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Tony Blair: 'Iraq invasion didn't cause current crisis'
Full Article The Independent
15 Jun 2014

Tony Blair last night accused critics of the war in Iraq of trying to "wilfully" claim the current crisis in the country is a result of the original invasion. In a 3,000-word essay, Mr Blair rejected claims that he was to blame, saying that if the West had not rid Iraq of Saddam Hussein, the crisis in the Middle East would be worse. "We have...

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File - Tony Blair, Representative of the Middle East Quartet (European Union, Russian Federation, United Nations and United States), addresses a press conference on the meeting of the Ad-Hoc Liaison Committee for Assistance to the Palestinian Authority.
photo: UN / Cia Pak

updated 13 Feb 2014; published 13 Feb 2014
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TONY BLAIR should be charged with WAR CRIMES over Iraq invasion Says Tony Benn
updated 14 Jun 2014; published 14 Jun 2014
4:50
Tony Blair: Violence In Iraq Was Predictable.
updated 23 Jun 2013; published 18 Mar 2013
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'Bush, Blair must be tried for war crimes'
updated 05 Feb 2014; published 05 Feb 2014
19:18
Alastair Campbell on spin, Cherie Blair, Iraq, The Thick of It and Scottish Independence
updated 11 Apr 2014; published 11 Apr 2014
51:57
Breaking The Silence: Truth And Lies In The War On Terror - John Pilger [HD]
updated 27 Jul 2013; published 21 Apr 2012
2:33
Tony Blair Convicted Of Genocide / War Crimes
Iraq conflict: Sunni militant push on Baghdad 'halted'
Full Article BBC News
15 Jun 2014

Iraqi government forces, backed by Shia Muslim and Kurdish militias, are reportedly holding back an advance by Sunni militants north of Baghdad. A number of towns have been retaken from the rebels, but they still control the key cities of Tikrit and Mosul. In one town that changed hands, Ishaq, security forces said they had found the incinerated...

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Iraqi Shiite fighters deploy with their weapons in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, June 14, 2014.
photo: AP / Nabil Al-Jurani

updated 15 Jun 2014; published 15 Jun 2014
1:45
Iraq conflict: Sunni militant push on Baghdad 'halted' --latest pictures, short story
updated 13 Jun 2014; published 13 Jun 2014
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Iraq conflict Sistani 'issues' Shia call to arms against militants
updated 11 Jun 2014; published 11 Jun 2014
1:02
Iraq on the brink of civil war: the conflict explained in 60 seconds
updated 13 Jun 2014; published 13 Jun 2014
5:05
Iraq Conflict: ISIS Militants Seize New Towns
updated 28 May 2013; published 28 May 2013
2:17
Tide of Iraq's Sunni-Shia violence
updated 24 Mar 2013; published 20 Mar 2013
1:26
Bombings in Baghdad kill 56 on eve of Iraq war anniversary
File - A U.S. Air Force RQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle from the 432nd Wing out of Creech Air Force Base, Nev., takes off from the Rafael Hernandez Airport outside Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, Jan. 28, 2010, for a mission in support of Operation Unified Response.
photo: USAF / Tech. Sgt. James L. Harper Jr

updated 24 Apr 2014; published 24 Apr 2014
1:23
Pakistan fighter jets target 'militant hideouts'
updated 25 Feb 2014; published 25 Feb 2014
1:28
Pakistan air strikes against militants in tribal areas
updated 21 May 2014; published 21 May 2014
2:28
Pakistani deadly AIR Strikes Kill 60 Militants | BREAKING NEWS - 21 MAY 2014
updated 07 Jan 2014; published 07 Jan 2014
1:19
GRAPHIC FOOTAGE: Iraqi air force launch deadly strike in Ramadi
updated 31 May 2014; published 31 May 2014
2:36
BREAKING NEWS: TALIBAN Attack Pakistani Army Posts, KILL Soldier
updated 14 May 2014; published 14 May 2014
3:49
Fighting Between Yemen Army and al-Qaeda Kills 42-15th may 2014
Iran sends troops into Iraq to aid fight against Isis militants
Full Article The Guardian
14 Jun 2014

Tehran and Washington form fragile alliance to aid Nouri al-maliki as jihadist group threatens to take Baghdad Iraqi security forces and volunteers on the outskirts of Diyala province. Photograph: Reuters Iran has sent 2,000 advance troops to Iraq in the past 48 hours to help tackle a jihadist insurgency, a senior Iraqi official has told the...

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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani takes his chair before a news conference at the Millennium Hotel in midtown Manhattan, Friday, Sept. 27, 2013, in New York.
photo: AP / John Minchillo

updated 14 Jun 2014; published 14 Jun 2014
2:43
Iran sending Troops to Iraq to Fight ISIS Militants
updated 14 Jun 2014; published 14 Jun 2014
5:12
Iran Ready To Help Neighbour Iraq - Iran's Rouhani Ready To Help
updated 14 Jun 2014; published 14 Jun 2014
2:59
Iraq Collapsing Surprisingly Fast Seized by ISIS Terror Forces
updated 14 Jun 2014; published 14 Jun 2014
1:15
Iraq conflict Iran's Rouhani 'ready to help'
updated 13 Jun 2014; published 13 Jun 2014
0:44
ISIS militants in Mosul show abandoned uniforms and stamp on them
updated 14 Jun 2014; published 14 Jun 2014
5:56
Iranian President Offers To Help Iraq.
Ukraine military transport plane shot down by Pro-Russian separatists in Lugansk
Full Article The Independent
14 Jun 2014

A reported 49 Ukrainian services personnel were killed when pro-Russian separatists shot down a large military transport plane in the country's unsettled east, officials...

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Ukrainian troops stand atop of a vehicle as they leave the scene of fighting in Mariupol, eastern Ukraine, Friday, June 13, 2014.
photo: AP / Evgeniy Maloletka

updated 14 Jun 2014; published 14 Jun 2014
1:25
Raw: Military Plane Shot Down in Ukraine
updated 14 Jun 2014; published 14 Jun 2014
2:00
Ukraine Crisis Military Plane Shot Down In Luhansk - 49 Die In Downed Ukrainian Military Plane
updated 14 Jun 2014; published 14 Jun 2014
0:58
Ukrainian military plane shot down
updated 14 Jun 2014; published 14 Jun 2014
0:20
Pro-Russia separatists shoot down Ukraine army plane
updated 14 Jun 2014; published 14 Jun 2014
3:41
BREAKING NEWS - Ukrainian military plane with at least 49 aboard shot down
updated 15 Jun 2014; published 15 Jun 2014
3:36
Separatists Down Military Transport Jet, Killing 49 in Eastern Ukraine
Veterans Die and Political Elites Thrive Until Healthcare Becomes a Right
Full Article WorldNews.com
14 Jun 2014

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Not only has medicine and healthcare for too long been at the service of the politically elite and wealthy in the United States but it has failed miserably in becoming a right which all citizens are endowed with. Now that the spotlight is again on a healthcare system that has even failed its...

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File - From left, President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretaty of Defense Robert M. Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Marine Gen. Peter Pace depart the Pentagon Aug. 31, 2007, following a meeting.
photo: US DoD file / Cherie A. Thurlby

updated 18 Jun 2012; published 18 Jun 2012
3:55
Political Advocacy 101
updated 07 Oct 2010; published 07 Oct 2010
10:07
TFM: Arianna Huffington Speaks Out Against the Demonizing & Scapegoating of Our President
updated 20 Mar 2013; published 20 Mar 2013
8:48
Dying veteran Tomas Young open letter to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.
updated 07 May 2013; published 07 May 2013
26:08
Another Veteran's Guns Confiscated After Forced 'Psychiatric Evaluation'
updated 12 Feb 2014; published 12 Feb 2014
60:38
Architecting a Future Tele-Health Care System to Treat PTSD in the US Military
updated 16 Oct 2013; published 16 Oct 2013
9:10
HATE: The Racist 'Southern Strategy' Thrives in The Shameless GOP
Afghan polls open in run-off presidential election
Full Article Mail Guardian South Africa
14 Jun 2014

The run-off election will decide whether former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah or ex-World Bank economist Ashraf Ghani leads the country into a new era with declining international military and civilian assistance. President Hamid Karzai is due to step down after ruling the country since 2001 when a US-led offensive ousted the austere Taliban...

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File - A voter (left) and an electoral officer (right) at at a polling station in Kabul, 5 April, 2004. Millions of Afghan women and men cast their ballots in Presidential and Provincial Council elections on 5 April, in an important step forward in their country’s first democratic transition of power.
photo: UN / Fardin Waezi

updated 02 Apr 2014; published 02 Apr 2014
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Taliban suicide blast kills six as Afghan election looms
updated 24 Oct 2009; published 24 Oct 2009
5:10
MIR: Afghanistan - Fraud, Opium, and Taliban
updated 14 Jun 2014; published 14 Jun 2014
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Afghan Election Continues In Spite Of Threats By Taliban.
updated 06 Apr 2014; published 06 Apr 2014
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Despite Taliban Threat, High Turnout In Afghan Election
updated 05 Apr 2014; published 05 Apr 2014
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Ballot Battle: Millions of Afghans defy Taliban threats in historic presidential election
updated 05 Apr 2014; published 05 Apr 2014
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Afghans vote in landmark election despite Taliban threat
Obama in vow over Iraq intervention
Full Article Belfast Telegraph
14 Jun 2014

Barack Obama has vowed that the United States will not be "dragged back" into military action in Iraq as long as leaders in Baghdad refuse to reform a political system that has left the county vulnerable to a fast-moving Islamic insurgency. The US president ruled out the possibility of putting American troops on the ground in Iraq, but said he was...

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In this photo taken Friday, Aug. 13, 2010, US Army soldiers from 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, prepare to board a military aircraft in Baghdad, Iraq, as they begin their journey home.
photo: AP / Maya Alleruzzo

updated 13 Jun 2014; published 13 Jun 2014
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IRAQ: US President OBAMA warns of action as jihadists near Baghdad | BREAKING NEWS
updated 13 Jun 2014; published 13 Jun 2014
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Obama says Iraq's Government needs HELP | BREAKING NEWS - 14 JUNE 2014
updated 14 Jun 2014; published 14 Jun 2014
2:35
Iraqis flee; Obama says Iraq's Government needs HELP | BREAKING NEWS - 14 JUNE 2014
updated 30 Aug 2013; published 30 Aug 2013
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Obama Administration Don't Compare Syria and Iraq
updated 13 Jun 2014; published 13 Jun 2014
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Obama Speaks on Options to Help Iraq
updated 13 Jun 2014; published 13 Jun 2014
2:35
Iraq War 2: Obama to send Troops into Iraq to stop ISIS Militants Al Qaeda - World War 3
Ukraine claims win against pro-Russian separatists in Mariupol
Full Article CNN
13 Jun 2014

June 13, 2014 -- Updated 1530 GMT (2330 HKT) A pro-Russian fighter in Slovyansk, Ukraine, checks a woman's documents as she leaves the city on Thursday, June 12. After the recent election of President Petro Poroshenko, there is still unrest in the eastern part of Ukraine, where a large separatist movement has arisen in the wake of Russia's takeover...

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A man rides a bicycle as he passes a site of a battle between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian fighters in Mariupol, eastern Ukraine, Friday, June 13, 2014.
photo: AP / Evgeniy Maloletka

updated 16 Apr 2014; published 16 Apr 2014
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Armed Pro-Russian Separatists Seize Ukrainian Military Vehicles
updated 05 May 2014; published 05 May 2014
1:22
Ukrainian Troops Battle Pro-Russian Militants in Slovyansk
updated 30 May 2014; published 30 May 2014
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Ukraine's President-elect vows vengeance over helicopter attack
updated 23 May 2014; published 23 May 2014
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Ukrainian Military and Separatist Battle Shooting at the CheckPoint Rubezhnoye, Slovyansk
updated 20 May 2014; published 20 May 2014
2:42
Ukrainian election threatened by pro-Russian insurgency: East Ukraine separatists seek to stop vote
updated 03 Jun 2014; published 03 Jun 2014
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Ukraine's President-elect vows vengeance over helicopter attack
Iraq crisis: Islamist militants close in on Baghdad after capturing two towns north of capital
Full Article The Independent
13 Jun 2014

Islamist militants are closing in on Baghdad after capturing two towns north of Iraq's capital. Officials said Iraqi soldiers abandoned their posts with no resistance when fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) pushed into Diyala province. Militants driving machine gun-mounted pickups entered the towns of Jalula and Sadiyah...

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In this still image posted on a militant Twitter account on Wednesday, June 11, 2014, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, militants parade down a main road in Mosul, Iraq.
photo: AP / militant source via Twitter

updated 13 Jun 2014; published 13 Jun 2014
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Iraq Conflict: ISIS Militants Seize New Towns
updated 12 Jun 2014; published 12 Jun 2014
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Journalists: U.S. Failures in Iraq Helped Fuel Current Sectarian Crisis
updated 12 Jun 2014; published 12 Jun 2014
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Iraq crisis Militants order attack on Baghdad
updated 13 Jun 2014; published 13 Jun 2014
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Jihadist militants in Iraq close in on Baghdad
updated 14 Jun 2014; published 14 Jun 2014
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Iraq crisis Where will ISIS attack next
updated 14 Jun 2014; published 14 Jun 2014
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ISIS militants march on Iraq capital executing anyone who gets in the way Mail Online

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Huffington Post
Afghan citizens headed to the polls on Saturday, many of them hoping to elect a new president who will bring peace. The winner of Saturday's presidential runoff will lead...
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The Independent
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it WWE superstar Rob van Dam? No, it's 'SuperVan', Robin van Persie. The flying Dutchman's incredible headed goal, the equaliser for the Netherlands...
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The Miami Herald
(SportsNetwork.com) - In the aftermath of Spain's 5-1 implosion against the Netherlands on Friday, the phrase "changing of the guard" will be thrown around freely. Many will write...

A Palestinian militants from Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, dependent of movement Hamas, during a marking the Nakba or the ''Day of Catastrophe'' in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 15, 2014. Palestinians marked ''Nakba'' (Catastrophe) on Thursday to commemorate the expulsion or fleeing of some 700,000 Palestinians from their homes in the war that led to the founding of Israel in 1948. Photo by Ahmed Deeb / WN
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A Palestinian boy watches as an Israeli soldier signals during the search for three Israeli teenagers in Hebron, West Bank. Photograph: Abed Al Hashlamoun/EPA Fears are growing for the safety of three Israeli teenagers believed to have been...
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb
Pro-Russian fighters walk passed the site of remnants of a downed Ukrainian army aircraft Il-76 at the airport near Luhansk
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Pro-Russian separatists search for ammunition at the site of the crash of the Il-76 Ukrainian army transport plane in Luhansk, June 14, 2014. Ukraine's new president vowed to "punish" pro-Russian insurgents on Saturday after they shot down a...
photo: AP / Evgeniy Maloletka
The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) returns to Naval Station Norfolk.
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The Pentagon announced Saturday that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel had ordered the aircraft carrier George H.W. Bush to move during the day from the North Arabian Sea into the Persian Gulf, placing it closer to Iraq. "The order will provide the...
photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist MC1 Lynn Friant
Finnish Foreign Minister and OSCE Chairman Alexander Stubb, gestures during a press conference in Tbilisi, Georgia, on Friday, Aug. 22, 2008. Russian troops manned checkpoints and controlled traffic on major highways across Georgia on Friday, Russian military trucks roamed the roads freely and Russian military helicopters buzzed overhead. Western leaders remained adamant that Russia remove its troops and do it quickly.
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Finland’s EU minister Alexander Stubb, who wants to cut taxes and take his neutral country into Nato, won the leadership of his ruling conservative party today, putting him on track to become prime minister later this month. British and US-educated...
photo: AP / Shakh Aivazov
Huandoy, Peru . Andes rose to fame for its mineral wealth during the Spanish conquest of South America. Although Andean Amerindian peoples crafted ceremonial jewelry of gold and other metals the mineralization of the Andes were first mined in large scale after the Spanish arrival.
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China, whose presence in Latin America until now was largely based on an appetite for raw materials, is diversifying investments by financing much-needed development projects, analysts say. On its 50th anniversary, the G77+China bloc of developing...
photo: Creative Commons / Clarquitecto
FILE - In this Jan. 6, 1980, file photo, Pittsburgh Steelers coach Chuck Noll glances toward the scoreboard clock during the closing seconds of AFC championship game against the Houston Oilers in Pittsburgh. Noll's Steelers beat Houston, 27-13, to earn a berth in the NFL football Super Bowl.
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PITTSBURGH - Chuck Noll, who built the “Steel CurtainPittsburgh Steelers of the 1970s into one of the most dominant teams in pro football history, becoming the only NFL coach to win four Super Bowl championships, died Friday night in...
photo: AP
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a press conference in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, June 14, 2014. Rouhani says the international sanctions regime has crumbled and will not be rebuilt even if Iran and world powers fail to reach a final nuclear deal by a July 20 deadline. Iran and the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany reached an interim deal in November that limited Iran's uranium enrichment program in exchange for the easing of some sanctions.
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Published June 14, 2014Associated Press Facebook0 Twitter0 TEHRAN, Iran – Iran's President Hassan Rouhani says the international sanctions regime has crumbled and will not be rebuilt even if Iran and world powers fail to reach a final...
photo: AP / Vahid Salemi