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Many of us are asking this question today. Some of us are suggesting that violent crimes are increasing, and yet, if we look at history nothing could be further from the truth; we...
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The conservationist accuses China of fuelling poaching, as tusks are smuggled out in diplomatic bags...
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This past summer, Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman, told a magazine how he’d practice the opaque dialect known as “Fed speak” in his nearly two...

Sunrise Mall is an enclosed shopping mall located in the southern portion of the city of Citrus Heights, California and it provides Citrus Heights with a hearty economy based on sales. Opened in 1972, it is located on the southeast corner of Greenback Lane and Sunrise Boulevard. It is also the centerpiece of the Sunrise Marketplace shopping district, which is centered on the same intersection and expands outward.
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. - A man was arrested Saturday after firing about 50 shots in the parking lot of a Southern California shopping mall, prompting a lockdown of stores crowded with holiday shoppers. Marcos Gurrola, 42, of Garden Grove was taken...
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A Chinese Navy nuclear-powered submarine sails during an international fleet review to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of People's Liberation Army Navy Thursday, April 23, 2009 off Qingdao, China's Shandong Province. China on Thursday displayed for the first time its nuclear-powered submarines, a sign of the navy's growing confidence and its aspirations to become a major sea pow
Retired Col. Gen. Viktor Yesin yesterday wrapped up a visit to the United States during which he met with officials at the Pentagon, State Department as well as members of Congress warning about underestimating China’s tactical nuclear weapons...
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Mourners gather for a candlelight vigil at Ram's Pasture to remember shooting victims, Saturday, Dec. 15, 2012 in Newtown, Conn. A gunman walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown Friday and opened fire, killing 26 people, including 20 children.
Twenty children and six adults were killed during a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history. advertisement | advertise on Newsday Related Complete coverage: Sandy Hook...
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A boy places his grandmother's vote into a ballot box at a polling station in Tokyo, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012. Voters cast their ballots Sunday in parliamentary elections which are likely to hand power back to a conservative party that ruled Japan for most of the post-war era.
People in Japan are voting in a general election in Japan, where former leader Shinzo Abe is challenging the current Prime Minister, Yoshihiko Noda. Mr Abe's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is expected to oust Mr Noda's Democratic Party...
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Curtis Irwin holds a .50 caliber rifle to show at a gun shop in Fort Worth, Texas, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008.
A day after called for "meaningful action" to prevent mass shootings like the one that left 20 children and six adults dead at a elementary school, leaders across and Connecticut called for stricter gun control legislation. "We should be able to come...
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A child who was attacked at the Zhongxin Kindergarten is transfered into a hospital ward after a surgical treatment in Taixing in east China's Jiangsu Province, Thursday, April 29, 2010.
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President Barack Obama wipes his eye as he talks about the Connecticut elementary school shooting, Friday, Dec. 14, 2012, in the White House briefing room in Washington.
Washington: In a rare show of wrenching emotion, US President Barack Obama wiped tears from his face and choked on his words as he spoke to reporters at the White House on Friday in a live televised broadcast after a deadly mass shooting at an...
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updated 16 Dec 2012; published 12 Dec 2012
1:18
Mursi referendum: Egyptians overseas start voting
WorldNews.com 16 Dec 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling "Fundamentalism is good for protest, good for revolution, and good for war, but not so good for development." After a century of being persecuted and driven underground, mainly for their vibrant nationalism and their anti-imperialist and pro-Palestinian views, Egypt's Islamist Muslim Brotherhood has...

updated 15 Dec 2012; published 23 Jul 2012
38:09
Nagorno-Karabagh , Dark Forest in the Mountain 1993-94 Documentary by Roger Kupelian
BBC News 16 Dec 2012, Antiga Gahramanova has been waiting two decades for a resolution to the war which forced her from her home - but fears are growing that the so-called frozen conflict of Nagorno Karabakh could spring back to life, more ferociously than ever. A faded portrait hangs on the wall of the tiny room belonging to Mrs Gahramanova, who is now 80. It shows a...

updated 16 Dec 2012; published 14 Dec 2012
5:21
Connecticut Shooting in Newtown at Sandy Hook Elementary: 1 Gunman Confirmed Dead
The Independent 15 Dec 2012, The massacre of 26 children and adults at an elementary school in the US state of Connecticut elicited horror and soul-searching around the world even as it raised more basic questions about why the gunman, a 20-year-old described as brilliant but remote, would have been driven to such a crime and how he chose his victims. Investigators were trying...

updated 11 Dec 2012; published 17 Dec 2007
22:09
Evicting the Bedouin - Israel/Palestine
Al Jazeera 15 Dec 2012, On the dusty slopes leading to the Dead Sea, the red roof tiles of Israel's illegal settlements flicker in patches of sunlight as distant mosque minarets of nearby Palestinian villages peek through the hills. Adjacent to this route linking Jerusalem with the Jordan Valley lie several Bedouin communities leading a simple existence. Eid Khamis, who...

updated 16 Dec 2012; published 14 Dec 2012
5:21
Connecticut Shooting in Newtown at Sandy Hook Elementary: 1 Gunman Confirmed Dead
CNN 15 Dec 2012, December 15, 2012 -- Updated 0947 GMT (1747 HKT) Newtown, Connecticut (CNN) -- The bodies of children and educators lay where they fell in a Newtown, Connecticut, elementary school -- in classrooms and hallways -- as investigators worked to identity the dead early Saturday while piecing together the path of the gunman. Twenty children and six...

updated 16 Dec 2012; published 15 Dec 2012
2:31
Japan election: Nationalist fervour on the rise
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 15 Dec 2012, TOKYO -- The Japanese voters who Sunday will elect a new government are loyal to no party and frustrated with each of the recent leaders to hold power. They are political pessimists facing a choice among a ruling party with an approval rating in the teens, an unreformed opposition party that was booted out only three years ago and a raft of minor...

updated 16 Dec 2012; published 14 Dec 2012
5:21
Connecticut Shooting in Newtown at Sandy Hook Elementary: 1 Gunman Confirmed Dead
Jakarta Globe 15 Dec 2012, Newtown, Conn. Twenty schoolchildren were slaughtered by a heavily armed gunman who opened fire at a suburban elementary school in Connecticut on Friday, ultimately killing at least 27 people including himself in the one of the worst mass shootings in US history. The 20-year-old gunman, identified by law enforcement sources as Adam Lanza, fired...

updated 14 Dec 2012; published 30 Nov 2012
4:51
Tahrir reacts to Egypt's draft constitution
Khaleej Times 15 Dec 2012, Egyptians vote Saturday on a new constitution supported by the ruling Islamists but bitterly contested by a secular-leaning opposition that failed to scupper the referendum with mass protests. Polls open at 8:00 am (0600 GMT) in Cairo, Alexandria and eight other provinces and are scheduled to close at 7:00 pm in the first round. The rest of the...

updated 16 Dec 2012; published 15 Dec 2012
3:11
'Turkey looks through US eyes, sacrifices own interests'
The Inquisitr 15 Dec 2012, Posted: December 14, 2012 Several Scud missiles that were fired at rebels by the Syrian government landed “fairly close” to the Turkish border, according to NATO’s top military commander. The comments came from a blog on Friday, which explained why Patriot anti-missile batteries are being sent to Turkey, reports Reuters. The comments on Syrian...

updated 04 Aug 2012; published 02 Feb 2011
10:54
Congo Refugees - Life in Limbo 1 of 2 - BBC Documntary
BBC News 15 Dec 2012, Humanitarian workers have warned of a sharp rise in refugees in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo as a result of recent fighting. The charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)...

updated 13 Dec 2012; published 10 Dec 2012
11:59
Minimal Western Aid for Syrian Refugees
The Times of India 14 Dec 2012, BEIRUT: Desperation for food is growing in parts of Syria, where fist fights or dashes across the civil war front lines have become part of the daily struggle to secure a loaf of bread. Conditions are especially dire in the northern city of Aleppo, where civilians enduring incessant clashes and air raids in rebel-held districts say hunger is a new...

updated 09 Dec 2012; published 26 Nov 2012
7:45
Wal-Mart Worker Uprising: Protests Held At 1000 Stores on Black Friday
Al Jazeera 14 Dec 2012, Former President Bill Clinton, President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, meet 55-year-old Martha Sellers. For the past nine years, Sellers has worked as a Walmart cashier in Paramount, California. On November 23, the busiest shopping day of the year in the United States, while most television hosts were asking...

updated 14 Dec 2012; published 04 Feb 2012
50:51
Hamas: Behind The Mask (2005, documentary, full version)
The Independent 14 Dec 2012, The green banners of Hamas were openly raised at Nablus on the West Bank as thousands gathered for the militant Islamist group's first permitted rally in the West Bank in five years, a sign of a thaw in a bitter split with Fatah, the faction that dominates the Palestinian Authority. Police observed but did not interfere in the celebration of...

updated 15 Dec 2012; published 13 Dec 2012
2:14
Rebel victory possible in Syria, but at unacceptable price - Russia
CNTV 14 Dec 2012, One of Syria's key allies has admitted for the first time the Assad regime is losing the 20-month ground war. Russia’s deputy foreign minister’s comments are significant because Russia has blocked action to stem the violence, supplied weapons to the Assad regime, and vetoed three UN resolutions -- even as other countries called for Assad to step...