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Haiti quietly marks quake's 3rd anniversary
Full Article WPXI
12 Jan 2013

President Michel Martelly urged Haitians to recall the tens of thousands of people who lost their lives in a devastating earthquake three years ago, marking the disaster's anniversary Saturday with a simple ceremony. Martelly also thanked other countries and international organizations for their help after the Jan. 12, 2010 disaster. "Haitian...

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A Haitian national flag flies at half-mast on the front lawn of the former National Palace, marking the 3rd anniversary of the devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013.
photo: AP / Dieu Nalio Chery

updated 06 Aug 2012; published 13 Jan 2012
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2 Years After Earthquake, Haiti's Rebuilding Weighed Down By Legacy of Foreign Meddling
updated 02 Jan 2013; published 02 Jan 2013
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Haiti marks anniversary of independence from France
updated 06 Dec 2012; published 14 Jan 2011
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Tribute To Haiti Music Video By Phyllisia (L'Union Fait La Force)
updated 16 Jan 2012; published 16 Jan 2012
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2 years after the earthquake, Haiti remembers the victims-3.wmv
updated 27 Feb 2011; published 10 Jan 2011
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Jan. 12: Haitian Groups to March from Times Square to UN to Mark Earthquake Anniversary
updated 26 Aug 2010; published 19 Jul 2010
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Echo Evangelique 27th Anniversary
File - Al-Shabaab fighters display weapons as they conduct military exercises in northern Mogadishu, Somalia,Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010.
photo: AP / Mohamed Sheikh Nor

updated 12 Jan 2013; published 12 Jan 2013
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French hostage killed in Somalia during rescue attempt
updated 05 Dec 2012; published 10 Nov 2006
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Iranian Embassy Siege in London - Intervention by SAS
updated 12 Jan 2013; published 08 Sep 2012
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Words at War: Eighty-Three Days: The Survival Of Seaman Izzi / Paris Underground / Shortcut to Tokyo
updated 12 Jan 2013; published 13 Dec 2012
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SWAT (2003) subtítulos en español [CC]
updated 12 Jan 2013; published 05 Jan 2013
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Air Force One (1997) - 1080p HD - Full Movie (With English Captions)
updated 01 Mar 2012; published 04 Mar 2011
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House Session 2011-03-03 (14:12:19-15:22:28)
Bushfires rage on in Australia 'helped' by climate change
Full Article BBC News
12 Jan 2013

Australian firefighters are continuing to tackle more than 100 bushfires, which have gutted houses and thousands of hectares of land. Officials say temperatures are lower than feared, but gusty winds are making it hard to contain the blazes in New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania....

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In this Jan. 11, 2013 photo provided by NSW Rural Fire Service, an aircrane dumps water on a fire near Tallong, Australia.
photo: AP / NSW Rural Fire Service, Kerry Lawrence

updated 01 Jun 2010; published 04 Mar 2010
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Climate Change a major bushfire threat
updated 16 Jan 2012; published 14 Apr 2010
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Between Polar Bears and Bushfires: public lecture, ANU
updated 07 Aug 2010; published 13 Dec 2009
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Pt. 1 Social Ecologist Dr. Ben-Zion Weiss, U. of West. Sydney: Climate Change and the Bush Fires
updated 16 Feb 2010; published 13 Dec 2009
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Pt. 2 Social Ecologist Dr. Ben-Zion Weiss, U. of West. Syndney: Climate Change and the Bush Fires
updated 27 Aug 2010; published 21 Jun 2007
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Alpine Bushfires
updated 26 Jun 2011; published 27 Jan 2010
2:15
Firefighters warn of increased bushfire risk
Anti-government protests sweep Iraq
Full Article Al Jazeera
12 Jan 2013

Thousands of Sunni Iraqis have taken to the streets of Baghdad and other parts of the country to decry the alleged targeting of their minority, in rallies hardening opposition to the country's Shia leader. Counter-demonstrations were held on Friday in predominantly Shia areas of southern Iraq calling for authorities to resist demands to reform...

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Protesters chant slogans against Iraq's Shiite-led government as they wave national flags during a demonstration in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Jan. 11, 2013.
photo: AP / Karim Kadim

updated 04 Jan 2013; published 03 Jan 2013
0:37
Sectarian Iraq: Sunni minority protests alleged mistreatment by Baghdad Shiite government
updated 11 Jan 2013; published 31 Dec 2012
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Iraq's Sunnis protest Shia-led regime
updated 10 Jan 2013; published 02 Jan 2013
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Iraq Spring? Militant cleric Al-Sadr offers support for Iraq's anti-government Sunni protests
updated 07 Jan 2013; published 04 Jan 2013
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Anti-government protests rage in Iraq
updated 04 Jan 2013; published 04 Jan 2013
7:56
Anti government protests in Iraq
updated 12 Jan 2013; published 11 Jan 2013
1:43
Anti-government protests persist in Iraq
France launches military operation in Mali
Full Article 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,...

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French President Francois Hollande, center, reviews troops, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013, of the twelfth cuirassiers regiment in the military base of Olivet, near Orleans, central France, before delivering his New Year's greetings to French army forces.
photo: AP / Jacques Brinon

updated 12 Jan 2013; published 11 Jan 2013
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Raw: Hollande says French to intervene in Mali. Jan 12, 2013
updated 12 Jan 2013; published 12 Jan 2013
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Hollande says French to intervene in Mali
updated 12 Jan 2013; published 12 Jan 2013
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French pilot dies in Mali military operation.
updated 12 Jan 2013; published 11 Jan 2013
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French military arrived to help to Mali
updated 12 Jan 2013; published 12 Jan 2013
1:33
Hollande confirms Mali military intervention
updated 12 Jan 2013; published 12 Jan 2013
1:29
France confirms Mali military intervention
Rebels seize helicopter base in Syria
Full Article 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...

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In this Sunday Jan. 6, 2013 photo Syrian rebel fighters take their positions on the frontline of the ongoing battle for the military airport in Taftanaz, Syria.
photo: AP / Mustafa Karali

updated 15 Dec 2012; published 27 Nov 2012
1:11
Syria Rebels Advance - Capture Helicopter Base as Desperate Assad Cluster Bombs Kids 11-25-12
updated 07 Dec 2012; published 26 Nov 2012
1:11
Syrian rebels claim helicopter base near Damascus
updated 01 Dec 2012; published 26 Nov 2012
0:37
Syria Freedom Fighters Inspect Helicopter at Captured Air Base 11-25-12 Marj Al Sultan Base
updated 27 Dec 2012; published 26 Dec 2012
1:43
Syria Rebels Raid Assad Base in Aleppo 12 25 12 Burn Ammo and then Escape
updated 19 Dec 2012; published 16 Dec 2012
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Syria Rebels Show Captured Assad Weapons Khanasser Air Defense Base 12 15 12 Aleppo
updated 28 Nov 2012; published 27 Nov 2012
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Syria Rebels Ride Assad Tank from Captured Air Base in East Ghouta 11-26-12 Damascus
Kurdish assassination mystery grips Paris
Full Article 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...

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One of the three bodies of the killed Kurdish women is taken out of the building in Paris, Thursday Jan. 10, 2012.
photo: AP / Remy de la Mauviniere

updated 11 Jan 2013; published 10 Jan 2013
1:53
Kurdish PKK co-founder Sakine Cansiz shot dead in Paris
updated 22 Dec 2012; published 30 Oct 2011
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the Kurds, crashed Turkish mangol in France-Paris
updated 12 Jan 2013; published 10 Jan 2013
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Three Kurdish women shot in the head Killed Executed in Paris including PKK founder
updated 12 Jan 2013; published 10 Jan 2013
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PKK founder among three Kurdish women 'executed' in Paris
updated 12 Jan 2013; published 11 Jan 2013
2:25
Kurds stunned at slaying of PKK leaders in Paris
updated 12 Jan 2013; published 10 Jan 2013
0:38
Kurdish killings in France: three women linked to PKK including co-founder killed in Paris
Rights group warns Pakistan faces worsening sectarian violence
Full Article 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,...

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A Pakistani paramilitary soldier and local residents gather at the site of bomb blast in Quetta, Pakistan, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013.
photo: AP / Arshad Butt

updated 12 Jan 2013; published 11 Jan 2013
3:44
PAKISTAN Sectarian Violence: Twin Blasts Kill 81 People In Shiite Area Of Quetta
updated 05 Jan 2013; published 04 Jan 2013
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PAKISTAN Sectarian Violence: Over 300 Shia Muslims Killed By Sunni Extremists In 2012
updated 04 Jan 2013; published 01 Jan 2013
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PAKISTAN Sectarian Violence: Sunni Extremist Kills 19 Shia Pilgrims In Bus Blast
updated 05 Jun 2012; published 01 Feb 2007
4:22
Human Rights Orgs over Shia killings in Pakistan
updated 07 Jun 2012; published 23 Apr 2012
3:33
US recognises the right to self-determination for the Baloch people
updated 22 Nov 2012; published 19 Jul 2012
51:25
Focus with Waqas Munawar Ep67 - Pakistan, Constitution, Human Rights & Islam
US says Afghanistan mission in last chapter
Full Article 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...

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai, right, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, center, get a tour of the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial by James Laychak, president of the Pentagon Memorial Fund, left, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013, at the Pentagon.
photo: AP / Evan Vucci

updated 12 Jan 2013; published 12 Jan 2013
4:12
Mission Updated? US troops feared to stay in Afghanistan after 2014 pullout
updated 11 Jan 2013; published 11 Jan 2013
1:30
Karzai Meets Panetta at the Pentagon ' The Last Chapter of Afghan War?'
updated 12 Jan 2013; published 12 Jan 2013
4:12
World News 2013 - Mission Updated? US troops feared to stay in Afghanistan after 2014 pullout
updated 12 Jan 2013; published 12 Jan 2013
4:12
Mission-Update-US-troops-feared-to-stay-in-AFGHANISTAN-after-2014-pullout.mp4
updated 27 Aug 2010; published 29 Nov 2008
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Afghanistan Conflict is the New Vietnam War, part 1/2
updated 09 Jan 2013; published 02 May 2012
10:54
President Obama Speaks on Ending the War in Afghanistan
Mali asks France for help against extremists
Full Article 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...

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In this Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012 photo, Islamist commanders instruct 13-year-old fighter Abdullahi to man a pickup-mounted machine gun, during a meeting with an AP journalist, in Douentza, Mali. Islamists in northern Mali have recruited and paid for as many as 1,000 children from rural towns and villages devastated by poverty and hunger.
photo: AP

updated 12 Jan 2013; published 22 Apr 2011
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updated 12 Jan 2013; published 12 Jan 2013
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Mali military action intensifies
updated 12 Jan 2013; published 11 Jan 2013
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Mali government asks France for military aid
updated 12 Jan 2013; published 11 Jan 2013
1:24
France rules out unilateral action in Mali
updated 12 Jan 2013; published 12 Jan 2013
3:34
They Are Barbarian People (France Intervenes To Stem Jihadi Advance In Mali)
updated 12 Jan 2013; published 12 Jan 2013
1:29
France confirms Mali military intervention

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Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, left, and French President Francois Hollande hold a news conference after their bilateral meeting at 10 Downing Street in London Tuesday July 10, 2012.
Britain will provide transport planes to assist the French military operation in Mali, Downing Street has confirmed. David Cameron spoke with Francois Hollande on Saturday evening as France attempted to contain al-Qaeda linked rebels in the north of...
photo: AP / Andrew Winning
Presidential candidate Milos Zeman talks to media after casting his vote in presidential elections at a polling station in Prague, Czech Republic, Friday, Jan. 11, 2013.
PRAGUE (Reuters) - Former leftist Prime Minister Milos Zeman narrowly won the first round of the Czech Republic's presidential election on Saturday but will face a strong challenge from the country's aristocratic foreign minister in a run-off round....
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File - Former president George W. Bush is escorted by President Barack Obama on the U.S. Capitol east steps as he and Laura Bush prepare to take off in a Marine Corps helicopter following the 56th presidential inauguration in Washington, D.C., Jan. 20, 2009.
Follow @catpoe WASHINGTON, January 12, 2013 — When President Obama takes the oath of office on January 21, he will actually be doing it for a second time, having done so just 24 hours before, January 20. That’s because the U.S....
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., left, kneels with his children at the casket of Mary Richardson Kennedy, in St. Francis Xavier Cemetery in Centerville, Mass., Saturday, May 19, 2012.
On Friday night at the Winspear Opera House in Dallas, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his sister Rory spoke to legendary newsman Charlie Rose about their family before a spellbound audience as a year of observances begins to mark the 50th anniversary of...
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Press Conference: by H.E. Mr. Pablo Solon, Permanent Representative of the Plurinational States of Bolivia, on the Bolivian proposal of amendments to article 49 of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, with respect to coca leaf chewing.
Bolivia says that it has been re-admitted to the UN's anti-narcotics convention after persuading member states to recognise the right of its indigenous people to chew raw coca leaf, which is used in the making of cocaine. Evo Morales, the Bolivian...
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Two thousand displaced Sudanese have installed a camp of makeshift shelters near the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID)’s team site in Khor Abeche, South Darfur.
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - More than 30,000 people have fled during two weeks of fighting in Sudan's Darfur region, the United Nations said after some of the worst clashes between government troops, rebels and rival tribes reported there for months....
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People stand on a road covered by mud and rocks after a landslide triggered by heavy rains in Xiaohe, Qiaojia county, in southwest China's Yunnan province, Tuesday, July 13, 2010.
Beijing - A landslide killed at least 42 people including seven from a single family when it smashed into a remote village in south-western China on Friday, state media said. Another two people were sent to hospital after being rescued from the...
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updated 12 Jan 2013; published 12 Jan 2013
2:35
FERHA, INC
WPXI 12 Jan 2013, President Michel Martelly urged Haitians to recall the tens of thousands of people who lost their lives in a devastating earthquake three years ago, marking the disaster's anniversary Saturday with a simple ceremony. Martelly also thanked other countries and international organizations for their help after the Jan. 12, 2010 disaster. "Haitian...

updated 12 Jan 2013; published 12 Jan 2013
0:41
French hostage killed in Somalia during rescue attempt
The Guardian 12 Jan 2013, Helicopter raid fails to rescue agent 'Denis Allex' from Islamist group al-Shabaab, as French combat pilot killed in Mali French secret service hostage 'Denis Allex' pictured in Somalia in October 2012. Photograph: SITE Monitoring Service/AFP/Getty Images...

updated 10 Jan 2013; published 09 Jan 2013
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Family escape lethal wildfire
BBC News 12 Jan 2013, Australian firefighters are continuing to tackle more than 100 bushfires, which have gutted houses and thousands of hectares of land. Officials say temperatures are lower than feared, but gusty winds are making it hard to contain the blazes in New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania....

updated 12 Jan 2013; published 11 Jan 2013
1:43
Anti-government protests persist in Iraq
Al Jazeera 12 Jan 2013, Thousands of Sunni Iraqis have taken to the streets of Baghdad and other parts of the country to decry the alleged targeting of their minority, in rallies hardening opposition to the country's Shia leader. Counter-demonstrations were held on Friday in predominantly Shia areas of southern Iraq calling for authorities to resist demands to reform...

updated 12 Jan 2013; published 12 Jan 2013
0:45
Britain Sends Planes To Help French Fight In Mali
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 12 Jan 2013; published 06 Jan 2013
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Full Speech of Dr. Bashar al-Assad President of the Syrian Arab Repubblic, Damascus 06/01/2013
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 12 Jan 2013; published 10 Jan 2013
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CNN: "Turkey-PKK New Talks, 3 Kurdish women killed in Paris!" 10.01.2013
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
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
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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 12 Jan 2013; published 12 Jan 2013
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Tribune headlines: 9pm, January 12, 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 12 Jan 2013; published 11 Jan 2013
3:04
Ben Shapiro: History Is Replete With Democracies Going Tyrannical
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 12 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 12 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...