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CounterPunch
Ever since President Obama gave his crISis ™ speech, I’ve pushed back against what I considered to be simplistic predictions of the effort’s doom, along the lines of “air power...
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How’s this for a juxtaposition on how nations respond to a global health catastrophe. Check out these two headlines from yesterday’s news: Reading these stories, which ran in,...
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Business Insider
Although nearly 70 years have passed since the end of World War II, suspected Nazis are still being brought to justice. The latest suspect is 93-year-old Oskar Groening, charged...

Muslim perform ablution from the fountain waters inside the compound of Kashmir's Jamia Masjid during Ramadan in Srinagar August 28, 2009. Muslims around the world abstain from eating, drinking and sexual relations from sunrise to sunset during Ramadan, the holiest month in the Islamic calendar.
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Jessica Berman A new study says the global population is growing faster than expected and projects the number of people globally will rise to just under 11 billion people by 2100. The study, which is an extension of a 2013 United Nations report, says...
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A young Japanese woman holding a child looks at the whale balloon of a pro-whaling group in Shimonoseki, southwestern Japan, Sunday, May 20, 2002. The plenary session of the 54th annual International Whaling Commission starts Monday in the Japan's once-thriving whaling capital. Japan is pushing hard for the IWC to overturn a ban on commercial whale hunts.
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Henry Ridgwell LONDONThe International Whaling Commission has voted to uphold a court ruling banning Japan from hunting whales in the Antarctic Ocean. Conservationists hailed the ruling as a victory, but Tokyo says it will submit revised...
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Protesters stand on the corner of a street in Quan Doan 4, Binh Duong province, near Song Than 2 Industrial Park in Vietnam, Wednesday, May 14, 2014.
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VOA News Vietnam has countered a human rights report that accuses the country of increasing cases of police brutality. In a statement posted to the foreign ministry website Thursday, spokeswoman Tran Thi Bich Van says Vietnam has a "firm...
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Tree pangolin (Manus tricuspis) in central Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Reuters DAKAR/LIBREVILLE — Alongside dirt roads twisting through the dense tropical forests of Gabon, the scaly bodies of lifeless long-snouted pangolins dangle from sticks stuck in the ground by hunters. The pangolin, a mammal that looks like an...
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High level EU coordination meeting on Ebola
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Joe DeCapua Sierra Leone launched a new campaign Thursday to try to contain the spread of the ebola virus. Initial reports -- describing the effort as a nationwide lockdown -- were wrong. Instead, the campaign is officially called the House-to-House...
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 A view of the British Broadcasting Corporation headquarters in London, Tuesday, Dec.7, 2004. It was
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MOSCOW: A team of BBC journalists was beaten and their camera smashed in southern Russia, where they were looking into reports of Russian soldiers killed while on secret deployments near Ukraine, the broadcaster said on Thursday. The three reporters...
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In this image taken Thursday Feb. 28, 2013 residents salvage wood from demolished houses at Ijora Badia slum in Lagos, Nigeria.
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LAGOS: The death toll from a collapsed guesthouse at a megachurch in Nigeria's financial capital Lagos has risen to 80 after more bodies were pulled from the rubble, rescuers said on Thursday. The guesthouse at popular preacher and televangelist TB...
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