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Kerry defends Iran negotiations before Congress
Full Article Tampa Bay Online
25 Feb 2015

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry told wary lawmakers on Tuesday that it was premature to criticize nuclear negotiations with Iran before any deal can be reached to keep Tehran from developing atomic weapons. "The president has made clear — I can't state this more firmly — the policy is Iran will not get a nuclear weapon," Kerry told...

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivers his opening statement before the Senate Appropriations Committee on Foreign Operations after arriving on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on February 24, 2015, for a day of testimony before the appropriators and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
photo: US DoS

updated 05 Dec 2013; published 05 Dec 2013
1:08
VOA60 America 12 05-Kerry speaks with Netanyahu about Iranian nuclear deal.
updated 08 Nov 2013; published 08 Nov 2013
1:46
Netanyahu warns Kerry: Israel not bound by any deal between Iran and West
updated 25 Nov 2013; published 25 Nov 2013
8:21
2014 Israeli Netanyahu speaks on Face the Nation against NWO Iran Nuclear on fisrt deal
updated 08 Nov 2013; published 08 Nov 2013
1:00
February 2014 Israeli Benjamin Netanyahu warns of war from Iran bad deal
updated 08 Nov 2013; published 08 Nov 2013
1:47
No Iran nuclear deal yet, says Kerry in Geneva
updated 08 Nov 2013; published 08 Nov 2013
1:31
Binyamin Netanyahu expresses dismay over Iran's 'very bad deal' in Geneva
Amnesty calls on UN powers to lose veto on genocide votes
Full Article BBC News
25 Feb 2015

Amnesty International has urged the five permanent members of the UN Security Council to give up their power of veto in situations of mass atrocities. In its annual report, the rights group said the global response to an array of catastrophes in 2014 had been shameful. Richer countries were guilty of taking an "abhorrent" stance by not...

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File - Vitaly I. Churkin, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN, addresses the Security Council after the Council’s vote on a draft resolution concerning Syria, 4 February, 2012.
photo: UN / Paulo Filgueiras

updated 25 Feb 2015; published 25 Feb 2015
1:32
Amnesty calls on UN powers to lose VETO on Genocide Votes
updated 25 Feb 2015; published 25 Feb 2015
1:48
Amnesty Calls On UN Powers To Lose Veto On Genocide Votes: Breaking News
updated 25 Feb 2015; published 25 Feb 2015
1:53
Surrender the UN veto, says Amnesty: Breaking News
updated 26 Aug 2013; published 26 Aug 2013
2:23
Syria: military intervention, with or without a UN mandate?
updated 09 Oct 2011; published 09 Oct 2011
8:52
Syria Fights Western Media Fabrications That Promote Libyan Style Aggression
updated 28 Feb 2012; published 28 Feb 2012
2:01
After Destruction Of Iraq & Libya NATO States Preparing To Kill Another Million To Enslave Syria
Obama vetoes Keystone XL pipeline, leaving it in limbo
Full Article Reuters
25 Feb 2015

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday, as promised, swiftly vetoed a Republican bill approving the Keystone XL oil pipeline, leaving the long-debated project in limbo for another indefinite period. The U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, after receiving Obama's veto message, immediately countered by announcing the...

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Obama vetoes Keystone XL pipeline
photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais

updated 25 Feb 2015; published 25 Feb 2015
1:39
Obama Vetoes Keystone Oil Pipeline Bill
updated 25 Feb 2015; published 25 Feb 2015
0:34
Obama vetoes Republican bill approving Keystone pipeline
updated 25 Feb 2015; published 25 Feb 2015
3:18
BREAKING: President Obama Vetoes Keystone XL
updated 24 Feb 2015; published 24 Feb 2015
0:48
Obama vetoes Keystone pipeline approval bill
updated 07 Jan 2015; published 07 Jan 2015
11:28
NYPD Protest At Funerals, Patrick Lynch's Disgusting Comments
updated 25 Feb 2015; published 25 Feb 2015
0:27
Obama vetoes Keystone XL pipeline bill
'Ex-Israeli agents' threatened cyber attack on S Africa
Full Article Al Jazeera
24 Feb 2015

A group claiming to be former agents of Israel's Mossad threatened to unleash a devastating cyber attack on South Africa unless its government cracked down on the growing campaign to boycott Israel, according to intelligence documents leaked to Al Jazeera's Investigative Unit. According to the reports, then-Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan received...

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Internet users browse their Facebook website by the free wifi internet service in an underground station in Hong Kong Sunday, June 16, 2013.
photo: AP / Kin Cheung

updated 24 Feb 2015; published 24 Feb 2015
1:33
Spy cables: 'Ex-Israeli agents' threatened cyber attack on South Africa
updated 08 Apr 2013; published 08 Apr 2013
2:30
ISRAEL Under ATTACK:Anonymous Operation Israel 2.0 - Anonymous Vows To Wipe Israel off Internet
updated 08 Feb 2015; published 08 Feb 2015
4:43
ANONYMOUS - Who is Anonymous? How to become Anonymous?
updated 19 Dec 2014; published 19 Dec 2014
1:55
Native homeland threatened by Israel project
updated 24 Dec 2014; published 24 Dec 2014
0:57
"ANOTHER NUCLEAR DISASTER" COMING SOON "FROM ASIA"!
updated 19 Nov 2014; published 19 Nov 2014
1:56
All 50 US States Feeling Freezing Temperatures | BREAKING NEWS - 19 NOV 2014
British Police Believe 3 Missing Schoolgirls Crossed Into Syria
Full Article Huffington Post
24 Feb 2015

LONDON (AP) — Police investigating the disappearance of three British schoolgirls said Tuesday they believe the teenagers are no longer in Turkey and have crossed into Syria. The girls, aged 15 to 16, disappeared from their London homes on Feb. 17 and boarded a flight to Istanbul in Turkey. Authorities believe the girls could be on their way to...

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This is a still taken from CCTV issued by the Metropolitan Police in London on Monday Feb. 23, 2015, of 15-year-old Amira Abase, left, Kadiza Sultana,16, centre, and Shamima Begum, 15, going through Gatwick airport
photo: AP / Metropolitan Police

updated 24 Feb 2015; published 24 Feb 2015
2:23
Missing British teenage girls have crossed into Syria to join IS الدولة الإسلامية في العراق والشا
updated 24 Feb 2015; published 24 Feb 2015
1:02
Missing teenagers have crossed into Syria, Met Police say
updated 24 Feb 2015; published 24 Feb 2015
1:49
Missing Syria girls: Missing UK girls believed to be in Syria - Missing teenagers crossed into Syria
updated 22 Feb 2015; published 22 Feb 2015
1:02
3 teen girls went to Syria to join 'Jihadi brides'
updated 25 Feb 2015; published 25 Feb 2015
0:56
3 UK girls have crossed into Syria to join IS: police 유럽 아시아 청소년 줄줄이 IS행 각국 보호
updated 22 Feb 2015; published 22 Feb 2015
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Families of Syria bound british teens beg them come home

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Al Jazeera
Story highlights There is a growing demand to relocate UN-brokered talks from Sanaa to Taiz or Aden. Hadi's short-lived political resignation, house arrest and surprising escape...
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Khaleej Times
Liberian president chronicles fears about the ‘unknown enemy’ and how ‘collective resilience’ helped contain epidemic. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf speaking at the International...

File - This vista from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows
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The latest self-portrait shows a sweeping view of the 'Pahrump Hills' outcrop on Mars where Nasa’s Curiosity rover has been working for five months. Image Courtesy : Nasa/ Twitter Washington - Nasa’s Curiosity rover...
photo: NASA / JPL-Caltech/Cornell Univ./Arizona State Univ.
File - People gather at the scene of a car bomb explosion, at the central market, in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Tuesday, July 1, 2014.
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POTISKUM, NigeriaTeenage suicide bombers, suspected to be Boko Haram extremists, killed at least 24 people in separate blasts Tuesday at crowded bus stations in two northern Nigerian cities 200 miles apart. In an apparently unrelated development,...
photo: AP / Jossy Ola
Czech OKV-P police armoured car in Prague during the visit of US president George W. Bush, June 2007.
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According to the Guardian, Patrik Kunčar, mayor of Uherský Brod, confirmed that the gunman, “a local man aged about 60, was among the dead.” A report made by the Independent reveals that the shooting seems to have taken place at lunchtime...
photo: Creative Commons / Krokodyl
Civilians inspect the scene of a car bomb attack in the Kamaliyah neighborhood, a predominantly Shiite area of eastern Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 20, 2013.
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A series of bombings in Baghdad and near the Iraqi capital killed at least 23 people on Tuesday, officials said. The deadliest of the day's attacks came shortly before sunset, when a bomb exploded in a street in Baghdad's southeastern suburb of Jisr...
photo: AP / Hadi Mizban
Gunmen patrol after clashes with Iraqi security forces in Fallujah, 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2014.
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Islamic State fighters have reportedly abducted at least 70 people from Assyrian Christians villages in northeastern Syria, reigniting concerns about the plight of religious minorities in regions under threat of IS attacks. The British-based Syrian...
photo: AP
A bus drives by a convoy transporting artillery pieces, outside the city of Donetsk, Ukraine, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015. Howitzers were seen moving east Tuesday from the largest rebel-held city in eastern Ukraine further into separatist-controlled territory, but the Ukrainian government disputed the rebels' claim that a heavy weapons pullback had begun.
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Howitzers were seen moving east from the largest rebel-held city in eastern Ukraine further into separatist-controlled territory, but the Ukrainian government disputed the Russian-backed rebels' claim that a weapons pullback had begun. A peace plan...
photo: AP / Vadim Ghirda
Egyptian riot police officers secure a square to prevent any anti-government activists to gather, in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011.
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Ex-premier Ahmed Nazif and former interior minister Habib Al Adly were sentenced to jail after Mubarak’s 2011 overthrow for a deal to import licence plates from German company Utsch at an exorbitant price. Cairo — An Egyptian court acquitted a...
photo: AP / Lefteris Pitarakis


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