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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling A child is suddenly awakened in the dead of night with a terrifying warning that: a soldier was in their village, and he had shot at...
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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...
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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...

Japan's new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits one of the Tokyo Electric Power Co.(TEPCO) facilities at the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012.
TOKYO — As Japan's newly installed prime minister toured the crippled Fukushima power plant Saturday, he made it clear he is set to review the previous government's plan to phase out nuclear power. Japanese officials say Prime Minister...
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks at a news conference in Moscow, Friday, March 26, 2010
MOSCOW, December 29 (RIA Novosti) - Russian diplomats are ready to meet with the leader of the Syrian opposition in a neutral country for peace talks, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday. “We had contacts through our embassy in...
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A screen indicates the current exchange rate of the U.S. dollar against Japanese yen behind the both countries' flags at a foreign exchange firm in Tokyo Friday, Dec. 21, 2012.
How The Rothschilds Created Modern Finance And A Vast Fortune That Has Lasted For Centuries Japan Has Another HUGE Day — Yen Continues To Tumble The 10 Most Important Economic Questions For 2013 The head of Japan's central bank has vowed to work with...
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov,right, and U.N. envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi, center, shake hands as they meet in Moscow, Russia, on Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012.
MOSCOW (AP) — The United Nations envoy for the Syria crisis is warning that further deterioration of conditions in the country could send an unbearable stream of refugees into neighboring countries. Speaking Saturday after meeting in Moscow...
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Italian Premier Mario Monti speaks during a press conference at the Italian Senate in Rome, Friday, Dec. 28, 2012.
The premier, now in a caretaker role, will be represented in February voting. Frances D'Emilio, Associated Press...
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Court officers stand outside New York Supreme Court in New York on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011 after it was evacuated following an earthquake.
The number of people murdered in New York has fallen to its lowest point in 50 years, according to Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and police commissioner Ray Kelly, hold a press conference after a shooting outside the Empire State...
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II declares games opened during the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Summer Games at the Olympic Stadium in London, Friday, July 27, 2012.
America has seen a lot and heard a lot over the span of twelve months, and as we move forward, we submerge ourselves in nostalgia and look back at what our country endured and how we got to where we are today. This exhaustive list is by no means...
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updated 28 Dec 2012; published 26 Dec 2012
1:14
Shinzo Abe new Japanese PM
WorldNews.com 29 Dec 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling A millennium before the English statesmen Edmund Burke, regarded as the father of Western Conservatism and who wrote, "good order is the foundation of all things," Japan's Seventeen-Article Constitution began with this conservative principle: "Harmony is to be cherished, and opposition for opposition's...

updated 29 Dec 2012; published 29 Dec 2012
12:00
LIVE Delhi Gang Rape Victim Dies in Singapore Hospital-TV9
BBC News 29 Dec 2012, Police in India have sealed off much of the capital, Delhi, and issued an appeal for calm after the death of a woman who was gang-raped in the city. The 23-year old woman, who has not been identified, died early on Saturday at a hospital in Singapore, where she had been taken for specialist treatment. Her body is to be flown back to India for...

updated 29 Dec 2012; published 21 Dec 2012
7:10
President Obama Makes a Statement on the Fiscal Cliff
BBC News 28 Dec 2012, US President Barack Obama says he is "modestly optimistic" that a deal to avoid the "fiscal cliff" is possible, after a last-ditch White House...

updated 29 Dec 2012; published 29 Dec 2012
25:01
Inside Story - Central African Republic's looming crisis
Al Jazeera 28 Dec 2012, The president of Central African Republic (CAR) has urgently called on France and other foreign powers to help his government fend off rebels who are quickly seizing territory and approaching the capital. Speaking to crowds in Bangui, a city of some 600,000, Francois Bozize on Thursday pleaded with foreign powers to do what they could. He pointed...

updated 29 Dec 2012; published 29 Dec 2012
7:47
New Cold War? 'Reset dead, US never truly cooperated'
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
Deadly! SNOWSTORM ravage NORTHEAST US 17 Dead, Dectruction 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 29 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
News Wrap: In Iraq, Sunni Demonstrators Protest Government
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 28 Dec 2012; published 27 Dec 2012
2:41
George HW Bush remains 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 29 Dec 2012; published 29 Dec 2012
25:01
Inside Story - Central African Republic's looming 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 28 Dec 2012; published 27 Dec 2012
1:26
'Nelson Mandela is back home'
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...