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A New Year's Resolution: An Apology Day?
Full Article WorldNews.com
01 Jan 2013

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling For good reason Mark Charles, a member of the Navajo Nation, is deeply offended that buried on page 45 of the 2010 Defense Appropriation Act (after pages on the maintenance and operation of the United States Military) is an "official" apology to Native American People. Not only does such dismissive...
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File - Ram Herder, 89, is shown on May 22, 2008 in his Sanders, Ariz. home that was provided by the federal government as part of a massive relocation project to move Navajos from land Congress said belonged to the Hopi Tribe.
photo: AP / Felicia Fonseca

updated 14 Dec 2012; published 03 Jul 2012
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Janeane "Katherine Harris" Garofalo Chimes In on Obamacare, SCOTUS + More!
updated 14 Dec 2012; published 25 Nov 2009
20:38
Glenn Greenwald on Obama, The Constitution & Trials
updated 18 Dec 2012; published 03 Oct 2012
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ancient.aliens.s02e04
updated 30 Dec 2012; published 06 Nov 2009
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President Obama Opens Tribal Nations Conference
updated 21 Dec 2012; published 28 May 2012
43:59
Ancient Aliens: Underground Aliens S02E04 HD - Legendado Pt-Br / Subs En
updated 25 Oct 2012; published 21 Jul 2009
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2009 Flu Summit: Lessons Learned from States, Tribes, & Localities
UN slaps sanctions on DR Congo rebels
Full Article Al Jazeera
01 Jan 2013

The United Nations Security Council has slapped an arms embargo on M23 rebels and their alleged Rwandan allies, the FDLR, amid a flare-up of violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern region. The council committee tasked with monitoring sanctions on the Congo also imposed a travel ban and asset freeze on two key M23 figures: the group's...
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File - Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) police officers arrive in the North Kivu provincial capital of Goma after the rebel group known as M23 withdrew from the city, 1 December, 2012.
photo: UN / Sylvain Liechti

updated 04 Sep 2012; published 29 Aug 2012
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Rwanda's Mushikiwabo Tells Inner City Press UN Looks for Excuses, Hege is Ideologically Bankrupt
updated 11 Dec 2009; published 08 Dec 2009
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MaximsNewsNetwork: DR CONGO: UN SANCTIONS & RECOMMENDATIONS: UNTV
updated 30 Dec 2012; published 19 Oct 2010
15:00
Congo RDC capitale mondiale du viol " Kabila a tenu promesse"
updated 06 Oct 2012; published 13 May 2009
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Le conflit en RDC
updated 23 May 2010; published 18 Oct 2009
2:37
MaximsNewsNetwork: DR CONGO & UN SECURITY COUNCIL & PEACEKEEPERS
updated 09 Aug 2012; published 26 Jul 2012
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Bosco Ntaganda---Rwanda and DRC agree for a neutral force on their border
Merkel warns Germans of tough economic times ahead
Full Article BBC News
31 Dec 2012

Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned that the German economic climate in 2013 will be "even more difficult". In her new year message, she also cautioned that the eurozone debt crisis was far from over. However, she did say that reforms designed to address the roots of the problem were beginning to bear fruit. Her comments appeared to...
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel gestures while posing for photographs after recording her annual New Year's speech at the chancellery in Berlin Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012.
photo: AP / John MacDougall

updated 14 Jul 2012; published 05 Sep 2011
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Schularick Says Germany's Merkel Needs to Set Agenda
updated 11 Dec 2012; published 07 Nov 2012
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Germany urged to tighten belts as crisis continues
updated 30 Dec 2012; published 27 Sep 2011
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel pledges Germany will help Greece
updated 22 Dec 2012; published 19 Jan 2011
3:25
Dispatch: Understanding Germany's Commitment to the Eurozone
updated 24 Aug 2012; published 14 Dec 2011
22:34
Euro fiscal union will take 'months and years' to create, says Merkel (German)
updated 28 Jul 2012; published 16 Aug 2011
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Germany And France Announce Plans For Single European Government As Solution To Debt Crisis
Car bombing leaves at least 19 dead, 25 injured in Pakistan
Full Article The Los Angeles Times
30 Dec 2012

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – At least 19 people were killed by a car bomb in Pakistan on Sunday, the latest in a pattern of escalating attacks by militants in recent weeks. An explosives-laden car was detonated next to a convoy of three buses carrying Shiite Muslim pilgrims from Pakistan’s western Baluchistan province to Iran. The blast also...
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Security men gather at the site of a suicide bombing in Quetta, Pakistan, Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012.
photo: AP / Arshad Butt

updated 31 Dec 2012; published 22 Apr 2011
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updated 29 Dec 2012; published 09 Sep 2012
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Words at War: Who Dare To Live / Here Is Your War / To All Hands
updated 01 Jan 2013; published 19 Dec 2012
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Thala Ajith Injured During a Car Stunt | Vishnuvardhan Movie | Shooting Spot
updated 21 Dec 2012; published 09 Apr 2011
2:03
Deadly Sandstorm: Video of 80 car pile-up in Germany, 10 dead, dozens injured
updated 01 Jan 2013; published 07 May 2011
4:41
Horrible Crashes: Racecars Splitting in Half (Stock-Car, Touringcar and Truck Edition)
updated 15 Oct 2012; published 05 Sep 2007
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Johnny Kingdom fights to save injured bird hit by a car- BBC wildlife
US woman charged with hate crime in subway death
Full Article Taipei Times
30 Dec 2012

A woman who told police she shoved a man to his death off a subway platform because she has hated Muslims since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the US and thought he was one was charged on Saturday with murder as a hate crime, prosecutors said. Erika Menendez was charged in the death of Sunando Sen, who was crushed by a 7 train in Queens, New York,...
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In this image provided by the New York City Police Department, a composite sketch showing the woman believed to have pushed a man to his death in front of a subway train on Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012 is shown.
photo: AP / New York City Police Department

updated 01 Jan 2013; published 30 Dec 2012
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Woman charged with hate crime in NYC subway shoving death
updated 01 Jan 2013; published 30 Dec 2012
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Woman Arrested in NY Subway Shove Death
updated 30 Dec 2012; published 30 Dec 2012
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Woman charged with murder as hate crime in man's NY subway death!.
updated 01 Jan 2013; published 29 Dec 2012
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Hate Crime: Hispanic Woman Pushes Man in front of NYC Subway to DEAD because He Is Muslim
updated 31 Dec 2012; published 30 Dec 2012
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Woman charged with murder in NY Subway Shove|Woman in NY charged with hate-crime murder
updated 01 Jan 2013; published 30 Dec 2012
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Erika Menendez Arrested in NY Subway Shove Death, Hated Muslims! Hate Crime...
Obama Accuses Republicans of Blocking Tax Compromise
Full Article The New York Times
30 Dec 2012

WASHINGTON — President Obama on Sunday implored Congress to act within the next 48 hours to avert the sharpest tax increases and benefit cuts scheduled to take effect on Tuesday. Enlarge This Image Luke Sharrett for The New York Times If a deal is reached, votes in the Senate could begin Sunday. Multimedia Graphic Fiscal Cliff: Changes Set to...
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President Barack Obama waves to reporters as he steps off the Marine One helicopter and walks on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012, as he returns early from his Hawaii vacation for meetings on the fiscal cliff.
photo: AP / Charles Dharapak

updated 18 Dec 2012; published 10 Dec 2010
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Obama & GOP Tax Cut Compromise...Getting Bamboozled?
updated 14 Sep 2012; published 05 Jan 2012
12:32
Obama Sets Up for Showdown With GOP Over Consumer Protection Chief Cordray
updated 26 Nov 2012; published 20 Jan 2011
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Obama Agrees to Extend Tax Cuts for 2 Years
updated 02 Aug 2012; published 05 Dec 2010
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Unemployment Ext. Republicans BLOCK - Senate Floor - Dec 4, 2010, Unemployed left to rot 4 Xmas!
updated 22 Sep 2012; published 28 Jan 2011
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1/29/11 - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) Delivers Weekly GOP Address On Government Blocking Job Creation
updated 19 Dec 2012; published 08 Apr 2011
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Con Job - GOP Budget Exposed By CBO
Syria risks becoming ‘new Somalia’: UN envoy
Full Article Zeenews
30 Dec 2012

London: UN-Arab League envoy to Damascus, Lakhdar Brahimi, has said that a diplomatic solution to the conflict in Syria seemed far away, adding that the country risked being slithering into ‘hell’. Following talks in Moscow with Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei...
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In this image taken from video obtained from the Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, smoke rises from buildings from heavy shelling in Homs, Syria, on Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012.
photo: AP / Shaam News Network

updated 22 Oct 2012; published 22 Oct 2012
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Brahimi - Peace envoy Brahimi holds talks with Syrian foreign minister
updated 27 Dec 2012; published 24 Dec 2012
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Syrian peace envoy in talks with Assad
updated 26 Dec 2012; published 25 Dec 2012
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Brahimi meets Syrian opposition leaders
updated 26 Dec 2012; published 26 Dec 2012
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SYRIAN OPPOSITION LEADERS MEET WITH; International peace envoy brahimi, who also met assad
updated 31 Dec 2012; published 29 Dec 2012
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UN/Arab League envoy warns of "hell" if Syria violence continues
updated 28 Dec 2012; published 27 Dec 2012
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Brahimi pushes for international action on Syria
Japan: The More Things Change, The More They Remain the Same
Full Article WorldNews.com
29 Dec 2012

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling A millennium before the English statesmen Edmund Burke, regarded as the father of Western Conservatism and who wrote, "good order is the foundation of all things," Japan's Seventeen-Article Constitution began with this conservative principle: "Harmony is to be cherished, and opposition for opposition's...
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Japan's new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) employees at the emergency operation center in the building used as crisis management headquarters at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan, Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012.
photo: AP / Itsuo Inouye

updated 14 Jun 2012; published 12 Mar 2012
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Japan Plays Down Fukushima as Questions About Nuclear Energy Remain
updated 13 Dec 2012; published 20 Nov 2012
3:42
STARBUCKS BUYING TEAHOUSES - JAPANESE CARS STOPS WRINKLES - NOV 20th
updated 31 Dec 2012; published 01 Mar 2012
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Packing for Japan: What to bring and exchanging money!
updated 16 Nov 2012; published 21 Mar 2011
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SHUT it Down! Entomb JAPAN Nuclear Reactors Now 2011/3/20
updated 05 Nov 2012; published 22 Sep 2008
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Ivan Canas: As predicted George W. Bush has destroyed the USA. We are witnessing the fall of the US. Please read the more 'section info' and read the 'more info section at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxpCkhyhOL8
updated 18 Dec 2012; published 20 Dec 2011
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Radioactive Debris from Japan Reaching US West Coast
India appeal for calm after Delhi gang-rape victim dies
Full Article BBC News
29 Dec 2012

Police in India have sealed off much of the capital, Delhi, and issued an appeal for calm after the death of a woman who was gang-raped in the city. The 23-year old woman, who has not been identified, died early on Saturday at a hospital in Singapore, where she had been taken for specialist treatment. Her body is to be flown back to India for...
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Indian anti-riot personnel stand guard at a check point after security was beefed up following the death of a young woman who was recently gang-raped in a moving bus in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012.
photo: AP / Altaf Qadri

updated 29 Dec 2012; published 29 Dec 2012
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Delhi gang-rape: India appeal for calm after Delhi gang-rape victim dies
updated 29 Dec 2012; published 24 Dec 2012
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India PM calls for calm following New Delhi gang-rape protests
updated 31 Dec 2012; published 29 Dec 2012
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Appeals for calm after death of Indian gang-rape victim
updated 30 Dec 2012; published 29 Dec 2012
2:38
New Delhi Rape victim Dies Indian gang rape dies 'peacefully' in Singapore hospital
updated 29 Dec 2012; published 29 Dec 2012
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Delhi Victim of horrific Indian gang rape dies 'peacefully' in Singapore hospital
updated 26 Dec 2012; published 26 Dec 2012
1:44
Delhi gang-rape- PM appeals for calm, assures effective action, people not satisfied
Fiscal cliff: Obama 'optimistic' on Senate-led deal
Full Article BBC News
28 Dec 2012

US President Barack Obama says he is "modestly optimistic" that a deal to avoid the "fiscal cliff" is possible, after a last-ditch White House...
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File - President Barack Obama greets the children of U.S. embassy staff at a meet and greet reception at the Chulalongkorn University Sports Center in Bangkok, Thailand, Nov. 18, 2012.
photo: White House / Pete Souza

updated 29 Dec 2012; published 29 Dec 2012
3:07
Fiscal cliff: Obama 'optimistic' on Senate-led deal
updated 31 Dec 2012; published 29 Dec 2012
6:02
Obama On Fiscal Cliff After White House Meeting: 'Moderately Optimistic' About Deal
updated 30 Dec 2012; published 29 Dec 2012
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Obama Fiscal Cliff | President Obama Optimistic on Fiscal Cliff After Talks
updated 29 Dec 2012; published 29 Dec 2012
1:01
Edge of the fiscal cliff: Obama 'modestly optimistic' as Congress scrambles for deal
updated 29 Dec 2012; published 29 Dec 2012
5:59
President Obama On Fiscal Cliff: 'Moderately Optimistic' About Deal
updated 29 Dec 2012; published 29 Dec 2012
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Transcript: Obama 'Modestly optimistic' fiscal cliff deal can be reached

Open Minds Worldwide
How the US intelligence community came out of the shadows
more Al Jazeera
Weren't those the greatest of days if you were in the American spy game? Governments went down in Guatemala and Iran thanks to you. In distant Indonesia, Laos and...
Wait, There Are More Cliffs to Come? Ugh!
more CNBC
Whether or not the U.S. "fiscal cliff" impasse is broken before the New Year's Eve deadline, there will be no post-cliff peace in Washington. With the political climate toxic in...
We Demand A Plan to End Gun Violence - NOW!
more The Examiner
The Target: President Obama and members of Congress Sponsored by: Mayors Against Illegal Guns "We can't tolerate this anymore. These tragedies must end. And to end them we must...

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Rise of the Republican Party named top Ark. story more
Republican vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan, of Wisconsin, makes a point to Vice President Joe Biden during the vice presidential debate at Centre College, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012, in Danville, Ky.
Dayton Daily News
Four years ago, Arkansas Democrats held every constitutional office, all but one seat in the state's congressional delegation and a seemingly untouchable majority in the Legislature. How things have changed. The state GOP party built on major gains...
photo: AP / Eric Gay
Arkansas   Photos   Politics   Republican   US   Wikipedia: Republican Party of Arkansas
US State Department made 'grievous mistake' over Benghazi: Senate report more
Libyan rebel fighter is silhouetted next to El Malti Mosque on the way to the city of Bani Walid, Libya, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011.
The Times of India
WASHINGTON: The State Department made a "grievous mistake" in keeping the US mission in Benghazi open despite inadequate security and increasingly alarming threat assessments in the weeks before a deadly attack by militants, a Senate committee said...
photo: AP / Francois Mori
Benghazi   Photos   US   Washington   Wikipedia: Timeline of the investigation into the 2012 Benghazi attack
  Obama Fiscal Cliff Plans: $20 Trillion In Debt By 2017 more
Congressmen walk down the steps of the House of Representatives at the Capitol as rank and file members adjourned for several days, in Washington,Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012.
The Inquisitr
Posted: December 29, 2012 COMMENTARY | President Obama’s Fiscal Cliff plans would land the United States in $20 trillion in debt by 2017. As previously reported by The Inquisitr, a new Gallup poll reveals that Americans support Obama in the...
photo: AP / J. Scott Applewhite
Budget Deficit   Economy   Fiscal Cliff   Photos   President   United States   Wikipedia: United States fiscal cliff
U.S. Senate leaders work to avoid New Year's 'fiscal cliff' more
House of Representatives pediment detail, United States Capitol, Washington D. C.
Reuters
* Reid, McConnell and aides in last-ditch effort * Some aides pessimistic deal can be reached in time By Richard Cowan and Rachelle Younglai WASHINGTON, Dec 29 (Reuters) - Congressional negotiators burrowed into their Capitol offices on Saturday to...
photo: Creative Commons / Andreas Praefcke
Economy   Fiscal Cliff   Leaders   Photos   US   Wikipedia: United States fiscal cliff
  U.S. Population In 2013 To Hit 315.1 Million more
Friends and family members of 9/11 victims visit a September 11 Memorial waterfall during a ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the attacks, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011 in New York.
The Inquisitr
Posted: December 29, 2012 The U.S. population will hit 315.1 million people on January 1, 2013. The Census Bureau announced this week that the U.S. population increased by 2.3 million people, or .73 percent during 2012. At the start of 2012 there...
photo: AP / Mark Lennihan
Census   Photos   Population   United States   Wikipedia: Demographics of the United States
In first West Bank visit, Arab League chief calls for 'material and political support' for Palestinians more
Qatari Foreign Minister Hamad bin Jasim, right, and Arab League secretary-general Nabil al-Arabi Nabil, left, chair the Arab League emergency session on Syria at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Nov.12, 2011.
Ha'aretz
related articles Arab League chief heads for Ramallah to discuss aid to Palestinians, peace talks...
photo: AP / Amr Nabil
Arab League   Palestine   Photos   West Bank   Wikipedia: Peace process in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Macedonian opposition rallies to demand early elections more
Gjorge Ivanov, presidential candidate talks to the media after casting his ballot in the runoff of the presidential elections, in front of a polling station in Macedonia's capital Skopje, Sunday, April 5, 2009. First-round winner Gjorgje Ivanov, a government-backed conservative, is running against Social Democrat challenger Ljubomir Frckosk
The Star
SKOPJE (Reuters) - Several thousand people rallied in front of the headquarters of Macedonia's rightist ruling party on Saturday demanding the immediate resignation of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and early elections. The rally was the culmination...
photo: AP / Boris Grdanoski
Elections   Macedonia   Photos   Protests   Skopje   Wikipedia: Politics of the Republic of Macedonia
updated 12 Dec 2012; published 06 Dec 2007
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The Long Walk
A New Year's Resolution: An Apology Day?
WorldNews.com 01 Jan 2013, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling For good reason Mark Charles, a member of the Navajo Nation, is deeply offended that buried on page 45 of the 2010 Defense Appropriation Act (after pages on the maintenance and operation of the United States Military) is an "official" apology to Native American People. Not only does such dismissive...

updated 25 Nov 2012; published 20 Nov 2012
1:15
DR Congo M23 rebels enter Goma city.
UN slaps sanctions on DR Congo rebels
Al Jazeera 01 Jan 2013, The United Nations Security Council has slapped an arms embargo on M23 rebels and their alleged Rwandan allies, the FDLR, amid a flare-up of violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern region. The council committee tasked with monitoring sanctions on the Congo also imposed a travel ban and asset freeze on two key M23 figures: the group's...

updated 31 Dec 2012; published 30 Dec 2012
2:21
Outlook for Germany's Merkel in 2013
Merkel warns Germans of tough economic times ahead
BBC News 31 Dec 2012, Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned that the German economic climate in 2013 will be "even more difficult". In her new year message, she also cautioned that the eurozone debt crisis was far from over. However, she did say that reforms designed to address the roots of the problem were beginning to bear fruit. Her comments appeared to...

updated 31 Dec 2012; published 30 Dec 2012
0:37
Shiite pilgrims killed in deadly Pakistan attack
Car bombing leaves at least 19 dead, 25 injured in Pakistan
The Los Angeles Times 30 Dec 2012, ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – At least 19 people were killed by a car bomb in Pakistan on Sunday, the latest in a pattern of escalating attacks by militants in recent weeks. An explosives-laden car was detonated next to a convoy of three buses carrying Shiite Muslim pilgrims from Pakistan’s western Baluchistan province to Iran. The blast also...

updated 01 Jan 2013; published 09 Apr 2010
1:54
Racist Blacks are targeting Asian women for hate crimes in New York
US woman charged with hate crime in subway death
Taipei Times 30 Dec 2012, A woman who told police she shoved a man to his death off a subway platform because she has hated Muslims since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the US and thought he was one was charged on Saturday with murder as a hate crime, prosecutors said. Erika Menendez was charged in the death of Sunando Sen, who was crushed by a 7 train in Queens, New York,...

updated 01 Jan 2013; published 31 Dec 2012
1:53
Obama says 'fiscal cliff' deal within reach
Obama Accuses Republicans of Blocking Tax Compromise
The New York Times 30 Dec 2012, WASHINGTON — President Obama on Sunday implored Congress to act within the next 48 hours to avert the sharpest tax increases and benefit cuts scheduled to take effect on Tuesday. Enlarge This Image Luke Sharrett for The New York Times If a deal is reached, votes in the Senate could begin Sunday. Multimedia Graphic Fiscal Cliff: Changes Set to...

updated 31 Dec 2012; published 30 Dec 2012
2:22
UN envoy: 'Syria at risk of descending into hell'
Syria risks becoming ‘new Somalia’: UN envoy
Zeenews 30 Dec 2012, London: UN-Arab League envoy to Damascus, Lakhdar Brahimi, has said that a diplomatic solution to the conflict in Syria seemed far away, adding that the country risked being slithering into ‘hell’. Following talks in Moscow with Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei...

updated 29 Dec 2012; published 26 Dec 2012
1:52
Japan's Shinzo Abe gets second chance as PM
Japan: The More Things Change, The More They Remain the Same
WorldNews.com 29 Dec 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling A millennium before the English statesmen Edmund Burke, regarded as the father of Western Conservatism and who wrote, "good order is the foundation of all things," Japan's Seventeen-Article Constitution began with this conservative principle: "Harmony is to be cherished, and opposition for opposition's...

updated 01 Jan 2013; published 28 Dec 2012
3:54
Indian Rape Victim Dies In Singapore Hospital - Delhi Bus Gang Rape Victim Dies of Organ Failure
India appeal for calm after Delhi gang-rape victim dies
BBC News 29 Dec 2012, Police in India have sealed off much of the capital, Delhi, and issued an appeal for calm after the death of a woman who was gang-raped in the city. The 23-year old woman, who has not been identified, died early on Saturday at a hospital in Singapore, where she had been taken for specialist treatment. Her body is to be flown back to India for...

updated 01 Jan 2013; published 28 Dec 2012
6:19
President Obama Statement on "Fiscal Cliff" (12/28/2012)
Fiscal cliff: Obama 'optimistic' on Senate-led deal
BBC News 28 Dec 2012, US President Barack Obama says he is "modestly optimistic" that a deal to avoid the "fiscal cliff" is possible, after a last-ditch White House...

updated 31 Dec 2012; published 29 Dec 2012
25:01
Inside Story - Central African Republic's looming crisis
CAR seeks foreign help against rebels
Al Jazeera 28 Dec 2012, The president of Central African Republic (CAR) has urgently called on France and other foreign powers to help his government fend off rebels who are quickly seizing territory and approaching the capital. Speaking to crowds in Bangui, a city of some 600,000, Francois Bozize on Thursday pleaded with foreign powers to do what they could. He pointed...

updated 31 Dec 2012; published 08 May 2011
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Afghanistan War - US Army - Intense Close Taliban Ambush - Helmet Cam
Imperial Lockstep
CounterPunch 27 Dec 2012, Imperial adventures are nothing new in the Middle East. Neither is their glorification, as Peter O’Toole’s pained Lawrence of Arabia eternally reminds us. But for a decade or so now, things have been heating up, as if to coincide with climate change and fears of declining petroleum reserves. Fuelled by 9/11 and inspired by material avarice, the...

updated 31 Dec 2012; published 27 Dec 2012
1:30
Deadly! SNOWSTORM ravage NORTHEAST US 17 Dead, Dectruction Dec.27,2012
Six dead as winter snowstorms pound US
Zeenews 27 Dec 2012, Washington: Six people, including two young children, were left dead in weather-related accidents, as winter snowstorms complicated travel for many Americans in the Midwest and Northeast on Wednesday. Snow totals in parts of Indiana ranged from 6 to 12 inches, CNN reported. About 350 snowploughs were clearing roads throughout the city....

updated 28 Dec 2012; published 28 Dec 2012
18:27
Benazir Bhutto's death 5th anniversary Pakistan People's Party JAPAN
Pakistan marks fifth anniversary of Benazir Bhutto murder
BBC News 27 Dec 2012, Large crowds of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) supporters are gathering to mark the fifth anniversary of the murder of ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Ms Bhutto died in a gun and bomb attack during her 2007 election campaign. Hundreds of thousands of people have set up camp near the Bhutto family's ancestral home in Sindh province. The...