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The first clues appeared in Kenya, Uganda and what is now South Sudan. A British arms researcher surveying ammunition used by government forces and civilian militias in 2006 found...
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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...

SOMALIA, Kismayo: In a handout photograph taken 05 October and released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team 06 October, a soldier serving with the Kenyan Contingent of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) is seen standing infront of an armoured personnel carrier through a bullet hole in the gate the former compound housing the offices of the  United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) while a combat engineering team sweeps the area for unexploded ordinace and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in the southern Somali port city of Kismayo. The last bastion of the once feared Al-Qaeda-affiliated extremist group Al Shabaab, Kismayo fell after troops of the Somali National Army (SNA) and the pro-government Ras Kimboni Brigade supported by Kenyan AMISOM forces entered the port city on 02 October following a two month operation across southern Somalia which saw the liberation of villages and centres along a distance of 120km from Afmadow to Kismayo. AU-UN IST PHOTO / STUART PRICE.
Al-Qaida presence in Mali, Yemen and Afghanistan 1 hour ago Egypt police attacked near gas pipeline in Sinai 2 hours ago Palestinian killed in Gaza border fence shooting...
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U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 Dylan Ferguson, a brigade aviation element officer with the 82nd Airborne Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team, launches a Puma unmanned aerial vehicle June 25, 2012, Ghazni Province, Afghanistan. Ferguson uses the Puma for reconnaissance for troops on the ground. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Michael J. MacLeod, Task Force 1-82 PAO)
President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai say in a statement that the U.S. military mission in Afghanistan is expected to shift to a support role later this spring, a few months earlier than expected. (Jan. 11) You need the latest...
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France's President Francois Hollande delivers a speech on the situation in Mali at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Friday, Jan. 11, 2013.
By GABRIELE PARUSSINI PARISFrance's President François Hollande said Friday that French troops were on the ground in Mali to help the local army push back rebel groups advancing toward the south of the vast West African country. French soldiers were...
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Central African Republic President Francois Bozize, right, shakes hands with Michel Djotodia, leader of the Seleka rebel alliance, as heads of state and other participants applaud, during peace talks in Libreville, Gabon, Friday, Jan. 11, 2013.
Central African Republic President Francois Bozize, the rebels who sought to overthrow him, and the political opposition have reached a deal to create a government of national unity. Friday's agreement, which includes a ceasefire, also...
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Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner N7874
WASHINGTON — The head of Federal Aviation Administration says he's confident the Boeing 787 is safe, but he remains concerned about recent incidents, including a fire and a fuel leak earlier this week. Michael Huerta, the FAA administrator,...
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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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updated 11 Jan 2013; published 11 Jan 2013
1:22
Mali intervention: France sends in military as Mali government calls 'state of emergency'
The Star 11 Jan 2013, PARIS/BAMAKO (Reuters) - France's armed forces began a military intervention in Mali on Friday to help the government stem a push south by Islamist rebels who control much of the north, President Francois Hollande said. Women hold banners urging national talks to end the political paralysis in the south of Mali, in the capital Bamako January 10,...

updated 11 Jan 2013; published 11 Jan 2013
4:34
Syria Hysteria: 'West paints post-Assad pic fueling chemical arms fears'
Independent online (SA) 11 Jan 2013, Beirut - Rebels seized a strategic air base in northern Syria on Friday after months of fighting, activists and insurgents said, further weakening President Bashar al-Assad's grip on the region. Rebels had fought for the base used by military helicopters in Idlib province for months, but it only fell after Islamist units reinforced them earlier...

updated 11 Jan 2013; published 10 Jan 2013
0:57
Three Kurdish women activists shot dead 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
4:49
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
1:30
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
1:09
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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Crush the News with Jason Brentwood - 01 10 2013
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 11 Jan 2013; published 19 Sep 2012
12:13
Jesse Ventura: We want to bring democracy to world & don't have it in US
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 11 Jan 2013; published 06 Mar 2012
59:14
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 11 Jan 2013; published 11 Jan 2013
2:31
Massive Protests After Execution-Style Killing In Paris Of Three Kurdish Female Activists
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 11 Jan 2013; published 09 Jan 2013
2:43
Australia Wildfires Family Clings To Jetty.
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
2:07
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
3:32
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
5:31
Venezuela - Top Court Upholds Chavez Inauguration Delay
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...