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Karzai agrees to Afghan-US security pact
Full Article Al Jazeera
24 Nov 2013

Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, has agreed to sign a strategic agreement with the United States if it brings peace to the nation after a more than three-decade-long conflict. Speaking at the conclusion of the “consultative” Loya Jirga, Grand Assembly, on Sunday morning, Karzai said the result of the Bilateral Strategic Agreement...

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File - A Paratrooper from the 82nd Airborne Division keeps a lookout over a main avenue of approach in the Sangin city district center of Helmand Province, Afghanistan, April 14, 2007.
photo: US Army / Spc. Daniel Love

updated 14 Oct 2013; published 14 Oct 2013
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No Deal on Security Pact After Kerry Karzai Talks
updated 21 Nov 2013; published 21 Nov 2013
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United States And Afghanistan Clash Over Final Agreement
updated 21 Nov 2013; published 21 Nov 2013
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Karzai says security pact with US should be signed next year
updated 08 Oct 2013; published 08 Oct 2013
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Karzai may not sign pact with US
updated 21 Nov 2013; published 21 Nov 2013
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U S Afghanistan reach security agreement
updated 21 Nov 2013; published 21 Nov 2013
3:37
Afghanistan Delays Deal With The United States
The stench of death remains even as recovery begins
Full Article The Gleaner
24 Nov 2013

MANILA, (AP):The death toll from one of the strongest typhoons on record could exceed 6,000. Already, the death toll has risen above 5,000 and with 1,611 persons still unaccounted for Philippine officials say it is likely to climb further, although recovery efforts are beginning to take hold. Interior Secretary Mar Roxas said 4,919 people were...

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Families affected by Typhoon Haiyan wait for evacuation at the Tacloban airport, Philippines, 22 November, 2013.
photo: US Navy / MCS3 Jonah Z. Stepanik

updated 19 Aug 2013; published 02 Jan 2007
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The Last Dive of David Shaw
updated 11 Jul 2013; published 21 May 2013
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Death Lullaby - The Recovery Official Lyric Video
updated 30 Aug 2013; published 30 Aug 2013
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Death Row - Mike Zito & the Wheel
updated 12 Jun 2013; published 04 Dec 2011
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Shadows Chasing Ghosts - "The Recovery" Small Town Records
updated 21 Jul 2013; published 21 Jul 2013
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Cornfield plane recovery from 300 ft death spiral nose dive
updated 09 Nov 2013; published 09 Nov 2013
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Typhoon Haiyan Devastates Philippines: Death toll expected to rise sharply as recovery begins
Mali on security alert for parliamentary elections
Full Article BBC News
24 Nov 2013

Mali is on security alert for parliamentary elections, the second nationwide poll since a French military intervention against Islamist militants in the north earlier this year. Mali held a peaceful presidential election in August, but since then there has been a surge in violence. On Thursday, the northern city of Gao came under rocket attack....

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File - Senegalese police officers serving with the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), patrol the streets of the city of Gao, in Mali, 29 August, 2013.
photo: UN / Marco Dormino

updated 30 Jan 2013; published 30 Jan 2013
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Mali : French troops at the gates of Kidal, President Traore to organise elections by July 31
updated 22 Nov 2013; published 22 Nov 2013
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What Will Be The Outcome Of Elections In Mali?
updated 04 Nov 2013; published 04 Nov 2013
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France mourns slain journalists - French Papers
updated 18 Feb 2013; published 18 Feb 2013
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US Could Resume Direct Mali Military Aid If Elections Successful
updated 04 Aug 2013; published 04 Aug 2013
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Will The Result Of Mali Elections Bring Any Change To The Country?
updated 15 Jan 2013; published 15 Jan 2013
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France feeling alone on Mali battlefield - MALI - FRANCE
Iran reaches interim nuclear deal with West
Full Article STL Today
24 Nov 2013

GENEVA • Iran and six world powers announced early Sunday that they had reached an agreement on Iran’s nuclear program. “We have reached an agreement,” Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif tweeted after 3 a.m. The spokesman for the lead European negotiator, Catherine Ashton, made a similar announcement via Twitter. “We have reached agreement,” the...

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From left, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov gather at the United Nations Palais, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2013, in Geneva, Switzerland, during the Iran nuclear talks.
photo: AP / Carolyn Kaster, Pool

updated 24 Nov 2013; published 24 Nov 2013
6:44
Obama Speaks About Iran Nuclear Deal
updated 14 Nov 2013; published 14 Nov 2013
6:25
Can a deal be agreed on Iran's nuclear future
updated 24 Nov 2013; published 24 Nov 2013
4:39
Iran Nuclear Deal Reached | Obama Addresses Nation | Iran Halts Its Nuclear Program At Geneva Talks
updated 12 Nov 2013; published 12 Nov 2013
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"SAUDI ARABIA & ISRAEL" USING PETRODOLLAR TO SINK "USA & IRAN NUKE DEAL"!
updated 10 Nov 2013; published 10 Nov 2013
2:51
Iran nuclear program: Kerry pushes for interim deal
updated 20 Nov 2013; published 20 Nov 2013
4:21
Talks On Iranian Nuclear Programme Continues In Geneva
Syria conflict: Children 'targeted by snipers'
Full Article BBC News
24 Nov 2013

More than 11,000 children have died in Syria's civil war in nearly three years, including hundreds targeted by snipers, a new report says. Summary executions and torture have also been used against children as young as one, the London-based Oxford Research Group think tank says. The report says the majority of children have been killed by...

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Children warm their hands by a fire in Idlib, north Syria, Monday, March 5, 2012. Syrian refugees fleeing to neighboring Lebanon on Monday said they feared they would be slaughtered in their own homes as government forces hunted down opponents in a brutal offensive against the opposition stronghold of Homs.
photo: AP / Rodrigo Abd

updated 24 Nov 2013; published 24 Nov 2013
2:31
Hundreds Of Syrian Children Are Targeted By Snipers
updated 02 Nov 2013; published 02 Nov 2013
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Syrian snipers target pregnant women, unborn babies, doctor says CNN com
updated 24 Oct 2013; published 24 Oct 2013
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Syrian snipers target pregnant women, unborn babies, doctor says CNN com
updated 13 Jun 2012; published 13 Jun 2012
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WorldLeadersTV: SYRIA: CHILDREN in ARMED CONGLICT: UN REPORT (UNTV)
updated 08 Aug 2013; published 08 Aug 2013
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Syria conflict: rebel group claims to have target Assad convoy, officials deny
updated 20 Oct 2013; published 20 Oct 2013
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Is this the most sickening image of the war in Syria so far Snipers 'target unborn children in chill
Compromise breaks deadlock at UN climate talks
Full Article STL Today
23 Nov 2013

Developed countries and fast-growing economies have reached a last-minute compromise to avert a breakdown of U.N. climate talks in Warsaw. China and India had clashed with the U.S. and other developed countries Saturday over the wording of draft decisions with guidelines on when countries should present commitments for a new pact to fight global...

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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left at lectern) addresses a Dialogue on Climate Finance, which took place in the course of the 2013 UN Conference on Climate Change (COP19/CMP9) in Warsaw, 20 November, 2013.
photo: UN / Evan Schneider

updated 07 Dec 2010; published 07 Dec 2010
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US hindering progress at climate summit - PressTV 101206
updated 22 Oct 2009; published 22 Oct 2009
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China, India Forge Alternative to UN Climate Treaty
updated 06 Nov 2013; published 06 Nov 2013
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A Fair Compromise to Break the Climate Impasse: Video Interview with Marco Grasso
updated 18 Dec 2009; published 18 Dec 2009
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Copenhagen Climate Conference Draws to Close
updated 24 Nov 2013; published 24 Nov 2013
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BBC News Last minute deal saves fractious UN climate talks in Poland
updated 13 Dec 2011; published 13 Dec 2011
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Al Jazeera : UN Climate Deal Hailed as 'Important Advance'
Iran nuclear talks: Deal or no deal?
Full Article Al Jazeera
23 Nov 2013

Negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 group of world powers are continuing. Delegates are locked in difficult talks in Geneva as they struggle to secure an interim deal on Tehran's nuclear programme. So far, there has been no breakthrough in trying to persuade Iran to temporarily freeze nuclear enrichment in return for the lifting of some...

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EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, second left, and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, third right, attend talks on Iran's nuclear program in Geneva on Friday Nov. 22, 2013.
photo: AP / Fabrice Coffrini

updated 24 Nov 2013; published 24 Nov 2013
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BREAKING: President Obama Delivers Statement over Iran Nuclear Deal 11/23/2013
updated 24 Nov 2013; published 24 Nov 2013
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BREAKING: Deal Reached With Iran Halts Its Nuclear Program - 11/23/2013
updated 24 Nov 2013; published 24 Nov 2013
6:55
President Obama's Statement on Iran Nuclear Program Deal: The World Will Be Safer
updated 05 Nov 2012; published 05 Nov 2012
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Nuclear weapons and Iran Lecture
updated 10 Nov 2013; published 10 Nov 2013
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Uranium enrichment 'a red line' for Iran
updated 07 Nov 2013; published 07 Nov 2013
5:33
Iran Nuclear Talks with World Powers Over It's Nuclear Program
Philippine children face malnutrition risk
Full Article Al Jazeera
23 Nov 2013

The UN says 1.5 million children are at risk of malnutrition in typhoon-ravaged areas of the Philippines as it calls for greater efforts to provide food and water. A UN appeal to cope with Typhoon Haiyan's devastation has also...

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Children who say they fled when armed men were seen in their village eat bread while waiting in Tacloban city, Leyte province in central Philippines Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2013.
photo: AP / Bullit Marquez

updated 23 Nov 2013; published 23 Nov 2013
1:00
Typhoon Haiyan leaves children most at risk
updated 23 Nov 2013; published 23 Nov 2013
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1.5 Million Children Face Malnutrition In The Philippines
updated 15 Aug 2013; published 15 Aug 2013
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CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC RISKS ANARCHY & CHAOS U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL TOLD
updated 23 Nov 2010; published 23 Nov 2010
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MaximsNewsNetwork: PAKISTAN: 125,000 CHILDREN RISK SEVERE MALNUTRITION (UNICEF)
updated 23 Jul 2013; published 23 Jul 2013
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100 000 Namibian children (under 5) are at risk of malnutrition.
updated 04 Aug 2012; published 04 Aug 2012
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Help Children Africa 1,000,000 risk from malnutrition (I NEED YOU)
Kerry, Russian FM join Iran nuclear talks
Full Article Dawn
23 Nov 2013

GENEVA: Secretary of State John Kerry and foreign ministers of other major powers were converging Saturday to lend their weight to the Iran nuclear talks after envoys reported progress in marathon negotiations to curb the Iranian program in return for limited sanctions relief. After a third day of talks, State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki said...

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivers remarks the Closing Session of the 2013 U.S.-China High-Level Consultation on People-to-People Exchange at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on November 21, 2013.
photo: US DoS

updated 24 Nov 2013; published 24 Nov 2013
1:58
Iran nuclear deal completed, foreign ministers announce Deal Reached Geneva #IranTalks 11/23/2013
updated 08 Nov 2013; published 08 Nov 2013
1:14
Netanyahu slams 'Deal of the Century' for Iran in nuclear talks
updated 08 Nov 2013; published 08 Nov 2013
1:12
Iran nuclear talks: US Secretary of State John Kerry says important issues 'still unresolved'
updated 23 Nov 2013; published 23 Nov 2013
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Iran Nuclear Deal: US Secretary of State John Kerry arrives in Geneva as talks reach final stages
updated 11 Nov 2013; published 11 Nov 2013
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Kerry Sees Iran Nuclear Deal in Months | NewsLook
updated 08 Nov 2013; published 08 Nov 2013
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No Iran nuclear deal yet, says Kerry in Geneva
Typhoon Haiyan: The search for bodies
Full Article BBC News
23 Nov 2013

Hundreds of bodies are still being retrieved from the rubble of Typhoon Haiyan, every day. For the volunteers who help with this, it is a grim but vital task. On the seafront at Tacloban city, the gentle lapping of the waves is broken by the whirring of a chainsaw. A group of men are standing on the roof of a house, which two weeks ago was...

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Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Alisha White, left, assigned to the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Mustin (DDG 89) and Naval Aircrewman Tactical Helicopter 2nd Class Chris Miller, right, speak with citizens affected by Super Typhoon Haiyan while delivering relief supplies in support of Operation Damayan, in Ormoc City, Philippines, 18 November, 2013.
photo: US Navy / MCS3 Mackenzie P. Adams

updated 11 Nov 2013; published 11 Nov 2013
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Typhoon Haiyan leaves Tacloban in ruins
updated 15 Nov 2013; published 15 Nov 2013
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Typhoon Haiyan: Bodies of victims buried in mass grave
updated 14 Nov 2013; published 14 Nov 2013
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BBC News - Typhoon Haiyan: Teenager trapped for six days with family's bodies
updated 08 Nov 2013; published 08 Nov 2013
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Super typhoon Haiyan hits Philippines
updated 15 Nov 2013; published 15 Nov 2013
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Typhoon Haiyan: Living with the dead in Tacloban
updated 09 Nov 2013; published 09 Nov 2013
1:48
At least 1,200 dead as super-typhoon Haiyan rips through Philippines - Red Cross

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Portugal's 28-year-old striker produced another superb solo spectacle last week. Yet even as he awaits his coronation as the world's leading footballer, he remains one of its most...
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Magnus Carlsen was crowned champion of the chess world on Friday after the 10th game in his best-of-12 title series with the defending titleholder, Viswanathan Anand. But it was...
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Driving up the crude and makeshift road with towering pines and oak trees on both sides, David and Anna were barely visible in the...

Chess Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen, No. 1 rated in the world, in play in round seven of the Tata Steel tournament
Norway’s Magnus Carlsen, dubbed the “Justin Bieber of chess,” won the Chess World Championship on Friday, playing a patient game and driving defending champion Viswanathan Anand of India to make self-destructive mistakes. Carlsen, 22, whose boyish...
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John F. Kennedy
Today is the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Over the last few days, a lot has been said and written about how the world has changed and how this event was the birth of live TV news coverage. It is also an event that...
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Almonds - Dry fruit - health - food
People who eat a daily handful of nuts are 20 per cent less likely to die from any cause over a 30-year period than those who didn't consume nuts, according to the largest study of its kind. Scientists from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and...
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President Barack Obama crosses the South Lawn of the White House in Washington Saturday, Dec. 11, 2011, after returning on Marine One from the Army Vs. Navy NCAA college football game at FedEx Field.
President Barack Obama is ordering that flags be lowered at government buildings Friday to...
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President-elect Obama talks on his cell phone after boarding his plane at Washington's Reagan National Airport after meeting with President Bush at the White House in Washington, Monday, Nov. 10, 2008.
WASHINGTON: Rules against making cellphone calls during airline flights are "outdated," and it's time to change them, US government regulators said on Thursday, drawing immediate howls of protest from flight attendants, airline officials and others....
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General Motors Co. Chairman and interim Chief Executive, Edward Whitacre Jr., announces he will become the permanent CEO of the automaker during a news conference in Detroit Monday, Jan. 25, 2010
The U.S. says it plans to sell the last of its ownership stake in automaker General Motors by the end of the year. The government owned 61 percent of the world's second biggest auto manufacturer five years ago....
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NYSE Euronext market indicators are shown on a board on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Monday, Oct. 12, 2009 in New York
After several intraday crosses during the week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) finished above 16,000 for the first time. Today's milestone move for the Dow came after a late-day slide on Wednesday. Stocks started off strong due to...
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