The World's Most Powerful Women 2015
Full Article Forbes
26 May 2015

The world’s most powerful woman, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, has a lot on her mind these days: Mediterranean migrants, Russian sanctions, homegrown spying scandals, Eurozone stability and the Germanwings crash, to name a few pressing issues. One thing she surely isn’t thinking about — but we are — is that come next year’s U.S....

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US First Lady, Michelle Obama, right, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, chat during a dinner at the Charlottenburg palace in Berlin Wednesday, June 19, 2013
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Merkel most powerful woman in world: Forbes
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Ivan Eland on Germany’s Angela Merkel: Most Powerful Woman in the World
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Germany's Angela Merkel named world's most powerful woman in 2013
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Forbes List of Top 10 Powerful Women in The World
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Merkel again tops Forbes' list of most powerful women
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The Making of Merkel with Andrew Marr BBC documentary 2013 about Angel Merkel imp politician
Politics and Geography of ISIS' and Al Qaeda's Bluffs
Full Article WorldNews.com
26 May 2015

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Since the greatest dangers facing the world are unknown unknowns, every possible threat should be of great importance. Unfortunately, both former Vice President Dick Cheney, and now President Barack Obama, ignored this principle. Indeed, in a new book by then CIA Director Mike Morell, he records how...

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Displaced Iraqis from Ramadi cross the Bzebiz bridge fleeing fighting in Ramadi, 65 km west of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, May 20, 2015.
photo: AP / Karim Kadim

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Chris Matthews: Dick Cheney Created Al Qaeda and ISIS
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Cheney: Obama's decimated U.S. Defense, not al Qaeda
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January 2015 in December 2014 Breaking News Dick Cheney CIA interrogation techniques I'd do it again
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Dick Cheney on Pres Obama's UN Speech ,Iran, ISIS .
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Obama Arming ISIS by Stealth
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B.B. King death probed as homicide after poison claim: coroner
Full Article Jakarta Post
26 May 2015

Police in Las Vegas have launched a homicide investigation into the death of B.B. King, a Nevada coroner's office said Monday, after the blues guitar legend’s daughters reportedly accused his aides of poisoning him. King died at age 89 on May 14 in Las Vegas, where he kept his residence while he kept up a gruelling schedule of tours that ended only...

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In this Aug. 22, 2012 photograph, the then 86-year-old B.B. King thrills a crowd of several hundred people at the annual B.B. King Homecoming, a free concert on the grounds of an old cotton gin where he worked as a teenager many years ago, in Indianola, Miss.
photo: AP / Rogelio V. Solis

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BB King's death to be investigated as murder
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BB King's Death to Be Investigated
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BB King's death to be investigated as murder
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BB King's death to be investigated as murder.
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BB King's death to be investigated as murder
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B.B. King's Daughters Allege He Was Poisoned, Lawyer Says Claims Are Ridiculous
Turkey's Erdogan accuses New York Times of meddling in country's affairs
Full Article The Guardian
26 May 2015

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blasts editorial accusing him of a crackdown ahead of the 7 June election, telling the US daily to ‘know your place’ ...

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, addresses journalists during press conference in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, on Wednesday, May 20, 2015. Turkish President Erdogan is in one day visit to Bosnia.
photo: AP / Amel Emric

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Erdoğan blasts New York Times: ‘Who are you? Know your place’
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Egypt tells Turkey: stop meddling in Egypt's internal affairs
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Kurds’ own affairs do not concern Erdoğan, says PYD
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Syria News 22.11.2012, Militarizing Syrian-Turkish Borders will Escalate Tension along These Borders
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Turkish PM: Ankara will never respect Egyptian military rulers
updated 15 Feb 2015; published 15 Feb 2015
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Grisly Human Trafficking Discoveries May Doom Obama's Troubled Trade Strategy
Full Article Forbes
25 May 2015

Americans of all political persuasions abhor people trafficking. So why is the Obama administration pushing a highly controversial trade pact that would reward nations with some of the worst human trafficking records in the...

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A Malaysian police officer stands guard at an outpost before the entry point to the Malaysia-Thailand border in Wang Kelian, Malaysia on Monday, May 25, 2015. Malaysian authorities said Monday they have discovered 139 suspected graves in a series of abandoned camps used by human traffickers.
photo: AP / Joshua Paul

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Portman Highlights President's Failure to Comply with Budget Law
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Malaysia's Slave System Gets Obama's Approval
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Obama On "Modern Slavery"
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Human trafficking: the modern day slave trade
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Obama Running Human Trafficking
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Human trafficking 100,000 USA children average age 12 each year

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Why Aung San Suu Kyi has stayed silent on the plight of Rohingya
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South China Morning Post
When thousands of Rohingya people from Myanmar were discovered floating in boats on the Southeast Asian seas much of the world was understandably gripped by this unfolding human...
In foreign policy Barack Obama is proving to be the supreme pragmatist
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The Independent
A malign shade named Iraq has returned to haunt America’s nascent 2016 presidential campaign. The past few days, beginning with the humiliating fall of Ramadi to the radical...
Why do peacekeepers have immunity in sex abuse cases?
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(CNN)Earlier this month in New York, the advocacy group AID-Free World launched a campaign to end impunity for personnel who commit sexual abuse during U.N. peacekeeping missions....

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Otago Daily Times
An Air France flight has been escorted by two United States F-15 fighter jets to New York after an anonymous threat was made against the flight, military officials say. Air France flight 22, traveling from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris,...
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UK won't let non-British citizens vote on future of EU membership
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Mashable
LONDON — Britain's prime minister announced on Monday that non-British citizens who live in Britain will not be able to vote on whether the country should remain in the European Union The question is important because so many non-British EU citizens...
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Iraq, Iran push back on US defense chief over Ramadi loss
An Iraqi Policeman patrols Route Iron as Coalition Forces follow closely behind.
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Dayton Daily News
Iraq and Iran pushed back Monday against U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter's criticisms over the fall of Ramadi to the Islamic State group, with an Iranian general going as far as saying America had "no will" to fight the extremists. In Baghdad, a...
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Nigeria increasingly crippled as fuel shortage worsens
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Al Jazeera
Nigeria's severe fuel shortage has started to cause widespread disruption to everyday services, with the telecommunications and banking sectors the latest hit hard by the worsening crisis. A major Nigerian bank announced on Monday that it would close...
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Lexington Herald-Leader
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was sentenced Monday to eight months in prison for unlawfully accepting money from a U.S. supporter, capping the dramatic downfall of a man who only years earlier led the country and hoped to bring about a...
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