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Experts report progress over Syrian chemical weapons
Full Article South China Morning Post
04 Oct 2013

International experts were on Friday gearing up to disable the chemical weapons programme in war-hit Syria after reporting “encouraging” progress in a day of meetings with regime officials. The Syrian regime and its armed opponents have both been accused of carrying out numerous atrocities in the 30-month conflict, which began as a popular uprising...
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An advance team of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and the United Nations arrives in Damascus, Syria, four days after the OPCW Executive Council and the UN Security Council unanimously endorsed a plan to begin the process of overseeing the destruction of the country’s chemical weapons programme, 1 October, 2013.
photo: UN / Hend Abdel Ghany

updated 04 Oct 2013; published 04 Oct 2013
0:42
Syrian Chemical Weapons Deal: UN weapons inspectors call initial Damascus progress 'encouraging'
updated 03 Oct 2013; published 03 Oct 2013
1:08
UN Inspectors Make Progress In Syria
updated 04 Oct 2013; published 04 Oct 2013
0:34
UN-OPCW team makes progress in Syria
updated 13 Sep 2013; published 13 Sep 2013
4:05
John Kerry And Lavrov Meet To Join Syria Peace Talks
updated 31 Aug 2013; published 31 Aug 2013
3:06
UN Chemical Weapons Inspectors Leave Syria
updated 23 Aug 2013; published 23 Aug 2013
3:56
Russia: Syria Must Cooperate With Experts Investigating Chemical Incident
Italy panel set to decide on Berlusconi fate
Full Article Al Jazeera
04 Oct 2013

The political career of Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi may reach the end of the line as a Senate panel could recommend stripping him of his seat following his tax fraud conviction and four-year prison sentence. The Senate committee is likely to start the process to expel Berlusconi from parliament on Friday, meaning his fate could...
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Italy panel set to decide on Berlusconi fate
photo: AP / Pier Paolo Cito

updated 31 Aug 2013; published 31 Aug 2013
2:59
Berlusconi may lose senate seat over tax fraud conviction
updated 20 Sep 2013; published 20 Sep 2013
4:04
Italy Court Upholds Berlusconi Fraud Conviction
updated 24 Jun 2013; published 24 Jun 2013
2:31
Silvio Berlusconi Sentenced to 7 years in Jail For Paying For Sex With an Underage Prostitute
updated 21 Dec 2012; published 21 Dec 2012
2:29
BEST NEWS: Saving Italy's history from austerity
updated 15 Jan 2013; published 15 Jan 2013
44:57
LAMBORGHINI AVENTADOR LP700-4 Megafactories - See How this SUPERCAR is made
updated 28 Jul 2013; published 28 Jul 2013
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LAMBORGHINI AVENTADOR LP700-4 Megafactories
Obama cancels Asia trip to deal with govt shutdown
Full Article NZ Herald
04 Oct 2013

WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama is canceling a trip to Asia to stay in Washington and push for an elusive funding bill to end a federal government shutdown entering its fourth day Friday. In a statement late Thursday, the White House blamed Republicans, saying the "completely avoidable" government shutdown was hurting the president's efforts...
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President Barack Obama signs H.R. 3210, Pay Our Military Act, which provides continuing appropriations for pay and allowances for members of the Armed Forces during any period for which interim or full-year appropriations for FY 2014 are not in effect, in the Oval Office, Monday night, Sept. 30, 2013.
photo: White House / Pete Souza

updated 04 Oct 2013; published 04 Oct 2013
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Government shutdown: Obama cancels Asia trip, standoff continues
updated 02 Oct 2013; published 02 Oct 2013
1:56
President Obama Wants Talks To Come Out Of Shutdown
updated 04 Oct 2013; published 04 Oct 2013
2:27
Obama cancels Asia trip over US shutdown
updated 02 Oct 2013; published 02 Oct 2013
1:56
Obama cancels stops on overseas trip in wake of shutdown
updated 21 Sep 2013; published 21 Sep 2013
0:37
Pres Obama Slams Republicans For Risking Government Shutdown Over Defunding Obamacare
updated 02 Oct 2013; published 02 Oct 2013
3:24
Obama's Visit To Malaysia Cancelled After Shutdown
Lampedusa sinking: Italy mourns up to 300 migrant dead
Full Article BBC News
04 Oct 2013

Italy is holding a day of national mourning, after a boat carrying about 500 African migrants sank off the island of Lampedusa. At least 103 bodies were recovered and scores more are trapped in the vessel, which sank less than 1 km (half-a-mile) offshore. More than 150 people were rescued, but another 200 of those on board the 20m (66-ft) boat are...
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Rescuers lift a body bag as they reach the port of Lampedusa, southern Italy, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013.
photo: AP / Danilo Taralli

updated 04 Oct 2013; published 04 Oct 2013
1:03
Almost 100 dead in migrant boat sinking off Lampedusa coast
updated 03 Oct 2013; published 03 Oct 2013
1:05
Salgono a 94 le vittime del naufragio a Lampedusa (Italy boat sinking: 94 migrants dead)
updated 03 Oct 2013; published 03 Oct 2013
2:31
Italy boat sinking: Dozens of migrants die off Lampedusa
updated 03 Oct 2013; published 03 Oct 2013
0:50
Italy boat sinking : Italy Migrant Boat Sinks Killing At Least 130 3rd October 2013
updated 03 Oct 2013; published 03 Oct 2013
2:49
62 migrants died in Italy - boat sinking near Lampedusa (VIDEO)
updated 03 Oct 2013; published 03 Oct 2013
0:10
Italy Migration Boat Caught Fire Near Lampedusa Atleast 85 dead 120 Rescued Migrant Boat Caught Fire
15 Pros and Cons about Government Slowdown
Full Article WorldNews.com
03 Oct 2013

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling The larger picture of the U.S. government's slowdown (incorrectly labeled "shutdown") is a struggle over a centralized and incoherent bureaucracy that continues to seize trillions of dollars more than what it spends. This reckless taxation and spending has created an other-governance dependency for...
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President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden listen as they are updated on the federal government shutdown and the approaching debt ceiling deadline, in the Oval Office, Oct. 1, 2013.
photo: White House / Pete Souza

updated 20 Sep 2013; published 20 Sep 2013
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BREAKING: House Speaker Boehner Speaks After ObamaCare Voted Defunded
updated 04 Feb 2011; published 04 Feb 2011
59:57
The Impact of the 2010 Elections on U.S. Healthcare Reform
updated 30 Jan 2013; published 30 Jan 2013
7:06
May be it is Time for our Government to Stop Distracting Us...
updated 23 May 2012; published 23 May 2012
3:42
China's Economy Problem: An Issue of Politics?
updated 27 Sep 2013; published 27 Sep 2013
9:25
Wolf Blitzer and Michele Bachmann Brawl Over the Benefits of Obamacare - CNN - 9/27/13
updated 09 Aug 2009; published 09 Aug 2009
7:27
Universal Health Care will kill you
Italy Migrant Boat Sinks Killing At Least 82
Full Article Skynews
03 Oct 2013

At least 82 migrants have been killed and scores are missing after a boat caught fire and capsized near a Sicilian island. About 150 people have been pulled from the water off Lampedusa, as emergency workers race to rescue more survivors. The coastguard said it appeared that there were between 400 and 500 migrants on the boat when it sank. The UN...
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The body of a drowned migrant is being unloaded from a Coast Guard boat in the port of Lampedusa, Sicily, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013.
photo: AP / Nino Randazzo, Health Care Service, HO

updated 03 Oct 2013; published 03 Oct 2013
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A Migrant Boat Has Sank Off The Sicilian Island Of Lampedusa | Dozens Die in Migrant Boat Fire
updated 03 Oct 2013; published 03 Oct 2013
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At Least 82 Die As Italy Migrant Boat Sinks Near Lampedusa | Migrant Boat Sinks Killing At Least 82
updated 03 Oct 2013; published 03 Oct 2013
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Italy :Lampedusa boat disaster survivors pulled to safety
updated 03 Oct 2013; published 03 Oct 2013
2:31
Italy Migrant Boat Sinks Killing At Least 82 (03/10/2013)
updated 03 Oct 2013; published 03 Oct 2013
1:41
Dozens Of Migrants Die in Italy Boat Sinking Near Lampedusa
updated 03 Oct 2013; published 03 Oct 2013
1:41
At Least 94 Die As Italy Migrant Boat Sinks Near Lampedusa | Migrant Boat Sinks Killing At Least 94
How Africa can feed itself in the face of climate change
Full Article Al Jazeera
03 Oct 2013

With the global population approaching 9.6 billion by 2050, huge demands will be placed on states and the environment to provide sufficient food. Already, leaders are searching for solutions to a series of global challenges unprecedented in scale and complexity. Food insecurity, malnutrition, climate change, rural poverty and environmental...
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File - Somali men and women carrying their sick and malnourished children wait outside a medical clinic established by the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), an active regional peacekeeping mission operated by the African Union with the approval of the United Nations, 16 July, 2011.
photo: UN / Stuart Price

updated 03 Oct 2013; published 03 Oct 2013
7:03
Can Africa It Self End The Hunger?
updated 01 Mar 2010; published 01 Mar 2010
3:43
Modernization of the African agriculture- and food industry : Adaptation to climate change
updated 29 Jan 2011; published 29 Jan 2011
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Climate Change Update (29 January 2011) South Africa Flooding = Food Crisis
updated 07 Apr 2013; published 22 Jan 2012
31:53
Creating A Climate For Change - Full Length Movie
updated 03 Sep 2012; published 03 Sep 2012
22:42
Hungry for Change - Building a Food Secure Future in Sub-Saharan Africa (Full)
updated 09 Sep 2011; published 12 Aug 2011
0:27
SAVE OUR PLANET - Fighting Climate change offers opportunity to boost African agriculture
US shutdown: White House talks fail to end deadlock
Full Article BBC News
03 Oct 2013

US President Obama and Congressional leaders have failed to break a budget deadlock that has led to a partial government shutdown. Mr Obama held White House talks with Republican House Speaker John Boehner and Senate leader Mitch McConnell as well as their Democratic counterparts. Mr Boehner left the talks complaining the Democrats "will not...
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A view of the West Front of the Capitol building in Washington.
photo: AP / Evan Vucci

updated 03 Oct 2013; published 03 Oct 2013
0:11
US shutdown: White House talks fail to end deadlock
updated 03 Oct 2013; published 03 Oct 2013
2:40
US shutdown: White House talks fail to end deadlock
updated 03 Oct 2013; published 03 Oct 2013
1:43
Obama and Congress leaders still deadlocked over shutdown despite talks
updated 01 Oct 2013; published 01 Oct 2013
5:31
White House Adviser on 'Irony' of Looming Shutdown
updated 02 Oct 2013; published 02 Oct 2013
5:07
Political deadlock drags as effects of shutdown are felt
updated 14 Sep 2013; published 14 Sep 2013
2:50
Yet again, Congress searches for a short-term budget fix
Overflowing tank cause of new leak at Fukushima
Full Article Denver Post
03 Oct 2013

Click photo to enlarge This aerial photo shows the storage tank, fifth from left at left plot, which workers detected the water dripping from the top, at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant at Okuma town in Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013. Japan's crippled nuclear plant has a new leak of highly radioactive water...
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In this Sept. 18, 2013 photo, a storage tank, center, is seen under dismantling operation at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant at Okuma town in Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan.
photo: AP / Tokyo Electric Power Co.

updated 03 Oct 2013; published 03 Oct 2013
0:43
Toxic water leak at crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, Tepco reports
updated 03 Oct 2013; published 03 Oct 2013
1:44
Fukushima Nuclear Plant Says Another Tank Leaking Toxic Water into Ocean
updated 21 Aug 2013; published 21 Aug 2013
1:15
Fukushima nuclear plant still leaking radioactive water, operator reveals
updated 09 Apr 2013; published 09 Apr 2013
10:48
Fukushima Rad News 4/8/13: ALL Radioactive Water storage Tanks at Fukushima Leaking?
updated 08 Apr 2013; published 08 Apr 2013
0:46
Second Tank Leak Found at Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Plant
updated 22 Aug 2013; published 22 Aug 2013
1:07
LEAKING TANK AT FUKUSHIMA PLANT HAS NO WATER GAUGE
US shutdown: Barack Obama warns of default danger
Full Article BBC News
03 Oct 2013

US President Barack Obama has warned that Wall Street should be concerned that a conservative faction of Republicans is willing to allow the country to default on its debt. The US government has partially closed after Congress failed to agree a budget and will run out of cash on 17 October unless its debt ceiling is raised. In a TV interview on...
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US shutdown: Barack Obama warns of default danger
photo: AP / Charles Dharapak

updated 30 Sep 2013; published 30 Sep 2013
10:41
Government Shutdown 2013: Obama Speaks On Government Shutdown #Obamacare #GovernmentShutdown
updated 01 Oct 2013; published 01 Oct 2013
8:46
New Update: President Obama Speaks On Government Shutdown 2013 & Obamacare at white house
updated 21 Sep 2013; published 21 Sep 2013
0:37
Obama Slams Republicans For Risking Government Shutdown Over Defunding Obamacare
updated 01 Oct 2013; published 01 Oct 2013
12:32
Government Shutdown 2013 - Obama Speaks On Government Shutdown & Obamacare 10/1/2013
updated 30 Sep 2013; published 30 Sep 2013
11:12
US Government SHUTDOWN - President OBAMA Addresses the Nation
updated 03 Oct 2013; published 03 Oct 2013
9:12
US President Barack Obama speech regarding government shutdown

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Former President Bush Heard Voices Too
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Like Aaron Alexis who claimed his delusional voices and paranoia caused him to go on a shooting rampage at the Washington Navy Yard,...
Shutdown Apocalypse: Nasdaq Closes at Highest Point Since 2001
American Spectator
By Matt Purple on 10.1.13 @ 5:59PM By now, you’ve probably heard about the horrors that have swept America as a consequence of the government shutdown. Small towns are...
How the Dow Jones Industrial Average Fared Tuesday
The New York Times
Stocks rose on Tuesday even as a U.S. government shutdown began. Despite the political gridlock in Washington, investors didn't push the panic button. That suggests that, at least...

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Lampedusa: Day Of Mourning For African Migrants
Bodies of drowned migrants are lined up in the port of Lampedusa Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013.
Orange News
4 October 2013, 6:15 Lampedusa: Day Of Mourning For African Migrants Tweet The Italian government has declared an official day of mourning after the tragedy of Lampedusa, where more than 100 African migrants died trying to reach the island. Italy's...
photo: AP / Nino Randazzo, Health Care Service
2013 Lampedusa Boat Sinking   Illegal Immigration to Lampedusa   Italy Immigration   Photos   Wikipedia : 2013 Mediterranean Sea migrant shipwreck
Not raising debt ceiling could result in 2008-like situation: US Dept of Treasury
Not raising debt ceiling could result in 2008-like situation: US Dept of Treasury
Indian Express
Hit by a shutdown, the US Department of Treasury has urged the Congress to immediately increase debt ceiling failing which, it said could result in recession comparable to or worse than the 2008 financial crisis. "Postponing a debt ceiling increase...
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Italian senate committee likely to start Berlusconi expulsion process
A puppet representing Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi during the demonstration in Rome.
The Times of India
ROME: An Italian senate committee is likely to start a process on Friday to expel Silvio Berlusconi from parliament following his conviction for tax fraud, meaning the former prime minister's fate could be sealed within weeks. Berlusconi, who has...
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Mentor of 9/11 kingpin joins president race in Afghanistan
Mentor of 9/11 kingpin joins president race in Afghanistan
The Times of India
KABUL: A former Islamist warlord who is said to be responsible for bringing al-Qaida to Afghanistan and who trained the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks, announced he was running for president on Thursday, a move likely to be greeted with...
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Stocks fall on third day of government shutdown
Specialist Frank Masiello, left, directs trades at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, Nov. 1, 2010.
Kansas City Star
NEW YORK — Investors sold stocks across the board Thursday as a U.S. government shutdown dragged into its third day and the nation inched closer to a critical deadline to raise its borrowing limit. Richard Drew, File | AP Photo FILE - In this...
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Leader of Greek far-right Golden Dawn party jailed pending trial
Leader of the extreme far-right Golden Dawn party, Nikos Michaloliakos, center, smiles toward his supporters as he escorted by anti-terror police upon his arrival to a court for a preliminary hearing into charges of participating in a criminal organization in Athens, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013.
Kathimerini
Golden Dawn leader Nikos Michaloliakos has been ordered to remain in custody pending trial on charges of belonging to a criminal group. During a marathon session at the Evelpidon court complex in Athens that went on until the early hours of Thursday,...
photo: AP / Thanassis Stavrakis
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Berlusconi fails to unseat Italy grand coalition government
Italian Premier Enrico Letta, left, gives the v-sign as he sits beside Deputy Premier Angelino Alfano, ahead of a confidence vote at the Lower Chamber, in Rome, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013.
The Hindu
Italian Prime Minister, Enrico Letta, scored a major political victory on Wednesday, as his Government comfortably won a confidence vote, seeing off a threat from former premier Silvio Berlusconi to bring down the ruling grand coalition. Letta...
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