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SANAA, Yemen — The villagers who rushed to the road, cutting through rocky fields in central Yemen, found the dead strewn around a burning sport utility vehicle. The bodies...
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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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George H.W. Bush is an 88-year-old man with Parkinson's disease who has been battling bronchitis-related complications in an intensive care unit since Sunday, so it is natural to wonder whether he will...
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An Indian Sikh devotee offers prayers at the Golden Temple, Sikh's holiest shrine in Amritsar, India, Monday, Aug. 6, 2012.Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Monday that he was shocked and saddened by the shooting attack that killed six people at a Sikh house of worship in the U.S. state of Wisconsin.
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The new leader of the Pakistan People's Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, center, the son of Benazir Bhutto, speaks during a news conference at an hotel in London, flanked by his mother's sister Sanam Bhutto, left, Tuesday Jan. 8, 2008. Zardari on Tuesday called for a U.N. sponsored investigation of his mother's murder, saying that he does not trust officials in Pakistan. The 19-year-old Oxford University student was chosen to succeed his mother as leader of the party, though day-to-day leadership is in the hands of his father, Asif Ali Zardari.
ISLAMABAD — The son of Pakistan's former premier, Benazir Bhutto, formally launched his political career Thursday with severe criticism of the judiciary for the slow trial of his mother's alleged killers. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, 24, delivered...
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In this photo illustration, a "WikiLeaks" graphic is displayed on a laptop in a cafe on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010, New York. Police ratcheted up the pressure on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Wednesday, asking European officers to arrest him on rape charges as his organization continued to embarrass the Obama adminstration with a stream of leaked diplomatic cables.
A federal judge has refused to recuse herself from the closely watched trial of jailed computer hacker Jeremy Hammond, an alleged member of the group "Anonymous" charged with hacking into the computers of the private intelligence firm...
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Indian paramilitary troops stand guard  on a cold and foggy morning in Srinagar December 26, 2008. the summer capital of indian administrated kashmir. heightened tensions between India and Pakistan.
The Pakistani Taliban have seized at least 22 men from a paramilitary force and killed several in attacks on two checkpoints in northern Pakistan. Pakistan has lost more than 3,000 soldiers in the fight against home-grown insurgents Photo:...
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This video image taken from Egyptian State Television shows 83-year-old Hosni Mubarak laying on a hospital bed inside a cage of mesh and iron bars in a Cairo courtroom Wednesday Aug. 3, 2011 as his historic trial began on charges of corruption and ordering the killing of protesters during the uprising that ousted him.
Egyptian authorities Thursday said ousted president Hosni Mubarak would be transferred from a prison, where he is serving a life sentence, to a military hospital for medical treatment....
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French President Francois Hollande, center, alongside French Chief of Staff Admiral Edouard Guillaud review the troops during the Bastille Day military parade on the Champs Elysees avenue, Paris, Saturday, July 14, 2012.
French President Francois Hollande said Thursday that France wants to protect its interests in Central African Republic and not a regime, casting doubt that the former colonial power will come to the aid of the government facing a rapid rebel...
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updated 26 Dec 2012; published 16 Aug 2012
3:22
Afghanistan War - US Army Ambushed by Taliban - Combat Footage From Panjwa'i District
CounterPunch 27 Dec 2012, Imperial adventures are nothing new in the Middle East. Neither is their glorification, as Peter O’Toole’s pained Lawrence of Arabia eternally reminds us. But for a decade or so now, things have been heating up, as if to coincide with climate change and fears of declining petroleum reserves. Fuelled by 9/11 and inspired by material avarice, the...

updated 28 Dec 2012; published 27 Dec 2012
1:30
NORTHEAST USA DESTRUCTIVE SNOWSTORM 12 Dead Dec.27,2012
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 28 Dec 2012; published 28 Dec 2012
18:27
Benazir Bhutto's death 5th anniversary Pakistan People's Party JAPAN
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 23 Dec 2012; published 02 Dec 2012
3:05
Vox Populi: Egyptians to vote on Morsi's constitution
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 28 Dec 2012; published 27 Dec 2012
1:38
Rebels advance in Central African Republic
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 19 Dec 2012; published 08 Dec 2012
1:04
News : Nelson Mandela hospitalised
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 17 Dec 2012; published 17 Dec 2012
0:15
Japan: New PM Shinzo Abe Fires China Warning
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 01 Dec 2012; published 30 Nov 2012
0:56
Egypt constitution draft passes
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...