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Iraqi officials say 16 dead in wave of bomb blasts
Full Article The Guardian
30 May 2013

QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press= BAGHDAD (AP) — A series of bomb explosions in Baghdad and the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Thursday killed at least 16 people and wounded dozens in the latest eruption of violence rattling the country, officials said. Iraq is facing its most relentless wave of bloodshed since the 2011 U.S. military...

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Iraqis gather at the scene of a bomb attack in the commercial area of Karradah in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, May 30, 2013.
photo: AP / Karim Kadim

updated 28 May 2013; published 16 Apr 2013
2:14
Deadly Wave Of Bombings Across Iraq Ahead Of Elections
updated 20 May 2013; published 20 May 2013
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Iraq Car Bombs And Police Attacks Kill Dozens
updated 29 Dec 2012; published 29 Nov 2012
1:16
BOMBINGS in BAGHDAD: Back to back BLASTS across MAJOR citys in IRAQ [MURDER & MAYHEM]
updated 30 May 2013; published 30 May 2013
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Iraqi officials say 13 dead in wave of bomb blasts [Slide Show]
updated 19 Mar 2013; published 19 Mar 2013
0:40
Iraq Rocked By Wave Of Bombings On Invasion Anniversary
updated 17 Feb 2013; published 17 Feb 2013
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Baghdad iraq: Series of deadly car bomb blasts kills more than 20
Afghan women in fight over rights law
Full Article Al Jazeera
30 May 2013

- Fawzi Koofi, an Afghan MP, was left out to die under the sun the day she was born, according to a story she recounts in her autobiography. She is now set to run in Afghanistan's presidential elections next year. Among Westerners, she is regarded as a champion for Afghan women. In Afghanistan, her record is more mixed. Her recent...

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File - An Afghan National Army commando from the 6th Kandak hands schoolbags to women and children during a humanitarian assistance mission March 25, 2009, at a school in Kabul, Afghanistan.
photo: US Army / Staff Sgt. Russell Klika

updated 20 May 2013; published 20 May 2013
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Afghanistan Blocks Law on Women's Rights
updated 30 May 2013; published 30 May 2013
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Afghani Women Fighting For Their Rights
updated 23 Feb 2013; published 23 Feb 2013
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Afghan Journalist Zabiullah Rashidi
updated 18 May 2013; published 18 May 2013
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Rights For Women In Afghanistan Aborted Or Delayed?
updated 18 Feb 2012; published 18 Feb 2012
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NA Tajik MP Against Taliban Peace Talks & US Withdrawal From AFG!!
updated 15 Jul 2009; published 15 Jul 2009
1:21
Law to Let Afghan Husbands Starve Wives Who Withhold Sex
John McCain confident US can identify and arm 'right' Syria rebels
Full Article RTE
30 May 2013

US Senator John McCain has said he is confident the United States can send weapons to fighters in Syria without the risk they will fall into the wrong hands. "We can identify who these people are. We can help the right people," McCain said on CNN's programme Anderson Cooper 360. Mr McCain, a Republican, is an outspoken advocate for US...

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Republican Sen. John McCain during a TV interview, at the World Economic Forum, held at the King Hussein Bin Talal Convention center, in Southern Shuneh, 34 miles (55 kilometers) southeast of Amman, Jordan, Saturday, May 25, 2013.
photo: AP / Mohammad Hannon

updated 08 Aug 2012; published 08 Aug 2012
23:57
US supplying weapons to al-Qaeda in Syria
updated 28 May 2013; published 28 May 2013
10:01
BREAKING: McCain Daring Trip Into Syria Met With Rebels
updated 28 May 2013; published 28 May 2013
1:40
John McCain Makes Secret Syria Trip, Crosses Borders to Speak With Rebels
updated 28 May 2013; published 28 May 2013
2:01
News In Two Minutes - McCain's Rebels - Coronal Hole - Prepper Survival News - HD- 5/28
updated 29 May 2013; published 29 May 2013
3:05
Syrian Rebels: Arm them today, fight them tomorrow?
updated 28 May 2013; published 28 May 2013
2:40
McCAIN MEETS WITH SYRIAN REBELS
UN mulls ethics of 'killer robots'
Full Article BBC News
30 May 2013

So-called killer robots are due to be discussed at the UN Human Rights Council, meeting in Geneva. A report presented to the meeting will call for a moratorium on their use while the ethical questions they raise are debated....

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File - Foster-Miller TALON SWORDS units equipped with various weaponry. SWORDS or the Special Weapons Observation Reconnaissance Detection System, is a weaponized version being developed by Foster-Miller for the US Army.
photo: US Army

updated 02 Mar 2013; published 02 Mar 2013
19:56
DARPA's Killer Robot Army
updated 02 Jun 2011; published 02 Jun 2011
43:04
Killer Robots Robogames 2011
updated 01 Mar 2013; published 01 Mar 2013
4:47
'Mind Meld' Study Leading to DARPA's Killer Robot Army
updated 04 May 2013; published 04 May 2013
4:50
UN calls for global moratorium on 'Killer robots'
updated 15 Jun 2011; published 15 Jun 2011
2:47
Killer Robots- Ragin Scotsman vs Bounty Hunter
updated 26 Apr 2013; published 26 Apr 2013
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Attack of The Autonomous Killer Robots?!
Drone Strike Kills Pakistan Taliban Deputy
Full Article Wall Street Journal
29 May 2013

By SAEED SHAH FAISALABAD, PakistanA U.S. drone strike Wednesday killed the deputy chief of the Pakistani Taliban, Pakistani officials said, in an attack that could hinder Islamabad's planned attempt to open peace talks with the militant group that is closely linked to al Qaeda. Enlarge Image Close The death of Wali Ur Rehman was confirmed by three...

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In this image taken on Oct. 4, 2009, Pakistan's new Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud, center, stands pose with his deputy Waliur Rehman, left, and spokesman Azam Tariq in Sararogha in Pakistani tribal area of South Waziristan along Afghanistan border.
photo: AP / Ishtiaq Mahsud

updated 29 May 2013; published 29 May 2013
1:46
Pakistan's Taliban leader killed in drone strike
updated 30 May 2013; published 30 May 2013
2:20
Suspected Drone Strike Said to Have Killed Pakistan Taliban
updated 30 May 2013; published 30 May 2013
1:46
Complete News - Pakistani Taliban leader killed in drone strike
updated 30 May 2013; published 30 May 2013
1:46
Daily English News - Pakistani Taliban leader killed in drone strike
updated 30 May 2013; published 30 May 2013
1:46
Pakistani Taliban leader killed in drone strike
updated 30 May 2013; published 30 May 2013
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Drone kills senior figure in Pakistani Taliban
The Iraq War is Not Over for the Iraqi People
Full Article CounterPunch
29 May 2013

In 1946, the at Nuremberg stated the following, in language that was introduced by Judge Robert Jackson, the lead American prosecutor of Axis war criminals: To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the...

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U.S. Army Sgt. Michael Landers, center, security force team member for Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Farah, maintains security at the conclusion of a key leader engagement in Farah City, May 22, 2013.
photo: US Navy / Lt. j.g. Matthew Stroup

updated 02 Dec 2011; published 02 Dec 2011
79:36
Invasion of Iraq: How the British and Americans got it wrong
updated 29 May 2013; published 07 Apr 2010
9:45
American-British war crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan - spsyed analysis
updated 30 May 2013; published 06 Dec 2009
9:55
iraq war: us soldier throws his medals and stars!!! and quits
updated 30 Dec 2011; published 30 Dec 2011
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Iraq war the biggest American disaster?
updated 30 May 2013; published 03 Apr 2010
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Collateral Murder - Wikileaks - Iraq
updated 06 Feb 2013; published 06 Feb 2013
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Iraq War Vet Kills "American Sniper," Media Asks Motive
Syria crisis: UN debates Qusair fighting as powers spar
Full Article BBC News
29 May 2013

An emergency debate on Syria is due to be held at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday. Member states will consider a resolution condemning the presence of foreign fighters in Qusair, as fighting around the strategic town intensifies. Foreign powers have been in dispute over the question of arming the warring parties in Syria. The row...

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In this photo released on Sunday May 26, 2013, by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad run to take their position during clashes against Syrian rebels, in Aleppo, Syria.
photo: AP / SANA

updated 30 May 2013; published 30 May 2013
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Hezbollah Is 'Invading' Syria
updated 29 May 2013; published 29 May 2013
5:19
United Nations Right Council Debating Over Syrian Situation
updated 19 May 2013; published 19 May 2013
1:23
BBC News - Syria army 'storms' rebel town Qusair Qusair and now control the town centre 2013
updated 30 Aug 2012; published 30 Aug 2012
2:29
Syria - Brave Young Men Join Freedom Fight Against 50 Year Military Police State 8-30-12
updated 30 May 2013; published 30 May 2013
3:57
حزب الله Hezbollah fighters 'invading' Syria - rebel chief
updated 18 May 2013; published 18 May 2013
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FSA Rebel Mounted Shoulder Cobra Missile Launchers | Syria War 2013
Russia’s Soyuz Spacecraft Docks with ISS
Full Article Novosti
29 May 2013

MOSCOW / BAIKONUR, May 29 (RIA Novosti) - The Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft, carrying three new crew members to the International Space Station (ISS), docked with the station on Wednesday, a spokesman for the Russian space agency Roscosmos said. “The spacecraft...

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The Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-09M space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station, ISS, blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, May 29, 2013.
photo: AP / Mikhail Metzel

updated 14 May 2013; published 14 May 2013
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Space Station Live: Preparing for the Ride Home on a Soyuz Spacecraft
updated 15 Jul 2012; published 15 Jul 2012
10:15
Soyuz Launches to Space Station
updated 29 May 2013; published 29 May 2013
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Safely in Space: Soyuz with next crew on board docks at ISS
updated 19 Dec 2012; published 19 Dec 2012
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Soyuz spacecraft blasts off for space station
updated 30 May 2013; published 30 May 2013
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NASA Space Launch of Russian Soyuz Spacecraft to International Space Station
updated 29 May 2013; published 26 May 2013
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[ISS] Expedition 36 Soyuz Rocket Rolls Out with Soyuz TMA-09M Spacecraft Onboard
Russia: Iran must join Syria peace conference
Full Article Al Jazeera
29 May 2013

Russia has said that it is imperative for Iran to join a proposed peace conference on Syria despite reservations from some Western nations. "The issue of Iran is key for us," said Sergei Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, while on a visit to Paris on Tuesday. "Iran, without question, is one of the most important nations." Russia has argued that...

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In this Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012 photo, a Free Syrian Army fighter aims his weapon during heavy clashes with government forces in Aleppo, Syria.
photo: AP / Narciso Contreras

updated 29 May 2013; published 29 May 2013
2:17
Iran hosts Syria forum
updated 26 May 2013; published 26 May 2013
1:23
SYRIA Bashar al Assad Agrees to Geneva conference
updated 21 May 2013; published 21 May 2013
2:47
Past Differences Hamper US-Russian Efforts to Help Syria
updated 31 Aug 2012; published 31 Aug 2012
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US plan FAILED as 120 nations join IRAN NAM SUMMIT: Syrian PEACE talks, NUCLEAR Program
updated 30 May 2013; published 17 Apr 2013
2:47
Russia, China & North Korea Air Force and Military Commander's in Iran Joint Meeting.
updated 07 May 2013; published 07 May 2013
3:48
Russia & US to pressure both sides in Syria to find peace deal
New SARS-like virus is a 'threat to the entire world'
Full Article CNN
28 May 2013

May 28, 2013 -- Updated 2150 GMT (0550 HKT) (CNN) -- A new SARS-like virus recently found in humans is "a threat to the entire world," according to the director-general of the United Nations' World Health Organization. The so-called novel coronavirus "is not a problem that any single affected country can keep to itself or manage all by itself,"...

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Chinese go to work with masks on the streets of Beijing, China, Thursday, April 24, 2003.
photo: AP / Ng Han Guan

updated 28 May 2013; published 28 May 2013
2:56
PLAGUES & PESTILENCES: Coronavirus Spreads - Patient With SARS-Like Virus Dies In France!
updated 28 May 2013; published 28 May 2013
1:53
PLAGUES & PESTILENCES: Coronavirus Spreads - WHO Tracks New SARS-Like Virus To Middle East!
updated 29 May 2013; published 29 May 2013
2:13
New SARS-Like Virus Declared a Global Threat
updated 28 May 2013; published 28 May 2013
0:50
Coronavirus patient dies in France
updated 30 May 2013; published 30 May 2013
1:54
New SARS-Like Virus Is A 'Threat To The Entire World" 5-29-2013
updated 28 May 2013; published 28 May 2013
1:54
Novel Coronavirus - "THREAT TO THE ENTIRE WORLD."

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President Barack Obama's May 23rd speech at the National Defense University has been cited primarily for its assertion that the war against Al Qaeda has largely been won and that...

FBI special agent Weysan Dun announces in Omaha, Neb., Friday, Oct. 1, 2010, the arrest of more than 30 people in New York, London and the Ukraine who are thought to belong to a cyber theft ring that netted at least $70 million. Special Agent Dun said that arrests this week were the results of an investigation that begin in May 2009.
The man fatally shot by an FBI agent during questioning about his ties to one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects was unarmed, according to reports. Ibragim Todashev, a 27-year-old Chechen immigrant, had been questioned for hours on May 22 in...
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Inflatalbe S-300PMU2 SAM of Russia.
Syria has already received the first shipment of an advanced Russian air defence system, Syria's President Bashar al-Assad is reported to have said in a Lebanese TV interview. Russia vowed to go ahead with sending the weapons soon after an EU...
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A woman adjusts her hair as she walks by an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012.
By DANIEL INMAN And WEI-ZHE TAN Tokyo stocks suffered another brutal loss Thursday as investor skepticism mounted about the power of this year's rally. Weighed by a sharply lower dollar, the Nikkei Stock Average dropped 5.2% to end at 13,589.03, its...
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John McCain speaking.
John McCain spoke publicly about his visit to Syria for the first time Wednesday night on CNN's 'AC 360.' The Arizona senator quietly entered the country and met with rebel leaders Monday. McCain emphasized the desperation of the rebels' situation,...
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Track map of Hurricane Barbara of the 2013 Pacific hurricane season.
Hurricane Barbara hit Mexico’s southern Pacific coast overnight, flooding roads, toppling trees and killing two men before weakening to a tropical storm as it moved inland. The US National Hurricane Centre said Barbara, which had...
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File - Nigeria troops man a checkpoint in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Wednesday, Sept, 28. 2011. Security forces have arrested a commander of a radical Muslim sect known as Boko Haram, who allegedly ordered various sectarian killings in the northeastern city.
The Boko Haram armed group has claimed that a military offensive launched against it by the Nigerian military is failing. "My fellow brethren from all over the world I assure you that we are strong, hale and hearty since they launched this assault on...
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Buddhists armed with sticks walk in the streets of in Lashio, northern Shan State, Myanmar, Wednesday, May 29, 2013.
TODD PITMAN Associated Press= LASHIO, Myanmar (AP) — It was a terrifying sight: hundreds of angry, armed men on motorcycles advancing up a dusty street with no one to stop them. Shouting at the top of their lungs, clutching machetes and iron pipes...
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