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UN says 210,000 displaced in CAR violence
Full Article Al Jazeera
18 Dec 2013

The United Nations's refugee agency has said that approximately 210,000 people have been displaced in the capital of the Central African Republic, Bangui, in the past two weeks as a result of sectarian violence. Central Africans have been running away from the fighting between Muslims and Christians in the country, where France has around...
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A severely malnourished child lays by his mother at Bangui's pediatric center in Bangui, Central African Republic, Tuesday Dec. 17, 2013.
photo: AP / Jerome Delay

updated 13 Dec 2013; published 13 Dec 2013
1:03
CAR Central African Republic Crisis Explained In 60 Seconds!! Not Long Enough!!
updated 13 Dec 2013; published 13 Dec 2013
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Aid agencies report that CAR faces dire humanitarian crisis
updated 13 Dec 2013; published 13 Dec 2013
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Central African Republican Conflict：Humanitarian crisis looms as violence continues
updated 13 Dec 2013; published 13 Dec 2013
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C. African Republic aid workers help wounded as anger mounts
updated 13 Dec 2013; published 13 Dec 2013
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Central African Republic faces dire humanitarian crisis
updated 09 Sep 2013; published 09 Sep 2013
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Heavy Casualties In CAR Clashes
UN told up to 500 killed in South Sudan clashes
Full Article DNA India
18 Dec 2013

The United Nations received reports from local sources in South Sudan on Tuesday that between 400 and 500 people had been killed and up to 800 wounded in the latest violence, and the government said it had arrested 10 politicians in connection with a "foiled coup". "Two hospitals have recorded between 400 and 500 dead and (up to) 800...
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In this handout image from the United Nations Mission in South Sudan taken on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013 a United Nations soldier stands guard as civilians arrive at UNMISS compound adjacent to the Juba International Airport to take refuge.
photo: AP / Rolla Hinedi

updated 18 Dec 2013; published 18 Dec 2013
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U.N. told up to 500 killed in South Sudan clashes
updated 22 Dec 2012; published 22 Dec 2012
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UN Helicopter shooting in South Sudan
updated 05 Jan 2012; published 05 Jan 2012
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South Sudan: UN rushes aid, boosts peacekeeping presence in wake of ethnic clashes
updated 17 Dec 2013; published 17 Dec 2013
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South Sudan Unrest Worries US
updated 25 Feb 2011; published 25 Feb 2011
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TODAYSNETNEWS: THE NEW 'REPUBLIC of SOUTH SUDAN' on 9 JULLY (UNMIS)
updated 11 Jun 2012; published 11 Jun 2012
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CHINA'S Amb. LI BAODONG: PRESIDENT UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL
Britain's MI6 linked to Libya torture scandal
Full Article Al Jazeera
18 Dec 2013

False intelligence extracted by torture in Tripoli's notorious Abu Salim prison has been linked to arrests of Libyan dissidents in the United Kingdom, an investigation by Al Jazeera's People and Power has revealed. In this exclusive report, Abdel-Hakim Belhaj, the leader of the anti-Gaddafi resistance group, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group...
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In this Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011 file photo, a Libyan man takes pictures of the courtyard of Abu Salim prison, in Tripoli, Libya. Human Rights Watch said it has uncovered evidence of a wider use of waterboarding in American interrogations of detainees than has been acknowledged by the United States.
photo: AP / Francois Mori

updated 18 Dec 2013; published 18 Dec 2013
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Britain's MI6 linked to Libya torture scandal
updated 18 Dec 2013; published 18 Dec 2013
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Britain's MI6 linked to Libya torture scandal People & Power Al Jazeera English
updated 08 Sep 2011; published 08 Sep 2011
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Secret Files Discovered Link CIA/MI6 to Rendition & Torture in Libya
updated 14 Apr 2011; published 14 Apr 2011
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UK Queen rewarded man who tortured by castration in Bahrain
updated 18 Dec 2013; published 18 Dec 2013
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People and Power - Libya: Renditions
updated 04 Nov 2011; published 04 Nov 2011
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LIBYA Black Flag Of Al-Qaeda Flies Over The Islamist City of Benghazi, NATO's Regime Change
What kind of Afghanistan will foreign forces leave?
Full Article BBC News
17 Dec 2013

UK Prime Minister David Cameron has said that British troops will return from Afghanistan having accomplished the main aim of their mission - to achieve a basic level of security. But how secure is Afghanistan, and what shape is the country in? BBC World Service reporter Dawood Azami takes at look at the challenges Afghanistan faces today. Security...
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File - Soldiers from th 6th Khandak, 3rd Brigade, 203rd Corps Afghan National Army added 60mm mortar systems to their entourage of armaments and recieve assistance from Soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment on how to operate their new equipment, 07 July 2013.
photo: US Army / Sgt. 1st Class Kenneth Foss

updated 08 Mar 2012; published 08 Mar 2012
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Afghan air force probed in drug, gun smuggling " NA Mafia backed by CIA !!"
updated 18 Jul 2011; published 18 Jul 2011
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Illiteracy, drug use & desertions: National Afghanistan army strong enough?
updated 09 Aug 2011; published 09 Aug 2011
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END WAR Canadian Military Denies Troops Are Being Investigated For Smuggling Afghan Heroin
updated 26 Feb 2013; published 26 Feb 2013
3:29
US Special Forces ORDERED out of two provinces in Afghanistan over TORTURE, murder & WAR CRIMES
updated 04 Nov 2013; published 04 Nov 2013
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Afghan Security Forces survive first fighting season: NATO handing over military duties to Afghans
updated 21 Sep 2010; published 21 Sep 2010
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Afghans Aren't Willing to Fight for their Country?
Gunfire in S Sudan as military hunts coup plotters
Full Article San Francisco Chronicle
17 Dec 2013

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Sporadic gunfire rang out in the capital, Juba, overnight as the military "cleared out remnants" of a faction of soldiers accused of mounting a coup attempt, the country's foreign minister said Tuesday amid an ongoing hunt for the former deputy president who is accused of leading the failed plot. Barnaba Marial Benjamin told...
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File - South Sudan President Salva Kiir arrives to pay his respects to the body of late Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, at the national palace in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Saturday, Sept. 1, 2012.
photo: AP / Rebecca Blackwell

updated 16 Dec 2013; published 16 Dec 2013
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Coup Attempt In South Sudan Failed
updated 17 Dec 2013; published 17 Dec 2013
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Fresh gunfire reported in South Sudan capital
updated 17 Dec 2013; published 17 Dec 2013
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South Sudan Kiir on failed coup attempt
updated 16 Dec 2013; published 16 Dec 2013
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Sudan - President declares curfew after attempted coup.
updated 16 Dec 2013; published 16 Dec 2013
1:36
South Sudan president says coup attempt 'foiled'
updated 16 Dec 2013; published 16 Dec 2013
1:17
South Sudan quashes coup attempt, says President Kiir
Japan invests in new military kit as China row simmers
Full Article New Straits/Business Times
17 Dec 2013

TOKYO: Japan announced Tuesday it will buy stealth fighters, drones and submarines as part of a splurge on military hardware that will beef up defence of far-flung islands amid a simmering territorial row with China. The cabinet of hawkish Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed to spend 24.7 trillion yen (US$240 billion) between 2014 and 2019 in a...
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe gives a statement to the media after a meeting with Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, unseen, at the Istana in Singapore on Friday July 26, 2013.
photo: AP / Bryan van der Beek

updated 17 Dec 2013; published 17 Dec 2013
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Japan boosts military forces to counter China
updated 08 Aug 2013; published 08 Aug 2013
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Japanese Helicopter Carrier Draws China Warning to Asia Japan navy forces
updated 17 Dec 2013; published 17 Dec 2013
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BBC News Japan boosts military forces to counter China
updated 12 Jan 2013; published 12 Jan 2013
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Military Planes Around Diaoyu Islands
updated 11 Jan 2013; published 11 Jan 2013
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Japan Ups Defence Spending Over China Tension
updated 17 Dec 2013; published 17 Dec 2013
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Japan Reforms Army As A Reaction On China
UN makes record funding appeal for Syria
Full Article Longview News Journal
17 Dec 2013

BEIRUT (AP) — The exodus of millions of people from Syria in one of the largest refugee flights in decades is pushing neighboring countries to a breaking point, and thousands of lives are threatened with the onset of a bitter winter....
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Syrian refugee children shout during a spontaneous protest they initiated against Syrian President Bashar Assad, in a camp in Yayladagi, Turkey, near the Syrian border, Wednesday, June 15, 2011.
photo: AP / Vadim Ghirda

updated 16 Dec 2013; published 16 Dec 2013
1:17
UN appeals for record $6.5bn for Syria crisis in 2014
updated 17 Dec 2013; published 17 Dec 2013
2:17
Syria Humanitarian Appeal 2013
updated 16 Dec 2013; published 16 Dec 2013
1:56
Syria crisis - UN launches a record £4 billion appeal for aid
updated 02 Dec 2013; published 02 Dec 2013
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World Crisis Radio Webster Tarpley 7/7/12 Syria war, Healthcare Reform
updated 01 Aug 2012; published 01 Aug 2012
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MINARA FOUNDATION SYRIA APPEAL.mp4
updated 16 Dec 2013; published 16 Dec 2013
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UN makes huge $6.5 billion appeal for Syria
North Korea marks Kim Jong-il death amid purge tensions
Full Article BBC News
17 Dec 2013

North Korea is marking the second anniversary of the death of leader Kim Jong-il, days after the dramatic purge of a top-level official. Images from Pyongyang showed ranks of thousands of officials at a ceremony to commemorate Mr Kim. His son, Kim Jong-un, inherited the leadership after his death in 2011. Last week he presided over the execution of...
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As North Koreans arrive to pay their respects, women sweep the base of statues of the late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, right, in Pyongyang, North Korea, Monday, Dec. 16, 2013, the eve of the second anniversary of the death of Kim Jong Il.
photo: AP / David Guttenfelder

updated 17 Dec 2013; published 17 Dec 2013
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North Korea marks second anniversary of Kim Jong-il's death
updated 17 Dec 2013; published 17 Dec 2013
1:56
BBC News - North Korea remembers Kim Jong-il two years on
updated 13 Dec 2013; published 13 Dec 2013
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North Korea Kim Jong un EXECUTED His Uncle Jang Song Thaek for Treason 12/12/2013 HD
updated 17 Dec 2013; published 17 Dec 2013
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ARIRANG NEWS 14:00 Seating arrangements at Kim Jong-il memorial indicate power shift in North Korea
updated 11 Dec 2013; published 11 Dec 2013
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How Kim Jong Un Purged His Uncle
updated 12 Dec 2013; published 12 Dec 2013
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Uncle Of Kim Jong Un Executed Chang Song Thaek Stripped of Power Dragged To Firing Squad
CAR chaos escalates beyond capital
Full Article Al Jazeera
17 Dec 2013

Homes are being torched and child soldiers are roaming the streets, as the Central African Republic continues to be plagued by inter-militia violence. The cycle of violence is deeply set, as communities become mired in distrust and a will for revenge in tit-for-tat attacks. Hundreds of people have been killed in recent weeks, as the...
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Anti-Balaka Christian militiamen walk through a forest clearing outside Central African Republic's capital Bangui Sunday Dec. 15, 2013.
photo: AP / Jerome Delay

updated 03 Oct 2013; published 03 Oct 2013
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WATCH: Video of Female Suspect Car Chase after Ramming White House Gate in Capitol Shooting
updated 03 Oct 2013; published 03 Oct 2013
2:47
Miriam Carey Capitol Hill Car Chase
updated 17 Nov 2013; published 17 Nov 2013
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Breaking News : Shots fired on U.S. Capital, days after Capital Shield Military Drill (Oct
updated 03 Oct 2013; published 03 Oct 2013
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BREAKING: Capitol Hill Shooting Suspect is WOMAN, CHILD in Suspect's CAR
updated 05 Dec 2013; published 05 Dec 2013
1:13
Deadly Attack on Yemen's Defense Ministry Complex
updated 03 Oct 2013; published 03 Oct 2013
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WATCH: Gunman's CAR Wrecked during Highspeed Chase after Gunshots on Capitol Hill, Multiple Injured
Edward Snowden leaks: NSA amnesty 'considered'
Full Article BBC News
16 Dec 2013

A top National Security Agency official says it is considering offering an amnesty to fugitive US intelligence analyst Edward Snowden if he agrees to stop leaking secret documents. The man in charge of assessing the leaks' damage, Richard Ledgett, said he could be open to an amnesty deal. Disclosures by the fugitive intelligence analyst have...
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A supporter holds a picture of Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee who leaked top-secret information about U.S. surveillance programs, outside the U.S. Consulate General in Hong Kong Thursday, June 13, 2013.
photo: AP / Kin Cheung

updated 16 Dec 2013; published 16 Dec 2013
2:22
Edward Snowden To Get A Deal? - NSA Mulls Amnesty In Exchange For Stolen Docs
updated 13 Dec 2013; published 13 Dec 2013
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Should Snowden get amnesty in exchange for remaining documents?
updated 04 Jul 2013; published 04 Jul 2013
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Amnesty International on the NSA leak
updated 17 Dec 2013; published 17 Dec 2013
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Analyst: Snowden's leak equal to murder
updated 16 Dec 2013; published 16 Dec 2013
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United States Considers Giving Edward Snowden Amnesty
updated 25 Jun 2013; published 25 Jun 2013
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Snowden Barrage: US lashes out at China, Russia to distract from NSA leaks

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Pope Francis I on Capitalism
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Pope Francis I is no ideological jester. He should not fool any one at this point of time, nor is he attempting to. He is a formidable figure and has a sense of his enemies within...
North Korea remembers Kim Jong-il two years on
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17 December 2013 Last updated at 08:08 GMT North Korea is marking the second anniversary of the death of leader Kim Jong-il, days after the dramatic purge of a top-level official....
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Afghanistan: Mission accomplished is a 'dangerous' phrase
Afghanistan: Mission accomplished is a 'dangerous' phrase
BBC News
16 December 2013 Last updated at 18:17 GMT UK troops can come home from Afghanistan knowing it was mission accomplished, Prime Minister David Cameron has said. He met forces stationed at Camp Bastion in Helmand, a year before the last British combat...
photo: USMC / Zachery B. Martin
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UN rolls out aid in Yolanda-hit provinces
UN rolls out aid in Yolanda-hit provinces
Sun Star
MORE than a month after Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) pummeled the Philippines, the aid coming from Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN) is finally arriving in Iloilo province. FAO, in coordination with the Department of...
photo: USMC / Codey Underwood
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How Bin Laden Escaped in 2001—The lessons of Tora Bora
How Bin Laden Escaped in 2001—The lessons of Tora Bora
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By Yaniv BarzilaiDecember 15th 20136:45 am More Stories by Yaniv Barzilai In 2001, a small U.S. special operations force had won extraordinary victories in Afghanistan and closed in on Bin Laden before high-level blunders allowed him to escape into...
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Pinoy architect suggests Lego-type homes
Pinoy architect suggests Lego-type homes
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WHILE President Benigno Aquino III already made pronouncement that the Philippines needed at least $3 billion (P132 billion) to rehabilitate the areas devastated by killer Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan), an Filipino architect suggested a faster, more...
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National Guard in last major Afghan tour
National Guard in last major Afghan tour
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They’ve taught Afghan troops all they could about policing and fighting insurgents, hooked up Internet at headquarters so they don’t have to hand-carry reports across country anymore, and shipped thousands of containers of military equipment home....
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CAR Insecurity Worsens Humanitarian Crisis
CAR Insecurity Worsens Humanitarian Crisis
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Anne Look DAKAR — The communal clashes that broke out in the Central African Republic just over a week ago have killed more than 600 people and displaced approximately 100,000 in a matter of days. Aid agencies say French and African troops there need...
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‘Yolanda’ victims still need help — UN
‘Yolanda’ victims still need help — UN
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HUMANITARIAN and early recovery needs remain great in typhoon-hit Philippines, a senior United Nations official said following a joint international mission to the areas of Guiuan, Ormoc and Tacloban. “We saw the enormity of the destruction that...
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