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World's billionaire population growing
Full Article Yahoo Daily News
17 Sep 2014

The world’s billionaire club is getting a little less exclusive. A total of 155 men and women broke the billion-dollar threshold this year, according to the 2014 Billionaire Census from Wealth-X, a Singapore-based research firm, and the Swiss bank UBS. The report released Wednesday. The worldwide population of those with wealth exceeding $1 billion...

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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, left,talks next to Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim during a press conference in Mexico City, Monday, June 14, 2010.
photo: AP / Eduardo Verdugo

updated 07 Dec 2013; published 06 Nov 2013
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27 of 2,170 billionaires around the world are in Singapore - 06Nov2013
updated 10 May 2014; published 18 Feb 2014
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90 of the top 300 BILLIONAIRES Live in the USA
updated 29 Aug 2014; published 30 Jul 2014
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What's it Like Having $38 BILLION DOLLARS - CEO of SANDS CASINO Tells Us
updated 18 Mar 2014; published 16 Dec 2013
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【全球億萬富翁計劃】他們的財富保值和積累
updated 06 Sep 2014; published 26 Nov 2010
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Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC Four
updated 24 Aug 2014; published 24 Aug 2014
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$25 MILLION DOLLAR MANSION - Look Inside This Luxury Mediterranean Estate Featured on Cribs
Isis release 'Flames of War' video warning Obama of attacks troops could face in Iraq
Full Article The Independent
17 Sep 2014

The Islamic State (Isis) group has released a video appearing to warn the US that fighters are waiting in Iraq if President Barack Obama chooses to send troops in there. The 52-second film, entitled ‘Flames of War’ purports to be a trailer and shows tanks being hit, wounded US soldiers and men on their knees as they are about to be executed. It...

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President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden meet with members of the National Security Council in the Situation Room of the White House, Sept. 10, 2014.
photo: White House / Pete Souza

updated 27 Aug 2014; published 27 Aug 2014
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12 September 2014 Breaking News Obama chose General Allen to lead global coalition against ISIS/ISIL
updated 13 Jun 2014; published 13 Jun 2014
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Iraq War 2: Obama to send Troops into Iraq to stop ISIS Militants Al Qaeda - World War 3
updated 22 Aug 2014; published 22 Aug 2014
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3 September 2014 Breaking News Obama flip flop on His NO Strategy Against ISIS
updated 08 Aug 2014; published 08 Aug 2014
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isis iraq video - President Obama Sends 275 Troops To Iraq, ISIS Gains More Ground
updated 18 Jun 2014; published 18 Jun 2014
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2014 July 29 Breaking News Islamic State kills Syrian soldiers captures Military base
updated 17 Sep 2014; published 17 Sep 2014
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ISIS release 'Flames of War' video warning Obama of attacks if US troops are deployed in Iraq
Human rights abuses by Thai junta reinforce climate of fear
Full Article South China Morning Post
17 Sep 2014

Since seizing power from an elected government more than three months ago, Thailand's National Council for Peace and Order - the governing body of the coup makers - has continued to violate people's freedoms. Last week, Amnesty International launched a report detailing human rights abuses that have taken place. It may herald stronger sanctions from...

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In this Aug. 21, 2014 file photo, Thai new Prime Minister Prayuth Chan–ocha arrives to attend an establishment anniversary of the 21st Infantry Regiment, Queen's Guard in Chonburi, Thailand.
photo: AP / Sakchai Lalit

updated 29 Jun 2013; published 29 Jun 2013
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Canada Should Kick Out Canadian Pakistanis Who Took Jihadi Training In Pakistan - Tarek Fatah
updated 28 Feb 2014; published 28 Feb 2014
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John Kerry Gives Human Rights Report - Mentions Russia Syria Uganda Venezuela CAR N.Korea China
updated 01 Jan 2014; published 01 Jan 2014
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News In Two Minutes - Coup Fears - Alpha Virus - Fukushima EQ - Food Inflation - Protests
updated 24 Dec 2013; published 24 Dec 2013
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News In Two Minutes - Fukushima Leaks - Animal Die Off - Protests - Unrest - Climate Change
updated 15 Aug 2012; published 15 Aug 2012
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Israeli Journalist Gideon Levy on the Escalating Talk of A Military Attack on Iran
updated 20 Jul 2009; published 20 Jul 2009
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ASEAN Summit Kicks Off
Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond addresses the media, during a press conference ahead of the Commonwealth Games 2014, in Glasgow, Scotland, Tuesday July 22, 2014. The opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games commences on Wednesday.
photo: AP / Frank Augstein

updated 21 Oct 2012; published 21 Oct 2012
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Pocket Rocket
updated 16 Jun 2013; published 16 Jun 2013
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big horn sheep
updated 08 Aug 2014; published 08 Aug 2014
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An Irish Tornado touching down (View from Passage East, Waterford, Ireland)
updated 30 Jul 2014; published 30 Jul 2014
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Ireland's Wild River
updated 19 Jun 2012; published 19 Jun 2012
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Gentleman Soldier - Fraggle Folk (Fingleton & Salmon) - Frank's Shed Recording Studio
updated 17 Mar 2014; published 17 Mar 2014
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Defeating ISIL Means Defeating Disaster Militarism
Full Article WorldNews.com
16 Sep 2014

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Neo-conservatives and far-right media pundits are calling it a prophetic moment. But it was more like a deliberate project, a sinister scheme, known as Disaster Militarism.(1) The prophetic moment in question occurred back in 2007 when then-President George W. Bush made a desperate appeal to the...

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File - People gather outside of the White House in Washington, Saturday, June 21, 2014, to protest against renewed U.S. involvement in Iraq.
photo: AP / Susan Walsh

updated 07 Sep 2014; published 07 Sep 2014
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26/08/2014 - U.S. airstrike against an ISIL armed truck near Arbil
updated 24 Jun 2014; published 24 Jun 2014
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Hawaii Political Reporter Iraq Afgahanistan News Mission Accomplished What you are not being told
updated 30 Jun 2014; published 30 Jun 2014
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China will not seek hegemony: Xi Jinping
updated 29 Dec 2010; published 29 Dec 2010
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US of War - "Addicted to Militarism, Addicted to War Spending & Addicted to War Profits!"
updated 28 Mar 2014; published 28 Mar 2014
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Refusing to Fight: Canadians Supporting US War Deserters
updated 04 Jul 2013; published 04 Jul 2013
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America's Reputation in the World, Military Capacity, and Security: Noam Chomsky on Empire (2004)

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CounterPunch
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...
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CounterPunch
President Mahmoud Abbas and the Fatah movement, which he commands, have unleashed a media campaign against Hamas and the resistance. If pressure from the Palestinian public fails...

French police secure the area where they exchanged fire and were negotiating with a gunman who claims connections to al-Qaida and is suspected of killing three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three paratroopers, Wednesday, March 21, 2012 in Toulouse, southwestern France.
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Pope Francis may have often spoken out against the “evil” of drug use, but the Vatican was facing embarrassment on Tuesday after 9lb of cocaine was found in a car bearing diplomatic plates associated with the Holy See. The car, which was...
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Emir of Qatar Sheik Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, center, attends the opening session of the Arab League Summit in Doha, Qatar, Tuesday, March 26, 2013.
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Related media Travel deals BERLIN - (AP) -- The emir of Qatar says his oil-rich Gulf nation has provided no support for the Islamic State extremist group. Following meetings with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday, Sheik Tamim bin Hamad Al...
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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, left, and SpaceX CEO and Chief Designer Elon Musk, view the historic Dragon capsule.
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NASA is a giant step closer to once again launching Americans from U.S. soil. On Tuesday, the space agency said it has picked SpaceX and Boeing to fly astronauts to the International Space Station in the next few years. NASA Administrator Charles...
photo: Public Domain / Bill Ingalls
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls delivers his speech at the National Assembly in Paris, France, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014. France's prime minister faces a confidence vote in a parliament increasingly frustrated with unpopular President Francois Hollande's handling of the economy, including dissidents within his Socialist Party.
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French Prime Minister Manuel Valls won a vote of confidence on Wednesday in a tense ballot, allowing him to push through economic reforms that have divided his Socialist Party.The government&aposs; once comfortable margin was diluted......
photo: AP / Francois Mori
President Barack Obama speaks about increasing the minimum wage, Wednesday, April 30, 2014, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Earlier, Senate Republicans blocked an election-year Democratic bill that would boost the federal minimum wage, handing a defeat to the president on a vote that is sure to reverberate in this year's congressional elections. (AP Photo)
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US President Barack Obama is seeking to "turn the tide" on the Ebola epidemic by ordering 3,000 US military personnel to West Africa and launching a major health-care training and hygiene program. //--> Wednesday, September 17, 2014 US President...
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United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and South Sudan President Salva Kiir in a press conference shortly after their indoor meeting on May 6, 2014 to demand an end to five months conflict. During the visit, Secretary General has repeatedly called on both leaders to find a political solution and put an immediate end to the violence, which has led to suffering of so many innocent civilians.
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Philip Aleu, Nabeel Biajo JUBASouth Sudan has ordered NGOs and businesses operating in the country to fire foreign workers by mid-October and give their jobs to South Sudanese. In a statement published Tuesday in several newspapers, the...
photo: UN / Isaac Billy
Desecrated graves are seen in the main Jewish cemetery of Strasbourg, eastern France, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010. Police and Jewish officials say the cemetery has been desecrated, with some gravestones marked with swastikas and overturned. The desecration came as Jews marked the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz death camp, a symbol of the Holocaust, when the Nazis killed millions.
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A 93-year-old man has been charged with 300,000 counts of accessory to murder for serving as an SS guard at the Nazis' Auschwitz death camp, prosecutors said Monday. Oskar Groening is accused of helping operate the death camp in occupied Poland...
photo: AP / Christian Lutz