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US presses Iraq on reports of Iran arms deal
Full Article BBC News
25 Feb 2014

The US has said it is "seeking clarification" over a report that Iraq has signed a deal with Iran to buy arms in violation of a UN embargo. State department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said that if the $195m (£117m) deal for weapons and ammunition was confirmed, it "would raise serious concerns". The Reuters news agency said on Monday...
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File - Iraqi Concerned Local Citizens, Iraqi National Police and U.S. Army Soldiers from Alpha Troop, 3rd Battalion, 1st Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division clear a main roadway of improvised explosive devices outside of Hamidat, Iraq, Jan. 6, 2008
photo: US Army / Sgt. Timothy Kingston

updated 26 Sep 2013; published 26 Sep 2013
59:51
BENGHAZI WHISTLEBLOWER TELLS WHY CHRIS STEVENS WAS MURDERED!
updated 18 Oct 2013; published 18 Oct 2013
0:43
US to sell 'bunker buster' bombs to Saudi Arabia, UAE
updated 18 Aug 2013; published 21 Apr 2013
5:50
Proof That Navy Seals "Blackwater" did Boston Marathon Bombing False Flag Martial Law
updated 28 Jan 2014; published 28 Jan 2014
2:21
In Turkey, U S soldiers guard against Syrian missile threat
updated 21 Jun 2012; published 21 Jun 2012
9:05
Build up to WW3: RUSSIAN SHIP bound for SYRIA contained 3 old HELICOPTERS
updated 04 Feb 2014; published 04 Feb 2014
4:38
Tehran says it will pursue old nuclear path if Geneva deal violated
Ukraine leader warns of 'signs of separatism'
Full Article Al Jazeera
25 Feb 2014

Ukraine's acting president is to hold talks with law enforcement agencies to discuss "the dangerous signs of separatism" following the departure of Viktor Yanukovich. Oleksander Turchinov, speaker of the assembly and Ukrainian acting president, made the comments during a parliamentary session on Tuesday but gave no further details. Some...
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An anti-Yanukovych protester, wearing a Ukrainian flag with the name of his village written across it, places flowers at a memorial for the people killed in clashes with the police at Kiev's Independence Square, the epicenter of the country's current unrest, Ukraine, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014.
photo: AP / Emilio Morenatti

updated 25 Feb 2014; published 25 Feb 2014
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Ukraine crisis: 'Dangerous signs of separatism'
updated 23 Feb 2014; published 23 Feb 2014
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Ukrainians take a look around Yanukovich compound
updated 22 Feb 2014; published 22 Feb 2014
10:11
Ukraine's strategic importance
updated 19 Feb 2014; published 19 Feb 2014
42:32
Ukraine: East West Tug of War | Quadriga
updated 24 Feb 2014; published 24 Feb 2014
5:13
Arrest Warrant For Former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych Issued
updated 24 Feb 2014; published 24 Feb 2014
3:54
Ukraine Crisis: Russia Steps Up Ukraine Rhetoric - 24 February 2014
Nigerian Islamists kill 29 pupils in boarding school attack
Full Article The Irish Times
25 Feb 2014

Gunmen from Islamist group Boko Haram stormed a boarding school in northeast Nigeria overnight and killed 29 pupils, many of whom died in flames as the school was burned to the ground, police and the military said today. “Some of the students bodies were burned to ashes,” Police Commissioner Sanusi Rufai said of the attack on the...
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Nigeria’s Boko Haram Could Be a Western-backed Insurgency
photo: WN / Tarig Anter

updated 25 Feb 2014; published 25 Feb 2014
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29 Boys Killed As Boko Haram Attacks Boarding School In Nigeria
updated 25 Feb 2014; published 25 Feb 2014
0:57
29 Boys Killed As Boko Haram Attacks Boarding School In Nigeria
updated 22 Oct 2013; published 22 Oct 2013
2:10
NIGERIA COLLEGE ATTACK
updated 10 Feb 2014; published 10 Feb 2014
2:28
Police: 45 dead in Nigeria attack
updated 06 Jul 2013; published 06 Jul 2013
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30 killed in school attack in northeast Nigeria
updated 02 Nov 2012; published 02 Nov 2012
1:30
2 PUPILS KILLED
Pakistani air strikes kill up to 30 'militants' in North Waziristan
Full Article The Independent
25 Feb 2014

Pakistani jets and helicopter gunships have attacked new targets in the country’s north west, killing anywhere up to 30 suspected militants. Reports said that in the latest in a series of assaults on targets in the North Waziristan tribal area, planes and helicopters of the Pakistan Air Force pounded targets early on Tuesday morning. The reports...
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In this file photo taken on Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012, Pakistani Taliban patrol in their stronghold of Shawal in Pakistani tribal region of South Waziristan.
photo: AP / Ishtiaq Mahsud

updated 25 Feb 2014; published 25 Feb 2014
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Pakistan air strikes against militants in tribal areas
updated 20 Feb 2014; published 20 Feb 2014
1:32
Pakistan bombs militant hideouts in tribal areas
updated 20 Feb 2014; published 20 Feb 2014
1:39
35 Militants Killed in Strikes. GEO News
updated 21 Jan 2014; published 21 Jan 2014
1:26
Pakistan jets bomb Taliban positions in North Waziristan
updated 22 Jan 2014; published 22 Jan 2014
0:53
Pakistan jets launch air strikes in North Waziristan tribal area
updated 25 Feb 2014; published 25 Feb 2014
1:56
Airstrikes In Pakistan In Militant Areas
US cuts mark shift away from 'two wars' strategy
Full Article Canberra Times
25 Feb 2014

Cost cutting: US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel with General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at his Pentagon briefing on February 24. Photo: Reuters Washington: The cuts proposed by Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel would leave the United States with its smallest army since the outbreak of World War II, shift the nation off the...
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Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel brief reporters on the fiscal year 2015 defense budget proposal at the Pentagon, Feb. 24, 2014.
photo: US Army / Staff Sgt. Sean K. Harp

updated 25 Feb 2014; published 25 Feb 2014
5:14
Military Cutbacks As Wars Rage On
updated 14 Jan 2013; published 14 Jan 2013
6:43
Build up to WW3 US Spends More On MILITARY & DEFENSE, despite FISCAL CLIFF
updated 07 Jan 2012; published 07 Jan 2012
4:04
New US Defense Strategy Focuses On Asia-Pacific
updated 13 Apr 2013; published 13 Apr 2013
4:46
"Asian Pivot" Military Industrial Complex Must Continue to Profit!
updated 30 Sep 2010; published 30 Sep 2010
6:24
Corrupt corporate military defense
updated 04 Sep 2013; published 04 Sep 2013
1:19
Uncooled infrared imaging technology & market trends 2013 Report by Yole Developpement
Syria crisis: A Palestinian plea from Yarmouk refugee camp
Full Article BBC News
25 Feb 2014

"Please, please take us out, we are dying here," 60-year-old Wafiqa pleads, sobbing uncontrollably as she cradles her lined face in rough gnarled hands. She stumbles toward us in her grief, toward anyone she thinks can rescue her from the punishing eight-month siege of Yarmouk, a devastated Palestinian refugee camp south of Damascus. Just...
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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a U.N relief worker, right, gives aid supplies to a Palestinian woman, at the gate of the besieged Yarmouk refugee camp, on the southern edge of the Syrian capital Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014.
photo: AP / SANA

updated 24 Feb 2014; published 24 Feb 2014
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Syria crisis: Faces of desperation in Yarmouk - BBC News
updated 31 Jan 2014; published 31 Jan 2014
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Yarmouk camp Refugees forced to eat stray Animals Syria
updated 18 Jan 2014; published 18 Jan 2014
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Distribution of food aid inside Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus
updated 21 Jan 2014; published 21 Jan 2014
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Delivery of food, medical aid parcels continue in Yarmouk refugee camp
updated 11 Feb 2014; published 11 Feb 2014
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Syria: UN delivers food aid to Palestinian Yarmouk camp
updated 31 Jan 2014; published 31 Jan 2014
3:34
In Syria, Palestinian refugees at the Yarmouk camp are facing starvation
Pentagon chief plans to reduce US army size
Full Article China Daily
25 Feb 2014

WASHINGTON - US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel outlined on Monday his priorities for 2015 defense budget cut, including plans to reduce the size of the US army to its pre-World War II levels. "We are repositioning to focus on the strategic challenges and opportunities that...
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The Pentagon US Department of Defense building
photo: Public Domain / "DoD photo by Master Sgt. Ken Hammond, U.S. Air Force."

updated 24 Feb 2014; published 24 Feb 2014
3:37
Pentagon Chief Chuck Hagel unveils plans to downsize US Army - 25 February 2014
updated 24 Feb 2014; published 24 Feb 2014
3:06
United States Plans To Shrink Army To Pre World War Two Size
updated 25 Feb 2014; published 25 Feb 2014
6:01
Report Pentagon Plans To Shrink Army To Pre-World War II Levels - America's Newsroom
updated 25 Feb 2014; published 25 Feb 2014
59:51
Pentagon proposes to shrink US Army to pre-WWII level
updated 25 Feb 2014; published 25 Feb 2014
3:37
Pentagon Chief Chuck Hagel unveils plans to downsize US Army
updated 24 Feb 2014; published 24 Feb 2014
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Defense Secretary to Recommend Shrinking Army
In Uganda it is deadly to be a homosexual
Full Article The Examiner
25 Feb 2014

Uganda president, Yoweri Museveni, has signed a bill into law to ban homosexuality. This law would actually make it illegal to be a homosexual. This act has caused a worldwide outrage as many people are shocked by his controversial action. He believes since homosexuality is a matter of choice and not birth that this could dissuade gays and lesbians...
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A protester wears a rainbow-colored wig and glasses as Kenyan gays and lesbians and others supporting their cause stage a rare protest
photo: AP / Ben Curtis

updated 23 Feb 2014; published 23 Feb 2014
6:30
Yup, She's DEFENDING Uganda's Anti-Gay Laws!
updated 18 Nov 2012; published 18 Nov 2012
3:34
Life in Prison for Being Gay - Law 'Demanded' in Uganda
updated 24 Feb 2014; published 24 Feb 2014
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Uganda's Anti-Gay Law Could Lead to Life Sentence
updated 22 Dec 2013; published 22 Dec 2013
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Life in Prison for Being Gay - Law 'Demanded' in Uganda
updated 19 Nov 2012; published 19 Nov 2012
2:50
Life In Prison For Being Gay
updated 24 Feb 2014; published 24 Feb 2014
2:34
Uganda: Parliament passes draconian anti-gay bill
Venezuela death toll rises as protests flare
Full Article Canoe
25 Feb 2014

CARACAS - Anti-government demonstrators put up barricades and set fire to trash in Caracas on Monday despite calls from within the opposition to rein in protests that have led to 13 deaths in Venezuela's worst unrest for a decade. Traffic in the capital slowed to a crawl and many people stayed home as protesters burned trash and piled debris along...
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Motorcyclists waving Venezuelan flags attend a rally in support of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Feb. 24, 2014.
photo: AP / Rodrigo Abd

updated 24 Feb 2014; published 24 Feb 2014
1:54
VENEZUELA RIOTS - Caracas Turns Into A Battle Field as Riot Police Clash With Protesters
updated 19 Feb 2014; published 19 Feb 2014
2:51
Venezuela: anti-government protest leader arrested on charges of murder and terrorism
updated 20 Feb 2014; published 20 Feb 2014
10:02
Venezuelan Protests: Another Attempt By U.S.-Backed Right-Wing Groups To Oust Elected Government?
updated 20 Feb 2014; published 20 Feb 2014
1:02
Police disperse opposition protesters in Venezuelan capital
updated 23 Feb 2014; published 23 Feb 2014
1:53
Caracas: anti-Maduro protests continue
updated 20 Feb 2014; published 20 Feb 2014
1:06
5 dead in Venezuelan protests
Costly, political, successful: Sochi Winter Olympics end
Full Article Longview News Journal
24 Feb 2014

SOCHI, Russia — Flushed with pride after its athletes’ spectacular showing at the costliest Olympics ever, Russia celebrated Sunday night with a visually stunning finale that handed off a smooth but politically charged Winter Games to their next host, Pyeongchang in South Korea. Russian President Vladimir Putin, these Olympics’ political architect...
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A visitor poses on the Olympic rings after the 2014 Winter Olympics, Monday, Feb. 24, 2014, in Sochi, Russia.
photo: AP / Matt Slocum

updated 05 Feb 2014; published 05 Feb 2014
1:55
IOC chief Thomas Bach: Stop using Sochi Winter Olympics for cheap political gains
updated 05 Feb 2014; published 05 Feb 2014
0:51
Bach Slams Politicians Over Sochi Olympics
updated 07 Feb 2014; published 07 Feb 2014
1:10
Ban Ki-moon, Sochi 2014 - Opening Ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games
updated 04 Feb 2014; published 04 Feb 2014
1:17
IOC piles praise on Russia's preparations for Sochi Olympics
updated 29 Sep 2013; published 29 Sep 2013
1:53
Olympic Flame Lit for Winter Games in Russia VIDEO Olympic flame for Sochi Games lit
updated 04 Feb 2014; published 04 Feb 2014
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Bach urges Winter Olympics not to be used as a 'stage for political dissent'

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Reaction to Uganda Antigay Law
The New York Times
As my colleague Alan Cowell reported, the president of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, significantly strengthened Africa’s antigay movement, signing into law a bill imposing harsh...
A safe, secure Afghanistan is within our grasp -- don’t let it slip away
Fox News
By Rep. Howard P. "Buck" McKeonPublished February 24, 2014FoxNews.com Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers stand guard at the main gate of the Parwan Detention Facility Center on...
Fitch: Nigeria Political, External Shocks to Test Sanusi Legacy
Reuters
LONDON, February 24 (Fitch) The suspension of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Lamido Sanusi and the market reaction to it are the first major test of the more credible macro...

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Westward shift by Ukraine would be momentous event
Westward shift by Ukraine would be momentous event
Fresno Bee
BRUSSELS — A firm course change in Ukraine — westward and turning away from Moscow — would have momentous consequences for the balance of power in Europe. The move would propel the continent's second-largest country into the orbit...
photo: European Community / EC
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Greater efforts needed to curb sexual violence in Mogadishu
Greater efforts needed to curb sexual violence in Mogadishu
IRINnews
Follow @{0}FEEDBACKEMAILPRINTEASY READSHARE NAIROBI/MOGADISHU, 25 February 2014 (IRIN) - Sexual and gender-based violence is a major issue in Somalia, especially for internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in south and central Somalia. A...
photo: UN / Albert Gonzalez Farran, UNAMID
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Dozens of students killed in Nigerian school
Dozens of students killed in Nigerian school
The Guardian
YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — Suspected Islamic militants killed dozens of students in a predawn attack on a northeast Nigerian college, survivors say, setting ablaze a locked hostel and shooting and slitting...
photo: UN / Albert Gonzalez Farran, UNAMID
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Is the UN a paper tiger or a sleeping lion?
Is the UN a paper tiger or a sleeping lion?
The Examiner
Does the UN have any teeth? It is not an academic question. There will come a time when it will need teeth. The UN has been called by detractors the World’s Largest Debating Society. Sometimes it seems like they can’t agree on when to break for...
photo: UN / Paulo Filgueiras
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Costa Rica seeks court ruling on Nicaragua border dispute
Members of the Nicaraguan Army participate in routine exercises in Managua, Nicaragua, Friday, Sept, 30, 2005. Nicaraguan President Enrique Bolanos has ordered the Army to increase monitoring the San Juan River area that separates Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Costa Rica said earlier this week it would take its neighbor to the International Court of Justice in the Hague to claim unlimited rights to navigate the stretch of river that runs along its northern border.
Reuters
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (Reuters) - Costa Rica will ask the International Court of Justice to settle a decade-old maritime border dispute with Nicaragua related to...
photo: AP / Esteban Felix
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Peru's Humala names fifth PM, keeps finance minister in cabinet shuffle
Peru's newly sworn in President Ollanta Humala , right, waves during his ceremonial swearing in at the National Congress in Lima, Peru, Thursday, July 28, 2011.
Daily Press
LIMA (Reuters) - Peru's President Ollanta Humala named his housing minister as his fifth prime minister on Monday in a cabinet shuffle that reappointed his...
photo: AP / Martin Mejia
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits Israel with cabinet
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, left, arrive for a press conference at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012.
The Independent
Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday that she is visiting Israel with most of her new cabinet in order to show Germany's friendship with the Jewish state and that her country is working to secure the future of Israel. Merkel was speaking at an...
photo: AP / Michael Sohn
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