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UN invite to Iran sparks Syria peace talks storm
Full Article New Straits/Business Times
20 Jan 2014

The United Nations invited Iran to attend this week's Syria peace conference, provoking a pull-out threat from the opposition and a warning from the United States. UN leader Ban Ki-moon said Iran had pledged in talks to play a "positive and constructive role" in efforts to end Syria's civil war. But the Syrian National Coalition threatened to...
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In this Monday, Dec. 10, 2012 file photo, Free Syrian Army fighters cover two dead bodies they found between rubble during heavy clashes with government forces in Aleppo, Syria.
photo: AP / Narciso Contreras

updated 20 Jan 2014; published 20 Jan 2014
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UN chief invites Iran to Syria peace talks
updated 20 Jan 2014; published 20 Jan 2014
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U.N. invites Iran to attend Syria peace talks
updated 20 Jan 2014; published 20 Jan 2014
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UN chief: Iran has been invited to participate in Syria peace talks
updated 20 Dec 2013; published 20 Dec 2013
2:48
Should Iran Be Invited To Syrian Peace Talks?
updated 17 Jan 2014; published 17 Jan 2014
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Russia: Iran must be invited to Syria peace talks
updated 26 Nov 2013; published 26 Nov 2013
0:56
Zarif: Iran Ready To Join Syria Peace Talks If Invited
A United Korea's 'Peninsular' Place in the Sun
Full Article WorldNews.com
19 Jan 2014

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Since peninsulas serve as focal points for the critical mass of peoples, ideas, innovations, and commerce, they share an ideal geographical world. Connected to larger land masses yet mostly surrounded by a myriad of water highways, their very geological nature beckons destiny to transform them into...
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File - North Korean delegates, left, shake hands with South Korean counterparts during the minister-lever talks in Seoul on Thursday, July 10, 2003.
photo: AP / Kim Kyung-Hoon

updated 10 Apr 2013; published 10 Apr 2013
24:37
Who is responsible for the rising tensions in the Korean Peninsular
updated 04 May 2013; published 04 May 2013
2:43
Buildupto-WW3-RUSSIA-Warns-a-KOREAN-NUCLEAR-WAR-would-make-Chernobyl-seem-like-Fairy-Tale
updated 23 Mar 2013; published 23 Mar 2013
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Tensions on the rise on Korean Peninsula
updated 01 Apr 2013; published 01 Apr 2013
3:52
If North Korea starts war, would be Korean peninsula...
updated 28 Mar 2013; published 28 Mar 2013
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US B2 exercise over Korean peninsula
updated 18 May 2013; published 18 May 2013
1:53
WAR DRUMS: Tensions Mount On The Korean Peninsula - North Korea Fires Three Short-Range Missiles!
Tens Of Thousands Of Ukrainians Take To The Streets To Protest New Laws Against Protesting
Full Article Business Insider
19 Jan 2014

Pro-European Union activists stand in front of a barricade of their tent camp to protect it in downtown Kiev, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2014. About seventy people who oppose demonstrators in Kiev came to the protester's tent camp to destroy it. Ukraine’s president on Friday ignored sharp Western criticism and approved controversial anti-protest...
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Demonstrators gather during a rally in downtown Kiev, Ukraine, on Sunday, Dec. 1, 2013.
photo: AP / Sergei Grits

updated 02 Dec 2013; published 02 Dec 2013
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Ukraine government using thug force against media covering protests
updated 26 Dec 2013; published 26 Dec 2013
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Protests In Thailand Against Government Turn Deadly
updated 04 Jan 2014; published 04 Jan 2014
1:45
TORCH-LIT MARCH IN KIEV BY UKRAINE'S RIGHT-WING SVOBODA PARTY - BBC NEWS #News
updated 09 Dec 2013; published 09 Dec 2013
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Urkraine Opposition Leader Addresses foreign Media.
updated 07 Aug 2013; published 07 Aug 2013
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Thousands Of Tunisian Protesters Demand The Government To Resign
updated 10 Mar 2013; published 10 Mar 2013
0:49
Spain: Anti-austerity protests rattle crisis-hit nation
Syria crisis: US hails opposition move to attend peace talks
Full Article BBC News
19 Jan 2014

US Secretary of State John Kerry has welcomed a decision by Syria's main political opposition group to attend next week's peace talks in Switzerland. His praise for the Syrian National Coalition's "courageous" move was echoed by the UK and France. The aim of the talks, to be held in Montreux, is to start the process of...
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry discusses a $380 million pledge the United States made at the Syria Donors' Conference during a news conference with his traveling press corps in Kuwait City, Kuwait, on January 15, 2014.
photo: US DoS

updated 24 May 2013; published 24 May 2013
1:22
Syria government may attend Geneva peace talks with opposition
updated 04 Nov 2013; published 04 Nov 2013
1:59
US threats Syrian Government, peace talk in Jordan
updated 04 Nov 2013; published 04 Nov 2013
1:06
Syria's opposition sets preconditions for peace conference
updated 09 Nov 2013; published 09 Nov 2013
2:20
Will The Geneva Peace Talks Continue Without Syrian Rebels?
updated 12 Jan 2014; published 12 Jan 2014
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Syria opposition pressed to attend talks
updated 17 Jan 2014; published 17 Jan 2014
2:31
Kerry to Syrian Opposition: 'Attend Conference'
Obama Believes 2014 'Can Be A Breakthrough Year For America'
Full Article Huffington Post
18 Jan 2014

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he believes 2014 can be a breakthrough year for the country. In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama says the U.S. is primed to bring back jobs lost in the recession or to overseas competitors. But he says to make that happen, the U.S. must act to create good-paying jobs and increase economic...
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President Barack Obama talks on the phone with FBI Director Robert Mueller to receive an update on the explosions that occurred in Boston, in the Oval Office, April 15, 2013.
photo: White House / Pete Souza

updated 22 Dec 2013; published 22 Dec 2013
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Obama 2014 Can Be Breakthrough Year for America
updated 15 Dec 2013; published 15 Dec 2013
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Democrats Approval Rates Suffering Under President Obama?
updated 12 Oct 2013; published 12 Oct 2013
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U.S GOVT SHUTS DOWN: President Obama`s Message to Americans - Andry Kolor
updated 18 Aug 2008; published 18 Aug 2008
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C-SPAN: Barack Obama Speech at 2004 DNC Convention
updated 04 Oct 2013; published 04 Oct 2013
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Government shutdown: Obama cancels Asia trip, standoff continues
updated 11 Dec 2013; published 11 Dec 2013
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President Obama's Approval Rating Hits Record Low: Poll
13 foreigners among 21 killed in Kabul restaurant attack
Full Article The Times of India
18 Jan 2014

KABUL: A total of 21 people, including 13 foreigners, died in a Taliban suicide assault on a popular restaurant in Kabul, police said on Saturday, with two British citizens and two Canadians among those confirmed dead. Desperate customers tried to hide under tables as one attacker detonated his suicide vest at the fortified entrance to the Taverna...
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An Afghan driver looks out from a broken windshield of his car following the Friday's suicide attack and shooting in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2014.
photo: AP / Rahmat Gul

updated 18 Jan 2014; published 18 Jan 2014
1:30
At least 19 people, mostly foreigners killed in Kabul
updated 18 Jan 2014; published 18 Jan 2014
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Afghanistan: Foreign civilians targeted in Taliban restaurant killings
updated 18 Jan 2014; published 18 Jan 2014
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2 British Citizens Died At Kabul Restaurant Attack
updated 18 Jan 2014; published 18 Jan 2014
3:48
Foreign Officials Die In Kabul Restaurant Blast - 14 Killed Including 4 U.N. Staffers - 18 Jan 2014
updated 18 Jan 2014; published 18 Jan 2014
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[RAW FOOTAGE]: 13 Foreigners Among 21 Killed In Kabul Restaurant Suicide Attack
updated 18 Jan 2014; published 18 Jan 2014
3:07
Kabul Restaurant Owner Died In Attack
Japan to Test Space Junk Cleanup Tether Soon: Report
Full Article Yahoo Daily News
17 Jan 2014

Japanese scientists are getting ready to launch a test of a space junk-cleaning tether, according to press reports. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) researchers are developing an electrodynamic tether designed to generate electricity that will slow down space-based debris, according to a report from Agence France Presse. The slowed-down...
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This is a computer generated image provided by the European Space Agency which shows an artist impression of catalogued objects in low-Earth orbit viewed over the Equator. Scientists are keeping a close eye on orbital debris created when two communications satellites one American, the other Russian _ smashed into each other hundreds of miles above Siberia Tuesday Feb. 10, 2009. Think of it as a galactic garbage dump.
photo: AP / ESA

updated 17 Jan 2014; published 17 Jan 2014
6:58
Japan Spending Billions On Space Clean Up What About Fukushima Japan? 01-17-2014
updated 25 Jul 2013; published 25 Jul 2013
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World News Taday North Korean rocket launch misconceptions
updated 11 Jan 2013; published 11 Jan 2013
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Be the first Filipino in space!
updated 06 Sep 2012; published 06 Sep 2012
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Spacewalking astronauts repair station's power system
updated 16 Feb 2009; published 16 Feb 2009
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Satellite Debris Falls 15 Feb 2009, MY FOX
updated 30 Aug 2013; published 30 Aug 2013
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Japanese Soldier Who Fought On For 29 Years After WWII Dies
Full Article National Public Radio
17 Jan 2014

8:29 AM Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese intelligence officer who for 29 years after the end of World War II continued to hide, fight and kill in the jungles of the Philippines because he did not believe the war was over, has died. Japan's Asahi Shimbun says Onoda died Thursday in a Tokyo hospital where he was being treated for pneumonia. He was 91. The...
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In March of 1974, some 29 years after the official end of World War II, Hiroo Onoda, a former Japanese Army intelligence officer, walks out of the jungle of Lubang Island in the Philippines
photo: flickr / AP Photo

updated 18 Jan 2014; published 18 Jan 2014
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Hiroo Onoda, Japanese Soldier Who Hid in Jungle for 29 Years,Dies at 91
updated 17 Jan 2014; published 17 Jan 2014
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BBC News - Japan WW2 soldier who refused to surrender, dies
updated 18 Jan 2014; published 18 Jan 2014
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WW2 soldier Onoda, who hid in jungle until 1974, dies
updated 17 Jan 2014; published 17 Jan 2014
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Japanese WWII soldier who hid in jungle for 29 years dies at 91
updated 17 Jan 2014; published 17 Jan 2014
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Japan WW2 Soldier Who Refused To Surrender Hiroo Onoda Dies
updated 17 Jan 2014; published 17 Jan 2014
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Hiroo Onoda , JAPAN'S LAST WWII STRAGGLER DIES AT 91
Did Obama Ask the Same Question as Eisenhower?
Full Article WorldNews.com
17 Jan 2014

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Not all questions are created equal, as President Dwight D. Eisenhower discovered. Throughout much of his presidency, he often felt sidelined and alienated by bureaucratic and entrenched foreign policy makers in and around Washington DC. Still, he was determined to make the most of his remaining time...
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File - President Kennedy meeting with President Eisenhower, accompanied by military aides, Camp David, 22 April 1961
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updated 06 Aug 2013; published 06 Aug 2013
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America's Presidents: Washington to Eisenhower circa 1953 The Travelers Insurance Companies
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O'Donnell on WH Press Corps: Think 'Their Questions Are More Important Than President's Answer'
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14 Presidents Before George Washington and 7 Black Presidents Before Barack Obama
updated 22 Dec 2013; published 22 Dec 2013
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Matthew Dowd: 2013 Was So Bad, Obama 'Can't Recover From It'
updated 23 Dec 2013; published 23 Dec 2013
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ABC's Matthew Dowd: 2013 Was So Bad For Obama That 'Can't Recover From It'
updated 17 Dec 2012; published 17 Dec 2012
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UN: attacks on West Bank Palestinians on rise
Full Article Al Jazeera
17 Jan 2014

The number of attacks on Palestinians by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank has increased every year for the past eight years, according to figures from the United Nations. Some 2,100 attacks have been launched by Israelis since 2006 and annual totals are up from 115 that year to 399 in 2013, according to the UN, which started...
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File - Palestinian Muslim worshippers protest in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on October 05, 2010 against the desecration of a mosque in the West Bank village of Beit Fajjar, south of Bethlehem, which was allegedly done by Jewish settlers.
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb

updated 07 Jan 2014; published 07 Jan 2014
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West Bank Palestinians Briefly "Hold Group Of Jewish Settlers Hostage" In Qusra!!
updated 16 Jan 2014; published 16 Jan 2014
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West Bank mosque attack blamed on radical Israeli settlers
updated 16 Jan 2014; published 16 Jan 2014
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Israeli settlers torch Palestinian mosque in West Bank
updated 10 Sep 2012; published 10 Sep 2012
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Israeli settlers attack Palestinian farmers
updated 18 Jan 2014; published 18 Jan 2014
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UN: Jewish Violence On Palestinians On The Rise In West Bank
updated 24 Feb 2013; published 24 Feb 2013
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Israeli settlers attack Palestinian village of Qusra

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In Japan, 250 bottlenose dolphins await slaughter or captivity
In this photo taken Sept. 2, 2009, mammal specialist Richard O'Barry, left, and his son Lincoln watch dolphins at an aquarium during his tour to Taiji, Japan.
The Times of India
LONDON: More than 250 bottlenose dolphins have been rounded up by Japanese fisherman to be slaughtered for meat or sold into captivity, animal conservationists are warning. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) said dolphins were corralled...
photo: AP / Junji Kurokawa
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Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki speaks to the Iraqi lawmakers before submitting his new government for approval in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010. Iraqi lawmakers unanimously approved on Tuesday a new government to be headed by incumbent Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, ending nine months of political deadlock that threatened to stall economic development and suck the country back into sectarian violence.
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BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki blamed "diabolical" and "treacherous" Arab countries for a protracted surge in nationwide violence in a speech on Sunday, but stopped short of naming individual countries. The premier said suicide bombers...
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Demonstrators gather during a rally in downtown Kiev, Ukraine, on Sunday, Dec. 1, 2013.
The Times of India
KIEV: Some 200,000 Ukrainian protesters massed in central Kiev on Sunday in defiance of hugely controversial new curbs pushed through by President Viktor Yanukovych in a bid to suppress a pro-EU protest movement. Many demonstrators wore pots and...
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In this photo taken Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi seen during a meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, not seen, in St. Petersburg, Russia. Berlusconi arrived on a private visit
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Pakistan Army troops prepare to leave for patrolling during a curfew in Bannu, a town on the edge of Pakistan's lawless tribal belt Waziristan, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009.
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BANNU, Pakistan (AP) — A bomb planted by the Taliban ripped through a vehicle carrying security forces inside a Pakistani army compound in the country's volatile northwestern region Sunday, killing 20 troops, officials and the militants said. The...
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Japan PM Shinzo Abe calls for 'frank' talks with China, South Korea
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, bows to Emperor Akihito, second from right, and Empress Michiko, right, before giving a speech during a ceremony to mark the day Japan recovered its sovereignty under the San Francisco Peace Treaty in 1952, in Tokyo Sunday, April 28, 2013.
The Times of India
TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called for "frank" summit talks with China and South Korea to help solve historical and territorial disputes that have soured ties between the neighbours. A year of heated arguments have prevented the three...
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Former NBA star Dennis Rodman, left, speaks to the media at the airport in Pyongyang, before he leaves North Korea Friday, March 1, 2013.
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