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The Next Web reports that developers have started to see logs with an 'iPhone6,1' identifier, using iOS 7, which could be Apple's next mobile operating system. Apple has...
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One night in 1979, bombs dropped from the sky, killing 16 members of Ismail’s family. “The war took some people to Europe and America, but it destroyed my family,” Ismail, who is...
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Last month, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced a new initiative to address the cholera epidemic in Haiti. The plan includes a variety of measures, most notably...

A South Korean army soldier reads messages on ribbons hanging on the wire fence wishing for reunification of the two Koreas at the Imjingak in Paju near the border village of the Panmunjom, South Korea, Tuesday, Jan 1, 2013.
South Korea yesterday dismissed a rare New Year’s message from North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as “bland,” despite his apparent overture to Seoul about reducing tensions. “The message was bland and there were no groundbreaking proposals,” South...
photo: AP / Ahn Young-joon
Thursday, Aug. 6 2009, where the Secretary met with the Somalia president Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed. Clinton on Thursday pledged continued American support for Somalia's weak interim government as it struggles against Islamist extremists believed linked to al-Qaida
WASHINGTON — US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is starting off the new year in a hospital with a blood clot. Clinton, a former first lady, ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008. Charles Eyler knows all about blood...
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In this photo released by Iranian Students News Agency, ISNA, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi, left, speaks with Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, seated, attends the the Nonaligned Movement summit in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012.
To the Editor: Re “Another Try at Nuclear Negotiations” (editorial, Dec. 24): With President Obama’s re-election, it is time to drop the pose of toughness and make a realistic nuclear offer to Iran. Only a negotiated settlement can...
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In this Feb. 15, 2007 file photo, a Central African Republic fighter, center, clasps hands with a boy as he passes him on a street in the town of Paoua, Central African Republic.
Kpademona Marcel and other residents of the capital of Central African Republic have watched in fear as rebels from the country's north seized control of more than half the country in less than a month. On Tuesday, all he could do was pray that a...
photo: AP / Schalk van Zuydam
An anti-government protester is taken away by police officers as he blocks a main road in downtown Hong Kong at New Year's Day Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013 to call for the resignation of Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying.
Thousands of people in Hong Kong have taken to the streets on the first day of the new year to call for the city's chief executive to resign. They say CY Leung is not to be trusted following claims he lied about illegal structures at his home, a...
photo: AP / Vincent Yu
In this Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012 photo, Free Syrian Army fighters fire at enemy positions during heavy clashes with government forces, in the Salaheddine district of Aleppo, Syria.
BASSEM MROUE Associated Press= BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian troops and rebels fought Tuesday in suburbs of Damascus as well as near Aleppo's airport, stopping all flights in and out of the northern city, activists and state media said....
photo: AP / Abdullah Al-Yasin
Republican vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan, of Wisconsin, makes a point to Vice President Joe Biden during the vice presidential debate at Centre College, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012, in Danville, Ky.
Four years ago, Arkansas Democrats held every constitutional office, all but one seat in the state's congressional delegation and a seemingly untouchable majority in the Legislature. How things have changed. The state GOP party built on major gains...
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updated 02 Jan 2013; published 31 Dec 2012
0:59
Year end brings no break in Syrian conflict
NZ Herald 02 Jan 2013, The United Nations has estimated that more than 60,000 people have been killed in Syria's 21-month-old uprising against authoritarian rule, a toll one-third higher than what anti-regime activists had counted. The UN human rights chief called the toll "truly shocking". Opposition activist groups had been estimating the death toll at more than 45,000...

updated 31 Dec 2012; published 30 Dec 2012
0:37
Shiite pilgrims killed in deadly Pakistan attack
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 02 Jan 2013, ISLAMABAD -- Continuing a militant campaign of violence against aid workers in Pakistan, gunmen Tuesday shot dead seven Pakistani teachers and health workers, six of them women, police officials said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. But the shooting, in the Swabi district of the northwestern province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, fit a...

updated 02 Jan 2013; published 01 Jan 2013
1:02
North Korea's Kim Jong-un makes a rare New Year's speech
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 02 Jan 2013, SEOUL -- In a domestically televised New Year's Day speech, North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un said he wanted to "remove confrontation" on this divided peninsula and called on "anti-reunification forces" in South Korea to cease their hostility toward the North. The lengthy address, which laid out the national goals for 2013, marked Mr....

updated 25 Sep 2012; published 23 Sep 2012
1:53
UN urges accord at Sudan summit
Al Jazeera 02 Jan 2013, The presidents of Sudan and South Sudan are set to meet in Ethiopian capital to discuss how to improve border security and resume cross-border oil flows, both governments have said. The African Union will host the summit on Friday between Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir and his southern counterpart Salva Kiir in Addis Ababa, spokesmen...

updated 02 Jan 2013; published 01 Jan 2013
0:37
Raw: Cantor Opposes Senate `Cliff' Bill
Detroit news 01 Jan 2013, By Andrew Taylor Associated Press Comments House Minority Leader Eric Cantor of Va., center, House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, left, and others, arrive for a Republican caucus meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday. (Jacquelyn Martin/Associated Press) Washington — The Senate-approved compromise to avert the "fiscal cliff" ran...

updated 02 Jan 2013; published 01 Jan 2013
1:11
Ivory Coast New Years Stampede Kills 60 Injures 250 In Abidjan RIP
The Guardian 01 Jan 2013, INZA BAKAYOKO Associated Press= ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — A crowd stampeded after leaving a New Year's fireworks show early Tuesday in Ivory Coast's commercial center, killing 61 people — many of them youths — and injuring more than 200, rescue workers said....

updated 31 Dec 2012; published 30 Dec 2012
2:22
UN envoy: 'Syria at risk of descending into hell'
The Star 01 Jan 2013, BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrians woke on New Year's Day to countrywide aerial bombardment, while President Bashar al-Assad's forces and rebels fighting to topple him clashed on the outskirts of the capital. Free Syrian Army fighters and civilians search for bodies under rubble after an air strike by a fighter jet loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad...

updated 12 Dec 2012; published 06 Dec 2007
6:29
The Long Walk
WorldNews.com 01 Jan 2013, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling For good reason Mark Charles, a member of the Navajo Nation, is deeply offended that buried on page 45 of the 2010 Defense Appropriation Act (after pages on the maintenance and operation of the United States Military) is an "official" apology to Native American People. Not only does such dismissive...

updated 25 Nov 2012; published 20 Nov 2012
1:15
DR Congo M23 rebels enter Goma city.
Al Jazeera 01 Jan 2013, The United Nations Security Council has slapped an arms embargo on M23 rebels and their alleged Rwandan allies, the FDLR, amid a flare-up of violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern region. The council committee tasked with monitoring sanctions on the Congo also imposed a travel ban and asset freeze on two key M23 figures: the group's...

updated 02 Jan 2013; published 30 Dec 2012
2:21
Outlook for Germany's Merkel in 2013
BBC News 31 Dec 2012, Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned that the German economic climate in 2013 will be "even more difficult". In her new year message, she also cautioned that the eurozone debt crisis was far from over. However, she did say that reforms designed to address the roots of the problem were beginning to bear fruit. Her comments appeared to...

updated 30 Dec 2012; published 30 Dec 2012
1:06
BREAKING NEWS: 19 DEAD! Shia pilgrims KILLED in SUICIDE bus BOMBING in Pakistan!
The Los Angeles Times 30 Dec 2012, ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – At least 19 people were killed by a car bomb in Pakistan on Sunday, the latest in a pattern of escalating attacks by militants in recent weeks. An explosives-laden car was detonated next to a convoy of three buses carrying Shiite Muslim pilgrims from Pakistan’s western Baluchistan province to Iran. The blast also...

updated 01 Jan 2013; published 09 Apr 2010
1:54
Racist Blacks are targeting Asian women for hate crimes in New York
Taipei Times 30 Dec 2012, A woman who told police she shoved a man to his death off a subway platform because she has hated Muslims since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the US and thought he was one was charged on Saturday with murder as a hate crime, prosecutors said. Erika Menendez was charged in the death of Sunando Sen, who was crushed by a 7 train in Queens, New York,...

updated 02 Jan 2013; published 02 Jan 2013
1:45
Barack Obama lauds Congress 'fiscal cliff' deal
The New York Times 30 Dec 2012, WASHINGTON — President Obama on Sunday implored Congress to act within the next 48 hours to avert the sharpest tax increases and benefit cuts scheduled to take effect on Tuesday. Enlarge This Image Luke Sharrett for The New York Times If a deal is reached, votes in the Senate could begin Sunday. Multimedia Graphic Fiscal Cliff: Changes Set to...

updated 31 Dec 2012; published 30 Dec 2012
2:22
UN envoy: 'Syria at risk of descending into hell'
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...