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UN rights chief urges Syria war crimes probe
Full Article Al Jazeera
19 Jan 2013

Navi Pillay, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, has cited the increasing casualty count in Syria as a basis for an International Criminal Court investigation into war crimes in the nearly two-year-long conflict. Speaking after a closed meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Friday, Pillay said there was little...

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File - Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, speaks during a celebration of Human Rights 2012, on the theme, “My Voice Counts, in Geneva, Switzerland.
photo: UN / Jean-Marc Ferre

updated 04 Jan 2013; published 10 Sep 2012
2:53
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon demands for justice in Syria
updated 15 Feb 2012; published 14 Feb 2012
4:20
FSRN Conflict in Syria Disrupts Hospitals and Health Service
updated 19 Jan 2013; published 19 Jan 2013
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UNSC briefed on grim situation in Syria
updated 07 Dec 2012; published 14 Feb 2012
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Rights chief criticises UN 'failure' on Syria
updated 27 Aug 2012; published 02 Dec 2011
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UN says Syria on brink of 'civil war'
updated 06 Aug 2012; published 02 Dec 2011
2:01
UNHRC Reports Syria's Death Toll Tops 4000
Ukraine Government Plans to Charge Ex-Premier With Murder
Full Article The New York Times
19 Jan 2013

MOSCOW — The government of President Viktor F. Yanukovich of Ukraine said Friday that it planned to bring murder charges against his political rival, the jailed former prime minister, Yulia V. Tymoshenko, in connection with the 1996 assassination of a member of Parliament. Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international...

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Ukraine's Prime Minister and presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko speaks to the media in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010.
photo: AP / Sergei Chuzavkov

updated 19 Sep 2012; published 15 Jun 2012
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Tymoshenko, his Sexy Daughter
updated 24 Apr 2012; published 06 Mar 2012
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Ukraine at the Crossroads
updated 28 Nov 2012; published 12 May 2012
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euronews interview - No dictatorship in Ukraine says prime minister
updated 15 Jun 2012; published 15 Jun 2012
2:25
Ukraine's President Says He Has No Authority to Pardon Jailed Rival
updated 27 Feb 2011; published 19 Jul 2009
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Address to the habitants Kiev, Ukraine.
updated 21 Mar 2012; published 20 Mar 2012
17:44
Mikola Baltajy Interview
Algeria siege: Hostage nations concerned over situation
Full Article BBC News
19 Jan 2013

Nations with hostages being held by militants at an Algerian gas plant have expressed concern at the ongoing siege. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described the situation as "extremely difficult and dangerous". While state media says hundreds of hostages have been freed at the remote In Amenas desert gas facility, about 30...

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Roadblocks prevent the access of the Tigentourine gas plant where hostages have been kidnapped by islamic militants, Friday, Jan. 18, 2013.
photo: AP / Anis Belghoul

updated 19 Jan 2013; published 16 Jan 2013
1:11
Algeria kidnapping: Islamist militants claim to hold 41 hostages at Algeria BP plant
updated 17 Jan 2013; published 17 Jan 2013
2:31
Algeria Gas Plant Siege Warning From Cameron Algeria Hostage Crisis Al Qaeda-Linked Militants
updated 18 Jan 2013; published 18 Jan 2013
1:15
HOSTAGE CRISIS - Nine foreign hostages released in Algeria
updated 18 Jan 2013; published 18 Jan 2013
1:17
Algerian ARMY storms BP gas site, FATALITIES reported [ISLAMIST MILITANT HOSTAGE SITUATION]
updated 18 Jan 2013; published 17 Jan 2013
1:46
Algerian Hostages Escape Besieged BP Facility 8 Americans Hostage In Algerian
updated 18 Jan 2013; published 18 Jan 2013
2:46
HOSTAGE CRISIS - Hostages speak out after release in Algeria
Chavez reportedly at exclusive Cuba hospital
Full Article The Guardian
19 Jan 2013

ANDREA RODRIGUEZ Associated Press= HAVANA (AP) — It's a blocky, blush-colored building surrounded by a lush canopy of trees near the rumored home of Cuban revolutionary icon Fidel Castro....

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Cars wait to pass the security check at the CIMEQ hospital in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013.
photo: AP / Franklin Reyes

updated 03 Nov 2012; published 26 Mar 2012
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Chavez in Cuba for radiation therapy and possible pope meeting
updated 19 Jan 2013; published 11 Jan 2013
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Hugo chavez agoniza en cuba VIDEO HOSPITAL
updated 19 Jan 2013; published 19 Jan 2013
3:07
CHAVEZ ENTUBADO pierde 20 kilos de peso
updated 18 Jan 2013; published 12 Oct 2012
6:45
Planes para Venezuela despues de Chavez
updated 13 Dec 2012; published 14 Jul 2012
1:28
The Bolivarian hurricane is back - Hugo Chavez - O furacão bolivariano está de volta - Chávez
updated 07 Jan 2013; published 01 Jan 2013
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Cadena Nacional, Vicepresidente de Venezuela, 30 de diciembre de 2012, Salud de Chavez
Mokhtar Belmokhtar: Algeria's Link To Al Qaeda
Full Article Skynews
18 Jan 2013

He's known as Mr Marlboro because of his cigarette smuggling. The French intelligence service calls him "The Uncatchable". The truth is Mokhtar Belmokhtar and his fellow North African Jihadists are rapidly emerging as Europe's most potent strategic threat....

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This image from video provided by the SITE Intel Group made available Thursday Jan. 17, 2013, purports to show militant militia leader Moktar Belmoktar.
photo: AP / SITE Intel Group

updated 18 Jan 2013; published 18 Jan 2013
1:44
Mokhtar Belmokhtar Algeria's Link To Al Qaeda.
updated 18 Jan 2013; published 17 Jan 2013
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Algeria Hostage Crisis - Troops Surround Gunmen
updated 18 Jan 2013; published 18 Jan 2013
1:23
Algeria hostage crisis: David Cameron calls off Europe speech
updated 17 Jan 2013; published 17 Jan 2013
1:15
Algeria Hostage Crisis: Troops Surround Gunmen
updated 18 Jan 2013; published 17 Jan 2013
5:35
ALGERIA CRISIS: Multiple HOSTAGES KILLED Siege ends in BLOODBATH! [MALI WAR RETALIATION]
updated 17 Jan 2013; published 17 Jan 2013
1:46
Algerian hostages escape besieged BP facility
Siege awakens ghosts of Algeria's 'dirty war'
Full Article 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...

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In this undated image released Wednesday Jan. 16, 2013, by BP petroleum company, showing the Amenas natural gas field in the eastern central region of Algeria, where Islamist militants raided and took hostages Wednesday Jan. 16, 2013.
photo: AP / BP

updated 18 Jan 2013; published 22 Apr 2011
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(untitled)
updated 16 Jan 2013; published 21 Nov 2008
45:52
13. The Origins of World War I
updated 14 Jan 2013; published 09 Sep 2012
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Words at War: Who Dare To Live / Here Is Your War / To All Hands
updated 18 Jan 2013; published 12 May 2012
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Sant' Agostino parte 1 di 2 (HQ) italiano, ( Saint Augustine, sub: English, Croatian )
updated 17 Jan 2013; published 25 Sep 2011
117:04
Part 1 - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Audiobook by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Adventures 01-02)
updated 17 Jan 2013; published 14 Jan 2013
5:08
يهود فرنسا تقتل مسلمُ ماليZionist French Algerian Mali Genocide
Armstrong admits doping in "toxic" tale
Full Article 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...

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Armstrong admits doping in "toxic" tale
photo: AP / Rogelio V. Solis

updated 18 Jan 2013; published 15 Jan 2013
50:44
1/15/13: White House Press Briefing
updated 18 Jan 2013; published 16 Sep 2012
89:19
The Great Gildersleeve: Leroy's Paper Route / Marjorie's Girlfriend Visits / Hiccups
updated 18 Jan 2013; published 16 Jan 2013
2:07
Lance Armstrong Oprah Interview Confession: Former Friends Turn on Star
updated 18 Jan 2013; published 18 Jan 2013
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Lance Armstrong Oprah Interview: Doping Confession to Winfrey After Years of Denial
updated 19 Jan 2013; published 19 Jan 2013
2:04
Lance Armstrong Says He Deserves a Chance to Compete Again - Next Chapter - Oprah Winfrey Network
updated 18 Jan 2013; published 18 Jan 2013
1:55
Why Lance Armstrong Is Ready to Come Clean - Oprah's Next Chapter - Oprah Winfrey Network
Hostage crisis fails to stop French move in Mali
Full Article 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,...

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French President Francois Hollande delivers a speech at the beginning of a social conference with unions and employers, at the Economic, Social and Environmental Council of France (CESE) headquarters in Paris, Monday July 9, 2012.
photo: AP / Thibault Camus

updated 18 Jan 2013; published 18 Jan 2013
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Support The Muslims Of MALI || French Crusade || Shariah || Hostage Crisis || Algeria
updated 18 Jan 2013; published 17 Jan 2013
5:35
ALGERIA CRISIS: Multiple HOSTAGES KILLED Siege ends in BLOODBATH! [MALI WAR RETALIATION]
updated 17 Jan 2013; published 17 Jan 2013
2:31
Algeria Gas Plant Siege Warning From Cameron Algeria Hostage Crisis Al Qaeda-Linked Militants
updated 19 Jan 2013; published 12 Jan 2013
6:19
France under terror threat after 'failed hostage rescue'
updated 19 Jan 2013; published 17 Jan 2013
5:35
Algerian HOSTAGES have been KILLED in FAILED rescue MISSION! [Mali WAR retaliation]
updated 16 Jan 2013; published 16 Jan 2013
1:21
Algeria gas site attack sparks international hostage crisis
Al-Qaeda in the Heart of Africa
Full Article 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...

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File - Senegalese and Malian soldiers train with U.S. special forces in Mali during a military training engagement, May 11, 2010 in Bamako, Mali as part of Exercise Flintlock 10.
photo: US Army / Staff Sgt. Michael R. Noggle

updated 19 Jan 2013; published 16 Jan 2013
0:32
Mokhtar Belmokhtar
updated 19 Jan 2013; published 28 Aug 2012
16:08
Al-Qaeda's New Homeland - Mali
updated 06 Jan 2013; published 25 Jul 2012
4:12
Why Mali matters: al Qaeda on the rise
updated 19 Nov 2012; published 03 Jul 2012
2:52
Groups linked to al-Qaeda swamp northern Mali
updated 17 Jan 2013; published 29 Nov 2012
2:40
Exclusive: Al-Qaeda commander urges Mali to reject foreign intervention
updated 17 Jul 2012; published 03 Jul 2012
25:52
Inside Story - Is Mali's conflict a threat to the region?
Lawyer of Afghan massacre suspect claims PTSD
Full Article 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...

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File - Soldiers from the 2nd Squadron, 38th Cavalry Regiment, 504th Battlefield Brigade, lean against a mud wall during a break from combat operations in Kandahar province's southern Spin Boldak district, Afghanistan, 9 January, 2012.
photo: US Army

updated 20 Dec 2012; published 20 Dec 2012
3:12
US soldier to be court-martialed, could face death penalty
updated 28 Mar 2012; published 24 Mar 2012
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Fraudster,thug,good-guy dad? Bales.
updated 18 Jan 2013; published 19 Jun 2012
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The Vietnam War: Reasons for Failure - Why the US Lost
updated 19 Jan 2013; published 18 Jan 2013
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Lawyer: Military 'Abandoning' Bales
updated 15 Nov 2012; published 15 Nov 2012
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US soldier accused of killing 16 Afghans
updated 19 Jan 2013; published 21 Dec 2012
3:12
US Army Seeks Death Penalty in Afghan Rampage in Kandahar

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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...

Bunkers and residential houses are seen by Churunda  village on January 13, 2013, northwest of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Administered Kashshmir, India. The village with a population of a little over 12,000 people has been bearing the brunt of cross-fire between nuclear rivals India and Pakistan. Last week a Pakistan solider was killed across the Line of Control (LOC), a military line that divides Indian-administered Kashmir from the Pakistan-administered Kashmir at this village. People living along the LoC have continually been at risk due to hostility between the armies of the two rival nations. Last year, in November, three people, including a pregnant woman, had died after a shell fired from Pakistan landed on one of the houses in the village. Tension between Pakistan and India has escalated after a fresh skimirish along the border. Both countries have summoned each other's envoy to protest against unacceptable and unprovoked' attacks.
NEW DELHI: Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said on Friday the situation on the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir was "terrible" and the escalation of tension should be totally unacceptable to both the governments. "I don't know about it...
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This Monday, Jan. 14, 2013 photo provided by Harpo Studios Inc., shows talk-show host Oprah Winfrey interviewing cyclist Lance Armstrong during taping for the show "Oprah and Lance Armstrong: The Worldwide Exclusive" in Austin, Texas.
Print this page Tweet After more than a week of hype, Lance Armstrong finally came clean Thursday night about not playing clean. The cycling legend confessed to Oprah Winfrey in the first of two OWN network interviews that he relied on a litany of...
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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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Egyptian fans rush into the field following Al-Ahly club soccer match against Al-Masry club at the soccer stadium in Port Said, Egypt Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012.
CAIRO: Thousands of supporters of Al-Ahly club demonstrated in Cairo on Friday to demand severe punishments for 75 people on trial for dozens of deaths in Egypt's worst football disaster. More than 70 people were...
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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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updated 19 Jan 2013; published 19 Jan 2013
2:08
UN rights chief urges Syria war crimes probe
Al Jazeera 19 Jan 2013, Navi Pillay, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, has cited the increasing casualty count in Syria as a basis for an International Criminal Court investigation into war crimes in the nearly two-year-long conflict. Speaking after a closed meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Friday, Pillay said there was little...

updated 27 Jul 2012; published 12 Oct 2011
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[Julia Timoschenko] President of Ukraine ordered murder, now he says it was Tymoshenko!
The New York Times 19 Jan 2013, MOSCOW — The government of President Viktor F. Yanukovich of Ukraine said Friday that it planned to bring murder charges against his political rival, the jailed former prime minister, Yulia V. Tymoshenko, in connection with the 1996 assassination of a member of Parliament. Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international...

updated 18 Jan 2013; published 17 Jan 2013
2:19
Algerian army tries to free hostages
BBC News 19 Jan 2013, Nations with hostages being held by militants at an Algerian gas plant have expressed concern at the ongoing siege. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described the situation as "extremely difficult and dangerous". While state media says hundreds of hostages have been freed at the remote In Amenas desert gas facility, about 30...

updated 19 Jan 2013; published 11 Jan 2013
6:16
Hugo chavez agoniza en cuba VIDEO HOSPITAL
The Guardian 19 Jan 2013, ANDREA RODRIGUEZ Associated Press= HAVANA (AP) — It's a blocky, blush-colored building surrounded by a lush canopy of trees near the rumored home of Cuban revolutionary icon Fidel Castro....

updated 17 Jan 2013; published 17 Jan 2013
1:36
Algeria Hostage Crisis: Troops Surround Gunmen
Skynews 18 Jan 2013, He's known as Mr Marlboro because of his cigarette smuggling. The French intelligence service calls him "The Uncatchable". The truth is Mokhtar Belmokhtar and his fellow North African Jihadists are rapidly emerging as Europe's most potent strategic threat....

updated 18 Jan 2013; published 17 Jan 2013
2:19
Algerian army tries to free hostages
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 15 Jan 2013
2:24
Lance Armstrong Admits Doping in Tour de France, Sources Say | Lance tells all to Oprah
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 15 Jan 2013; published 13 Jan 2013
1:12
French FIGHTER JETS BOMB Mali AL-QAEDA linked ISLAMIST rebels while African states ready TROOPS
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
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'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
2:19
Algerian army tries to free hostages
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
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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 19 Jan 2013; published 18 Jan 2013
0:47
Al Jazeera journalist shot in Syria while crossing the streets
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...