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The Guardian
Barack Obama's spoof Spielberg film, in which he plays Daniel Day-Lewis playing Obama, proves the president is a witty guy. Does any other political comedy act measure up? World...
Al Jazeera
This month, Al Jazeera aired a special four-part series on the hidden history of the western oil giants known as the Seven Sisters, and their role in defining the politics and...
The Independent
Hundreds of millions of pounds from ring-fenced Whitehall health and education budgets could reportedly be “reclassified” to protect Britain’s Armed Forces from the next wave of...

Ireland may spend any spare budget cash rather than ease austerity
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland may spend any spare cash from future budgets rather than ease austerity measures, Finance Minister Michael Noonan said on Tuesday, after it left its plans to cut spending by 5.1 billion euro ($6.7 billion) for the next two...
photo: European Community / EC
ANSF troop totals shrinking, still short by 20,000
Afghan National Security Forces have shrunk by 4,000 troops and policemen from last year and are still 20,000 people short of the numbers they expect to have in place by the end of next year, according to the government watchdog overseeing...
photo: USMC / Pete Thibodeau
Dutch King Willem-Alexander is given three cheers by guests and his wife Queen Maxima inside the Nieuwe Kerk or New Church in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, during his inauguration Tuesday April 30, 2013.
Willem-Alexander became the first king of the Netherlands since 1890 today, ascending a throne largely stripped of political power but still invested with enormous symbolic significance for the Dutch people. At his investiture in Amsterdam's...
photo: AP / Robin Utrecht, Pool
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are drifting mostly higher on Wall Street, but poor results from Pfizer are holding down the Dow Jones industrial average. The Dow was down three points to 14,814 at midday Tuesday, a decline of 0.02 percent. Pfizer fell...
photo: AP / Richard Drew
UN chief condemns latest attack on Somali legal system
Print 30 April 2013 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the killing of Somalia’s Deputy State Attorney, Ahmed Malim Sheikh Nur, expressing deep concern that the recent attacks in Mogadishu seem to be targeting the...
photo: UN / Rick Bajornas
Fire rises during an explosion following an Israeli strike on the border tunnels between Egypt and Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on November 20, 2012. In a backdrop of airstrikes and mounting casualties, American efforts to negotiate a cease-fire in the latest Gaza fighting between Israel and Hamas continues. Photo by Ahmed Deeb / WN
JERUSALEM, April 30 (Reuters) - A Palestinian man stabbed and shot dead an Israeli settler in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, the Israeli ambulance service and police said. It was the first time an Israeli has been killed by a Palestinian in the...
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb
Dutch King Willem-Alexander, Queen Maxima, right, and Princess Beatrix wave from the balcony of the Royal Palace in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Tuesday April 30, 2013.
AMSTERDAM — Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands abdicated on Tuesday, handing over to her eldest son, Willem-Alexander, who became the first king of the Netherlands in more than 120 years. An estimated 25,000 well-wishers cheered outside the Royal...
photo: AP / Dusan Vranic