Ghosts of war haunt an Ebola graveyard in Sierra Leone
Full Article Sun Sentinel
19 Dec 2014

To find Andrew Kondoh, walk through the gates of this city's largest cemetery, where teams in moonsuits bury more than 50 bodies in white plastic bags each day. Look for the man with the wispy goatee and big belly, who is overseeing one of the world's most chaotic, dangerous graveyards as if he's done it all before. That's because he has. Twenty...

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Scene from the ambulance depot near the Western Area Emergency Response Center in Freetown, Sierra Leone, 15 December, 2014. Ambulances have to be disinfected with chlorine after each trip carrying suspected Ebola cases.
photo: UN / Martine Perret

updated 11 Sep 2014; published 11 Sep 2014
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Ebola Virus: 'Biological War' in Liberia | The Fight Against Ebola in Sierra Leone
updated 02 Sep 2014; published 02 Sep 2014
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Ebola: Sierra Leone's New War
updated 26 Aug 2014; published 26 Aug 2014
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Fighting To Contain Sierra Leone's Ebola Epidemic
updated 04 Oct 2014; published 04 Oct 2014
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Sierra Leone’s fight against the Ebola virus | Journal Reporters
updated 08 Oct 2014; published 08 Oct 2014
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WOW! UK Deploying Military Force To Sierra Leonne To Fight WAR ON EBOLA
updated 31 Oct 2014; published 31 Oct 2014
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RFA Argus arrives in Sierra Leone for 'all-out war' on Ebola
Silence of the sheikhs puts Washington's Iraq strategy in doubt
Full Article Canberra Times
19 Dec 2014

Washington: The US plan to save Iraq from the advances of the so-called Islamic State was in trouble even before it was conceived – years before its unveiling in September, the marauding fundamentalists had systematically eliminated hundreds of the Iraqi tribal warriors who Washington believed would take up arms against the new threat posed by IS....

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File - An elderly Iraqi man explains his community's situation to Soldiers in the city of Abu T-Shir, Iraq, Oct. 16, 2008.
photo: US Army

updated 31 Oct 2014; published 31 Oct 2014
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Iraq's top Shi'ite calls on Baghdad to help Sunni tribes after killings
updated 17 Jun 2014; published 17 Jun 2014
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ISIS closes in on Baghdad, joined by former allied tribes turned enemies
updated 02 Aug 2014; published 02 Aug 2014
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Iraq War Analysis: ISIS Terrorists Too Brutal Even For Al Qaeda - Bengal Newz
updated 05 Nov 2014; published 05 Nov 2014
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ISIS kills 300 members of Sunni tribe, Iraqi government says
updated 18 Jun 2014; published 18 Jun 2014
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ISIS Shiver: Fears Iraq conflict to spill over as Sunni jihadists gain momentum
updated 18 Jun 2014; published 18 Jun 2014
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Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi: The man leading ISIS across Iraq
Kurds claim 'biggest victory yet' against IS militants
Full Article BBC News
19 Dec 2014

19 December 2014 Last updated at 02:42 GMT Kurdish forces in northern Iraq are claiming their biggest victory yet against Islamic State (IS) militants. They say they have broken the IS siege of Mount Sinjar, where thousands of Yazidis and other displaced Iraqis have been trapped since August. IS controls a swathe of Iraq and Syria, where it has...

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Members of a Kurdish commando unit take part in training outside Sulaimaniyah, Iraq, Thursday, Feb 23. 2006. While Iraq stands on the brink of renewed violence after the bomb attack on a Shiite shrine in Samarra, all ethnic and religious communities, Shiite Arabs, Sunni Arabs and Kurds are strengthening their own forces at present incorporated into new Iraqi army. According to the new Iraqi constitution Kurdsih Peshmergas remain integral part of national security forces, yet designated solely to Kurdish reg
photo: AP / Sasa Kralj

updated 19 Dec 2014; published 19 Dec 2014
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BBC News Kurds claim biggest victory yet against IS militants
updated 19 Dec 2014; published 19 Dec 2014
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Kurds claim 'biggest victory yet' against IS militants
updated 19 Dec 2014; published 19 Dec 2014
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Kurds claim 'biggest victory yet' against IS militants
updated 07 Aug 2014; published 07 Aug 2014
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40 Thousand Trapped by ISIS on Mt. SINjar! Biblical Prophecy
updated 06 Dec 2014; published 06 Dec 2014
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Euronews visits Christian and Yazidi refugees who fled ISIL militants
updated 19 Dec 2014; published 19 Dec 2014
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MOUNT SINJAR Islamic State SIEGE BROKEN , say KURDS WORLD NEWS 2014
Carbon dioxide satellite mission returns first global maps
Full Article BBC News
18 Dec 2014

Nasa's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2) has returned its first global maps of the greenhouse gas CO2. The satellite was sent up in July to help pinpoint the key locations on the Earth's surface where carbon dioxide is being emitted and absorbed. This should help scientists better understand how human activities are influencing the...

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Global Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
photo: NASA / JPL-Caltech

updated 19 Dec 2014; published 19 Dec 2014
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Carbon dioxide satellite mission returns first global maps: World News
updated 28 Aug 2014; published 28 Aug 2014
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NASA | The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) [HD]
updated 17 Nov 2014; published 17 Nov 2014
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NASA | A Year in the Life of Earth's CO2
updated 14 Apr 2014; published 14 Apr 2014
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NASA | OCO-2 Satellite: Using Instruments (Wide View) [HD]
updated 19 Nov 2014; published 19 Nov 2014
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NASA Satellite Maps How Carbon Dioxide Travels Across the Globe
updated 19 Aug 2014; published 19 Aug 2014
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OCO-2 to Shed Light on Global Carbon Cycle 2014 NASA Kennedy
Cuba and US: Is a New American Policy Finally at Hand?
Full Article WorldNews.com
18 Dec 2014

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling For Americans that have never lived outside of their national borders, it is nearly impossible to even begin to comprehend the vast extent of U.S. militarism. And for those who are not familiar with the past, it is unlikely that they understand the depth of U.S. aggression and imperialism. Therefore,...

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In this Dec. 10, 2013 file image from TV, U.S. 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.
photo: AP / SABC Pool

updated 18 Dec 2014; published 18 Dec 2014
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Cuban-American looks forward to US & Cuba relations
updated 28 May 2014; published 28 May 2014
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"The Cuban Missile Crisis" Declassified FULL Documentary
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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Obama Restores Diplomatic Relations With Cuba; Greenlight To Hunt Assata Shakur?
updated 21 Mar 2014; published 21 Mar 2014
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Cold War - Cuba (1959-1962)
updated 18 Dec 2014; published 18 Dec 2014
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Major Shift In US-Cuba Relations - Trade, Diplomacy To Flow

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CNN
December 19, 2014 -- Updated 0129 GMT (0929 HKT) President Barack Obama is looking to act during his final two years in office. Washington (CNN) -- The lame duck is loose. Little...
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Al Jazeera
The UN General Assembly has called for North Korea to be referred to the International Criminal Court over alleged crimes against humanity, in a landmark resolution adopted by a...
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The Charlotte Observer
WASHINGTON For over half a century, the U.S. government's schemes to overthrow the Castro government were, if not successful, always creative: the poisonous cigars, the exploding...

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VITNIJA SALDAV, Associated Press 9:10 p.m. EST December 18, 2014 CONNECTTWEETLINKEDINCOMMENTEMAILMORE London – — Obesity can be a disability, the European Court of Justice ruled Thursday — a decision that could have widespread consequences across the...
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File - An FBI release shows one of the suspects, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, wanted in connection with the Boston Marathon Bombings.
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The Boston Marathon bombing suspect, in his first court appearance in more than a year, told a judge on Thursday that he was satisfied with his lawyers' preparations for the January start of his trial over the deadly 2013 attack. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev,...
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Central African Republic
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Joe DeCapua A growing number of fighters in Central African Republic’s two year old civil war are children. It’s estimated there may be as many as 10-thousand child soldiers, four times more than when the conflict began. listen to De...
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A tunisian woman wrapped in her national flag makes her way through tombs while attending the funeral of slain opposition leader Chokri Belaid at el Jallez cemetery near Tunis, Friday Feb. 8, 2013.
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TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) - A new video has surfaced claiming responsibility for the 2013 assassinations of two Tunisian politicians in the name of the Islamic State group. The video features four armed, bearded men, including one identified last year as...
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A Boston police officer pauses on the finish line during a tribute in honor of the one year anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings
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Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev appeared in court for the first time in more than a year this morning while attending a final pretrial hearing at the federal courthouse in Boston. Tsarnaev, 21, who has marked the passing of two...
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Bodies lay in the streets of Bangui, Central African Republic, Friday Dec. 6 2013, a day after gun battles between Seleka soldiers and Christian militias left over 100 dead and scores wounded.
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BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) - Clashes in Central African Republic between Muslim and Christian fighters have killed 28, left dozens wounded and sent civilians fleeing for safety, a Red Cross official said Thursday. The fighting began...
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NORFOLK (Jan. 26, 2012) Sailors form the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) stand by as the French navy amphibious assault ship FS Mistral (L9013) approaches Naval Station Norfolk. Kearsarge is sponsoring Mistral during their visit to the United States
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Thomson ReutersRussian sailors board their Russian navy frigate Smolny at the STX Les Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard site in Saint-Nazaire See Also SAINT-NAZAIRE, France (Reuters) - A ship carrying the Russian sailors who have been training for...
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