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Assad attacks 'arsonist' Britain
Full Article Belfast Telegraph
03 Mar 2013

Syrian president Bashar Assad has accused the British government of being "naive, confused and unrealistic" in its approach to the conflict in his country and warned of dire consequences if the West armed its rebels. In an interview with the Sunday Times Mr Assad said Britain was sacrificing peace talks to push for an end to an EU arms...

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A Free Syrian Army fighter, Abu al-Yaman, left, a commander of Knights of the North brigade, cheers as he leaves with other rebels one of their caves to reconnaissance a Syrian army forces base of al-Karmid, at Jabal al-Zaweya, in Idlib province, Syria, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013.
photo: AP / Hussein Malla

updated 03 Mar 2013; published 03 Mar 2013
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The Sunday Times interview with Syria's President Bashar al-Assad
updated 03 Mar 2013; published 03 Mar 2013
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Assad Hits Out At UK Government
updated 03 Mar 2013; published 03 Mar 2013
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President Assad of Syria: only the Syrian people can tell the president when to leave
updated 03 Mar 2013; published 30 Jun 2012
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Michael Marin Commits Suicide In The Courtroom After Being Convicted of Arson
updated 03 Mar 2013; published 03 Mar 2013
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Syria's Assad offers peace talks, refuses to step down
updated 15 Oct 2010; published 21 May 2010
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Terrorist attack in Pakistan
South Africa's Irreversible Path to Justice?
Full Article WorldNews.com
03 Mar 2013

"Our path to freedom is irreversible," declared Nelson Mandela on February 11, 1990. Addressing over fifty thousand cheering South African supporters in Cape Town, he had just been freed after three decades of imprisonment. Mandela, who was deputy head of the formerly banned African National Congress (ANC), then announced his determination to end...

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Police surround the bodies of striking miners after opening fire on a crowd at the Lonmin Platinum Mine near Rustenburg, South Africa, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012.
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updated 26 Feb 2013; published 24 Sep 2009
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President Obama Addresses the UN General Assembly
updated 13 Sep 2012; published 04 Mar 2009
36:27
The World According to John Bolton
updated 19 Jun 2012; published 18 Jan 2012
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Paul Levinson: Occupy Wall Street Chronicles, Part 1 (complete)
updated 23 Feb 2013; published 06 May 2012
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State of the Union Address: Speech by President Clinton (1998)
updated 13 Feb 2012; published 14 Dec 2011
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House Session 2011-12-13 (19:47:32-20:48:13)
updated 26 Feb 2013; published 28 Sep 2009
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President Obama at UN Security Council Summit on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Nuclear Disarmament
'Uncatchable' Algerian jihadi mastermind Mokhtar Belmokhtar killed
Full Article The Australian
03 Mar 2013

MOKHTAR Belmokhtar, the one-eyed Islamist who masterminded a brazen attack on an Algerian gasfield, was branded "the Uncatchable" but the desert fox has now reportedly been killed in northern Mali. Chad said its troops killed the al-Qa'ida veteran yesterday during an operation in the Ifogha mountains, where French-led forces have been...

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FILE - This image taken 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 31 Jan 2013; published 22 Jan 2013
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MOST WANTED; MOKHTAR BELMOKHTAR; A profile of the Marlboro Man, Man behind the ALGERIAN CRISIS
updated 03 Feb 2013; published 19 Jan 2013
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Mokhtar Belmokhtar Algeria's Link To Al Qaeda
updated 30 Jan 2013; published 21 Jan 2013
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Mokhtar Belmokhtar: A profile of the "Marlboro Man"
updated 05 Feb 2013; published 16 Jan 2013
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Mokhtar Belmokhtar
updated 22 Feb 2013; published 17 Jan 2013
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MOKHTAR BELMOKHTAR - Portrait - 17/01/2013
updated 22 Jan 2013; published 17 Jan 2013
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Mali War... Sahara Hostage-Taking Triggers Bloodbath
Bangladesh protest strike over Jamaat war crimes sentence
Full Article BBC News
03 Mar 2013

Bangladesh has stepped up security ahead of a two-day strike called in protest at a death sentence given to an Islamist party leader. Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, of Jamaat-e-Islami, was sentenced on charges including murder, rape and torture during the war of independence in 1971. The sentence on Thursday sparked riots that have left at least 45 people...

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Opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) activists shout slogans against the government during a protest in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, March 2, 2013.
photo: AP / A.M. Ahad

updated 02 Mar 2013; published 07 Feb 2013
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Bangladesh: Protesters Demand Execution Of Abdul Quader Mollah
updated 02 Mar 2013; published 28 Feb 2013
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Bangladesh War Crimes Trial: Delwar Hossain Sayeedi To Die...
updated 03 Mar 2013; published 03 Mar 2013
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Bangladesh War Crimes Trial: Delwar Hossain Sayeedi's Death Sentence Celebrated UK Awami League News
updated 03 Mar 2013; published 03 Mar 2013
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Bangladesh strike begins
updated 01 Mar 2013; published 01 Mar 2013
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LIVE Bangladesh Riots : Clashes Kill 44 in Bangladesh After Islamist Sentenced to Hang
updated 06 Feb 2013; published 06 Feb 2013
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International News - Bangladesh War Crimes Sentence Sparks Protests
Obama and Putin seek 'new Syria initiatives'
Full Article Al Jazeera
02 Mar 2013

The US president and his Russian counterpart have expressed agreement in a telephone call on "the need to advance a political transition" and seek "new initiatives" to end the violence in Syria as soon as possible, the White House has said. Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin welcome "substantive and constructive consultations" by...

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File - President Barack Obama listens to Deputy National Security Advisor Denis McDonough during a phone call with President Vladimir Putin of Russia in the Oval Office, July 18, 2012.
photo: White House / Pete Souza

updated 01 Mar 2013; published 01 Mar 2013
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Explosions And Smoke Engulfing Syrian Skyline As Government And Rebel Forces Appear To Exchange Fire
updated 09 Nov 2012; published 08 Nov 2012
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GGN: Obama to Push C02 Tax Post Sandy, Recession Suicides Up 4X, East/West Vie for C.Asian Ally
updated 19 Feb 2013; published 20 Jul 2012
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The G20, Russia and Syria, Nuclear Talks, Arms Sales, Missile Defense, Job Growth (2012)
updated 13 Dec 2012; published 18 May 2012
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5/17/12: White House Press Briefing
updated 13 Dec 2012; published 26 May 2011
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Press Briefing with Mike McFaul and Ben Rhodes
updated 06 Feb 2013; published 28 Mar 2012
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Press Briefing by Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest
Chilling documentary accuses Sri Lanka of war crimes
Full Article The Star
02 Mar 2013

GENEVA: The Sri Lankan military committed numerous war crimes during the final months of the country's 26-year civil war, according to a documentary aired for the first time Friday, amid vigorous protests from Colombo. Using graphic video and pictures taken both by retreating Tamil Tiger rebels, civilians and victorious Sri Lankan troops, "No Fire...

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File - A mother carrying her child awaits the arrival of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the Manik Farm camp of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), Sri Lanka, 23 May, 2009.
photo: UN / Eskinder Debebe

updated 21 Feb 2013; published 01 Oct 2011
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UN panel on Sri Lanka war crimes video documented by vaiko part 2
updated 28 Feb 2013; published 22 Feb 2013
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What is New in The "NO FIRE ZONE" Documentary In Comparison With Previous Documentaries
updated 02 Mar 2013; published 22 Feb 2013
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D.Raja of CPI Crying After Seeing "No Fire Zone" Documentary of Channel 4 -2013-02-22
updated 01 Mar 2013; published 22 Feb 2013
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No Fire Zone : In the Killing Fields of Sri Lanka (Preview)
updated 25 Feb 2013; published 19 Feb 2013
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Balachandran C4 Photo -2013-02-19- Nerpada Pesu -3/3
updated 23 Feb 2013; published 23 Feb 2013
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NO FIRE ZONE -Why Released In India -Who Attended The Release -Why Politicians Did Not Come
Obama signs order allowing $85B in spending cuts
Full Article Houston Chronicle
02 Mar 2013

Associated Press | March 1, 2013 | Updated: March 1, 2013 9:44pm Comments (0) E-mail Print Tweet Page 1 of 1 WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has signed an order authorizing the government to begin cutting $85 billion from federal accounts, officially enacting across-the-board reductions that he opposed but failed to avert. Obama acted Friday,...

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Obama signs order allowing $85B in spending cuts
photo: Public Domain / Pete Souza

updated 28 Jan 2013; published 06 Jul 2011
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Underwhelming Spending Cuts from Congress and Obama
updated 02 Mar 2013; published 02 Mar 2013
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Obama Signs Order to Begin Spending Cuts
updated 27 Jan 2013; published 14 Apr 2011
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Obama/Boehner's Phony Spending Cuts
updated 25 Jul 2012; published 04 Mar 2009
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Barack Obama Promises a "Net Spending Cut"
updated 21 Jan 2013; published 24 Jun 2011
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Obama, Dems Negotiation Failure On Spending Cuts
updated 02 Mar 2013; published 17 May 2012
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Obama Reduced Taxes, Spending and Deficits - Romney Refuted By Facts
Nigerian City’s Homeless Are Increasingly Paying the Price of Progress
Full Article The New York Times
01 Mar 2013

LAGOS, Nigeria — The young man with the crowbar stood on a heap of rubble — planks, pallets, remains of pots, bits of cardboard, wisps of clothing, chunks of concrete — indistinguishable from every other pile in a field of debris stretching far into the distance. Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international...

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In this image taken Thursday Feb. 28, 2013 residents salvage wood from demolished houses at Ijora Badia slum in Lagos, Nigeria.
photo: AP / Sunday Alamba

updated 01 Mar 2013; published 27 Sep 2011
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What its like to be Homeless
updated 02 Mar 2013; published 07 Feb 2013
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Full Interview With Kai, The Homeless Hitchhiker With A Hatchet [OFFICIAL VIDEO]
updated 02 Mar 2013; published 19 Dec 2012
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Extreme Anorexic Speaks Out
updated 02 Mar 2013; published 11 Dec 2009
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Homeless Mustard Sings "Creep" GREATEST Cover EVER - @OpieRadio
updated 13 Feb 2013; published 12 Aug 2012
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Faces of Homelessness
updated 02 Mar 2013; published 21 Jan 2013
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Feeding The Homeless Prank
Odds against him, Obama still betting on big deal
Full Article Star Telegram
01 Mar 2013

Associated Press WASHINGTON — A fiscal deadline all but blown, President Barack Obama says he once again wants to seek a big fiscal deal that would raise taxes and trim billions from expensive and ever growing entitlement programs. But with automatic federal spending cuts ready to start taking their toll, the path toward that grand bargain...

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President Barack Obama talks with Congressional leaders prior to the Rosa Parks statue unveiling ceremony at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Feb. 27, 2013.
photo: White House / Pete Souza

updated 30 Dec 2012; published 08 Jul 2012
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Why are the Koch Brothers Betting on Mitt Romney?
updated 22 Mar 2012; published 12 Oct 2008
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Obama gives speech on Education, Alternative Energy, Tax Cuts, and the economy (Part 1 of 2)
updated 01 Mar 2013; published 10 Jan 2013
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Is Obama's Treasury Nominee A Big Bank Crony?
updated 12 Feb 2013; published 29 Oct 2008
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Barack Obama versus John McCain Presidential Election 2008 Best Bet and Odds
updated 22 Feb 2013; published 11 Dec 2012
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President Obama Speaks on the Economy and Middle-Class Tax Cuts
updated 02 Mar 2013; published 05 Oct 2012
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Why Obama Now
South Africa suspends 8 policemen who dragged man behind vehicle
Full Article The Times of India
01 Mar 2013

PRETORIA: South Africa suspended eight police officers on Friday after the death of a man they had bound to a vehicle and dragged through a busy street in a videotaped incident that has further blackened the reputation of the police. Mido Macia, a 27-year-old taxi driver from Mozambique, was found dead in detention with signs of head injuries...

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File photo: South African police officers stand next to a group of protesters
photo: AP / Jerome Delay

updated 01 Mar 2013; published 28 Feb 2013
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South African Man Dragged Behind Police Van
updated 01 Mar 2013; published 01 Mar 2013
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Man dragged by South Africa police vehicle dies in detention
updated 01 Mar 2013; published 28 Feb 2013
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South African footage appears to show police van dragging man down street -- video
updated 02 Mar 2013; published 01 Mar 2013
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South African Police Drag Taxi Driver From Behind Car
updated 02 Mar 2013; published 28 Feb 2013
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SHOCKING VIDEO FOOTAGE South African Man Dragged By police van DIES
updated 02 Mar 2013; published 28 Feb 2013
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South Africa 'Man Dragged Behind Police Van'

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PENITAS, Tex. — The border fence behind Manuel Zamora’s home suggests strength and protection, its steel poles perfectly aligned just beyond the winding Rio Grande. But...
Sun Star
On February 28, 2013, His Holiness the Pope officially stepped down from his office and abdicated. There hasn't been an abdication like this since the abdication of Pope Benedict...
The Guardian
A beautiful Caribbean island virtually untouched by tourism? It does exist, says our writer. It's Barbuda, and if you don't require entertainment, or much in the way of frills, it...

After the defeat of Nazi Germany, Germans civilians were sometimes forced to tour concentration camps and in some cases to exhume mass graves of Nazi victims.
New research has discovered the Nazis created more than six times the number of concentration camps as previously thought and may have killed or imprisoned up to 20 million people. Some 42,500 Nazi ghettos and camps have been catalogued by...
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FILE - This Feb. 10, 2013, file photo shows French soldiers securing the evacuation of foreigners during exchanges of fire with jihadists in Gao, northern Mali.
PARIS (AP) — A French soldier has been killed in combat in Mali, the third to die in the military campaign to retake the north of the African country from...
photo: AP / Jerome Delay
Press conference by Olli Rehn
BERLIN (Reuters) - EU Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn warned on Sunday against a Cypriot exit from the euro zone and said all countries in the single currency bloc were systemically important. "Even if you come from a big EU...
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Soldiers stand guards outside St. Rita's Catholic church following a suicide bombing in Kaduna, Nigeria, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012.
HARUNA UMAR Associated Press= MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — The leader of the radical Islamic terrorist network Boko Haram has denied his group is taking part in any peace talks...
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In this Friday, Nov. 23, 2012 photo released by the Egyptian Presidency, President Mohammed Morsi speaks to supporters outside the Presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt.
MATTHEW LEE Associated Press= CAIRO (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is wrapping up a visit to deeply divided Egypt with an appeal for unity and reform to the country's...
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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Chairperson and General Secretary of the National League for Democracy, Myanmar holds special discussion with Burmese Staff Association
AYE AYE WIN Associated Press= YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — In another sign of political reform and reconciliation in Myanmar, the country's biggest party led by opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will hold its first-ever congress in the country's former...
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A car stands in flames after activists of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) set it on fire during a protest in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, March 2, 2013.
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Soldiers have been deployed in a northern Bangladeshi district after activists of the country's largest Islamic party clashed with police, leaving...
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