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U.S. intelligence report has grim outlook for Afghanistan
Full Article Denver Post
29 Dec 2013

WASHINGTON — A new American intelligence assessment on the Afghan war predicts that the gains the United States and its allies have made during the past three years are likely to have been significantly eroded by 2017, even if Washington leaves behind a few thousand troops and continues bankrolling the impoverished nation, according to...

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U.S. Army soldiers with Company C, 2nd Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, from Forward Operating Base Torkham, conduct a dismounted patrol from one of their observation points to an Afghan Border Police checkpoint, Nov. 18, 2013.
photo: US Army / Sgt. Eric Provost

updated 03 Jul 2013; published 09 Feb 2010
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Katsuro Nakamura [Dark Miasma/Robotics MM] -Liberty Server-
updated 13 May 2013; published 11 May 2013
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Sprott's John Embry: 'The Future For Retirees In America Is Grim'
updated 12 Nov 2012; published 23 Sep 2012
10:46
Racial Do Over
updated 13 Jan 2012; published 12 Jul 2011
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Former CIA Analyst McGovern Returns From Stalled Gaza Flotilla - Part 1
updated 05 Nov 2011; published 12 Jul 2011
27:42
Former CIA Analyst McGovern Returns From Stalled Gaza Flotilla - Part 2
updated 25 May 2012; published 26 Jun 2008
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Movie Voyager Class Optimus Prime review
South Sudan rivals under international pressure to end violence
Full Article The Times of India
29 Dec 2013

JUBA: International pressure bore down on the two sides on Saturday in South Sudan's bloody violence to open peace talks to keep the young nation from sliding into civil war. East African and Horn of Africa peace brokers gave until December 31 for President Salva Kiir and de facto rebel leader Riek Machar, whom Kiir sacked as vice-president in...

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A wounded soldier, background right, sits with colleagues in an outside courtyard at the Juba Military Hospital in Juba, South Sudan Saturday, Dec. 28, 2013.
photo: AP / Ben Curtis

updated 22 Dec 2013; published 22 Dec 2013
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World Leaders Plead For Stability In South Sudan
updated 27 Dec 2013; published 27 Dec 2013
1:04
UN admits it was caught off-guard by South Sudan violence
updated 27 Dec 2013; published 27 Dec 2013
1:06
South Sudan talks in Kenya
updated 31 Oct 2013; published 31 Oct 2013
3:59
Sudan S. Sudan Agreement 2012 News
updated 21 Oct 2013; published 21 Oct 2013
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South Sudan's former vice-president, Riek Machar said southerners are dying for democracy
updated 16 Dec 2013; published 16 Dec 2013
6:18
President Salva Kiir announced foil a coup attempt led by Riek Machar
Hundreds try to flee C. African Republic on emergency flights
Full Article Reuters
29 Dec 2013

BANGUI (Reuters) - Hundreds of people tried to flee inter-religious violence in Central African Republic on Saturday aboard emergency flights to neighboring Chad, while nearby countries appealed for help to rescue their citizens from the mounting humanitarian crisis. Tit-for-tat violence between Muslim Seleka rebels, who seized power in March, and...

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Displaced people camp out on a church ground in the Castor neighborhood of Bangui, Central African Republic, Saturday, Dec. 28, 2013.
photo: AP / Rebecca Blackwell

updated 28 Dec 2013; published 28 Dec 2013
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Hundreds Seek To Flee Central African Republic On Emergency Flights
updated 29 Aug 2013; published 29 Aug 2013
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Civilians Try To Escape CAR Militants
updated 03 Jul 2013; published 25 Mar 2013
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VOA News for 25 Mar 2013 - 20130325
updated 17 Dec 2013; published 17 Dec 2013
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Africa News: Violence rages in the Central African Republic isolated from the world
updated 10 Dec 2013; published 10 Dec 2013
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US orders airlift for African troops to CAR
updated 12 Dec 2013; published 12 Dec 2013
2:27
Humanitarian crisis looms in CAR capital
Who is behind the Beirut bombing?
Full Article Al Jazeera
28 Dec 2013

The assassination of former Prime Minister Saad Hariri aide and former minister Mohamad Chatah in Beirut on December 27, is the latest in a series of attacks aimed at destabilising Lebanon and bringing it closer to the Syrian conflict. That Lebanon should witness this kind of spillover from the Syrian crisis is not surprising: Lebanon is host...

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A Lebanese Army soldier stands next to a destroyed car at the scene of an explosion in central Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Dec. 27, 2013.
photo: AP / Hussein Malla

updated 20 Oct 2012; published 20 Oct 2012
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SYRIAN CRISIS SPEADING! Who BENEFITS from Beirut BOMB BLAST? Israel, Syria, Iran... WW3?
updated 19 Nov 2013; published 19 Nov 2013
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Suicide Blasts Near Iranian Embassy in Beirut kills 23 And Wound Dozens
updated 19 Nov 2013; published 19 Nov 2013
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Double Blasts Destroyed Iranian Embassy In Beirut And dead Peo Kill At Least 23 And Wound Dozens
updated 19 Nov 2013; published 19 Nov 2013
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LIVE FOOTAGE : Strong Blasts Kill 23 Near Iran Embassy In Beirut
updated 19 Nov 2013; published 19 Nov 2013
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Iran Reaction over Twin Suicide Blast on its embassy in Beirut Lebanon
updated 14 Feb 2013; published 14 Feb 2013
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Funeral for top commander killed on road from Syria to Lebanon
Police release final Sandy Hook shooting report
Full Article Denver Post
28 Dec 2013

NEW HAVEN, conn. —Connecticut police released thousands of pages Friday from their investigation into the Newtown massacre, providing the most detailed and disturbing picture yet of the rampage and Adam Lanza's fascination with murder, while also depicting school employees' brave and clear-headed attempts to protect the children. Among the...

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This December 2012 photo released by the Connecticut State Police on Friday, Dec. 27, 2013, shows a shattered window at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Adam Lanza gunned down 20 first-graders and six educators with a semi-automatic rifle at the school on Dec. 14, 2012, after killing his mother inside their home.
photo: AP / Connecticut State Police

updated 14 Dec 2012; published 14 Dec 2012
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Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting Police Scanner Audio pt. 1
updated 04 Dec 2013; published 04 Dec 2013
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SCARY Newtown Shooting 911 Call Released - 12/04/2013
updated 15 Dec 2012; published 15 Dec 2012
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Adam Lanza & His big brother Ryan Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting Newtown Connecticut!
updated 15 Dec 2012; published 15 Dec 2012
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Shootings update: Police say gunman Adam Lanza forced his way into school
updated 17 Dec 2012; published 17 Dec 2012
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History of Adam Lanza the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooter in Newtown Connecticut
updated 15 Dec 2012; published 15 Dec 2012
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Police Find Long Gun In Trunk Of Car In Sandy Hook Parking Lot: Newtown Connecticut School Shooting
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
photo: AP

updated 28 Dec 2013; published 28 Dec 2013
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China Eases One Child Policy
updated 28 Dec 2013; published 28 Dec 2013
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China Eases One Child Policy
updated 28 Dec 2013; published 28 Dec 2013
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China Approves Loosening Of The Countries One-Child Policy
updated 28 Dec 2013; published 28 Dec 2013
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China formally eases one-child policy
updated 13 May 2012; 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
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.
photo: AP / Ben Curtis

updated 22 Dec 2013; published 22 Dec 2013
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South Sudan: Thousands Of Pro-Rebel Youths 'March on Bor' - Updated 28 Dec
updated 27 Dec 2013; published 27 Dec 2013
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South Sudanese Government Agrees To Truce
updated 22 Dec 2013; published 22 Dec 2013
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Thousands flee homes as fighting continues in South Sudan
updated 16 Dec 2013; published 16 Dec 2013
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South Sudan: Thousands Of Pro-Rebel Youths 'March On Bor' - Updated 28 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
2:06
BBC News South Sudan government agrees to truce
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.
photo: AP / Andre Penner

updated 18 Nov 2012; 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 26 Jul 2013; published 26 Jul 2013
44:39
Jesse Ventura Conspiracy Theory - You ARE Being WATCHED (NSA)
updated 31 Oct 2013; published 31 Oct 2013
1:47
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 spy on Vatican - forger Iran & Syria
updated 01 Nov 2013; published 01 Nov 2013
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December 21 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 22 Jun 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 21 Mar 2012; published 21 Mar 2012
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Tank Mechanics Lift Damaged MRAP in Afghanistan
updated 28 May 2011; published 28 May 2011
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The British Jackal high mobility transporter vehicle
updated 02 Apr 2007; published 02 Apr 2007
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Fiasco of the Quasi-Armored Humvee Trucks, LIE #5 of many
updated 31 Jul 2006; 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.
photo: AP

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
2:21
Two Turkish ministers resign over corruption probe
updated 18 Dec 2013; published 18 Dec 2013
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Turkey PM Erdogan condemns 'dirty' corruption probe
updated 19 Dec 2013; published 19 Dec 2013
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Turkish PM condemns corruption probe

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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...

Hundreds of jobseekers gather at a National Career Fairs job fair at the Radisson Martinique On Broadway Hotel in New York, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2009. The Labor Department releases weekly jobless claims figures Thursday
Washington, December 28: For the more than 1.3 million people who have been jobless in the US for over six months, the holiday season came to a crashing halt Saturday with the cancellation of the federal government's unemployment insurance payments....
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Lebanese army investigators in white coveralls inspect the scene of an explosion in central Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Dec. 27, 2013.
BEIRUT: A Beirut car bomb that killed an anti-Syria politician underscores how Lebanon has become a “microcosm of regional conflicts”, with violence escalating as Damascus and its ally Tehran become more emboldened, analysts say. Friday’s bombing...
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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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