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China formally eases one-child policy, abolishes labor camps
Full Article Reuters
28 Dec 2013

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China formally approved on Saturday easing its decades-long one-child policy and the abolition of a controversial labor camp system, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Both were among a...

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China formally eases one-child policy, abolishes labor camps
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updated 01 Mar 2013; published 13 May 2012
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Education in India
updated 25 Aug 2013; published 25 Aug 2013
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ERLS340 - The Real Chocolate Factory: The Cocoa Slaves of the Ivory Coast
updated 13 Feb 2012; published 13 Feb 2012
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A Kind of Childhood
updated 29 Jun 2013; published 29 Jun 2013
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Students Singing - Students Parade in Iriga
updated 03 Jul 2013; published 03 Jul 2013
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Safari Resort, Gir - A Photo Journey
updated 27 May 2013; published 12 Mar 2012
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Saima's Story
South Sudan government agrees to ceasefire as 120,000 flee fighting
Full Article The Guardian
28 Dec 2013

African powers trying to broker a peace deal in the world's newest country, South Sudan, have said its government has committed to a ceasefire after two weeks of clashes that have caused more than 120,000 people to flee. The president, Salva Kiir, agreed to an "immediate cessation of hostilities", according to east African leaders mediating in the...

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Displaced people walk inside a United Nations compound which has become home to thousands of people displaced by the recent fighting, in Juba, South Sudan Friday, Dec. 27, 2013.
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updated 27 Dec 2013; published 27 Dec 2013
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South Sudanese Government Agrees To Truce
updated 27 Dec 2013; published 27 Dec 2013
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BBC News South Sudan government agrees to truce
updated 27 Dec 2013; published 27 Dec 2013
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South Sudan Government Agrees To End Fighting
updated 27 Dec 2013; published 27 Dec 2013
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Negotiations Is A Must For A Ceasefire In South Sudan
updated 27 Dec 2013; published 27 Dec 2013
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BBC News South Sudan government agrees to truce
updated 03 Jul 2013; published 29 Feb 2012
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U.S. Rep. McGovern: The world is silent as Sudan arrests, kills, rapes, and bombs its own people
Does 'No Such Agency' Mean No Such Democracy?
Full Article WorldNews.com
27 Dec 2013

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Unlike the Central Intelligence Agency, which was brought into being by an act of congressional representatives, the National Security Agency (NSA) was founded by a secret presidential signature. For this reason it was jokingly referred to as the "No Such Agency," and it is for this reason that it is...

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Protesters hold up posters depicting National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden as they crash a Christmas ceremony where Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff delivers a speech to recycling workers and homeless people, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2013.
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updated 09 Aug 2013; published 18 Nov 2012
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DEFCON 20: Bigger Monster, Weaker Chains: The National Security Agency and the Constitution
updated 07 Jun 2013; published 07 Jun 2013
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UNBELIEVABE: NSA, FBI Secretly Mines Data from Major Internet Companies Google, Yahoo ...
updated 16 Aug 2013; published 26 Jul 2013
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Jesse Ventura CONSPIRCAY Theory - You ARE Being WATCHED (NSA)
updated 31 Oct 2013; published 31 Oct 2013
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Google 'outraged' over new NSA spying claims
updated 03 Nov 2013; published 03 Nov 2013
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NSA Dark Forces: John Kerry's Brotherhood of Death spying on The Vatican
updated 01 Nov 2013; published 01 Nov 2013
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October 31 2013 Breaking News Do you use Google or Yahoo? NSA Intercepts Google And Yahoo Traffic
From MRAP to scrap: U.S. military chops up $1-million vehicles
Full Article Stars and Stripes
27 Dec 2013

BAGRAM, Afghanistan — Faced with an epidemic of deadly roadside bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. military officials ordered up a fleet of V-hulled 16-ton armored behemoths in 2007 to help protect American soldiers and Marines. At a cost of $1 million each, the ugly tan beasts known as MRAPS have saved countless lives and absorbed or deflected...

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From MRAP to scrap: U.S. military chops up $1-million vehicles
photo: US Army / Sinthia Rosario

updated 04 Jul 2013; published 22 Jun 2013
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US Defense Dept Destroying Billions Worth of Gear in Afghanistan
updated 18 Aug 2013; published 18 Aug 2013
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12 Years And 50 Billion Dollars Later In Afghanistan
updated 28 Jul 2013; published 21 Mar 2012
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Tank Mechanics Lift Damaged MRAP in Afghanistan
updated 26 Mar 2013; published 28 May 2011
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The British Jackal high mobility transporter vehicle
updated 07 Jan 2013; published 02 Apr 2007
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Fiasco of the Quasi-Armored Humvee Trucks, LIE #5 of many
updated 31 Jul 2010; published 31 Jul 2006
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Me and Karampal Ghostriding the Whip
Turkey fraud probe: Tip of the iceberg?
Full Article Al Jazeera
27 Dec 2013

A wide-ranging corruption scandal has engulfed the highest levels of the Turkish government. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reshuffled his cabinet, and replaced 10 ministers, after the three who were implicated in the scandal resigned. Erdogan had long ago announced that the cabinet was due for a reshuffle. But it has not stopped talk...

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Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses his party members in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2013.
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updated 26 Dec 2013; published 26 Dec 2013
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Turkey PM announces cabinet reshuffle amid corruption probe
updated 21 Dec 2013; published 21 Dec 2013
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Turkey: Erdogan denounces corruption probe as 'dirty game'
updated 18 Dec 2013; published 18 Dec 2013
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BBC News Turkey PM Erdogan condemns dirty corruption probe
updated 25 Dec 2013; published 25 Dec 2013
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Turkey announces cabinet reshuffle amid corruption scandal
updated 18 Dec 2013; published 18 Dec 2013
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Turkey PM Erdogan condemns 'dirty' corruption probe
updated 25 Dec 2013; published 25 Dec 2013
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Turkey's Erdogan government rocked by corruption forces
Chinese media attacks Japan's Shinzo Abe for visit to Yasukuni shrine
Full Article The Guardian
27 Dec 2013

Abe accused of undermining stability by 'paying homage to devils' and 'failing to understand the evils of the fascist war' Japan's ambassador to China, Masato Kitera, walks to a meeting with China's foreign minister, Wang Yi, in Beijing after being summoned to hear China's protest about Shinzo Abe's Yasukuni shrine visit. Photograph: China...

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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, second from right, follows a Shinto priest to pay respect for the war dead at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo Thursday, Dec. 26, 2013.
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updated 27 Dec 2013; published 27 Dec 2013
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EARLY EDITION Japanese PM Shinzo Abe visits controversial Yasukuni war shrine
updated 26 Dec 2013; published 26 Dec 2013
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the Yasukuni Shrine
updated 27 Dec 2013; published 27 Dec 2013
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ARIRANG NEWS 20:00 Japanese PM Shinzo Abe visits controversial Yasukuni war shrine
updated 27 Dec 2013; published 27 Dec 2013
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NEWSLINE AT NOON China, U.S. critical of Japanese PM's Yasukuni visit
updated 27 Dec 2013; published 27 Dec 2013
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DAY BREAK China slams Abe's Yasukuni visit, U.S. says it's disappointed
updated 26 Dec 2013; published 26 Dec 2013
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Japanese PM Shinzo Abe visits controversial Yasukuni war shrine
African leaders seek peace talks in South Sudan
Full Article Ohio
27 Dec 2013

JUBA, South Sudan: African leaders tried Thursday to advance peace talks between South Sudan’s president and political rivals he accuses of attempting a coup to topple the government of the world’s newest country. As fighting persisted in parts of South Sudan’s oil-producing region, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and Ethiopian...

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In this photo released by the Kenyan Presidential Press Service, Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, middle, South Sudanese President Salva Kiir, right, and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta before their meeting at State House in Juba, South Sudan, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2013.
photo: AP / Kenyan Presidential Press Service

updated 27 Dec 2013; published 27 Dec 2013
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African leaders seek peace talks in South Sudan
updated 27 Dec 2013; published 27 Dec 2013
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African leaders in South Sudan for peace talks
updated 26 Dec 2013; published 26 Dec 2013
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African Leaders Meet To Push Peace Talks In South Sudan
updated 26 Dec 2013; published 26 Dec 2013
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Uhuru And E.A Leaders In Juba For Peace Talks
updated 10 Dec 2013; published 10 Dec 2013
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NELSON MANDELA Funeral PICS: Draws Mourners & Leaders from All Over the World (12/10/13)
updated 21 Dec 2013; published 21 Dec 2013
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Remembering South African leader Nelson Mandela
Okinawa governor approves plan of relocating U.S. Futenma airbase
Full Article Xinhua
27 Dec 2013

TOKYO, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- Japan's Okinawa governor on Friday approved the landfill work to relocate the U.S. Futenma airbase within the Japanese southernmost prefecture, reported local media. Governor Hirokazu Nakaima changed his previous policy of relocating the controversial airbase out of the...

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Marine Corps Air Station Futenma or MCAS Futenma is a United States Marine Corps base located in Ginowan, 5 NM of Naha, on the island of Okinawa, Japan.
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updated 20 Jan 2011; published 20 Jan 2011
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Some US Fighter Training to Move From Okinawa, Japan to Guam
updated 27 Dec 2013; published 27 Dec 2013
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Japan's Okinawa governor OKs plan to replace Futenma base
updated 25 Dec 2013; published 25 Dec 2013
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Nakaima may approve gov't request
updated 27 Dec 2013; published 27 Dec 2013
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Okinawa governor approves reclaiming land for US base
updated 15 Dec 2012; published 15 Dec 2012
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Panelists Introduction and Statements
updated 15 Dec 2012; published 15 Dec 2012
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Opening Remarks
Egypt arrests dozens under anti-terror law, one killed in Cairo
Full Article South China Morning Post
27 Dec 2013

Egypt stepped up pressure on the Muslim Brotherhood a day after declaring it a terrorist group, using the new classification to detain dozens of its supporters on Thursday, while one person died in street clashes ignited by political tension. A bomb blast in a Cairo suburb wounded five people – the second attack this week after a suicide bomber...

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Egyptian activists shout anti-terrorism slogans as they hold posters showing Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi and late President Gamal Abdel-Nasser, right, with Arabic slogans read, "Egypt is entrusted to us.
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updated 27 Dec 2013; published 27 Dec 2013
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Egypt Arrests Dozens Under Anti-terror Law, One Killed In Cairo
updated 26 Dec 2013; published 26 Dec 2013
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Egypt Arrests Dozens Under Anti-terror Law, Bomb Hits Cairo
updated 27 Dec 2013; published 27 Dec 2013
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Top 4 Political Stories of the Day
updated 11 Jul 2013; published 11 Jul 2013
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Muslim Brotherhood leaders arrested in Egypt
updated 27 Dec 2013; published 27 Dec 2013
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Dozens more arrests in Egypt as crackdown on Muslim Brotherhood continues
updated 27 Dec 2013; published 27 Dec 2013
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Egypt Arrests More Brotherhood Supporters, More Protests Anticipated
Obama signs bipartisan budget deal, defense bill
Full Article New York Post Online
27 Dec 2013

HONOLULU — Rounding out a tough and frustrating year, President Barack Obama signed a bipartisan budget deal Thursday easing spending cuts and a defense bill cracking down on sexual assault in the military, as the president and Congress began pivoting to the midterm election year ahead. Obama put his signature on both hard-fought bills while...

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Obama signs bipartisan budget deal, defense bill
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updated 26 Dec 2013; published 26 Dec 2013
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President Obama Signs Cross Party Budget Deal For 2 Years
updated 19 Dec 2013; published 19 Dec 2013
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US Senate passes two-year bipartisan budget bill
updated 18 Dec 2013; published 18 Dec 2013
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Senate passes bipartisan budget agreement
updated 17 Dec 2013; published 17 Dec 2013
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Bipartisan Budget Deal Helps Defense Contractors, Hurts Pensioners
updated 23 Dec 2013; published 23 Dec 2013
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Senate Passed Budget Bill Cutting Military Retirement Benefits The Kelly File
updated 13 Dec 2013; published 13 Dec 2013
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Budget Agreement May Signal New Wave Of Bipartisanship

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NSA whistleblower omitted from new exhibition on cyber security as museum says it does not want to be seen to back his actions Wrens breaking codes at Bletchley Park during the...
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling When a reader wrote-in saying: "Seems to me, the American System is completely stripped from healthy governing and its consequences...
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I don't expect very much from Santa Claus these days. I mean, he's been a disappointment over the years. My desires are few--power, money, and fame, that sort of thing--but he's...

India Cine Audience Society activist  hold the candel light to protest against the rape case in Barasat in Kolkata on Monday 17 June 2013
Police have arrested 10 people in India after a 21-year-old woman was gang-raped twice in one night be two apparently unrelated groups of men. Six of the men arrested have been charged with gang-raping the woman on the evening of December 24, on...
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Suicide attack on foreign troop convoy in Kabul kills three and wounds six
Nationalities of dead service members unclear after Taliban claim responsibility for car bombing in east of capital US trucks clear away an armoured vehicle hit by a bomb attack in Kabul that killed three. Photograph: Omar...
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Immigration fears spark political firestorm in UK
LONDON — They're portrayed as pickpockets who will steal British jobs. There are predictions they will beg, the unruly young ones will stir up riots, and some will even try to sell babies. For months, Britain's tabloids have repeatedly...
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Fourth injured SEAL moved to Landstuhl medical center
STUTTGART, Germany — A Navy SEAL undergoing medical treatment in Kenya for injuries suffered during the Dec. 21 rescue mission in South Sudan has been transferred to...
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MCMURDO SOUND, Antarctica (Jan. 2) -- During Operation Deep Freeze 2002, both the 399-ft. Polar Star (WAGB-10) and its sister ship Polar Sea (WAGB-11) jointly broke an ice path to create an access channel for supply ships in McMurdo Sound. Supply ships must offload their cargo during the summer months of January and February to ensure that the extensive program of research activities can be conducted and that the facilities in the area remain operational year-round.  U.S. COAST GUARD PHOTO (82051) ( DEEP FREEZE 2002 (FOR RELEASE) )
A Chinese icebreaker was on Friday due to reach the frozen seas where a scientific mission ship is trapped off Antarctica, as those onboard welcomed the easing of blizzard conditions. The Australian Maritime Safety Authority, which is co-ordinating...
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Thirty-four children died in Muzaffarnagar relief camps
At least 34 children have died in relief camps set up for thousands of people who fled their homes during Hindu-Muslim clashes in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh in September, an official report says. The...
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Climate Change This Week: The Good, The Bad, The Old, The New in 2013, and More!
Jingle right along with us this week, folks, for the usual up and down sleigh ride! Most Important Climate Message: "You CAN Do Something About It" is what people need to hear most, says a new , reports Emily Atkin at Climate Progress. And it's true,...
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