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Extreme cold grips snowy Northeast; Midwest awaits ‘polar vortex’
Full Article Ohio
04 Jan 2014

BOSTON: Homeowners and motorists dug out across the white-blanketed Northeast on Friday as extreme cold ushered in by the storm threatened fingers and toes but kept the snow powdery and mercifully easy to shovel. At least 15 deaths were blamed on the storm as it swept across the nation’s eastern half. While the snowfall had all but stopped by...
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A snow-covered road and trees are covered with snow in Pocahontas, Illinois, USA as seen in this January 11, 2011 file photo.
photo: WN / Janice Sabnal

updated 10 Jun 2013; published 25 Feb 2012
4:59
2/25/2012 -- Severe weather possible outbreak in South USA = LA, MS, AL, TX be alert
updated 10 Oct 2012; published 19 Aug 2012
4:25
2012 2013 Winter Very cold. Snowy?
updated 23 Jan 2013; published 23 Jan 2013
2:34
***Alert*** Polar Vortex Split 4- 8 wks of Cold For U.S.
updated 28 May 2012; published 02 Aug 2009
1:03
Ozone Audit 7 Month Study 2009
updated 23 May 2013; published 18 Jan 2013
6:52
Extreme Event
updated 27 Nov 2013; published 27 Nov 2013
1:23
Giant planet simulation: temperature and vorticity
UN: CAR violence displaces nearly one million
Full Article Al Jazeera
04 Jan 2014

Violence in the Central African Republic has uprooted nearly a million people - a fifth of the population - and hampered aid efforts in the capital Bangui, according to the UN refugee agency (UNHCR). A flare-up in violence between Muslim fighters and Christian militias has displaced more than 200,000 people in the past few...
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Displaced people cross over the runway to get access to water, at a makeshift camp for people displaced by violence, at Mpoko Airport in Bangui, Central African Republic, Friday, Jan. 3, 2014.
photo: AP / Rebecca Blackwell

updated 03 Jan 2014; published 03 Jan 2014
7:08
935,000 displaced in Central African Republic amid 'unprecedented' violence
updated 27 Aug 2010; published 17 Jan 2010
1:57
TodaysNetworkNews: SOMALIA CONFLICT & REFUGEES (UNHCR)
updated 02 Nov 2013; published 02 Nov 2013
1:21
Hundreds of desperate people flee Myanmar on rickety boats: UNHCR
updated 19 Aug 2013; published 28 Jun 2013
1:31
Muslims In London Living In Fear! Confusing The Arrow Of Causation?
updated 18 Dec 2013; published 18 Dec 2013
4:33
Iraq: UNHCR Airlift Into Syria
updated 14 Aug 2013; published 14 Aug 2013
2:56
UN envoy seeks talks as clashes rock Myanmar #myanmar #burma
Thirteen killed in Brotherhood clashes with police in Egypt
Full Article DNA India
04 Jan 2014

Thirteen people were shot dead as supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood clashed with police across Egypt on Friday, defying an ever-widening state crackdown on the movement that ruled the country until six months ago. Islamists opposed to the army's overthrow of President Mohamed Mursi in July have been holding daily demonstrations, even since...
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Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi throw stones at riot police during clashes at Nasr City, where protesters have installed their camp and hold their daily rally, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, July 26, 2013.
photo: AP / Khalil Hamra

updated 27 Dec 2013; published 27 Dec 2013
2:37
Two Egyptians Killed In Muslim Brotherhood Clashes
updated 28 Dec 2013; published 28 Dec 2013
2:57
3 killed after police, Brotherhood clash
updated 27 Dec 2013; published 27 Dec 2013
1:17
Egypt: Fatal clashes and hundreds more arrests in Muslim Brotherhood crackdown
updated 16 Aug 2013; published 15 Aug 2013
4:15
Egyptian Volunteer Dr Claims Thousands Dead In Egypt 8 14 2013
updated 03 Jan 2014; published 03 Jan 2014
1:20
Eleven Dead In Pro Morsi Protests In Egypt
updated 20 Aug 2013; published 15 Aug 2013
1:56
Egypt: Gunfire stand-off between police and protesters in Cairo
Analysis: Anbar violence goes beyond sectarian conflict in Iraq
Full Article BBC News
04 Jan 2014

The attacks on the main police station in Fallujah on Wednesday, followed by the takeover of other police stations in Fallujah and Ramadi on the following day, are part of the escalation in the Sunni-Shia sectarian conflict that has long plagued Iraq and reached its worst point in 2006-2007. But the violence is also part of the broader malaise...
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An al-Qaida fighter stands guard after setting fire to an Iraqi police truck in front of the provincial government headquarters in Fallujah, 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014.
photo: AP

updated 22 Nov 2013; published 22 Nov 2013
10:41
Iraqi prime minister squares off with Obama over violence
updated 29 May 2013; published 28 May 2013
2:17
Tide of Iraq's Sunni-Shia violence
updated 05 Jul 2013; published 14 Jun 2013
3:50
Iraq's Deadly Sectarian Divide: Violence furthers Sunni-Shia segregation :: Lucy Kafanov reports
updated 03 Jan 2014; published 03 Jan 2014
3:46
Sunni Militants Retain Control In Western Iraq
updated 25 Mar 2013; published 01 Mar 2013
1:30
Iraqi Finance Minister Tells Protesters He Is Resigning
updated 12 Aug 2013; published 20 May 2013
1:26
Multiple Car Bomb, Suicide Attacks Kill over 70 Shi'ites Across Iraq
Guantanamo and Force-Feeding: From Rape to Sodomy?
Full Article WorldNews.com
03 Jan 2014

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling In the early 1900's, when it was clear that the British Parliament had no intentions of passing legislation protecting a woman's right to vote, members of the WSPU started to engage in acts of civil disobedience. For publicly demonstrating, shadowing prominent leaders, and for burning down vacant...
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In this photo reviewed by the U.S. military, a U.S. Navy nurse stands next to a chair with restraints, used for force-feeding, and a tray displaying nutritional shakes, a tube for feeding through the nose, and lubricants, including a jar of olive oil, during a tour of the detainee hospital at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013.
photo: AP / Charles Dharapak

updated 27 May 2013; published 18 Mar 2013
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Apple Protest out of Africa Part 2
updated 02 Aug 2013; published 06 Feb 2013
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Video: CAIR-St. Louis Joins Protest Against Hiring of Gitmo Doc
updated 10 Jul 2013; published 09 Jul 2013
4:54
PNN #150 Mos Def Suffers Gitmo Force Feeding
updated 19 Oct 2013; published 19 Oct 2013
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'Constant agony:' Anti-torture activist undergoes public force feeding to protest Gitmo
updated 14 Aug 2013; published 01 Jun 2013
1:25
Force feeding part 2
updated 26 Dec 2013; published 26 Dec 2013
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force feed denied 2
South Sudan ceasefire talks open as battles rage
Full Article The Times of India
03 Jan 2014

ADDIS ABABA: South Sudan's warring parties opened negotiations on Friday to end nearly three weeks of raging conflict in which thousands are feared dead and that has taken the world's youngest nation to the brink of all-out civil war. Government and rebel negotiating teams are at a luxury hotel in neighbouring Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, with...
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A young displaced boy pulls his suitcase of belongings as he walks to find a place to rest after getting off a river barge from Bor, one of the thousands who fled the recent fighting between government and rebel forces in Bor by boat across the White Nile, in the town of Awerial, South Sudan Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014.
photo: AP / Ben Curtis

updated 29 Dec 2013; published 29 Dec 2013
1:45
South Sudan rebels take flashpoint town
updated 01 Jan 2014; published 01 Jan 2014
3:26
S Sudan poised for peace talks amid fighting
updated 31 Dec 2013; published 31 Dec 2013
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South Sudan's rebel leader says he's not ready for peace talks
updated 21 Dec 2013; published 21 Dec 2013
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South Sudan Government 'Agrees To Truce' - Updated 27 Dec
updated 16 Dec 2013; published 16 Dec 2013
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South Sudan: Thousands Of Pro-Rebel Youths 'March On Bor' - 2 January 2014
updated 20 Dec 2013; published 20 Dec 2013
1:20
S. Sudan civil war fears grow, civilians flee fighting
South Korea dismisses Pyongyang's peace call
Full Article Al Jazeera
03 Jan 2014

South Korea has dismissed North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's calls for improved ties, urging his government to take nuclear disarmament steps first. Kim Eui-do, South Korean Unification Ministry spokesman, told reporters on Friday that North Korea should first make "sincere" efforts for nuclear disarmament, if it wanted...
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South Korean marines stand guard as they wait their fellow soldiers to return their base after patrolling along on Yeonpyeong island, South Korea, Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010.
photo: AP / Ahn Young-joon

updated 13 Sep 2013; published 13 Sep 2013
1:01
North and South Koreans united by sport: weightlifters attend championship in Pyongyang
updated 23 Dec 2010; published 23 Dec 2010
7:52
'US, South will pulverize Pyongyang if North takes bait'
updated 03 Sep 2012; published 03 Sep 2012
20:44
How North Korean Defectors Fly Balloons To Promote Democracy
updated 10 Mar 2013; published 10 Mar 2013
3:10
Attack America: North Korea Threatens South Korea And US, China Not Pyongyang
updated 21 Aug 2013; published 21 Aug 2013
1:00
South Korean Activists Send Anti-Pyongyang Leaflets to the North
updated 15 Sep 2010; published 15 Sep 2010
1:30
South Korean Protesters Fly Anti-Pyongyang Leaflets To North Korea
NSA eyes encryption-breaking 'quantum' machine
Full Article New Straits/Business Times
03 Jan 2014

The US National Security Agency is making strid es toward building a "quantum computer" that could break nearly any kind of encryption, The Washington Post reported Thursday. The Post said leaked documents from fugitive ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden indicate the computer would allow the secret intelligence agency to break encryption used to...
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Matthew Hirschland, communications director for the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, stands at the end of two rows of processors that make up a small part of the new Yellowstone supercomputer on the outskirts of Cheyenne, Wyo. on Monday, Oct. 15, 2012.
photo: AP / Mead Gruver

updated 20 Aug 2013; published 20 Aug 2013
6:48
Breaking Public-key Encryption Using Quantum Computers
updated 14 Sep 2013; published 14 Sep 2013
4:15
NSA & GCHQ Spend BILLIONS Spent On DECODING ENCRYPTED Data To STEAL PRIVACY!
updated 03 Jan 2014; published 03 Jan 2014
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NSA wants a supercomputer to crack all encryption
updated 15 Sep 2013; published 15 Sep 2013
1:49
Scientists develop 'uncrackable' quantum encryption networks
updated 20 Aug 2013; published 20 Aug 2013
4:56
The RSA Algorithm (Public-key Encryption)
updated 04 May 2013; published 04 May 2013
7:30
Silicon and Photon Quantum Computing and Communication
Schumacher: Ferrari Mark F1 Driver's Birthday
Full Article Skynews
03 Jan 2014

Michael Schumacher's family have thanked the public for their support as he remains in a coma following a skiing accident. The Formula One driver turns 45 today in his hospital bed in Grenoble after suffering critical head injuries in the French Alps on Sunday. The Ferrari team which he spent many years racing for announced it would hold a...
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The May 11, 2007 file photo shows German former Formula One driver and seven-time Formula 1 World Champion Michael Schumacher smiling at the Ferrari team box after the first practice session at the Montmelo racetrack, near Barcelona, Spain.
photo: AP / Daniel Ochoa de Olza

updated 14 Mar 2013; published 14 Mar 2013
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Ferrari Team Photo Session + Marc Gené driving Ferrari F60 F1 car!!
updated 21 Aug 2013; published 21 Aug 2013
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Belgian GP - Inside Track
updated 30 Jun 2012; published 30 Jun 2012
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Ferrari Racing Days Laguna Seca - F1 Test Driver: Marc Gene - RECORD SETTING LAP!!
updated 11 Sep 2013; published 11 Sep 2013
1:53
Kimi Raikkonen to join F1 Ferrari as Fernando Alonso's 2014 team-mate
updated 27 Jun 2013; published 27 Jun 2013
1:31
Shell - Inside Track British Grand Prix
updated 29 Oct 2012; published 29 Oct 2012
1:58
Michael Schumacher at Indian Grand Prix 2012
Obesity Rates Balloon In Developing World
Full Article Orange News
03 Jan 2014

3 January 2014, 3:59 Obesity Rates Balloon In Developing World Tweet The number of overweight and obese people has reached almost one billion in the developing world - overtaking rates in industrialised countries, a report has found. The report by the UK's Overseas Development Institute said the number of obese people has more than tripled in the...
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updated 04 Dec 2010; published 04 Dec 2010
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75% Will Be Obese According to First-Ever Obesity Forecast
updated 17 Aug 2013; published 17 Aug 2013
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DO NOT Buy Fat Loss Factor Untill You Watch my Review
updated 02 Apr 2013; published 02 Apr 2013
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Plastic Surgery Brazilian Butt Lift - 702-838-2455 Las Vegas
updated 17 Oct 2013; published 17 Oct 2013
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Slimmer Cities: Promising Strategies for Fighting Obesity
updated 11 Mar 2013; published 11 Mar 2013
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Balloons, Kisses and Fat Angels - Sofa of Awesome Discussion #2
updated 27 Sep 2013; published 27 Sep 2013
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Can Losing Weight Really Help Reduce Back Pain?

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'Ceasefire' Is the Syria Word We Need to Hear
Huffington Post
A bloodbath of civilians, torture and murder of children, willful starvation of millions, forced displacement of a greater population such as the Middle East has never seen, a...
A New Year means time for new 'Dogs of the Dow"
The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) -- It's a new year, so once again it's time to take "Dogs of the Dow" out for a run. This annual Wall Street strategy has investors kick off January by buying the 10...
Roger Federer's Miracle Shot: Genius or Just Dumb Luck?
Mashable
We learned yet again last summer that Roger Federer is one of the planet's greatest human beings. But if you needed any reminder that he's still among the world's preeminent tennis...

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Health care for transforms at snail’s pace
Health care for transforms at snail’s pace
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A woman’s appendix ruptured while she waited for emergency surgery at the Mitchells Plain hospital in Cape Town last year. A 69-year-old former matron of Jubilee district hospital in Pretoria died barely five hours after the same hospital sent...
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Children beheaded as violence grows in Central African Republic, U.N. says
Children beheaded as violence grows in Central African Republic, U.N. says
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January 3, 2014 -- Updated 0640 GMT (1440 HKT) People wait for evacuation flights in a hangar at the airport in Bangui, Central African Republic, on Sunday, December 29. The African nation has been dealing with violence between Muslim and Christian...
photo: UN / Marco Dormino
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Cambodia: Deadly Crackdown On Workers
Cambodia garment workers throw stones at riot police during a strike near a factory on the Stung Meanchey complex on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, Jan. 3, 2014.
Skynews
Three people have been killed in Cambodia as police opened fire to try to quell a protest by garment factory workers. Workers armed with sticks, rocks and Molotov cocktails clashed with armed police in the capital Phnom Penh, according to witnesses....
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2 newspapers call for clemency for Edward Snowden
A TV screen shows the news of Edward Snowden, former CIA employee who leaked top-secret documents about sweeping U.S. surveillance programs, at a restaurant in Hong Kong Wednesday, June 12, 2013.
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LONDON -- The New York Times and Guardian newspapers have called for clemency for Edward Snowden, saying that the espionage worker-turned-privacy advocate should be praised rather than punished for his disclosures. The papers -- both of which have...
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Schumacher: Ferrari Mark German's Birthday
Mercedes Grand Prix driver Michael Schumacher of Germany is seen in the garage after finishing the second practice session at the Formula One Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir, Bahrain Friday, March 12, 2010. The Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix will take place on Sunday.
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3 January 2014, 3:54 Schumacher: Ferrari Mark German's Birthday Tweet Michael Schumacher's family have thanked the public for their support as he remains in a coma following a skiing accident. The Formula One driver will turn 45 today in his hospital...
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First snowstorm of 2014 descends on northeast US
Snow removal continues at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Monday, Dec. 27, 2010.
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HARTFORD (USA): The northeastern US, including New York City, prepared on Thursday for heavy snow, strong winds and frigid temperatures that threatened to slow the...
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NSA eyes encryption-breaking 'quantum' machine: report
Employees of the National Security Agency sit in the Threat Operations Center on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2006, in Fort Meade, Md. The government issued an alert Thursday Nov. 30, 2006 to U.S. stock market and banking Web sites about a possible Internet attack from a radical Muslim group, but said the threat was unconfirmed and seemed to pose no immediate danger.
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WASHINGTON: The US National Security Agency is making strides toward building a “quantum computer” that could break nearly any kind of encryption, The Washington Post reported Thursday. The Post said leaked documents from fugitive ex-NSA contractor...
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