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Andrew Liszewski - If you were financially fortunate enough to be able to gift someone an actual house this year for Christmas, you’ll want to do more than just hang a...
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. When a Stanford geneticist, Gerald Crabtree, published a provocative and controversial new view on evolutionary change, namely that...
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WASHINGTON — Where is the NRA? The nation’s largest gun-rights organization — typically outspoken about its positions even after shooting deaths — has gone all but silent since...

General view of Russian lower parliament chamber session in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Dec. 24, 2010. Russia's lower house of parliament will not be able to give its full approval to a U.S.-Russian nuclear arms treaty until at least next month, a senior lawmaker said Friday. Konstantin Kosachev, the head of the State Duma's  foreign affairs committee, said that the legislators would pass the ratification bill only in the first of three required readings during this year's closing session Friday. He said the full ratification could only happen next month "at the earliest."
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A bill to ban Americans from adopting Russian children won preliminary parliamentary approval on Wednesday in a retaliatory gesture for a U.S. law punishing alleged Russian human rights violators. Despite criticism of the measure...
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Personal motives behind many Afghan insider attacks: Report
According to detailed US military data disclosed recently suggest that the largest percentage of the insider attacks by Afghan security forces on their international counterparts are probably stemmed from personal motives rather than enemy...
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South Korea's president-elected Park Geun-Hye waves as she arrives to give her victory speech on a stage in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012.
South Korea has made history by electing a female president for the first time. In a hard-fought race, conservative ruling party candidate Park Geun-Hye won with 51.6 percent of the vote over left-leaning opposition candidate Moon Jae-In. who scored...
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Iraqi President Jalal Talabani speaks during a Nowruz (New Year) summit called The World Nowruz Festivities in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, March 27, 2010.
By Adam Schreck Associated Press Comments BaghdadIraqi President Jalal Talabani will be flown to Germany for further treatment after suffering a stroke earlier this week, two Kurdish officials close to him said Wednesday. Medical experts...
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3,800 British troops to leave Afghanistan by 2013
LONDONPrime Minister David Cameron announced Wednesday that about 3,800 British troops would be withdrawn from Afghanistan by the end of 2013. Around 5,000 will remain into 2014, Cameron told lawmakers. The announcement comes after a lengthy...
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UN launches $1.5bn appeal for Syria crisis
Syrian refugees could double in number to more than a million by June, the UN has warned. Those fleeing the fighting need urgent aid, said the UN's humanitarian agency, as it on Wednesday launched an appeal for $1.5bn to help those both inside and...
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New attacks on polio teams in Pakistan kill 2, UN suspends polio drive
ISLAMABAD: The attacks against UN-backed health workers campaigning to eradicate polio in Pakistan continue unabated as two more persons associated with the programme were gunned down by unknown assailants on Wednesday in the country's northwestern...
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updated 19 Dec 2012; published 14 Dec 2012
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Connecticut Shooting in Newtown at Sandy Hook Elementary: Parent Interview
Detroit news 19 Dec 2012, By David Klepper and Katie Zezima Associated Press Comments Newtown, Conn. — For a third straight day Wednesday, funeral professions rolled through a grieving Connecticut town trying to make sense of the massacre of 20 first-graders and six adults in an elementary school less than two weeks before Christmas. Dr. Joseph Young, an optometrist,...

updated 05 Dec 2012; published 29 Sep 2012
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'Support for rebels widens bloody strife in Syria': Lavrov UN 2012 full speech
The Star 19 Dec 2012, GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations appealed on Wednesday for $1.5 billion (920.1 million pounds) to provide life-saving aid to Syrians suffering from a "dramatically deteriorating" humanitarian situation. The twin...

updated 19 Dec 2012; published 19 Dec 2012
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UBS fined $1.5b for Libor rigging
BBC News 19 Dec 2012, Even by the standards of recent revelations of wrongdoing at the world's biggest banks, the disclosures of how UBS tried to systematically manipulate the important Libor interest rate benchmarks will be seen as pretty hair-raising. UBS has been punished by regulators in the US, UK and its home country of Switzerland. The Financial Services...

updated 19 Dec 2012; published 19 Dec 2012
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Benghazi attack report slams US State Department
Al Jazeera 19 Dec 2012, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said she accepts the findings of an independent panel that faulted the State Department over the deadly September attack on the US mission in Benghazi, Libya. An inquiry into the attack on the US mission, which saw the US ambassador and three other US citizens killed, found that the State...

updated 19 Dec 2012; published 18 Dec 2012
2:04
Obama 'Actively' Supports Assault Weapons Ban
The Star 19 Dec 2012, WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama backs a new bill to revive an assault weapons ban and other new gun laws, the White House said Tuesday, fleshing out his nascent response to a shocking school massacre. Obama also called an ardently pro-gun senator who has shifted his position on firearms laws since Friday's carnage in Connecticut and has begun...

updated 19 Dec 2012; published 15 Dec 2012
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Connecticut Shooting: Sandy Hook Elementary Teacher Kaitlin Roig Protected Her Students
WorldNews.com 18 Dec 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. "Most people reason dramatically, not quantitatively." -Oliver Wendell Holmes On the same day that a 20-year-old, described as brilliant but remote, walked into an elementary school in Connecticut and massacred 26 children and adults, the school where I teach went on "lock-down." Four students with a...

updated 19 Dec 2012; published 19 Dec 2012
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Egyptians protest at referendum process
Yahoo Daily News 18 Dec 2012, CAIRO - Egypt's opposition alliance was staging rallies across the country on Tuesday to protest a contentious Islamist-backed draft constitution, after the country's Ministry of Justice ordered a probe into allegations of widespread voting irregularities during Saturday's first round of voting on the document. Since the country's current political...

updated 17 Dec 2012; published 05 Jan 2012
14:36
Rwanda army committed war crimes, crimes against humanity, Genocide in Congo.
BBC News 18 Dec 2012, Former Congolese militia leader Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui has been acquitted by the International Criminal Court of...

updated 19 Dec 2012; published 14 Dec 2012
6:09
Connecticut Shooting in Newtown at Sandy Hook Elementary: Parent Interview
Al Jazeera 18 Dec 2012, An increasing number of US congressmen have called for a national dialogue about measures to curb gun violence following the shooting last week at a primary school in Connecticut that killed 26 people, including 20 children and six adults. White House officials have said that President Barack Obama would make preventing gun-related violence a...

updated 15 Dec 2012; published 13 Jun 2012
6:39
Russia Sends Military Aid to Syria
BBC News 18 Dec 2012, The UN's humanitarian chief has called on Syria to urgently allow fuel imports for aid deliveries and give access to 10 more aid agencies. Valerie Amos met government officials in the capital, Damascus, to discuss the growing humanitarian crisis. UN workers also needed to freely move into opposition-controlled areas to step up their aid...

updated 17 Dec 2012; published 16 Dec 2012
14:15
Divided Egypt votes in referendum on constitution - NewsX
The Star 17 Dec 2012, CAIRO: Egypt's opposition is calling for mass protests on Tuesday over alleged polling violations after Islamists backing President Mohamed Morsi claimed victory in the first round of a referendum on a new charter. A group of top judges, meanwhile, announced on Monday it would boycott supervision of the second round, and Germany said it has...

updated 19 Dec 2012; published 14 Dec 2012
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Connecticut Shooting in Newtown at Sandy Hook Elementary: Parent Interview
Denver Post 17 Dec 2012, WASHINGTON—Democrats say meaningful action in the wake of last week's elementary school shooting must include a ban on military-style assault weapons and a look at how the nation deals with individuals suffering from serious mental illness. Several Democratic lawmakers and Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman said Sunday that it was time to take a...

updated 17 Dec 2012; published 16 Dec 2012
1:57
LDP, ex-premier likely to regain power in Japan
San Francisco Chronicle 17 Dec 2012, TOKYO (AP) — After leading his conservative party to a landslide victory that will bring it back to power after a three-year hiatus, Shinzo Abe stressed Monday that the road ahead will not be easy as he tries to revive Japan's sputtering economy and bolster its national security amid deteriorating relations with China. The Liberal Democratic Party,...

updated 01 Dec 2012; published 01 Dec 2012
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Egypt faces snap referendum as anti-Mursi protests continue
DNA India 17 Dec 2012, Egypt appeared braced for further uncertainty on Sunday after a close result in the first round of voting for a new constitution led to both sides claiming a moral victory. According to unofficial figures, the Muslim Brotherhood-backed constitution won 56.5% of the vote as half of the country cast ballots at the weekend. The rest of the country...