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After several months of relative inattention to the issue, there's been a renewed push in the past week to get the International Criminal Court (ICC) involved in Syria. The...
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Iran's announcement that it will make its own film to counter the "distorted" thriller "Argo" is fueling a debate about Hollywood and historical accuracy, sparked by Ben Affleck's...
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Zeenews Bureau Islamabad: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf is facing the prospect of being arrested on Wednesday in a corruption case. The country’s Supreme Court had...

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, right, walks from number 10 Downing Street to attend Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament in London, Wednesday, April 25, 2012.
LONDON — With more than 60 hostages still missing and many feared dead, Prime Minister David Cameron told Parliament on Friday that the Qaeda-linked attack on a remote Algerian gas installation demonstrated the need for Britain and its western...
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Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika speaks at the Supreme Court in Algiers, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008. Algeria's president, 72, who led his oil-rich and gas-rich North African nation out of a bloody Islamic insurgency, started clearing the way Wednesday to give himself a third term in office, announcing plans to abolish limits that would have prevented his re-election.
Algeria's state-run news agency says the military operation at the natural gas complex where Islamic militants seized 41 foreign hostages has ended. But verifiabe information on the fate of all the captives is hard to confirm. ...
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A man reads a newspaper headlining "Terrorist attack and kidnapping in In Amenas", at a news stand in Algiers, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013.
Algerian forces launched a brazen air attack on suspected Islamist militants holding scores of foreign employees of a natural gas complex Thursday, killing kidnappers and hostages alike in what appeared to be a forceful message from Algeria that it...
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The Century 16 Theater in Aurora, Colorado where the 2012 Aurora shooting took place, photographed the day after the shooting.
DENVER (Reuters) - The Aurora, Colorado, movie theater where 12 people were killed in a shooting rampage at a Batman film last July was set to reopen on Thursday evening with a private "night of remembrance" for survivors and others connected to the...
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US Supreme Court, Washington DC
Four decades after Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion, many opponents of the decision are in a celebratory mood while those backing abortion rights are glum, feeling that momentum is turning decisively against...
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In this Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011 photo, Seif al-Islam is seen after his capture in the custody of revolutionary fighters in Zintan, Libya.
Tweet Colonel Gaddafi's son Saif al Islam has appeared in court in Libya for the first time since his capture more than a year ago. He is accused of meeting an International Criminal Court (ICC) lawyer Melinda Taylor and of being 'involved' with an...
photo: AP / Ammar El-Darwish
Ivory Cost President Laurent Gbagbo, center, shows a peace sign, as he walk's next to Ivory Coast youth leader Ble Goude, far right, at a rally in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Friday, Nov. 26, 2010. Ivory Coast will have a second round off elections on Sunday.
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast - A lawyer says authorities in Ghana have arrested Charles Ble Goude, the former head of a youth movement in Ivory Coast wanted in connection with violence linked to its disputed presidential election two years ago....
photo: AP / Schalk van Zuydam
updated 18 Jan 2013; published 17 Jan 2013
2:20
Algeria hostage siege comes to deadly end
BBC News 18 Jan 2013, The twin crises unfolding either side of the Sahara Desert in Mali and Algeria are closely interlinked - the Islamist groups in Mali have their roots in Algeria, while the kidnappers who have just struck in Algeria say they are acting in revenge for France's intervention against their allies to the south. While some analysts have said it would...

updated 18 Jan 2013; published 16 Jan 2013
2:59
Lance Armstrong's Interview With Oprah Winfrey: Cyclist Admits Doping
Daily Press 18 Jan 2013, NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lance Armstrong ended years of vehement denial on Thursday by finally coming clean and admitting he had cheated his way to a record seven Tour de France titles with systematic use of banned, performance-enhancing drugs. Confessing his "toxic" tale to chat show host Oprah Winfrey, Armstrong described himself as a "flawed...

updated 18 Jan 2013; published 14 Jan 2013
1:19
France fighter jets pound rebels in northern Mali
Business Day 18 Jan 2013, BAMAKO — A hostage crisis in Algeria on Thursday did not stop French forces in Mali as a ground assault intensified, European Union (EU) foreign ministers pledged support for Mali and the first African forces from Nigeria were expected in Bamako. EU foreign ministers agreed at an emergency meeting in Brussels, attended by Mali’s Foreign Minister,...

updated 18 Jan 2013; published 17 Jan 2013
7:24
'Mali a potential Afghanistan for France'
Antiwar 18 Jan 2013, For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction” is Newton’s third law of physics. Its counterpart in geopolitics is “blowback,” when military action in one sphere produces an unintended and undesirable consequence in another. September 11, 2001, was blowback. George H.W. Bush had sent an army of half a...

updated 24 Dec 2012; published 05 Nov 2012
3:10
Sgt. Robert Bales, Accused of Afghanistan Massacre
Al Jazeera 18 Jan 2013, A US soldier charged with capital murder in the slayings of 16 civilians near his military post in Afghanistan was diagnosed as suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury prior to the killings, his lawyer has claimed. The disclosure that Robert Bales was diagnosed with PTSD followed a hearing on...

updated 18 Jan 2013; published 17 Jan 2013
2:20
Algeria hostage siege comes to deadly end
Fox31 Denver 18 Jan 2013, (CNN) — Nearly two days after Islamist militants abducted an undetermined number of hostages — including Westerners — at a gas plant in a remote section of Algeria, “ongoing activity at various locations” was continuing, a British official said Friday. It was not clear whether that activity represented “mopping...

updated 18 Jan 2013; published 14 Dec 2012
6:09
Connecticut Shooting in Newtown at Sandy Hook Elementary: Parent Interview
WorldNews.com 17 Jan 2013, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling "A city, indeed," wrote John Viterbo, "is said to be the liberty of its citizens or the defense of its inhabitants. One resides there without oppression, because the governor of the city will protect men of more humble station so that they do not suffer injury at the hands of more powerful...

updated 18 Jan 2013; published 13 Jan 2013
24:22
Inside Syria - Making heads or tails of Bashar al-Assad
The Associated Press 17 Jan 2013, BEIRUT (AP) -- Forces loyal to President Bashar Assad swept through a small farming village in central Syria this week, torching houses and shooting and stabbing residents in an attack that killed up to 106 people, including women and children, activists said Thursday. The assault on Haswiyeh outside the city of Homs took place on Tuesday, but was...

updated 02 Jan 2013; published 13 Jan 2012
2:15
Iraq's Shias brave attacks to visit Karbala
BBC News 17 Jan 2013, A series of bomb attacks across Iraq has killed at least 12 people, most of them Shia pilgrims, officials say. The worst incident was north of the capital, Baghdad, where two bombs, minutes apart, claimed...

updated 17 Jan 2013; published 12 Jan 2013
1:26
Somalia Hostage Raid: French Agent 'Killed'
Al Jazeera 17 Jan 2013, Al-Shebab, the Somalian armed Islamist group, say they have executed a French intelligence agent who they had held captive since 2009. The al-Qaeda linked group said they killed Denis Allex on Wednesday. French officials dispute the claim, saying they believe Allex was killed soon after a failed...

updated 08 Jan 2013; published 08 Jan 2013
1:13
ISRAELI KNESSET ELECTIONS 2013: PM Netanyahu widely expected to retain his post
The New York Times 17 Jan 2013, JERUSALEM (AP) — Polls give hawkish and religious parties led by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a comfortable edge over their center-left rivals ahead of next week's parliamentary elections. Surveys published Wednesday night and on Thursday have Netanyahu's Likud Beiteinu list winning 32 to 37 of parliament's 120 seats, making it...

updated 18 Jan 2013; published 17 Jan 2013
1:31
JAKARTA BANJIR! Floods in Jakarta, Jl. Imam Bonjol Jakarta Pusat 17 Januari 2013
Herald Tribune 17 Jan 2013, JAKARTA, Indonesia - Seasonal rains triggered massive flooding in Indonesia's capital on Thursday, killing at least four people, triggering the evacuation of at least 20,000 and paralyzing much of the city. Floods regularly hit parts of Jakarta in the rainy season, but the inundation following an intense rain storm was especially widespread. Few...

updated 18 Jan 2013; published 18 Jan 2013
2:01
Beheading of soldier India's domestic matter: Salman Bashir
Khaleej Times 17 Jan 2013, A ceasefire took hold on Thursday in disputed Kashmir after the Indian and Pakistani armies agreed to halt deadly cross-border firing that had threatened to unravel a fragile peace process. As the foreign minister of Pakistan appealed for talks with her Indian counterpart to help defuse tensions, senior officers reported that calm had returned to...

updated 05 Dec 2012; published 12 Sep 2012
3:42
Israel : Obama snubs Netanyahu rejects meeting with Israeli Prime Minister (Sept 11, 2012)
The Guardian 17 Jan 2013, AMY TEIBEL Associated Press= JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's premier on Wednesday dismissed President Barack Obama's reported displeasure with his hard-line policies toward the Palestinians, a sisgn that the two could be headed for a showdown....