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S. Sudan govt, rebels set for ceasefire talks
Full Article Dawn
02 Jan 2014

JUBA: South Sudan’s warring parties were on Wednesday set to begin peace talks aimed at bringing an end to a nearly three-week-old civil war that has already left thousands dead. Government and rebel officials confirmed their negotiating teams were either on their way or in the Ethiopian capital, and diplomats said they expected formal talks on a...
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A United Nations armored vehicle passes displaced people walking towards the U.N. camp where they have sought shelter in Malakal, South Sudan, Monday, Dec. 30, 2013.
photo: AP / Ben Curtis

updated 31 Dec 2013; published 31 Dec 2013
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South Sudan rebels agree to ceasefire talks, but fighting rages
updated 01 Jan 2014; published 01 Jan 2014
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South Sudan poised for peace talks amid fighting
updated 19 Dec 2013; published 19 Dec 2013
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South Sudan Government 'Agrees To Truce' - Updated 27 Dec
updated 21 Dec 2013; published 21 Dec 2013
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South Sudan Government 'Agrees To Truce' - Updated 27 Dec
updated 27 Dec 2013; published 27 Dec 2013
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South Sudan Government 'Agrees To Truce' - Updated 27 Dec
updated 22 Dec 2013; published 22 Dec 2013
4:47
South Sudan: Thousands Of Pro-Rebel Youths 'March on Bor' - Updated 31 Dec
Rescue delayed for icebound ship in Antarctica
Full Article WPXI
02 Jan 2014

The latest attempt to rescue passengers on board a research ship that has been trapped in Antarctic ice for more than a week was delayed again Thursday after sea ice prevented a barge from reaching one of the rescue vessels. The Australian Maritime Safety Authority's Rescue Coordination Centre, which is handling the operation, said earlier on...
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In this Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2013 image provided by Australasian Antarctic Expedition/Footloose Fotography, Ben Maddison and Ben Fisk from the Russian ship MV Akademik Shokalskiy work to place a wind indicator atop an ice feature near the trapped ship 1,500 nautical miles south of Hobart, Australia.
photo: AP / Australasian Antarctic Expedition/Footloose Fotography, Andrew Peacock

updated 28 Dec 2013; published 28 Dec 2013
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Antarctica Ship rescue delayed as Chinese icebreaker also gets trapped
updated 02 Jan 2014; published 02 Jan 2014
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Ice Hampers Antarctic Air Rescue - 2 Jan
updated 02 Jan 2014; published 02 Jan 2014
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Antarctica Ship Rescue : Rescue delayed for icebound ship in Antarctica
updated 28 Dec 2013; published 28 Dec 2013
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Antarctic crew amazed by viral fame
updated 06 Mar 2010; published 06 Mar 2010
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Viking Amorella caught by pack ice
updated 30 Dec 2013; published 30 Dec 2013
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Weather Hits Arctic Ship Rescue Bid
Hospital: Ariel Sharon's health worsens
Full Article The Guardian
01 Jan 2014

IAN DEITCH Associated Press= JERUSALEM (AP) — The medical condition of the comatose former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon sharply deteriorated Wednesday, the hospital treating him said. Sharon, 85, has been in a coma since 2006 when a devastating stroke incapacitated him at the height of his political power. His family has said that he...
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FILE -- In this Sunday Jan. 30, 2005 file photo, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon pauses during the weekly cabinet meeting in his Jerusalem office.
photo: AP / Oded Balilty, Pool, File

updated 20 Oct 2010; published 20 Oct 2010
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Model of Israel's Sharon in coma aims to provoke
updated 03 Aug 2013; published 03 Aug 2013
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Urgent .. The death of "Sharon" in the Zionist Soroka Hospital 02/08/2013
updated 26 Feb 2012; published 26 Feb 2012
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DISTURBING, HD hidden cam Pictures of Ariel Sharon In Hospital
updated 28 Jan 2013; published 28 Jan 2013
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Sharon Shows Signs Of Consciousness
updated 12 Nov 2010; published 12 Nov 2010
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Comatose Sharon moved home from hospital
updated 12 Nov 2010; published 12 Nov 2010
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Ariel Sharon in a coma since 2006, leaves the hospital at the request of the family
Rigoberta Menchu: Lighting Candles, Exposing Shadows
Full Article WorldNews.com
01 Jan 2014

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling "When you light a candle," wrote Ursual K. Le Guin, "you also cast a shadow." Rigoberta Menchu, who was awarded the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize and instrumental in having the Guatemalan Government end its 36-year-long war "against the poor," which occurred this very same week in 1996, lit millions of...
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File - Rigoberta Menchú (right), Guatemalan human rights activist and Nobel Laureate, addresses a press conference on the work of the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG). At left is Eduardo Stein Barillas, former Vice President of Guatemala.
photo: UN / Evan Schneider

updated 24 Oct 2013; published 24 Oct 2013
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Women Share Experiences Insights And Wisdom About Peace And Justice
updated 19 Sep 2012; published 19 Sep 2012
29:41
ALTA CARE Laboratoires - Paris
updated 08 Mar 2013; published 08 Mar 2013
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Fourteen South American Nationals attend Hugo Chavez Vigil in London
updated 26 Jun 2012; published 26 Jun 2012
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Nobel Peace Prize Recipient: Rigoberta Menchú Interview
updated 27 Aug 2013; published 27 Aug 2013
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Rigoberta y su adicción a la comida
updated 13 Jul 2011; published 13 Jul 2011
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Rigoberta Menchú, Premio Nobel de la Paz Guatemala
Syria conflict pits Shia against Sunni as Hezbollah says this is 'war we must win'
Full Article The Guardian
01 Jan 2014

Commander of militant Lebanese group claims that it has been forced to intervene in self-defence after sectarian attacks The Syria conflict is increasingly dragging in militant groups from surrounding countries. Photograph: -/AFP/Getty Images In a grand manor house in northern Lebanon, eight men, all of them well-to-do professionals, had gathered...
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Hezbollah fighters, center, carry the coffin of their commander Ali Bazzi who was killed in Syria during a battle against the Syrian rebels, as other fighters, foreground, carry his portrait during his funeral procession, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, on Monday, Dec. 9, 2013.
photo: AP / Mohammed Zaatari

updated 16 Jun 2013; published 16 Jun 2013
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Sunni cleric says war is coming to Lebanon and blames Hezbollah for entering Syrian conflict
updated 01 Jun 2013; published 01 Jun 2013
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Hezbollah And Syrian Rebels Fighting In A Proxy War
updated 16 Aug 2013; published 16 Aug 2013
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Lebanese Sunni Group Claims Responsibility For Car Bombings
updated 29 Jun 2013; published 29 Jun 2013
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How Will The Sectarian Violence In Syria Shape The Future?
updated 17 Jun 2013; published 17 Jun 2013
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Hamas Wants Hezbollah To Leave Syria
updated 07 Jun 2013; published 07 Jun 2013
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Politics Breaking News: Hezbollah Entry in Syria Fans Shiite-Sunni Fires
South Sudan government, rebels set for New Year's Day talks
Full Article Mail Guardian South Africa
01 Jan 2014

South Sudan's government and rebels are set for New Year's Day peace talks in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, to thrash out a ceasefire to end weeks of ethnic bloodletting in the world's newest state. Both sides agreed to a ceasefire on Tuesday, mediators said, but fighting between government troops and militias loyal to former...
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A displaced family stand by their makeshift shelter at a United Nations compound which has become home to thousands of people displaced by the recent fighting, in the Jebel area on the outskirts of Juba, South Sudan Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2013.
photo: AP / Ben Curtis

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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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 Truce with Rebels
updated 22 Dec 2013; published 22 Dec 2013
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South Sudan: Thousands Of Pro-Rebel Youths 'March on Bor' - Updated 31 Dec
updated 31 Dec 2013; published 31 Dec 2013
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Groups In South Sudan Ready For Talks
updated 21 Dec 2013; published 21 Dec 2013
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South Sudan Government 'Agrees To Truce' - Updated 27 Dec
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says purge was a cleansing of 'filth'
Full Article DNA India
01 Jan 2014

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made his first reference to the execution of his powerful uncle in a New Year's address, saying the reclusive state's ruling party had become stronger after it was purged of "factional filth." And he called for better relations with South Korea, warning that another war on the Korean peninsula would...
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says purge was a cleansing of 'filth'
photo: AP / Ng Han Guan

updated 01 Jan 2014; published 01 Jan 2014
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Happy New Year from North Korean leader Kim Jong-un
updated 01 Jan 2014; published 01 Jan 2014
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North Korea leader says execution of uncle removed 'filth'
updated 01 Jan 2014; published 01 Jan 2014
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un denounces uncle in New Year speech - video
updated 01 Jan 2014; published 01 Jan 2014
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North Korea leader says execution of uncle removed-and #039;filth and #039;
updated 01 Jan 2014; published 01 Jan 2014
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Happy New Year from North Korean leader Kim Jong un
updated 01 Jan 2014; published 01 Jan 2014
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Kim Jong Un: Execution Of Uncle Was Elimination Of Factionalist Filth
Syria misses deadline to remove chemical arms
Full Article Al Jazeera
01 Jan 2014

Ships waiting to remove Syria's chemical weapons have returned to port in Cyprus because the country has missed a December 31 deadline. Syria was supposed to have removed part of its chemical weapons arsenal for destruction on Tuesday, but Wael Nader Al Halqi, Syria's prime minister, said security concerns and bureaucracy had caused delays in...
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In this photo provided by Norwegian Armed Forces and taken Saturday, Dec. 28, 2013, a security forces member stands guard aboard the Norwegian frigate Helge Ingstad, in Limassol, Cyprus.
photo: AP / Norwegian Armed Forces, Lars Magne Hovtun

updated 01 Jan 2014; published 01 Jan 2014
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Syria misses deadline to remove chemical arms
updated 18 Dec 2013; published 18 Dec 2013
2:06
Syria chemical weapon removal delay fear
updated 23 Dec 2013; published 23 Dec 2013
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BBC News Syria chemical weapons monitors win Nobel Peace Prize-MNM News
updated 02 Nov 2013; published 02 Nov 2013
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Chemical watchdog urges truces so Syria can disarm
updated 22 Sep 2013; published 22 Sep 2013
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Russian offers troops to help remove Syria chemical arms
updated 01 Jan 2014; published 01 Jan 2014
2:45
Deadline For Removing Syrian Chemical Weapons Missed
Iraqi Sunnis' long struggle since Saddam
Full Article BBC News
31 Dec 2013

The break-up by security forces of a protest camp in the western city of Ramadi, which triggered the resignation of more than 40 MPs, marks the latest stage in a long political struggle by Iraq's Sunni Arab community. The protesters had accused the Shia-led government of Prime Minister Nouri Maliki of discriminating against the country's...
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clashes between Iraqi army soldiers and Sunni gunmen in Fallujah, 65 kilometers (40 miles) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2013. Iraqi police took down tents and cleared a Sunni protest camp sit-in in Ramadi, 115 kilometers (70 miles) west of Baghdad
photo: AP

updated 24 Jan 2012; published 24 Jan 2012
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Christians in Iraq: A community in despair
updated 13 Apr 2008; published 13 Apr 2008
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alive in baghdad 2
updated 16 Jun 2013; published 16 Jun 2013
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WW3 BECKONING: SYRIA ON G8 AGENDA SAYS CAMERON - NWO WANT ASSAD GONE
updated 17 Sep 2013; published 17 Sep 2013
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What you need to Know about Syria - Global Public Square CNN
updated 12 Nov 2012; published 12 Nov 2012
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Lebanon sectarian clashes kill three
updated 26 Aug 2013; published 26 Aug 2013
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[MUST WATCH]Syrian Rebels paid in Dollars for killing innocent people
Suicide car bombing in south Yemen kills 2 guards
Full Article Boston Herald
31 Dec 2013

SANAA, Yemen — A suicide car bombing outside security headquarters early Tuesday in a port city in southern Yemen killed two guards, a police official said. The pre-dawn attack in the upscale Khormaksar neighborhood in Aden also wounded six people, destroyed much of the headquarters' building, blew out doors and shattered windows on two...
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File - Yemeni soldiers patrol a street near the Defense Ministry compound in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013.
photo: AP / Hani Mohammed

updated 03 Jun 2013; published 03 Jun 2013
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Qassim Al Rimi, Commander Of Al Qaeda In The Arabian Peninsula, Warns Americans On Security
updated 17 Sep 2013; published 17 Sep 2013
0:53
3 police dead, 6 wounded in suicide bombing, attempted attacks in Russia's south
updated 01 Nov 2013; published 01 Nov 2013
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Yemen Blast 2 2012 News
updated 13 Dec 2013; published 13 Dec 2013
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Australia: CCTV shows Brazilian student repeatedly tasered by police in Sydney
updated 24 Oct 2013; published 24 Oct 2013
1:11
Car bomb detonated by rebels in Syria
updated 21 Dec 2013; published 21 Dec 2013
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Chilling violence spreads in C.A.R.

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United Nations too Christian, claims report
The Guardian
Study calls for greater religious tolerance with Hinduism and Buddhism under-represented and funding a major issue The report says while the UN represents all religions, there are...
Greece's Not So Golden Dawn or Age
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling It seems that Greece's Golden Dawn Party is listening to the same oracles that Pericles did when he initiated ancient Greece's...
On its 26th anniversary: What next for Hamas?
Al Jazeera
If Hamas' jubilee last year was truly silvery, this year's 26th anniversary seems to find the movement in a bad shape. A year ago, Hamas was breathing fresh air with the Muslim...

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Putin visits Volgograd bombing victims
In a file photo Russian President Vladimir Putin is seen during a meeting with Moscow region governor Boris Gromov in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Thursday, April 19, 2007. Putin makes his annual state of the nation address, a speech that
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Moscow, January 01: Russian President Vladimir Putin Wednesday visited some victims of recent terror blasts in Volgograd city and discussed public security with senior officials. Two suicide bombings struck in Volgograd, the first at a railway...
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New Year's Eve celebrations usher in 2014 across the world
New Year's Eve celebrations usher in 2014 across the world
Fox News
Published December 31, 2013FoxNews.com Millions around the world welcomed 2014 on Tuesday, as fireworks, dancing and all-night revelry marked huge displays of jubilation and unity around the globe. Crowds that filled New York City's Times Square...
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Mining in Greenland - a country divided
Greenland Dog trecking in Advent Valley, east of Longyearbyen.
BBC News
Greenland's economy relies on fishing and hunting, but the government has ambitious plans to develop the country's resource industries. In places like Narsaq, there's a fear that mining could destroy the environment and traditional...
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UN envoy condemns attacks on key sites in DR Congo capital
UN envoy condemns attacks on key sites in DR Congo capital
United Nations
Print 31 December 2013 – The top United Nations envoy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has deplored the attacks carried out on Monday on the headquarters of the Congolese Armed Forces and of the National Radio and Television Company,...
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Cebu startups rev up
Cebu startups rev up
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BARELY had typhoon Yolanda left Cebu in November when local developers buckled down to build systems to help in rescue, relief and rebuilding efforts. Couple Kristoffer Vincent Loremia and Yvonne, who sought shelter with their newborn child Xhian...
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South Sudan town of Bor partially in rebel hands
South Sudan town of Bor partially in rebel hands
The Daily Telegraph
Related Articles Civilians 'going without food' in South Sudan UN camp 30 Dec 2013 Captured twice and looted twice, a state capital in South Sudan fears third battle 29 Dec 2013 South Sudan rebel leader dashes ceasefire hopes 28 Dec 2013 Leaders in...
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Uganda warns South Sudan rebel leader
President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda answers questions during a news conference following graduation ceremonies at Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth, Kan., Friday, June 13, 2008.
The Guardian
RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press= JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Uganda's president on Monday warned South Sudan's rebel leader against rejecting the government's offer of a cease-fire, saying regional leaders would unite to "defeat" the former vice...
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