Pope Francis and President Barack Obama meet at the Vatican Thursday, March 27, 2014
photo: AP / Gabriel Bouys, Pool

updated 17 Dec 2014; published 17 Dec 2014
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President Obama Cuba FULL Speech. 12/17/14 Obama: Isolating Cuba Hasn't Worked
updated 17 Dec 2014; published 17 Dec 2014
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Pope Francis helped broker US-Cuba agreement
updated 30 Jun 2014; published 23 Dec 2013
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Pope welcomes Cuba\'s news ambassador to the Holy See
updated 30 Jun 2014; published 03 May 2014
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Cuba and the Holy See: 79 Years of Diplomatic Relations
updated 15 Jan 2014; published 15 Jan 2014
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Vatican Video : Kerry Meets Pope Francis - Peace to Syria
updated 30 Jun 2014; published 02 May 2013
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Historic meeting between Pope and first Russian ambassador to Vatican
Why the Pakistani Taliban’s war on children keeps on going
Full Article The News & Observer
17 Dec 2014

A horrific attack on a military-run high school in Peshawar, Pakistan, has killed at least 141 people, 132 of whom were children and teenagers. The slaughter, carried out by six Taliban terrorists, is the single worst terror attack in the country’s history and one of the most brutal assaults on a school anywhere. Even in conflict-ravaged...

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Pakistan army soldiers cordon off the area outside a school attacked by the Taliban in Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014.
photo: AP / B.K. Bangash

updated 16 Dec 2014; published 16 Dec 2014
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Pakistan Taliban Peshawar school attack leaves 135 dead | Taliban Militants Attack Pakistan School
updated 02 Mar 2014; published 28 Feb 2013
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Pakistani Taliban militants vow to fight a tough protracted guerrilla war against th
updated 29 May 2014; published 19 Sep 2013
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Life after Taliban: Child soldiers and ex-Taliban militants speak out
updated 17 Dec 2014; published 17 Dec 2014
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India mourns Pakistan Taliban Peshawar school massacre
updated 06 Sep 2014; published 02 Aug 2012
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The Taliban in Pakistan
updated 06 Sep 2014; published 05 Feb 2014
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Who are the Pakistani Taliban? - Truthloader
Obama: 'It's Time For A New Approach' On Cuba
Full Article Business Insider
17 Dec 2014

President Barack Obama made a statement from the White House on Wednesday at noon following the . "Neither the American or the Cuban people are well-served by a policy that's rooted in events that took place before many of us were born," Obama said. Obama described the changes as the most "significant" to occur in America's Cuba policy in decades....

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In this image from TV, US President Barack Obama shakes hands with Cuban President Raul Castro at the FNB Stadium in Soweto, South Africa, in the rain for a memorial service for former South African President Nelson Mandela, Tuesday Dec. 10, 2013.
photo: AP / SABC Pool

updated 17 Dec 2014; published 17 Dec 2014
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President Obama Addresses The Nation on Normalizing US - Cuba Relation (FULL SPEECH 12/17/2014)
updated 17 Dec 2014; published 17 Dec 2014
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Sen. Rubio SLAMS President Obama on Cuba: ‘Worst Negotiator in Modern U.S. History’
updated 10 Jan 2014; published 11 Dec 2013
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Barack Obama Shakes Raul Castro's Hand at Mandela Memorial Service
updated 14 Dec 2013; published 12 Dec 2013
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Jon Karl Asks White House Spokesman 'Is There Anyone the President Wouldn't Shake Hands With '
updated 14 Aug 2013; published 22 Sep 2011
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Dictatorship to Democracy: Fidel Suarez Cruz (Español)
updated 28 Jul 2014; published 01 Apr 2013
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Ban Ki-moon - 1,000 Days to the Deadline of the Millennium Development Goals
Alan Gross: Cuba Releases Him After Five Years in Prison
Full Article ABC News
17 Dec 2014

Share More ABC News Videos | ABC World News Copy Held for five years in Cuba, 65-year-old American contractor Alan Gross has been released from prison and is en route to U.S. soil, ABC News has learned exclusively. In a landmark humanitarian prisoner exchange to be announced by President Obama shortly at the White House, the agreement was reached...

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This handout photo provided by the Gross family, taken in 2005, Alan and Judy Gross are seen in Jerusalem. In the year her American husband has been detained in Cuba, accused of spying for the U.S., Judy Gross has been forced to sell the family home in Maryland and move into a small apartment in Washington. Her younger daughter, distraught and crying as her father's birthday approached, crashed and totaled her car. Her older daughter has been diagnosed with breast cancer.
photo: AP / Gross Family

updated 05 Jun 2014; published 05 Jun 2014
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US-Cuba prisoner exchange: Alan Gross for Cuban 5?
updated 17 Dec 2014; published 17 Dec 2014
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American Alan Gross Released From Cuba Prison After 5 Years | FULL
updated 07 Nov 2014; published 07 Nov 2014
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Alan Gross to Leave Cuban Prison?
updated 05 May 2012; published 05 May 2012
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Alan Gross Interview with Wolf Blitzer Havana Cuba (May 3, 2012)
updated 08 Apr 2014; published 08 Apr 2014
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American Alan Gross Starts Hunger Strike In Cuban Prison
updated 17 Dec 2014; published 17 Dec 2014
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Alan Gross RELEASED From Cuba. American Alan Gross Freed From Cuba in Prisoner Exchange
Pakistan army chief rushes to Kabul to seek Pakistani Taliban leader Fazlluah’s extradition
Full Article The Times of India
17 Dec 2014

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan army chief General Raheel Sharif on Wednesday dashed to Afghanistan to seek extradition of Taliban leader Mullah Fazlluah, whose group claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on an army school in Peshawar left 141 people, mostly children, dead. General Raheel's emergency visit to Kabul came after Prime...

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Chairman of All Parties Hurriyat Conference Mirwaiz Umar Farooq offers special prayers in Srinagar, India, for the victims killed in a Taliban attack in Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014.
photo: WN / Imran Nissar

updated 11 Jul 2013; published 11 Jul 2013
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'Pakistan controls Taliban' Afghan army chief General Sher Mohammad Karimi latest
updated 17 Dec 2014; published 17 Dec 2014
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Pakistan army chief rushes to Kabul to seek Pakistani Taliban leader Fazlluah’s extradition a report
updated 17 Dec 2014; published 17 Dec 2014
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Pakistan army chief rushes to Kabul to seek Pakistani Taliban leader Fazlluah’s extradition
updated 17 Dec 2014; published 17 Dec 2014
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Suspected Taliban Terrorists Attack Bank in Afghanistan;At Least 20 Feared Dead After Bomb Explosion
updated 19 Nov 2014; published 19 Nov 2014
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Army Chief USA Visit: Pakistan India Afghanistan Relations Debate November 19, 2014
updated 23 Sep 2013; published 23 Sep 2013
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Pakistan's War With The Taliban

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The Independent
President Obama has issued a form of executive action known as the presidential memorandum more often than any other president in history — using it to take unilateral action even...
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The Guardian
All eyes were on Gaza in the summer, as Israel subjected the Palestinian people to 51 days of siege and bombardment. What is life like there now that the war is over and the world is no longer watching? ...
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The Miami Herald
The siege at the Sydney cafe had been going on for more than five hours and 82-year-old John O'Brien had become convinced the gunman was insane and they would likely all end up...

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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The bodies of 230 people killed by the Islamic State group have been found in a mass grave uncovered by their relatives in Syria's Deir Ezzor province, a monitoring group said. The discovery brings the number of Shaitat tribal members killed...
photo: AP / Aleppo Revolution Against Assad Regime
In this photo released by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service in Tokyo on Sunday, March 7, 2010, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il claps during a massive rally Saturday, March 6, 2010, marking the completion of the Vinalon Complex, in Hamhung, North Korea
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North Korea on Wednesday marked the third anniversary of the death of former leader Kim Jong Il, ending a traditional period of mourning and setting the stage for his son Kim Jong Un to further entrench himself as the country’s unchallenged...
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Britain's bishop of Durham Justin Welby speaks during a news conference following the announcement that he will become the next archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth Palace in London, Friday, Nov. 9, 2012.
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London, December 17: The first female bishop in the Church of England was announced Wednesday, ending the history of only a male being the bishop of the church. Downing Street announced Wednesday that Rev. Libby Lane will be the new Bishop of...
photo: AP / Matt Dunham
EU Ebola Coordinator and Humanitarian Aid Commissioner
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Up to one million people are at risk of going hungry in West African nations battling the Ebola virus due to border closures, quarantines and crop losses, UN food agencies have said. The deadly haemorrhagic fever that has killed 6,800 people has...
photo: WN / John Sahid
Lt. Gen. Raheel Sharif called on Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif at PM House, Islamabad on 27th November, 2013
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December 17: Pakistan PM ends moratorium on death penalty (Second Lead) (18:28) Islamabad, Dec 17 (IANS/EFE) Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has ended a moratorium on the death penalty in terrorism cases after the Taliban massacred 148 people,...
photo: Press Information Dept. of Pakistan
Engineers work on a model of the Mars rover Curiosity at the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012.
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Nasa's Mars rover Curiosity has found carbon-containing compounds in samples drilled out of an ancient rock, the first definitive detection of organics on the surface of earth's neighbour planet, scientists said. The rover also found spurts of...
photo: AP / Damian Dovarganes
A Palestinian members of Hamas's armed wing sits on a military vehicle during an anti-Israel rally in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip,
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The Palestinian militant group Hamas, which fought Israeli forces for nearly two months this year, won a court ruling that could lead to it being removed from a European Union list of terrorist organizations. The EU General Court in Luxembourg said...
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb


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