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Pakistan holds historic 'roadmap' talks with Taliban
Full Article Canberra Times
06 Feb 2014

Islamabad: Negotiators for Pakistan's government and the Taliban urged an end to hostilities after meeting in the first round of talks aimed at ending the militants' bloody seven-year insurgency. The two sides gathered in Islamabad for a preliminary meeting that lasted more than three hours to chart a "roadmap" for future discussions,...

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Pro-Taliban representatives, from left, Ibrahim Khan, Maulana Yousaf Shah and Maulana Abdul Aziz attend a joint news conference after their talks with government representatives in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014.
photo: AP / B.K. Bangash

updated 04 Feb 2014; published 04 Feb 2014
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Taliban'dan barış görüşmelerinin gecikmesine eleştiri
updated 04 Feb 2014; published 04 Feb 2014
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Meet between Pak govt and Taliban panel postponed +Other top stories
updated 04 Feb 2014; published 04 Feb 2014
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Imran Khan declines Pakistan Taliban peace talks role
updated 06 Feb 2014; published 06 Feb 2014
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Pakistan peace talks with Taliban are delayed
updated 03 Feb 2014; published 03 Feb 2014
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Imran Khan Rejects Taliban's Offer
updated 06 Feb 2014; published 06 Feb 2014
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Pakistan Taliban talks 'under way'
Golden Temple attack: India Sikhs demand raid documents
Full Article BBC News
06 Feb 2014

The main Sikh political party in India, the Akali Dal, has protested outside the parliament, demanding that the government declassify documents related to the 1984 raid on a Sikh temple. It comes days after Britain said it advised India during the raid on the Golden Temple, the holiest Sikh shrine. Hundreds died when the army stormed the shrine to...

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A young Sikh protestor holds a placard as dozens of others burn tires during a protest against Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi for his recent remark on the country's 1984 anti-Sikh riots, in Jammu, India, Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014.
photo: AP / Channi Anand

updated 31 Jan 2014; published 31 Jan 2014
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Sikh link attackIndia Golden India with attack? templeDid to Temple Thatcher to attack link SAS inve
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SAS Commando's Linked To India Golden Temple Attack?
updated 13 Jan 2014; published 13 Jan 2014
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The British Government helped plan the attack on the Golden Temple in 1984
updated 20 Jan 2014; published 20 Jan 2014
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Did UK help with Golden Temple attack?
updated 14 Jan 2014; published 14 Jan 2014
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Former General Brar Dismisses United Kingdom Link With Golden Temple
updated 15 Jan 2014; published 15 Jan 2014
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Sikhs fume after new documents surface in UK on Operation Bluestar
Iraq slammed for women prisoners abuse
Full Article Al Jazeera
06 Feb 2014

Iraqi authorities are detaining thousands of women illegally and subjecting many to torture and ill-treatment, including the threat of sexual abuse, Human Rights Watch has said. Many women were detained for months or even years without charge before seeing a judge, HRW said in a report on Thursday, and security forces often questioned them about...

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Shiite Muslim women express their grief during the festival of Ashoura in Karbala, 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday Dec. 26, 2009.
photo: AP / Ahmed al-Husseini

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Iraq's Secret War Files - Part 2 of 4 - Dispatches - Wikileaks resources
updated 30 Nov 2013; published 30 Nov 2013
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Abu Ghraib Prison - Iraq | Documentary
updated 23 Oct 2010; published 23 Oct 2010
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WikiLeaks US Forces in Iraq Turn a Blind Eye to Torture
updated 09 Jun 2013; published 09 Jun 2013
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What Happened in the Iraq War? Julian Assange at WikiLeaks Press Conference (2010)
updated 12 Mar 2013; published 12 Mar 2013
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Legacy of Torture in Iraq
updated 25 Jun 2009; published 25 Jun 2009
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Abu Ghraib Torture Allegation
CAR still ruled by violence
Full Article Mail Guardian South Africa
06 Feb 2014

The interim president of Central African Republic told the hundreds of soldiers standing in formation Wednesday that she was proud of them and called on their support to bring order to their anarchic country. Then she left, and the soldiers broke ranks to stab and stomp a man in their midst to death. They dragged his corpse through the streets. The...

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French forces push looters out, in the Miskin district in Bangui, Central African Republic, Monday Feb. 3, 2014.
photo: AP / Jerome Delay

updated 09 Dec 2013; published 09 Dec 2013
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French troops start to disarm militias in Central African Republic
updated 08 Dec 2013; published 08 Dec 2013
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Central African Republic president 'not in complete control'
updated 09 Dec 2013; published 09 Dec 2013
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French troops start to disarm militias in Central African Republic
updated 23 Dec 2013; published 23 Dec 2013
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African Union troops have opened fire on protester in the Central African Republic's capital Bangui
updated 11 Jan 2014; published 11 Jan 2014
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EU considering troop deployment to Central African Republic
updated 23 Jan 2014; published 23 Jan 2014
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New Central African Republic Interim President Sworn In
Iraq illegally detains thousands of women, tortures many-HRW
Full Article Reuters
06 Feb 2014

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi authorities are detaining thousands of women illegally and subjecting many to torture and ill-treatment, including the threat of sexual abuse, Human Rights Watch said in a report published on Thursday. Many women were detained for months or even years without charge before seeing a judge, HRW said, and security forces...

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File - An Iraqi soldier talks with local women during a patrol in the Graya’at area of Baghdad’s Adhamiyah District.
photo: US Army / Sgt. Mike Pryor

updated 21 Feb 2012; published 21 Feb 2012
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american soldiers killed innocent people in Iraq Afghanistan and Vietnam - part 1
updated 08 Feb 2012; published 08 Feb 2012
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Ron Paul Against Another Illegal War While CNN, McCain, Clinton & Co Prepare Attack On Syria
updated 25 Nov 2013; published 25 Nov 2013
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Iraqi Kurdistan's Syrian refugee camp faces overcrowding
updated 06 Dec 2012; published 06 Dec 2012
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US ARMY are in bed with Blackwater MERCENARIES to SPEED up end of AFGHANISTAN WAR!
updated 23 Jan 2014; published 23 Jan 2014
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US citizens more likely to be violent than immigrants
updated 25 Dec 2013; published 25 Dec 2013
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BBC News UK troops mark last Christmas in Afghanistan
US warns Russia Olympics of 'toothpaste' bomb
Full Article Al Jazeera
06 Feb 2014

The United States has issued a warning to airports and to some airlines flying to Russia for the Olympics to watch for toothpaste tubes that could hold ingredients to make a bomb on a...

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Russian security personnel patrol Olympic park ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014, in Sochi, Russia.
photo: AP / Christophe Ena

updated 06 Feb 2014; published 06 Feb 2014
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US warns Russia Olympics of 'toothpaste' bomb
updated 06 Feb 2014; published 06 Feb 2014
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Sochi Winter Olympics Terror: US Warns Airlines Of Russia 'Toothpaste Tubes' Bomb Threat
updated 06 Feb 2014; published 06 Feb 2014
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Sochi 2014 US warns airlines of Russia 'toothpaste' bomb threat
updated 06 Feb 2014; published 06 Feb 2014
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Sochi Olympics 2014: US Warns Of Explosives In Toothpaste Tubes Ahead Of Sochi Games
updated 06 Feb 2014; published 06 Feb 2014
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Sochi Winter Olympics Terror: US Warns Airlines Of Russia 'Toothpaste Tubes' Bomb Threat
updated 06 Feb 2014; published 06 Feb 2014
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Sochi 2014 US warns airlines of Russia 'toothpaste' bomb threat
Hama and Syria's Autonomous Solution
Full Article WorldNews.com
05 Feb 2014

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Hama was a prelude to Syria's current nightmare. It was also a forewarning of how long-repressed sectarian identities and the suppression of religion and culture by minority regimes, including meddlesome and foreign powers, always leads to killing, even enormous atrocities and massacres. Just before...

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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, residents of the besieged Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp wait to leave the camp, on the southern edge of the Syrian capital Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014.
photo: AP / SANA

updated 13 Nov 2013; published 13 Nov 2013
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New Syrian rebel leadership: latest SNC prime minister addresses Syrians for first time from Turkey
updated 13 Nov 2013; published 13 Nov 2013
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Kurdish separatism in war-torn Syria: Syrian Kurds form transitional autonomous government
updated 08 Dec 2013; published 08 Dec 2013
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Syrian civil war: Iraqi FM warns of transition into Islamic emirate
updated 26 Dec 2013; published 26 Dec 2013
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Rojava Kurdistan e: Syria's Unknown War (VICE News)
updated 14 Nov 2013; published 14 Nov 2013
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Nine Syrian Arab Christian Children Killed After Islamist Rebel Mortars Hit School and Bus
updated 30 Jan 2014; published 30 Jan 2014
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Clapper: Syria may be haven for terrorist training camps
Proposed Afghan law protects women's abusers: Rights group
Full Article The Times of India
05 Feb 2014

KABUL: An international rights group said on Tuesday that Afghan President Hamid Karzai should refuse to sign a law passed by parliament that would deny women protection from domestic violence and forced marriage. Afghanistan's parliament, a two-chamber house dominated by conservative clerics and former Islamist warlords, passed a "criminal...

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File - U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Guy Cooper walks by two Afghan women while performing a presence patrol through the snow-covered streets of Gardez, Paktia province, Afghanistan, Feb. 16, 2012.
photo: US Army / Spc. Ken Scar

updated 06 Feb 2014; published 06 Feb 2014
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New Afghan law may protect women's abusers
updated 21 May 2013; published 21 May 2013
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'Indecenct Behavior' Afghan Women Increased By 50%
updated 18 May 2013; published 18 May 2013
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Rights For Women In Afghanistan Aborted Or Delayed?
updated 23 Jan 2014; published 23 Jan 2014
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Women's Right Is Declining In Afghanistan
updated 09 Jun 2013; published 09 Jun 2013
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Afghanistan Demands Taken Prisoners By England
updated 20 Nov 2013; published 20 Nov 2013
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Iran: Protect Afghan Refugees and Migrants
UN decries child abuse in Syria
Full Article Al Jazeera
05 Feb 2014

The United Nations has accused both sides to the Syria conflict of grave violations against children. Children caught in the Syrian war are being recruited as child soldiers, used as human shields, and tortured, according to a new UN report. The report, released on Tuesday, found that in the early stages of the nearly three-year...

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UN decries child abuse in Syria
photo: AP / Muzaffar Salman

updated 26 Apr 2013; published 26 Apr 2013
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You told, Momma.You told! Police ignore child abuse report; house-parent heaps on more
updated 20 Oct 2012; published 20 Oct 2012
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U.S. Human Experiments - Mind Control, Ritual Child Abuse? - Victims Public Testimony - pt.1 of 2
updated 30 Jun 2009; published 30 Jun 2009
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Child abuse report slams NZ government
updated 21 Nov 2012; published 21 Nov 2012
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Child Abuse the BBC Has Failed to Report?
updated 08 Nov 2012; published 08 Nov 2012
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Abused children still 'routinely disbelieved', MPs warn
updated 03 Mar 2012; published 03 Mar 2012
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Report: Indigenous children abused in Canada
Scientists talk of 'pandemic potential' after first confirmed human death from new strain of bird flu
Full Article The Independent
05 Feb 2014

Chinese scientists have said the “pandemic potential” of a new strain of bird flu “should not be underestimated” after the first known human infection resulted in the death of an elderly woman. The new strain is a variant of a virus known as H10N8, which scientists believe may have originated in wild birds, and later spread to poultry. The victim,...

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File - Caged chickens at a poultry farm in the Philippines. A new strain of bird flu could cause a pandemic according to scientists.
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updated 04 Apr 2013; published 04 Apr 2013
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PLAGUES & PESTILENCES: H7N9 Virus - New Bird Flu Strain Causes Fourth Death In China?!
updated 05 Apr 2013; published 05 Apr 2013
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China braces for new bird flu epidemic after 6 deaths, closes Shanghai market
updated 25 Apr 2013; published 25 Apr 2013
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Question of the week: New bird flu strain to become a pandemic?
updated 17 May 2013; published 17 May 2013
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Scientists say the H7N9 bird flu is mutating to infect humans
updated 06 Feb 2014; published 06 Feb 2014
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New strain of 'deadly' Bird Flu
updated 04 Apr 2013; published 04 Apr 2013
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Novel bird flu kills two in China

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Speaking at bilateral dialogue between Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS) and Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI), they said that presence of...
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A new report shows children have endured "unspeakable and unacceptable" suffering during the conflict in Syria, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says. Children have been...
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Can you believe Facebook turns 10 today? The social sharing site dusted the likes of MySpace and Friendster (remember Friendster?), and 10 in Internet years is like 47 in...

A military working dog wears Doggles to protect his eyes as a Chinook helicopter takes off, kicking up dust and debris, during an air assault operation by U.S. soldiers assigned to Alpha Troop,
The Taliban have released a video of what they claim is a captured U.S. military dog named “Colonel”. The video appeared on the “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan” Web site. A related Twitter account said that the dog was captured after a December 23rd...
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Qatari Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs Ali bin Fahd al-Hajri, right, and Muhammad Naeem a representative of the Taliban attend a press conference
Peace talks between the Pakistani government and representatives of the Taliban began on Thursday after a short delay, the first test for the government's controversial initiative of seeking a peaceful resolution to the country's bloody insurgency,...
photo: AP / Osama Faisal
Iraqi women chant anti-government slogans during a demonstration in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011. Around 200 people rallied against the lack public services, rampant corruption and a scarcity of government jobs. The protests follow a similar rally a day earlier in Baghdad. The banners in Arabic reads, "we demand the offering of basic services and jobs" and "we are people who do not beg but demand our minimum rights."
Iraqi authorities are detaining thousands of women illegally and subjecting many to torture and ill-treatment, including the threat of sexual abuse, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report published yesterday. Many women were detained for months or...
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Kofi Annan, left, the United Nations and Arab League envoy to Syria, arrives at the Great Hall of the People for talks with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, unseen, in Beijing, China, Tuesday, March 27, 2012.
When leaders fail to lead, people take charge and leaders then have to follow, says Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary General and Nobel laureate. In an exclusive interview to TOI, Annan expresses optimism that slowly and steadily, the world is gearing...
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A tunisian woman wrapped in her national flag makes her way through tombs while attending the funeral of slain opposition leader Chokri Belaid at el Jallez cemetery near Tunis, Friday Feb. 8, 2013.
Tunis - Tunisians on Thursday marked 12 turbulent months since the assassination of opposition politician Chokri Belaid, with his family still demanding to know what happened despite the alleged assassin being shot dead this week. The charismatic...
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NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN (July 22, 2003)--The Coast Guard Cutter Jarvis (WHEC 725) alongside Zhong Guo Yu Zheng 118 (Chinese Fisheries law Enforcement Vessel).  The United States and Chinese officials have been working together to find and stop fishermen who use environmentally destructive fishing nets.  U.S. COAST GUARD PHOTO (91377) ( COAST GUARD CUTTER JARVIS AND FISHERIES (FOR RELEASE) )
VOA News The United States' top diplomat on East Asia has suggested China's wide-ranging territorial claims in the South China Sea do not comply with international law and should be clarified or adjusted. China claims nearly the entire...
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Bodies lay in the streets of Bangui, Central African Republic, Friday Dec. 6 2013, a day after gun battles between Seleka soldiers and Christian militias left over 100 dead and scores wounded.
The United States is urging people in the Central African Republic to take advantage of international support and their new transitional government to break a cycle of violence that has affected the country for nearly a year. State Department...
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