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Lt. Gen. Mark Milley, III Corps commander, provides an update during a press conference at the Fort Hood, Texas, main gate, at 9:40 p.m. (CDT), April 2, 2014, regarding the Fort Hood shooting incident
Fort Hood   Mental Health   Photos   US Military   Wikipedia: 2014 Fort Hood shooting   		 New York Magazine 
Fort Hood Shooter Had 'Clean Record,' Showed No Warning Signs
Fri 4 Apr 2014
Even before 34-year-old Army Specialist Ivan Lopez was officially identified as the shooter who killed three people and wounded 16 at Fort Hood on Wednesday, Army officials had revealed that the gunma... (photo: US Army)
Lucy Hamlin and her husband, Spc. Timothy Hamlin, wait for permission to re-enter the Fort Hood military base, where they live, following a shooting on the base, Wednesday, April 2, 2014, in Fort Hood, Texas.
Fort Hood Shooting   Ivan Lopez   Mental Health   Photos   Wikipedia: 2014 Fort Hood shooting   		 ABC News 
Fort Hood Shooter Ivan Lopez Was Battling Array of Mental Health Issues
Thu 3 Apr 2014
Share | ABC US News | ABC Business News Copy | The soldier accused of opening fire at Fort Hood, killing three people and wounding 16, was an Iraq war veteran who was battling an array of mental healt... (photo: AP / Tamir Kalifa)
File - A U.S. Army member of a Counter Improvised Explosive Device Team moves through an Afghan village to ensure roads are safe for travel in Pul-e Alam District, Logar province, Afghanistan, June 29, 2010.  BBC News  Wed 2 Apr 2014
Afghanistan: Before and after the Taliban
The people of Afghanistan will go to the polls on 5 April to vote for their first new president since Hamid Karzai took over after the fall of the Taliban in 2001. | In the past 13 years, thousands ha... (photo: US Army / Theodore Schmidt)
Afghan War   Photos   Taliban   UN   Wikipedia: Afghan presidential election, 2014  
Russian solders prepare to move a Russian tank T-72B at the Ostryakovo railway station not far from Simferopol, Crimea, Monday, March 31, 2014.  Asia Times  Wed 2 Apr 2014
Cold War paradigm well suited to Crimea
By Urvashi Aneja | Speaking Freely is an Asia Times Online feature that allows guest writers to have their say. if you are interested in contributing. | Recent events in Ukraine have set off a slew of... (photo: AP / Pavel Golovkin)
Crimea Referendum   Photos   Russia US Relations   Ukraine Crisis   Wikipedia: 2014 Crimean crisis  
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A truck with men sitting on top of it, which is part of a convoy of over 100 vehicles of Muslims fleeing Bangui, Central African Republic, Friday, Feb. 14, 2014, turns around after MISCA troops, the African Unions peacekeeping force currently being deployed in the Central African Republic, deemed the road out was not secure. Independent online Wed 2 Apr 2014
CAR strife tops summit agenda
Brussels - | African and European leaders hold crisis talks on the escalating violence in Central African Republic on Wednesday as 80 nations gather in Brussels for a key... (photo: AP / Jerome Delay)
CAR   Human Rights   Photos   UN   Wikipedia: Central African Republic conflict (2012present)  
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov climb the stairs in the Russian Ambassador's house in Paris, France, on March 30, 2014, before a meeting focused on Ukraine. WorldNews.com Tue 1 Apr 2014
Misreading Russia and Trying to Control Geography, Again
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling | Instead of being overly alarmed with Crimea's popular and democratic referendum to join Russia, or as some in the West wo... (photo: US DoS)
Crimea Referendum   Photos   Russia US Relations   Ukraine Crisis   Wikipedia: 2014 Crimean crisis  
File- KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A guard stands watch outside the front gate of the detention center here December 24, 2001. Marines with the 15th and 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) team with a U.S. Army detachment of military police Al Jazeera Tue 1 Apr 2014
CIA misled US on torture of prisoners: report
The CIA misled the US government about the scale of its abuse of prisoners and overstated intelligence gleaned from the sessions, a damning Senate classified report has c... (photo: USMC file/Sgt. Joseph R. Chenelly )
CIA   Human Rights   Photos   Torture   Wikipedia: Extraordinary rendition  
Philippine Marines raise the Philippine flag on the first day of their deployment on the dilapidated navy ship LT57 BRP Sierra Madre at the disputed Second Thomas Shoal, locally known as Ayungin Shoal, Sunday, March 30, 2014 off the South China Sea. Canberra Times Tue 1 Apr 2014
Reef dispute flares after Filipino vessel outmanoeuvres Chinese coast guard
Philippine Marines and a local television reporter (left) gesture towards a Chinese Coast Guard vessel, which twice attempted to block a Philippine government supply ship... (photo: AP / Bullit Marquez)
China   Philippines   Photos   Second Thomas Shoal   Wikipedia: Second Thomas Shoal  
Ukrainian armored vehicles are prepared for loading onto a train at a railway station near Simferopol, Crimea, Saturday, March 29, 2014. New Straits/Business Times Sun 30 Mar 2014
Kerry, Lavrov hold talks as Russia vows no Ukraine invasion
MOSCOW: US Secretary of State John Kerry will hold impromptu talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Paris Sunday, after Russia pledged not to invade mainlan... (photo: AP / Alexander Polegenko)
Crimea Referendum   Photos   Russia US Relations   Ukraine Crisis   Wikipedia: 2014 Crimean crisis  
Sultan Qaboos, second right, receives Iranian president Hassan Rouhani, left, at Al Alalam Palace in Muscat, Oman, Wednesday, March 12, 2014. Rouhani is in Oman for a two day visit. WorldNews.com Thu 27 Mar 2014
Iran's Visit to Oman: An Omen of Things to Come?
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling | Situated on opposite sides of the ever shifting Arabian Plate, and sometimes treacherous and volatile Strait of Hormuz, i... (photo: AP / Abo Zayed)
Arab Spring   Hassan Rouhani   Mideast Peace   Photos   Wikipedia: Hassan Rouhani  
File - President Barack Obama talks on the phone with Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany in the Oval Office, Aug. 29, 2013. Buffalo News Thu 27 Mar 2014
Obama’s new plan for the NSA better balances the needs of security and privacy
President Obama had to do something drastic to ease American concern following the outrage that resulted from the phone records fiasco. | The National Security Agency had... (photo: White House / Pete Souza)
Barack Obama   Mass Surveillace   NSA Spying   Photos   Wikipedia: Global surveillance disclosures (2013present)  
File - A wide view of the Security Council meeting on the situation in Ukraine, 19 March, 2014. BBC News Thu 27 Mar 2014
Ukraine: UN condemns Crimea vote as IMF and US back loans
The UN General Assembly has approved a resolution describing the Moscow-backed referendum that led to Russia's annexation of Crimea as illegal. | It comes after the ... (photo: UN / JC McIlwaine)
Crimea Referendum   Photos   UN   Ukraine Crisis   Wikipedia: 2014 Crimean crisis  
File - Sigrid Kaag, Special Coordinator of the Joint Mission of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and the UN to eliminate Syrias chemical weapons programme, speaks to journalists following a closed-door meeting of the Security Council on the work of the Joint Mission, 6 February, 2014. Al Jazeera Thu 27 Mar 2014
Watchdog: half of Syria's chemicals removed
Syria has sent 49 percent of the raw materials used for its poison gas and nerve agent programme abroad for destruction, according to the chemical weapons watchdog overse... (photo: UN / Evan Schneider)
Chemical Weapons   Photos   Syrian War   UN   Wikipedia: Syrian Civil War  


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File - A U.S. Army member of a Counter Improvised Explosive Device Team moves through an Afghan village to ensure roads are safe for travel in Pul-e Alam District, Logar province, Afghanistan, June 29, 2010. Afghanistan: Before and after the Taliban BBC News
Russian solders prepare to move a Russian tank T-72B at the Ostryakovo railway station not far from Simferopol, Crimea, Monday, March 31, 2014. Cold War paradigm well suited to Crimea Asia Times
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Russian solders prepare to move a Russian tank T-72B at the Ostryakovo railway station not far from Simferopol, Crimea, Monday, March 31, 2014. Cold War paradigm well suited to Crimea Asia Times
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