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UN Security Council meeting over Russia aid convoy
Full Article The Australian
22 Aug 2014

THE UN Security Council, which includes Australia, was to hold emergency consultations early today in New York after Russia sent an aid convoy rolling into eastern Ukraine, where pro-Moscow rebels are fighting Kiev’s forces. The Pentagon said Russia must “immediately’’ withdraw the Ukraine convoy. Lithuania requested the...

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UN Security Council meeting over Russia aid convoy
photo: UN / Devra Berkowitz

updated 22 Aug 2014; published 22 Aug 2014
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Ukraine, Russia trade barbs at UN over aid convoy
updated 23 Aug 2014; published 23 Aug 2014
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Moscow defends decision to send aid convoy to eastern Ukraine
updated 14 Aug 2014; published 14 Aug 2014
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Russian Humanitarian Aid Convoy Pushes South To Ukraine | BREAKING NEWS - 14 AUG 2014
updated 17 Aug 2014; published 17 Aug 2014
1:16
Ukraine crisis: Russian aid convoy arrives at border
updated 22 Aug 2014; published 22 Aug 2014
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BREAKING NEWS - Russian and Ukrainian envoys hold briefing at UN
updated 19 Aug 2014; published 19 Aug 2014
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Harf. Thanks to the Russian Govt. 18 Aug 2014 (Ukraine)
Russia convoy 'invasion' of Ukraine
Full Article Belfast Telegraph
22 Aug 2014

Russia's sending of a massive aid convoy into Ukraine without Kiev's agreement is a "direct invasion", Ukraine's Security Service chief has said. Valentyn Nalyvaichenko said the invasion "happened for the first time under the cover of the Red Cross". He said those driving the aid trucks are Russian military men who are trained to drive combat...

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A Russian border guard opens a gate into the Ukraine for the first trucks heading into the country from the Russian town of Donetsk, Rostov-on-Don region, Russia, Friday, Aug. 22, 2014.
photo: AP / Sergei Grits

updated 22 Aug 2014; published 22 Aug 2014
1:11
Russian aid convoy is "direct invasion" says Ukraine
updated 23 Aug 2014; published 23 Aug 2014
2:18
Russian aid convoy crosses into eastern Ukraine amid international criticism
updated 22 Aug 2014; published 22 Aug 2014
1:17
Ukraine crisis Russia aid convoy 'invades Ukraine
updated 12 Aug 2014; published 12 Aug 2014
2:44
Russia sends 280 Trucks with Humanitarian Aid to Ukraine | BREAKING NEWS - 12 AUG 2014
updated 14 Aug 2014; published 14 Aug 2014
1:58
Russian Humanitarian Aid Convoy Pushes South To Ukraine | BREAKING NEWS - 14 AUG 2014
updated 22 Aug 2014; published 22 Aug 2014
0:47
Ukraine Calls Russian Aid Convoy A 'Direct Invasion'
With more than 191,000 dead in Syria, U.N. rights chief slams global 'paralysis'
Full Article CNN
22 Aug 2014

updated 7:00 AM EDT, Fri August 22, 2014 (CNN) -- It's a chilling figure: 191,369 men, women and children reported killed in Syria between March 2011 and the end of April 2014. The figure, the result of a new analysis for the United Nations, is a significant increase on the last update provided by the United Nations, but even so it is probably less...

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In this photo taken during a Syrian government-led media tour, buildings damaged during battles between Syrian troops and rebels stand along an empty street in Mleiha, some 10 kilometers (6 miles) southeast of downtown Damascus, Syria, Friday, Aug. 15, 2014.
photo: AP

updated 04 Mar 2014; published 04 Mar 2014
2:26
Syrian government forces advance on Aleppo. Al Jazeera English
updated 27 Jul 2013; published 27 Jul 2013
2:41
Syrian Rebels Execute 51 Soldiers And Possible Civilians in Khan Al-Assal | Syria News
updated 30 Jan 2014; published 30 Jan 2014
4:12
Syrian News-Syria Aleppo Al Qaeda CIA Terrorists VS Syrian Security Forces New HD 720p
updated 27 Jul 2014; published 27 Jul 2014
3:43
Syria, Aleppo FSA Moving in on Assads Forces
updated 07 Feb 2014; published 07 Feb 2014
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Syrian government barrel bombs kill scores in Aleppo keizer report
updated 14 Nov 2013; published 14 Nov 2013
24:38
Syria War - Heavy Firefight And Clashes Between Al-Qaeda And Syrian Rebels Plus Syrian Army
Nick Canon Confirms Split From Mariah Carey: 'We Have Been Living In Separate Houses For A Few Months’
Full Article Entertainment Wise
22 Aug 2014

The rumour mill has been in overdrive all day with reports Mariah Carey and Nick Canon are heading for splitsville but the comedian has now confirmed that the couple are on the rocks announcing: “There is trouble in paradise”. But the ‘America’s Got Talent’ host was quick to dismiss any allegations of cheating but held...

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Mariah Carey and husband Nick Cannon the 82nd Academy Awards Sunday, March 7, 2010, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles
photo: AP / Chris Pizzello

updated 21 Aug 2014; published 21 Aug 2014
2:21
Nick Cannon confirms Mariah Carey Separation
updated 25 Jul 2013; published 25 Jul 2013
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Mariah Carey & Nick Cannon - I Have Nothing
updated 22 Aug 2014; published 22 Aug 2014
10:08
Jessie J's "Bang Bang" Music Video Sneak Peek! Mariah Carey & Nick Cannon Divorcing? (DHR)
updated 21 Aug 2014; published 21 Aug 2014
1:52
Mariah Carey & Nick Cannon: Divorce 'A Done Deal' -- Separated For Months
updated 01 Nov 2013; published 01 Nov 2013
1:11
Nick Cannon & Mariah's Carey's Super Twins
updated 21 Aug 2014; published 21 Aug 2014
1:29
Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon Splitting Over Kim Kardashian
Islamic State militants pose 'biggest threat' to US
Full Article BBC News
22 Aug 2014

Islamic State militants are the most dangerous threat the US has faced in recent years, Washington has warned. Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel said US air strikes had helped to break the Islamist advance in Iraq, but the militants could be expected to regroup. America's top general Martin Dempsey stressed that IS could not be defeated without...

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File - This undated image posted on a militant website on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014 shows fighters from the al-Qaida linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) marching in Raqqa, Syria.
photo: AP / Militant Website

updated 09 Jul 2014; published 09 Jul 2014
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2014 August Breaking News Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS a Global Threat
updated 06 Feb 2014; published 06 Feb 2014
3:20
Ayotte: Resurgence of Militant Extremists in Iraq, Syria Poses Threat to US
updated 22 Aug 2014; published 22 Aug 2014
31:51
2014 August 22 Breaking News USA Pentagon briefing Military strategy against ISIS in Syria & Iraq
updated 29 Jun 2014; published 29 Jun 2014
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US president: European militants in Syria, Iraq threaten US
updated 22 Aug 2014; published 22 Aug 2014
2:36
Islamic State militants pose 'biggest threat' to US
updated 30 Jun 2014; published 30 Jun 2014
3:19
ISIS Militants declare New Islamic State in Iraq and Syria

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The Daily Beast
America’s fastest growing financial and political powerbase is totally dominated by white men, this is not progress. In a culture that maintains its belief in the individualism of...
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The Charlotte Observer
Americans are probably not unique in treating philanthropy as a sort of game, with the goal of making it go down painlessly. The ice bucket challenge sweeping the nation –...
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The Daily Beast
As big a threat as ISIS is, the competition that truly defines the Middle East is the one between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Where do we fit in? The grisly and unspeakable beheading by...

Cabazon Dinosaurs is a roadside attraction at the Main Street exit in Cabazon. In Riverside County, I-10 goes through Calimesa before entering Beaumont and merging with the eastern end of State Route 60 (itself formerly the California segment of US 60).
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A high-school student in the US state of South Carolina has been arrested and suspended from school over a writing assignment in which he claimed to have killed his neighbour's pet dinosaur, it's...
photo: Creative Commons / Binksternet
A French soldier waves to children as his jeep patrols between the airstrip and a makeshift camp housing an estimated 100,000 displaced people, at Mpoko Airport, in Bangui, Central African Republic, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014.
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Reuters BANGUI— At least 25 people have died in a collapse at a gold mine 60 km (40 miles) north of the Central African Republic town of Bambari, Ahmat Negat, spokesman for the mainly Muslim Seleka rebels, said on Friday. The mine at...
photo: AP / Rebecca Blackwell
A Malaysian activist from the Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections (Bersih) covers himself with a national flag as he walks off after a rally in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Saturday, July 9, 2011.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Carried by soldiers and draped in the national flag, coffins carrying Malaysian victims of Flight MH17 returned home Friday to a country still searching for those onboard another doomed jet and a government battling the...
photo: AP / Vincent Thian
This citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Revolution Against Assad's Regime which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows dead bodies on a street in Aleppo, Syria Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013.
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JOHN HEILPRIN Associated Press Comments Geneva — The death toll from three years of Syria’s civil war has risen to more than 191,000 people, the United Nations reported Friday. The figure, covering the period from March 2011 to April 2014, is the...
photo: AP / Aleppo Revolution Against Assad Regime
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon, Friday, March 15, 2013, to announce that the Obama administration will add 14 interceptors to a West Coast-based U.S.-based missile defense system reflecting concern about North Korea's focus on developing nuclear weapons and its advances in long-range missile technology.
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MOSCOW, August 22 (RIA Novosti) - The United States is warning that the Islamic State (IS) radical group presents a major threat to the stability and security of the Middle East region and long-term efforts from several countries will be required to...
photo: AP / Cliff Owen
 UN chief calls for international efforts to end Syrian bloodshed
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> • UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Thursday called for international efforts to end the Syrian crisis. • Ban also conveyed his deepest condolences to the families who lost their loved ones. • Syrian crisis, which began in March 2011, has killed...
photo: UN / Eskinder Debebe
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Authorities in the southern Indian state of Kerala have outlined plans to ban the sale and consumption of alcohol to tackle the state's drink problem. Initially, more than 700 bars and some shops selling alcohol would be shut and alcohol-free...
photo: WN / Yolanda Leyba