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Brazilian Court Council Removes a Barrier to Same-Sex Marriage
Full Article The New York Times
15 May 2013

RIO DE JANEIRO — The council overseeing Brazil’s judiciary ruled on Tuesday that notary publics cannot refuse to perform same-sex marriage ceremonies, a decision that opens the way for gay couples across Latin America’s largest country to marry. Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. Twitter...

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Supreme Court Judge Joaquim Barbosa attends deliberations in a case involving a cash-for-votes scheme that could tarnish the legacy of hugely popular former President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva and the ruling party, in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012.
photo: AP / Fabio Pozzebom

updated 28 Mar 2013; published 28 Mar 2013
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US Supreme Court weighs gay marriage
updated 08 May 2013; published 01 May 2013
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Marriage Equality Around the World
updated 07 May 2013; published 25 Feb 2012
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muslim gangs grooming white girls for sex - England
updated 12 May 2013; published 20 Dec 2007
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HOMOSEXUALITY in MOROCCO & in ISLAM (part 1 of 5)
updated 11 May 2013; published 11 Oct 2007
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i saw my gay neighbors having sex!
updated 24 Apr 2013; published 24 Apr 2013
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Second revision of votes begins in Venezuela
Nigeria: State of Emergency Declared
Full Article The New York Times
15 May 2013

Admitting that Islamist extremists now control some of his nation’s villages and towns, President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency on Tuesday across Nigeria’s troubled northeast, promising to send more troops to fight what he said is now an open rebellion. Mr. Jonathan warned that any building suspected of housing Islamist extremists...

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Soldiers looks at bodies of suspected Islamic extremist killed
photo: AP / Abdukareem Haruna

updated 26 Dec 2012; published 31 Dec 2011
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President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan declaring state of emergency in some parts of Nigeria.3gp
updated 12 Mar 2013; published 31 Dec 2011
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Nigerian president declares state of emergency
updated 11 May 2013; published 11 May 2013
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Experts Examine Solutions To Insurgents In Nigeria - Part 1
updated 05 Nov 2012; published 05 Nov 2012
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Attack hits northern Nigeria church
updated 11 May 2013; published 11 May 2013
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Experts Examine Solutions To Insurgents In Nigeria - Part 2
updated 01 Jan 2012; published 01 Jan 2012
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Nigerian president declares state of emergency - IndepthAfrica
EU strikes deal on extra 2013 budget funds
Full Article BBC News
14 May 2013

An extra 7.3bn euros (£6.2bn; $9.5bn) is due to be added to the EU's budget for 2013 under a compromise reached between member states in Brussels. The European Council agreed the figure after the UK objected to the European Commission's original request for 11.2bn euros to settle unpaid bills. The Council said it understood the pressures...

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File - The European Central Bank. Notice a sculpture of the euro sign.
photo: Creative Commons / Eric Chan

updated 12 Apr 2013; published 12 Apr 2013
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EU approves Cyprus bailout - economy
updated 06 Feb 2013; published 06 Feb 2013
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MEPS threaten to veto EU budget deal
updated 10 Jul 2012; published 10 Jul 2012
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Spain given one year respite over budget
updated 28 Jun 2012; published 28 Jun 2012
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Thorning-Schmidt: Growth and jobs compact is a "light in the dark" to give hope to Europeans
updated 17 Jul 2012; published 17 Jul 2012
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Brendan Howlin speaks to MerrionStreet.ie about the Infrastructure Stimulus Plan
updated 28 Nov 2010; published 28 Nov 2010
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EU to give 1 bln euro for African peace initiatives: Van Rompuy
Japan mayor says wartime sex slaves necessary
Full Article Al Jazeera
14 May 2013

The Japanese military's forced prostitution of Asian women before and during World War II was necessary to "maintain discipline" in the ranks and provide rest for soldiers, an outspoken nationalist mayor has said. The comments made on Monday are already raising anger in neighbouring countries that bore the brunt of Japan's wartime aggression, and...

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File- Japanese Emperor Akihito, left, speaks with Japanese scientist Sinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University during the annual spring garden party hosted by the emperor and empress in Tokyo Caption here in Tokyo, Japan, Thursday, April 16, 2009. Standing from left are: Osaka Prefectural Gov. Toru Hashimoto and his wife, Noriko, Jaapanese actress Kaori Momoi.
photo: AP / Koji Sasahara

updated 05 Jul 2012; published 05 Jul 2012
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Japan Military base opens nurseries. War is hell-love and sex is nurseries
updated 27 Jun 2012; published 27 Jun 2012
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米議会へ請願書!日本の戦争犯罪否定を今こそ終わらせる時が来た!
updated 14 Aug 2010; published 14 Aug 2010
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100815 KOREAN COMFORT WOMAN 위안부 동영상
updated 14 Dec 2007; published 14 Dec 2007
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南京大虐殺の真実 Nanking Massacre-Japanese Atrocities Against Humanity
updated 06 May 2006; published 06 May 2006
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The Truth of The Nanjing of 1937.12 - 1938.2 (2)
updated 18 Nov 2012; published 18 Nov 2012
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UFO ghost RUSSIA alien diablo Ovni attacks police officer
Russia Detains American, Saying He Is C.I.A. Agent
Full Article The New York Times
14 May 2013

MOSCOW — Russia’s Federal Security Service announced Tuesday that it had detained an agent of the Central Intelligence Agency during an attempt to recruit a Russian agent, saying the American had brought a large sum of cash, technical devices and “appearance disguising means.” Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld...

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In this handout photo provided by the FSB, acronym for Russian Federal Security Service, a man claimed by FSB to be Ryan Fogle, a third secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, sits in the FSB offices in Moscow, early Tuesday, May 14, 2013.
photo: AP / FSB Public Relations Center

updated 14 May 2013; published 14 May 2013
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Russians catch Spy Ryan Fogle
updated 14 May 2013; published 14 May 2013
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Wig-wearing 'CIA agent' detained in Moscow
updated 14 May 2013; published 14 May 2013
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'Spirit of the Cold War': Russia says US diplomat was trying to recruit for CIA
updated 14 May 2013; published 14 May 2013
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Russia: 'Undercover CIA Agent' Detained
updated 14 May 2013; published 14 May 2013
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Latest News: Wigwearing 'CIA agent' detained in Moscow VIDEO
updated 14 May 2013; published 14 May 2013
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Wigwearing 'CIA agent' detained in Moscow VIDEO
U.S.-Israeli Relations and the Problem with Domino Theories and Utopias
Full Article WorldNews.com
14 May 2013

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling "If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?" Thomas Lovell Beddoes Like bloodthirsty vultures circling overhead above the regional and global Israeli-Syrian Crisis, domino theories and utopian ideologies are again ready to pounce on and gorge themselves with their next victims. Whereas the...

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This citizen journalism image provided by Lens Young Homsi, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a destroyed Syrian tank seen at al-Qossur neighborhood in Homs province, Syria, Monday, May 13, 2013.
photo: AP / Lens Young Homsi

updated 26 May 2012; published 26 May 2012
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The Conservative Utopia
updated 07 Feb 2013; published 07 Feb 2013
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mrOctopus - 2. The John Doe Experience - Domino Effect EP
updated 07 Feb 2013; published 07 Feb 2013
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mrOctopus - 7. Tomorrow's a good name for yesterday - Domino Effect EP
updated 04 May 2008; published 04 May 2008
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"The Waltz of utopia" Yorgos Kazantzis concert
updated 20 Jul 2007; published 20 Jul 2007
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umphrey's 2nd self
updated 29 May 2012; published 29 May 2012
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Umphrey's McGee - "Comma Later" Practice Trailer Summercamp 2012
Gitmo prisoner: Obama has 'abandoned' detainees
Full Article San Francisco Chronicle
14 May 2013

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Guantanamo Bay detainee says he feels abandoned by President Barack Obama and the world after more than 10 years at the U.S. prison. "I believe that President Obama must be unaware of the unbelievably inhumane conditions at the Guantanamo Bay prison, for otherwise he would surely do something to stop this torture," Yemeni...

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File - A detainee looks through a stack of magazines at Joint Task Force (JTF) Guantanamo.
photo: US Navy / MCS3 Joshua Nistas

updated 01 Feb 2012; published 01 Feb 2012
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Indefinite detention and torture: NDAA in action
updated 18 Apr 2011; published 18 Apr 2011
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US confirms existence of US secret prisons in Afghanistan - Press 110417
updated 29 Mar 2013; published 29 Mar 2013
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BEST NEWS : 'We died when Obama indefinitely detained us' - Gitmo inmate
updated 12 Dec 2012; published 12 Dec 2012
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Pres. Obama's record on civil liberties, war, detention, drones: Glenn Greenwald
updated 04 Jan 2013; published 04 Jan 2013
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OBAMA Signs 2013 NDAA Bill Allowing Indefinite Detention Of Americans. No Judge, No Jury, No Trial
updated 25 Jan 2013; published 25 Jan 2013
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NDAA: Obama/Clinton/Holder Subject to Indefinite Detention
Bangladesh building collapse: An end to recovery efforts, a promise of a new start
Full Article CNN
14 May 2013

May 14, 2013 -- Updated 0441 GMT (1241 HKT) SAVAR, Bangladesh (CNN) -- Across from the detritus of Bangladesh's deadliest industrial disaster, up four flights of narrow stairs, and inside the makeshift offices of the recovery operations, stands a dry erase board that marks, in neat black handwriting, each life a nine-story building claimed when it...

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A Bangladeshi rescue worker puts a red flag, marking the end of rescue operations at the site where a Bangladesh garment-factory building collapsed on April 24 in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, May 13, 2013.
photo: AP / A.M. Ahad

updated 28 Apr 2013; published 28 Apr 2013
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Savar Rana Plaza building collapsed killed 370 garment worker in Bangladesh
updated 25 Apr 2013; published 25 Apr 2013
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Bangladesh factory workers STILL trapped inside collapsed building
updated 29 Apr 2013; published 29 Apr 2013
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Rescue workers in Bangldesh search rubble
updated 24 Apr 2013; published 24 Apr 2013
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Bangladesh Dhaka building collapse leaves 70 dead
updated 24 Apr 2013; published 24 Apr 2013
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BANGLADESH Dhaka building collapse leaves 70 dead April 2013
updated 24 Apr 2013; published 24 Apr 2013
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Bangladesh Building Collapse | Clothing factory collapses in Bangladesh
Breed insects to improve human food security: UN report
Full Article The Guardian
13 May 2013

Farms processing insects for animal feed might soon become global reality as demand grows for sustainable feed sources The case for insects such as ants becoming a major industrial food source is being taken seriously by governments, says the report. Photograph: Gail Shumway/Getty Images The best way to feed the 9 billion people expected to be...

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File - Two girls help to prepare food for builders working on Haji Mohamud Hilowle Primary School in Wadajir district, Mogadishu, Somalia.
photo: UN / Tobin Jones

updated 28 Mar 2013; published 28 Mar 2013
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Locust Plague Is Real / Madagscar Invasion / Bible Prophecy / Destruction / Food Supply Issue
updated 30 Apr 2011; published 30 Apr 2011
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Expert: GM Food Will Destroy China
updated 14 May 2013; published 14 May 2013
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UK government to oppose 2025 European vehicle emissions target - The Guardian [Slide Show]
updated 13 Sep 2012; published 13 Sep 2012
6:15
Mandatory Travel Vaccinations in a Criminogenic New World
updated 10 Jun 2011; published 10 Jun 2011
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Adult Axolotls
updated 26 Aug 2011; published 26 Aug 2011
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Axolotls.
UN Urges World To Eat More Insects
Full Article Peace FM Online
13 May 2013

Eating more insects could help fight world hunger, according to a new UN report. The report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization says that eating insects could help boost nutrition and reduce pollution. It notes than over 2 billion people worldwide already supplement their diet with insects. However it admits that "consumer disgust" remains...

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Fried Insects food stall
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updated 14 May 2013; published 13 May 2013
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Insects: food of the future?
updated 14 May 2013; published 13 May 2013
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Insects food of the future
updated 14 May 2013; published 14 May 2013
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Fight World Hunger by Eating Insects: UN
updated 14 May 2013; published 13 May 2013
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UN says eating insects could tackle world hunger
updated 14 May 2013; published 04 Sep 2012
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Eating Insects: Arnold van Huis at TEDxEde
updated 14 May 2013; published 14 May 2013
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Insect Meals 'Good Idea' Says UN Food Agency for Overweight and Underweight of World

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A cruel and heart-rending civil war rages in Syria, and this tragedy is fueling a heated political debate in the rest of the world between interventionists (whether sincere R2P...
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From his 75 percent income tax to his 25 percent approval ratings, François Hollande, the French president who took office one year ago, has already been judged the hapless Louis...
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling When President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a military career officer who oversaw the enormous Allied D-Day landing in Europe during World...

Dominique Strauss-Khan (left), Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), flanked by Alpha Oumar Konare, Chairman of the Commission of the African Union, addresses Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Africa Steering Group press conference.
JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN — South Sudan has the potential to become an economic powerhouse in Africa if the government pursues the right policies, former International Monetary Fund chief, Dominique Straus Kahn, said Tuesday during a visit to the world's...
photo: UN / Mark Garten
Haiti's President Michel Martelly waves to supporters alongside his wife first lady Sophia Martelly at an event marking his two years in office in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, May 14, 2013.
EVENS SANON Associated Press= PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitian President Michel Martelly defended his administration Tuesday as he marked two years in office, pointing to a national school-tuition program, social protection projects and the...
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An internally displaced Rohingya boy wraps himself with a sarong as he walks in rain at a makeshift camp for Rohingya people in Sittwe, northwestern Rakhine State, Myanmar, ahead of the arrival of Cyclone Mahasen, Tuesday, May 14, 2013.
NEW DELHI — At least 58 people were missing and feared dead Tuesday after a boat capsized off Myanmar while residents tried to flee an approaching cyclone, United Nations officials said. The boat was carrying about 100 Rohingya Muslims, many of...
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People of Coast Vedda descent taking a pilgrimage on foot (Pada Yatra) from the town of Muttur in the east of Sri Lanka to the temple
A cyclone caused by a tropical depression in the Bay of Bengal killed at least seven people in Sri Lanka, government officials said on Tuesday. Cyclone Mahasen, which brought heavy rains and...
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Cyclone Mahasen
GUWAHATI/KOHIMA: Tropical cyclone Mahasen is expected to hit northeast India in the next 72 hours with heavy rains and thunderstorms expected in the region. On May 16, the cyclone is expected to cross the Bangladesh coast between Khepupara and...
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Attorney General Eric Holder, second from left, speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011.
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder today defended the Justice Department's secret examination of Associated Press phone records though he declared he had played no role in it, saying it was justified as part of an investigation into a...
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., center, walks with Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., left, and Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Calif., after walking off the House floor in protest of a contempt of Congress vote for Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday, June 28, 2012, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press= WASHINGTON (AP) — The budget deficit for the current year is projected to come in well below what was estimated just a few months ago, a development that could further curb the already slowing momentum for a budget...
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