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The 11 Most Powerful Militaries In The World
Full Article Business Insider
23 Apr 2014

Asymmetrical wars in Afghanistan, Vietnam, and now in Syria demonstrate all too clearly that relatively small numbers of belligerents can carry out successful military operations against superior forces. But still, firepower is extremely important. A country's projection of power relies in large part upon its military capabilities....

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The new Navy assault ship USS New York, built with World Trade Center steel, passes Statue of Liberty as it arrives Monday, Nov. 2, 2009 in New York
photo: AP / Mark Lennihan

updated 28 May 2013; published 28 May 2013
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10 Biggest Armies in the World 2013
updated 12 Sep 2012; published 12 Sep 2012
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Top 10 Most Powerful Military Countries In The World | World's Top 10 Military Powers 2012/2013
updated 18 Jul 2009; published 18 Jul 2009
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World's top 10 military powers (2013)
updated 13 Feb 2014; published 13 Feb 2014
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China Drives Global Defense Spending Increase
updated 09 Mar 2014; published 09 Mar 2014
4:42
China Plans 12 Percent Boost in Defense Spending
updated 02 Dec 2012; published 02 Dec 2012
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World's Top 10 Military Powers 2013HD
Trauma link to malnutrition in CAR
Full Article IRINnews
23 Apr 2014

BANGUI, 23 April 2014 (IRIN) - Data collected at a hospital clinic for malnourished children in the Central African Republic (CAR) suggests that many of the childrens’ parents present symptoms of post-traumatic stress directly linked to their exposure to extreme violence, according to the NGO Action Against Hunger (ACF). The country has been...

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Trauma link to malnutrition in CAR
photo: UN / Evan Schneider

updated 16 Aug 2010; published 16 Aug 2010
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Displaced Pakistani kids suffer from trauma, malnourishment 01-06-2010.wmv
updated 13 Oct 2009; published 13 Oct 2009
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World Focus: Guatemala's Children Languish from Malnutrition
updated 14 Mar 2013; published 14 Mar 2013
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THE LATEST NEWS : Children trapped in Syria conflict
updated 07 Oct 2013; published 07 Oct 2013
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Protecting our Children from "Food Trauma Brain Injury
updated 04 Jun 2012; published 04 Jun 2012
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Malnourished Indian Child Rips Clothing
updated 24 Sep 2013; published 24 Sep 2013
1:53
Syria: Charity Warns Of Child Malnutrition
South Korea ferry disaster: children broke fingers in attempt to escape
Full Article The Daily Telegraph
23 Apr 2014

Related Articles South Korea ferry disaster: Royal Navy salvage experts join recovery 23 Apr 2014 South Korea ferry disaster: first distress call came from young boy 22 Apr 2014 South Korea ferry disaster: divers find 104 bodies 22 Apr 2014 Number of Korean ferry victims passes 100 22 Apr 2014 The finances of Chonghaejin and its complex share...

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South Korea ferry disaster: children broke fingers in attempt to escape
photo: Adam D. Wainwright / Public Domain

updated 17 Apr 2014; published 17 Apr 2014
2:34
Anxious parents wait for news of children on board sunken South Korea ferry
updated 18 Apr 2014; published 18 Apr 2014
3:22
School Vice-Principal Rescued From Sinking South Korea Ferry Found Principal Hanging - 18 April 2014
updated 23 Apr 2014; published 23 Apr 2014
1:46
On South Korea Ferry Disaster: 'The similarities are striking'
updated 17 Apr 2014; published 17 Apr 2014
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Cellphone Video From South Korea Ferry Disaster
updated 17 Apr 2014; published 17 Apr 2014
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South Korean ferry disaster: Hundreds still missing in Sewol sinking
updated 20 Apr 2014; published 20 Apr 2014
3:09
[UPDATE] South Korea Ferry Sinks | Ten More Bodies Found | 244 Missing 58 Dead
South Sudan: Bentiu atrocity will not be the last unless pleas for help are heard
Full Article The Guardian
23 Apr 2014

Humanitarian workers make desperate call for international assistance as numbers of wounded and displaced people soar Bentiu, South Sudan: a rebel fighter stands oustide Kali-Ballee mosque, where more than 200 civilians were reportedly killed and some 400 wounded. Photograph: Reuters The massacre in Bentiu, South Sudan, has shaken even hardened...

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South Sudan: Bentiu atrocity will not be the last unless pleas for help are heard
photo: UN / Albert Gonzalez Farran

updated 23 Apr 2014; published 23 Apr 2014
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U.N.: South Sudan Rebels Separate Residents By Ethnicity, Kill Hundreds - 22 April 2014
updated 23 Apr 2014; published 23 Apr 2014
1:53
Hundreds massacred in South Sudan
updated 22 Apr 2014; published 22 Apr 2014
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UN accuses South Sudan rebels of committing massacre in Bentiu
updated 22 Apr 2014; published 22 Apr 2014
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Hundreds massacred in South Sudan
updated 10 Jan 2014; published 10 Jan 2014
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South Sudanese Army Recaptures Bentiu
updated 09 Jan 2014; published 09 Jan 2014
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South Sudanese Troops Move Towards Rebel Strongholds
Tony Blair: west must take sides against growing threat of radical Islam
Full Article The Guardian
23 Apr 2014

In keynote speech on Middle East, former PM blames Islamic extremism for failures of western intervention in region Tony Blair: 'What is absolutely necessary is that we first liberate ourselves from our own attitude. We have to take sides.' Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images Western military intervention in the Middle East has so far failed...

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File - A man walks past a burnt out building following an attacked by Boko Haram in Bama, Nigeria, Thursday, Feb, 20. 2013. The latest attack by suspected Islamic extremists in Nigeria's northeast has left 115 people dead.
photo: AP / Jossy Ola

updated 23 Apr 2014; published 23 Apr 2014
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Tony Blair 'West should focus on radical Islam' - 23 April 2014
updated 23 Apr 2014; published 23 Apr 2014
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Tony Blair Warns Of The Dangers Of Radical Islam
updated 23 Jan 2014; published 23 Jan 2014
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Blair warns Syria conflict could spread outside region
updated 22 Dec 2012; published 22 Dec 2012
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"Fighting For The Right Side"
updated 29 Jul 2013; published 29 Jul 2013
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Christopher Hitchens vs Mark Danner - Iraq and the War on Terror
updated 07 Apr 2013; published 07 Apr 2013
3:24
"Some Sharia Councils In Britain Maybe Putting Muslim Women At Risk"
Ukraine crisis: US runs the show in Kiev, says Sergei Lavrov
Full Article BBC News
23 Apr 2014

The US is "running the show" in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said. Mr Lavrov told Russia Today it was "quite telling" that Kiev had re-launched its anti-terror operation against pro-Russian gunmen during a visit by US Vice-President Joe Biden. Kiev and the West say Moscow commands the gunmen - claims...

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov addresses the media at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Friday, Dec. 4, 2009. Some two dozen countries will send an estimated 7,000 more troops to Afghanistan next year, the chief of NATO said Friday as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told her allied counterparts that an infusion of forces is crucial to turning the tide in the long war.
photo: AP / Geert Vanden Wijngaert

updated 16 Apr 2014; published 16 Apr 2014
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Ukraine launches 'special operation' against separatists
updated 28 Feb 2014; published 28 Feb 2014
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Ukraine Crisis 'Russians occupy' Crimea airports - 28 February 2014
updated 17 Apr 2014; published 17 Apr 2014
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Ukraine vows to launch anti-terrorist operation against pro-Russian forces
updated 23 Apr 2014; published 23 Apr 2014
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Ukraine crisis: US runs the show in Kiev, says Sergei Lavrov - 23 April 2014
updated 23 Apr 2014; published 23 Apr 2014
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Ukraine crisis: US runs the show in Kiev, says Sergei Lavrov - 23 April 2014
updated 05 Mar 2014; published 05 Mar 2014
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Crimean leader claims control and asks Putin for help
Obama seeks to reassure Japan in China-Japan island dispute
Full Article Sacramento Bee
23 Apr 2014

TOKYO -- President Barack Obama told a Japanese newspaper on the eve of his arrival here that the U.S. considers the small islands in the East China Sea subject to a bitter Chinese-Japanese dispute within the scope of a U.S.-Japan security treaty. In written remarks to The Yomiuri Shimbun, Obama said that U.S. policy “is clear,” that...

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Obama seeks to reassure Japan in China-Japan island dispute
photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais

updated 23 Apr 2014; published 23 Apr 2014
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President Obama Seeking To Reassure Partners
updated 23 Apr 2014; published 23 Apr 2014
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Obama to back Japan in China islands dispute
updated 23 Apr 2014; published 23 Apr 2014
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China Rejects Obama's Stance on Japan Island Dispute
updated 23 Apr 2014; published 23 Apr 2014
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Barack Obama has attempted to reassure Japan that its mutual security treaty
updated 11 Apr 2014; published 11 Apr 2014
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US reassure China that it does not treat China as enemy, but as friend
updated 29 Nov 2013; published 29 Nov 2013
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DAY BREAK 06:00 China sends warplanes to disputed airspace over East China Sea
Libya and the ICC: Courting chaos and confusion
Full Article Al Jazeera
23 Apr 2014

The current jurisdictional stalemate concerning the on-going criminal proceedings against Saif al-Islam Gaddafi and his younger brother, Saadi, has once again called into question the authority of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. The current position is certainly not that envisaged following the popular uprising in Libya, but...

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File - This image made from video distributed by the Zintan Media Center shows Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, center, inside a defendant's cage in a courtroom in Zintan, Libya, Thursday, May 2, 2013.
photo: AP / Zintan Media Center

updated 13 Nov 2012; published 13 Nov 2012
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Barack Obama's Past and America's Future | Trevor Loudon
updated 02 May 2012; published 02 May 2012
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Zambia's President Michael Sata Strengthens Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe
updated 03 Mar 2011; published 03 Mar 2011
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Libya situation: Press Conference, ICC Prosecutor - 3 March 2011
updated 23 Nov 2011; published 23 Nov 2011
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ICC: Libya has priority to try Saif al-Islam
updated 31 Oct 2013; published 31 Oct 2013
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Netherlands ICC Libya 2012 News
updated 10 Jun 2012; published 10 Jun 2012
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ICC delegates accused of espionage in Libya
In Ukraine, Biden Brings Array of U.S. Support
Full Article Real Clear Politics
22 Apr 2014

Vice President Biden arrived in Ukraine this week bringing some tangible U.S. support to a country challenged by political and military struggles both internally and from neighboring Russia. The administration offered $50 million in new U.S. assistance to bolster free elections in Ukraine, and boost non-Russian sources of natural gas, on top of $1...

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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden addresses members of the Ukrainian parliament during a meeting Tuesday, April 22, 2014 in Kiev
photo: AP / Sergei Supinsky, Pool

updated 21 Apr 2014; published 21 Apr 2014
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US Vice President Joe Biden arrives in Kiev: America backing Ukraine against Russian threat
updated 22 Apr 2014; published 22 Apr 2014
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US Vice President Joe Biden arrives in Kiev: America backing Ukraine against Russian threa
updated 25 Feb 2014; published 25 Feb 2014
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Biden, Yanukovych Spoke 9 Times In 3 Months, Source Tells AP
updated 22 Apr 2014; published 22 Apr 2014
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Ukraine crisis Biden to meet Kiev leaders in show of support
updated 22 Apr 2014; published 22 Apr 2014
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The benefits of a Biden 2016 campaign
updated 01 Mar 2014; published 01 Mar 2014
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POWERFUL SPEECH: Barack Obama Warns Russia Violating Ukraine Sovereignty " Deeply Destabilizing "
Fearing the Icefall: On Everest, dangers are clear
Full Article Springfield News-Sun
22 Apr 2014

On Everest, everybody knows that the Icefall is dangerous. They've known it for generations, since the first great Everest mountaineer, George Mallory, turned away from the Khumbu Icefall in 1921, insisting it was impossible to pass. It is a river of ice, a kilometer (half mile) or so of constantly shifting glacier punctuated by deep crevasses and...

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In this May 18, 2013 file photo released by mountain guide Adrian Ballinger of Alpenglow Expeditions, climbers make their way to the summit of Mount Everest, in the Khumbu region of the Nepal Himalayas
photo: AP / Alpenglow Expeditions, Adrian Ballinger, File

updated 03 Aug 2010; published 03 Aug 2010
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Mount Everest ICE FALL.wmv
updated 17 Apr 2012; published 17 Apr 2012
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Everest 2011 Part III - Khumbu Ice Fall
updated 30 Aug 2011; published 30 Aug 2011
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Everest Khumbu Ice Fall (Gineth Soto)
updated 02 Dec 2013; published 02 Dec 2013
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ICE FALL: Webisode 04 | Production
updated 18 Oct 2011; published 18 Oct 2011
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Mount Everest with Summit Climb - Khumbu Ice Fall
updated 04 Jul 2012; published 04 Jul 2012
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Mountain climber saved at last second from near-fatal fall - Nerve-racking rescue caught on video

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David Moyes facing the sack: Could Sir Alex Ferguson return as Manchester United manager?
Belfast Telegraph
Manchester United have run out of patience with David Moyes and the former Everton manager looks set to be told he no longer has a job at Old Trafford before the season is out....
Can you compare African slave trade to the Holocaust?
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NEW YORK – “The man refused to eat. He had been sick, reduced to a ‘mere skeleton.’ He had apparently made a decision to die. Captain Timothy Tucker was outraged,...
After Algerian landslide, what next?
San Francisco Chronicle
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria's frail president won a fourth term in a landslide victory, but it only masks a bigger question for this oil-rich North African nation — what now?...

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Afghanistan Delays Election Results
Afghanistan Delays Election Results
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VIDEO: Bite of Noor in Dari below and in Central News OCN video folder Afghanistan&aposs; election commission has delayed releasing preliminary results from the country&aposs; April 5 presidential election to allow more time to investigate possible...
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Lance Armstrong manager Johan Bruyneel banned for 10 years over doping
Lance Armstrong, Johan Bruyneel
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Lance Armstrong's long-time team manager Johan Bruyneel has been banned from professional sport for 10 years for helping to organise widespread doping by teams led by the disgraced cyclist. The US Anti-Doping Agency announced the verdicts of an...
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FIFA suspends Barcelona transfer ban during appeal
Barcelona's Lionel Messi kicks the ball in front of Atletico players
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Share Photo✉ FC Barcelona's Alexis Sanchez, from Chile, left, duels for the ball against Athletic Bilbao's Iker Muniain during a Spanish La Liga soccer match at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday, April...
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How I’ll End the War: The Trip Over to Afghanistan
How I’ll End the War: The Trip Over to Afghanistan
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On his way to Afghanistan, an officer is surprised by a strange sight at a layover in the middle of the night. Editor’s Note: Nick Willard is the pen name of a service member serving in Afghanistan during the closing days of America’s longest war. He...
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Rana Plaza disaster may happen again unless big brands have less power
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MH370: Australia plans to use more powerful system that found Titanic
MH370: Australia plans to use more powerful system that found Titanic
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Australia is mulling deploying a more powerful system that tracked the Titanic 29 years ago to locate the wreckage of the crashed Malaysian airliner as a robotic mini-submarine scouring the Indian Ocean sea-bed has not achieved any breakthrough in...
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Ukraine relaunches anti-rebel operations
Oleksandr Turchynov, Acting President of Ukraine
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Ukraine has relaunched military operations against pro-Kremlin separatists, hours after US Vice-President Joe Biden ended a two-day visit to Kiev in which he warned Russia over its actions in the former Soviet republic. The US Defence Department at...
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