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Pope Benedict XVI announces he will resign because of 'ill health'
Full Article The Independent
11 Feb 2013

Pope Benedict XVI has announced that he will resign the papacy because of ill health, according to the Italian news agency ANSA. The decision will send shockwaves through the global Catholic community. It is extremely rare for a Pope to give up the papacy and is unheard of in modern...

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In this photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict XVI reads a document in Latin where he announces his resignation, during a meeting of Vatican cardinals, at the Vatican, Monday, Feb. 11, 2013.
photo: AP / L'Osservatore Romano

updated 11 Feb 2013; published 11 Feb 2013
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Pope Benedict XVI resigns & to Retire on Feb 28 2013 | Vatican City Confirms The Resignation
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Pope Benedict XVI is to step down because of ill health.
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Pope Benedict XVI resigns & to Retire on Feb 28 2013 | Vatican City Confirms The Resignation
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POPE BENEDICT XVI to resign! because of my tweet! like, OMG! sorry!
updated 11 Feb 2013; published 11 Feb 2013
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Pope Benedict XVI is to step down because of ill health 2013
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$1 million reward offered on information on ex-cop Christopher Dorner
Full Article Denver Post
11 Feb 2013

A San Bernardino County sheriff's deputy searches a home for Christopher Dorner, a former police officer, on Sunday in Big Bear Lake, Calif. (Jae C. Hong, The Associated Press) LOS ANGELES — The city of Los Angeles on Sunday announced a $1 million reward for information leading to the arrest and capture of Christopher Jordan Dorner, a...

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This undated photo released by the Los Angeles Police Department shows suspect Christopher Dorner, a former Los Angeles officer.
photo: AP / Los Angeles Police Department

updated 10 Feb 2013; published 10 Feb 2013
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Christopher Dorner Manhunt: $1 Million Reward Offered For Capture of Fugitive Ex-Cop
updated 11 Feb 2013; published 10 Feb 2013
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$1 Million Reward Offered For Cop Killer_ Christopher Dorner Has Become The Million Dollar Man
updated 11 Feb 2013; published 11 Feb 2013
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Christopher Dorner Manhunt $1 Million Reward Offered in Search for Fugitive Ex Cop
updated 11 Feb 2013; published 10 Feb 2013
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Mayor Of LA Offer's $1000000.00 Reward For Christopher Dorner
updated 11 Feb 2013; published 10 Feb 2013
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Los Angeles Police Offer A MILLION Dollar Reward For Information On Cop Killer Chris Dorner
updated 11 Feb 2013; published 11 Feb 2013
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LAPD Manhunt: Authorities Announce $1 Million Reward for Christopher Dorner
India stampede kills 36 at world's largest religious festival
Full Article Daily Press
11 Feb 2013

ALLAHABAD, India (Reuters) - A stampede at a railway station in northern India killed at least 36 Hindu pilgrims on Sunday, the busiest day of the world's largest religious festival at which some 30 million had gathered to wash away their sins in the sacred Ganges river. Twenty-seven of the dead were women, mostly elderly and poor. An...

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An Indian woman weeps as she and other family members mourn next to the body of a relative who was killed in a stampede on a railway platform at the main railway station in Allahabad, India, Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013.
photo: AP / Kevin Frayer

updated 10 Feb 2013; published 10 Feb 2013
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At least 18 dead in stampede in India | 18 dead at massive Indian Hindu festival
updated 17 Jan 2013; published 14 Jan 2013
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Kumbh Mela Festival On Ganges Starts In India - In Pictures
updated 11 Feb 2013; published 11 Feb 2013
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36 Killed in Stampede Near Huge Hindu Festival
updated 11 Feb 2013; published 11 Feb 2013
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36 dead in stampede at Hindu festival in India
updated 11 Feb 2013; published 11 Feb 2013
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Hindu Festival Stampede Leaves 31 Dead In India
updated 10 Feb 2013; published 10 Feb 2013
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Many Feared Killed In Stampede At Kumbh Festival
Militants Battle Malian and French Troops in Liberated Town
Full Article The New York Times
10 Feb 2013

DAKAR, Senegal — Gunfire rang out in the streets of the strategic city of Gao in northern Mali on Sunday, two weeks after French troops appeared to have chased radical Islamists out of the city, which is at the edge of the desert and is the largest population center in the north. Multimedia Interactive Feature Turmoil in the Sahara Related...

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A Malian soldier takes cover behind a truck during exchanges of fire with jihadists in Gao, northern Mali, Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013.
photo: AP / Jerome Delay

updated 31 Jan 2013; published 13 Jan 2013
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French joined Malian to BEAT BACK Islamist militants-French pilot has been KILLED
updated 14 Jan 2013; published 14 Jan 2013
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updated 02 Feb 2013; published 14 Jan 2013
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French troops expand attack against Mali Islamists
updated 24 Jan 2013; published 12 Jan 2013
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Mali war escalates as French battle Islamist militants
updated 08 Feb 2013; published 17 Jan 2013
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Algeria ARMY TROOPS surround ISLAMIST MILITANT hostage-takers at OCCUPIED GAS Facility
updated 16 Jan 2013; published 14 Jan 2013
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FRANCE FIGHTING MALI ISLAMIST EXTREMISTS While SUPPORTING SYRIAN ISLAMIST EXTREMISTS; TONGUE TWISTER
Tide of Salafism threatens the Arab spring
Full Article Mail Guardian South Africa
10 Feb 2013

A protester holds a banner reading "Be careful Mr President Hollande, Tunisia is not Mali" at a demonstration in Tunis on February 9. (AP) More Coverage Late last year, largely unnoticed in the West, Tunisia's president, Moncef Marzouki, gave an interview to Chatham House's The World Today. Commenting on a recent attack by...

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File - Palestinian Salafis "al-Qaeda" burning U.S. and Israeli flags as they burn an image of U.S. President Barack Obama during a protest against what they said was a film being produced in the U.S. that was insulting to the Prophet Mohammad in Rafah in southern Gaza Strip on September 14, 2012.
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb

updated 14 Jan 2013; published 29 Aug 2012
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Tunisian cartoonist Nadia Khiari: 'I drew a salafist as a Frankenstein'
updated 02 Dec 2012; published 02 Dec 2012
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Interview with Dr. Hugh Roberts on Salafist and Islamist movements in the Middle East and Africa
updated 30 Jan 2013; published 28 Jan 2013
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Islamic Revolution | Global Khilafah | Islamic Awakening | Izharudeen
updated 20 Dec 2012; published 08 Jul 2012
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Lebanon's Christian leader Michel Aoun says Assad downfall could bring al Qaeda rule
updated 19 Oct 2012; published 07 Jul 2012
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Al Qaeda Chief in Lebanon admits that the biggest winner of Arab Spring is al Qaeda
updated 31 Jan 2013; published 15 Nov 2012
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Salafists want to destroy the Sphinx and Pyramids with subtitles
India's Kumbh Mela readies for holiest day
Full Article Al Jazeera
10 Feb 2013

Tens of millions of Hindus were expected to plunge into India's sacred river Ganges to wash away their sins on the most auspicious day of the world's largest religious festival. Organisers estimated about 30 million ash-smeared saints, devotees and visitors would take a dip in the swirling, freezing river at the festival in...

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Indian Hindu Sadhu at Gangasagar Island, some 150 kms south of Kolkata, on the occasion of Makarsankranti festival in Kolkata on Sunday, 13 January 2013. Some three hundred thousand Hindu pilgrims gathered at the Gangasagar Mela (Fair) to take a dip in the Ocean at the confluence of the River Ganges and the Bay of Bengal, on the occasion of Makar Sankranti, a holy day of the Hindu calendar considered to be of great religious significance in Hindu mythology, Eastern India
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updated 07 Feb 2013; published 14 Jan 2013
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Holy river pollution problems: millions to bathe in Ganges during India's Kumbh Mela festival
updated 10 Feb 2013; published 10 Feb 2013
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Millions of Indians bathe on Kumbh Mela's Holiest Day - India's sacred river Ganges
updated 10 Feb 2013; published 10 Feb 2013
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Holiest day at India's Kumbh Mela 2013
updated 07 Feb 2013; published 19 Nov 2007
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Short Cut to Nirvana: Kumbh Mela ( trailer)
updated 11 Feb 2013; published 15 Jan 2013
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Millions Bathe in Ganges River for Maha Kumbh Mela
updated 10 Feb 2013; published 10 Feb 2013
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Sunset on holiest day of India's Kumbh Mela
Boeing 787 on test flight, 1st since grounding
Full Article Jakarta Post
10 Feb 2013

Boeing sent a 787 up on a test flight Saturday, the first since the new airliner was grounded three weeks ago because of a battery fire. The company said the...

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A Boeing 777-367 (ER) Cathay Pacific jet is guided to a parking spot by a marshaller at Paine Field Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013, in Everett, Wash.
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updated 09 Feb 2013; published 12 May 2011
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New Boeing 747-8 undergoes extreme testing
updated 28 Jan 2013; published 25 Mar 2009
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Ultra High Bypass Jet Engine Green Technology Airline Flight Test
updated 10 Feb 2013; published 05 May 2011
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Boeing Phantom Ray flight test
updated 09 Feb 2013; published 18 Aug 2011
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Boeing 787 Dreamliner Extreme Flight Testing HD
updated 04 Feb 2013; published 16 Aug 2011
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787 completes jam-packed certification testing program
updated 07 Feb 2013; published 14 May 2010
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NASA Boeing X-48B Blended Wing Body Phase 1 Test Flights
Liberal in domestic issues, Obama a hawk on war
Full Article Dayton Daily News
09 Feb 2013

For all of his liberal positions on the environment, taxes and health care, President Barack Obama is a hawk when it comes to the war on terror. From deadly drones to secret interrogations to withholding evidence in terror lawsuits, Obama's Democratic White House has followed the path of his predecessor, Republican President George W. Bush. The...

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President Barack Obama signs an accompanying letter to Congressional leaders after signing H.R. 152, which provides fiscal year 2013 supplemental appropriations to respond to and recover from the severe damage caused by Hurricane Sandy, in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, Jan. 29, 2013.
photo: White House / Pete Souza

updated 26 Jan 2013; published 08 Jan 2011
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Obama's Wars: Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Columbia, Iran, Waziristan... Who's Next?
updated 11 Jan 2013; published 07 Jan 2013
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Obama - Hagel and Brennan - Pentagon and CIA
updated 01 Feb 2013; published 24 Jul 2012
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Afghanistan War - Drone War (darkness TOY) - US killing around the world # Press TV Iran
updated 07 Feb 2013; published 03 May 2011
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President Obama Watched Bin Laden Death Raid from War Room After 9 Holes
updated 11 Feb 2013; published 08 Feb 2013
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John Brennan: The Nexus of Torture and Drone Assassinations
updated 02 Feb 2013; published 08 Jan 2013
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Obama's CIA Nominee- Bush-Era Torturer?
US north-east battered by 'historic' snowstorm
Full Article BBC News
09 Feb 2013

Thick snow is blanketing the north-eastern US as a major storm cuts power to thousands of homes and plays havoc with transport schedules. Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, Connecticut and Maine are all on an emergency footing, with millions of residents being warned to stay indoors. Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has temporarily banned...

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US north-east battered by 'historic' snowstorm
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updated 28 Dec 2012; published 27 Dec 2012
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Winter Storm hitting NYC December 26-27, 2012 THUNDER SNOW (Also hitting the whole North East!)
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Snow Storm in New York City December 26 2010- December 27 Update 1
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Snow Storm Pounds Jerusalem, North, Sputtering 20 Inches Of
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Historic Snow Storm in NYC October 29-30,2011
updated 07 Jan 2013; published 28 Dec 2012
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Storm hitting Eastern Canada SNOW Dec 27th
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India hangs man for 2001 attack on Parliament
Full Article The Guardian
09 Feb 2013

NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian news channels are reporting that a Kashmiri man convicted in the 2001 attack on India's Parliament has been hanged. State-run Doordarshan News said that Afzal Guru was executed early Saturday morning in New Delhi's Tihar prison. Phone calls to the prison and several Home Ministry officials went unanswered....

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Activists of the Jammu and Kashmir Mass Movement (JKMM) shouting anti-India slogans during a protest in support of clemency for Mohammad Afzal Guru in Srinagar on December 13, 2012. Indian police detained some half a dozen activists during the protest. Fellow Kashmiri, Mohammad Afzal Guru was sentenced to death by an Indian court after being found guilty of being involved in the 13 September 2001 attack on India's Parliament House in New Delhi. The protestors appealed to the President to commute the death sentence of Guru and reinvestigate the case.
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updated 09 Feb 2013; published 09 Feb 2013
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India Hangs Azfal Guru Convicted Over 2001 Parliament Attack:09/02/13 - Studio N
updated 04 Jan 2013; published 31 Aug 2012
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310812 Breaking News - Beadbi of Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji at Sahnewal Ludhiana
updated 10 Feb 2013; published 09 Feb 2013
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India hangs Kashmiri man for 2001 terror attack: Pakistani groups angered by execution
updated 14 Aug 2012; published 05 Jun 2011
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TV9 - YOGA GURU BABA RAMDEV ATTACK - 4
updated 25 Jan 2013; published 07 Jan 2013
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Spiritual Guru Blames New Delhi Rape Victim; Attackers Appear in Court
updated 11 Feb 2013; published 10 Feb 2013
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Execution of Kashmiri man sparks protests

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In this photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict XVI delivers his message at the end of a meeting of Vatican cardinals, at the Vatican, Monday, Feb. 11, 2013.
VATICAN CITY — In a move that took the world by surprise, Pope Benedict XVI announced on Monday (Feb. 11) that he will become the first pope in 600 years to resign, with plans to step down on Feb. 28. “After having repeatedly examined my...
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Nigeria's Emmanuel Emenike holds the trophy after they defeated Burkina Faso in the final to win the African Cup of Nations at the Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa, Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013.
Nigeria won its first Africa Cup of Nations title since 1994, beating Burkina Faso, 1-0, on Sunday Mba’s left-footed volley in the 40th minute. Victor Moses, who recovered from an ankle injury just in time to play, was voted the best player of...
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Footwear of Hindu devotees lie on the ground after a stampede on the banks of the River Ganges in Haridwar, 500 kilometers (300 miles) southwest of Lucknow, India, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011.
Allahabad - At least 18 people were killed in a stampede in the Indian city of Allahabad on Sunday as Hindus returned from a river dip at the world's largest religious festival. An overcrowded railway station footbridge buckled and a railing...
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Workers place a tarp on a fence in front of the statue of former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno before removing it Sunday July 22, 2012 in State College, Pa.
The Paterno family is fighting to restore the legacy of former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, flatly denying the allegations in the report by former FBI Director Louis Freeh that the legendary coach was complicit in a coverup of child sexual...
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Fireworks usher in Year of the Snake
A billion-plus Asians ushered in the Year of the Snake yesterday with a cacophony of fireworks, after a Chinese televised gala featuring megastars, including Celine Dion, kicked off a week of festivities. From Australia to South Korea, millions of...
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Sino-India water issue: Bilateral mechanism proposed
New Delhi: Water is emerging as a new possible irritant between China and India, which has proposed a bilateral mechanism to deal with it. In a significant move, India is pressing China to have either a water commission or a inter-governmental...
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Economy to be focus of Obama's address
State of the Union also to include other domestic issues and the Afghan war....
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