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Asia Times
WASHINGTON - New signs have emerged in recent days which indicate extreme measures are being taken in order to suppress evidence of the pernicious effects of the energy extraction...
Al Jazeera
- Once again, the United States has demonstrated its potency by managing to get the Israelis and Palestinians back to peace talks. It has managed to do so despite a backdrop of...
Asia Times
By Emad Mekay BERKELEY - Before an ultimatum to attack an anti-coup sit-in earlier this week, Egypt's new strongman and coup leader General Abdel Fatah al-Sisi received one of his...

A US Predator unmanned drone armed with a missile stands on the tarmac of Kandahar military airport as Afghan President Hamid Karzai spoke at a meeting with tribal leaders in Kandahar city, Afghanistan, Sunday June 13, 2010.
The U.S. has sharply escalated its drone war in Yemen, with military officials in the Arab country reporting 34 suspected al-Qaida militants killed in less than two weeks, including three strikes on Thursday alone in which a dozen died. The action...
photo: AP / Massoud Hossaini, Pool
A banner supporting Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee who leaked top-secret documents about sweeping U.S. surveillance programs, is displayed at Central, Hong Kong's business district, Friday, June 21, 2013.
An encrypted email service thought to have been used by fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden has abruptly shut down. Ladar Levison, owner of the Texas-based Lavabit service, said legal reasons prevented him explaining his decision. But he...
photo: AP / Kin Cheung
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) meets with the President of the Union of Myanmar, Thein Sein, in Myanmar’s capital, Naypyitaw, 30 April, 2012.
By David Santoro Myanmar needs to honor its nonproliferation promises. This, in short, is the key finding of the US Department of State's 2013 Report on Adherence to and Compliance with Arms Control, Nonproliferation, and Disarmament Agreements and...
photo: UN / Mark Garten
US Navy 030302-N-5362A-003 Military working dog, Camp Patriot, Kuwait, USA
As of Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013, at least 2,121 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count. The...
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A boa constrictor sits in its cage during a press conference at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar speaks announced a proposed ban on bringing Burmese pythons and eight other kinds of large snakes in the country, saying they threaten the environment.
Autopsies will be done Tuesday in Saint John on the two young brothers believed to have been strangled to death by a python that escaped from a pet store in northern New Brunswick. Connor Barthe, 5, and his brother Noah, 7, were found lifeless in an...
photo: AP / Seth Wenig
A Buddhist monk sets himself on fire in Nepal to protest Chinaese repressive rule in Tibet
Article by Yeshe Choesang, WN Correspondent Dharamshala. Dharamshala: - A Tibetan monk reportedly died early Tuesday morning after setting himself on fire near the Boudhanath shrine, one of the holiest Buddhist sites in Kathmandu, Nepal, to protest...
photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang
A NASA satellite image showing the Indus River at the time of floods.  The 2010 Pakistan floods began in July 2010 following heavy monsoon rains in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh, Punjab and Baluchistan regions of Pakistan and affected the Indus River basin.
ISLAMABAD — Heavy rains that caused flash floods and collapsed houses in different parts of Pakistan have killed 80 people and displaced more than 80,000 over the past four days, a Pakistani official said Tuesday. Civil and military authorities...
photo: NASA / NASA