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After spending nearly a half-century as husband and wife, Bob and Norma Clark are finally married. The couple from Redlands, an inland California city halfway between Los Angeles...
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Linguistics professor Noam Chomsky has been America’s premier political dissident since the Vietnam War. As a vocal critic of US foreign policy, the self-described “libertarian...
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Julian Assange, the founder of whistleblower website WikiLeaks, has said he will release over a million more documents in the coming year that will affect "every country in the...

Aviva is a 68 metres (223 ft) length motor yacht, currently the 80th longest motor yacht in the world.
Steve Jobs was controversial in life, and now his high-tech mega-yacht is associated with a controversy long after his death. The former Apple CEO's ship was impounded in Amsterdam in the middle of a financial battle over a disputed bill. Phillippe...
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen are seen during a meeting in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010. Rasmussen is in Turkey for talk with Turkish leaders.
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey has given approval for Israel to participate in non-military NATO activities in 2013, withdrawing an earlier objection driven by an ongoing dispute between the former regional allies, a Turkish official said on Monday....
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Syrian citizens pass by a poster of Syrian President Bashar Assad, in the southern city of Daraa, Syria, on Monday March 21, 2011.
Tuesday, 25 December 2012, 7:31 am Press Release: United Nations Syria: UN-Arab League Envoy Holds Talks on Crisis with President Bashar Al-Assad New York, Dec 24 2012 11:00AM The Joint Special Representative of the United Nations and the League of...
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Afghan and NATO forces secure the entrance of the police headquarters after a Taliban suicide attack killed the police chief of southern Afghanistan's Kandahar province, Khan Mohammad Mujahid and his two bodyguards, in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Friday April 15, 2011
KABUL (Reuters) - An Afghan woman wearing a police uniform shot dead on Monday a civilian contractor working for Western forces in the police chief's compound in Kabul, NATO said. The incident is likely to raise troubling questions about the...
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In this photo taken Sunday, April 15, 2012, what appears to be a new missile is carried during a mass military parade at the Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the country's founding father Kim Il Sung.
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An Indian protester is chased by a police officer during a protest in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012.
Angry protests escalated into violence in India's capital on Sunday, after thousands of people gathered to demand justice for the victim of a recent gang rape in New Delhi and improved safety for women. Protesters flocked to the India Gate monument...
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A Sailor assigned to Weapons Department gets ready to shoot a M-14 rifle with an MK-87 line-throwing adapter.
An unwavering National Rifle Association said Sunday that new gun regulations would not make children safer and that a White House task force on gun violence may try to undermine the Second Amendment. The organization blasted "a media machine" that...
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updated 24 Dec 2012; published 12 May 2009
9:35
Air Bagan
BBC News 25 Dec 2012, Two people, including a young child, have been killed and another 11 injured during an emergency landing in Burma, officials say. The Air Bagan plane was carrying more than 60 passengers, many of whom were foreign...

updated 24 Dec 2012; published 25 Dec 2009
1:53
Raw Video: Pope Knocked Down at Christmas Mass
Canberra Times 25 Dec 2012, DPA Pope Benedict XVI has prayed for peace in the Middle East and warned against religious fundamentalism as he celebrated a traditional Christmas Eve mass for the world's 1.2 billion Catholics. Thousands of people flocked to the Vatican Basilica in St Peter's Square for the two-hour service which was also broadcast worldwide. Holding a golden...

updated 25 Dec 2012; published 22 Dec 2012
3:58
Delhi gang-rape: water cannons, lathicharge as protests intensify
Skynews 25 Dec 2012, An Indian policeman who was injured in clashes during a protest over a gang-rape in New Delhi has died. The 47-year-old police constable, Subash Tomar, was deployed at the India Gate monument on Sunday to control the protests....

updated 25 Dec 2012; published 24 Dec 2012
1:59
Bethlehem celebrates Christmas
Stuff 25 Dec 2012, Thousands of Christians from the world over have packed Manger Square in Bethlehem to celebrate the birth of Jesus in the ancient West Bank town where he was born. For their Palestinian hosts, this holiday season was an especially joyous one, with the hardships of the Israeli occupation that so often clouded previous Christmas Eve celebrations...

updated 24 Dec 2012; published 29 Oct 2012
6:56
George Galloway on Gay Rights and Hugo Chavez | Oxford Union
The Star 24 Dec 2012, CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's condition has "improved slightly" after a cancer operation in Cuba, the information minister said on Monday, amid doubts over whether the former soldier is in good enough health to continue governing. A supporter of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez holds a picture of him, as she...

updated 25 Dec 2012; published 24 Dec 2012
0:59
Afghan Policewoman Kills US Adviser in Kabul
my SA 24 Dec 2012, KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan policewoman shot and killed an American adviser outside the police headquarters in Kabul on Monday, the latest in a rising tide of insider attacks by Afghans against their foreign allies, senior Afghan officials said. The woman, identified as Afghan police Sgt. Nargas, had entered a strategic compound in the...

updated 20 Dec 2012; published 24 Aug 2009
4:14
Liberation Theology
WorldNews.com 24 Dec 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. A deadly silence immediately followed after a bullet penetrated the calf's skull. Against my wishes, Vic had decided against either amputating its leg or contacting a veterinarian-something he reasoned would have been too expensive. The unfortunate calf had slid down into a ravine where its hind leg,...

updated 05 Dec 2012; published 01 Dec 2012
25:04
Talk to Al Jazeera - Amr Darrag on Egypt's 'perfect' constitution
The Siasat Daily 24 Dec 2012, Egypt, December 23: Egypt's main opposition bloc named " the National Salvation Front" said in a press conference Sunday that it would appeal the result of the constitutional referendum that initially showed approval of the draft constitution, claiming that it was based on fraud. The front's statement, read by communist politician Abdel- Ghaffar...

updated 25 Dec 2012; published 22 Dec 2012
3:58
Delhi gang-rape: water cannons, lathicharge as protests intensify
BBC News 24 Dec 2012, Indian PM Manmohan Singh has appealed for calm in the capital, Delhi, following violent protests over the gang rape of a woman. Mr Singh said his government would "make all possible efforts to ensure security and safety to all women". More than 100 people were hurt in clashes at the weekend - police say at least 70 officers were injured....

updated 25 Dec 2012; published 23 Dec 2012
3:41
18+ Syria - Assad MIG Mass Murder of Bakery Bread Line in Halfaya 12-23-12 - part1
Zeenews 24 Dec 2012, Zeenews Bureau Moscow: A deadly air strike by Syrian government on a bakery in Halfaya of Syria’s Hama on Monday killed more than 60, even as international envoy Lakhdar Barhimi is in the country to negotiate the solutions to the ongoing civil war. "Dozens of people were killed in an air strike on Halfaya," Lebanon's Naharnet said citing the...

updated 20 Dec 2012; published 12 Dec 2012
3:47
North Korea's rocket launches
Al Jazeera 23 Dec 2012, North Korea's launching of a rocket into space last week amounted to the test of a ballistic missile capable of carrying a half-ton payload over 10,000km, the South Korean defence ministry says. "Based on our analysis and simulation, the missile is capable of flying more than 10,000km with a warhead of 500-600kg," a defence ministry official told...

updated 24 Dec 2012; published 09 Dec 2012
24:56
Inside Syria - How real is Syria's chemical weapons threat?
Newstrack India 23 Dec 2012, Tweet Moscow, Dec 23 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Chemical weapons in Syria are under the control of the government, which has consolidated them in one or two locations, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. "As of right now, the (Syrian) government is doing all it can to safeguard those weapons," he said. "We are following all leads concerning...

updated 18 Dec 2012; published 17 Dec 2012
2:36
Primary results of Egypt referendum announced
Voa News 23 Dec 2012, Egypt's Islamist Muslim Brotherhood says voters have approved the country's new controversial constitution. The Brotherhood said about 64 percent of the voters cast a...

updated 23 Dec 2012; published 19 Dec 2012
2:29
Brutal Gang Rape anger over boils over in India
Khaleej Times 23 Dec 2012, A commission will be set up to probe the gang-rape and torture of a 23-year-old woman in Delhi and measures to ensure such crimes do not recur while laws will be amended to enhance punishment for rape, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said . He also appealed the thousands of protesters on the capital’s streets, demanding justice for the...