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Breaking News Thu, 12 Dec 2013
South Africans cheer as President Obama waits in a tunnel at the soccer stadium before taking the stage to speak at Nelson Mandela's memorial service, Dec. 10, 2013.
Barack Obama   Human Rights   Nelson Mandela   Photos   Wikipedia: Nelson Mandela  
 WorldNews.com 
They Knew Mandela, and Obama (and Other Leaders) Was No Mandela
Article by Wn.com Correspondent Dallas Darling | "If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don't care for human beings."(1... (photo: White House / Pete Souza)
In this image from TV, US President Barack Obama shakes hands with Cuban President Raul Castro at the FNB Stadium in Soweto, South Africa, in the rain for a memorial service for former South African President Nelson Mandela, Tuesday Dec. 10, 2013. The handshake between the leaders of the two Cold War enemies came during a ceremony that's focused on Mandela's legacy of reconciliation. Hundreds of foreign dignitaries and world heads of states gather Tuesday with thousands of South African people to celebrate the life, and mark the death, of Nelson Mandela who has became a global symbol of reconciliation.
Barack Obama   Cuba   Photos   Raul Castro   Wikipedia: Nelson Mandela  
 South China Morning Post 
Historic Obama-Castro handshake prompts both hope and derision
For sure it's just what Nelson Mandela would have wanted, but does it amount to more than that? | The historic handshake between US President Barack Obama and Cuba's Raul Castro at Mandela's memorial ... (photo: AP / SABC Pool)
Pro-European Union activists guard the barricade during clashes with riot police in Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013.  Times Union 
Police pull back from confrontation in Ukraine
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Police in Ukraine have pulled back after an overnight confrontation in which they attempted to remove barricades and tents from protesters' camp and scuffled with demonstrators ... (photo: AP / Efrem Lukatsky)
Euromaidan   Photos   Political Crisis - Ukraine   Ukraine Protests   Wikipedia: Euromaidan  
Tremaine Tribble, of Charlotte, N.C., leads a chant inside a Burger King restaurant during a protest for a raise in the minimum wage in Charlotte, N.C., Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013.  WorldNews.com 
Maladaptive Passivity and Rise of Tyranny
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling | If bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny, as Edmund Burke stated, so too is passivity. Except for the small sporadic gatherings, whether virtual or ph... (photo: AP / Chuck Burton)
Capitalism   Human Rights   Photos   US Politics   Wikipedia: Fast food worker strikes  
Top Stories
During a meeting with President of Armenia Serge Sargsyan. Swissinfo
Russia's Putin orders military complete Arctic plan by year end
  | Reuters | December 10, 2013 - 19:19 | By Thomas Grove | MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin ordered Russia's military to increase its focus on the Arctic... (photo: Russian Presidential Press and Information Office)
Defense   Moscow   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Vladimir Putin  
The Union Minister of Steel, Shri Virbhadra Singh - India- Politics The Times Of India
Congress will win all four seats in Himachal in 2014 Lok Sabha elections: Virbhadra Singh
SHIMLA: Himachal Pradesh chief minister Virbhadra Singh said that recent results of Vidhan Sabha elections in four states would not have any impact in the state as condit... (photo: PIB of India)
Delhi   Elections   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Virbhadra Singh  
Pro-European Union activists wearing Ukrainian National flags walk through the Independence Square in KIev, Ukraine, Monday, Dec. 9, 2013. BBC News
Ukraine president to discuss crisis with former leaders
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych is expected to hold talks with three former presidents over the political crisis which began when Ukraine decided not to sign an EU ... (photo: AP / Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Euromaidan   Photos   Political Crisis - Ukraine   Ukraine Protests   Wikipedia: Euromaidan  
Anti-government protesters in Bangkok Xinhua
Thai House dissolved, yet protests persist
  | Anti-government protesters pass a giant Thai national flag outside the Government House during a demonstration in Bangkok, Thailand, Dec. 9, 2013. Thailand's anti-go... (photo: Creative Commons / ilf_)
2013 Thai Protests   Photos   Thai Parliament   Wikipedia : 2013 Thai political protests   Yingluck Shinawatra  
Foreign Minister of Iran, Mohammad JAVAD Zarif talking with his colleagues from Pakistan and Turkey Sartaj Aziz and Ahmet Davutoglu on the occasion of 21ist Ministerial Conference of ECO in Tehran on November 26, 2013 Swissinfo
Iran's Zarif says nuclear deal dead if U.S. passes new sanctions
Energy Geneva talks | Reuters | December 10, 2013 - 00:31 | By Arshad Mohammed | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said the Iranian nuclear deal... (photo: Press Information Dept. of Pakistan)
Nuclear   Photos   Politics   Tehran   Wikipedia: Mohammad Javad Zarif  
Liberal Democratic Party President Shinzo Abe, center, answers reporter's question at the Yasukuni Shinto Shrine after pay homage to the war dead in Tokyo,  Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi) Swissinfo
Japan PM Abe's ratings slide after state secrets act
  | Reuters | December 9, 2013 - 09:17 | TOKYO (Reuters) - Support for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe slid in opinion polls after his ruling coalition steamrolle... (photo: AP / Shizuo Kambayashi)
Business   Photos   Politics   Tokyo   Wikipedia: Shinz Abe  
Venezuela's newly elected President Nicolas Maduro celebrates his victory after the official results of the presidential elections were announced, at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, late Sunday, April 14, 2013. Swissinfo
Venezuela's Maduro to raise pressure on business after local vote
  | Reuters | December 9, 2013 - 08:03 | By Brian Ellsworth | CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro pledged to deepen his "economic offensive" to f... (photo: AP / Ramon Espinosa)
Business   Caracas   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Nicolás Maduro  
Politics United Nations
- Enormous oil shale deposit found in Coober Pedy, Australia
- A faded version of red, white and blue
- Batts inquiry start date announced
- Aam Aadmi Party should form govt in Delhi with Congress: Kir
File - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivers remarks at the launch of the Office for Engagement With Faith-Based Communities at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on August 7, 2013.
Kerry back to Middle East to push peace talks
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- United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia
- Khaleda Zia, Sheikh Hasina's parties must continue talks
- >HIMS Instrumental in Launch of United Nations Accessibility
- Jesus at the United Nations
UN Peacekeeping Chief Launches UAV Project in Goma The UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) is introducing the use of Unarmed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to enhance protection capabilities.  At the airport in Goma, technicians prepare a UAV for an official launch ceremony with Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Herv Ladsous. 03 December 2013 Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo
UN Launches Drone Patrols in Troubled DRC
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Elections Education
- INFOGRAPHIC: Elected officials ordered to vacate posts
- Elected leaders: Effectiveness more than introducing, passin
- December By-Elections - the Battle for Tlokwe in the Time of
- IEC Opens Nominations for Foni Jarrol By-Election
Pakistani soldiers, in black, and Indian soldiers lower their country's flags during Beating the Retreat ceremony between the two nations, at Wagah, the joint India-Pakistan border post, Sunday, Aug. 13, 2006. India will celebrate its 60th Independence Day on Aug. 15, and Pakistan will celebrate on Aug. 14. The Indian flag is seen right, and the Pakistan flag, left.
‘Pak may decide on MFN status to India after elections’
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- Testing and educating – can we do both intensively?
- Evening Standard and AQA team up to hand creative pupils a w
- College freshman dies after hazing incident in Poconos
- College students in Florida can keep guns in cars, court rul
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Tourism and environmental law
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Human Rights Racism & Discrimination
- Kerry back to Middle East to push peace talks
- They Knew Mandela, and Obama (and Other Leaders) Was No Mand
- Guantanamo's secretive review boards
- French troops start disarming fighters in C. African Republi
File - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivers remarks at the launch of the Office for Engagement With Faith-Based Communities at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on August 7, 2013.
Kerry back to Middle East to push peace talks
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- Kick it Out investigate as Watford Under-19s walk off pitch
- Sex Discrimination: Can Separate Be Equal?
- Sex Discrimination: Can Separate Be Equal?
- Native American ex-Air Guard member files discrimination sui
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Labor Affairs Societies
- Labor leaks NBN Co analysis of Coalition NBN
- Labor leaks NBN Co analysis of Coalition NBN
- Pastor Defiles Daughter, While Wife On Labor
- Abbott government halts Labor's $1.2b aged care scheme
FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2006 file photograph, Israeli Isaac Herzog, a former cabinet minister, gestures after the primary results were announced during a convention in the community of Beit Berl in central Israel. Veteran lawmaker Herzog has unseated the incumbent Labor Party leader Shelly Yachimovich on Friday, Nov. 22, 2013, and will become Israels new opposition leader.
Son of Former Israeli President Takes Helm at Labor Party
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- 12% of male deaths tobacco-related: WHO
- Towards a Tobacco-Free Society
- Tenant groups in race to take ownership of councils homes
- Should libraries rely on volunteers?
In pictures: Kashmir's 'half-widows'
In pictures: Kashmir's 'half-widows'
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