U.S. options in Syria shrivel as Islamists and Assad regime make gains
Full Article CNN
04 Dec 2014

December 4, 2014 -- Updated 1641 GMT (0041 HKT) A man drives his motorcycle through a puddle in Aleppo, Syria, on Wednesday, November 26. The United Nations estimates more than 190,000 people have been killed in Syria since an uprising in March 2011 spiraled into civil war. A Syrian opposition fighter fires at Bashar al-Assad Regime forces in the...

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A Free Syrian Army soldier, right, looks through a mirror which helps him see Syrian troops from the other side, as he takes his position with his comrade during fighting, at the old city of Aleppo city, Syria, Monday Sept. 24, 2012.
photo: AP / Hussein Malla

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updated 27 Jul 2013; published 27 Jul 2013
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updated 15 Nov 2014; published 15 Nov 2014
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Syria: Assad's government on the brink of retaking Aleppo back from fractured infighting rebels
updated 22 Sep 2014; published 22 Sep 2014
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Controlling the Capital of the Syrian Revolution: Ghosts of Aleppo (Part 1)
updated 08 May 2014; published 08 May 2014
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Syrian war: Huge bomb explosion destroys Aleppo hotel used by Assad's forces
updated 22 Oct 2014; published 22 Oct 2014
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Syria's Hazm Fighters Destroy Regime Aircrafts in Aleppo
Fierce Fighting in Grozny Raises Specter of ISIS Influence in Russia
Full Article The Daily Beast
04 Dec 2014

Hours before Russian President Putin’s annual address to the nation, the Chechen capital saw the worst combat in years. MOSCOW — The capital of Chechnya, Grozny, seemed to blow up around 1:00 a.m. on Thursday morning. News about hundreds of insurgents occupying schools, kindergartens and other state buildings and killing traffic policemen on the...

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Firefighters examine burned-out market pavilions in central Grozny, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014
photo: AP / Musa Sadulayev

updated 05 Oct 2014; published 05 Oct 2014
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Suicide blast rocks Grozny, southern Russia
updated 30 Nov 2014; published 30 Nov 2014
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Russian Spetznaz Take Out Chechen Sniper In Grozny
updated 06 Oct 2014; published 06 Oct 2014
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Teargas, tanks & tension surge: ISIS advances on Turkey-Syria border
updated 06 Oct 2014; published 06 Oct 2014
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Jihadist Trojan: Fears ISIS extremists sneak into Europe with refugees
updated 05 Oct 2014; published 05 Oct 2014
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ISIS v Iraqi Army: Baghdad releases fierce fighting footage
updated 06 Oct 2014; published 06 Oct 2014
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Black flag over Kobane - ISIS battles on Turkey-Syria border
Putin insists Crimea is historically part of Russia
Full Article The Los Angeles Times
04 Dec 2014

Russian President Vladimir Putin supported the annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea last March and implied that the “strategically important” peninsula will remain part of Russia “from now and forever.” In his State of the Union address, delivered Thursday in the Kremlin, Putin called the March referendum in Crimea and the...

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Press watch Russian President Vladimir Putin during his annual state of the nation address in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014.
photo: AP / Pavel Golovkin

updated 29 Aug 2014; published 29 Aug 2014
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updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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updated 04 Mar 2014; published 04 Mar 2014
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updated 05 Jun 2014; published 05 Jun 2014
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updated 18 Mar 2014; published 18 Mar 2014
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updated 18 Mar 2014; published 18 Mar 2014
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Wind gusts stall launch of new Orion spacecraft
Full Article The Associated Press
04 Dec 2014

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- NASA stood poised to usher in a new era of exploration Thursday with the premier launch of its new Orion spacecraft. The unmanned test flight was set to begin with a sunrise liftoff, but was delayed after a boat strayed into the launch-danger zone and a minor rocket issue popped up. Then a wind gust halted the countdown...

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NASA’s Orion spacecraft, mounted atop a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket, is visible inside the Mobile Service Tower where the vehicle is undergoing launch preparations, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 37, Florida.
photo: NASA / Bill Ingalls

updated 04 Dec 2014; published 04 Dec 2014
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updated 04 Dec 2014; published 04 Dec 2014
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NASA Scrubs Orion Launch; Will Try Again Friday
updated 01 Mar 2013; published 01 Mar 2013
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updated 14 Nov 2014; published 14 Nov 2014
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updated 29 Aug 2014; published 29 Aug 2014
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updated 11 Mar 2014; published 11 Mar 2014
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How science is solving today’s development problems
Full Article The Guardian
04 Dec 2014

Ebola, climate change and food security are just some of the challenges that research and science can help us face, and bring knowledge that we can act on ...

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In this photo taken on Friday, Nov. 28, 2014, health workers wearing Ebola protective gear spray the shrouded body of a man with disinfectant as they suspect he died from the Ebola virus, at a USAID, American aid Ebola treatment center at Tubmanburg on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia.
photo: AP / Abbas Dulleh

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updated 22 Oct 2014; published 22 Oct 2014
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updated 28 Oct 2014; published 28 Oct 2014
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Recognising Taliban govt was Pakistan’s mistake: Musharraf
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Dawn
KARACHI: Former military ruler General (retd) Pervez Musharraf on Thursday termed recognition of Taliban regime in Afghanistan a blunder on part of Pakistan but blamed the West and...
The evolution of Afghanistan
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Al Jazeera
One of the key tests of any new democracy is whether it can make a peaceful transition of executive power. Afghanistan's recent elections seemed at one point to have the...
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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe delivers a speech following his inauguration in Harare, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013.
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Reuters HARARE, ZIMBABWE— Ninety-year-old Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe purged the deputy seen just months ago as his most likely successor, denouncing her before party loyalists as leader of a "treacherous cabal" bent on removing him...
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Orion Crew Module mockup.jpg Orion A mock-up of the Orion space capsule heads to its temporary home in a hangar at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. In late 2008, the full-size structural model will be jettisoned off a simulated launch pad at the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico to test the spacecraft's astronaut escape system, which will ensure a safe, reliable method of escape for astronauts in case of an emergency. NASA's Constellation program is building the Orion crew vehicle to carry humans to the International Space Station by 2015 and to the moon beginning in 2020.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER – NASA plans to try again Friday to launch its next-generation space capsule Orion after a wayward boat, wind gusts and fuel valve problems scrubbed Thursday's launch.lRelated NewsOrion spacecraft arrives at Cape...
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Nigeria repels attack by gunmen on French factory
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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DAMATURU, Nigeria (AP) -- Nigerian police and soldiers repelled an attack by gunmen on a French-owned cement factory on Thursday in northeast Nigeria, where security forces are battling an Islamic...
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Study: Killing wolves means more livestock attacks
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Published December 04, 2014Associated Press Facebook0 Twitter0 livefyre Email Print This undated handout photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a gray wolf. Scientists have found that, contrary to what many people think, killing...
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World leaders discuss Afghanistan's future at London meet
Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, Anwar ul-Haq Ahadi, Abdullah Abdullah
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The Siasat Daily
December 04: World leaders discuss Afghanistan's future at London meet (19:16) London, Dec 4 (IANS) Delegates from over 50 countries gathered in London Thursday for an international conference on Afghanistan, seeking to discuss the country's future...
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Court tells France to pay damages to Somali pirates
File - Somali pirates holding the MV Faina conduct a resupply Friday, Oct. 3, 2008 while under observation by a U.S. Navy ship.
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The European Court of Human Rights says France violated the rights of Somali pirates who had attacked French ships and has ordered compensation for them over judicial delays. The nine Somali pirates should get thousands of euros because they were not...
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Military folks will see compensation packages pinched in 2015 under a deal struck this week by House and Senate negotiators finalizing pay and benefit changes in the fiscal 2015 defense authorization bill. But the compensation pinch in 2015 could...
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