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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling A Syrian Cuban-like Missile Crisis, a Syrian Korean-like War, and a Syrian U.S./Iraq-like debacle over alleged weapons of mass...
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Afghanistan's Minister of Education Farooq Wardak was on hand Wednesday, Dec. 12, to help Central Asia Institute and residents of Maidan Shahr celebrate the opening of the new Awal...
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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...

Ismail Haniya, the head of the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip, addresses the public during an open air morning prayer to celebrate Eid al-Fitr in Gaza City on August 19, 2012. Muslims around the world celebrate Eid al-Fitr, marking the end of Ramadan, the Muslim calendar's ninth and holiest month during which followers are required to abstain from food, drink and sex from dawn to dusk.Photo by Ahmed Deeb / WN
Despite all the predictions of Mayan apocalypse, the world will probably not end by Saturday morning. How will the believers cope when life carries on? The clock strikes midnight, the hallowed date arrives and, once again, the apocalypse fails to...
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb
French luxury goods group LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault, right, and LVMH managing director Antonio Belloni talk during the presentation of the group's 2009 earns, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010 in Paris.
Belgian politicians have denied reports Bernard Arnault, France's richest man, has had his attempt to obtain Belgian nationality derailed on the grounds he has not lived there for three years. Bernard Arnault - France's richest man Photo: Getty...
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Intercontinental Exchange Inc. Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Sprecher, left, and NYSE CEO Duncan Niederauer prepare for an interview on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012.
WASHINGTON, December 20 (RIA Novosti) - The symbol of American capitalism for more than two centuries, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is being sold to the rival IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) for $8.2 billion, ICE announced Thursday. "Our...
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Miss USA, Olivia Culpo, left, adjusts her tiara after being crowned the new Miss Universe as Miss Universe 2011, Leila Lopes, of Angola, right, looks on, during the Miss Universe competition, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012, in Las Vegas.
So excited was Olivia Culpo, Miss USA, to be crowned Miss Universe 2012 on Wednesday night, she almost took off on her victory walk without that beautiful crown on her head. Fortunately, a reassuring touch from Miss Universe 2011, Leila Lopes, was...
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In his end-of-year press conference, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon reflects on a “tumultuous” 2012, which saw tensions from Syria to the Sahel and from Eastern Congo to the Korean peninsula.
United Nations: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has voiced deep concern at the "increased militarisation of the conflict and the potential for sectarian atrocities" in Syria, Xinhua reported. "Syria began the year in conflict, and ends the year in...
photo: UN / Rick Bajornas
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez gestures during a ceremony to register his candidacy for the presidency at the headquarters of National Elections Council in Caracas, Venezuela
Venezuela’s vice president said on Wednesday that the government is still aiming for President Hugo Chavez to be sworn in for a new term as scheduled next month, saying his condition has been improving after his cancer surgery in Cuba. Vice President...
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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg delivers his State of the City address
NEW YORK: New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has long been a persistent advocate for tighter gun laws, but in the wake of the Newtown school massacre, his voice has become one of the most recognizable in the United States. ...
photo: AP / Mary Altaffer
updated 14 Sep 2012; published 12 Sep 2012
2:36
Yemen defense minister escapes assassination attack
Al Jazeera 20 Dec 2012, Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi has announced the restructuring of the army and defence ministry, in a bid to remove allies of former head of state Ali Abdullah Saleh, the country's state television reported. Hadi took a series of drastic decisions on Wednesday, including one scrapping the elite Republican Guard which was under the command...

updated 19 Dec 2012; published 17 Dec 2012
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Connecticut shooting: Obama's emotional pledge
Sowetan Live 20 Dec 2012, Obama held a White House news conference on Wednesday to announce that Vice President Joe Biden will lead an interagency effort to craft new gun policies. The group is expected to offer its proposals in January. “We know this is a complex issue that stirs deeply held passions and political divides,” Obama said. “But the fact that this problem is...

updated 20 Dec 2012; published 19 Dec 2012
2:32
South Korea elects first female president
The Wichita Eagle 20 Dec 2012, SEOUL, South KoreaPark Geun-hye's election as South Korea's first female president could mean a new drive to start talks with bitter rival North Korea, though it's unclear how much further she will go than the hard-line incumbent, a member of her own conservative party. After five years of high tension under unpopular President Lee...

updated 20 Dec 2012; published 19 Dec 2012
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'Three senior US officials resign' over Benghazi attack
Reuters 20 Dec 2012, WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three senior U.S. State Department officials were asked to resign after an official inquiry harshly criticized their offices for failing to provide adequate security at the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, before it came under attack in September, a U.S. official said on Wednesday. The official, who spoke on condition of...

updated 20 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 20 Dec 2012; published 20 Dec 2012
1:01
Al Arabiya wins UN Gold news award for Syria coverage
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 20 Dec 2012; published 19 Dec 2012
1:53
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
2:04
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 20 Dec 2012; published 19 Dec 2012
2:02
Obama backs 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 20 Dec 2012; published 15 Dec 2012
4:10
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 14 Dec 2012
1:33
Protesters shot at by South Sudanese army
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 20 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...