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UN's Ban hopes French intervention halts latest offensive in Mali
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15 Jan 2013

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday welcomed the French-led military intervention in Mali at the request of the government there and voiced the hope that it would halt an assault launched by Islamist militants. "The secretary-general welcomes that bilateral partners are responding, at the request and with the...

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This Sunday Jan.13, 2013 photo provided by the French Army Monday Jan.14, 2013 shows French Rafale jetfighters being prepared before heading to Mali from the Saint Dizier airbase, eastern France.
photo: AP / Laure-Anne Maucorps, ECPAD

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updated 13 Jan 2013; published 09 Sep 2012
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Words at War: They Shall Inherit the Earth / War Tide / Condition Red
updated 14 Jan 2013; published 19 Jun 2012
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The Vietnam War: Reasons for Failure - Why the US Lost
updated 14 Jan 2013; published 27 Aug 2012
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Secret War in Laos Documentary Film: Laotian Civil War and US Government Involvement
updated 14 Jan 2013; published 25 Sep 2011
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Part 4 - The Return of Sherlock Holmes Audiobook by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Adventures 09-11)
2012 military suicides hit a record high of 349
Full Article Ohio
15 Jan 2013

WASHINGTON: Suicides in the U.S. military surged to a record 349 last year, far exceeding American combat deaths in Afghanistan, and some private experts are predicting the dark trend will grow worse this year. The Pentagon has struggled to deal with the suicides, which Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and others have called an epidemic. The problem...

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US military in side hummer on the Ramadia road and an the duty in Ramadia present
photo: WN / Jamal Penjweny

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WAR PR How The Pentagon Censors, Forces & Uses Hollywood To Produce Pro-War Movie Propaganda
updated 14 Nov 2012; published 23 Dec 2011
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US Troops Charged After Fellow GI, Hazing Victim Danny Chen Found Dead in Afghanistan
updated 04 Dec 2012; published 17 Aug 2012
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Army Suicides Reach New High
updated 15 Sep 2012; published 09 Jun 2012
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One suicide per day among US troops; Highest rate in decade
updated 09 Dec 2011; published 09 Dec 2011
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WAR PR Osama Bin Laden The Movie, Exposing The Military-Hollywood Pro-War Propaganda Complex
updated 21 Jun 2012; published 26 Mar 2012
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Robert Bales Charged: Military Scrambles To Limit Malaria Drug Just After Afghanistan Massacre
Armstrong Admits Doping, and Says He Will Testify
Full Article The New York Times
15 Jan 2013

In an interview with Oprah Winfrey that is scheduled to air on her network on Thursday, Lance Armstrong confessed that he used performance-enhancing drugs during his cycling career, according to two people briefed on the interview, which was recorded on Monday in Austin, Tex. Enlarge This Image Joel Saget/Agence France-PresseGetty Images Lance...

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FILE - In this Aug. 24, 2009 file photo, Lance Armstrong speaks at the opening session of the Livestrong Global Cancer Summit in Dublin, Ireland.
photo: AP / Peter Morrison

updated 10 Jan 2013; published 05 Jan 2013
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Lance Armstrong PLANS To Admit Of Use Of Banned PHD Drugs & Blood Transfusions Cycling Career
updated 14 Jan 2013; published 24 Aug 2012
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Lance Armstrong Ends Fight Against Doping Charges
updated 02 Jan 2013; published 22 Oct 2012
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Donald Trump On Fox And Friends Discussing Lance Armstrong , and Obama Romney Debate Preview
updated 15 Jan 2013; published 15 Jan 2013
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Lance Armstrong Admits Doping Confesses To Oprah Performance Enhancing Use
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You Too Lance Amstrong ??? - Caught for Using Drugs
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Lance Amstrong Caught for Using Drugs ???
Obama On Debt Ceiling: 'We Are Not A Deadbeat Nation'
Full Article Huffington Post
14 Jan 2013

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama issued a strong warning to Republicans on Monday that he will not negotiate over the debt ceiling or allow Republicans to use it as a bargaining chip....

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File - President Barack Obama talks with Chief of Staff Jack Lew and Rob Nabors, Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, in the Oval Office, Nov. 28, 2012.
photo: White House / Pete Souza

updated 14 Jan 2013; published 31 Jul 2011
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Felonious Munk Presents: Stop It B! OBAMA PAY YOUR &*%$#% BILLS
updated 08 Jan 2013; published 04 Jun 2011
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TYT - Extended Clip June 3, 2011
updated 22 Mar 2012; published 21 Mar 2012
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Senate Session 2012-03-20 (15:19:44-16:30:17)
updated 08 Jan 2013; published 24 Mar 2010
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TYT Hour - March 23rd, 2010
updated 13 Jan 2013; published 26 Jul 2011
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Full Video-Obama Addresses Nation On Debt Ceiling Negotiations
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Obama Winning the Future - WTF? National Debt, Debt Ceiling, RightChange.com
Italy's Berlusconi fails to have sex trial suspended
Full Article The Star
14 Jan 2013

MILAN (Reuters) - Judges in Milan rejected a request by former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi on Monday to halt his sex trial until after a national election next month, but allowed the key witness to avoid giving testimony in open court. Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi gestures before the taping of the talk show...

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In this Dec. 29, 2012 file photo Silvio Berlusconi smiles as he arrives at Milan's central train station.
photo: AP / Luca Bruno

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Berlusconi accused of hijacking sex trial
updated 29 Nov 2012; published 31 May 2011
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Berlusconi's sex trial resumes amid poll defeat
updated 14 Jan 2013; published 14 Jan 2013
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Berlusconi Sex Trial to Rule Before the Election
updated 14 Dec 2012; published 06 Dec 2012
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Berlusconi hints strongly at comeback
updated 07 Apr 2011; published 10 Feb 2011
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Italian prosecutors seek immediate Berlusconi trial
updated 12 Jul 2012; published 12 Jul 2012
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Silvio Berlusconi set to Run again to Become Italian Prime Minister
Pilgrims Flock to India's Ganges for World's Biggest Festival
Full Article Jakarta Globe
14 Jan 2013

Allahabad. Hundreds of thousands of Hindu pilgrims led by naked, ash-covered holy men streamed into the sacred river Ganges on Monday at the start of the world's biggest religious festival. The Kumbh Mela in the Indian town of Allahabad will see up to 100 million worshippers gather over the next 55 days to take a ritual bath in the holy waters,...

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Indian Hindu holy men, or Naga Sadhus, run naked into the water at Sangam, the confluence of the rivers Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati, during the royal bath on Makar Sankranti at the start of the Maha Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, India, Monday, Jan. 14, 2013.
photo: AP / Kevin Frayer

updated 04 Jan 2013; published 17 Oct 2012
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Millions of Hindu pilgrims throng Kumbh Mela at Allahabad
updated 14 Jan 2013; published 12 Sep 2012
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Maha Kumbh Mela - Spiritual Journey to The World's Largest Pilgrimage
updated 13 Jan 2013; published 13 Jan 2013
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Maha Kumbh Mela to begin tomorrow, 10 crore pilgrims expected to visit Allahabad
updated 14 Jan 2013; published 13 Jan 2013
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Hindus gather for Kumbh Mela pilgrimage
updated 12 Jan 2013; published 19 Nov 2007
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Short Cut to Nirvana: Kumbh Mela ( trailer)
updated 15 Jan 2013; published 13 Jan 2013
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Kumbh Mela religious festival in Allahabad
France strikes Mali rebels
Full Article Independent online (SA)
14 Jan 2013

Bamako/Paris - French fighter jets pounded Islamist rebel strongholds deep in northern Mali on Sunday as Paris poured more troops into the capital, Bamako, awaiting a West African force to dislodge al-Qaeda-linked insurgents from the country’s north. The attacks on Islamist positions near the ancient desert trading town of Timbuktu and Gao...

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This Sunday Jan.13, 2013 photo provided by the French Army Monday Jan.14, 2013 shows a French Rafale jetfighter landing after a mission to Mali in N'Djamena, Chad.
photo: AP / Adj Nicolas-Nelson Richard, ECPAD

updated 14 Jan 2013; published 13 Jan 2013
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France Strikes at Rebel Strongholds in North Mali
updated 14 Jan 2013; published 13 Jan 2013
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French FIGHTER JETS BOMB Mali AL-QAEDA linked ISLAMIST rebels while African states ready TROOPS
updated 14 Jan 2013; published 11 Jan 2013
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France launches air strikes in Mali against rebels
updated 15 Jan 2013; published 13 Jan 2013
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French pilot KILLED in Mali as France continue AIR-STRIKES against ISLAMIST FORCES
updated 14 Jan 2013; published 13 Jan 2013
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France bombs Mali rebels, African states ready troops
updated 14 Jan 2013; published 13 Jan 2013
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AIR-STRIKES in AFRICA as French AIRFORCE steps up MILITARY ACTION against ISLAMIST FIGHTERS in Mali
Syria conflict causing 'staggering' humanitarian crisis
Full Article BBC News
14 Jan 2013

The Middle East faces a "staggering" humanitarian crisis caused by the conflict in Syria, an aid agency says. With more then 600,000 Syrians having fled the...

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Men help a wounded civilian after a mortar attack in the Saif al-Dawlah neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013.
photo: AP / Andoni Lubaki

updated 14 Jan 2013; published 14 Jan 2013
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Syria conflict causing 'staggering' humanitarian crisis
updated 14 Jan 2013; published 14 Jan 2013
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BBC News - Syria conflict causing 'staggering' humanitarian crisis
updated 21 Nov 2012; published 06 Sep 2012
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Syrian Rebels Down Fighter Jet
updated 15 Jan 2013; published 15 Jan 2013
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DEADLY AIR STRIKE kills 20 near CAPITAL, Assad ordered air strikes kill civilians [DEVASTATION]
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President Obama Addresses the UN General Assembly
updated 30 Dec 2012; published 09 Jun 2012
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Senate Session 2012-06-07 (12:42:32-13:54:09)
India's Hindu Kumbh Mela festival begins in Allahabad
Full Article Joy Online
14 Jan 2013

Millions of Hindu pilgrims have arrived in the Indian city of Allahabad as the Kumbh Mela festival gets underway. On Monday thousands began bathing at the point where the Ganges and Yamuna rivers converge, with up to ten million more set to do so over the coming days. The event, which takes place once every 12 years, is billed as the biggest...

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Thousands of Hindu devotees gather at Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati river on Makar Sankranti, the first day of the Maha Kumbh Mela, in Allahabad, early Monday morning, Jan. 14, 2013.
photo: AP / Manish Swarup

updated 14 Jan 2013; published 13 Jan 2013
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Hindus gather for Kumbh Mela pilgrimage
updated 12 Jan 2013; published 01 Feb 2010
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Amazing India (Newer) - World's Largest Festival Starts- 2010 Kumbh Mela
updated 14 Jan 2013; published 14 Jan 2013
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"Biggest Gathering On Earth" Millions To Attend Hindu Kumbh Mela Festival In Allahabad
updated 14 Jan 2013; published 08 Nov 2007
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Kumbh Mela - India
updated 14 Jan 2013; published 14 Jan 2013
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Indias Hindu Kumbh Mela festival begins in Allahabad
updated 16 Dec 2012; published 29 Apr 2010
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Naga Baba Rampuri made Shri Mahant in Juna Akhara during Kumbh Mela
French surprise intervention in Mali aims to stop terrorists, but will it trap Paris, too?
Full Article Fox News
14 Jan 2013

French President Francois Hollande, right, speaks with members of Malian associations in France during a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013. Niger, Burkina Faso, Senegal and Nigeria agreed on Saturday to send soldiers, a day after France authorized air strikes, dispatching fighter jets from neighboring Chad and bombing...

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This picture released by the French Army Communications Audiovisual office (ECPAD) shows French soldiers getting ready before boarding to Bamako, the capital from Mali, at Kossei camp in N'Djamena, Chad, Friday, Jan. 11, 2013.
photo: AP / R.Nicolas-Nelson, Ecpad

updated 15 Jan 2013; published 11 Jan 2013
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Hollande says French to intervene in Mali
updated 13 Jan 2013; published 12 Jan 2013
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World News 2013 - Hollande says French to intervene in Mali
updated 13 Jan 2013; published 11 Jan 2013
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Raw: Hollande says French to intervene in Mali. Jan 12, 2013
updated 13 Jan 2013; published 12 Jan 2013
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France confirms Mali military intervention
updated 12 Jan 2013; published 12 Jan 2013
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France confirms Mali intervention
updated 14 Jan 2013; published 11 Jan 2013
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France says will send troops to Mali if needed

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Mali is in the grip of an unprecedented political crisis, one of the most serious since the landlocked West African country gained independence from France in 1960. France has...

This picture released by the French Army Communications Audiovisual office (ECPAD) shows French fighter pilot getting ready to take off with a Mirage 2000 D, at Kossei camp in N'Djamena, Chad, Friday, Jan. 11, 2013.
PARIS -- Despite intensive airstrikes by French warplanes, Islamist fighters Monday overran a strategic village and military post in central Mali, offering an indication that the war against extremists who have carved out a jihadist state in the...
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H.E. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, Permanent Representative of Russia, reads a statement to the press following Security Consultations on the situation in the Middle East, with regard to Israel and Palestine.
UN, January 15 (RIA Novosti) - Russia has no claims to military activities of France in Mali after it joined military operation against the Islamist insurgency in the African country, Russia’s UN envoy Vitaly Churkin said on Tuesday. Last week...
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Karzai: US troop immunity up to Afghan elders
KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Afghan president said Monday that a meeting of the nation's elders should convene to decide whether U.S. troops staying in the country after 2014 would be immune from prosecution under Afghan law. President Hamid Karzai's...
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UN Security Council to meet on Mali, France to use Algeria's airspace for operation
UNITED NATIONS/PARIS, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- The UN Security Council will hold a meeting Monday at France's request to discuss the situation in Mali, while Paris got authorization to use Algeria's airspace for its operation in the western African...
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BEIJING - Mask-wearing Beijing residents endured a third day of pollution at hazardous levels on Sunday, as authorities warned that a thick cloud of smog may not lift from the Chinese capital until midweek. As the dense smog shrouded large swathes of...
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People displaced by fighting welcome French involvement in Mali
Yahoo Daily News 15 Jan 2013, UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday welcomed the French-led military intervention in Mali at the request of the government there and voiced the hope that it would halt an assault launched by Islamist militants. "The secretary-general welcomes that bilateral partners are responding, at the request and with the...

updated 15 Jan 2013; published 15 Jan 2013
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News Wrap: Military Suicides Exceed Combat Deaths in 2012
Ohio 15 Jan 2013, WASHINGTON: Suicides in the U.S. military surged to a record 349 last year, far exceeding American combat deaths in Afghanistan, and some private experts are predicting the dark trend will grow worse this year. The Pentagon has struggled to deal with the suicides, which Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and others have called an epidemic. The problem...

updated 15 Jan 2013; published 15 Jan 2013
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BREAKING : Lance Armstrong admits to doping during Winfrey interview
The New York Times 15 Jan 2013, In an interview with Oprah Winfrey that is scheduled to air on her network on Thursday, Lance Armstrong confessed that he used performance-enhancing drugs during his cycling career, according to two people briefed on the interview, which was recorded on Monday in Austin, Tex. Enlarge This Image Joel Saget/Agence France-PresseGetty Images Lance...

updated 14 Jan 2013; published 14 Jan 2013
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President Obama urges Congress to raise US debt limit
Huffington Post 14 Jan 2013, WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama issued a strong warning to Republicans on Monday that he will not negotiate over the debt ceiling or allow Republicans to use it as a bargaining chip....

updated 10 Jan 2013; published 10 Jan 2013
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SILVIO BERLUSCONI TRIAL PRIME MINISTER OF ITALY SEX SCANDAL BREAKING NEWS
The Star 14 Jan 2013, MILAN (Reuters) - Judges in Milan rejected a request by former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi on Monday to halt his sex trial until after a national election next month, but allowed the key witness to avoid giving testimony in open court. Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi gestures before the taping of the talk show...

updated 14 Jan 2013; published 14 Jan 2013
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FTN: Is the Kumbh Mela the greatest celebration of India's diversity?
Jakarta Globe 14 Jan 2013, Allahabad. Hundreds of thousands of Hindu pilgrims led by naked, ash-covered holy men streamed into the sacred river Ganges on Monday at the start of the world's biggest religious festival. The Kumbh Mela in the Indian town of Allahabad will see up to 100 million worshippers gather over the next 55 days to take a ritual bath in the holy waters,...

updated 14 Jan 2013; published 14 Jan 2013
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France fighter jets pound rebels in northern Mali
Independent online (SA) 14 Jan 2013, Bamako/Paris - French fighter jets pounded Islamist rebel strongholds deep in northern Mali on Sunday as Paris poured more troops into the capital, Bamako, awaiting a West African force to dislodge al-Qaeda-linked insurgents from the country’s north. The attacks on Islamist positions near the ancient desert trading town of Timbuktu and Gao...

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BBC News 14 Jan 2013, The Middle East faces a "staggering" humanitarian crisis caused by the conflict in Syria, an aid agency says. With more then 600,000 Syrians having fled the...

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Maha Kumbh Mela begins in Allahabad with piety, fervor
Joy Online 14 Jan 2013, Millions of Hindu pilgrims have arrived in the Indian city of Allahabad as the Kumbh Mela festival gets underway. On Monday thousands began bathing at the point where the Ganges and Yamuna rivers converge, with up to ten million more set to do so over the coming days. The event, which takes place once every 12 years, is billed as the biggest...

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France escalates involvement in Mali
Fox News 14 Jan 2013, French President Francois Hollande, right, speaks with members of Malian associations in France during a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013. Niger, Burkina Faso, Senegal and Nigeria agreed on Saturday to send soldiers, a day after France authorized air strikes, dispatching fighter jets from neighboring Chad and bombing...

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Paris, France, Pro-Gay Marriage, Equality Protest, French LGTB Groups, Place St. Michel, .MOV
The Australian 13 Jan 2013, HUNDREDS of thousands of protesters have flooded the streets of Paris in protest at government plans to legalise gay marriage and adoption. With the proposed legislation due to go before parliament at the end of this month, opponents travelled from all over France for a demonstration supported by leaders of the mainstream centre-right opposition,...

updated 12 Jan 2013; published 06 Dec 2012
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Netanyahu, Merkel agree to disagree on Israeli settlements
Khaleej Times 13 Jan 2013, ZAIM - Israeli police evicted dozens of Palestinian activists early on Sunday from a first-of-its-kind protest camp they set up in a West Bank area slated for illegal Jewish settlement. Police and activists confirmed that hundreds of Israeli police entered the campsite in the controversial E1 area on the outskirts of Jerusalem at around 2.30am on...

updated 14 Jan 2013; published 13 Jan 2013
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Egyptian court orders re-trial for Mubarak
San Francisco Chronicle 13 Jan 2013, CAIRO (AP) — A court granted Hosni Mubarak's appeal of his life sentence in a Sunday hearing, ordering a retrial of the ousted Egyptian president on charges that he failed to prevent the killing of hundreds of protesters during the...

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Global Warming 101
The Observer 13 Jan 2013, The draft version of the US National Climate Assessment, released on Friday, makes remarkable reading – not just for Americans but for all humanity. Put together by a special panel of more than 240 scientists, the federally commissioned report reveals that the US is already reeling under the impact of global warming. Heatwaves, droughts, floods,...