX
Al Jazeera 08 Dec 2012, Mohamed Morsi, the Egyptian president, is expected to press ahead with talks on ways to end Egypt's worst crisis since he took office even though the country's main opposition leaders have vowed to boycott negotiations. The capital Cairo and other cities have been rocked by violent protests since November 22, when Morsi issued a decree awarding...