Delivers breaking news from all over the world in 50 languages
Obama-Castro Handshake Draws Attention at Mandela Tribute
Full Article Voa News
10 Dec 2013

Tuesday&aposs; memorial service for Nelson Mandela generated some informal diplomacy and political controversy, alongside the praise for the late South African president. In a moment...

Wn.com/Barack Obama
Wn.com/Nelson Mandela Death
Wn.com/Raul Castro
Wn.com/Us - Cuba
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.
photo: AP / SABC Pool

updated 10 Dec 2013; published 10 Dec 2013
1:02
Obama's historic handshake with Cuban leader Raul Castro
updated 10 Dec 2013; published 10 Dec 2013
9:44
Raul Castro Speech Nelson Mandela Memorial. #madiba #mandelamemorial
updated 10 Dec 2013; published 10 Dec 2013
0:45
Obama Greets Cuban President Raúl Castro at Nelson Mandela Memorial
updated 10 Dec 2013; published 10 Dec 2013
0:23
Barack Obama And Raul Castro Shake Hands At Mandela Memorial
updated 10 Dec 2013; published 10 Dec 2013
6:06
Obama Encounters Raul Castro Hand Shake Nelson Mandela Memorial Service Johannesburg
updated 10 Dec 2013; published 10 Dec 2013
0:57
Video: President Obama and Cuba's Raul Castro shake hands at Mandela Memorial
Two French soldiers killed in Central African Republic
Full Article France24
10 Dec 2013

Two French soldiers have been killed in the Central African Republic, the French presidency announced on Tuesday, as French and African Union troops lead a UN-backed military operation aimed at halting inter-religious violence in the...

Wn.com/Central African Republican
Wn.com/Seleka Rebellion
Wn.com/United Nations
French troops leave their position near a suspected Seleka, the alliance of mostly Muslim rebel groups, hideout in Bangui, Central African Republic, Monday Dec. 9, 2013.
photo: AP / Jerome Delay

updated 06 Dec 2013; published 06 Dec 2013
1:15
French military mission underway in Central African Republic
updated 10 Dec 2013; published 10 Dec 2013
0:51
News Two French soldiers killed during conflict in the Central African Republic
updated 10 Dec 2013; published 10 Dec 2013
0:47
Two French soldiers killed in CAR
updated 05 Dec 2013; published 05 Dec 2013
1:16
UN gives green light to French military action in Central African Republic
updated 10 Dec 2013; published 10 Dec 2013
0:49
Two French Soldiers Killed In Central African Republic
updated 10 Dec 2013; published 10 Dec 2013
1:26
French Soldiers Killed in Central African Republic
The World Gathers for Nelson Mandela's Memorial Service
Full Article Mashable
10 Dec 2013

Dozens of heads of state from around the world are arriving in South Africa early this week to commemorate Nelson Mandela, the country's former president and anti-apartheid hero,...

Wn.com/Mandela's Memorial Service
Wn.com/Nelson Mandela
Wn.com/South Africa
An image of former South African president Nelson Mandela is projected on a screen at the FNB Stadium in Soweto, near Johannesburg, South Africa, ahead of his memorial service Tuesday Dec. 10, 2013.
photo: AP / Peter Dejong

updated 10 Dec 2013; published 10 Dec 2013
18:05
[FULL HD] Obama Speech Statement World Leaders Gather Mandela Memorial South Africans!
updated 10 Dec 2013; published 10 Dec 2013
6:44
Mandela memorial service: President Obama's moving tribute to Nelson Mandela
updated 10 Dec 2013; published 10 Dec 2013
9:44
Raul Castro Speech Nelson Mandela Memorial. #madiba #mandelamemorial
updated 10 Dec 2013; published 10 Dec 2013
0:38
South African president Zuma booed at Mandela memorial
updated 10 Dec 2013; published 10 Dec 2013
4:30
More dignitaries arriving for Mandela memorial service
updated 10 Dec 2013; published 10 Dec 2013
19:29
Obama's Complete Nelson Mandela Memorial Speech
Ukraine president to discuss crisis with former leaders
Full Article BBC News
10 Dec 2013

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 free-trade deal. The talks come as protesters remain encamped in a central square in the capital Kiev. On Monday, security forces cleared some activists from government buildings....

Wn.com/Euromaidan
Wn.com/Political Crisis - Ukraine
Wn.com/Ukraine Protests
Pro-European Union activists wearing Ukrainian National flags walk through the Independence Square in KIev, Ukraine, Monday, Dec. 9, 2013.
photo: AP / Alexander Zemlianichenko

updated 04 Dec 2013; published 04 Dec 2013
1:32
Protesters call for strikes and blockades as crisis deepens in Ukraine
updated 10 Dec 2013; published 10 Dec 2013
1:12
Ukraine president to discuss crisis with former leaders
updated 03 Dec 2013; published 03 Dec 2013
2:41
Ukraine Protests: EU Neighbours Deeply Concerned By Ukraine Crisis
updated 03 Dec 2013; published 03 Dec 2013
3:59
Ukraine protesters use a bulldozer against police
updated 05 Dec 2013; published 05 Dec 2013
2:20
Former Ukrainian presidents warn of chaos
updated 05 Dec 2013; published 05 Dec 2013
1:29
Anti-government protests grip Ukraine as diplomats and leaders weigh in
French troops start disarming fighters in C. African Republic
Full Article Dawn
10 Dec 2013

BANGUI (Central African Republic), Dec 9: French troops on Monday began disarming fighters in the Central African Republic to try to restore security after a swell in sectarian violence that claimed hundreds of lives. Bangui was relatively calm after days of fighting involving former Seleka rebels in which nearly 400 people were killed, although...

Wn.com/C. African Republic
Wn.com/French Troops In Car
Wn.com/Seleka Rebellion
French troops detain a suspected Seleka officer , preventing Christian mobs from lynching him near the airport in Bangui, Central African Republic, Monday Dec. 9, 2013.
photo: AP / Jerome Delay

updated 09 Dec 2013; published 09 Dec 2013
1:11
French troops start to disarm militias in Central African Republic
updated 09 Dec 2013; published 09 Dec 2013
3:22
French Troops Start With Disarmament Rebels In Central African Republic
updated 09 Dec 2013; published 09 Dec 2013
1:29
French troops start to disarm militias in Central African Republic
updated 09 Dec 2013; published 09 Dec 2013
3:14
French Troops Disarming Militia In The Central African Republic
updated 09 Dec 2013; published 09 Dec 2013
4:24
French troops clash with fighters in Central African Republic
updated 09 Dec 2013; published 09 Dec 2013
1:46
Gunmen tour streets of Central African Republic
World Leaders Head to South Africa for Mandela Tribute
Full Article Chosunilbo
09 Dec 2013

Leaders are traveling to South Africa from around the world for Tuesday's memorial service for Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader who died last week at the age of 95. U.S. President Barack Obama left Washington Monday morning, accompanied by first lady Michelle Obama, and former President George W. Bush and his wife Laura. Former presidents...

Wn.com/Nelson Mandela
Wn.com/Nelson Mandela Death
Wn.com/World Leaders
President Barack Obama walks down the steps of Air Force One during his arrival, Saturday, Sept. 1, 2012, at Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora, Colo.
photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais

updated 10 Dec 2013; published 10 Dec 2013
18:05
[FULL HD] Obama Speech Statement World Leaders Gather Mandela Memorial South Africans!
updated 10 Dec 2013; published 10 Dec 2013
6:44
Mandela memorial service: President Obama's moving tribute to Nelson Mandela
updated 06 Dec 2013; published 06 Dec 2013
4:29
Nelson Mandela - Barack Obama pays tribute to South Africa's Madiba
updated 10 Dec 2013; published 10 Dec 2013
18:25
Nelson Mandela Memorial: President Obama Honors Legacy of South African Leader
updated 05 Dec 2013; published 05 Dec 2013
3:00
BREAKING NEWS: Nelson Mandela Dead Aged 95 | OFFICIAL News Announcement President Jacob Zuma
updated 05 Dec 2013; published 05 Dec 2013
2:53
BREAKING NEWS - South African Leader Jacob Zuma Announce Death Of Nelson Mandela
Will Aung San Suu Kyi ever be President of Burma?
Full Article WorldNews.com
09 Dec 2013

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. In Burma's ancient epic "Ramayana," also known as the "Forest Book," it describes the further adventures of Rama. Born to the king's first wife in the kingdom of Ayodhya, at an early age a Brahmin sage came to the court and told the king that Rama must go into the forest to battle the demon king who...

Wn.com/Aung San Suu Kyi
Wn.com/Burma Human Rights Activists
Wn.com/Politics Of Myanmar
Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi speaks to reporters at her National League for Democracy Party headquarters on Wednesday, June 29, 2011, in Yangon, Myanmar.
photo: AP / Khin Maung Win

updated 07 Jun 2011; published 07 Jun 2011
4:07
Aung San Suu Kyi - Lady of No Fear | Official Trailer
updated 30 Jul 2013; published 30 Jul 2013
64:00
Aung San Suu Kyi Lady of No Fear (Documentary Film)
updated 17 Jun 2010; published 17 Jun 2010
2:58
Aung San Suu Kyi : Freedom from FEAR
updated 20 Jun 2012; published 20 Jun 2012
14:59
Dr. Aung San Suu Kyi Speech Oxford University London UK
updated 22 Sep 2013; published 22 Sep 2013
71:34
Aung San Suu Kyi's Speech to Myanmar Community in Singapore, 22 September 2013
updated 22 Sep 2013; published 22 Sep 2013
156:03
1) Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi Meeting With Myanmar Families in Singapore 2013
Aid agencies 'paid Somalia's al-Shabab' during famine
Full Article BBC News
09 Dec 2013

Humanitarian agencies paid Somalia's al-Shabab militants for access to areas under their control in the 2011 famine, according to a joint report by two think tanks. In many cases al-Shabab insisted on distributing the aid and kept much of...

Wn.com/Al Shabaab
Wn.com/Humanitarian Aid
Wn.com/Somalia Conflict
File - A barefoot child stands among ragged tents at a refugee camp in Dolo, Somalia on Wednesday, July 18. 2012. The U.N., which declared a famine in Somalia one year ago, says conditions have improved but that 2.5 million people are still in crisis.
photo: AP / Jason Straziuso

updated 10 Dec 2013; published 10 Dec 2013
0:53
Al-Shabaab extorted aid agencies during 2011 famine
updated 09 Dec 2013; published 09 Dec 2013
1:38
Al-Shabab Was Paid By Aid Agencies During Famine
updated 01 Sep 2011; published 01 Sep 2011
1:55
UN Says Somalia Requires More Aid
updated 07 Aug 2013; published 07 Aug 2013
6:40
Banks Posing A New Threat Against Somalia?
updated 31 Jul 2011; published 31 Jul 2011
2:33
Somali children bear brunt of famine and war
updated 14 Aug 2013; published 14 Aug 2013
3:21
Medecins Sans Frontieres Shuts Down All Activities In Somalia
Thai PM dissolves Parliament, calls elections
Full Article Yahoo Daily News
09 Dec 2013

BANGKOK (AP) — Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said Monday she will dissolve the lower house of Parliament and call elections in an attempt to calm the country's deepening political crisis. Yingluck's announcement came as thousands of anti-government protesters began marching through Bangkok in a...

Wn.com/Thai Political Protest
Wn.com/Thailand Unrest
Wn.com/Yingluck Shinawatra
Anti-government protesters stand beside a giant national flag while camping at Government complex in Bangkok, Thailand, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013.
photo: AP / Wason Wanichakorn

updated 09 Dec 2013; published 09 Dec 2013
1:09
Thailand mass protests persist as Yingluck calls for snap election
updated 10 Dec 2013; published 10 Dec 2013
2:08
Thai PM Yingluck dissolves parliament and calls election The Latest News
updated 09 Dec 2013; published 09 Dec 2013
2:57
Thai PM Yingluck to dissolve parliament and call elections
updated 09 Dec 2013; published 09 Dec 2013
1:11
Thai PM dissolve parliament, hold elections soon
updated 09 Dec 2013; published 09 Dec 2013
0:49
Thailand's prime minister dissolves parliament but street unrest continues
updated 09 Dec 2013; published 09 Dec 2013
2:09
Thai PM Yingluck dissolves parliament and calls election
CAR violence: French troops reach town of Bossangoa
Full Article BBC News
08 Dec 2013

French troops have reached the town of Bossangoa in the Central African Republic, which has been paralysed by communal fighting. France is deploying 1,600 troops to help end the fighting in the country, alongside a larger African Union force. French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told the BBC the mission was aimed at creating stability to...

Wn.com/Central African Republic
Wn.com/Human Rights
Wn.com/Seleka
File - In this photo taken Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2013, fighters from a Christian militia movement known as the "anti-balaka" display their makeshift weaponry in the village of Boubou, halfway between the towns of Bossangoa and Bouca, in the Central African Republic.
photo: AP / Florence Richard

updated 08 Dec 2013; published 08 Dec 2013
4:21
French Soldiers Arrive In The Central African Republic Town Of Bossangoa
updated 07 Dec 2013; published 07 Dec 2013
1:37
BBC News - Central African Republic French troops expand operations
updated 08 Dec 2013; published 08 Dec 2013
0:59
BBC News Living in fear in Bossangoa, Central African Republic
updated 09 Dec 2013; published 09 Dec 2013
0:50
French Soldiers Arrive In The Central African Republic Town Of Bossangoa
updated 08 Dec 2013; published 08 Dec 2013
0:44
CAR: France to send 2,500 extra troops
updated 07 Dec 2013; published 07 Dec 2013
1:11
BBC News - CAR PM: 'More troops needed'

Al Jazeera
There are 162 prisoners still held at Guantanamo. They fall into three categories: 84 were cleared for release in January 2010 by the high-level, inter-agency Guantanamo Review...
CNN
Posted by CNN's Dana Davidsen (CNN) – Former Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul indicated Monday that his son, Sen. Rand Paul from Kentucky, will likely run for...
Huffington Post
The physical similarities between humans and other mammals are quite plain. We are made of the same flesh and blood; we go through the same basic life stages. Yet reminders of our...

Pussy Riot members, from left, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Yekaterina Samutsevich and Maria Alekhina sit in a glass cage at a court room in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Aug. 3, 2012.
International punk icons Pussy Riot could be released from prison early under a new amnesty bill — proposed by Vladimir Putin — to celebrate the anniversary of Russia's 1993 constitution. See? Not totalitarian-ish at all! The new rule...
photo: AP / Misha Japaridze
Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, center, greets the guards of honor as he arrives to the Presidential Palace for his inauguration in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009
PARIS: Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai lashed out at the United States, accusing it of making threats in the dispute over an agreement to keep US troops in the country beyond 2014. In an interview published today by the French daily Le Monde,...
photo: AP / Anja Niedringhaus
Opposition Pheu Thai party leader Yingluck Shinawatra casts her vote in a general election at a polling station in Bangkok, Thailand Sunday, July 3, 2011.
Steve Herman BANGKOK — Thailand’s government is again rebuffing demands from protest leaders that it be dissolved to make way for an appointed council to lead the country. A day after she moved to dissolve the parliament and call for elections,...
photo: AP / Apichart Weerawong
Thailand Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra pauses as she talks to media after attending a Cabinet meeting, in Bangkok, Thailand , Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013. Shinawatra said Tuesday she would not resign ahead of national elections set for Feb. 2, despite opposition demands she step down as the caretaker head of government.
BANGKOK (AP) — Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said Tuesday she would not resign ahead of national elections set for Feb. 2, despite opposition demands she step down as the caretaker head of government. Yingluck spoke one day after she announced...
photo: AP / Manish Swarup
Anti-government protesters in Bangkok
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-government protesters on Monday demanded interim Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to...
photo: Creative Commons / ilf_
General view showing an empty beach at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el Sheik, Egypt, Sunday, Dec.5, 2010. Security officials say a shark has killed an elderly German tourist at an Egyptian Red Sea resort, a few days after three Russians and a Ukrainian tourist were badly mauled in shark attacks.
In a rare instance of Middle East co-operation, Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority (PA) have signed an agreement for laying a pipeline from the Red Sea, at the southern tip of Israel, to the Dead Sea. About 100 million cubic meters of water...
photo: AP
In this Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012 file photo, Syrians walk past damaged homes during heavy fighting between Free Syrian Army fighters and government forces in Aleppo, Syria.
MADRID: A radical group linked to Al-Qaeda kidnapped...
photo: AP / Narciso Contreras