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December 11, 2012 -- Updated 0615 GMT (1415 HKT) Protesters carrying posters of Tibetans who have self-immolated walk to the United Nations in New York on December 10, 2012....
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A plan to provide military training to the Syrian rebels fighting the Assad regime and support them with air and naval power is being drawn up by an international coalition...
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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...

Pedestrians walk past the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in New York, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012.
New technologies, dwindling resources and explosive population growth in the next 18 years will alter the global balance of power and trigger radical economic and political changes at a speed unprecedented in modern history, says a new report by the...
photo: AP / Seth Wenig
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,...
photo: AP / Miraflores Presidential Press Office
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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updated 10 Dec 2012; published 14 Sep 2012
9:35
"Protest In Egypt Libya Iraq And Lebanon And Morocco And Sudan And Tunisia And Iran And Bangladesh
BBC News 11 Dec 2012, Violence has flared in many parts of Bangladesh as schools and most businesses were shut after opposition groups enforced a dawn-to-dusk strike. They called the strike to protest against attacks on their supporters during a road blockade on Sunday. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its allies have been demanding a caretaker government be...

updated 21 Nov 2012; published 06 Dec 2011
2:49
Raped Afghan woman forced to marry attacker
BBC News 11 Dec 2012, Afghan women victims of violence are still being failed by the justice system, according to a new UN report. Although there had been some progress in implementing a 2009 anti-violence law, overall use of the law "remained low", the report says. Cultural pressures and inconsistent police practices are hampering implementation of the law,...

updated 03 Dec 2012; published 18 Jul 2012
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BUSINESS: HSBC caught up in a money laundring scandal
Reuters 11 Dec 2012, n">Dec 11 (Reuters) - HSBC Holdings Plc is expected to become the first bank to admit to both money-laundering lapses and U.S. sanctions violations on Tuesday as part of a settlement of around $1.8 billion with law enforcement agencies, according to people familiar with the situation. The settlement, which will be in the form of a...

updated 11 Dec 2012; published 11 Dec 2012
0:54
Malian troops arrest PM
The Times of India 11 Dec 2012, BAMAKO: Mali's prime minister presented his resignation on state television in a broadcast at 4 a.m. local time, hours...

updated 07 Dec 2012; published 05 Dec 2012
1:04
Egyptian protesters set up camp outside presidential palace
BBC News 11 Dec 2012, Egypt's capital Cairo is steeling itself for rival rallies sparked by a referendum on a new constitution ordered by President Mohamed Morsi. Tuesday's demonstrations have been called by largely secular opposition groups and Islamists backing Mr Morsi. He had earlier called in the army to maintain security and protect state institutions...

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
24:56
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 11 Dec 2012; published 10 Dec 2012
2:04
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 10 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 11 Dec 2012; published 09 Dec 2012
4:11
Morsi backs down: Revokes power grab, referendum on constitution still up
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 11 Dec 2012; published 01 Dec 2012
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Typhoon Bopha Update December 1, 2012
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 11 Dec 2012; published 09 Dec 2012
2:28
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 11 Dec 2012; published 11 Dec 2012
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Malian troops arrest PM
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 10 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...