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Olmert joins list of convicted Israeli politicians
Full Article Newsday
13 May 2014

Travel deals JERUSALEM - (AP) -- Israel's ex-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was sentenced to six years in prison on Tuesday for his part in a wide-ranging bribery case. While he appears set to become the first Israeli prime minister to head to prison, he is the latest in a string of politicians sentenced to time behind bars. The following is a glance...

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Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, center, leaves the sentence hearing in a corruption case, at Jerusalem's District Court
photo: AP / Abir Sultan, Pool

updated 31 Mar 2014; published 31 Mar 2014
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Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert convicted of bribery
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Olmert Conviction: Former Israeli PM convicted of bribery
updated 31 Mar 2014; published 31 Mar 2014
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Israeli ex-PM Olmert convicted of corruption
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Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was found guilty in bribery case
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Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Convicted of Bribery
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Israel's ex PM Ehud Olmert convicted of bribery - 31 March 2014
Ukraine needs Russia and the West
Full Article The Washington Post
13 May 2014

Violence in Ukraine is spreading. The Ukrainian military and police are splitting apart, a reflection of the fissures in that deeply divided country. Pro-Russian separatists are taking over government buildings and police stations in eastern Ukraine. Pro-government mobs have burned protesters alive. The referenda on self-rule cobbled together by...

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In this photo taken on Monday, May 12, 2014, the leader of insurgency in the Luhansk region Valery Bolotov, center, greets people as they declare independence for the Luhansk region in eastern Ukraine on Monday, May 12, 2014.
photo: AP / Evgeniy Maloletka

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Build up to WW3 as UNITED STATES and RUSSIA CLASH over UKRAINE
updated 01 Mar 2014; published 01 Mar 2014
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World War 3 Russia vs Ukraine and Europe Simulation
updated 28 Feb 2014; published 28 Feb 2014
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President Obama Threatens War Against Russia Military In Ukraine WW3
updated 02 Mar 2014; published 02 Mar 2014
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RUSSIA vs Ukraine WAR : Russian Military Surround Ukrainian Military Base in Crimea
updated 06 May 2014; published 06 May 2014
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World War 3: The Crimean Crisis Ukraine, Russia, the European Union and the United States
updated 16 Apr 2014; published 16 Apr 2014
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World War 3: The Crimean Crisis - Ukraine, Russia, the European Union and the United State
EU backs 'right to be forgotten' in Google privacy case
Full Article BBC News
13 May 2014

13 May 2014 Last updated at 11:58 BST An EU court has ruled that Google must amend some search results at the request of ordinary people in a test of the so-called "right to be forgotten". The European Union Court of Justice said links to "irrelevant" and outdated data should be erased on request. The company said the ruling...

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The Google logo is seen at the Google headquarters in Brussels
photo: AP / Virginia Mayo

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Protest Illegal, FBI Imam, Google Privacy - New World Next Week 03/01/12
updated 08 Mar 2012; published 08 Mar 2012
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EU wants 'right to be forgotten'
updated 06 Jun 2013; published 06 Jun 2013
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Samsung Galaxy Gio S5660 hard reset
updated 15 Jun 2013; published 15 Jun 2013
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Samsung Galaxy Star S5282 hard reset
updated 02 May 2013; published 02 May 2013
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Samsung Galaxy S Plus hard reset. Galaxy i9001
updated 03 Dec 2013; published 03 Dec 2013
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iRola DX752 Tablet
Boko Haram offers to swap kidnapped Nigerian girls for prisoners
Full Article New Straits/Business Times
13 May 2014

MAIDUGURI (Nigeria): The leader of the Nigerian Islamist rebel group Boko Haram has offered to release more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by his fighters last month in exchange for its members being held in detention, according to a video posted on YouTube on Monday. The search for the girls intensified as a senior US administration official said...

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People attend a demonstration calling on the government to rescue kidnapped school girls of a government secondary school Chibok, during workers day celebration in Lagos, Nigeria, Thursday, May 1, 2014.
photo: AP / Sunday Alamba

updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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Boko Haram Shows Nigeria girls Missing in New Video Kidnapped #BringBackOurGirls
updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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Boko Haram releases new video of Nigerian girls
updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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Boko Haram offers to swap kidnapped Nigerian girls for prisoners
updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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Nigeria Kidnapped Girls Shown In New Boko Haram Video - 12 May 2014
updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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Boko Haram NEW VIDEO shows Kidnapped Nigerian Schoolgirls | VIDEO
updated 13 May 2014; published 13 May 2014
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Boko Haram Leader Offers to Swap Kidnapped Nigerian Girls for Prisoners!
Harvard's satanic 'black Mass' angers Catholics
Full Article CNN
12 May 2014

By Daniel Burke, CNN Belief Blog Editor Follow @BurkeCNN (CNN) - A Harvard club's plan to stage a satanic "black Mass" on Monday has drawn fire and brimstone from the Archdiocese of Boston and condemnation from the president of the Ivy League school. The Harvard Extension Cultural Studies Club will host the two-hour ceremony at the...

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Memorial Hall, immediately north of Harvard Yard in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is an imposing High Victorian Gothic building. National Register of Historic Places. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
photo: Creative Commons / Kenneth C. Zirkel

updated 08 May 2014; published 08 May 2014
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Satanic Black Mass Reenactment to Take Place at Harvard
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Harvard is Hosts'Reenactment' of Satanic Mass.
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Satanic Black Mass to Take Place at Harvard
updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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Harvard's Satanic Black Mass Ritual Canceled After Uproar
updated 13 May 2014; published 13 May 2014
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Misa negra satanica en Harvard / satanic black mass
South Sudan's elections postponed, says President Kiir
Full Article BBC News
12 May 2014

South Sudan has postponed presidential elections due next year to give government and rebel forces more time to achieve reconciliation, President Salva Kiir has said. Mr Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar signed a ceasefire deal on Friday to end conflict that erupted in December, He said an interim government would run South Sudan until elections...

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and South Sudanese President Salva Kiir Mayardit look over their respective notes at the outset of a meeting in Juba on May 2, 2014.
photo: US DoS

updated 10 May 2014; published 10 May 2014
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South Sudan Rivals Kiir & Machar Agree Peace Deal - 10 May 2014
updated 10 May 2014; published 10 May 2014
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South Sudan rivals Kiir and Machar agree peace deal
updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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S.Sudan Salva Kiir says no election until at least 2017
updated 10 May 2014; published 10 May 2014
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South Sudan rivals Kiir and Machar agree peace deal
updated 10 May 2014; published 10 May 2014
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South Sudan rivals Kiir and Machar agree peace deal
updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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Elections in South Sudan Postponed
Indians vote on key election day
Full Article BBC News
12 May 2014

Narendra Modi, the prime ministerial candidate of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the 2014 general elections, is seen as India's most divisive politician - loved and loathed in equal measure. Mr Modi, who has been chief minister of the western state of Gujarat since 2001, is seen as a dynamic and efficient leader...

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Indian  voter at the entrance of a polling station during the final phase of general elections in Kolkata on May 12, 2014. Voters headed to the polls Monday in the final phase of India's marathon election, with hardliner Narendra Modi expected to lead his Hindu nationalists to victory after 10 years of Congress party rule..
photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick

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India election Leading artists warn against Modi - 12 April 2014
updated 10 Apr 2014; published 10 Apr 2014
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Leela Jacinto about India's election & Modi - #F24Debate
updated 16 Apr 2014; published 16 Apr 2014
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How do Indians View Narendra Modi?
updated 04 Apr 2014; published 04 Apr 2014
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India Election 2014 : Muzaffarnagar riots accused gets BJP and BSP candidates
updated 14 Sep 2013; published 14 Sep 2013
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Modi Vs Rahul: Who will be elected as India's PM in 2014 Lok Sabha elections?
updated 16 Apr 2014; published 16 Apr 2014
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Voters Urged to shun BJP In India
Kremlin ‘respects’ self-rule vote
Full Article The Australian
12 May 2014

THE Kremlin said last night it respected the vote on self-rule in two Ukrainian regions and called for the results to be implemented through dialogue between Kiev and separatist leaders. Pro-Russian rebels claimed voters in eastern Ukraine massively backed independence in a poll that Kiev and the West dismissed as an illegal “farce”. A...

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An armed pro-Russian man stands guard at the back of a room during press conference of Vacheslav Ponomarev, the self-proclaimed mayor of Slovyansk and Lidia Bartasevic, president of Slovyansk's election commission in Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Monday, May 12, 2014.
photo: AP / Darko Vojinovic

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Russia says it respects outcome of east Ukraine self-rule vote
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Zero Credibility Referendums: EU officials call self-rule votes in eastern Ukraine farcical
updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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Ukraine Authorities Dismiss Referendums as 'Farce'
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Kiev intensifies military op in Eastern Ukraine
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Steinmeier in Kyiv: German FM says Ukrainian presidential election must go ahead on 25 May
updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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Parts Of Ukraine Boycotting Regional Vote
Extremist video shows abducted girls praying
Full Article The Guardian
12 May 2014

MICHELLE FAUL Associated Press= LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A new video from Nigeria's Boko Haram terrorist network purports to show dozens of abducted schoolgirls, covered in jihab and praying in Arabic. It is the first public sight of the girls since more than 300...

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South Africans protest in solidarity against the abduction three weeks ago of hundreds of schoolgirls in Nigeria by the Muslim extremist group Boko Haram and what protesters said was the failure of the Nigerian government and international community to rescue them, during a march to the Nigerian Consulate in Johannesburg, South Africa Thursday, May 8, 2014.
photo: AP / Ben Curtis

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Extremist Video Shows Abducted Girls Praying
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Breaking: Nigeria abducted girls 'shown' in video released by Boko Haram
updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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Nigeria Kidnapped Girls Shown In New Boko Haram Video - 12 May 2014
updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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Boko Haram Abducted Nigeria Girls 'Shown' In New Video Boko Haram Kidnapped Girls Converted To Islam
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RE:Extremist Video Shows Abducted Girls Praying
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WATCH LIVE: Nigeria kidnapped girls 'shown' in new Boko Haram video
Taliban kill 21 at start of Afghan spring fighting
Full Article The Associated Press
12 May 2014

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The Taliban unleashed a wave of attacks Monday across Afghanistan to mark the start of their spring offensive, storming a government building in the east where attackers killed two police guards and five civilians, and striking a police checkpoint to the south and killing nine policemen. Also Monday, rockets hit inside...

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Afghan police officers arrive to the scene after Taliban fighters stormed a government building in Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, May 12, 2014.
photo: AP / Rahmat Gul

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Raw: Taliban Attack Marks Spring Offensive
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Taliban Kill 21 at Start of Afghan Spring Fighting
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Rockets, gunfire herald start of Taliban's spring offensive in Afghanistan
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Rockets, gunfire herald start of Taliban's spring offensive in Afghanistan
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Taliban Opens Spring Offensive With Deadly Attacks
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Taliban Starts Attacks Across Afghanistan

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The Charlotte Observer
BERLIN After dealing with the outrage of what they insist without any actual proof is fascism in Ukraine, Russians are turning their gaze upon what they see as the latest...
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CounterPunch
And now Ukraine, in hindsight quite predictable. Quantitative becomes qualitative at some point in the logic of events—perhaps the coup, perhaps the Pacific Rim visit to nail down...
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CNN
Watch "Fareed Zakaria GPS," Sundays at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET on CNN By Fareed Zakaria What the United States needs is a set of sophisticated strategies to shore up the...

Joint Special Representative Brahimi Steps Down as Special Envoy to Syria Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) announces that he will accept the resignation of Lakhdar Brahimi (right) from his post as Joint Special Representative of the United Nations and the League of Arab States for Syria, effective 31 May 2014.
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Tweet United Nations, May 14 (IANS) UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Tuesday announced resignation of Lakhdar Brahimi as the joint United Nations-Arab League Special Representative on the Syria crisis, terming it a "tragedy for the Syrian people" and...
photo: UN / JC McIlwaine
Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah, whose father Farooq Abdullah is contesting Srinagar's seat for the lower house of parliament in India's general election, addresses an election rally on the outskirts of Srinagar on April 8, 2014. Indians have begun voting in the world's biggest election which is set to sweep the Hindu nationalist opposition to power at a time of low growth, anger about corruption and warnings about religious unrest. India's 814-million-strong electorate are forecast to inflict a heavy defeat on the ruling Congress party, in power for 10 years and led by India's famous Gandhi dynasty.
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Srinagar, May 13: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday expressed hope that the new government at the Centre would carry forward the dialogue process with Pakistan to address long-pending issues, including Kashmir. "Hope the new...
photo: WN / Imran Nissar
Former Israel Prime Minister Ehud Olmert speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, April 18, 2013. In an interview with The Associated Press, Olmert said he will serve as chairman of the advisory board of "Genesis Angels" _ a venture capital firm focusing on early stage investment in startup companies. The firm looks toward innovations in robotics, augmented reality, artificial intelligence and other cutting edge technologies.
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The Associated Press TEL AVIV (AP)—Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was sentenced on Tuesday to six years in prison for his role in a wide-ranging bribery case, capping a stunning fall from grace for one of the...
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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin E. Dempsey speaks along with Secretary of State John Kerry and Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing at  the Hart Senate Office building in Washington D.C. Sept. 3, 2013. President Barack H. Obama is seeking congressional approval for a limited military strike in Syria in response to their government's alleged use of chemical weapons. Department of Defense Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Daniel Hinton.
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WASHINGTON — The State Department and a House panel are working on an alternative date for Secretary of State John Kerry to testify about information related to the deadly attack in Benghazi, Libya, ending the immediate threat of a subpoena for a...
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Conchita Wurst, ESC2014 Meet & Greet
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Conchita Wurst won Eurovision on Sunday with her power ballad “Rise Like A Phoenix,” and her win ruffled feathers of homophobes who protest her...
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French justice minister Christiane Taubira, left, addresses members of parliament during the questions to the government session, at the National Assembly in Paris, Tuesday April 23, 2013.
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Right-wing French politicians were accused of racism on Monday after they attacked a black minister who failed to sing the national anthem at a public ceremony. Christiane Taubira, the Justice Minister, defended her decision to stay silent by saying...
photo: AP / Remy de la Mauviniere
Glenn Greenwald
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The dogs can smell Glenn Greenwald long before they see him. As we drive up the hill to his house, a cacophony of barking greets us. The chorus is so overwhelming it makes me think of the National Security Agency (NSA) chiefs who Greenwald has...
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