U.S. suspends Yemen effort against terror
Full Article Philadelphia Daily News
24 Jan 2015

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration has been forced to suspend counterterrorism operations with Yemen in the aftermath of the collapse of its government, according to U.S. officials, a move that abruptly eases pressure on al-Qaeda's most dangerous franchise. Armed drones operated by the CIA and the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command remain...

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President Barack Obama talks on the phone with French President François Hollande from aboard Air Force One, Jan. 7, 2015.
photo: White House / Pete Souza

updated 05 Sep 2014; published 16 Apr 2014
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Video Shows Large Al-Qaeda Meeting In Yemen
updated 14 Jan 2015; published 14 Jan 2015
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Al Qaeda leader in Yemen claims responsibility for Paris terror attack
updated 15 Jan 2015; published 15 Jan 2015
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Al Qaeda Yemen threatens to use undetectable bombs against USA Breaking News
updated 01 Nov 2014; published 01 Nov 2014
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At Least 11 Killed As Yemen Troops Battle Al Qaeda In Hodeidah: Local Officials
updated 26 May 2014; published 06 Dec 2012
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The Last Refuge: Yemen, Al-Qaeda, and America's War in Arabia
updated 16 Aug 2014; published 16 Aug 2014
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Drone Kills Three Suspected Al Qaeda Militants In Yemen: Official
Salman is new Saudi ruler King Abdullah laid to rest
Full Article Dawn
24 Jan 2015

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah died early on Friday and his brother Salman became king, the royal court in the world’s top oil exporter said in an official statement. King Salman named his half-brother Muqrin as his crown prince and heir, rapidly moving to forestall any fears of a succession crisis. “His Highness Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud...

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In this photo provided by the Saudi Press Agency, Saudi Arabia's newly enthroned King Salman, center, relatives of late King Abdullah, who died early Friday, and other mourners during his funeral at the Imam Turki bin Abdullah mosque in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Friday, Jan. 23, 2015.
photo: AP

updated 12 Apr 2013; published 12 Apr 2013
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Succession crisis in Saudi Arabia
updated 21 Aug 2011; published 21 Aug 2011
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Saudi King Abdullah Security protocol
updated 28 Feb 2011; published 28 Feb 2011
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Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz at Yamama Palace Riyadh
updated 17 Aug 2014; published 25 Oct 2011
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Saudi Arabia - King Abdullah Drinking Wine With Bush !!!
updated 02 Aug 2013; published 19 Dec 2010
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King Abdullah Air Security
updated 31 Mar 2014; published 08 Mar 2013
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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meets with Saudi Arabian King Abdullah to discu
Haiti forms electoral panel for overdue polls
Full Article BBC News
24 Jan 2015

Haiti has installed a Provisional Electoral Council to organise long-delayed elections - after weeks of protests and political uncertainty. The nine-member panel represents different sectors of society. It was sworn in shortly before a UN Security Council delegation arrived on a three-day...

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A police officer kicks a tire off a burning barricade set up by protesters calling for the resignation of President Michel Martelly, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, Jan. 23, 2015.
photo: AP / Dieu Nalio Chery

updated 11 Jul 2014; published 23 Feb 2010
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Sudan begins its countdown to its first multi-party elections in 24 years
updated 14 Mar 2014; published 15 Jan 2013
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Israeli Knesset elections 2013: Sivan Raviv explores implications of a right wing voter surge
updated 01 Mar 2014; published 05 Mar 2010
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Sudan election "1"
updated 12 Aug 2013; published 11 Aug 2013
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Sandy Expected to Move Inland Across South Jersey
updated 25 Aug 2010; published 08 Jul 2010
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Challenges on multiple fronts likely to test new Saudi king
Full Article Times Union
23 Jan 2015

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia's new monarch inherits the throne at a moment when the oil-rich kingdom is being buffeted by a plunge in the value of its most valuable commodity, growing challenges by activists at home and deepening turmoil on its borders that stands to benefit rival Iran. Those who know King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz...

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File - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on June 27, 2014.
photo: US DoS

updated 17 Jun 2014; published 17 Jun 2014
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The Daily Show: Now That's What I Call Being Completely F**king Wrong About Iraq
updated 01 Jan 2015; published 01 Jan 2015
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Saudi King Undergoing Medical Tests in Riyadh Hospital
updated 03 Jan 2015; published 03 Jan 2015
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Saudi King Abdullah suffering from pneumonia
updated 02 Jan 2015; published 02 Jan 2015
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Saudi King Abdullah suffering from pneumonia
updated 23 Jan 2015; published 23 Jan 2015
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SAUDI KING Shah Abdullah's funeral in RIYADH
updated 01 Feb 2013; published 01 Feb 2013
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A dramatic doomsday warning to the world
Full Article CNN
23 Jan 2015

(CNN)In a dramatic warning to the world, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced Thursday that the iconic Doomsday Clock has ticked forward by two minutes. This new setting of three minutes to midnight indicates "the probability of global catastrophe is very high," said Kennette Benedict, executive director of the Bulletin, which was...

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Stephen Schwartz, publisher of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, holds the famous Doomsday Clock, which symbolizes the threat of world nuclear holocaust, Friday, Nov. 2, 2001, at the University of Chicago. After three years of immobility, the board
photo: AP Photo/Charles Bennett

updated 06 Sep 2014; published 11 Dec 2011
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The Day After (1983) American Nuclear Holocaust [full movie]
updated 21 Jun 2014; published 07 Sep 2013
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NUCLEAR FALSE FLAG UPDATE - Telephone Call To Military Base Over Secret Nuke Transfer
updated 03 Dec 2013; published 01 May 2013
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'Doomsday Clock' to remain at 5 minutes till midnight (Second Coming Watch Update #296)
updated 10 Mar 2014; published 14 Nov 2013
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NUCLEAR WAR SOVIET SECRETS REVEALED FIRST TIME EVER
updated 25 Sep 2014; published 25 Sep 2014
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MILITARY WEAPONS NUCLEAR BOMB POWER History and War documentary
updated 05 Sep 2014; published 22 Jun 2013
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Nuclear Attack Strike On The U.K. Scenario (Not For The Squeamish)

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Blair's letter of thanks to Gaddafi
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Belfast Telegraph
Tony Blair wrote to then Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to thank him for the "excellent co-operation" between the two countries' counter-terrorism agencies at a time when they were...
The Chilcot inquiry: September 11 and the road to the Iraq War
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The Independent
After six years and nearly £9m, the report of Sir John Chilcot’s inquiry into Britain’s involvement in the Iraq war remains unpublished – and, we were told this week, will not be...
Decades of Suspicions: Did German Companies Aid Syrian Chemical Weapons Program?
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Spiegel Online
Government documents and information from the Assad regime indicate that German companies may have helped Syria produce chemical weapons over the course of decades. So far, the...

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Exclusive: CIA’s Top Spy Steps Down
The 16-foot (5 m) diameter CIA seal in the lobby of the Original Headquarters Building.
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The Daily Beast
The secretive head of the agency’s National Clandestine Service is retiring amid reports of infighting over a reorganization of the intelligence service. The director of the CIA’s National Clandestine Service, the storied home of the agency’s most...
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Dozens dead in Syria air strike
In this citizen journalism image provided by Shaam News Network SNN, taken on Wednesday, July 11, 2012, smoke leaps the air from purported forces shelling in Homs, Syria.
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Belfast Telegraph
A Syrian government air strike has hit an opposition-held suburb of the capital shortly after Friday prayers, killing at least 35 people, scattering bodies and rubble in the streets and setting at least one building on fire, activists said. An...
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Argentine President Now Says Prosecutor's Death 'Not A Suicide'
Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio meets Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
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National Public Radio
11:21 AM ET Scott Neuman Twitter i i Alberto Nisman, the prosecutor investigating the 1994 bombing of the Argentine-Israeli Mutual Association community center, talks to journalists in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2013. Nisman was found shot dead in...
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FIFA confirms loss of three major sponsors
FIFA President Joseph Blatter announces Qatar to host the 2022 soccer World Cup in Zurich, Switzerland, Thursday, Dec.2, 2010.
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Deccan Herald
World governing body FIFA confirmed today that three major sponsors have ended their relationships with the organisation, but said there was nothing unusual about the development. Oil manufacturers Castrol, tyre company Continental and healthcare...
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"Unchecked climate change" causes atomic scientists to push Doomsday Clock closer to midnight
Women, members of a Russian cult, who left a cave after waiting the end of the world, no names given, foreground, speak with their leader, self-declared prophet Pyotr Kuznetsov, center, background, as they take part in negotiations with other members of the doomsday cult through a hole of their underground hideout near the village of Nikolskoye, in Penza region about 400 miles (640 kilometers) southeast of Moscow, Saturday, March 29, 2008.
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Inhabitat
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists just issued their first update to the symbolic Doomsday Clock since 2007, announcing that we have advanced by two minutes and are now at “three minutes to midnight”—with midnight referring to the end...
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Police Arrest 153 In South Africa Looting Chaos
Slums in Soweto, suburb of Johanesburg, South Africa.
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Orange News
23 January 2015, 13:24 Police Arrest 153 In South Africa Looting Chaos Tweet Mobs have looted more than 80 foreign-owned shops amid major disorder in South Africa, prompting 153 arrests. President Jacob Zuma has called for order to be restored...
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David Cameron hails Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah after death aged 90
Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron talks during a joint news conference with Afghanistan's president Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Oct. 3, 2014. Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron on Friday pledged support for Afghanistan's newly sworn-in president and the country's new unity government, saying during a surprise visit to Kabul that Britain is committed to helping Afghans build a more secure and prosperous future.
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London Evening Standard
David Cameron today paid tribute to Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah after his death at the age of 90. The Prime Minister praised the king's "commitment to peace" after it was announced he would be succeeded by his 79-year-old half-brother,...
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