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Withdrawal: Obama charts end to Afghan war by 2016
Full Article STL Today
27 May 2014

WASHINGTON (AP) — Charting an end to America's longest war, President Barack Obama announced plans Tuesday for keeping nearly 10,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan after this year but then withdrawing virtually all by the close of 2016 and the conclusion of his presidency. The drawdown would allow Obama to bring America's military engagement in...

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United States President Barack Obama addresses the people of the United States from Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan on 2 May 2012.
photo: Public Domain / Pete Souza

updated 29 Jun 2013; published 23 Jun 2011
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Gareth Porter: Obama Plan for Afghan War Withdrawal Will Leave Troop Size at Pre-Surge Level
updated 26 Feb 2014; published 26 Feb 2014
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Obama threatens to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan
updated 02 May 2012; published 02 May 2012
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Afghanistan Withdrawal: 2014 or 2024?
updated 12 Jan 2013; published 12 Jan 2013
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President Obama and President Karzai Hold a Press Conference
updated 07 Aug 2013; published 02 May 2012
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President Barack Obama Afghanistan Speech From Bagram Air Base - Ending the War in Afghanistan
updated 03 Mar 2014; published 03 Mar 2014
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Americans say nothing about lost Afghan war
EU leaders ponder future with far right and hard left after elections
Full Article The Guardian
27 May 2014

Long battle expected over post of new European commission chief as Strasbourg parliament faces deeper divisions Angela Merkel arrives for a meeting of EU leaders, in Brussels. Photograph: Olivier Hoslet/EPA The fallout from the tumultuous European elections has begun to hit politics across the continent, as a senior member of the German government...

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives for a European People's Party (EPP) meeting in Brussels, Tuesday, May 27, 2014.
photo: AP / Geert Vanden Wijngaert

updated 06 May 2013; published 06 May 2013
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Hollande's victory music out of tune on French election anniversary
updated 22 May 2014; published 22 May 2014
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Far Right Dutch Politician Wilder Fourth In EU Elections
updated 26 May 2014; published 26 May 2014
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Anti European Parties Take The Lead In Elections
updated 25 May 2014; published 25 May 2014
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Eurosceptics Rule Outcome Of European Elections
updated 26 Mar 2014; published 26 Mar 2014
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Highlights: Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage debate the EU
updated 26 May 2014; published 26 May 2014
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Anti-EU parties gain in Europe polls - "NewsWatchking"
Dozens killed as Ukraine forces re-take Donetsk airport
Full Article The Irish Times
27 May 2014

Ukraine‘s government said it inflicted “significant“ losses on pro-Russian rebels in the east and retook Donetsk airport a day after President-elect Petro Poroshenko vowed to wipe out the separatists. Troops killed “dozens“ of rebels without suffering any losses, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said, while the mayor‘s office in Donetsk said 40...

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People carry sand bags to set up a shooting position as a pro-Russian gunman watches on the road leading from the the airport to Donetsk, Ukraine, Tuesday, May 27, 2014.
photo: AP / Vadim Ghirda

updated 27 May 2014; published 27 May 2014
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Ukraine Unrest Clash At Donetsk Airport Kills Dozens - Ukraine Airport Clash 'Killed 30'
updated 26 May 2014; published 26 May 2014
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Ukraine Crisis Battle To Control Donetsk Airport
updated 27 May 2014; published 27 May 2014
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Ukraine unrest: Clash at Donetsk airport 'kills dozens'
updated 27 May 2014; published 27 May 2014
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Dozens Reported Killed in Eastern Ukraine Fighting
updated 27 May 2014; published 27 May 2014
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Ukraine unrest Clash at Donetsk airport 'kills dozens
updated 27 May 2014; published 27 May 2014
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BREAKING FROM SCENE: Ukraine Unrest Clash At Donetsk Airport Kills Dozens - Today (5/27/14)
UN agency warns of Somalia hunger deaths
Full Article Al Jazeera
27 May 2014

About 200,000 children under the age of five could die from severe malnutrition in Somalia by the end of the year, unless the United Nations receives emergency funds to stave off mass hunger, UN officials have said. Only $15m has been received against the appeal by...

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A Somali girl from southern Somalia sit behind barbed wire in a line to receive food at a refugee camp in Mogadishu, Somalia, Wednesday, Aug, 17, 2011.
photo: AP / Farah Abdi Warsameh

updated 22 Oct 2013; published 22 Oct 2013
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UN Food Agencies in Somalia Promote Eating Fish to Fight Hunger
updated 24 Jun 2013; published 15 Jul 2011
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Survival struggle against Somalia's drought
updated 25 Dec 2012; published 02 Aug 2011
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UNICEF Responds to Starving Children in Somalia
updated 10 Mar 2013; published 08 Jul 2011
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Somalia: Fleeing Hunger
updated 15 Aug 2013; published 13 Aug 2011
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Aid only trickles to Somali children
updated 29 Mar 2012; published 27 Jul 2011
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WFP begins emergency airlifts to hunger-stricken Somalia
Egypt election enters final day
Full Article Independent online (SA)
27 May 2014

Cairo - Former army chief Abdel Fatah al-Sisi is expected to emerge from a second and final day of voting on Tuesday as Egypt's next president, with supporters seeing him as the man who can pull the Arab world's most populous nation back from the brink. Since the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak in 2011 raised hopes of new freedoms, the country of 85...

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An Egyptian woman casts her vote at a polling site in the upscale Zamalek district of Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, May 27, 2014, the second and final day of the presidential election with the country's former military chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi poised for an almost certain victory.
photo: AP / Maya Alleruzzo

updated 12 Jan 2014; published 12 Jan 2014
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General Sisi Candidate From Presidential Elections
updated 23 May 2014; published 23 May 2014
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Abdel Fattah al Sisi Urges High Egypt Vote Turnout as Campaign Closes
updated 26 May 2014; published 26 May 2014
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Egypt to hold spring presidential poll: military chief Sisi widely expected to win preside
updated 16 Jan 2014; published 16 Jan 2014
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Egyptian election: Polls close after second day of vote
updated 26 May 2014; published 26 May 2014
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Egyptian voters take part in 2-day polls to elect new president
updated 14 Mar 2014; published 14 Mar 2014
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Thousands protest potential Sisi election bid
Nigerian defense chief says abducted girls located
Full Article New Straits/Business Times
27 May 2014

ABUJA: Nigeria’s military has located nearly 300 school girls abducted by Islamic extremists but fears using force to try to free them could get them killed, the country’s chief of defense said Monday. Air Marshal Alex Badeh told demonstrators supporting the much criticized military that Nigerian troops can save the girls. But he added, “we...

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A police officer stands guard as people attend a demonstration calling on the government to rescue the kidnapped girls of the government secondary school in Chibok, in Abuja, Nigeria, Thursday, May 22, 2014.
photo: AP / Sunday Alamba

updated 21 Apr 2014; published 21 Apr 2014
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School Girls Abduction: Obanikoro Defends Military Rescue Goof. Pt3
updated 26 May 2014; published 26 May 2014
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Nigerian Army Know About Nigerian Girls Location
updated 25 Apr 2014; published 25 Apr 2014
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Breaking News: Nigeria vows to find abducted girls
updated 26 May 2014; published 26 May 2014
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Nigeria Military Says Knows Where Girls Are, Rules Out Force
updated 03 May 2014; published 03 May 2014
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United States Will Help Nigeria To Save Kidnapped Schoolgirls
updated 04 May 2014; published 04 May 2014
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United States To Help Save Kidnapped Nigerian Schoolgirls
Ukraine Army, Rebels Battle For Control Of Donetsk Airport
Full Article Business Insider
26 May 2014

A Ukrainian helicopter Mi-24 gunship fires its cannons against rebels at the main terminal building of Donetsk international airport May 26, 2014. Ukrainian government warplanes carried out airstrikes against pro-Russian rebels who seized Donetsk international airport on Monday, triggering a battle in and around the complex in a show...

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Smoke rises from the airport outside Donetsk, Ukraine, Monday, May 26, 2014
photo: AP / Ivan Sekretarev

updated 26 May 2014; published 26 May 2014
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Ukraine Crisis Battle To Control Donetsk Airport
updated 26 May 2014; published 26 May 2014
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Ukraine Crisis: Battle to control Donetsk Airport
updated 26 May 2014; published 26 May 2014
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Ukraine crisis Battle to control Donetsk airport
updated 26 May 2014; published 26 May 2014
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Ukraine: battle rages for Donetsk airport
updated 26 May 2014; published 26 May 2014
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Ukraine Crisis: Donetsk Airport Video Ukraine Helicopters Strike Rebel Held Donetsk Airport
updated 26 May 2014; published 26 May 2014
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Ukraine crisis: Raging battle to control Donetsk airport
Narendra Modi sworn in as Indian PM in spectacular ceremony
Full Article The Guardian
26 May 2014

Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif, Indian elite and Bollywood film stars among 4,000 guests at ceremony in Delhi Narendra Modi, standing centre, takes the oath of office in Delhi. Photograph: AP Narendra Modi, the Hindu nationalist politician who won a landslide victory in India's general election this month, has been sworn in as the 15th prime...

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India's new prime minister Narendra Modi, center, signs after taking the oath of office at the presidential palace in New Delhi, India, Monday, May 26, 2014.
photo: AP / Manish Swarup

updated 26 May 2014; published 26 May 2014
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Narendra Modi sworn-in as the 15th Prime Minister of India
updated 26 May 2014; published 26 May 2014
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Narendra Modi PM swearing ceremony Live telecast
updated 26 May 2014; published 26 May 2014
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Live: Swearing-in-Ceremony of Narendra Modi as PM of India
updated 26 May 2014; published 26 May 2014
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TV9 Live: Narendra Modi Takes Oath As India`s 15th Prime Minister
updated 26 May 2014; published 26 May 2014
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Swearing in Ceremony of Shri. Narendra Modi as Prime Minister of India
updated 26 May 2014; published 26 May 2014
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Narendra Modi swearing in ceremony LIVE
Pope Francis cements reputation for deft diplomacy
Full Article BBC News
26 May 2014

By personally inviting the Israeli and Palestinian presidents to the Vatican to pray with him together for peace, Pope Francis has seized an unusual diplomatic initiative. Bypassing the Secretariat of State, his often protocol-obsessed ministry of foreign affairs, he has effectively downgraded the formal machinery that normally conducts Vatican...

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Pope Francis arrives to meet prelates, nuns and seminarists at the Church of Gethsemane, in Jerusalem's , Monday, May 26, 2014.
photo: AP / Andrew Medichini

updated 25 Jan 2014; published 25 Jan 2014
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To the diplomatic corps Pope Francis repeats that the Church
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Pope Francis to the diplomats: Assist the dialogue between p
updated 13 Jan 2014; published 13 Jan 2014
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Audience with the Diplomatic Corps - Udienza di Papa Francesco al Corpo Diplomatico
updated 03 Jan 2014; published 03 Jan 2014
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Pope Francis: Sweetly proclaim the Gospel, like St. Faber
updated 25 Dec 2013; published 25 Dec 2013
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Pope Francis holds Christmas Eve mass at Vatican
updated 15 Mar 2013; published 15 Mar 2013
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Pope Francis visits Basilica of Saint Mary Major
ASEAN unity and the threat of Chinese expansion
Full Article Al Jazeera
26 May 2014

Shortly after US President Barack Obama's recent visit to Asia, where he underscored Washington's commitment to remain as an anchor of stability in the region, a new crisis erupted in the South China Sea. Pressing its territorial claims in adjacent waters, China dispatched HYSY981, a state-of-the-art deep-sea rig, which belongs to the state-owned...

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President Barack Obama walks with Katie Beirne Fallon, Director of Legislative Affairs, on the Colonnade of the White House prior to a meeting with the House Democratic Caucus, Feb. 4, 2014.
photo: White House / Pete Souza

updated 21 Jan 2013; published 21 Jan 2013
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China's Expanding Maritime Claims
updated 14 Dec 2013; published 14 Dec 2013
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Japan and Asean nations seek 'freedom of overflight'(Latest News)
updated 14 Dec 2013; published 14 Dec 2013
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Japan and Asean Countries seek 'Freedom Of Overflight'.
updated 11 May 2014; published 11 May 2014
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No ASEAN Agreement on South China Sea
updated 19 Oct 2013; published 19 Oct 2013
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Dr. Sreeram Chaulia on India-ASEAN relations
updated 14 Dec 2013; published 14 Dec 2013
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East Asian Countries Want Freedom Of Airspace

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Khaleej Times
Military rule is not the answer to Thailand’s deadlocked politics When queried five months ago about the likelihood of a military coup, Thailand’s army chief opted for...
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Huffington Post
CAIRO -- A sense of celebration permeated the scene outside many polling stations here on Monday. People lining up to cast ballots for yet another president chanted and sang songs...
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KIEV, Ukraine — "Acting from behind the scenes he directed his money to the heart of the protests: to its peaceful, and then to its bloodiest moments. How did a man with hidden...

Luxembourg's Finance Minister Jean Claude Juncker, right, and European Commissioner for the Economy Olli Rehn participate in a media conference after a meeting of eurogroup finance ministers at the Kiem Center in Luxembourg on Monday, Oct. 18, 2010.
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BRUSSELS (AP) — British Prime Minister David Cameron's recurring complaint that the European Union is "too big, too bossy, too interfering" gained traction at an EU summit on Tuesday, after election results that underscored voter apathy and hostility...
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Malian soldiers walk through clouds of dust as they work with French forces to battle radical Islamic rebels, in Gao, Mali, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013.
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BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali Defence Minister Soumeylou Boybeye Maiga resigned on Tuesday, less than a week after an embarrassing defeat of army forces by Tuareg separatist rebels who seized several northern towns, sources close to the minister said. The...
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Newly elected president of French conservative party UMP Jean Francois Cope is seen during a press conference, at the UMP headquarter, in Paris, Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012. Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservatives chose a right-leaning new leader on Monday in a razor-thin victory — 98 votes — and with so much rancor that some feared the party could break apart.
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PARIS — An anti-immigration movement founded by a man repeatedly convicted of anti-Semitism now leads polls in France. The mainstream conservative party risks collapse amid a financing scandal. The Socialist president is the most unpopular leader in...
photo: AP / Thibault Camus
A member of the Kaiapo tribe holds a poster showing a picture of Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff during a protest by indigenous communities against the construction of Belo Monte hydroelectric dam in front the National Congress in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday Feb. 8, 2011. A Brazilian environmental agency has given approval for initial work to begin on a massive hydroelectric dam planned for the heart of the Amazon jungle. The 11,000-megawatt project to dam  the Xingu River, which feeds the Amazon, would be the third-largest such hydroelectric project in the world. The poster reads "Stop Belo Monte" and the number 604,317 refers to the number of people they say have signed a petition against the project."
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Click photo to enlarge Indigenous protesters in traditional headdress clash with military police during a protest against FIFA World Cup outside the National Stadium in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, May 27, 2014. Brazil's indigenous communities calling...
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U.S. President Barack Obama, left, is escorted by the Governor of Riyadh Prince Khalid Bandar bin Abdul-Aziz Al-Saud, right, during his departure on Air Force One at King Khalid International airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Saturday, March 29, 2014.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — The worst rupture in 40 years in U.S.-Saudi relations has been eased — but not healed — by a series of measures aimed at restoring damaged trust. In a sign of the significance of the relationship, both...
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United States President Barack Obama arrives at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan on 1 May 2012.
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President Barack Obama plans to announce on Tuesday that 9,800 soldiers will remain in Afghanistan after 2014, but there will be a continued reduction by the time he leaves office. Three senior administration officials revealed the...
photo: Public Domain / Pete Souza
In this Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011 photo, a police officer armed with an AK-47 rifle walks past pedestrians as he patrols a major road in Maiduguri, Nigeria. The radical sect Boko Haram, which in August 2011 bombed the United Nations headquarters in Nigeria, is the gravest security threat to Africa's most populous nation.
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Boko Haram gunmen have attacked a Nigerian military base and adjacent police barracks in the northeastern town of Buni Yadi, killing 31 security personnel, security sources and witnesses said. The attack late on Monday in Yobe state occurred not far...
photo: AP / Sunday Alamba