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Obama pressures US Congress over gun control laws
Full Article The Times of India
09 Apr 2013

HARTFORD, Connecticut: US President Barack Obama urged Congress not to block a vote on gun control legislation and told families of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims that he is as "determined as ever" to honor their children with tougher laws. Obama's gun control proposals have run into resistance in Congress, leaving their fate in...

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File - President Barack Obama meets with Chief of Staff Denis McDonough; Alyssa Mastromonaco, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations; and Rob Nabors , Deputy White House Chief of Staff for Policy, in the Oval Office, Feb. 11, 2013.
photo: White House / Pete Souza

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Obama pressures Congress to act swiftly on gun control
updated 17 Jan 2013; published 17 Jan 2013
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THE LATEST NEWS : Pres Obama: Congress Must Act on Guns
updated 05 Apr 2013; published 05 Apr 2013
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Congress urged to act on federal gun reform
updated 09 Apr 2013; published 09 Apr 2013
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US president Obama pushes for gun control legislation
updated 13 Feb 2013; published 13 Feb 2013
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Chuck Todd: Obama Got Congress 'To Act Like A Congregation' When He Demanded A Vote On Gun Control
updated 30 Jul 2012; published 30 Jul 2012
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Obama & Congress's Total Gun Ban Bill ~ A Criminal Act!
World leaders pay tributes to 'iconic' Margaret Thatcher
Full Article Zeenews
09 Apr 2013

Paris: Barack Obama, Mikhail Gorbachev, Helmut Kohl and Bill Clinton were among the former friends and foes who joined in tributes to Margaret Thatcher, praising the fearlessness and fierce determination of an "iconic" leader. The "Iron Lady" was a polarising figure in Britain and beyond, but foreign leaders Monday were unanimous in acknowledging...

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former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in October 2007
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Archive: Thatcher 'rejoices' at Falkland victory
updated 08 Apr 2013; published 08 Apr 2013
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Margaret Thatcher Tributes Paid to 'Great leader, Great Briton'
updated 08 Apr 2013; published 08 Apr 2013
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Margaret Thatcher Dies Tributes Pour In - April 08 2013
updated 08 Apr 2013; published 08 Apr 2013
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Margaret Thatcher dies, tribute, rip, died 2013, celebrity death. video.
updated 08 Apr 2013; published 08 Apr 2013
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iconic moments :Margaret Thatcher dead Former prime minister dies at 87 after a massive stroke
updated 08 Apr 2013; published 08 Apr 2013
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Margaret Thatcher Celebrates Her 87th Birthday
International donors pledge $3.6 billion to rebuild Darfur
Full Article Deutsche Welle
08 Apr 2013

Donor countries have pledged $3.6 billion (2.77 billion euros) to finance the development of war-torn Darfur at a fundraising conference in Qatar. The hosts were among the biggest contributors, offering $500 million. Sudan's Darfur region is to receive the multi-billion dollar pledge over a six-year period, Qatar's minister of state for cabinet...

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Qatar State Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ahmed al Mahmoud, left, talks to Samani al Waseelah, Minister of State at the Sudanese Foreign Ministry, right, and Amr Moussa, secretary general of the Arab League, before the opening of the International donor conference for the development and the construction of Darfur, which co-chaired by Egypt and Turkey with backing from the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, March 21, 2010.
photo: AP / Amr Nabil

updated 30 Jan 2013; published 30 Jan 2013
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Donations for Syria aid exceed UN target
updated 31 Mar 2010; published 31 Mar 2010
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MaximsNewsNetwork: HAITI: BILL CLINTON, LADY CATHERINE ASHTON, ROBERT ZOLLICK, STRAUS-KHAN
updated 26 Jul 2011; published 26 Jul 2011
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Global Count: Education | Global 3000
updated 30 Jan 2013; published 30 Jan 2013
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UN seeks aid money for Syria at Kuwait conference
updated 30 Jan 2013; published 30 Jan 2013
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WORLD WAR UPDATE! UK dragged in to FRENCH-MALI WAR as Cameron pledges TROOPS & SUPPLIES
updated 24 Oct 2012; published 24 Oct 2012
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Economic Crisis Casts Shadow Over Biodiversity Talks
Israel honors 6 million victims of Nazi Holocaust
Full Article STL Today
08 Apr 2013

Among the crowds who marked Israel's annual Holocaust remembrance day at the Yad Vashem memorial Monday was a retired American Air Force colonel from San Francisco who came to honor a family he never knew. Bertrand Huchberger was too young to remember his parents, who sent him and his older sister from Paris into the French countryside to escape...

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Participants of the March of the Living wave Israeli flags in the former Nazi Death Camp Auschwitz Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, Monday, April 8, 2013.
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updated 17 Feb 2011; published 17 Feb 2011
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TodaysNetNews: U.N. SPECIAL CEREMONY TO PAY HOMAGE TO HOLOCAUST VICTIMS OF NAZI DEATH CAMPS
updated 17 Jan 2012; published 17 Jan 2012
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CBS Cares: International Holocaust Rememberance Day PSA 2012
updated 28 Jan 2013; published 28 Jan 2013
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A tribute for the victims and survivors of the Holocaust (HD)
updated 03 Apr 2013; published 03 Apr 2013
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Requiem for the Warsaw Ghetto - Marking 70 Years Since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
updated 25 Mar 2013; published 25 Mar 2013
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Remarks by Fred S. Zeidman, Chairman, United States Holocaust Memorial Council (DOR 2008)
updated 11 May 2012; published 11 May 2012
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Holocaust Survivor Pinchas Gutter Shares Liberation Story with March of the Living
Reining in fully autonomous 'killer robots'
Full Article Al Jazeera
08 Apr 2013

A science fiction-like arms race is quietly underway around the globe with the development of robots, with the autonomy to decide who shall live and die in wars of the future. Fully autonomous machines could be deployed on battlefields within decades, and debate over the moral, ethical and legal consequences of unleashing "killer robots" is heating...

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File - A TALON robot attracts attention on a test drive down Disney drive after repairs at the Joint Robotic Repair Detachment shop Oct. 27, 2011, at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan.
photo: US Army / Spc. Ken Scar

updated 04 Jan 2013; published 04 Jan 2013
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A Call to Ban 'Killer Robots'
updated 23 Nov 2012; published 23 Nov 2012
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Killer Robots - Drone Strikes of the Future?
updated 21 Nov 2012; published 21 Nov 2012
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Rights Groups Condemn 'Killer Robots'
updated 19 Nov 2012; published 19 Nov 2012
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Pull the Plug on Killer Robots
updated 27 Nov 2012; published 27 Nov 2012
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Group Wants Killer Robots Banned
updated 26 Nov 2012; published 26 Nov 2012
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Human Rights Watch Campaigns Against 'Killer Robots'
Former British PM Margaret Thatcher dies
Full Article RTE
08 Apr 2013

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has died following a stroke aged 87. Her spokesman Lord Bell confirmed the news saying: "It is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother, Baroness Thatcher, died peacefully following a stroke this morning." Mrs Thatcher was the longest-serving British prime...

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updated 08 Apr 2013; published 08 Apr 2013
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Ex-UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher dies - IRON LADY IS DEAD
updated 09 Apr 2013; published 09 Apr 2013
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Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher dies
updated 08 Apr 2013; published 08 Apr 2013
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Margaret Thatcher dead: Obituary of former Prime Minister
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Prime Minister's Questions - 27 November 1990
updated 17 Jan 2012; published 17 Jan 2012
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Margaret Thatcher - Thames Television - 1981 1983
updated 08 Nov 2010; published 08 Nov 2010
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Nelson Mandela meeting with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
Timbuktu fears French troops withdrawal from Mali
Full Article BBC News
08 Apr 2013

Malian soldiers advance anxiously in the streets of Timbuktu, a historic Muslim city freed from nine months of Islamist militant rule by French forces in January. They are on board six pick-up trucks, but they are effectively alone and exposed. They know they are the primary targets for suicide bombers, who have been targeting several towns in the...

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In this photo taken March 21, 2013, Malian soldiers stand around the debris left after a jihadist suicide bomber blew himself up at a Malian army checkpoint near the airport in Timbuktu, Mali.
photo: AP

updated 01 Apr 2013; published 01 Apr 2013
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French-backed Malian soldiers fight attacking rebels.
updated 17 Feb 2013; published 17 Feb 2013
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Timbuktu residents bid farewell to French troops but Islamist insurgent threat remains
updated 14 Jan 2013; published 14 Jan 2013
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French troops pounds Mali Rebels
updated 30 Jan 2013; published 30 Jan 2013
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Malian women recount abuse under al-Qaeda linked group
updated 29 Jan 2013; published 29 Jan 2013
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Hollande's Timbuktu Triumph: French army looks north after hero's welcome to fabled city
updated 28 Jan 2013; published 28 Jan 2013
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French and Malian troops take Timbuktu airport
Egyptian Copts and Muslims clash again in central Cairo, one killed
Full Article The Times of India
07 Apr 2013

CAIRO: One person was killed and more than 80 were wounded in clashes at the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in central Cairo on Sunday after a funeral service for four Egyptian Christians killed in sectarian violence with Muslims, state media said. Christian-Muslim confrontations have increased in Muslim-majority Egypt since the overthrow of president...

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A tear gas canister is fired by Egyptian riot police into the compound of the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral after the funeral of four Christians killed in sectarian clashes near Cairo over the weekend in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, April 7, 2013.
photo: AP / Mostafa El Shemy

updated 08 Apr 2013; published 08 Apr 2013
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CAIRO clashes follow Egypt Coptic funerals
updated 08 Apr 2013; published 08 Apr 2013
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Security Tight Following Egypt Clashes
updated 07 Apr 2013; published 07 Apr 2013
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Clashes after funeral of Egypt Copts
updated 13 Oct 2011; published 13 Oct 2011
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Scandal Egyptian Muslim army Central Security hits Christians
updated 08 Apr 2013; published 08 Apr 2013
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Mursi condemns deadly Cairo violence against Coptic Christians
updated 10 Oct 2011; published 10 Oct 2011
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Bearded Muslim:that the Egyptian army shouts Christians Copts with Cheer Allahu Akbar,Egypt
NATO air strike kills 11 Afghan children, officials say
Full Article France24
07 Apr 2013

An air strike in Afghanistan carried out by NATO forces has killed 11 children in the eastern part of the country, officials said on Sunday. Afghanistan’s president condemned the loss of civilian lives. By News Wires (text) A NATO air attack in eastern Afghanistan has killed 11 children, officials said Sunday, the latest case of civilian...

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U.S. Army Lt. Col. Scott Noon, center, the commander of Division Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, 101st Airborne Division, provides security during an Afghan National Army-led gathering in Parwan province, Afghanistan, March 26, 2013. The event was intended to build relationships with villagers. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Kelvin Lovelist/Released)
photo: US Army / Kelvin Lovelist

updated 31 Mar 2013; published 31 Mar 2013
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Child dies in NATO strike on Afghan Taliban
updated 07 Apr 2013; published 07 Apr 2013
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Afghanistan Nato Raid 'Kills 11 Children' - ( Video ) 7/4/13
updated 13 Feb 2013; published 13 Feb 2013
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Ten Afghan Civilians Killed In NATO Air Strike - Provincial Governor
updated 14 Feb 2013; published 14 Feb 2013
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Official; NATO airstrike kills 10 women, children in Kunar; 34 K US troops due to withdraw
updated 29 May 2011; published 29 May 2011
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Afghans say NATO air strike kills 12 children, two women
updated 07 Apr 2013; published 07 Apr 2013
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WATCH: U.S. Diplomat and 5 others American Slaughtered in Car Bomb Suicide in Afghanistan
Afghan children 'killed by Nato air strike in Shigal'
Full Article BBC News
07 Apr 2013

Up to 12 civilians - 10 children and two women - are reported to have been killed in a Nato air strike in eastern Afghanistan. A...

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File - In this Sept. 15, 2011, file photo Capt. Michael Kolton, 28, of Fairfax Station, Va., commanding officer of the U.S. Army's Bravo Company of the 25th Infantry Division, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Battalion 27th Infantry Regiment based in Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, turns from the rotor wash of a Blackhawk helicopter, following a key leader engagement at the Shigal district center in Kunar province, Afghanistan.
photo: AP / David Goldman

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Afghan children 'killed by Nato air strike in Shigal'
updated 07 Apr 2013; published 07 Apr 2013
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Afghan Children KILLED | Nato air strike in Shigal 7/4/2013
updated 08 Apr 2013; published 08 Apr 2013
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11 Children an 2 Woman Killed by NATO Air Strike in Shigal Afghanistan
updated 07 Apr 2013; published 07 Apr 2013
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BBC News - Afghan children 'killed by Nato air strike in Shigal' 2013
updated 07 Apr 2013; published 07 Apr 2013
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BREAKING: 11 Children an 2 Woman Killed by NATO Air Strike in Shigal, Afghanistan
updated 07 Apr 2013; published 07 Apr 2013
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Afghanistan Nato Raid 'Kills 11 Children' - ( Video ) 7/4/13

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Leading democracy advocate Mohammed ElBaradei speaks to a handful of journalists including the Associated Press saying dialogue with Egypt's Islamist president is not possible until he rescinds his decrees giving himself near absolute powers, at his home on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2012.
After Egypt’s worst sectarian violence in months left seven dead the past two days, Egypt’s leading opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei on Monday called on the Islamist president to make serious concessions to bring the opposition into...
photo: AP / Thomas Hartwell
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin hold a news conference after their talks at the Chancellery in Berlin on Friday, Jan.16, 2009.
Hanover, April 08: Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for calm on the Korean peninsula, saying the escalation of tension in the region could lead to a nuclear disaster far worse than the Chernobyl incident. The Chernobyl nuclear disaster,...
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 Filip Vujanovic, President of the Republic of Montenegro, addressing the General Assembly at UN Headquarters in New York. The Republic of Montenegro was admitted as the 192nd member of the United Nations, by a General Assembly resolution adopted by accla
Incumbent Filip Vujanovic has won the presidential election in the tiny Balkan nation of Montenegro. The president of the election commission, Ivan...
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International donors pledge billions for recovery of Darfur
8 April 2013The International Donor Conference for Reconstruction and Development in Darfur wrapped up today with calls from Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for the Government of Sudan to demonstrate its commitment to the region and to...
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Diplomat killed in Afghanistan 'was the rock of our team'
Risks come with serving as a U.S. diplomat in the Middle East, but Anne Smedinghoff hardly dwelled on them and took all the precautions while in the field, her colleagues said Monday. "I think for Anne, (the risks are) what she saw as part of the...
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Margaret Thatcher opening the University of Warwick Science Park in 1984.
By CASSELL BRYAN-LOW LONDONGlobal and political leaders across the world remembered former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, who died on Monday, as a leader who altered the U.K.'s political and economic landscape and shaped global relations,...
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Taliban Threat In Afghanistan Will Continue After Withdrawal, Gen. Martin Dempsey Says
BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan -- The United States accepts that a diminished but resilient Taliban is likely to remain a military threat in some parts of Afghanistan long after U.S. troops complete their combat mission next year, the top U.S....
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