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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...

Japan's new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during his first press conference at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012.
PRIME Minister Yoshihiko Noda's Cabinet resigned today to clear the way for a vote in parliament to formally install the nation's new leader, Shinzo Abe, a conservative whose nationalist positions have in the past angered Japan's...
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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.
North Korea's rocket...
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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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updated 27 Dec 2012; published 27 Dec 2012
1:56
Winter Storm hitting NYC December 26-27, 2012 THUNDER SNOW (Also hitting the whole North East!)
Zeenews 27 Dec 2012, Washington: Six people, including two young children, were left dead in weather-related accidents, as winter snowstorms complicated travel for many Americans in the Midwest and Northeast on Wednesday. Snow totals in parts of Indiana ranged from 6 to 12 inches, CNN reported. About 350 snowploughs were clearing roads throughout the city....

updated 27 Dec 2011; published 27 Dec 2011
10:12
4th death anniversary of Benazir bhutto shaeed HD 1
BBC News 27 Dec 2012, Large crowds of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) supporters are gathering to mark the fifth anniversary of the murder of ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Ms Bhutto died in a gun and bomb attack during her 2007 election campaign. Hundreds of thousands of people have set up camp near the Bhutto family's ancestral home in Sindh province. The...

updated 27 Dec 2012; published 21 Dec 2012
7:10
President Obama Makes a Statement on the Fiscal Cliff
Khaleej Times 27 Dec 2012, Efforts to prevent the US economy from going over a ‘fiscal cliff’ stirred back to life on Wednesday with less than a week to go before potentially disastrous tax hikes and spending cuts kick in at the New Year. In a sign that there may be a way through deadlock in Congress, Republican House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner urged the...

updated 26 Dec 2012; published 26 Dec 2012
0:55
Egyptians react as Morsi signs disputed constitution into law
The New York Times 27 Dec 2012, CAIRO — President Mohamed Morsi of Egypt took responsibility on Wednesday for “mistakes” during the run-up to ratification of the new Constitution and urged Egyptians to appreciate the fierce disagreements about it as a “healthy phenomenon” of their new democracy. Times Topic: Egypt NewsRevolution and Aftermath...

updated 27 Dec 2012; published 27 Dec 2012
2:18
Iraq: Sunnis Continue Protests Against Prime Minister. 27/12/2012
The New York Times 27 Dec 2012, Tens of thousands of Sunni Muslims blocked Iraq’s main trade route to neighboring Syria and Jordan in a demonstration on Wednesday against Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, a Shiite. The size of the protests in the Sunni stronghold of Anbar Province was an escalation in protests that erupted last week after troops detained the bodyguards...

updated 27 Dec 2012; published 27 Dec 2012
1:25
Spokesman: George HW Bush in Intensive Care
The Guardian 27 Dec 2012, Former US president admitted to Houston hospital with family members remaining by his side, doctors say Former US president George HW Bush was on liquid-only diet after a fever that kept him in the hospital over Christmas got worse. Photograph: Max Nash/AP...

updated 22 Dec 2012; published 03 Mar 2009
5:54
Central African Republic: The forgotten crisis
Al Jazeera 27 Dec 2012, The United Nations is pulling its non-essential staff from the Central African Republic, as rebels advance towards the capital Bangui. The US has also urged its citizens to leave the country, the AFP news agency reported, as France deployed a protection force around its embassy after it was attacked on Wednesday. Angry protesters carrying clubs...

updated 27 Dec 2012; published 25 Dec 2012
0:54
South Africa president makes Christmas visit to Mandela in hospital
Irish Times 27 Dec 2012, Former South African president Nelson Mandela was released from hospital yesterday. The anti-apartheid icon has been in hospital since December 8th being treated for a lung infection and having gallstones removed, a government spokesman said....

updated 22 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
Al Jazeera 26 Dec 2012, - After a month of strikes and sometimes deadly street protests, Bangladesh's government is staring at an irreconcilable political deadlock. The opposition, led by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), says it will not "return from the streets" until the government restores the country's caretaker system for holding national parliamentary...

updated 10 Nov 2012; published 13 Mar 2012
1:02
Idlib | Christian officer defects and joins FSA
The Guardian 26 Dec 2012, News of defection comes as activists say 20 people, including eight children, have been killed by shelling in north of country Assad’s forces are hitting back at a string of rebel advances across the country. Photograph: Abdalghne Karoof/REUTERS...

updated 27 Dec 2012; published 26 Dec 2012
1:14
Shinzo Abe new Japanese PM
CNN 26 Dec 2012, December 26, 2012 -- Updated 0855 GMT (1655 HKT) (CNN) -- The Japanese parliament elected Shinzo Abe as prime minister Wednesday, giving him a second chance at the same job five years after he resigned abruptly. Abe, 58, is the nation's seventh prime minister in six years. He started the revolving door of prime ministers by resigning in 2007, just...

updated 26 Dec 2012; published 26 Dec 2012
2:32
News Wrap: In Egypt, Draft Constitution Passes in Referendum
The Salt Lake Tribune 26 Dec 2012, Cairo • The official approval of Egypt’s disputed, Islamist-backed constitution Tuesday held out little hope of stabilizing the country after two years of turmoil and Islamist President Mohammed Morsi may now face a more immediate crisis with the economy falling deeper into distress. In a clear sign of anxiety over the economy, the turbulence of...

updated 24 Dec 2012; published 23 Dec 2012
1:14
Gulf summit: Middle East foreign ministers gather in Bahrain to discuss regional issues
Al Jazeera 26 Dec 2012, The six Gulf states have sharpened their tone against their neighbour Iran, demanding an immediate halt to its "interference" in their internal affairs while urging action to halt mass killings and violations of international law in Syria. Concluding a two-day summit in Manama, the Gulf Cooperation Council members voiced support for Bahrain while...

updated 30 Nov 2012; published 27 Nov 2012
1:33
Benedict XVI: Peace and reconciliation in the Middle East.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 25 Dec 2012, ROME -- Speaking from the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, Pope Benedict XVI called on Tuesday for religious freedom in China and peace for the "defenseless" in Syria in his annual Christmas message. "May peace spring up for the people of Syria, deeply wounded and divided by a conflict which does not spare even the defenseless and reaps...