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President Barack Obama gestures during his health care reform meeting at the Blair House in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010.
Barack Obama   India   Photos   US   Wikipedia: Barack Obama		  The Charlotte Observer 
Obama invites India's new leader Modi to visit US
Fri 16 May 2014
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama is inviting India's next prime minister, Narendra Modi, to visit the United States, offering a fresh start to a relationship bruised by a decision years ago not to... (photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Rep. Rob Woodall, R-Ga., joined at left by Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., responds to statements by Democrats on the House Rules Committee about political motivations as lawmakers work on the creation of a special select committee to investigate the attack on the U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, that killed the ambassador and three other Americans, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 7, 2014.
Benghazi Attack   Iraq War   Photos   US Foreign Policy   Wikipedia: 2012 Benghazi attack		  WorldNews.com 
Hypocrisy Equals Republicans-Downing Street Memo-Benghazi Equation
Fri 16 May 2014
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling If hypocrisy is trying to show or make others believe that one has higher moral standards than one in fact does, then Republicans are on their way to... (photo: AP / J. Scott Applewhite)
Residents carry some of their belongings in the al-Hamidiyeh neighborhood of Homs, Syria, Saturday, May 10, 2014.  Al Jazeera  Fri 16 May 2014
Homs is a victory for no one
The evacuation of rebel fighters from the Old City of Homs is being widely portrayed as major victory for the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Rather incredulously, some in the opposition are even claiming... (photo: AP)
Human Rights   Mideast Peace   Photos   Syrian War   Wikipedia: Syrian Civil War
Women attend a demonstration calling on the government to rescue the kidnapped schoolgirls of the Chibok secondary school, in Abuja, Nigeria, Tuesday, May 13, 2014.  Orange News  Fri 16 May 2014
Nigeria President Visits Abducted Girls' Town
16 May 2014, 3:46 Nigeria President Visits Abducted Girls' Town Tweet Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan will today visit the town where more than 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped by Islamic... (photo: AP / Sunday Alamba)
Boko Haram   Goodluck Jonathan   Nigerian Conflict   Photos   Wikipedia: 2014 Chibok kidnapping
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Cynthia Wides, right, and Elizabeth Carey file for a marriage certificate at City Hall in San Francisco, Saturday, June 29, 2013. Dozens of gay couples have lined up outside City Hall in San Francisco as clerks have resumed issuing same-sex marriage licenses one day after a federal appeals court cleared the way for the state of California to immediately lift a 4-year freeze. The Examiner Fri 16 May 2014
Battling Same Sex Marriages
I live in the liberal state of Oregon. While it is known as being liberal, it seems the government is having difficulties in defining marriage in the state. Are gay... (photo: AP / Marcio Jose Sanchez)
Gay   Marriage   Oregon   Photos   Wikipedia: Same-sex marriage
Women attend a demonstration calling on the government to rescue the kidnapped schoolgirls of the Chibok secondary school, in Abuja, Nigeria, Tuesday, May 13, 2014. Mail Guardian South Africa Thu 15 May 2014
Nigeria rules out prisoner swap for missing girls
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has ruled out the release of Boko Haram fighters in exchange for the freedom of more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by the... (photo: AP / Sunday Alamba)
Boko Haram   Islamic Extremism   Nigerian Conflict   Photos   Wikipedia: 2014 Chibok kidnapping
A Palestinian fishermen inspects his destroyed fishing boat hauled up onto the shore, close to the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, on the Mediterranean Sea, on March 26, 2014. Al Jazeera Thu 15 May 2014
Open Gaza's seaport, end the blockade
The nonchalance with which the West has been observing the slow decomposition of the Palestinian social fabric in Gaza in its eighth year of Israeli blockade amounts to a... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb)
Gaza Blockade   Human Rights   Israeli Palestinian Conflict   Photos   Wikipedia: Blockade of the Gaza Strip
A sick displaced man lies asleep on a bed while a mother bathes her son and keeps an eye on her other child in the United Nations camp in Juba, South Sudan Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014. Al Jazeera Thu 15 May 2014
S Sudan faces 'catastrophic levels of hunger'
War-torn South Sudan faces a catastrophic "tipping point" amid famine and genocide warnings, an aid agency has stated, as the conflict entered its fifth month with no... (photo: AP / Mackenzie Knowles-Coursin)
Human Rights   Photos   S Sudan   UN   Wikipedia: South Sudanese conflict (2013–14)
John Ging, Operations Director of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Newstrack India Wed 14 May 2014
Obama announces sanctions over CAR conflict
Tweet Washington, May 14 (IANS) US President Barack Obama imposed sanctions on five individuals for their roles in the escalating conflict in the Central African Republic... (photo: UN / JC McIlwaine)
Central African Republic   Human Rights   Photos   Wikipedia: Central African Republic conflict (2012–present)   Ethnic Violence - CAR
At the working meeting between G20 heads of state and government. President of the United States Barack Obama. The Times of India Wed 14 May 2014
Obama imposes sanctions on former CAR leaders, White House says
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama on Tuesday imposed sanctions against the former Central African Republic leaders Francois Bozize and Michel Djotodia and three other... (photo: Russian Presidential Press and Information Office)
Lawmaker   Photos   Politics   UN   Wikipedia: François Bozizé


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In this photo taken Monday, May 5, 2014, Nana Shettima, the wife of Borno Governor, Kashim Shettima, center, weeps as she speaks with school girls from the government secondary school Chibok that were kidnapped by the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram, and later escaped in Chibok Nigeria. Nigeria abducted girls: France's summit on Boko Haram threat BBC News
Yemeni soldiers stop cars at a checkpoint in a street in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, May 12, 2014. The Bloody War that Doesn’t Exist CounterPunch
Friends and family members of 9/11 victims visit a September 11 Memorial waterfall during a ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the attacks, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011 in New York. Obama visits 9/11 museum, says terrorism can't break us The Times of India
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Amnesty International
Homophobia still tolerated by world’s governments (Amnesty International Australia) noodls
In 2014 governments across the world officially endorsing homophobia through anti-gay measures (Amnesty International United Kingdom Section) noodls
South Sudan: New interactive conflict map highlights urgent need to protect civilians (Amnesty International) noodls
Amnesty International: Homophobia still tolerated by governments around the ... (16/05/2014) (Amnesty International European Institutions Office) noodls
Peace
Indian voters wait inside 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 Kolkata turns into fortress for vote finale The Times of India
A woman holds an anti-war placard and a sign as Buddhist monks beat drums and chant sutras during a rally against Japan's plan to reform constitution in Tokyo Thursday, May 15, 2014. Will Japan's Two-Edged Sword Shred Its Pacifist Constitution? WorldNews.com
David Morrissey speaking at the 2013 San Diego Comic Con International, for "The Walking Dead", at the San Diego Convention Morrissey reveals Archers offer Belfast Telegraph
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