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In this Nov. 13, 2015, file photo, a Kurdish peshmerga fighter stands next to a destroyed building inside the town of Sinjar, northern Iraq. The Islamic State militants who stormed into the Iraqi town of Sinjar in 2014, massacring members of the Yazidi minority and forcing women into sexual slavery, are gone.
ISIS   Photos   Religious Violence   The Reformation   Wikipedia: Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant		  The Independent 
To fight Isis we need to learn from the era of Calvinism
As I learn of fresh Isis atrocities, I cannot help reminding myself that Europe was once in a similar situation to that in which the Middle East finds itself today. I am referring to the period of the... (photo: AP / Bram Janssen)
A Thai man faces up to 37 years in prison for mocking the king’s dog over social media, an apparent violation of Thailand’s stringent laws against insults aimed at the country’s monarchy...
King Bhumibol Adulyadej   Monarchy   Thailand   Wikipedia: Bhumibol Adulyadej   Photos		  Deccan Chronicle 
Thai faces 37-years in jail for insulting king's dog in Facebook post
Bangkok: Thai faces prison after being charged with lese majeste for insulting the king's dog, his lawyer said on Wednesday, in an escalation of the already draconian royal defamation law. Thanakorn... (photo: via YouTube)
Carnival Fascination docked in Nassau, Bahamas in May, 2009.  Atlanta Journal 
FBI investigating incident that happened on board Carnival Fascination
The FBI is investigating an incident that happened on board the Carnival Fascination. Agents boarded the ship as it returned to port Monday morning. The passenger we spoke to said they were in a... (photo: Creative Commons / Chrismschurz)
Carnival Fascination   Crime   FBI   Photos   Wikipedia: Carnival Fascination
File - Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, King of Saudi Arabia, addresses a General Assembly meeting on the Culture of Peace, 12 November, 2008.  The Malta Independent 
Saudi Arabia forms Islamic counter-terrorism coalition
Saudi Arabia said Tuesday that 34 nations have agreed to form a new "Islamic military alliance" to fight terrorism with a joint operations center based in the kingdom's capital, Riyadh. The... (photo: UN)
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File - The Delhi Chief Minister-designate, Shri Arvind Kejriwal calls on the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, in New Delhi on February 12, 2015. The Guardian
Narendra Modi 'psychopathic', says Delhi chief minister after office raid
Arvind Kejriwal blames India’s prime minister after federal investigators carry out search at offices in New Delhi... (photo: PIB of India)
Arvind Kejriwal   India Corruption   PM Narendra Modi   Photos   Wikipedia: Arvind Kejriwal
Alibaba Binjiang Campus in Hangzhou, headquarters for Alibaba's B2B service. Huffington Post
Alibaba Buys Hong Kong's South China Morning Post Newspaper
HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba said Friday it's buying Hong Kong's leading English-language newspaper, the South China Morning Post, as part of a... (photo: Creative Commons)

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FILE - In this Jan. 17, 2007 file photo, then Chinese Commerce Minister Bo Xilai, right, with his wife Gu Kailai attends a memorial ceremony for his father Bo Yibo, a late revolutionary leader considered one of communist China's founding fathers, at a military hospital in Beijing. Disgraced Chinese politician Bo was expelled from the ruling Communist Party on Friday, Sept. 28, 2012, and will face corruption and other criminal charges, the latest step in a scandal that has overshadowed a political transition now set to take place in early November BBC News
China court cuts Gu Kailai sentence to life in prison
A court in the Chinese capital Beijing has commuted the suspended death sentence of Gu Kailai, wife of disgraced former Politburo member Bo Xilai, to life in prison. The... (photo: AP / Alexander F. Yuan, File)
Bo Xilai   Gu Kailai   Neil Heywood   Photos   Wikipedia: Gu Kailai
Guo Guangchang South China Morning Post
Fallout from missing Chairman Guo Guangchang: Two companies suspended from trade in HK
Fosun International and Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical requested a suspension of trading in their Hong Kong-listed shares on Friday, a day after the disappearance of... (photo: AP / Andy Wong)
Fosun International   Guo Guangchang   Liang Xinjun   Photos   Wikipedia: Guo Guangchang
Karim Benzema The Times of India
France to announce Benzema's national team fate
PARIS: France's football federation will announce Thursday whether star striker Karim Benzema is to be suspended by the national team over his involvement in a sex-tape... (photo: Creative Commons / Alejandro Ramos)
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Security Council meetingThe question concerning Haiti:Report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (S/2015/667) UN court: Nicaragua breached Costa Rican sovereignty Austin American Statesman
In this Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012 file photo, New North Korean leader Kim Jong Un waves at Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang after reviewing a parade of thousands of soldiers and commemorating the 70th birthday of his late father Kim Jong Il. North Korea's Claim It Has Nuclear Weapons Is Questionable WorldNews.com
Shiite tribesmen, known as Houthis, hold their weapons as they chant slogans during a tribal gathering showing support for the Houthi movement in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015. Yemen peace talks get under way amid shaky ceasefire France24
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File - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (foreground right) delivers the keynote address at the Paris Agenda Council Day, hosted by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), 7 December, 2015. We’re hiring: UN opens applications to find the next secretary-general South China Morning Post
Economic and Social Council 2012 Organizational meeting. 1. Election of the President and Bureau for 2012 2. Remarks by the Secretary-General Please make sure to cover Panel speakers and hand-over of Presidency new President, outgoing President, and also pictures of the new Bureau of ECOSOC. UN Secretary General election process kicks off Deccan Herald
File -Yukiya Amano, Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), addresses the 2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), 27 April, 2015. United Nations ends decade-long nuclear probe against Iran Dawn
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Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the current Supreme Leader of Iran. Iran’s ‘Red Line’ In Syria Equals Persia’s Al-Khwarizmi’s Linear Equations WorldNews.com
In this photo taken Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015, Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Crimean leader Sergei Aksyonov, right, attend the inauguration of electricity connection with the Russian mainland in Simferopol, Crimea. Ukraine To Crimea: “Freeze, Baby, Freeze!” WorldNews.com
Pakistani army troops surround an air force base, Friday, Sept. 18, 2015 in Peshawar, Pakistan after the Taliban launched a brazen assault on the base on the outskirts of the northwestern city At Least 50 Dead in Taliban Attack on Key Afghanistan Airport Voa News
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British Prime Minister David Cameron answers a question during his and Afghan President Hamid Karzai, not in photo, news conference after their talks in Kabul, Afghanistan Russia’s expulsion from G8 must be discussed: Cameron Khaleej Times
President Barack Obama tells the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) convention that the bonds between the US and Israel are unbreakable, Washington, Sunday, May 22, 2011, after a contentious couple of days this week when he clashed publicly with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over ideas for a permanent Palestinian state. Obama Administration pushing for exclusion of Russia from G8 The Examiner
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