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Protesters lambast Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan over phone recordings
Full Article CNN
26 Feb 2014

February 26, 2014 -- Updated 1143 GMT (1943 HKT) Istanbul (CNN) -- Red banners flapped in the breeze of a packed Istanbul street Wednesday, where demonstrators gathered to listen to opposition members lambast Turkey's Prime Minister for a second day. Embarrassing audio recordings that sound like Recep Tayyip Erdogan giving his son money laundering...

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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses his lawmakers in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014. Turkey's opposition party leaders on Tuesday asked Erdogan to resign and demanded an investigation into Erdogan for alleged corruption.
photo: AP / Burhan Ozbilici

updated 25 Feb 2014; published 25 Feb 2014
1:43
Calls for Turkey PM Erdogan to resign in leaked tape scandal
updated 26 Feb 2014; published 26 Feb 2014
3:02
Calls for Turkish PM to flee or resignTurkish protesters call for Erdogan resignation
updated 26 Feb 2014; published 26 Feb 2014
2:50
Calls for Turkish PM to flee or resignCalls for Turkey PM Erdogan to resign in leaked tape scandalTu
updated 03 Jun 2013; published 03 Jun 2013
0:53
ERDOGAN calls for calm after third day of fierce Turkey protests
updated 05 Jun 2013; published 05 Jun 2013
7:50
Turkish protesters call for Erdogan resignation
updated 04 Jun 2013; published 04 Jun 2013
3:20
Turkey Protests - Turkey Protestors Dig in, Erdogan Calls for Calm
Guantanamo: Making the unbearable a little less unbearable
Full Article Al Jazeera
26 Feb 2014

A federal appeals court in Washington, DC recently ruled that Guantanamo detainees could bring legal challenges to their conditions of confinement. The court's decision in centres on an attempt by three detainees engaged in a hunger strike to obtain an injunction preventing the military from subjecting them to enteral force-feeding, a painful...

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File - A Soldier assigned to the 115th Military Police Company of the Rhode Island Army National Guard stands watch in a guard tower at Camp Delta, Joint Task Force Guantanamo as a Navy shuttle bus passes by.
photo: US Navy / Tech. Sgt. Michael R. Holzworth

updated 12 Jun 2008; published 12 Jun 2008
1:40
Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Gitmo Detainees
updated 21 Jan 2014; published 21 Jan 2014
173:03
Heated Testimony on Guantanamo Bay Interrogation Rules: Detainees & Operating Procedures (2008)
updated 24 Jul 2012; published 24 Jul 2012
82:58
Boumediene's Legacy and the Fate of the Guantanamo Detainees.wmv
updated 29 Nov 2010; published 29 Nov 2010
3:32
Guantanamo Detainee Aquittal and Civilian Courts
updated 12 Jun 2012; published 12 Jun 2012
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Guantanamo Bay detainees rebuked by Supreme Court
updated 12 Apr 2013; published 12 Apr 2013
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Obama warns Afghan president of full troop withdrawal
Full Article The Times of India
26 Feb 2014

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama told Hamid Karzai on Tuesday that he is now planning for a full US troop withdrawal because of the Afghan leader's repeated refusal to sign a security pact. But in a rare telephone call with Afghan President Karzai, Obama also held out the possibility of agreeing to a post-2014 training and anti-terror mission...

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File- Staff Sgt. James Allen conducts a dismounted patrol of the Sharana District Center bazaar with his platoon’s Afghan Uniformed Police partners, Paktika Province, Afghanistan, 6 August, 2011.
photo: US Army / Sgt. Charles Crail

updated 26 Feb 2014; published 26 Feb 2014
1:54
Obama threatens to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan
updated 26 Feb 2014; published 26 Feb 2014
2:00
Obama threatens to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan
updated 26 Feb 2014; published 26 Feb 2014
1:57
BBC News - US planning full Afghan pullout, Obama tells Karzai
updated 12 Jan 2013; published 12 Jan 2013
2:31
President Obama, Hamid Karzai Announce Early End to US Combat Operations in Afghanistan
updated 26 Feb 2014; published 26 Feb 2014
1:50
US planning full Afghan pullout, Obama tells Karzai
updated 11 Jan 2013; published 11 Jan 2013
10:36
Obama and Karzai discuss Afghan War in DC
US, Britain: No 'Zero Sum Game' for Ukraine
Full Article Voa News
26 Feb 2014

Top diplomats from the United States and Britain are denying that Ukraine faces an East-West divide, following the ouster of Russia-friendly President Viktor Yanukovych. Following a meeting Tuesday with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Washington and London hope Ukraine can form an "inclusive...

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John Kerry, and William Hague discussed support for Ukraine's new leaders
photo: AP / Kirsty Wigglesworth

updated 24 Feb 2014; published 24 Feb 2014
4:53
Ukraine: Russia Warned Over 'Grave Mistake'
updated 23 Feb 2014; published 23 Feb 2014
0:25
Ukraine: Russia Warned Over 'Grave Mistake'
updated 26 Feb 2014; published 26 Feb 2014
3:02
Eastern Ukraine Crimea and Kiev Divided - Possible Separatist Movement ?
updated 26 Feb 2014; published 26 Feb 2014
1:05
Ukraine is not caught in East West battle, says US
updated 26 Feb 2014; published 26 Feb 2014
1:04
Ukraine is not caught in East-West battle, says US.,
updated 23 Feb 2014; published 23 Feb 2014
4:02
Ukraine crisis: Parliament told to form unity government by Tuesday
Uganda says healthcare is for all despite anti-gay law
Full Article BBC News
26 Feb 2014

Uganda's health minister says homosexuals will not be discriminated against when accessing healthcare despite the introduction of a tough new anti-gay law. Dr Ruhakana Rugunda told the BBC that all people, gay or otherwise, should get full access to medical treatment. Aid charities warn the new bill will have "disastrous" effects on...

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Polisario Front Representative Briefs Media Ruhakana Rugunda, Permanent Representative of Uganda to the United Nations, briefs correspondents following the decision of the Security Council to extend the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara.
photo: UN / Eskinder Debebe

updated 26 Feb 2014; published 26 Feb 2014
1:59
Uganda says healthcare is for all despite anti-gay law
updated 26 Feb 2014; published 26 Feb 2014
1:47
Ugandan president signs tough anti-gay bill
updated 26 Feb 2014; published 26 Feb 2014
1:00
Uganda says healthcare is for all despite anti gay law
updated 26 Feb 2014; published 26 Feb 2014
1:59
Uganda says healthcare is for all despite anti gay law
updated 25 Feb 2014; published 25 Feb 2014
1:49
Uganda president Homosexuals are 'disgusting'
updated 25 Feb 2014; published 25 Feb 2014
1:38
Ugandan tabloid prints list of 'homosexuals'
Militants Kill Students at Nigerian School
Full Article Voa News
26 Feb 2014

Suspected Islamic extremists killed more than 30 students Tuesday in northern Nigeria in an attack the president calls "heinous, brutal and mindless." The attack occurred in the middle of the night at...

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This Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014, photo, shows the remains of the burned out Federal Government College in Buni Yadi, Nigeria.
photo: AP / Photo

updated 25 Feb 2014; published 25 Feb 2014
0:38
Dozens of students killed in militant attack in Nigeria
updated 30 Sep 2013; published 30 Sep 2013
7:11
Militants Blamed After Dozens Killed at Nigerian College
updated 22 Jan 2014; published 22 Jan 2014
1:49
Begest Attck in the **Kenya Mall 78 Killed Dead Body Attack! on Sep-2013
updated 22 Sep 2013; published 22 Sep 2013
2:41
RAW FOOTAGE! Nairobi Kenya Mall Attack 59 Killed Dead in Terrorist Massacre!!
updated 30 Sep 2013; published 30 Sep 2013
1:30
Nigeria College Shooting:Gunmen Kill 50 Students Shot Dead In Their Sleep
updated 26 Aug 2013; published 26 Aug 2013
0:55
Pakistan Islamic militants attack ISI compound, seven killed
Ukraine's acting leader still seeking consensus on interim government
Full Article Sacramento Bee
26 Feb 2014

KIEV, Ukraine -- Hoping to reach a consensus that would heal some of Ukraine's wounds, the country's acting president on Tuesday delayed the seating of an interim government for at least two days, even as opposition colleagues appealed to the Hague criminal tribunal to put fugitive ex-President Viktor Yanukovich on trial for crimes against...

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Ukraine's acting leader still seeking consensus on interim government
photo: European Community / EC

updated 29 Jan 2014; published 29 Jan 2014
11:24
News Updates January 29 2014 Wants to Raise wage but not cut,Putin Bails,Turkey Hikes
updated 21 Feb 2014; published 21 Feb 2014
0:44
PM Addresses Parliament For The Last Time
updated 12 Aug 2008; published 12 Aug 2008
1:47
McCain: 'Today We Are All Georgians'
updated 21 Oct 2011; published 21 Oct 2011
1:12
21-10-11 - Occupy Melbourne Day 6 - Quick Video Log
updated 25 Jan 2014; published 25 Jan 2014
4:33
Violent video: Ukraine rioters brutally beat police, storm local admin building
updated 16 Dec 2013; published 16 Dec 2013
9:57
Ukraine Rising (Part 1)
Obama: All U.S. Troops Could Be Out of Afghanistan by Year's End
Full Article Mashable
26 Feb 2014

U.S. President Barack Obama told Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday that America will be prepared for a complete military withdrawal from Afghanistan by the end of 2014. Obama proposed complete disengagement from Afghanistan because Karzai hasn't signed a bilateral security agreement that would define the...

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President Barack Obama and President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan walk on the Colonnade after meeting in the Oval Office, Jan. 11, 2013.
photo: White House / Pete Souza

updated 10 Jan 2013; published 10 Jan 2013
2:21
Obama and Karzai talk US pull out and Afghan stability
updated 11 Jan 2013; published 11 Jan 2013
10:36
Obama and Karzai discuss Afghan War in DC
updated 12 Jan 2013; published 12 Jan 2013
2:31
President Obama, Hamid Karzai Announce Early End to US Combat Operations in Afghanistan
updated 26 Feb 2014; published 26 Feb 2014
1:57
BBC News - US planning full Afghan pullout, Obama tells Karzai
updated 09 Jan 2013; published 09 Jan 2013
2:07
Afghanistan: Karzai goes to Washington
updated 03 Aug 2011; published 03 Aug 2011
2:22
END WAR Karzai The US Puppet Confirms US Demand Of Permanent Bases Of Occupation Beyond 2014 Stay
Gorbachev, Ukraine, and Slaying Dragons
Full Article WorldNews.com
25 Feb 2014

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling "Just like reformers before me, I thought that we had a system that could be improved. Instead, I learned that we had a system that needed to be replaced." -Mikhail Gorbachev Ukrainian ballots have blood on them. Three months of deadly protests and pitched battles have wounded and killed hundreds of...

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Anti-Yanukovych protesters march in Kiev's Independence Square, the epicenter of the country's current unrest, Ukraine, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014.
photo: AP / Marko Drobnjakovic

updated 24 Feb 2014; published 24 Feb 2014
1:03
Gorbachev: Bulldoze EU & US aides from Ukraine and let the people decide
updated 24 Feb 2014; published 24 Feb 2014
1:01
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev calls for Ukraine unity
updated 24 Feb 2014; published 24 Feb 2014
2:50
William Hague: Ukraine faces economic collapse
updated 20 Feb 2014; published 20 Feb 2014
0:58
Ukraine: William Hague calls for end of clashes
updated 19 Aug 2013; published 19 Aug 2013
37:09
T. Kuzio "Commissars into Oligarchs: Cycles of Ukrainian History"
updated 24 Feb 2014; published 24 Feb 2014
3:33
Peter Oborne on floods: political winners and losers
Westward shift by Ukraine would reshape the world
Full Article Denver Post
25 Feb 2014

Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Catherine Ashton, Vitali Klitschko, three leaders of the Ukrainian opposition. (Andrew Kravchenko, Pool/AP) BRUSSELS (AP) — 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...

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Westward shift by Ukraine would reshape the world
photo: European Community / EC

updated 25 Feb 2014; published 25 Feb 2014
0:43
Westward Shift By Ukraine Would Be Momentous Event
updated 21 Feb 2014; published 21 Feb 2014
1:24
EU Seeks Peace As Ukraine Death Toll Hits 75
updated 25 Feb 2014; published 25 Feb 2014
1:12
New Discovery Reveals Einstein Tried To Devise A Steady State Model Of The Universe
updated 19 Jan 2014; published 19 Jan 2014
1:01
28 Hurt As Explosions Rock Anti-government Protest Site In Thailand
updated 20 Jul 2013; published 20 Jul 2013
0:50
Man arrested after elderly men found in squalid Texas home
updated 22 Nov 2013; published 22 Nov 2013
1:16
EU Disappointed With Ukraine's Shift To The East

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Why stakes are high in European election
BBC News
This year's elections to the European Parliament - taking place on 22-25 May across the EU - will see an unprecedented battle over the bloc's powers and role. For the...
The President takes some big steps to combat warming
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The following appeared in a Miami Herald editorial: In keeping with his State of the Union promise to use his executive powers more in the face of a recalcitrant Congress,...
50,000 Somali kids at risk: UN, gov't ask for help
Boston Herald
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somalia's 2011 famine is over. Militants have been pushed out of Mogadishu. Political progress is being made. And yet the U.N. and Somali government are...

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Russian Navy Boosting Security in Crimea – Defense Minister
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, left, and Emergencies Minister Sergei Shoigu take part in a conference call on the rescue work at the Raspadskaya mine hit by explosions, in Moscow, Sunday, May 9, 2010.
Novosti
MOSCOW, February 26 (RIA Novosti) – Russia is taking additional steps to ensure security at its naval facilities on the Crimean Peninsula amid the growing political unrest in Ukraine, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said...
photo: AP / Alexei Druzhinin, Pool
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Ukraine's Maidan protest unites different beliefs
Ukraine's Maidan protest unites different beliefs
The Charlotte Observer
KIEV, Ukraine For the past three months, tens of thousands of Ukrainians have been singing the Ukrainian national anthem on Kiev's central square, the Maidan, united in their dreams of change. In fact, the protest movement is a mixed bag of...
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State media says Syrian army killed 175 rebels
This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows Syrian army troops hold up national flags in the town of Qusair, near the Lebanon border, Homs province, Syria, Wednesday, June 5, 2013.
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BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian army troops killed 175 rebels in an ambush Wednesday south of Damascus, state media reported, a major attack targeting mostly al-Qaida-linked fighters as part of a government effort to secure the capital. The dawn attack by...
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Hezbollah vows response to ‘Israel air strike’
Hezbollah supporters raise their hands to great Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah
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Beirut - Hezbollah on Wednesday confirmed an Israeli air raid two days earlier on one of its positions in Lebanon and vowed to respond “at the appropriate time” to the “blatant aggression”. “On Monday night... the...
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Benedict Dismisses Renewed Rumors About Why He Left Papacy
A helicopter with Pope Benedict XVI onboard leaves the Vatican in Rome, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013.
National Public Radio
Almost exactly one year to the day since Benedict XVI stepped down as spiritual leader of the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics, the former pope has issued his first public comment on recurring rumors in the Italian media that he didn't resign of...
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Nato alert over Afghanistan pullout
Nato alert over Afghanistan pullout
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Nato's secretary general says that if Afghan leaders and the White House can't agree on a key security pact, the US-led alliance will pull all of its troops and equipment out of Afghanistan by December. The statement from Anders Fogh Rasmussen at the...
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Ukraine’s acting leader still seeking consensus on interim government
Ukraine’s acting leader still seeking consensus on interim government
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KIEV, Ukraine: Hoping to reach a consensus that would heal some of Ukraine’s wounds, the country’s acting president on Tuesday delayed the seating of an interim government for at least two days, even as opposition colleagues appealed to...
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