Ebola vaccine trial suspended in Geneva
Full Article Swissinfo
11 Dec 2014

Swiss researchers have suspended the testing of one of the leading Ebola vaccine candidates as a precautionary measure after some volunteers...

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File - The 2014 Ebola epidemic is the largest in history, affecting multiple countries in West Africa. This 2014 image, captured in Sierra Leone, by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Public Health Analyst, Daniel “Dan” Martin, depicts a student of CDC’s infection control course in the process of learning how to properly put on, and remove personal protective equipment (PPE), while rinsing her gloved hands in chlorinated water supplied by a handwashing station.
photo: US CDC / Kamelya Hinson

updated 27 Nov 2014; published 27 Nov 2014
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Experimental Ebola vaccine receives passing grade 에볼라 백신 첫 임상실험서 효과 확인
updated 29 Oct 2014; published 29 Oct 2014
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If Ebola Spreads Unvaccinated Kids Will be Kicked Out of School & CDC Vaccinations or Quarantine
updated 10 Oct 2014; published 10 Oct 2014
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BREAKING: US Government Unleashes Ebola Vaccine
updated 23 Oct 2014; published 23 Oct 2014
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Connecticut governor declares Ebola a public health emergency
updated 04 Oct 2014; published 04 Oct 2014
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Ebola report Oct 3: Prodromal Phase?, More deadly than flu, Fiasco in TX
updated 02 Aug 2014; published 02 Aug 2014
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5 September 2014 Breaking News USA doctor infected with Ebola heading to Nebraska
Fallout from umbrella movement's democracy protests shows Hong Kong needs a new heart
Full Article South China Morning Post
11 Dec 2014

Whether one likes it or not, the umbrella movement has given Hong Kong a new spirit. Unlike the old spirit, whose raison d'être is economic development founded on political and social stability, this new spirit is based on non-financial values. Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying is correct in describing Occupy as a social movement on an unprecedented...

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A couple sit at a main road before police clearing barricades and tents outside government headquarters in Hong Kong Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014.
photo: AP / Vincent Yu

updated 14 Oct 2014; published 14 Oct 2014
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No Turning Back - a tribute to Hong Kong Umbrella Movement
updated 29 Oct 2014; published 29 Oct 2014
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After one Month of Umbrella Campaign in Hong Kong, Where is the Democratic Path Leading?
updated 04 Dec 2014; published 04 Dec 2014
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Occupy Trio´s Silent Complaints
updated 16 Nov 2014; published 16 Nov 2014
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Hong Kong democracy protesters clash with police
updated 26 Nov 2014; published 26 Nov 2014
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Raw: Hong Kong Police Clear Protesters
updated 03 Dec 2014; published 03 Dec 2014
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Occupy Central leaders in Hong Kong to surrender today 홍콩시위 지도부 3명, 오늘 자수 결정
President George W Bush 'knew everything' about CIA interrogation
Full Article BBC News
11 Dec 2014

Former US President George W Bush was "fully informed" about CIA interrogation techniques condemned in a Senate report, his vice-president says. Speaking to Fox News, Dick Cheney said Mr Bush "knew everything he needed to know" about the programme, and the was "full of crap". has defended its use of methods such as...

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File - Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld shares a laugh with President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney during his farewell parade at the Pentagon.
photo: US DoD / Cherie A. Thurlby

updated 11 Dec 2014; published 11 Dec 2014
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President George W Bush 'knew everything' about CIA interrogation : BREAKING NEWS
updated 11 Dec 2014; published 11 Dec 2014
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President George W Bush 'knew everything' about CIA interrogation: World News
updated 11 Dec 2014; published 11 Dec 2014
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President George W Bush 'knew everything' about CIA interrogation
updated 11 Dec 2014; published 11 Dec 2014
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BBC News -President George W Bush 'knew everything' about CIA interrogation
updated 10 Dec 2014; published 10 Dec 2014
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Brutal CIA torture methods - Interrogation techniques uncovered
updated 11 Dec 2014; published 11 Dec 2014
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President George W Bush 'knew everything' about CIA interrogation
Jihadi attacks killed more than 5,000 people in November, the vast majority of them Muslims
Full Article The Guardian
11 Dec 2014

Islamic State and Boko Haram behind most deaths, suggesting jihadism is moving from terrorism to more conventional fighting forces that try to gain or hold territory, report finds ...

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File - People gather at the scene of a car bomb explosion, at the central market, in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Tuesday, July 1, 2014.
photo: AP / Jossy Ola

updated 11 Dec 2014; published 11 Dec 2014
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Jihadist violence 'killed 5,000 in November': World News
updated 19 Nov 2014; published 19 Nov 2014
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20141118 - Barking at the moon
updated 26 Nov 2014; published 26 Nov 2014
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PA TV: Israel's shooting of 4 terrorists is an "attack against our people"
updated 05 Jun 2014; published 05 Jun 2014
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Calgary the new jihad capital of Canada? Salman Ashrafi latest jihadi doofus to be killed
updated 25 Sep 2014; published 25 Sep 2014
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Exclusive: Islamic State Member Warns of NYC Attack In VICE News Interview
updated 03 Nov 2014; published 03 Nov 2014
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Wagah Border Blast: 54 KILLED, 200 INJURED In Suicide Attack, Terror Outfits Claim Responsibility
CIA torture report: In Iraq, US abuses, and their consequences, are old news
Full Article Yahoo Daily News
10 Dec 2014

While many Americans have expressed shock at the details of CIA interrogation methods revealed Tuesday in a Senate report, there is little such surprise being voiced in Iraq, where the price the US has paid for those policies is also well understood. After the 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, the US military operated scores of detention...

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In this June 22, 2004 file photo, a detainee in an outdoor solitary confinement cell talks with a military policeman at the Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq.
photo: AP / John Moore

updated 02 Oct 2014; published 02 Oct 2014
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CIA Human Rights Abuses, Torture, Death Squads: Amy Goodman (1996)
updated 13 Dec 2007; published 13 Dec 2007
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cia torture in iraq tv3 nz
updated 10 Dec 2014; published 10 Dec 2014
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Exclusive: Fil-Am Ret. Major General Tony Taguba denounces torture in CIA report
updated 08 Apr 2014; published 08 Apr 2014
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CIA Torture Report Dismissed By Liz Cheney
updated 20 Feb 2014; published 20 Feb 2014
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Iraq - Torture and prisoner abuse by american soldiers
updated 09 Dec 2014; published 09 Dec 2014
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US Senator Dianne Feinstein Unveils CIA Torture Report on Capitol Hill in Washington

Open Minds Worldwide
It is our indignation, not that of the Arab world, that torturers fear. We are ...
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The Independent
Up to the end, they wanted to keep it secret. And the vicious psychopaths and sadists that ran the CIA’s torture centres “on our behalf” must be protected, even praised by the...
Torture is Good?
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CounterPunch
A truncated version of the Senate investigation into the CIA’s Terror War torture regime has finally been released. Even in its limited form, it details an operation of vile...
The myth of the good war
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The Guardian
Our year of remembrance has exaggerated the tragic futility of the first world war and preserved the dangerous idea that the second was noble and heroic ...

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Detroit's Bankruptcy Is Over, Michigan's Governor Says
Rick Snyder, Michigan governor, Talks with Michigan Municipal League Board
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National Public Radio
12:49 PM ET Krishnadev Calamur Twitter i i Gov. Rick Snyder speaks today flanked by Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan (left) and emergency manager Kevyn Orr. Snyder said that the nation's largest municipal bankruptcy will end at midnight. Paul Sancya/AP hide...
photo: Creative Commons / Michigan Municipal League
Report distorts CIA success foiling terrorist plots
Members of the September 11th Education Trust meet in a restaurant overlooking the National September 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center, Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012 in New York. The trust is a non-profit organization dedicated to teaching the lessons of 9/11
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Stars and Stripes
The most incredible and false claim in the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on the CIA interrogation program is that the program was neither necessary nor effective in the agency’s post-9/11 pursuit of al-Qaida. The report, written by the...
photo: AP / Mark Lennihan
Malala, Satyarthi receive Nobel Peace Prize
This photo combo shows Indian children's rights activist Kailash Satyarthi, left, and Malala Yousafzai, right
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The State
OSLO, Norway — Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan and Kailash Satyarthi of India on Wednesday received the Nobel Peace Prize for risking their lives to fight for working to protect children from slavery, extremism and child labor at great risk to...
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Russian buyer of Nobel medal plans to give it back to US scientist
** FILE ** Russian billionaire tycoon Alisher Usmanov is seen his Moscow office in this 2004 file photo. Sotheby´s on Monday canceled the auction of the collection of the late cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and his wife Galina Vishnevsakaya because
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South China Morning Post
The richest man in Russia and a major shareholder in Arsenal football club has come forward as the buyer of US scientist James Watson's Nobel medal - declaring that he now plans to give it back to him. Alisher Usmanov, the Russian entrepreneur, paid...
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Report details Brazil regime abuses
President Dilma Rousseff receives members of the Movement Free Pass, at the Presidential Palace
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Belfast Telegraph
Brazil's National Truth Commission has delivered a damning report on the killings, disappearances and acts of torture committed by government agents during the country's 1964-1985 military dictatorship. The 2,000-page report was delivered to...
photo: ABr / Aguinaldo Ribeiro
Former Top Chinese Official Jailed For Life Over Graft
Front row from left, China's former President Hu Jintao, newly appointed President Xi Jinping, newly installed Premier Li Kiqiang and former Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao sing the Chinese national anthem at the closing session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing China, Sunday, March 17, 2013. China's new leader pledged a cleaner, more efficient government Sunday as the country's ceremonial legislature wrapped up a pivotal session that installed the latest generation of communist leaders in a once-a-decade transfer of power.
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Business Insider
Thomson ReutersFile photo of Liu Tienan attending a news conference in Beijing See Also BEIJING (Reuters) - The former deputy head of China's top planning agency was jailed for life on Wednesday over a bribery scandal that exposed graft at the...
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727 Iraqi Kurdish fighters killed since IS rise in June
14th Nov 2007. Koya Iraqi Kurdistan. The Iranian Kurdish peshmarga, military in Iraq. Jamal
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The Siasat Daily
Baghdad, December 10: The Peshmerga military forces of Iraq's Kurdish semi-autonomous region said Wednesday that up to 727 Kurdish fighters have been killed fighting the Islamic State (IS) Sunni radical group. A statement issued by the Peshmerga said...
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