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Over 20 killed, nearly 70 injured in blast in Pakistan
Full Article The Times of India
09 Apr 2014

ISLAMABAD: Over 20 people were killed and nearly 70 others injured on Wednesday in a blast that ripped through a bustling fruit market on the outskirts of the Pakistan's capital, even as peace talks are on with the banned Taliban. The blast occurred in the fruit market in Sector I-11 of the capital, bordering the garrison city of Rawalpindi. No...

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Police cordon off the area of a blast in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, April 9, 2014.
photo: AP / B.K. Bangash

updated 12 Jun 2011; published 12 Jun 2011
1:15
34 Killed, 94 Injured In Twin Blasts In Pakistani Market
updated 17 Feb 2013; published 17 Feb 2013
1:46
Pakistan bomb blast - Dozens dead in Quetta market
updated 10 Oct 2013; published 10 Oct 2013
4:54
Ten killed, dozens injured in Pakistan blasts
updated 09 Apr 2014; published 09 Apr 2014
1:19
18 Killed In Bomb Blast In Fruit Market On Outskirts Of Pakistani Capital - 9 April 2014
updated 17 Feb 2013; published 17 Feb 2013
1:40
Bomb blast in Pakistan market, killing 81
updated 20 Jan 2014; published 20 Jan 2014
1:08
Deadly blast hits Pakistan city of Rawalpindi, killing 14 people
Will the violence in Iraq ever ebb?
Full Article Al Jazeera
09 Apr 2014

Wire reports attested that anonymous gunmen near Baghdad kidnapped and later executed six men on April 6, while another 11 people were killed across the country. In what were routine assassinations, police investigators stumbled on the bodies, all with gunshot wounds to the head. No one claimed responsibility for these slayings, or for most of the...

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File - U.S. Army Soldiers with 4th Platoon, Delta Company, 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division out of Fort Carson, Colo., and Iraqi national police search for anti-coalition forces in the area of Dora in southern Baghdad, Iraq, July 23, 2007.
photo: USAF / Master Sgt. Jonathan Doti

updated 20 Mar 2013; published 20 Mar 2013
0:53
BREAKING: At least 90 killed, 200 wounded in Baghdad
updated 17 Feb 2013; published 17 Feb 2013
1:32
Breaking news: Baghdad Iraq car bomb blasts kills more than 20 people in shia area
updated 22 Mar 2014; published 22 Mar 2014
3:20
Air strikes target suspected Sunni militants in Iraq
updated 20 Mar 2013; published 20 Mar 2013
6:27
Attacks claim 80 lives on Iraq anniversary
updated 20 Jan 2014; published 20 Jan 2014
30:38
Battlefield Iraq: Heavy Clashes And Fighting Between Insurgents And Iraqi Army In The Anbar Province
updated 20 May 2013; published 20 May 2013
0:48
Iraq: Baghdad and Basra hit by car bomb attacks
Ukraine fears history repeating as talks involve everyone but Ukraine
Full Article Denver Post
09 Apr 2014

Related Stories Apr 8:Pro-Russian activists declare eastern region independentApr 6:EU stresses need for Russia to defuse tensions with UkraineApr 3:Report: Russia arrests 25 Ukrainians for sabotageUkrainian officers join NATO drills in BulgariaUkraine detains riot police over sniper deathsApr 1:One battalion leaves Ukraine; thousands of troops...

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Pro-Russian activists hold a huge Russian national flag in front of the regional administration building in Donetsk, Ukraine, Sunday, April 6, 2014
photo: AP / Andrey Basevich

updated 02 Mar 2014; published 02 Mar 2014
32:22
Ukraine, Russia and the WWIII Threat with Helga Zepp-LaRouche
updated 16 Mar 2014; published 16 Mar 2014
1:50
Ukraine's Right Sector leader threatens to blow up pipeline from Russia to EU
updated 31 Mar 2014; published 31 Mar 2014
2:20
Top U.S., Russian diplomats hold talks on Ukraine
updated 03 Mar 2014; published 03 Mar 2014
27:58
Who Is Provoking the Unrest in Ukraine? A Debate on Role of Russia, U.S. in Regional Crisis (2/2)
updated 02 Mar 2014; published 02 Mar 2014
1:50
U.S. Urges Immediate Deployment of U.N. Monitors to Ukraine
updated 03 Mar 2014; published 03 Mar 2014
36:04
Who Is Provoking the Unrest in Ukraine? A Debate on Role of Russia, United States in Regional Crisis
More underwater pings heard in hunt for plane
Full Article Philadelphia Daily News
09 Apr 2014

Travel Deals $199 & up -- Caribbean 7-Night Cruises w/Extras   See all travel deals » NICK PERRY, The Associated Press Posted: Wednesday, April 9, 2014, 12:19 AM PERTH, Australia (AP) - A ship searching for the missing Malaysian jet has detected two more underwater signals that may be emanating from the aircraft's black boxes, and the...

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In this April 7, 2014 photo provided by the Australian Defense Force a fast response craft manned by members from the Australian Defense's ship Ocean Shield is deployed to scan the water for debris of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in the southern Indian Ocean.
photo: AP / Australia Defense Force, LSIS Bradley Darvill

updated 08 Apr 2014; published 08 Apr 2014
2:08
Flight 370: Searchers Race To Try to Trace Sounds Detected in Ocean
updated 07 Apr 2014; published 07 Apr 2014
1:13
Ships Search for Missing Plane's Signals
updated 22 Sep 2013; published 22 Sep 2013
1:09
Possible signals from lost jet's black boxes heard
updated 06 Apr 2014; published 06 Apr 2014
1:25
Missing Plane Search: Pulse signal heard from depths of Indian Ocean
updated 07 Apr 2014; published 07 Apr 2014
4:10
Flight 370 : Chinese Ship Discovers Black Box Ping Detected In Indian Ocean - 5 April 2014
updated 07 Apr 2014; published 07 Apr 2014
1:13
Flight 370 : Chinese Ship Discovers Black Box Ping Detected In Indian Ocean - 5 April 2014
Second round of voting begins in India
Full Article Al Jazeera
09 Apr 2014

Hundreds of thousands of people have started voting in the second phase of India's national election in the country's remote northeast amid tight security. The election to choose members to the 543-seat Lok Sabha, or House of the People, will be...

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India Voters seen standing in a queue to cast their votes in their respective polling stations
photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick

updated 21 Aug 2011; published 21 Aug 2011
2:06
MMP (Mixed Member Proportional)
updated 21 Aug 2011; published 21 Aug 2011
1:34
SM (Supplementary Member)
updated 18 Apr 2011; published 18 Apr 2011
2:09
OFFICIAL Vote-Day (Rebecca Black Cover)
updated 12 Jul 2012; published 12 Jul 2012
1:56
Vote for a Third Party Over Republicans or Democrats ⎢Civics In a Minute⎢TakePart TV
updated 15 Jul 2013; published 15 Jul 2013
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Vote Pizza Party Shirt
updated 03 May 2013; published 03 May 2013
1:59
Local Council Elections UKIP Make Big Gains
WHO: Ebola outbreak one of 'most challenging'
Full Article CNN
08 Apr 2014

April 8, 2014 -- Updated 1654 GMT (0054 HKT) Members of the medical aid organization Doctors Without Borders carry a dead body in Guekedou, Guinea, near the borders of Sierra Leone and Liberia, on Friday, April 1. Dozens of people have died from an Ebola outbreak in coastal West Africa, aid workers reported. Gloves and boots used by medical...

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In this photo provide by MSF, Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders), taken on Friday, March 28, 2014, healthcare workers from the organisation, react, as they prepare isolation and treatment areas for their Ebola, hemorrhagic fever operations, in Gueckedou, Guinea.
photo: AP / Kjell Gunnar Beraas, MSF

updated 09 Apr 2014; published 09 Apr 2014
6:17
Unprecedented Ebola outbreak crosses borders in West Africa
updated 31 Mar 2014; published 31 Mar 2014
4:55
Guinea - An Unprecedented Ebola Outbreak (B-ROLL)
updated 30 Mar 2014; published 30 Mar 2014
1:23
Guinea: Ebola outbreak grips Conakry
updated 01 Apr 2014; published 01 Apr 2014
3:35
Doctors work to isolate Ebola outbreak in Guinea
updated 26 Mar 2014; published 26 Mar 2014
3:01
Ebola Outbreak in Guinea
updated 01 Apr 2014; published 01 Apr 2014
1:33
Ebola Toll in Africa Rises in Unprecedented Outbreak
Missing Malaysian plane: Elusive 'pings' keep MH370 search in limbo
Full Article The Times of India
08 Apr 2014

PERTH: Ships listening for undersea signals from Flight MH370 have failed to detect any more "pings" and will spend several more days trying to pinpoint a crash site before a mini-sub is launched to scour the seabed, searchers said on Tuesday. Exactly one month since the Boeing 777 vanished with 239 people on board, optimism over the earlier...

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The Bluefin 21, Artemis autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) is hoisted back aboard the Royal Australian Navy Australian Defense Vessel (ADV) Ocean Shield after successful buoyancy testing in support for the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 flight MH370, 1 April, 2014.
photo: US Navy / MCS1 Peter D. Blair

updated 06 Apr 2014; published 06 Apr 2014
3:25
MH370 Pings Re-Detected By Chinese Vessel - Plane Search Signal Important Lead - 6 April 2014
updated 07 Apr 2014; published 07 Apr 2014
3:10
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Confirm They HAVE Found Signals Consistent With Black Box - 7April
updated 14 Mar 2014; published 14 Mar 2014
16:39
April 8 2014 Breaking News REUTERS Search planes & ships divert to Indian Ocean area pings detected
updated 08 Apr 2014; published 08 Apr 2014
2:41
MH370 Pings Re-Detected By Chinese Vessel - Plane Search Signal Important Lead - 6 April 2
updated 08 Apr 2014; published 08 Apr 2014
2:07
MH370 Pings Re-Detected By Chinese Vessel - Plane Search Signal Important Lead - 6 April 2
updated 08 Apr 2014; published 08 Apr 2014
0:52
Malaysian Plane Search: No Pings Since Sunday
Fund crunch forces UN to cut Syria food aid
Full Article Al Jazeera
08 Apr 2014

The United Nations has been forced to cut the size of food parcels for those left hungry by Syria's civil war by a fifth because of a shortage of funds from donors, a senior official has said. Nevertheless, the United Nations' World Food Programme managed to get food to a record 4.1m people inside Syria last month, just short of its target of 4.2m,...

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In this picture taken on Monday Feb. 24, 2014, and released by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), residents of the besieged Palestinian camp of Yarmouk wait for a possible new UNRWA humanitarian aid distribution, in Damascus, Syria.
photo: AP / UNRWA

updated 10 Dec 2013; published 10 Dec 2013
1:28
Syria: Food Aid Getting Through, But Some Areas Still Cut Off
updated 08 Mar 2013; published 08 Mar 2013
2:41
CAFOD: Syria Crisis Appeal
updated 08 Apr 2014; published 08 Apr 2014
1:45
UN: Food Shortages In Syria Because Of Drought
updated 18 Jan 2014; published 18 Jan 2014
1:08
Distribution of food aid inside Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus
updated 03 Oct 2013; published 03 Oct 2013
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Assad cuts off food to Syrian town after gassing the citizens
updated 12 Nov 2013; published 12 Nov 2013
3:12
Syrian civil war: The UN bureaucracy does not help Syrian refugees
US Warns Russia Against Instigating Separatist Tensions in Ukraine
Full Article Voa News
08 Apr 2014

Zlatica Hoke WASHINGTON — The United States has warned Russia against stirring separatist sentiment in eastern Ukraine, following unrest in several cities in recent days. U.S. officials said there are clear signs that pro-Russian demonstrations were orchestrated from outside. Meanwhile, recent events in Ukraine have emboldened Russian-speaking...

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People gather near a barricade with razor wires at the regional administration building in Donetsk, Ukraine, late Monday, April 7, 2014.
photo: AP / Alexander Ermochenko

updated 07 Apr 2014; published 07 Apr 2014
0:52
Battle for Ukraine: Kremlin-backed separatists storm government buildings in eastern provinces
updated 09 Apr 2014; published 09 Apr 2014
2:10
Ukraine facing separatist threat: Kiev accuses Kremlin of coordinating pro-Russian violence
updated 17 Mar 2014; published 17 Mar 2014
8:03
Pro-Russian separatists: Crimea is just the beginning
updated 08 Apr 2014; published 08 Apr 2014
0:45
Ukraine: APCs roll into Lugansk
updated 26 Feb 2014; published 26 Feb 2014
1:26
Pro-Russia Protests in Ukraine Raise Separatism Fears
updated 09 Apr 2014; published 09 Apr 2014
1:03
Crisis in Ukraine: Armed Pro-Russian activists seize state buildings, plea to Russia
Afghanistan's Beasts of Burden and Ballots...and Jackasses
Full Article WorldNews.com
07 Apr 2014

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling "To carry his load without resting, not to be bothered by heat or cold and always be content: these three things we can learn from a donkey."(1) -Ancient Indian Proverb Beating the donkey senseless over the head with a large piece of wood, as a young hired hand I desperately wanted to stop him. Perhaps...

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Afghan election workers carry ballot boxes and election materials on donkeys to deliver to polling stations in Dara-e-Noor district of Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, April 4, 2014.
photo: AP / Rahmat Gul

updated 10 Mar 2009; published 10 Mar 2009
1:34
Donkeys a draw for Kenya's Lamu island
updated 12 Nov 2011; published 12 Nov 2011
0:13
tiny little donkey working the fields
updated 12 Oct 2012; published 12 Oct 2012
0:26
Nepal - Naughty Donkeys.AVI
updated 16 Dec 2013; published 16 Dec 2013
1:56
April 2014 Breaking News China angrily denounces Japan for Russia-Ukraine Crimea invasion analogy
updated 17 Feb 2008; published 17 Feb 2008
1:45
Guardsman Daniel Probyn & Corporal Darren Bonner Repatria...
updated 07 Oct 2008; published 07 Oct 2008
0:36
National Debt hits $10 TRILLION under Bush

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The practice of taking selfies may be banned from the White House after U.S. President Barack Obama took exception to Samsung advertising stunts involving self-directed snaps....
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Within various formats—from statistics to Atheist vs. Christian debates and much more in between—the issue of wars, and specifically religious wars, is considered. To begin with...
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Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler's long-term lover who married the Nazi leader hours before their joint suicide in his Berlin bunker, may have had Jewish ancestry, ground-breaking DNA...

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A major new security vulnerability referred to as Heartbleed was disclosed late Monday night with severe implications for the entire Web. Hundreds of thousands of web and email servers worldwide could easily have this software flaw that lets...
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Pakistan army soldiers patrol in the vicinity of the army training camp in Mardan near Peshawar, Pakistan  Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011. A teen suicide bomber in a school uniform attacked soldiers during morning exercises at a Pakistani army training camp killing many troops and injuring dozens of others, police and the military said.
A bomb has ripped through a passenger train in southwest Pakistan, killing at least 14 people. Police say Tuesday&aposs; blast occurred after the train stopped...
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Supporters of center-right Catalan Nationalist Coalition (CiU) leader, Artur Mas, wave their pro-independence "estelada" flags during the last day of campaigning in a meeting in Barcelona, Spain, Friday, Nov. 23, 2012.
MOSCOW, April 8 (RIA Novosti) – Spanish lawmakers are set to debate a request on Tuesday by Catalonia's regional assembly to hold a referendum on independence from Spain....
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Germany’s Foreign Ministry said it summoned North Korea’s envoy in Berlin over Pyongyang’s threat to carry out...
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Special Event:  Commemoration of World Press Freedom Day 2012  Opening remarks by:  - The United Nations Secretary-General, - H.E. Mr. Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland; - H.E. Mutlaq Al-Qahtani, Chef de Cabinet of the President of the General Assembly; - Mr. Mogens Schmidt, Director of Field Coordination for UNESCO; - H.E. Eduardo Ulibarri-Bilbao, Permanent Representative of Costa Rica to the United Nations; Chairperson, Committee on Information; - Giampaolo Pioli, President, United Nations Correspondents Association  Moderated by: Mr. Maher Nasser, Acting Head, Department of Public Information
8 April 2014, 2:40 Irish President Makes Historic State Visit Tweet Irish President Michael D Higgins and his wife Sabina will be guests of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh at Windsor Castle. The two heads of state have met informally but President...
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Nicolas Maduro takes the presidential oath from National Assembly's President Disodado Cabello during a swearing-in ceremony at the National Assembly in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, March 8, 2013.
Venezuela's President, Nicolas Maduro, is set to meet opposition leaders for the first time since the start of street protests that left 39 dead. The meeting was proposed by foreign ministers belonging to the South American regional group...
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A victim of Friday's bomb blast and gun attacks lies in Murtala Muhammad specialist hospital in Kano, Nigeria Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012.
ABUJA, April 7 (Xinhua) -- At least 150 people were killed in separate weekend attacks in northwest and northeast regions of Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, officials and witnesses said here on Monday. In the northwestern state of Zamfara,...
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