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By Bertil Lintner CHIANG MAI - Recent weeks have seen some of the heaviest fighting in Myanmar's decades-long civil war with government forces launching determined attacks against...
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Ray Bradbury's futuristic fascist state has arrived sooner than expected. It is also more uneventful and secretive than first...
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In October 2011, 16-year-old Tariq Aziz attended a gathering in Islamabad where he was taught how to use a video camera so he could document the drones that were constantly...

United States President Barack Obama and others listen as Chief of Staff Jack Lew, centre, speaks during a Cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House on 31 January 2012.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama stood side by side in the East Room of the White House on Thursday with his outgoing Treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner, and the man he was nominating to replace him, White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew. The men...
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Bullets for handgun
A 16-year-old student armed with a shotgun walked into class in a rural California high school and shot one student, fired at another but missed, and then was talked into surrendering by a teacher and another staff member, officials said. The teen...
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10th Mountain soldiers head to Afghanistan
Nearly 3,500 10th Mountain Division soldiers are leaving for Afghanistan this month. Members of the 1st and 2nd...
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Students of Kashmir University hold plea cards while holding protest against the harassement to women across the country Students demanding action against the  persons involved in recent Gang rape in New Delhi at Kashmir University in Srinagar on Tuesday 08, January 2013.
NEW DELHI: A defence lawyer accused Indian police Thursday of beating confessions out of five men charged with murdering and gang-raping a student in New Delhi, as they were due to appear in court again. Speaking before a hearing at which a...
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President Barack Obama walks with Chief of Staff Jack Lew during a break from debate preparations in Williamsburg, Va., Oct. 14, 2012.
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Fighters from Islamist group Ansar Dine stand guard during the handover of a Swiss female hostage for transport by helicopter to neighboring Burkina Faso, at a designated rendezvous point in the desert outside Timbuktu, Mali Tuesday, April 24, 2012.
Saudi Arabia defies international protests with beheading of Sri Lankan maid Beyoncé, Kelly Clarkson and James Taylor to sing at Obama second presidential inauguration US publicly voices concerns over Britain leaving EU...
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In this photo provided by Ukrainian Pravda taken Wednesday, April 25, 2012, former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko shows bruises on her body to Ukrainian Commissioner for Human Rights in Kachanovskaya prison in Kharkiv, Ukraine, which she said she sustained when prison guards attacked her on Friday April 20 when trying to transport her to a local hospital against her will.
KIEV, January 9 (RIA Novosti) – Ukraine’s jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko spent the night in the bathroom at her hospital following her declaration of “civil disobedience” on January 8, Ukrainian news...
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updated 11 Jan 2013; published 10 Jan 2013
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Three Kurdish women shot in the head in Paris
France24 11 Jan 2013, The executions of three Kurdish women in Paris have sparked questions over the motives for the high-level assassinations. FRANCE 24 asks Kendal Nezan, president of the Kurdish Institute in Paris, for his views on the mysterious murders. By Ségolène ALLEMANDOU (text) The mysterious, seemingly carefully planned January 9 executions of three...

updated 11 Jan 2013; published 11 Jan 2013
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Pakistan: 103 dead, 270 injured in series of bomb blasts
Yahoo Daily News 11 Jan 2013, QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Violence against Pakistani Shia Muslims is rising and some communities are living in a state of siege, a human rights group said on Friday, warning that sectarian violence will only get worse a day after 114 people were killed in bombings. Most of the deaths were caused by twin attacks in the western city of Quetta,...

updated 11 Jan 2013; published 11 Jan 2013
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Karzai Meets Panetta at the Pentagon ' The Last Chapter of Afghan War?'
Al Jazeera 11 Jan 2013, The US and Afghanistan have reached the "last chapter" in their effort to establish a sovereign Afghanistan that can provide for its own security, US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said. After a formal welcoming ceremony at the Pentagon on Thursday, Panetta told Afghan President Hamid Karzai that 2013 would mark an important turning point in the...

updated 02 Dec 2012; published 27 Nov 2012
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Mali Islamist terror fears growing: French hostage appeals to Paris for help
CBC 11 Jan 2013, Mali's president on Thursday asked France for help countering an offensive by extremist groups who control the northern half of the country and are heading south. France's UN ambassador, Gerard Araud, told reporters after an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council that urgent action is needed against the groups who captured the city of Konna...

updated 11 Jan 2013; published 11 Jan 2013
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Bombings kill more than 100 people in Pakistan
Newsday 11 Jan 2013, QUETTA, Pakistan -- A series of bombings killed 115 people in Pakistan yesterday, including 81 who died in a sectarian attack on a billiard hall in the southwest city of Quetta, officials said. The blasts punctuated one of the deadliest days in recent years in Pakistan, where the government faces a bloody insurgency by militants in the northwest...

updated 10 Jan 2013; published 20 Feb 2010
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Jacque Fresco: US has never been a democracy
WorldNews.com 10 Jan 2013, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling "Lay then, the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind." -Thomas Paine, "The Rights of Man" If alive today, Thomas Paine would recognize that the United States Government is not worthy of its citizens. While civically engaging its...

updated 10 Jan 2013; published 06 Mar 2012
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BBC This World 2010 Mexico's Drug War
Al Jazeera 10 Jan 2013, Mexican has enacted a law that will ensure that the victims and relatives of crime are compensated with payments and social services from the state. The law, enacted by President Enrique Pena Nieto on Wednesday, comprises the creation of a fund to pay relatives up to $70,000 in compensation for an innocent victim killed in attacks by drug...

updated 10 Jan 2013; published 10 Jan 2013
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Kurdish protests after Paris killings
The Times of India 10 Jan 2013, PARIS: Three Kurdish women, including one of the founders of a militant group battling Turkish troops since 1984, were "executed" at a Kurdish center in Paris, the interior minister said on Thursday. Turkey's Anadolu news agency identified one of the victims as...

updated 09 Jan 2013; published 10 Jun 2012
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Wildfires in Western Australia
Denver Post 10 Jan 2013, Tammy Holmes, second from left, holds 2-year-old Charlotte Walker, left, and Esther Walker, 4, as they find refuge in water as fires rage nearby in Tasmania last week. Joining them were, from right, Caleb Walker, 6, Matilda Walker, 11, and Liam Walker, 9. Record temperatures across southern Australia cooled Wednesday, but the reprieve from the...

updated 10 Jan 2013; published 08 Jan 2013
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Karzai to meet Obama on US troop withdrawal
The Guardian 10 Jan 2013, Disaster and civil war will follow if all US forces leave after 2014, leaders warn, as Obama and Karzai prepare to hold talks...

updated 22 Sep 2012; published 18 Jun 2012
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40 Hour Famine 2012: Eyes Wide Open
BBC News 10 Jan 2013, As much as half of the world's food, amounting to two billion tonnes worth, ends up being thrown away, a UK-based report has claimed. The Institution of Mechanical Engineers said the waste was being caused by poor storage, strict sell-by dates, bulk offers and consumer fussiness. The study also found that up to 30% of vegetables in the UK were...

updated 11 Jan 2013; published 11 Jan 2013
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Chavez cancer surgery causes him to miss his own inauguration
The New York Times 10 Jan 2013, CARACAS, VenezuelaPresident Hugo Chávez’s supporters have not ruled out swearing him in from his hospital in Havana. His detractors are calling for government investigators to check his pulse themselves. The justices whom Mr. Chávez’s allies have named to the Supreme Court have decided that he can continue to...

updated 11 Jan 2013; published 09 Jan 2013
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NY Ferry Crash - New York Ferry Crash - Ferry Crashes in New York Accident Manhattan NYC
Skynews 09 Jan 2013, A commuter ferry has crashed into the dockside in Lower Manhattan in New York during the morning rush hour, injuring between 30 and 50 people. The Seastreak Ferry, which provides daily services from Atlantic Highlands in New Jersey, struck Pier 11 in the East River not far from Wall Street at about 8:45am ET (1:45pm GMT)....

updated 08 Jan 2013; published 06 Jan 2013
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Chávez inauguration could be postponed
France24 09 Jan 2013, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s January 10 inauguration will be postponed, the government announced on Tuesday, as the 58-year-old leader struggles to recover from his most recent bout of cancer surgery. By News Wires (text) Venezuela will postpone the inauguration of President Hugo Chavez for a new...