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Facebook, Google remove content after court warning
Mon 6 Feb 2012
INTERNET giants Google Inc and Facebook removed content from some Indian domain websites on Monday following a Delhi court directive warning them of a crackdown "like China" if they did not take steps... (photo: WN / Yolanda Leyba)
Palestinian children fill plastic bottles and jerry cans with drinking water from a public tap at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) headquarters in the southern Gaza Strip refugee camp on September 23, 201. (Photo by Ahmed Deeb/wn)
Climate   Development   Environment   Photos   Wikipedia: Natural resource		  Al Jazeera 
Co-operation in a world of scarce resources
Mon 6 Feb 2012
From competition among hunter-gatherers for wild game to imperialist wars over precious minerals, resource wars have been fought throughout history; today, however, the competition appears set to... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb)
Three-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador of Spain holds aloft the Spanish national flag during a victory lap with his Astana teammates after the 20th and last stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 102.5 kilometers (63.7 miles) with start in Longjumeau and finish in Paris, France, Sunday, July 25, 2010  The News & Observer  Sun 5 Feb 2012
Contador is 98th in race on eve of doping verdict
AP Photo Cyclist Alberto Contador, is seen before the start of the first stage of the Mallorca Challenge cycling race in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012. Email Print Order Reprint Share... (photo: AP / Christophe Ena, POOL)
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Paul Williams, left, President and Chairman of the Board of ASCAP, poses with Train band members, from left, Pat Monahan, Scott Underwood and Jimmy Stafford after they won Song of the Year for "Hey, Soul Sister," during the 28th Annual ASCAP Pop Music Awards, Wednesday, April 27, 2011, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)  The Hollywood Reporter  Sun 5 Feb 2012
'Soul Train' Fans Dance on Broadway to Celebrate Late Creator, Don Cornelius
share Getty Images Less than a week after Cornelius, 75, died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, fans of the '70s dance show, including the Rev. Al Sharpton, met in New York to honor him... (photo: AP / Chris Pizzello)
Entertainment   Industry   Music   Photos   Wikipedia: Don Cornelius
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110721-A-DK678-581 A U.S. Army soldier throws a grappling hook to clear a potential mine field before advancing during a field training exercise at Fort Bragg, N.C., on July 21, 2011. The soldier is with the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division. DoD photo by Sgt. Mike MacLeod, U.S. Army. (Released) Signon San Diego Sun 5 Feb 2012
EXPERTS DEBATE FACTS, FUTURE OF AFGHAN WAR
More After the twin towers fell and the Pentagon burned, the United States invaded Afghanistan to topple the Taliban regime and deprive al-Qaeda terrorists of their... (photo: US DoD / Sgt. Mike MacLeod, U.S. Army)
Afghanistan   Pentagon   Photos   War   Wikipedia: War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
Syrian policeman, left, and army soldier, right, look inside the burned court building that was set on fire by Syrian anti-government protesters, in the southern city of Daraa, Syria, Monday March 21, 2011. Mourners chanting "No more fear!" have marched through a Syrian city where anti-government protesters had deadly confrontations with security forces in recent days. The violence in Daraa, a city of about 300,000 near the border with Jordan, was fast becoming a major challenge for President Bashar Assad, who tried to contain the situation by freeing detainees and promising to fire officials responsible for the violence. The Daily Mail Sun 5 Feb 2012
Mass slaughter in Syria: UN holds urgent vote - but Russia and China veto it ...
More than 200 people have been killed by Syrian forces after a barrage of mortars and artillery was unleashed on the battered city of Homs overnight. Activists claim the... (photo: AP / Hussein Malla)
China   Photos   Russia   Syria   Wikipedia: 2011–2012 Syrian uprising
A view of the Security Council as thirteen Members – including Néstor Osorio (centre, back to camera) – vote in favour of a draft resolution on Syria, 4 February, 2012. San Francisco Chronicle Sun 5 Feb 2012
Violence mounts in Syria as U.N. peace plan fails
United Nations -- A U.N. Security Council effort to end the violence in Syria ended in acrimony and a veto by Russia and China on Saturday, hours after the Syrian... (photo: UN / Paulo Filgueiras)
Peace   Photos   Syria   UN   Wikipedia: 2011–2012 Syrian uprising
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011. Netanyahu emphasized the Israel-Egypt peace treaty signed in 1979 The News & Observer Sun 5 Feb 2012
The choice for Israel's Netanyahu
Email Print Order Reprint Share This Share Text tool name tool goes here BY WADE H. HARGROVE BY WADE H. HARGROVE Tags: | |... (photo: AP / Ariel Schalit)
Government   Israel   Photo   Politics   Wikipedia: Benjamin Netanyahu
File - Panmujom, North Korea (July 17, 2008) - Peering out from behind a granite pillar in North Korea, a Democratic People's Republic of Korea guard studies the movements of Sailors from the Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group during a tour of the DMZ. Atlanta Journal Sun 5 Feb 2012
Bush's 'evil' trio holds sway over US decade later
It was the first State of the Union address after the 9/11 attacks, and America was leading an invasion of Afghanistan in pursuit of Osama bin Laden. Fittingly, this is... (photo: US Navy / Senior CMCS Spike Call)
Photos   Politics   War   Washington   Wikipedia: War on Terror
Members of the United Nations Security Council speak with the media at the end of their second day in Khartoum, Sudan. From left Susan Rice (United States), Gerard Araud (France), Vitaly Churkin (Russian Federation). The Star Sun 5 Feb 2012
Russia, China veto U.N. plan for Syria
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia and China vetoed on Saturday a U.N. resolution that backed an Arab plan calling on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to quit, stalling... (photo: UN / Stuart Price)
China   Photos   Russia   Syria   Wikipedia: 2011–2012 Syrian uprising


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British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg delivers a speech setting out the Government's plans for political reform at the City and Islington College in London Wednesday May 19, 2010. UK's deputy chief plans civil liberties drive The Press Democrat
President Barack Obama waves as he walks across the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009, as he departed for a day on the road to promote his health care agenda. Obama is traveling to Warren, Ohio and Pittsburgh, to talk about health care reform, then on to a fundraiser in Philadelphia for Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., who is facing reelection in Pennsylvania. Afflictions of liberty The Guardian
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Moammar Gadhafi's son, Seif al-Islam, top left, gestures to troops loyal to his father in Tripoli, Libya, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011. Saif Gaddafi's trial could begin within weeks, says NTC The Independent
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev with the President of Syria Bashar al-Assad, during a visit to Damascus, Syria, 10th May, 2010. Russia, China justify veto as criticisms mount Zeenews
Spanish doctor Pascual Caballero, center, from the relief organization Doctors Without Borders, or MSF, and Haitian doctor Jean-Pierre Andromarque, right, listen to the badly-infected lungs of a child at an emergency hospital run by MSF in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday May 12, 2011. Doctors AND States Without Borders WorldNews.com
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A Pakistani rescue worker looks at the belongings of mourners left behind after a bomb blast in Matani near Peshawar, Pakistan on Wednesday, March 9, 2011. A suicide bomber attacked a funeral attended by anti-Taliban militiamen in northwest Pakistan killing many mourners and wounding more than 100 others, police said. Most civilian deaths due to Taliban: UN Sydney Morning Herald
People carry a dead body of Pakistani national killed in a suicide attack in neighboring Spin Boldak, Afghanistan, at a local hospital in Pakistani border town of Chaman on Friday, Jan. 7, 2011. A suicide bomber struck a bath house in a southern Afghan border town as men gathered to wash before Friday prayers, killing a number of people, a provincial official said. The Taliban claimed responsibility, saying they targeted the deputy of an influential border patrol commander. Taliban responsible for 77% of civilian casualties in Afghanistan, U.N. says The State
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File - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is escorted by Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak during an arrival ceremony at the Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, Oct. 3, 2011. Why Not the Abraham Option? WorldNews.com
The Little Economy That Could The Little Economy That Could Foreign Policy
File - Former Liberian President Charles Taylor alights from the Nigerian government plane into the waiting handcuffs of United Nations Peacekeepers who effected his arrest at Monrovia's Roberts International Airport on his arrival from Nigeria, 29 March, 2006. Charles Taylor lawyers seek to reopen defense case to admit UN report on mercenaries Star Tribune
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