'30 dead' in Libya car bomb blast
Full Article Belfast Telegraph
20 Feb 2015

At least 30 people have been killed in a massive car bombing in eastern Libya, according to initial reports. Army spokesman Mohammed Hegazi said a car bomb exploded next to a fuel station in the eastern town of Qubba, where motorists had queued to fill their tanks. Mr Hegazi said many people were also injured in the blast, which occurred near the...

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File - Police tape closes the site of a car bomb that targeted the French embassy wounding two French guards and causing extensive material damage in Tripoli, Libya, Tuesday, April 23, 2013.
photo: AP / Abdul Majeed Forjani

updated 10 Oct 2014; published 10 Oct 2014
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Car bomb kills one in Libya’s Benghazi
updated 23 Apr 2013; published 23 Apr 2013
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French Embassy in Libya Hit by 'Car Bomb' in Tripoli
updated 23 Apr 2013; published 23 Apr 2013
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Car bomb explodes at French embassy in Libya
updated 14 May 2013; published 14 May 2013
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Libya car bomb blast in Benghazi
updated 23 Apr 2013; published 23 Apr 2013
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raw footage-French EMBASSY in LIBYA ATTACKED! by CAR BOMB
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Bomb found under Italian diplomatic car in Libyan capital Tripoli
Ukraine: UK and EU 'badly misread' Russia
Full Article BBC News
20 Feb 2015

Britain and the European Union have been accused of a "catastrophic misreading" of the mood in the Kremlin in the run up to the crisis in Ukraine. The House of Lords EU committee claimed Europe "sleepwalked" into the crisis. The EU had not realised the depth of Russian hostility to its plans for closer relations with Ukraine, it...

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Ukrainian army soldiers move to a position near the village of Dovgenke, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine Tuesday, June 24, 2014.
photo: AP / Dmitry Lovetsky

updated 20 Feb 2015; published 20 Feb 2015
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EU 'Misread' Kremlin Over Ukraine Crisis: UK parliament report criticises EU approach
updated 20 Feb 2015; published 20 Feb 2015
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Ukraine UK and EU 'badly misread' Russia: Breaking News
updated 20 Feb 2015; published 20 Feb 2015
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Ukraine Crisis: UK and EU 'badly misread' Russia
updated 20 Feb 2015; published 20 Feb 2015
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Ukraine: UK and EU 'badly misread' Russia
updated 20 Feb 2015; published 20 Feb 2015
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Ukraine: UK and EU 'badly misread' Russia
updated 20 Feb 2015; published 20 Feb 2015
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Ukraine: UK and EU 'badly misread' Russia: World News
Tough Talks On Greek Debt As D-Day Looms
Full Article Orange News
20 Feb 2015

20 February 2015, 1:54 Tough Talks On Greek Debt As D-Day Looms Tweet These could well prove the most important few days in the euro's existence. In the corridors and meeting rooms of the Justus Lipsus building in Brussels, Greece and its euro counterparts have been charged with discussing how to keep the struggling nation in the single currency....

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A protesting truck driver hold a Greek flag as he protests in front of Riot police outside the Greek parliament in central Athens, on Friday, July 30, 2010.
photo: AP / Petros Giannakouris

updated 31 Jan 2015; published 31 Jan 2015
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Greece's Varoufakis: 'No debt talks with EU-IMF troika': World News
updated 31 Jan 2015; published 31 Jan 2015
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Greeks like the sound of Syriza talking tough, but hope it has more than just words to offer
updated 17 Feb 2015; published 17 Feb 2015
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Greek stocks fall as debt deal talks stall
updated 30 Aug 2013; published 30 Aug 2013
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Debt Drama: Was whole Greek bailout deal a failure?
updated 17 Feb 2015; published 17 Feb 2015
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Greece bailout: Varoufakis 'willing' as talks collapse: World News Now
updated 17 Feb 2015; published 17 Feb 2015
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Greek bailout talks falter amid threat of default
Up to 25,000 Iraqi troops preparing for attack on Islamic State in Mosul
Full Article The Guardian
20 Feb 2015

Assault to retake Iraq’s second largest city expected to begin in April or May according to US official ...

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Up to 25,000 Iraqi troops preparing for attack on Islamic State in Mosul
photo: U.S. Army/PFC James Matise

updated 26 Oct 2014; published 26 Oct 2014
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Iraq: See the EXPLOSIVE Russian firepower helping Iraqi forces fight IS
updated 14 Feb 2015; published 14 Feb 2015
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U.S. troops head to Kuwait for possible showdown with Islamic State group 미, 쿠
updated 19 Apr 2010; published 19 Apr 2010
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US and Iraqi Special Operations Forces In Iraq
updated 09 Dec 2014; published 09 Dec 2014
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KOBANI BLOODY BATTLE- BRIGADE INTERNATIONAL
updated 30 Nov 2014; published 30 Nov 2014
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Iraq War - Iraqi Paramilitary In Firefight With ISIS During Recent Clashes In Iraq
updated 20 Feb 2015; published 20 Feb 2015
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US military official outlines plan to retake Iraqi city of Mosul
Snowden’s Revenge: New Mega-Spying Project Revealed
Full Article The Daily Beast
20 Feb 2015

A giant cellphone surveillance program is just one of the dark NSA secrets being dragged out into the light, thanks to a certain whistleblower and a Russian cybersecurity firm. After 20 months and dozens of stories from Edward Snowden’s classified document trove, you might’ve been tempted to think that there was nothing shocking left to learn about...

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A TV screen shows the news of Edward Snowden, former CIA employee who leaked top-secret documents about sweeping U.S. surveillance programs, at a restaurant in Hong Kong Wednesday, June 12, 2013.
photo: AP / Kin Cheung

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Snowden: NSA conducts industrial espionage. BBC World speaks to former UK intelligence chief
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US and UK spy agencies 'have access to German telecoms'.
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Canadian agencies and the NSA team up to spy on Canadian's internet use illegally through Five Eyes
updated 17 Apr 2014; published 17 Apr 2014
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Runaway spy Edward Snowden is surprise guest on Vladimir Putin phone-in
updated 16 Oct 2014; published 16 Oct 2014
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This agency is more secretive than NSA, CIA, FBI altogether.
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First Edward Snowden interview & analysis on BCfm - interviewer Hubert Seipel NDR TV Germany

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ISIS' army of 7-footers? Experts say video of Copt beheadings manipulated
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Fox News
By Malia ZimmermanPublished February 20, 2015FoxNews.com Facebook0 Twitter0 livefyre Email Print Experts who examined the sickening footage of ISIS militants killing Christians in...
Greece, Germany and Global Finance
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CounterPunch
Regardless of rumors of pending resolution, the crisis in Greece is escalating with capital flight, an imminent government funding shortfall and terms being forced on it by the...
Maduro is taking the gloves off against his opposition
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REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro speaks during a meeting with supporters at Miraflores Palace in Caracas, February 19, 2015. Venezuela has reached...

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Mugabe seeks to consolidate power with African Union post
Robert Mugabe, president of Zimbabwe, attends the 12th African Union Summit Feb. 2, 2009 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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The Irish Times
In the twilight of his political career, Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has outmanoeuvred many of the detractors who have tried to undermine his rule over the past decades. His ruthless purge in December of Zanu-PF’s influential vice-president,...
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Greece, EU Reach Agreement Over Bailout Plan
Alexis Tsipras, head of the Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) exits the Presidential Palace after his meeting with Greek President Karolos Papoulias, to formally take the mandate to form a coalition government in Athens, Tuesday, May 8, 2012.
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Chosun Ilbo
Eurozone finance ministers agreed Friday to extend Greece's bailout loan program for four months, overcoming a Greece-Germany stand-off. Greek officials are expected to present a list of comprehensive reforms on Monday for the country's debt...
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Hack gave US and British spies access to billions of phones
Earthquake Rattles New York on Tuesday Afternoon 23 Aug '2011.
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China Daily
FRANKFURT - US and British spies hacked into the world's biggest maker of phone SIM cards, allowing them to potentially monitor the calls, texts and emails of billions of mobile users around the world, an investigative news website reported. The...
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France, Germany Threaten New Sanctions Over Ukraine
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Ukrainian president-elect Petro Poroshenko
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Voa News
VOA News France and Germany have pressed again for respect for the cease-fire in eastern Ukraine and withdrawal of heavy weaponry, threatening new costs if warring sides there don’t comply with last week’s truce deal. Speaking Friday to...
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Kim Jong Un's new haircut and what it looks like according to Twitter
In this undated photo released by the Korean Central News Agency and distributed in Tokyo by the Korea News Service Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2012, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, second from left, and his wife Ri Sol Ju clap hands as they watch a performance of the Moranbong Band to celebrate the 59th anniversary of the armistice that ended the 1950-53 Korean War, in an undisclosed location of North Korea.
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Dayton Daily News
North Korea's Supreme Leader, Kim Jong Un, has unveiled a daring new haircut -- a longer, more voluminous version of his previous style. While the reason for the change remains a mystery, the inspiration seems apparent, according to Twitter. Here's a...
photo: AP / Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service
Vladimir Putin: No One Can Gain Military Superiority Over Russia
in this Monday, June 30, 2014 photo, militants from the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) celebrate the group's declaration of an Islamic state, in Fallujah, 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq. The militant extremist group's unilateral declaration of an Islamic state is threatening to undermine its already-tenuous alliance with other Sunnis who helped it overrun much of northern and western Iraq. (AP Photo)
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The Inquisitr
NBC News reports Putin was quoted from an address he plans to give on the Defenders’ of the Fatherland Day holiday. “No one should have the illusion that they can gain military superiority over Russia, put any kind of pressure on it. We...
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Over 40,000 displaced in Darfur in 2015
Over 40,000 displaced in Darfur in 2015
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The Siasat Daily
United Nations, February 20: Over 40,000 people have been displaced by conflict in Sudan's north and central Darfur region since the beginning of 2015, a UN spokesman said. "The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that...
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