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Beyoncé, Obama 'affair' makes headlines
Full Article Music News
10 Feb 2014

Beyoncé Knowles alleged affair with US President Barack Obama will not be the subject of an exposé by The Washington Post. The singer and politician were the subject of sensational reports Monday after French photographer Pascal Rostain told French newspaper Le Figaro...
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President Barack Obama talks to Beyonce before she sings the National Anthem at his ceremonial swearing-in at the U.S. Capitol during the 57th Presidential Inauguration in Washington, Monday, Jan. 21, 2013.
photo: AP / Evan Vucci

updated 10 Nov 2012; published 10 Nov 2012
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David Petraeus resigns after affair
updated 12 Nov 2012; published 12 Nov 2012
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Petraeus affair: CIA head resigns ahead of Benghazi attack hearing
updated 27 Jan 2009; published 27 Jan 2009
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Hannity: Goldberg on the Slobbering Love Affair Between the Mainstream Media and Barack Obama
updated 03 May 2010; published 03 May 2010
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Vera Baker And Barack Obama: Republicans Wet Dream
updated 11 Nov 2012; published 11 Nov 2012
2:14
David Petraeus' secret affair with Paula Broadwell
updated 17 Oct 2013; published 17 Oct 2013
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Walter Russell Mead on Prevailing American Issues in International Affairs
Third shipment of chemical weapons leaves Syria - UN
Full Article BBC News
10 Feb 2014

A third shipment of chemical weapons materials has left Syria, with some destroyed inside the country, the global chemical weapons watchdog says. The material was shipped on board a Norwegian cargo vessel, accompanied by a fleet from China, Denmark, Norway and Russia, the joint UN-OPCW mission said. Syria has recently missed several deadlines in an...
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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, residents of the besieged Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp carry their belongings as they flee the camp, on the southern edge of the Syrian capital Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014.
photo: AP / SANA

updated 10 Feb 2014; published 10 Feb 2014
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Third Ship Containing Chemical Weapons Leaves Syria
updated 10 Feb 2014; published 10 Feb 2014
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More Syrians Flee Besieged City Of Homs
updated 29 Aug 2013; published 29 Aug 2013
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Chemical Weapons Use in Syria, Egypt, Middle East Peace Process, Keystone Application (2013)
updated 01 Nov 2013; published 01 Nov 2013
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February 2014 President Barack Obama leak security sensitive bombing base Syriia Hezbollah
updated 04 May 2013; published 04 May 2013
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US officials: Israelis launch airstrikes into Syria
updated 05 May 2013; published 05 May 2013
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Israel Targeted Iranian Missiles in Syria Attack
Were Nazis and Kristallnacht More like Progressives or One Percenters?
Full Article WorldNews.com
10 Feb 2014

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Tom Perkins, founder of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, just wrote a letter in the San Francisco Chronicler paralleling Progressive's and the Occupy Wall Street Movement's protests against the One Percenters as being like the Nazi's Kristallnacht. Actually, Adolf Hitler and the Nazis would have got...
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File - OWS Protestors march up Wall Street towards the New York Stock Exchange in Manhattan, 26 September, 2011.
photo: Louis Lanzano

updated 27 Jan 2014; published 27 Jan 2014
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Billionaire Tom Perkins compares progressives to Nazis
updated 07 Feb 2014; published 07 Feb 2014
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Colbert Takes On Millionaire's One Percenter-Holocaust Comparison
updated 28 Jan 2014; published 28 Jan 2014
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Tom Perkins Apologizes for Making Holocaust Comparisons
updated 28 Jan 2014; published 28 Jan 2014
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Elite MIllionaire Income Inequality Talk is Nazi Like
updated 29 Jan 2014; published 29 Jan 2014
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Is Venture Capitalist Tom Perkins the Worst Person Ever? Possibly!
updated 09 Feb 2014; published 09 Feb 2014
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War on rich likened to Holocaust
The US and the Arab Awakening: Deja vu?
Full Article Al Jazeera
10 Feb 2014

Three years ago, Washington experienced its own dose of "shock and awe" - the PR phrase used to sanitise its brutal invasion of Iraq - when hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of ordinary Arabs took to the streets to demand the overthrow of leaders more interested in Washington's approval than that of their own peoples. But American policy...
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Hundreds of thousands of people protest in Tahrir Square on 4 February 2011
photo: Creative Commons / Mona Sosh

updated 13 Apr 2012; published 13 Apr 2012
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Peter Mandaville on the Transformation of Islamism
updated 23 Aug 2013; published 23 Aug 2013
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Saudi Ties Under Pressure In Egypt Crisis
updated 20 May 2013; published 20 May 2013
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US Policy in a Time of Transition
updated 18 Jun 2011; published 18 Jun 2011
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March 4 Freedom:Ethiopian Awakening and The Arab Spring
updated 17 Jun 2012; published 17 Jun 2012
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Tariq Ramadan: Naïve to think Arab world toppled govts by protests
updated 12 Jun 2012; published 12 Jun 2012
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US suspect possibly targeted for drone attack
Full Article Houston Chronicle
10 Feb 2014

WASHINGTON (AP) — An American citizen who is a member of al-Qaida is actively planning attacks against Americans overseas, U.S. officials say, and the Obama administration is wrestling with whether to kill him with a drone strike and how to do so legally under its new stricter targeting policy issued last year. The CIA drones watching him cannot...
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File - Senior Airman Nick Skrock with the 432nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron from Creech Air Force Base, Nev., conducts post flight maintenance on an RQ-1 Predator at Aeropuerto Rafael Hernandez outside Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, on Jan. 27, 2010.
photo: USAF

updated 24 May 2013; published 24 May 2013
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Obama defends US drone attacks
updated 11 Feb 2014; published 11 Feb 2014
8:21
Killing An American Citizen With A Drone Strike
updated 06 Aug 2013; published 06 Aug 2013
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US drone strike kills 4 suspected Al-Qaeda members
updated 09 Aug 2013; published 09 Aug 2013
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More Drone Attacks In Yemen
updated 20 Jan 2014; published 20 Jan 2014
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Obama meets Yemeni president as US drones country
updated 11 Feb 2014; published 11 Feb 2014
1:23
US drone strike kills 4 suspected Al-Qaeda members
Thousands of homes near Thames face flood threat
Full Article The Irish Times
10 Feb 2014

Thousands of homes along the River Thames have been told to prepare for “significant flooding”, as the number of severe flood warnings in the south of England swelled to 16. Of the severe flood warnings, 14 relate to a lengthy stretch of the Thames through Oxfordshire and Surrey, and two remain in place in crisis-hit Somerset Levels. The...
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People stand on the north bank of the River Thames as the Thames Barrier stands open in calm weather, after closing for 13 successive tides up until Wednesday, in east London, Friday, Jan. 10, 2014.
photo: AP / Matt Dunham

updated 11 Feb 2014; published 11 Feb 2014
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Thames Floods Warning For Thousands Of Homes
updated 10 Feb 2014; published 10 Feb 2014
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Thousands along River Thames face 'significant flooding'
updated 10 Feb 2014; published 10 Feb 2014
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Floods Move East: Thousands Of Homes At Risk
updated 10 Feb 2014; published 10 Feb 2014
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Severe flooding footage in Surrey, plus puppies get rescued by boat
updated 10 Feb 2014; published 10 Feb 2014
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Floods Move East: Thousands Of Homes At Risk
updated 10 Feb 2014; published 10 Feb 2014
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Flooding: Now thousands more face evacuation as 14 severe weather warnings are issued for
Syrian Peace Talks to Resume in Geneva
Full Article Voa News
10 Feb 2014

VOA News Delegates from Syria's government and the opposition to President Bashar al-Assad are in Geneva for a second round of peace talks. U.N.-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi is mediating the negotiations, which resume Monday. The talks follow an initial round last...
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Free Syrian Army fighters ride a motorbike to approach Syrian Army tanks in Idlib, north Syria, Sunday, March 11, 2012.
photo: AP / Rodrigo Abd

updated 26 Aug 2013; published 26 Aug 2013
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Middle East Peace Talks: Lessons from the First Round
updated 27 Aug 2013; published 27 Aug 2013
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Israeli Troops Kill Three Palestinians While Peace Talks Resume
updated 30 Jan 2014; published 30 Jan 2014
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UN lowers expectations for first round of Syria peace talks
updated 02 Jul 2013; published 02 Jul 2013
1:02
Colombian peace talks resume in Cuba amid tensions
updated 29 Jul 2013; published 29 Jul 2013
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Headline: Israeli-Palestinian peace talks to resume in Washington
updated 02 Jan 2014; published 02 Jan 2014
2:33
Kerry in Israel for New Round of Peace Talks
Deadly religious violence rocks CAR
Full Article Al Jazeera
10 Feb 2014

New violence and looting in the Central African Republic's capital, Bangui, has left at least nine people dead, including two more lynchings of minority Muslims. The latest assaults in the former French colony included mob attacks and an assassination attempt targeting the former justice minister. Fighting broke out on Saturday evening between...
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Muslim men organized in militias with machetes rough up a Christian man while checking him for weapons in the Miskine neighbourhood of Bangui, Central African Republic, Friday Dec. 13, 2013.
photo: AP / Jerome Delay

updated 21 Dec 2013; published 21 Dec 2013
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Muslims slaughtering Christians like chickens in Central African Republic
updated 31 Jan 2014; published 31 Jan 2014
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Central African Republic clashes 'kill 35' in Bangui
updated 07 Dec 2013; published 07 Dec 2013
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Hundreds reported dead in Central African Republic violence
updated 20 Jan 2014; published 20 Jan 2014
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WORLD NEWS:Central African Republic MPs elect Catherine Samba-Panza | Breaking news
updated 20 Jan 2014; published 20 Jan 2014
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Bodies burnt in street in Central African Republic
updated 19 Jan 2014; published 19 Jan 2014
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Bodies Burned In The Streets Of Central African Republic
Bosnia unrest: Bruised and bitter in Sarajevo
Full Article BBC News
10 Feb 2014

Anyone thinking Bosnia's protests were strictly a matter of disenchanted youth might have changed their mind after a Sunday in Sarajevo. Flashes of white hair dotted the crowd which gathered in front of Bosnia's smoke-blackened presidency building at noon. Some of these senior participants said they wanted to make sure the budding protest...
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Bosnian woman protest in front of a police cordon in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2014.
photo: AP / Amel Emric

updated 18 Aug 2012; published 18 Aug 2012
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West Memphis police shooting (Full Video)
updated 15 Dec 2011; published 15 Dec 2011
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Bosnian Baby DIES From "POLICE Neglect and Harassment" in America
updated 16 Jul 2008; published 16 Jul 2008
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Bosnian Massacre Anniversary
updated 08 Feb 2014; published 08 Feb 2014
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Journalist On Bosnian Protests: 'History In The Making'
updated 01 Oct 2012; published 01 Oct 2012
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Family hopes son can return from Bosnia
updated 11 Apr 2013; published 11 Apr 2013
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VIDEO: Police People Shot in Sleep in Serbia
Is Sri Lanka turning into a rogue state?
Full Article Al Jazeera
09 Feb 2014

As international pressure mounts on President Mahinda Rajapaksa to launch a credible process to investigate war crimes alleged to have taken place during the last stages of the war, the people - largely the Sinhalese who form 75 percent of the country's population - rally round him. Since the Sri Lankan armed forces defeated the...
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File - Internally Displaced Persons visit a health clinic at the Manik Farm camp to seek medical treatment, 23 May 2009, Sri Lanka.
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updated 03 Jul 2013; published 03 Jul 2013
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No Fire Zone: A case against Sri Lanka?
updated 26 Aug 2009; published 26 Aug 2009
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Is this evidence of Sri Lankan 'war crimes'? Channel 4
updated 17 Jan 2014; published 17 Jan 2014
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Sri Lanka government ban rogue buddhist monks from politics
updated 25 Jan 2009; published 25 Jan 2009
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Tamil rally in Washington DC - Jan 23, 2009, India Stop military aid to rogue Sri Lankan state
updated 27 Aug 2009; published 27 Aug 2009
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Breaking news Today: DEMONS Sri lankan army killing Eelam Tamils
updated 25 Jul 2010; published 25 Jul 2010
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Walk for Justice Begins from British Parliment to UN Human Rights office in Geneva

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Obama Drone Attacks Verge On Genocide
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Article By WN.com Guest Writer Sherwood Ross President Obama's drone attacks on Middle Eastern nations are not just lawless war crimes. As the "murderous drone campaign is both...
Climate Disasters
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Every year brings the world more climatological science that man-made climate change, or overall global warming, is chronically worsening. Every year, from Antarctica to Greenland,...
More children dying in Afghan violence says UN, with death toll up 34 per cent
The Independent
The number of children killed and wounded in Afghanistan's war jumped by 34 per cent last year as the Taliban stepped up attacks across the country and continued to lay thousands...

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French President's Visit To U.S. To Highlight Security Cooperation, Free Trade
US President Barack Obama (R) meets with French President Francois Hollande following their bilateral meeting in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, on May 18, 2012 in advance of the G8 and NATO Summits.
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Washington DC - French President Francois Hollande will kick off an official state visit to the United States on Monday - the first by a French leader in nearly two decades. Hollande will meet with U.S. President Barack Obama at Andrews Air Force...
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European Media Thinks That Beyoncé and President Obama Are Having an Affair
President Barack Obama holds a National Security Council meeting in the Situation Room of the White House, April 5, 2013. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
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Sacre Bleu! French newspaper Le Figaro is reporting that Beyoncé and President Barack Obama are carrying out a love affair. Yes, you read that correctly. Pascal Rostain, a French photographer, told the publication that "there is something...
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Ancient star helps scientists understand universe's origins
The SkyMapper telescope at Siding Spring Observatory and the 2.3 m telescope in the background.
The Times of India
SYDNEY: Australian astronomers have found the oldest known star in the universe, a discovery that may help to resolve a long-standing discrepancy between observations and predictions of the Big Bang billions of years ago. Dr Stefan Keller, lead...
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Syria's warring sides brace for fresh peace talks
Syria's warring sides brace for fresh peace talks
The Times of India
GENEVA: Syria's warring sides headed on Monday into a new round of UN-brokered peace talks, 10 days after a debut session managed little beyond a pledge on evacuating civilians from the besieged city of Homs. After government and opposition delegates...
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North Korea again withdraws invitation for US official to visit Kenneth Bae
File - A North Korean soldier stands watch on the North Korean side of the Demilitarized Zone as U.S. Sailors assigned to the Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group tour the DMZ in Panmunjom, South Korea, July 17, 2008.
The Guardian
Further stumbling block to release of Bae, US missionary who has been held for more than a year in the North Kenneth Bae is brought before the media in Pyongyang last month. Photograph: Kyodo/Reuters North Korea has rescinded an invitation for a...
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Cooler Pacific is causing global warming 'pause'
Tahuna maru islet, Raroia, where landed Kon-Tki expedition in 1947.
The Independent
The global warming “pause” which some climate sceptics have taken as evidence that climate change is a myth could in fact be explained by a dramatic increase in the amount of heat being taken out of the atmosphere by the Pacific Ocean, a study has...
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Taliban airs Kabul CIA office attack video
In this photo taken, Nov. 2, 2010, a veteran member of the Taliban smokes a cigarette as he speaks to The Associated Press in Afghanistan, Nov 2, 2010. The longtime member said scribbled notes from Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar have surfaced in mosques all over Afghanistan's ethnic Pashtun heartland, threatening death to anyone who takes up a government offer to negotiate for peace. Trying to quash rumors of a break in their ranks, the Taliban have also vehemently denied reports _ including one by The Associated Press _ that representatives of the militant group were involved in negotiations with the Afghan government. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Al Jazeera
The Taliban has released a video, which appears to show the planning and execution of an attack on the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) compound in Afghanistan last June. The video, which Al Jazeera obtained and aired on Sunday,...
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