Palestine on the ropes
Full Article Al Jazeera
03 Jan 2015

Even though I was at an end-of-year retreat, I stayed up late last Monday to catch the breaking news covering the outcome of a vote that was taking place at the UN Security Council. It concerned a Palestinian proposal "put in blue" to the UN earlier in the week and that Ambassador Dina Kawar of Jordan had submitted to a vote at the Security...

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The Security Council voted on a draft resolution submitted by Jordan on the establishment of “a sovereign, contiguous and viable State of Palestine” within 12 months, 30 December, 2014. Riyad H. Mansour, Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the UN, addresses the Security Council after the vote which failed.
photo: UN / Loey Felipe

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A Beginner's Guide to the Israeli Palestinian Conflict
updated 28 Aug 2014; published 01 Jun 2012
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How to Resolve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict - Noam Chomsky
updated 15 Dec 2014; published 15 Dec 2014
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Netanyahu, Kerry meet as Palestinians push for UN resolution on conflict
updated 12 Mar 2014; published 12 Mar 2014
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Buzzsaw - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Resolution Possible?
updated 06 Sep 2014; published 28 Sep 2011
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Origins of Israel Palestinian Conflict
updated 04 Sep 2014; published 09 Jun 2012
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Death in Gaza Documentary - israeli-palestinian conflict [Quantum Prophecies Upload]
AirAsia Flight 8501: Searchers Find 2 Large Pieces of Jet Plane
Full Article ABC News
03 Jan 2015

Share More ABC News Videos | ABC World News Copy Ships with sensitive sonar equipment found two large sections of AirAsia Flight 8501, Indonesian officials said Saturday. The objects were found close together at 30 meters in the Java Sea in the sixth day of the operation. Officials told reporters that sonar located the plane parts, which are about...

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National Search and Rescue Agency personnel carry the body of a victim aboard the ill-fated AirAsia Flight 8501 from a U.S. Navy helicopter that belongs to USS Sampson upon arrival at the airport in Pangkalan Bun, Indonesia, Friday, Jan. 2, 2015.
photo: AP / Achmad Ibrahim

updated 30 Dec 2014; published 30 Dec 2014
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AirAsia QZ 8501 Wreckage FOUND :Dead Bodies Floating in Sea Belitung Island
updated 31 Dec 2014; published 31 Dec 2014
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Indonesia says finds large dark object presumed to be AirAsia jet
updated 30 Dec 2014; published 30 Dec 2014
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AirAsia QZ 8501 Flight Wreckage Found - Rescuers Pick Up Dead Bodies - RAW VIDEO
updated 30 Dec 2014; published 30 Dec 2014
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AirAsia QZ8501: Forty bodies found in missing plane search: World News
updated 30 Dec 2014; published 30 Dec 2014
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AirAsia QZ 8501 6 Dead Bodies Found In Water (RAW VIDEO) AirAsia Wreck FOUND
updated 28 Dec 2014; published 28 Dec 2014
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2014 - Indonesia - Search for AirAsia Flight QZ8501 Halted; To Resume Monday - 28/12/14
Italy takes control of drifting ship carrying 450 migrants
Full Article Dawn
03 Jan 2015

BRINDISI: Italian sailors managed on Friday to take control of a crewless merchant ship as it drifted towards the country’s southern shores in rough seas with 450 migrants on board, in the second such incident in two days. Six coastguard officers were lowered from a helicopter onto the deck of the Ezadeen as it floated some 40 kilometres off...

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The Moldovan-flagged Blue Sky M carrying hundreds of migrants arrives at the southern Italian port of Gallipoli, some 170 kilometers (108 miles) south of Bari, Italy, Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2014.
photo: AP / Ivan Tortorella

updated 02 Jan 2015; published 02 Jan 2015
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Italian Coast Guard lowered onto abandoned 'ghost ship'
updated 02 Jan 2015; published 02 Jan 2015
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Italian navy boards migrant ship
updated 02 Jan 2015; published 02 Jan 2015
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Bid to save second abandoned migrant ship off Italian coast: World News
updated 02 Jan 2015; published 02 Jan 2015
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Italian navy boards migrant ship
updated 31 Dec 2014; published 31 Dec 2014
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Italy takes over 'migrant ship' after distress scare
updated 31 Dec 2014; published 31 Dec 2014
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Migrants Disembark Abandoned Cargo Ship In Italian Port
2014 one of Iraq’s bloodiest years as casualty rates soar, UN mission reports
Full Article United Nations
02 Jan 2015

Print 2 January 2015Casualty figures for Iraq in 2014 were at their highest in over five years amid a spate of deadly violence which has been convulsing the country, the United Nations mission in the country reported today. According to the latest figures issued by the UN Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI), last year...

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Security forces inspect the site of a car bomb explosion in the largely Shiite eastern neighborhood of Talibiyah in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014
photo: AP / Khalid Mohammed

updated 02 Jun 2013; published 02 Jun 2013
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More Than 1,000 Iraqis Killed In May Violence
updated 24 Jul 2014; published 24 Jul 2014
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Iraq gets new president as violence rages
updated 10 Aug 2009; published 10 Aug 2009
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15 US Marines Killed in Iraq Attack
updated 05 Oct 2014; published 05 Oct 2014
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[HOT NEWS] VIDEO Marine 1st U.S. casualty of ISIS fight (ISIS War) - Oct 5, 2014
updated 12 Oct 2014; published 12 Oct 2014
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UK troops training Kurdish forces in Iraq, says MoD
updated 08 Jan 2014; published 08 Jan 2014
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Chris Hedges: Will Iraq Ever Recover from the War? Democracy, Freedom, Safety, Stability (2007)
Prince Andrew sex case claim denied
Full Article BBC News
02 Jan 2015

Buckingham Palace has denied "any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors" by Prince Andrew, after he was named in US court papers. A woman named him in documents she filed in a Florida court over how prosecutors handled a case against financier Jeffrey Epstein. She claims that between 1999 and 2002 she was...

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File - Prince Andrew, right, with his former wife Sarah Ferguson and their daughter Princess Beatrice arrive for the Sir David Frost memorial service at Westminster Abbey in London, Thursday March 13, 2014
photo: AP / Alastair Grant

updated 02 Jan 2015; published 02 Jan 2015
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Buckingham Palace denies Prince Andrew sex case claim
updated 02 Jan 2015; published 02 Jan 2015
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BREAKING NEWS: PRINCE ANDREW PEDOPHILIA claim DENIED by Buckingham Palace
updated 02 Jan 2015; published 02 Jan 2015
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Prince Andrew sex case claim denied
updated 02 Jan 2015; published 02 Jan 2015
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Prince Andrew sex case claim denied
updated 02 Jan 2015; published 02 Jan 2015
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Prince Andrew sex case claim denied
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Prince Andrew sex case claim denied

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It was New Year's Eve 1999. While Russians were preparing for the dawn of a new millennium, their president was preparing a surprise announcement. "I have contemplated...
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An indigenous Yanomami leader and shaman from Brazil shares his views on wealth, the environment and politics ...

President Barack Obama talks about health care reform as he announces his nominee for Surgeon General, Dr. Regina Benjamin, not pictured, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, July 13, 2009
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The new sanctions authorized by executive order from Obama will affect three North Korean entities, including a government intelligence agency and a North Korean arms dealer. The United States imposed fresh sanctions on North Korea on Friday in its...
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Specialist Philip Finale, right, directs trading at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Monday, April 19, 2010
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NEW YORK: US stocks lost ground on Friday, reversing an initial climb, as investors found few reasons to buy in the new year after data came in below forecasts. In a sign of tepid economic conditions, construction spending unexpectedly fell in...
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Part of Rue Minet al Hosn, where Rafik Hariri was assassinated on February 14, 2005.
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday extended for three years the mandate of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, which was set...
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Mario Cuomo speaking at a rally, June 20, 1991
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Three-time former New York governor Mario Cuomo, who turned down several invitations to run for the US presidency, died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan at the age of 82. His death came on the day his eldest son, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo,...
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2014 Shanghai stampede
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SHANGHAI — Like hundreds of thousands of other revelers, 24-year-old Pan Haiqin decided to ring in the new year on Shanghai’s famed riverfront as the skyscrapers flashed and sparkled. But as the crowd grew and then turned into an...
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Uli Hoeness
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Former Bayern Munich football chief Uli Hoeness has been granted day release, seven months after he was sentenced to three-and-a-half years for tax evasion. He is allowed to leave prison during the day but must return in the evening,...
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Atocha railway station, Madrid Spain's railway system, the Red Nacional de Ferrocarriles Españoles (Renfe) operates the vast majority of Spain's railways. In Madrid, the main rail terminals are Atocha in the south and Chamartín in the north.
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MADRID (AP) — Police have evacuated people from Madrid's Atocha train station and halted trains in and out of the busy city-center station following a bomb threat that police says was a...
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