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Bombings kill 20 in Iraq's capital, Baghdad
Full Article Houston Chronicle
05 Jan 2014

BAGHDAD (AP) — A new wave of bombings hit Iraq's capital, Baghdad, killing at least 20 people Sunday, officials said, the latest assault by militants who have been fighting Iraqi security forces and allied tribes in country's west. The deadliest attack took place in Baghdad's Shiite northern Shaab neighborhood, when two parked car bombs exploded...
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The Prophet Muhammad Mosque looks over a burned police vehicle left in the main street of Fallujah after clashes between Iraqi security forces and al-Qaeda fighters in Fallujah, 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2014.
photo: AP

updated 26 Dec 2013; published 26 Dec 2013
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IRAQ: Bomb Attacks during Christmas Mass in Baghdad Kill 37
updated 21 Dec 2013; published 21 Dec 2013
1:51
Bomb Attack Kills Officers in Iraq - Breaking News 21 Dec
updated 25 Dec 2013; published 25 Dec 2013
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Iraq: Christmas bombers target Christians kill 37 -- Dec 25, 2013
updated 08 Dec 2013; published 08 Dec 2013
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Bomb Attacks Across Iraq Kill 30, Wound Nearly 100 | NewsLook
updated 24 Mar 2013; published 19 Mar 2013
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Bombings in Baghdad kill 56 on eve of Iraq war anniversary |
updated 02 Jan 2014; published 02 Jan 2014
4:02
Army forces in "heavy" fighting with militants in Fallujah, Iraq
At least 13 killed in Bangladesh election violence
Full Article Canberra Times
05 Jan 2014

Uneven contest: a soldier keeps watch on polling day in Dhaka. Photo: Reuters Thousands of protesters firebombed polling stations and stole ballot papers as deadly violence flared across Bangladesh Sunday during an election boycotted by the opposition. Police said at least 13 people had been killed and more than 200 polling stations were set on...
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Bangladeshi army soldiers patrol on a street during the election, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2014.
photo: AP / Rajesh Kumar Singh

updated 29 Dec 2013; published 29 Dec 2013
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Protests against Bangladesh election turn violent
updated 04 Jan 2014; published 04 Jan 2014
2:52
Violence on eve of Bangladesh elections
updated 04 Jan 2014; published 04 Jan 2014
0:55
Ahead of the election of Bangladesh, mass burn polling
updated 05 Jan 2014; published 05 Jan 2014
0:52
Bangladesh election Clashes as voting begins
updated 30 Dec 2013; published 30 Dec 2013
0:54
Protests against Bangladesh election turn violent
updated 05 Jan 2014; published 05 Jan 2014
1:19
Violence, street clashes mar elections in Bangladesh
African states pull citizens out of CAR
Full Article Al Jazeera
05 Jan 2014

African countries have started repatriating their citizens from the Central African Republic in recent days, where continuing violence has led to deteriorating humanitarian conditions. Mali's government chartered two flights to evacuate around 500 of its citizens on Sunday while 150 of Niger's citizens arrived back in the capital Niamey on Friday...
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An African Union peacekeeper from Burundi participates in a joint patrol with French forces in the Fouh neighborhood of Bangui Central African Republic, Saturday, Jan. 4, 2014.
photo: AP / Rebecca Blackwell

updated 30 Dec 2013; published 30 Dec 2013
1:17
Hundreds of people flee the inter-religious-violence in the Central African Republic
updated 31 Dec 2013; published 31 Dec 2013
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CAR Conflict Unicef Says Children 'Beheaded' in Bangui - 31 Dec
updated 03 Jan 2014; published 03 Jan 2014
3:15
Almost 1 Million People Displaced By CAR Violence
updated 12 Dec 2013; published 12 Dec 2013
1:43
BBC News Typhoon Haiyan: Footage from the storm
updated 07 Dec 2013; published 07 Dec 2013
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African leaders, citizens mourn Mandela
updated 04 Jan 2014; published 04 Jan 2014
0:49
Mali, Niger Evacuate Citizens From Central African Republic
Iraqi police: Fallujah fully in hands of al-Qaeda group
Full Article Denver Post
05 Jan 2014

Mourners carry the coffin of a man killed when clashes erupted between al-Qaida gunmen and Iraqi army soldiers on Friday, his family said, during his funeral in Fallujah, 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Jan. 4, 2014. Provincial spokesman Dhari al-Rishawi said Iraqi security forces and allied tribesmen are pressing their...
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Mourners and Sunni gunmen chant slogans against Iraq's Shiite-led government during the funeral of a man killed when clashes erupted between al-Qaida gunmen and Iraqi army soldiers on Friday, his family said, in Fallujah, 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Jan. 4, 2014.
photo: AP

updated 05 Jan 2014; published 05 Jan 2014
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Iraq city falls fully into hands of al-Qaida group - Fallujah
updated 05 Jan 2014; published 05 Jan 2014
1:44
Iraq government loses control of Fallujah
updated 04 Jan 2014; published 04 Jan 2014
2:47
Iraqi City Of Fallujah In Hands Of Sunni Militants
updated 03 Jan 2014; published 03 Jan 2014
2:58
IRAQ Video: Iraqi Airforce Bombs Bases Of ISIL Jihadist In Anbar Province 02Jan2014
updated 04 Jan 2014; published 04 Jan 2014
2:38
Iraq Loses Control Of Fallujah To Sunni Rebels
updated 05 Jan 2014; published 05 Jan 2014
1:03
Iraq government 'loses Fallujah'
Kim Jong Un: Nothing New About Purifying 'Filth'
Full Article WorldNews.com
04 Jan 2014

Article by Wn.com Correspondent Dallas Darling "Humans live like lice in the folds of a garment...When fleas buzz in your ear, you do not hear them: how could God even hear men, let alone concede their wishes." -Wang Ch'ung, Taoist Philosopher North Korea's Kim Jong Un is not the first ruler to purge political opponents. Neither will he be the...
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File - In this undated photo released by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) and distributed Thursday, March 14, 2013, by the Korea News Service, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watches a live ammunition firing drill.
photo: AP / KCNA via KNS

updated 22 Mar 2011; published 22 Mar 2011
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Purification From Filth - Shaykh Gilles Sadek aicp
updated 07 Dec 2011; published 07 Dec 2011
68:15
Purifying the Filth from the Hearts & Minds (Jealousy Hatred Envy Hate Suspicion) Salim al A
updated 26 Oct 2010; published 26 Oct 2010
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Purifying filth-1.wmv
updated 01 Jul 2013; published 01 Jul 2013
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Purification of the Heart from Filth & Impurities
updated 22 Mar 2011; published 22 Mar 2011
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Types of Water - Shaykh Gilles Sadek aicp
updated 06 Dec 2013; published 06 Dec 2013
1:50
Purification from filth - Shaykh Gilles Sadek AICP APBIF
Dozens of polling stations ablaze on eve of disputed Bangladesh poll
Full Article Swissinfo
04 Jan 2014

Reuters January 4, 2014 - 11:39 By Ruma Paul and Tony Munroe DHAKA (Reuters) - Nearly 60 polling stations in Bangladesh were set on fire and three people were killed on the eve of Sunday's election in which the ruling Awami League looks certain to prevail in a walkover as the main opposition party boycotts the poll. The Bangladesh...
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A young Bangladeshi boy runs at the main ferry terminal under campaign leaflets in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, Jan. 4, 2014.
photo: AP / Rajesh Kumar Singh

updated 29 Dec 2013; published 29 Dec 2013
2:43
Bangladesh Activists Clash With Police At Polls Protest - 29 Dec
updated 04 Jan 2014; published 04 Jan 2014
0:55
Ahead of the election of Bangladesh, mass burn polling
updated 04 Jan 2014; published 04 Jan 2014
0:37
Polling Booths Torched As Bangladesh Go For Polls Sunday
updated 05 Jan 2014; published 05 Jan 2014
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BBC News - Bangladesh votes amid violence and boycott
updated 29 Dec 2008; published 29 Dec 2008
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Bangladesh Votes in Peace
updated 05 Jan 2014; published 05 Jan 2014
0:55
Bangladesh polling Stations Torched on Eve of Election
South Sudan ceasefire talks delayed
Full Article Mail Guardian South Africa
04 Jan 2014

Face-to-face talks between warring parties in South Sudan have been delayed, government and rebel delegations said Saturday, dashing hopes of a swift ceasefire to end raging battles and risks of all-out civil war. South Sudan Information Minister Michael Makuei, part of the delegation to the talks in...
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In this photo taken Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014, a displaced mother and her baby, one of the few to have a mosquito net, wake up in the morning after sleeping in the open, some 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.
photo: AP / Ben Curtis

updated 04 Jan 2014; published 04 Jan 2014
3:35
Peace Talks For South Sudanese Ceasefire Delayed
updated 04 Jan 2014; published 04 Jan 2014
1:15
Direct talks on South Sudan ceasefire delayed
updated 04 Jan 2014; published 04 Jan 2014
2:53
Direct talks on South Sudan ceasefire delayed
updated 04 Jan 2014; published 04 Jan 2014
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Face to Face Peace Talks Delayed as Fighting Intensifies
updated 04 Jan 2014; published 04 Jan 2014
0:58
South Sudan peace talks delayed in Addis Ababa
updated 04 Jan 2014; published 04 Jan 2014
4:03
Violence continues as peace talks begin
The Washington Post: Keeping faith in Afghanistan
Full Article The Salt Lake Tribune
04 Jan 2014

The United States’ war effort in Afghanistan is to wind down this year, leaving a multitude of unanswered questions and plenty of loose ends. But the United States must not leave any ambiguity about the fate of the interpreters who aided U.S. forces over the past 13 years. Congress has approved a special immigrant visa program for those who...
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The Washington Post: Keeping faith in Afghanistan
photo: US Army / Sinthia Rosario

updated 02 Nov 2010; published 02 Nov 2010
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XL Group Missed Q3 Profit Estimates, Board Approved Share Buyback Program
updated 19 May 2011; published 19 May 2011
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Mortgage Loan Programs at Approved Mortgage (Part 2 of 6)
updated 10 Jul 2012; published 10 Jul 2012
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Enrol your child in a Queensland Government approved kindergarten program today!
updated 09 May 2013; published 09 May 2013
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Lock Haven University PA Program Class of 2014 - Didactic Year
updated 27 Sep 2013; published 27 Sep 2013
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NEW YORK Approved NSC Defensive Driving Course Online IPIRP
updated 19 May 2013; published 19 May 2013
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Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Associates in Teaching Program
Syria rebels take on Islamist jihadists in fierce fighting
Full Article South China Morning Post
04 Jan 2014

Syrian rebels in opposition-held areas engaged in fierce battles with al-Qaeda-linked elements on Friday in what activists say is growing resistance to the jihadists’ brutal grip in many places. Elsewhere in northern Syria, an unidentified group seized five people...
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File - A Free Syrian Army fighter fires at Syrian Army positions during a clash in Aleppo, Syria, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012.
photo: AP / Manu Brabo

updated 25 Sep 2013; published 25 Sep 2013
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SYRIA US Officials: Infighting Between Jihadist And FSA Rebels Is The Fiercest Ever
updated 06 Aug 2013; published 06 Aug 2013
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SYRIA Victory For Jihadist Rebels Capturing Key Airbase Minnigh North Of Aleppo City 08.06.2013
updated 02 Jun 2013; published 02 Jun 2013
1:09
Sunni cleric's call for jihad in Syria highlights sectarian divide
updated 30 May 2013; published 30 May 2013
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BBC News - Syria in 90 seconds: A divided opposition
updated 12 Sep 2013; published 12 Sep 2013
2:57
Waves Of Jihadists Infiltrating Syria
updated 20 Sep 2013; published 20 Sep 2013
3:34
Christian village Maaloula falls into jihadists' hands as Al-Qaeda grows in Syria
UK braced for more stormy weather
Full Article BBC News
04 Jan 2014

Further stormy weather and some snow is expected across many parts of the UK over the weekend, as coastal communities already hit by flooding begin to assess the damage. Four severe flood warnings, meaning "danger to life", are in place - one in Dorset and three in Gloucestershire. A storm surge is expected on the Forth in Scotland later....
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UK braced for more stormy weather
photo: WN / Farida Azzawi

updated 04 Jan 2014; published 04 Jan 2014
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UK weather: Environment Agency urges people 'take care' ahead of more stormy weather
updated 03 Jan 2012; published 03 Jan 2012
2:10
Stormy Weather Hits UK Killing 1 Person; Winds Reaching 100mph In Places
updated 07 Jun 2012; published 07 Jun 2012
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BBC Weather - Stormy weather hits UK *MET OFFICE AMBER WARNING ISSUED*
updated 26 Dec 2013; published 26 Dec 2013
2:37
More stormy weather forecast for the UK
updated 18 Jan 2007; published 18 Jan 2007
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Stormy Weather UK
updated 18 Dec 2013; published 18 Dec 2013
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The death of the Internet as we know it
The Examiner
United States' ongoing attempt to regulate the Internet is becoming more and more of a reality. This could well result in the end of the internet as we know of it today as...
'Ceasefire' Is the Syria Word We Need to Hear
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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"
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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...

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Fallujah falls to Al Qaeda militants; 55 killed
File - An Iraqi soldier guards a detainee alongside Lance Cpl. Matt R. Walters, an assistant team leader with 3rd Squad, 3rd Platoon, Company C, 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, at the Farwat bakery, Fallujah, Iraq.
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FALLUJAH (Iraq): Iraq has lost Fallujah to Al Qaeda-linked fighters, a senior security official said on Saturday, putting militants back in control of the city in Anbar province where American forces repeatedly battled insurgents. But security forces...
photo: USMC / Cpl. Mike Escobar
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Mali, Niger evacuate citizens from Central African Republic
Mali, Niger evacuate citizens from Central African Republic
Swissinfo
Reuters January 4, 2014 - 18:54 By Paul-Marin Ngoupana BANGUI (Reuters) - African countries have started evacuating their citizens from the Central African Republic in recent days amid deteriorating humanitarian conditions and inter-religious...
photo: UN / Tobin Jones
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Afghanistan’s Worsening, and Baffling, Hunger Crisis
Afghanistan’s Worsening, and Baffling, Hunger Crisis
The New York Times
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan — In the Bost Hospital here, a teenage mother named Bibi Sherina sits on a bed in the severe acute malnutrition ward with her two children. Ahmed, at just 3 months old, looks bigger than his emaciated brother Mohammad, who is...
photo: US Army / Clay Beyersdorfer
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Tunisia MPs reject Islam as main source of law
Moncef Marzouki, President of Tunisia, delivers a statement at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013. Marzouki, who is from a secular party in the governing coalition, was in Strasbourg addressing the European Parliament and said the assassination was a threat against all of Tunisia. Chokri Belaid, a Tunisian opposition leader critical of the Islamist-led government and violence by radical Muslims was shot to death Wednesday _ the first political assassination in post-revolutionary Tunisia.
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TUNIS: Tunisian lawmakers rejected Islam Saturday as the main source of law for the country that spawned the Arab Spring as they voted for a second day on a new constitution. The voting comes amid concerns that a January 14 deadline for the new...
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U.S. Is Facing Hard Choices in South Sudan
U.S. Is Facing Hard Choices in South Sudan
The New York Times
WASHINGTON — South Sudan is in many ways an American creation, carved out of war-torn Sudan in a referendum largely orchestrated by the United States, its fragile institutions nurtured with billions of dollars in American aid. But a murky, vicious...
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Philippines in 2014: Emerging Economies with Contentious Leadership
Philippines in 2014: Emerging Economies with Contentious Leadership
Huffington Post
Across a number of emerging markets, the coming year will mark a consequential political transition. This could ultimately prove much more important that the U.S. Federal Reserve's scheduled tapering in early 2014, which is expected to precipitated...
photo: UN / Evan Schneider
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From The Ruins Of A Tsunami, A Rebuilt Aceh Rises Anew
From The Ruins Of A Tsunami, A Rebuilt Aceh Rises Anew
National Public Radio
As survivors of Haiyan — November's super typhoon in the Philippines — slowly put their lives back together, the rest of Asia has been marking the anniversary of another disaster. Shortly after Christmas nine years ago, a huge tsunami swept across...
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