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Whether or not the U.S. "fiscal cliff" impasse is broken before the New Year's Eve deadline, there will be no post-cliff peace in Washington. With the political climate toxic in...
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The Target: President Obama and members of Congress Sponsored by: Mayors Against Illegal Guns "We can't tolerate this anymore. These tragedies must end. And to end them we must...
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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...

Congressmen walk down the steps of the House of Representatives at the Capitol as rank and file members adjourned for several days, in Washington,Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012.
Posted: December 29, 2012 COMMENTARY | President Obama’s Fiscal Cliff plans would land the United States in $20 trillion in debt by 2017. As previously reported by The Inquisitr, a new Gallup poll reveals that Americans support Obama in the...
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* Reid, McConnell and aides in last-ditch effort * Some aides pessimistic deal can be reached in time By Richard Cowan and Rachelle Younglai WASHINGTON, Dec 29 (Reuters) - Congressional negotiators burrowed into their Capitol offices on Saturday to...
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Friends and family members of 9/11 victims visit a September 11 Memorial waterfall during a ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the attacks, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011 in New York.
Posted: December 29, 2012 The U.S. population will hit 315.1 million people on January 1, 2013. The Census Bureau announced this week that the U.S. population increased by 2.3 million people, or .73 percent during 2012. At the start of 2012 there...
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Qatari Foreign Minister Hamad bin Jasim, right, and Arab League secretary-general Nabil al-Arabi Nabil, left, chair the Arab League emergency session on Syria at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Nov.12, 2011.
related articles Arab League chief heads for Ramallah to discuss aid to Palestinians, peace talks...
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Gjorge Ivanov, presidential candidate talks to the media after casting his ballot in the runoff of the presidential elections, in front of a polling station in Macedonia's capital Skopje, Sunday, April 5, 2009. First-round winner Gjorgje Ivanov, a government-backed conservative, is running against Social Democrat challenger Ljubomir Frckosk
SKOPJE (Reuters) - Several thousand people rallied in front of the headquarters of Macedonia's rightist ruling party on Saturday demanding the immediate resignation of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and early elections. The rally was the culmination...
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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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updated 30 Dec 2012; published 29 Dec 2012
1:37
UN/Arab League envoy warns of "hell" if Syria violence continues
Zeenews 30 Dec 2012, London: UN-Arab League envoy to Damascus, Lakhdar Brahimi, has said that a diplomatic solution to the conflict in Syria seemed far away, adding that the country risked being slithering into ‘hell’. Following talks in Moscow with Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei...

updated 29 Dec 2012; published 26 Dec 2012
1:52
Japan's Shinzo Abe gets second chance as 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 30 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 28 Dec 2012
10:33
President Obama on Fiscal Cliff Negotiations: 'Let's Not Miss This Deadline'
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 27 Dec 2012
1:38
Rebels advance in Central African Republic
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
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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
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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
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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 28 Dec 2012
10:33
President Obama on Fiscal Cliff Negotiations: 'Let's Not Miss This Deadline'
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 28 Dec 2012; published 28 Dec 2012
1:38
Rising sectarian tide in Iraq: Sunni protests erupt over Shia-dominated Iraq 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 30 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 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 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....