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Source: WIS
This "near–normal" hurricane season that NOAA is predicting could still prove to be one for the record books. For the second time in a week, there is a chance that a tropical system could be sitting offMore >> Subt ...
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Source: Brisbane Times
High emotion … UN observers at a morgue after the massacre of more than 92 people, including 32 children, in the town of Houla. Photo: Reuters AS A WAVE of revulsion sweeps the world after a regime massacre in Syria - 32 ...
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Source: AlertNet
* Russia says "tragic" events deserve condemnation * Activists say shelling and pro-Assad militia to blame AMMAN/UNITED NATIONS, May 27 (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council met on Sunday to discuss the killing of at least 108 ...
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Source: Sify
United Nations, May 28 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The UN Security Council has called an emergency meeting to discuss the massacre in Syria's Houla town that left over 100 people dead, many of them children. The city was shelled by tr ...
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Source: Miami Herald
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. can't count on Russia - a major arms supplier to Syria - to force President Bashar Assad from power, Sen. John McCain said Sunday, blaming President Barack Obama for embracing a "feckless" foreign poli ...
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Source: Hurriet Daily News
The United Nations led calls on May 26 for urgent international action on Syria after allegations of a horrific massacre by regime forces that left 92 people dead, more than a third of them children. U.N. Secretary General ...
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Source: USA Today
KABUL, Afghanistan — Travel agent Sayed Zamanuddin Baha gets calls from people all over the world asking if they can see Tora Bora, the cave complex where Osama bin Laden slipped away from invading U.S. forces in 2001. "Come! We will help you with your t ...
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Source: Jerusalem Post
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton spoke of a "heinous act perpetrated by the Syrian regime against its own civilian population" in a statement on Sunday. The head of the European parliament said it could amount to a war crime. ...
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Source: Eurasia Review
Throughout almost 60 years, the US has been involved in covert operations that have overthrown over 50 democratically elected popular foreign leaders and placed dictators and tyrants as US puppets. How can Africa and Asia or Latin A ...
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