The Wayback Machine - http://web.archive.org./web/20150421100502/http://wn.com:80/

chat play audio watch the video
CounterPunch
The upcoming meeting of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights taking place in Banjul, Gambia could be an opportunity for African States and civil society to...
chat play audio watch the video
BBC News
20 April 2015 From the section Magazine A generation ago Ethiopia's Tigray province was stricken by a famine that shocked the world. Today, as Chris Haslam reports, local people...
chat play audio watch the video
The Daily Beast
Lawmakers are pushing Obama take a page out of the World War II playbook—and let Jordan borrow some Predator drones to keep the terror group at bay. In 1941, before the United...

In this Sept. 16, 2008 file photo provided by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Nawaf Fares, left, is sworn in as Syria's ambassador to Iraq before Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, and Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem in Damascus.
play audio watch the video
PARIS (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad says the French and Syrian intelligence services have had "some contacts" over the fight against the Islamic State group but denied that there is any...
photo: AP / SANA
In this photo taken Sept. 7, 2012, Yanomami Indians dance in their village called Irotatheri in Venezuela's Amazon region.
play audio watch the video
A tropical storm over the Amazon's Black River, which connects Brazil, Venezuela and Colombia. Photo: AFP A remote tribe in the Venezuelan Amazon appears to be resistant to modern antibiotics even though its members have had barely any contact with...
photo: AP / Ariana Cubillos
Sailors assigned to USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) Weapons Department man the rails of the Iowa-class battleship USS Wisconsin (BB 64).
play audio watch the video
VOA News The Pentagon says the American warship USS Theodore Roosevelt is "repositioning" as part of a security operation at sea, but will not intercept Iranian vessels off the coast of Yemen. Citing unnamed officials, the Associated Press...
photo: US Navy / Photographer's Mate Airman Aaron Burden.
In this Feb. 13, 2012 photo, recruits of the Kachin Independence Army, one of the country's largest armed ethnic groups, march during training at a military camp near Laiza, the area controlled by the Kachin in northern Myanmar.
play audio watch the video
Moe Zaw YANGON— Fighting between the Myanmar army and Kachin rebels broke out Saturday and continued until Monday, according to the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO). KIO liaison officer, Colonel Zaw Taung, told VOA Burmese government...
photo: AP / Vincent Yu
Egypt's ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi gestures in a defendant cage during his hearing at a courtroom in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, March 3, 2015.
play audio watch the video
20 April 2015 From the section Middle East An Egyptian court is to deliver its first verdict in one of the trials of former President Mohammed Morsi. He was ousted by the military in July 2013 after mass protests against his rule, in a move which...
photo: AP / Ahmed Omar
UN refugee agency wants no part of Cambodia resettlement
play audio watch the video
Uncertainty: Asylum seekers on Nauru. Photo: Angela Wylie Bangkok: The United Nations agency responsible for refugees has washed its hands of Australia's controversial deal to send refugees from the tiny Pacific island of Nauru to Cambodia. A...
photo: WN / marzena
Hubble docked in the cargo bay of Atlantis. Following the crew's post-sleep activities, they went to work performing the rendezvous operations that included burning the orbiters engines to refine the approach to the Hubble telescope.[NASA 20]
play audio watch the video
(CNN)It's up there right now -- flying about 340 miles over the Earth and circling us every 97 minutes. It's a telescope -- in the sky. Just think about that for a bit. It's called the Hubble Space Telescope. The telescope itself is not really much...
photo: NASA / NASA


×