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G8 expresses concerns over North Korea, Iran
Full Article Newstrack India
Washington, May 20 (IANS) The leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) major industrialised nations have expressed "deep" and "grave" concern over the actions of North Korea and Iran, and urged both countries to come out clean on all outstanding issues related to their controversial nuclear programmes. "We continue to have deep concerns about...
	G8 expresses concerns over North Korea, Iran
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Growth, jobs are priority for Group of Eight leaders
Full Article Denver Post
President Barack Obama leads a Group of Eight summit session Saturday at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland. The European debt crisis dominated the talks, with the U.S. promoting a balance between austerity and growth. (Mandel Ngan, AFP/Getty Images) CAMP DAVID, md. — Confronting an economic crisis that threatens them...
Growth, jobs are priority for Group of Eight leaders
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Operation Serve and Tell: Servicemembers encouraged to blog
Full Article Stars and Stripes
U.S. troops are invading the blogosphere in increasing numbers to speak their minds about everything from the most mundane topics to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Web site www.milblogging.com links to blogs originating in 43 countries. The majority are created by Americans and 1,550 links come from the U.S. Iraq is a distant second with...
Operation Serve and Tell: Servicemembers encouraged to blog
photo: US Army / Michael J. MacLeod

Blind Chinese activist Chen arrives in United States
Full Article The Times of India
SHARE AND DISCUSSTweet NEW YORK: Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng arrived in the United States on Saturday and declared "equality and justice have no boundaries" after China let him leave a Beijing hospital to quell a sensitive diplomatic rift between the two countries. Chen escaped from house arrest in northeastern China last month and...
Blind Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng arrives at Washington Square Village on the campus of New York University, Saturday, May 19, 2012, in New York.
photo: AP / Henny Ray Abrams

Obama: Eurozone 'must focus on jobs and growth'
Full Article BBC News
US President Barack Obama has said there is an "emerging consensus" that European countries must now focus on jobs and growth. Speaking after the G8 summit of some of the world's leading economies, he said the US is confident that Europe can meet its challenges. President Obama said leaders had made good progress on a range of...
President Barack Obama speaks during a joint news conference with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and Mexican President Felipe Calderon, not seen, in the Rose Garden at the White House, Monday, April 2, 2012, in Washington.
photo: AP / Carolyn Kaster

China's Chen Guangcheng 'set to fly to US'
Full Article BBC News
Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng - who was at the centre of a diplomatic crisis with the US - says he is at Beijing's airport, where he expects to leave to go to the US. The blind activist told reporters he did not have a passport, but believed he was going to New York. Mr Chen recently spent six days in the US embassy in Beijing after...
FILE - In this file photo taken Wednesday, May 2, 2012. and released by the U.S. Embassy Beijing Press Office, blind activist Chen Guangcheng, center, holds hands with U.S. Ambassador to China, Gary Locke, at a hospital in Beijing.
photo: AP / U.S. Embassy Beijing Press Office, File

Myanmar's Suu Kyi to address British parliament in June
Full Article The Star
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will be given the rare honour of addressing both houses of Britain's parliament when she makes her first trip outside Myanmar in 24 years next month, British officials said on Saturday. The Nobel peace laureate has accepted Prime Minister David Cameron's invitation to visit Britain and...
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi looks at a photo during the opening ceremony of a photo exhibition entitled "Aung San Suu Kyi, The Burmese Way to Democracy" at Institute of French in Yangon, Myanmar, Thursday, May 17, 2012.
photo: AP / Khin Maung Win

Sri Lanka to probe civil war abuses on its own
Full Article Jakarta Post
Sri Lanka says it will conduct its own investigation into rights abuses during the final months of the island nation's civil war when thousands of civilians reportedly died, dismissing the need for an international tribunal. Sri Lankan Foreign Minister G.M. Peiris spoke Friday after meeting Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and presenting...
Former Sri Lankan soldier amputees participate in a parade to invoke blessings against the UN resolution against war crimes and human rights abuses during Sri Lanka's civil war, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, March 22, 2012.
photo: AP / Eranga Jayawardena

Greece tops G8 agenda as eurozone crisis snares Spain
Full Article France24
AFP - Fears that debt-stricken Greece may be headed for a chaotic eurozone exit loomed large as President Barack Obama met other G8 leaders for crisis talks in the United States. The Group of Eight top economies came together on Friday as Greece faces its second election in just six weeks, putting its eurozone future in doubt and dragging down...
US President Barack Obama (R) meets with French President Francois Hollande following their bilateral meeting in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, on May 18, 2012 in advance of the G8 and NATO Summits.
photo: AP / AFP PHOTO/POOL/ERIC FEFERBERG

Thousands flee DR Congo violence
Full Article Al Jazeera
Fighting between government troops and rebels has displaced hundreds of thousands people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The fighting has been most intense in the hills of the North Kivu region. Many of the refugees have headed to neighbouring Rwanda and Uganda, and more are on their way. The UN's refugee agency has described...
 Violence erupted again in the north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as Lendu militia, who were driven out of Bunia yesterday by rival Hema fighters, have regrouped and launched a counter-offensive to regain control of the town, the United
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If Greece were a man, he would have aged decades in the past two weeks. The grey hairs would be...
Everything has been moving forward, step by step. At the beginning of May, after months of...
The battleships are coming. And we’re not talking about the movie. The White House race...

	AU Pushes for Sudan Talks
By NICHOLAS BARIYO KAMPALA, UgandaThe African Union has mounted pressure on oil-producing Sudan and South Sudan as it seeks to bring the two back to the negotiating table amid hostilities along their oil-rich border. Former South African...
photo: UN / Sylvain Liechti
Cameron pushes for workplace rights shake-up
Top stories The Sunday Telegraph: Business leaders are set to welcome radical new plans to overhaul employment rights which the Government hopes will make it easier to hire new workers and spark a boost to employment and growth; proposals include...
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NATO leaders seek common path out of Afghanistan
CHICAGO (Reuters) - NATO leaders gather in Chicago on Sunday for a summit that will chart a path out of Afghanistan, as Western nations seek to fend off fissures in their alliance and ensure Afghanistan can hold a still-potent Taliban at bay when...
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U.S. Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, second from right, the new commander of the NATO International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, visits with U.S., NATO and Afghan forces at checkpoint 91 in Kandahar, Afghanistan, July 9, 2010
This article is adapted from “Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power,” to be published by Crown on June 5. It was just one brief exchange about Afghanistan with an aide late in 2009, but it suggests how...
photo: USAF / Staff Sgt. Bradley Lail
Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook
SHARE AND DISCUSSTweetA file photo of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (R) and his girlfriend Priscilla Chan in Shanghai. PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA: Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg updated his status to "married" on Saturday....
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On the Front Line: The Collected Journalism of Marie Colvin, By Marie Colvin
Spanning a quarter of a century of reporting, the book includes her dispatch from East Timor in 1999; horrifying descriptions of women and children so desperate to seek sanctuary in a UN compound that they fight through razor wire. Colvin was one of...
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US exit creates army ripe for recruitment
Illustration: Simon Letch Numbers coming out of Afghanistan often are scary but try wrapping your head around this one - 123,500. After a roller-coaster decade of training by the US-led coalition, that's the number of soldiers and policemen who will...
photo: US Army / Michael J. MacLeod

Obama: G8 Unified in Stance on Iran, Syria; updated 20 May 2012; published 19 May 2012
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Obama: G8 Unified in Stance on Iran, Syria
Newstrack India 20 May 2012, Washington, May 20 (IANS) The leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) major industrialised nations have expressed "deep" and "grave" concern over the actions of North Korea and Iran, and urged both countries to come out clean on all outstanding issues related to their controversial nuclear programmes. "We continue to have deep concerns about...

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President Obama welcomes G8 leaders to summit at Camp David.; updated 20 May 2012; published 19 May 2012
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President Obama welcomes G8 leaders to summit at Camp David.
Denver Post 20 May 2012, President Barack Obama leads a Group of Eight summit session Saturday at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland. The European debt crisis dominated the talks, with the U.S. promoting a balance between austerity and growth. (Mandel Ngan, AFP/Getty Images) CAMP DAVID, md. — Confronting an economic crisis that threatens them...

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101st Airborne Division in Afghanistan; updated 30 Dec 2011; published 29 May 2010
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101st Airborne Division in Afghanistan
Stars and Stripes 20 May 2012, U.S. troops are invading the blogosphere in increasing numbers to speak their minds about everything from the most mundane topics to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Web site www.milblogging.com links to blogs originating in 43 countries. The majority are created by Americans and 1,550 links come from the U.S. Iraq is a distant second with...

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Chen Guangchen Arrives In New York - May 19, 2012; updated 20 May 2012; published 20 May 2012
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Chen Guangchen Arrives In New York - May 19, 2012
The Times of India 20 May 2012, SHARE AND DISCUSSTweet NEW YORK: Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng arrived in the United States on Saturday and declared "equality and justice have no boundaries" after China let him leave a Beijing hospital to quell a sensitive diplomatic rift between the two countries. Chen escaped from house arrest in northeastern China last month and...

President Obama Speaks at the Close of the G8 Summit; updated 20 May 2012; published 20 May 2012
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President Obama Speaks at the Close of the G8 Summit
BBC News 20 May 2012, US President Barack Obama has said there is an "emerging consensus" that European countries must now focus on jobs and growth. Speaking after the G8 summit of some of the world's leading economies, he said the US is confident that Europe can meet its challenges. President Obama said leaders had made good progress on a range of...

Chen Guangcheng:
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Chen Guangcheng: "Dear Premier Wen, I Finally Escaped"
BBC News 19 May 2012, Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng - who was at the centre of a diplomatic crisis with the US - says he is at Beijing's airport, where he expects to leave to go to the US. The blind activist told reporters he did not have a passport, but believed he was going to New York. Mr Chen recently spent six days in the US embassy in Beijing after...

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's Victory Speech (English); updated 17 May 2012; published 02 Apr 2012
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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's Victory Speech (English)
The Star 19 May 2012, WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will be given the rare honour of addressing both houses of Britain's parliament when she makes her first trip outside Myanmar in 24 years next month, British officials said on Saturday. The Nobel peace laureate has accepted Prime Minister David Cameron's invitation to visit Britain and...

Sri Lanka: reconciliation and justice; updated 19 May 2012; published 17 May 2012
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Sri Lanka: reconciliation and justice
Jakarta Post 19 May 2012, Sri Lanka says it will conduct its own investigation into rights abuses during the final months of the island nation's civil war when thousands of civilians reportedly died, dismissing the need for an international tribunal. Sri Lankan Foreign Minister G.M. Peiris spoke Friday after meeting Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and presenting...

President Obama Speaks at the Close of the G8 Summit; updated 20 May 2012; published 20 May 2012
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President Obama Speaks at the Close of the G8 Summit
France24 19 May 2012, AFP - Fears that debt-stricken Greece may be headed for a chaotic eurozone exit loomed large as President Barack Obama met other G8 leaders for crisis talks in the United States. The Group of Eight top economies came together on Friday as Greece faces its second election in just six weeks, putting its eurozone future in doubt and dragging down...

Thousands flee from DR Congo - 8 Nov 2008; updated 06 Apr 2012; published 08 Nov 2008
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Thousands flee from DR Congo - 8 Nov 2008
Al Jazeera 19 May 2012, Fighting between government troops and rebels has displaced hundreds of thousands people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The fighting has been most intense in the hills of the North Kivu region. Many of the refugees have headed to neighbouring Rwanda and Uganda, and more are on their way. The UN's refugee agency has described...

Leaked UN report blames Iran for supplying Syrian army with weapons; updated 19 May 2012; published 17 May 2012
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Leaked UN report blames Iran for supplying Syrian army with weapons
France24 18 May 2012, AFP - Anti-regime activists have called for Syria-wide protests on Friday in support of students in Aleppo, a day after thousands of them rallied, emboldened by the presence of UN truce observers. Growing suspicions of an Al-Qaeda presence in Syria, meanwhile, further complicated matters for the fragmented opposition, which has repeatedly refuted...

Chinese Fugitive Lai Changxing Faces Trial in Xiamen; updated 16 Feb 2012; published 15 Feb 2012
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Chinese Fugitive Lai Changxing Faces Trial in Xiamen
Denver Post 18 May 2012, BEIJING—The man once considered China's most-wanted fugitive was sentenced to life in prison for smuggling and bribery in a lurid corruption case that reached into the highest echelons of the Communist Party and involved a decade-long extradition fight. The official Xinhua News Agency reported that Lai Changxing was convicted and sentenced...

Afghanistan War + More Troops = Catastrophe (Trailer); updated 15 May 2012; published 26 Feb 2009
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Afghanistan War + More Troops = Catastrophe (Trailer)
Detroit Free Press 18 May 2012, WASHINGTON -- Mapping the way out of an unpopular war, the U.S. and NATO are trying to build an Afghan army that can defend the country after 130,000 international troops pull out. The alliance's plans for arm's-length support for Afghanistan will be a central focus of the NATO summit President Barack Obama is hosting Sunday and Monday in Chicago....

The united states of Mass Killing ++ North America genocide; updated 02 May 2012; published 23 Aug 2008
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The united states of Mass Killing ++ North America genocide
WorldNews.com 18 May 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling When the White House refused to offer an explanation as to why U.S. air strikes in Afghanistan killed six innocent civilians, not to mention dozens of other air bombardment campaigns that have also caused the deaths of many other innocent people, it evoked Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s profound words...





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