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Rigoberta Menchu: Lighting Candles, Exposing Shadows
Full Article WorldNews.com
01 Jan 2014

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling "When you light a candle," wrote Ursual K. Le Guin, "you also cast a shadow." Rigoberta Menchu, who was awarded the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize and instrumental in having the Guatemalan Government end its 36-year-long war "against the poor," which occurred this very same week in 1996, lit millions of...
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File - Rigoberta Menchú (right), Guatemalan human rights activist and Nobel Laureate, addresses a press conference on the work of the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG). At left is Eduardo Stein Barillas, former Vice President of Guatemala.
photo: UN / Evan Schneider

updated 24 Oct 2013; published 24 Oct 2013
59:59
Women Share Experiences Insights And Wisdom About Peace And Justice
updated 10 Feb 2013; published 19 Sep 2012
29:41
ALTA CARE Laboratoires - Paris
updated 04 Jul 2013; published 08 Mar 2013
1:29
Fourteen South American Nationals attend Hugo Chavez Vigil in London
updated 10 Aug 2013; published 26 Jun 2012
29:59
Nobel Peace Prize Recipient: Rigoberta Menchú Interview
updated 27 Aug 2013; published 27 Aug 2013
3:42
Rigoberta y su adicción a la comida
updated 11 Aug 2013; published 13 Jul 2011
6:07
Rigoberta Menchú, Premio Nobel de la Paz Guatemala
Syria conflict pits Shia against Sunni as Hezbollah says this is 'war we must win'
Full Article The Guardian
01 Jan 2014

Commander of militant Lebanese group claims that it has been forced to intervene in self-defence after sectarian attacks The Syria conflict is increasingly dragging in militant groups from surrounding countries. Photograph: -/AFP/WorldPhotos.com In a grand manor house in northern Lebanon, eight men, all of them well-to-do professionals, had gathered...
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Hezbollah fighters, center, carry the coffin of their commander Ali Bazzi who was killed in Syria during a battle against the Syrian rebels, as other fighters, foreground, carry his portrait during his funeral procession, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, on Monday, Dec. 9, 2013.
photo: AP / Mohammed Zaatari

updated 17 Aug 2013; published 16 Jun 2013
1:27
Sunni cleric says war is coming to Lebanon and blames Hezbollah for entering Syrian conflict
updated 16 Aug 2013; published 16 Aug 2013
3:19
Lebanese Sunni Group Claims Responsibility For Car Bombings
updated 09 Jul 2013; published 09 Jul 2013
1:57
Car Bomb in Beirut Shiite Suburb: Another Attempt to Spark Sectarian Civil War in Lebanon
updated 11 Aug 2013; published 01 Jun 2013
8:43
Hezbollah And Syrian Rebels Fighting In A Proxy War
updated 30 Jun 2013; published 29 Jun 2013
6:02
How Will The Sectarian Violence In Syria Shape The Future?
updated 23 Jul 2013; published 17 Jun 2013
2:45
Hamas Wants Hezbollah To Leave Syria
South Sudan government, rebels set for New Year's Day talks
Full Article Mail Guardian South Africa
01 Jan 2014

South Sudan's government and rebels are set for New Year's Day peace talks in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, to thrash out a ceasefire to end weeks of ethnic bloodletting in the world's newest state. Both sides agreed to a ceasefire on Tuesday, mediators said, but fighting between government troops and militias loyal to former...
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A displaced family stand by their makeshift shelter at a United Nations compound which has become home to thousands of people displaced by the recent fighting, in the Jebel area on the outskirts of Juba, South Sudan Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2013.
photo: AP / Ben Curtis

updated 27 Dec 2013; published 27 Dec 2013
2:06
BBC News South Sudan government agrees to truce
updated 27 Dec 2013; published 27 Dec 2013
0:57
South Sudan Government Agrees to Truce with Rebels
updated 22 Dec 2013; published 22 Dec 2013
4:47
South Sudan: Thousands Of Pro-Rebel Youths 'March on Bor' - Updated 28 Dec
updated 27 Dec 2013; published 27 Dec 2013
1:51
BBC News South Sudan government agrees to truce
updated 21 Dec 2013; published 21 Dec 2013
3:02
South Sudan Government 'Agrees To Truce' - Updated 27 Dec
updated 27 Dec 2013; published 27 Dec 2013
0:58
South Sudan crisis East Africa leaders to hold emergency talks
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says purge was a cleansing of 'filth'
Full Article DNA India
01 Jan 2014

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made his first reference to the execution of his powerful uncle in a New Year's address, saying the reclusive state's ruling party had become stronger after it was purged of "factional filth." And he called for better relations with South Korea, warning that another war on the Korean peninsula would...
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says purge was a cleansing of 'filth'
photo: AP / Ng Han Guan

updated 01 Jan 2014; published 01 Jan 2014
0:51
NKorea Boasts Of Removal Of "factionalist Filth"
updated 01 Jan 2013; published 15 Jun 2012
10:01
I Burn With The Passionate Fury Of The Benevolent Adolf Hitler - For The Filthy Cattle
updated 20 Dec 2013; published 20 Dec 2013
2:01
Dennis Rodman: North Korea trip about having fun not execution talk
updated 27 Mar 2013; published 27 Mar 2013
1:14
'Unpredictability' makes Kim Jong-un dangerous
updated 03 Dec 2013; published 03 Dec 2013
1:29
Forecast calls for high level of fine dust
updated 22 Dec 2013; published 22 Dec 2013
2:22
Ex-NBA star Rodman holds tryouts for Pyongyang exhibition game
Syria misses deadline to remove chemical arms
Full Article Al Jazeera
01 Jan 2014

Ships waiting to remove Syria's chemical weapons have returned to port in Cyprus because the country has missed a December 31 deadline. Syria was supposed to have removed part of its chemical weapons arsenal for destruction on Tuesday, but Wael Nader Al Halqi, Syria's prime minister, said security concerns and bureaucracy had caused delays in...
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In this photo provided by Norwegian Armed Forces and taken Saturday, Dec. 28, 2013, a security forces member stands guard aboard the Norwegian frigate Helge Ingstad, in Limassol, Cyprus.
photo: AP / Norwegian Armed Forces, Lars Magne Hovtun

updated 18 Dec 2013; published 18 Dec 2013
2:06
Syria chemical weapon removal delay fear
updated 23 Dec 2013; published 23 Dec 2013
2:34
BBC News Syria chemical weapons monitors win Nobel Peace Prize-MNM News
updated 02 Nov 2013; published 02 Nov 2013
4:07
Chemical watchdog urges truces so Syria can disarm
updated 22 Sep 2013; published 22 Sep 2013
0:07
Russian offers troops to help remove Syria chemical arms
updated 23 Dec 2013; published 23 Dec 2013
1:46
[HD] BBC News Syria chemical weapons road map agreed
updated 22 Dec 2013; published 22 Dec 2013
1:00
US Ship to Aid in Syria Chemical Weapons Removal
Iraqi Sunnis' long struggle since Saddam
Full Article BBC News
31 Dec 2013

The break-up by security forces of a protest camp in the western city of Ramadi, which triggered the resignation of more than 40 MPs, marks the latest stage in a long political struggle by Iraq's Sunni Arab community. The protesters had accused the Shia-led government of Prime Minister Nouri Maliki of discriminating against the country's...
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clashes between Iraqi army soldiers and Sunni gunmen in Fallujah, 65 kilometers (40 miles) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2013. Iraqi police took down tents and cleared a Sunni protest camp sit-in in Ramadi, 115 kilometers (70 miles) west of Baghdad
photo: AP

updated 24 Jan 2012; published 24 Jan 2012
6:34
Christians in Iraq: A community in despair
updated 13 Apr 2008; published 13 Apr 2008
7:41
alive in baghdad 2
updated 16 Jun 2013; published 16 Jun 2013
1:36
WW3 BECKONING: SYRIA ON G8 AGENDA SAYS CAMERON - NWO WANT ASSAD GONE
updated 17 Sep 2013; published 17 Sep 2013
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What you need to Know about Syria - Global Public Square CNN
updated 12 Nov 2012; published 12 Nov 2012
1:09
Lebanon sectarian clashes kill three
updated 26 Aug 2013; published 26 Aug 2013
0:53
[MUST WATCH]Syrian Rebels paid in Dollars for killing innocent people
Suicide car bombing in south Yemen kills 2 guards
Full Article Boston Herald
31 Dec 2013

SANAA, Yemen — A suicide car bombing outside security headquarters early Tuesday in a port city in southern Yemen killed two guards, a police official said. The pre-dawn attack in the upscale Khormaksar neighborhood in Aden also wounded six people, destroyed much of the headquarters' building, blew out doors and shattered windows on two...
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File - Yemeni soldiers patrol a street near the Defense Ministry compound in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013.
photo: AP / Hani Mohammed

updated 03 Jun 2013; published 03 Jun 2013
0:27
Qassim Al Rimi, Commander Of Al Qaeda In The Arabian Peninsula, Warns Americans On Security
updated 17 Sep 2013; published 17 Sep 2013
0:53
3 police dead, 6 wounded in suicide bombing, attempted attacks in Russia's south
updated 01 Nov 2013; published 01 Nov 2013
0:54
Yemen Blast 2 2012 News
updated 13 Dec 2013; published 13 Dec 2013
1:10
Australia: CCTV shows Brazilian student repeatedly tasered by police in Sydney
updated 24 Oct 2013; published 24 Oct 2013
1:11
Car bomb detonated by rebels in Syria
updated 21 Dec 2013; published 21 Dec 2013
3:01
Chilling violence spreads in C.A.R.
Michael Schumacher shows slight improvement, doctors say
Full Article CNN
31 Dec 2013

December 31, 2013 -- Updated 1034 GMT (1834 HKT) (CNN) -- Former Formula 1 driver Michael Schumacher, who suffered a serious head injury in a skiing accident, is showing a "slight improvement" in his condition, doctors said Tuesday. Doctors carried out a surgical intervention Monday night on Schumacher which allowed for some pressure to be removed...
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In this image released by GP2 Media, Formula 1 driver Michael Schumacher of Germany gets ready to drive a GP2 car at the racetrack in Jerez de la Frontera, southern Spain, on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010. Schumacher has started his preparations for his Formula 1 return by getting behind the wheel of a GP2 car to begin a three-day testing session.
photo: AP / Malcolm Griffiths, GP2 Media

updated 31 Dec 2013; published 31 Dec 2013
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Michael Schumacher injured - slight improvement after two hour operation, doctors say
updated 31 Dec 2013; published 31 Dec 2013
1:48
Michael Schumacher: 'Slight improvement but still critical'
updated 31 Dec 2013; published 31 Dec 2013
1:24
Michael Schumacher: doctors say 'slight improvement' in Formula One champion's condition
updated 31 Dec 2013; published 31 Dec 2013
0:19
Schumacher's condition slightly improved, hospital doctors say
updated 31 Dec 2013; published 31 Dec 2013
2:32
BBC News - Michael Schumacher 'slight improvement' after ski accident
updated 30 Dec 2013; published 30 Dec 2013
1:21
Michael Schumacher injured - Doctors give update on head injury following skiing accident
Fresh fighting in South Sudan as peace deadline nears
Full Article Khaleej Times
31 Dec 2013

Government troops on Tuesday morning fought renegade forces loyal to former Vice President Riek Machar as well as a pro-Machar tribal militia. Fresh fighting erupted in the contested capital of Jonglei state as rebels in South Sudan moved to retake control of Bor from government troops, a military official said Tuesday, signaling both sides were...
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A young displaced girl starts crying after the relative she was with disappears into a row of latrines, at a United Nations compound which has become home to thousands of people displaced by the recent fighting, in the capital Juba, South Sudan Sunday, Dec. 29, 2013.
photo: AP / Ben Curtis

updated 26 Dec 2013; published 26 Dec 2013
4:09
South Sudan Crisis: Kenya and Ethiopia Leaders in Juba For Talks - 26 Dec
updated 31 Dec 2013; published 31 Dec 2013
1:05
Fresh Fighting Erupts in South Sudan
updated 16 Dec 2013; published 16 Dec 2013
4:29
Coup Attempt In South Sudan Failed
updated 23 Dec 2013; published 23 Dec 2013
2:08
South Sudan army says strikes on rebels imminent
updated 23 Dec 2013; published 23 Dec 2013
4:36
South Sudanese Army Prepares On Attacking Rebels
updated 25 Dec 2013; published 25 Dec 2013
1:01
Fighting continues in South Sudan
Burma political prisoners to be pardoned
Full Article BBC News
31 Dec 2013

Burma is set to free several political prisoners after the government announced a presidential pardon. It is not clear how many prisoners will be released, but activists say there are still around 40 political prisoners in...
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Political prisoners Aung Min Naing, left, and Yan Naing Tun, right, pose for photos after they were released from from Insein Prison in Yangon, Myanmar, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2013. Myanmar freed five prisoners Tuesday and more are expected to be released next week.
photo: AP / Khin Maung Win

updated 01 Jan 2014; published 01 Jan 2014
1:29
Burma Will Release Several Political Prisoners
updated 31 Dec 2013; published 31 Dec 2013
1:30
Myanmar frees more political prisoners
updated 31 Dec 2013; published 31 Dec 2013
2:35
Political Prisoners In Myanmar Granted Amnesty By President
updated 01 Apr 2012; published 01 Apr 2012
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Myanmar begins vote
updated 17 Aug 2009; published 17 Aug 2009
1:14
U.S. Senator Asks for Suu Kyi's Release
updated 22 Dec 2013; published 22 Dec 2013
2:20
Afghan women weave their way out of poverty

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United Nations too Christian, claims report
The Guardian
Study calls for greater religious tolerance with Hinduism and Buddhism under-represented and funding a major issue The report says while the UN represents all religions, there are...
Greece's Not So Golden Dawn or Age
WorldNews.com
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling It seems that Greece's Golden Dawn Party is listening to the same oracles that Pericles did when he initiated ancient Greece's...
On its 26th anniversary: What next for Hamas?
Al Jazeera
If Hamas' jubilee last year was truly silvery, this year's 26th anniversary seems to find the movement in a bad shape. A year ago, Hamas was breathing fresh air with the Muslim...

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New Year's Eve celebrations usher in 2014 across the world
New Year's Eve celebrations usher in 2014 across the world
Fox News
Published December 31, 2013FoxNews.com Millions around the world welcomed 2014 on Tuesday, as fireworks, dancing and all-night revelry marked huge displays of jubilation and unity around the globe. Crowds that filled New York City's Times Square...
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New Year   New Year's Eve celebrations   Photos   Wikipedia: 2014   World
Mining in Greenland - a country divided
Greenland Dog trecking in Advent Valley, east of Longyearbyen.
BBC News
Greenland's economy relies on fishing and hunting, but the government has ambitious plans to develop the country's resource industries. In places like Narsaq, there's a fear that mining could destroy the environment and traditional...
photo: Creative Commons / Bjoertvedt
Climate Change   Environment   Mining in Greenland   Photos   Wikipedia: Greenland
UN envoy condemns attacks on key sites in DR Congo capital
UN envoy condemns attacks on key sites in DR Congo capital
United Nations
Print 31 December 2013 – The top United Nations envoy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has deplored the attacks carried out on Monday on the headquarters of the Congolese Armed Forces and of the National Radio and Television Company,...
photo: UN / Sylvain Liechti
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Cebu startups rev up
Cebu startups rev up
Sun Star
BARELY had typhoon Yolanda left Cebu in November when local developers buckled down to build systems to help in rescue, relief and rebuilding efforts. Couple Kristoffer Vincent Loremia and Yvonne, who sought shelter with their newborn child Xhian...
photo: UN / Evan Schneider
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South Sudan town of Bor partially in rebel hands
South Sudan town of Bor partially in rebel hands
The Daily Telegraph
Related Articles Civilians 'going without food' in South Sudan UN camp 30 Dec 2013 Captured twice and looted twice, a state capital in South Sudan fears third battle 29 Dec 2013 South Sudan rebel leader dashes ceasefire hopes 28 Dec 2013 Leaders in...
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Uganda warns South Sudan rebel leader
President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda answers questions during a news conference following graduation ceremonies at Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth, Kan., Friday, June 13, 2008.
The Guardian
RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press= JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Uganda's president on Monday warned South Sudan's rebel leader against rejecting the government's offer of a cease-fire, saying regional leaders would unite to "defeat" the former vice...
photo: AP / Orlin Wagner
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Feds announce test sites for drone aircraft
An Israeli air force unmanned plane fly over the Tel Nof base, central Israel, Sunday, Feb. 21, 2010. Israel's air force has introduced a fleet of large unmanned planes that it says can fly as far as Iran. Air force officials say the Heron TP drones have a wingspan of 86 feet (26 meters), making them the size of passenger jets. They say the planes can fly 20 consecutive hours, and are primarily used for surveillance and carrying payloads.
The Salt Lake Tribune
Alaska, Nevada, New York, North Dakota, Texas and Virginia will host the research sites, providing diverse climates, geography and air traffic environments as the Federal Aviation Administration seeks to safely introduce commercial drones into U.S....
photo: AP / Ariel Schalit
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